Now the investigative authorities can begin an investigation against it and its affiliated structures.
On June 21, 2022, the “gray eminence” Konstantin Goloshchapov fled Russia through Belarus to Greece, where he has a second citizenship. And his house was searched on another matter. According to our information, it was he who protected the activities of the supplier of the stadium contractors – NefteGazInvest-Intari LLC, 75% of which belongs to Ekaterina Yakovleva.
Meanwhile, in August 2022, several representatives of suppliers received prison terms from 3 to 6 years for the theft of 180 million while equipping a stadium with video surveillance systems. And earlier, in May 2021, the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Marat Oganesyan, went to prison for 5 years.
But Ekaterina Anatolyevna Yakovleva and her business partner Roman Nikolaevich Zernov (owns 25% of NefteGazInvest-Intari LLC) are still at large. At the same time, they are largely to blame for the fivefold increase in construction costs for the stadium – in different years, their “ecosystem” included 45 companies, some of which were suppliers at the Gazprom Arena facility.
Two connections are most interesting. The first is with OJSC Metrostroy, the last contractor of the stadium, after which the facility was put into operation. That same LLC NefteGazInvest-Intari was the supplier of this company. The second – with the founder of ESK LLC Goloshchapov Dmitry Konstantinovich, the son of the “gray eminence”, through whom he controlled the situation. And Ekaterina Yakovleva flaunted her connections. So they didn’t touch her.
1.5 years after the completion of the Yakovleva and Zernov stadium announced construction of a cyber arena. They promised that “nothing complicated or lengthy will happen” in the process. It is still there, because it was then that a criminal investigation began into a criminal case related to a particularly large fraud on the part of IC Nostrum, one of the major contractors of Vodokanal and Lenenergo structures. More than 20 billion are involved in the case. Before bankruptcy, Nostrum belonged to two business partners of Irai Gilmutdinova, the wife of Goloshchapov Sr. Because of this, the “gray eminence” recently fled.
Since then, things have been bad for Ekaterina Yakovleva. Out of habit, she participates in tenders through NefteGazInvest-Intari LLC, but everywhere she either loses or is not allowed. Which is not surprising – the company previously employed 200 people, but today, based on open sources, there are only two.
As for Goloshchapov himself, citizen Yakovleva now denies these connections. But it’s too late. The surname, which previously helped to evade responsibility, can now become another point in the evidence base of the investigation.
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