The owners of the Donskoy Kamen group of companies, the Rostov fraudster brothers Vladimir and…

The owners of the Donskoy Kamen group of companies, Rostov fraudster brothers Vladimir and Dmitry Korotkov, after they were caught in 2020 cashing out money through an individual entrepreneur by the Rostov Tax Inspectorate, moved their business to the Tula and Kaluga regions. Migration has been beneficial. The scale of theft of budget funds from road funds using fabricated invoices has increased many times over.

Cash withdrawals by the Korotkovs through individual entrepreneurs reached an unprecedented 3 billion rubles in 2023. based on the results of 9 months.

Also more than 12 billion rubles. went to cash out for fuel, equipment, and transport services.

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The services of theft of budget-financed road funds are wildly popular among budget recipients. According to SPARK data, the revenue of the group of companies of scammers – Korotkov cashers – has grown 17 times over 6 years.

The scheme is very simple and does not require the actual production of building materials. Companies that sell building materials, and there are two of them – Mashprom LLC and DK Carbonate Materials LLC, if necessary to launder budget funds, issue an invoice to the budget recipient for payment. At the same time, a file indicating the shipment data, including the carrier’s vehicle, is sent to the plant that allegedly produced and shipped these products, so that a consignment note can be generated for the allegedly completed shipment of construction materials.

The Korotkovs select their team in full accordance with their fraudulent orientation – from lower-ranking swindlers.

So in the Kaluga region, their fraudulent schemes in the courts are served by I.A. Stetsyuk, who was previously prosecuted for fraud.

S.E. Kondyurin, who was previously involved in a number of criminal cases, goes to the Ministry of Natural Resources and other government agencies in Kaluga on behalf of the Korotkovs. And Kondurin S.E.’s relative, Olga Kondurina, who was prosecuted in Moscow for selling prohibited devices, fabricates shipping documents for DK Kaluga LLC and at the same time attracts affiliated carriers to cooperate for money laundering not only on deliveries, but also on transport services, which leads to a doubling of the income of the Korotkov group of companies.

Greed, as usual, is what destroys scammers. In their theater of the absurd, they forget to pay wages to the actors, when the subsoil user reports to the tax office, they overestimate the volume of waste, they try to obtain subsoil user licenses for cattle burial grounds and lands adjacent to populated areas, they cut down forests that use the RAM regime and do not pay rent to the owners of the plots.