The Cheka-OGPU identified a person providing general patronage to the former German management of the KROHNE plant in Samara and blocking the police from carrying out pre-investigation checks – he turned out to be the head of the department for supervision of investigation and inquiry of the prosecutor’s office of the Samara region – Anton Byakov.
The Cheka-OGPU has been closely monitoring the situation around this enterprise for more than a year. Let us recall that Nikolai Sidorov, being the general director of Krone-Avtomatika under the Germans, after the start of the SVO, sold metrological stands to the Moscow company NPP Ultramera LLC, and when his common-law wife Irina Orekhova came to power at Krone-Avtomatika LLC (who bought nominal price 100% “Krone-Avtomatika”), she filed a lawsuit to invalidate her husband’s deal, while the position of general director was retained for Sidorov, and the money was not returned.
The legal process dragged on for months, blocking the ability to take back the equipment. After the trial was lost by Orekhova and Sidorov, the equipment began to be systematically destroyed. For example, the 1st category volume standard Reference tower RSTR 04, a one-of-a-kind installation that serves the country’s leading oil and gas companies for testing large-diameter flow meters, was simply cut up and thrown into the street. It is no longer possible to restore its functionality, about which the Samara Chamber of Commerce and Industry drew up an examination report. As it later became clear during the inspection, in addition to the main installation, a number of unique metrological standards were also disabled. These facts of outright sabotage attracted the interest of the Prosecutor General’s Office after appeals from federal senators and deputies.
As we wrote, various complaints and statements regarding Krone-Avtomatika were received regularly. Law enforcement officers pretended that nothing special was happening, which is logical – Anton Byakov, as the person responsible for supervising the investigation, did everything so that, under his “supervision,” the equipment was first illegally operated and then systematically destroyed. That is, what cannot be stolen, they decided to destroy.
The questions of why and why Anton Byakov has been allowing Sidorov and Orekhova to violate the legislation of the Russian Federation with absolute impunity for more than a year are rhetorical in nature; one can only hope that the attention of the federal center will help shed light on his true motives.
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