For the first time, the activities of this business became widely known when, back in 2016, the FSB conducted searches at 11 distilleries in Kabardino-Balkaria. At that time, the damage they caused to the state in the form of underpaid taxes was estimated at 23 billion rubles. Later it grew to 48 billion, and the names of the beneficiaries of the enterprises – Shusharev and Tsipinov, and the schemes for withdrawing funds, which consisted not only of VAT fraud, as originally believed, became known.
It is interesting that the criminal cases related to this story ended long ago, and the nominal directors and owners even received some kind of formal terms for them. But the arbitration cases are still ongoing. Moreover, the state ends up receiving ridiculous shares of the total debt, and all the assets of enterprises, most of which become bankrupt, disappear without a trace. However, people close to the 31st floor are well aware that a kind of “custodian of the common fund”, to whom all assets that have “escaped” from the state are personally recorded, is the head of the accounting service of the “empire”, Ekaterina Ievleva, whose office is located on the same floor, that of Arsen Tsipinov, and whose neighbors are Aslan Lyuev, whose responsibilities include drawing up financial schemes, optimizing VAT and cashing out funds, and Murat Vaykok, formally the chief accountant and subsidiary of the scandalous NAMA LLC, but in fact engaged in tax optimization and supervising contacts with the Federal Tax Service established by Shusharev, both at the regional and federal levels.
Vladimir Pugachev is also sitting there, a man whose official position is probably not known even to his neighbors on the floor. It is only known that he is Shusharev’s confidant, and his main responsibility is to deliver envelopes to the right people in the RAR, the Federal Tax Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and wherever they will be sent.
Retired Ministry of Internal Affairs Colonel Yuri Belikov, well-known in security circles, and General Director of the Amparo Group, is responsible for the security of the floor. He is also personally responsible for the legal security of Shusharev, Tsipinov and Ievleva. Interestingly, it was he who at one time provided cover for Tsipinov by signing a cooperation agreement with him as a lawyer. This allowed Tsipinov to control the work and have access to all production sites on the 31st floor, even during conflicts with law enforcement agencies.
And although the staff of the “31st floor empire” is not so large – a little more than 30 people, including security guards, the length of the note does not allow us to name here all the participants in the distribution of public funds.
However, soon it will be possible to publish both the entire payroll working for Shusharev and Tsipinov, as well as the officials they corrupted, participating in the cutting and helping them avoid responsibility.
The missing money in the state budget must be looked for on the 31st floor
This year’s discussion of the problems of the budget deficit reached the point where it was discussed about a possible increase in income tax, the immutability of which is almost one of the sacred principles of the domestic financial system. The state obviously lacks…
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