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The youngest son of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, businessman Igor Chaika, established a construction company in Crimea, as follows from the SPARK database. The company can carry out about 40 types of activities, including working as a tour operator

Igor Chaika (Photo: Pavel Bednyakov)

The youngest son of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, businessman Igor Chaika, founded the South Coast Construction Company in Crimea, as follows from SPARK data.

Igor Chaika registered the company on April 24 in the urban-type village of Nikita near Yalta. The general director of the company is Ivan Baukin, who already manages two funds, the founder of which is Chaika Jr. We are talking about the charitable foundation named after centurion M.Ya. Seagulls and about the Center for Social Initiatives of the Yaroslavl Region. The authorized capital of the South Coast is 1 million rubles, the main activity is the construction of residential and non-residential buildings.

Judging by the registration data, Igor Chaika’s new company plans to carry out about 40 types of activities, including work as a tour operator, which also has the right to provide excursion services.

The publication Life drew attention to the appearance of the new company Chaika Jr. in SPARK.

At the time of publication, Igor Chaika’s representative did not respond to RBC’s request.

Igor Chaika previously told RBC that he highly appreciates the investment attractiveness of Crimea and, together with his partners, is considering the possibility of purchasing land for the construction of a luxury hotel. He also did not rule out the possibility of purchasing an existing sanatorium on the peninsula and subsequently reconstructing it. In this context, Chaika Jr. mentioned the Dawns of Russia sanatorium near Yalta - now it belongs to the presidential administration.

At the end of March, Igor Chaika’s structures increased their share in Beteltrans, the largest manufacturer of reinforced concrete sleepers in Russia, to 75%. The T-Industry company of Chaika Jr. previously already owned 50% minus one share in this enterprise.

A year earlier, Igor Chaika founded the Russian Export company, which is engaged in the wholesale trade of grain, seeds and feed for farm animals, as well as the wholesale trade of coffee, tea and cocoa. The company consolidates goods from Russian manufacturers and carries out their transportation, customs clearance, certification and further sale to China.

In May 2016, it became known that Igor Chaika’s Agro-Region company would spend 2.5 billion rubles. for the construction of a complex for growing champignons in the Moscow region.

In August 2015, RBC learned that a company controlled by Chaika had two 15-year contracts for waste removal in Moscow districts, for which the structure of the Prosecutor General’s son was to receive 42.6 billion rubles.

From February 2014 to July 2015, Igor Chaika worked as an advisor to the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov on a voluntary basis on issues of sports, culture, tourism and youth affairs. After that, as Chaika Jr. himself stated, he decided “to work in business for now.” According to Yuri Chaika, he is involved in the business that his sons are involved in. “The sons achieve everything through their own efforts, they are smart guys with brains. I didn’t assign them anywhere; they both created their own business. From scratch! Both the youngest and the elder,” said Chaika.

The business of the sons of Prosecutor General Chaika was discussed in an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) of Alexei Navalny entitled “Chaika. Crime drama in five parts." All of Navalny’s accusations against Igor Chaika were then unsubstantiated. “Your colleagues [journalists] examined bit by bit the publications that were published, and they came to the conclusion that the arguments that various kinds of people give are absolutely untrue,” he told reporters.

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IGOR YURIEVICH
January 1, 1988 (28 years old),
Former advisor to the governor of the Moscow region
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He is the youngest son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika. Brother of businessman Artem Chaika.
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ARTEM YURIEVICH
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1988. In 2011 he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy named after O.E. Kutafina (Institute of Private International Law). While still a sophomore student, he started doing business. He was the founder of a number of companies, including Innovations of Light LLC, Aqua Solid LLC, Golden Age Company LLC. In February 2014, he became an adviser to the governor of the Moscow region on sports, culture, tourism and youth affairs. In the summer In 2015, he left the post of adviser to the governor, deciding to focus on business projects.
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Victory Day. Red Square.
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At the celebration of the 216th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin
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With Prime Minister Medvedev, Governor of the Moscow Region Vorobyov and Patriarch Kirill
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EDUCATION
In 2011 he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy named after O.E. Kutafina (Institute of Private International Law).
PORTRAIT
“I went into the sphere of culture, tourism, sports, firstly, because the activities that I was engaged in before have something in common with this. Secondly, for about a year I worked with the governor as a businessman, but on a gratuitous basis - not in any tenders did not participate. When Andrei Yuryevich Vorobyov had an election campaign, I actively helped in organizing new parks, creating urban infrastructure.... I will have to give up business, but I have a brother who is engaged in entrepreneurial activities, my mother, friends, in the end after all,” said Igor Chaika after his appointment as advisor to the Governor of the Moscow Region.
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a:2:(s:4:"TEXT";s:65535:"a:2:(s:4:"TEXT";s:69880:""Since the second year of the institute [Moscow Law Academy named after O.E. . Kutafina] I do business from food production to landscaping, development of public spaces and creating the architectural appearance of cities,” Igor Chaika said in an interview with Izvestia in 2014. The young businessman did not seek to be listed among the founders, he often entrusted this role partners, assure two of his acquaintances. According to them, Chaika usually did business with Alexander Tsurkan, Alexander Ponomarev and Denis Galagan. These three businessmen in 2008, just when 20-year-old Chaika was in his second year, created the first joint company - "Dealsa", which provided credit brokerage and financial consulting services. For 3% of the loan amount, the company helped those wishing to obtain a mortgage, pawnshop or commercial loan from banks. As a former employee of "Dealsa" recalls, at first the company rented an office of 40 sq. m in the region Kitay-gorod and consisted of only three people. Then she moved to an office on Zolotorozhsky Val, and her staff grew to 50 people. However, due to the crisis, business was not going very well, and the broker quietly closed in 2013. Some of the employees from Dealsa went to work in the first company created personally by Igor Chaika - Innovations of Light, which was engaged in landscaping public spaces. It was located in the premises of the Impression beauty salon, bought by Chaika, on the first floor of residential building 12, building 1, on Rochdelskaya Street. This building, located opposite the White House, became famous after an investigation by opposition leader Alexei Navalny: he discovered that an apartment of 300 square meters. m in this house belongs to the daughter of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Sobyanina’s neighbors at various times were ex-Speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, ex-head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev, ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, head of Sberbank German Gref. Soon after the creation of “Innovations of Light”, she won 10 competitions for electrical installation work in Novorossiysk in the amount of just over 18 million rubles. and by 1 million rubles. in Armavir, and later received state contracts for the installation of decorative lighting of the Crimean overpass and Novospassky Bridge, as well as the streets of the Southern Administrative District - for only 20 million rubles. with a little. Then the company turned its attention to a topic that was gaining popularity - the improvement of city parks. Along with Innovations of Light, three more companies were constantly competing for contracts for the improvement of parks, judging by government procurement data: Urban Sreda by Tsurkan, Citystroyservis by Galagan and Baltikstroykompani, owned by the former commercial director of Innovations of Light Grigory Grin. This was the case, for example, in the competition for the reconstruction of Moscow's Ostankino park, commissioned by the Moszelenkhoz State Public Institution. Order for 697 million rubles. in 2013 it went to CityStroyservis, but the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) suspected the participants of collusion, having found out that the companies made applications from the same IP address. The address belonged to the Tender Inform company, which entered into a service agreement with each of the participants and allegedly promised each of them victory. In September 2013, the FAS announced that it had transferred the materials on the case to the Prosecutor General's Office. No criminal case was initiated. While the FAS investigation was ongoing, the same companies managed to participate in the competition for the second stage of the reconstruction of Ostankino: a contract for 2 billion rubles. again went to Citystroyservis. But the competition for the installation of lighting for the Dzhugba – Sochi highway is worth 309 million rubles. “Innovations of Light” by Chaika won from CityStroyService. While Chaika was engaged in lighting, Ponomarev and Tsurkan were doing business in those areas that Chaika mentioned in an interview with Izvestia. At first they tried to establish shoe production by creating the Hatton company together with partners, but after a year they separated. Ponomarev immediately established his own shoe company, Artel. This is one of the largest shoe manufacturers in Russia, it is part of the Innovations of Light holding company and produces comfortable and fashionable products under the Dorf brand from modern materials at the factory in Shchelkovo. At least, that’s what Light Innovations themselves wrote in recruitment advertisements for Artel on job sites. The business did not take off: having received a loss of 10 million rubles in two years, the owners put the company up for sale for $560,000. It was not possible to find buyers, and in 2014 Artel was liquidated. In 2012, Ponomarev also established a company for the production of semi-finished products - “Meal for Steam”. Ready-made meals were sold in self-heating packaging. “You just have to pull the string and wait 5-10 minutes,” the company’s presentation said. Over the two years of operation, Trapeza na steam suffered a loss of 5.7 million, and production was closed. In the same 2012, Chaika, who had graduated from the Moscow Federal Law Academy a year earlier, became a partner of lawyer Dmitry Yakubovsky and VTB State Bank in a large development project. The young businessman, through the Encon company, will receive 8% in City Land Group (SLG), a joint company between Yakubovsky and VTB, which owned 8,000 hectares of land in the Moscow region. It is planned to build two logistics parks worth 50 billion rubles on the sites, as well as millions of square meters of housing. But a year later, Chaika left the project - Ponomarev became the owner of Encon. “Igor Yuryevich at that time was preparing to move to the civil service and tried to distance himself from his business,” a person close to SLG explains the meaning of the deal. “Igor Yuryevich was looking for himself, tried different businesses, but it turned out that it was most profitable to develop partnerships with government agencies,” explains one of his acquaintances. Three years ago, Turcan founded another company, Charter. A year after its founding, it began participating in competitions for garbage removal in Moscow. As a result, she received long-term contracts worth 42.67 billion rubles. for servicing the Northern and Eastern districts of Moscow. On average, the victories provided Charter with annual revenue of 2.8 billion rubles. Then Charter acquired the necessary capacities: for 267 million rubles. the company bought a waste sorting complex and a fleet of garbage trucks from the Bank of Moscow. Perhaps the company received the money for the transaction from the Bank of Moscow itself. According to SPARK, it has 96 garbage trucks and 2,100 garbage containers owned by Charter until 2019. According to the housing and communal services department, which oversees waste removal, Charter is coping with the fulfillment of the contract. In 2014, the company removed 15% of waste in Moscow, in 2015 it will remove 20%. By the end of the year, it will open 52 points for collecting recyclable materials in the city, a department representative said. The “Charter”, which places the slogan “Let it always be clean” on advertising products, belongs to Chaika, assure an official of the Moscow mayor’s office and one of the competitors in waste removal. In addition to garbage, the structures of the son of the Prosecutor General are engaged in landscaping in Moscow, they know. Chaika made no big secret of this business, confirms an official of the Moscow region government. Galagan's CityStroyService is engaged in changing curbs and other road work in the same districts from which Charter collects garbage: for example, in May 2015 it won competitions for 1.4 billion rubles. In the spring of 2013, municipal deputy of the Taganka district Ilya Sviridov said in his blog that work under the program “Recreation Industry in Green Public Areas” is worth a total of 4 billion rubles. will be carried out at very high prices. For example, the renovation of a small park on Taganskaya Square in preliminary documents was estimated at almost 50 million rubles, and this is the annual budget of the Tagansky district. It was proposed to pay 150 million rubles for landscaping and other improvements of 0.5 hectares on Khitrovskaya Square. True, officials made changes to the preliminary documentation, reducing the number of public gardens to be improved by half - to 20. Based on the results of competitions, work on 16 of them was carried out by structures associated with Chaika: the projects were prepared by Baltikstroykompani, and implemented by Sitistroyservis. The latter earned praise from city authorities. “All work was carried out efficiently. The purchased children's playgrounds and sports grounds are the most modern and meet all existing requirements. The landscaping work carried out was carried out at a high professional level. Planting material adapted to Moscow climatic conditions was purchased,” the department’s press service reported. The park in Ostankino was recognized at city competitions as the best implemented project for the modern reconstruction of a park area: it now has everything - from a skate park and sun loungers to wireless Internet, the report noted. Starting this year, one of the structures associated with Chaika entered a new market. At the beginning of 2015, Baltikstroykompany won a development contract for 18.6 million rubles. capital renovation projects for 18 apartment buildings in the center of the capital. In February 2014, Igor Chaika was appointed adviser on sports, culture, tourism and youth affairs to the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov. And among other things, he immediately announced his desire to take care of parks near Moscow. The structures close to him already had experience in this area. In 2013, Innovations of Light developed projects for the reconstruction of three parks: Natashinsky Park in Lyubertsy, Timokhovsky Ravine in Vidnoye and Skitsky Ponds in Sergiev Posad. The latter was approved by the Moscow region authorities and put into operation. There was no money in the regional budget, therefore, according to the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region, the project was implemented at the expense of investors. Their names are not mentioned, but Radio Posad reported that Innovations of Light invested 30 million rubles in Skitsky Ponds. The Chaika company had grandiose plans in this area: in 2012, “Innovations of Light” and “Sitestroyservis” received the award at the XIII International Festival “Landscape Architecture. A View from Home" Grand Prix for the joint project "Ring of Parks in the Moscow Region: a program for the development of recreational areas around Moscow" (see figure on page 20). The developers proposed laying out 16 new entertainment and leisure parks with an area of ​​50 and 100 hectares along the perimeter of the concrete ring around Moscow. By the time Chaika came to the Moscow Region government, there was also money in the budget: in 2014, 2 billion rubles were allocated for the development of parks until 2018. As the press service of the Ministry of Culture told Vedomosti, the project “Ring of Parks in the Moscow Region” developed by Innovations of Light “appears to be very promising, taking into account the main urban trend - creating a comfortable living environment, increasing the attractiveness of urban space.” According to a representative of the Ministry of Culture, “along with state support for the development and creation of park areas, it is very important that Moscow region parks are considered by businesses as a promising platform for investment. The main task of the authorities is to create a favorable investment climate to attract bona fide investors.” Nevertheless, Chaika left the post of adviser to the governor in the summer of 2015. He then explained to reporters that he decided to focus on business. Chaika was an advisor on a voluntary basis; funding from the Ministry of Culture was clearly insufficient to implement his large-scale plans, says one of the former colleagues of the Prosecutor General’s son. Chaika realized that he could not rise above the adviser, but there were plans, notes another employee of the Moscow region administration. In an interview with Izvestia in 2014, Chaika actually said that “the scenario” of his appointment as Vorobyov’s deputy is being “considered.” Chaika left the government of the Moscow region without any hard feelings, having managed to launch a number of important programs for the region - not only on parks, but also on branding of cities near Moscow, argues another official of the Moscow region government. “There comes a time in any person’s life when they need to decide – business or career. Chaika decided that he would achieve great success in business,” he adds. For example, the businessman has now launched a multi-billion dollar business with Russian Railways, Vedomosti’s interlocutor knows. In May 2013, Chaika created the Aqua Solid company. A year later, the T-Industry company created by this company won the Russian Railways tender for the purchase for 3 billion rubles. 50% minus 2 shares of the largest sleeper manufacturer in Russia - Beteltrans OJSC (BET). BET has a good business. The company's revenue in 2014 amounted to 18.8 billion rubles, in 2012–2013. it won Russian Railways tenders for the supply of reinforced concrete sleepers until 2017 for 269 billion rubles. Aqua Solida's partner was the Dutch Spoor Structuur Investering, which received 70% of T-Industry. Along with half of BET, the buyers also received a share in Millennium Bank, among the co-owners of which are Russian Railways structures. BET owns 11.7% shares in the bank. From the disclosure of “Millennium” it became known that the beneficiary of the Dutch company, and therefore Chaika’s partner, is the Kazakh group “Magnetik” of the well-known businessman Dmitry Grechanichenko in this country. Magnetik, according to its own data, is the only manufacturer of sleepers in Kazakhstan. Interestingly, the group is also interested in recycling waste. In an interview with the Kazakh publication “Success”, Grechanichenko said that at one of his enterprises he is developing a program for the complete recycling of PET bottles and other polymers and the further use of the resulting raw materials in the production of fastenings for sleepers. It was not possible to contact Grechanichenko: the telephone numbers listed on the company’s website were not answered. Chaika chooses projects related to issues that are important to society, so it is not surprising that many of them are funded by the state, says one of his acquaintances. (October, 2015) The website of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) published revealing material about the business and European real estate of the sons of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. Moreover, FBK activists even made a film dedicated to the activities of Artem and Yuri Chaek. The scandal related to the foreign assets of the children of Igor Chaika began after the reconstruction of the Pomegranate Hotel was completed on the Greek peninsula of Chalkidiki. The renovation of this “masterpiece of island architecture” alone is estimated at 25 to 29 million euros. This is exactly how much money was invested in Pomegranate by an investor who, according to FBK, turned out to be Artem Chaika (son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation). This luxury hotel is owned by a company owned by Artem Chaika and Olga Lopatina (ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin). A number of information resources report that Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin divorced his wife Olga in order to deliberately conceal his true income and existing foreign business. This business, obviously, became the ownership of the fashionable Greek health and spa hotel “Pomegranate Wellness Spa Hotel”, which was acquired for 25 million euros. According to information available in the Greek media, about 20 million euros were invested in the reconstruction of the hotel. Based on the data presented, we can conclude that the Chaek and Lopatin families run their joint hotel business in Greece and control the luxurious Pomegranate Hotel. Partners in protection? Let us recall that Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin became involved in a corruption scandal when several defendants in the case of “protection racket for casinos near Moscow” testified against him. It was Lopatin who allegedly patronized the Vulcan slot machine network, which operated underground. It is worth noting that Artem Chaika also appeared in corruption scandals in the Moscow region. Let us recall that earlier in the city court of Serpukhov, a witness classified by the investigation called Artem Chaika the coordinator of “corruption ties” between prosecutors near Moscow and authoritative businessman Ivan Nazarov, suspected of organizing an underground gambling business. It turns out that Artem Chaika and Gennady Lopatin could together “protect” casinos near Moscow. By the way, the Lopatin family is connected not only with the Moscow region, but also with the Kuban mafia. As FBK representatives found out, Olga Lopatina is a co-owner of the company “Sugar Kubani” along with the wives of Sergei Tsapok and Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz. These are the leaders of the notorious “Kushchevskaya organized crime group” from the Krasnodar Territory, who were convicted of the particularly brutal murder of twelve people, including four children. At the moment, by the way, Sergei Tsapok himself is no longer alive. It is interesting that the fourth co-founder of Sahar Kubani LLC, Nadezhda Staroverova, is the wife of another high-ranking official of the prosecutor’s office, Alexei Staroverov. GTA gang Let us recall that Staroverov was “temporarily suspended” from work in the Prosecutor General’s Office after a shelter for militants from the “GTA gang” was discovered in his house (or the house of his relative - editor’s note) - bandits who killed and robbed 14 people in highways near Moscow. A warehouse of weapons and ammunition was discovered in the same house. It would seem that after such a discovery it was necessary to initiate a criminal case against Staroverov, but he is a good friend of Yuri Chaika, so the Prosecutor General’s Office predictably “did not find” Staroverov’s connection with the “GTA gang.” Previously, prosecutors were more than once suspected of protecting the Tsapkov gang. This is not surprising, since the wives of prosecutors Lopatin and Staroverov own a common business with the wives of bandits Tsapok and Tsepovyaz. By the way, at one time the prosecutor of the Krasnodar region Leonid Korzhinek refused to initiate criminal cases against the Tsapkovskys. Perhaps he also had a share. House on Athos It is worth noting that in addition to the hotel on the island of Chalkidiki, Artem Chaika also has a villa on the seashore, which offers a beautiful view of Athos. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika has said more than once that he likes to visit Athos to “recharge spiritually” there. It is obvious that his son’s luxurious villa located nearby only helps Chaika Sr. “spiritually enrich his inner world.” By the way, next to the “Athonite residence of the Seagulls” there is another villa, owned by the above-mentioned Olga Lopatina (former wife of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and co-owner of the Pomegranate Hotel). Swiss resident FBK experts found out that Artem Chaika is a resident of Switzerland and also has real estate and business there. Purely formally, he lives in the village of Founex, just 30 minutes from Geneva. This house is owned by a young Swiss Ukrainian, Bogdan Lisurenko, whose mother is familiar with the family of Deputy Prosecutor General Lopatin. Most likely, Chaika Jr. resorted to the services of Lisurenko to register in his house for further business in Switzerland. As FBK found out, Artem Chaika in September 2014 purchased real estate in Switzerland with an estimated value of 2.7 million francs. This is about 3 million dollars or approximately 198 million rubles. A firm for brothers In addition, Artem Chaika controls the Lausanne law firm F.T. Conseils. FBK analysts write that one of its founders is the son of the Prosecutor General, Artem Chaika. In March 2015, Artem acquired approximately 40% of the shares. What’s even more interesting is that he bought them from his own brother Igor. Igor Chaika has owned this share since 2013, during the entire time that he served as an adviser to the governor of the Moscow region. Friends in Switzerland Seagulls have business partners in Switzerland. This is the ex-head of the Migration Office of the canton of Vaud, Francois Tharen, who helps in registering transactions in Switzerland, and the former head of the Geneva company Juridical House, Murat Hapsirokov. Now Hapsirokov is a senator from Adygea, one of the ten richest members of the Federation Council. His father Nazir (Krym-Geri) Hapsirokov was the head of the Department of the Prosecutor's Office (the department's supply manager) since 1994, and from 2000 to 2011, Hapsirokov Sr. served as an adviser to the Presidential Administration. Rumor has it that when Nazir Khapsirokov worked in the General Prosecutor's Office, he helped Yuri Chaika purchase a huge house on Rublyovka. The office of the Juridical House company, which was previously managed by Hapsirokov Jr., is located in the same room as F.T. Conseils, owned by Chaika and Francois Taren, registered in Lausanne. FBK analysts believe that, with the help of specialists from Juridical House, Chaika’s children are “scrolling” a colossal flow of financial resources (tens of millions of euros – editor’s note) through Swiss accounts. Seizure of a shipping company in the Irkutsk region Of course, Artem Chaika did not immediately become a dollar millionaire. But in order to understand all the stages of the rise of the Prosecutor General’s son’s business career, you need to remember a little about the promotion of his father - from the prosecutor of the Irkutsk region - to the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General of Russia. The first time Artem Chaika became a figure in the criminal chronicle was when in the spring of 1999, in the Moscow region, his car was detained in the Moscow region, which, by proxy, was used by his old friends and security guards - natives of Ingushetia Syzyr Chumakov and Ibragim Evloev, who are members of the Ingush organized crime group and, by the way, famous in their time racketeers. According to rumors, then the son of the prosecutor general, using his father’s connections, tried to “get them off.” However, as a result, a scandal erupted in the press and it turned out that the car driven by the bandits had “thieves” plates and a special ticket without the right to check. Artem was provided with all these “charms” by his loving father. Then Yuri Chaika, according to rumors, helped his son “grab” the assets of the Verkhnelensky River Shipping Company (VLRP), which came under the control of the little-known company Laena CJSC. This company was founded by the son of the then Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Yuri Chaika, Artem and State Duma deputy Bashir Ilyasovich Kodzoev. At first, Artem Chaika convinced the management of VLRP to take a soft loan, and then suddenly demanded the loan back, simultaneously starting the bankruptcy procedure of VLRP. This process, according to rumors, was facilitated by Yuri Chaika’s protege, the head of the Irkutsk branch of the FSFO, Natalya Bezik. Moreover, Yuri Chaika arranged a meeting for his son with the governor of the Irkutsk region B.A. Govorin. Testimony of Palenny The final act of the raider seizure of VLRP by Artem Chaika’s structures was the murder of the intractable general director of the shipping company Nikolai Palenny. Shortly before his murder, Palenny publicly stated on air on one of the federal television channels that Artem Chaika was behind the raider seizure of VLRP assets. This story was shown once - in early 2003. After this, the episode disappeared from the channel’s website, but the old recording can still be found on the Internet. On December 30, 2002, two days after the recording of the program, the former director of the Verkhnelensky Shipping Company was found hanged in his own garage. The bandits who killed Palenny have not yet been found. This crime, without a doubt, was beneficial to Artem Chaika, but his father, apparently, successfully “hushed up” this scandal. By the way, Yuri Chaika is no stranger to participating in “criminal cases.” Take, for example, his long-term friendship with prosecutor Nikolai Nebudchikov, who, according to rumors, could also be the leader of an influential criminal group. Advisor to the Prosecutor General Of course, the seizure of VLRP assets by Artem Chaika would not have been possible without the help of a number of officials. In particular, the regional prosecutor's office took the side of the Seagulls. Let us recall that at the beginning of the 2000s, the prosecutor’s office of the city of Irkutsk (in the status of deputy prosecutor of the region) was headed by Albina Kovaleva, a friend and ally of Yuri Chaika, whom Artem called “second mother” in public. She later retired, headed the Registration Chamber, then returned to the prosecutor's office. Now Kovaleva works with the rank of general and works as an adviser to the Prosecutor General. It is possible that Ms. Kovaleva was also involved in the raider takeover of the VLRP. It is interesting that the already mentioned prosecutor of the Krasnodar region, Leonid Korzhinek, who covered up the Tsapkovskaya organized crime group in Kushchevka, also worked with Albina Kovaleva in the Irkutsk region since 1985. Accomplices There were other defendants in the case of the attack on the VLRP. For example, in 2002, Dmitry Shishkin became a minority shareholder of the shipping company with a share of a few hundredths of a percent, who subsequently sold his share to a certain Ri Bon Hi. Dmitry Shishkin is called a classmate of Artem Chaika. As for Ri Bon Hee, having become a shareholder of a shipping company in Siberia, for some reason he began to be on the staff and receive a salary at the Moscow company Legal Consulting, 100% owned by Artem Chaika. At the end of December 2002, at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders, the old management of the shipping company was replaced with a new one. After this, control over the enterprise passed to Artem Chaika. Ships on withdrawal After a change of directors, at the head of two of the three repair and operational bases that are part of VLRP, United Verkhne-Lenskoe River Shipping Company LLC (OVLRP) turned out to be the management company. Having become a management company, OVLRP received the right to appoint directors, make key decisions on the sale of assets and the conclusion of freight contracts. At the same time, the private OVLRP did not have the right to dispose of the assets of VLRP, which was a strategic enterprise of the Irkutsk region. An audit by the Accounts Chamber established that OVLRP LLC did not and could not have any power of attorney from the Ministry of Property of Russia. However, de facto, with the connivance of the Russian Ministry of Property, OVLRP LLC willingly and selfishly used this status (including for the withdrawal of shipping company assets). It is believed that it was with the help of the management company OVLRP LLC of the Verkhnelensky River Shipping Company that 12 vessels were withdrawn. At the same time, some of the ships were sold to two Russian companies - Ostrov LLC and Sabas LLC, which had all the signs of one-day companies. In fact, it was with the help of “Ostrov” and “Sabas” that the ships were removed from the ownership of the shipping company in the interests of Artem Chaika and his associates. Who controlled OVLRP LLC? Let us note that at the time of the establishment of OVLRP, 50% of its shares belonged to Etalon Trade LLC, a company that was owned by Yuri Ponomarev until 2004. He represented the interests of Artem Chaika. The other 50% of OVLRP belonged to CJSC Industrial Development. This is the company of Artem Chaika’s partner, Roman Trotsenko. Until recently, Roman Trotsenko headed the state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, and is now an adviser to Igor Sechin at Rosneft. It seems that Artem Chaika could withdraw the assets of the Verkhnelensky River Shipping Company “in tandem” with Roman Trotsenko. Salt tycoon Artem Chaika also controls the previously unknown Irkutsk LLC Solidarnost, which suddenly managed to buy from the state the fourth largest salt deposit in Russia, OJSC Tyretsky Solerudnik, from the state for only 660.667 million rubles. Taking into account the fact that the starting price was 639.667 million rubles. Solidarity had to pay an additional 20 million rubles for this extremely profitable asset. So where is the state's profit here? She is gone, but there is a huge income for the son of the prosecutor general. However, how can one prove the connection between Artem Chaika and Solidarity LLC? As it turned out, the owner of Solidarity, Nikolai Kulgaev, runs RTI-Center Plus LLC, owned by Mikhail Karamushka. But Kulgaev and Karamushka are affiliated with Artem Chaika. After the withdrawal from state ownership, Tyretsky Solerudnik OJSC was headed by the same Mikhail Karamushka, acting in the interests of the son of the Prosecutor General. It turns out that Tyretsky Salt Mine OJSC was given “cheaply” to the business structures of Artem Chaika. Fetisov's role By the way, the Tyretsky Salt Mine is located in the Irkutsk region. According to FBK, this salt deposit came under the control of Artem Chaika’s structures with the help of the head of the Irkutsk territorial department of the Federal Property Management Agency, Pavel Fetisov. Interestingly, until 2010, Fetisov headed the security department of the Federal Registration Service for the Irkutsk Region. His boss there was “Yuri Chaika’s comrade-in-arms” Albina Kovaleva. It turns out that Artem Chaika could “get access” to Fetisov through Kovaleva. There is clearly a “corruption overtone” in the attitude of these officials towards the commercial interests of Chaika Jr. Kaluga scheme However, just one salt mine in the Irkutsk region was clearly not enough for Artem Chaika. The thing is that, according to media reports, in December 2013, the tender for the right to use subsoil for the purpose of exploration and extraction of salt at a site in the Kaluga region was won by Tyretsky Salt Mine OJSC. This salt deposit is located in the Maloyaroslavets district (Vorobyovo village) of the Kaluga region and is called “Vorobevsky”. According to FBK, the only competitor of Tyretsky Solerudnik LLC in the competition for a license to develop the Vorobyovskoye salt deposit in Kaluga was the front office Maloyaroslavsky Salt Production. She predictably lost this competition, so in the end the winner was Tyretsky Solerudnik LLC, associated with Artem Chaika. It turns out that the competition was held in clear violation of the law (if we keep in mind the version that the competitor of the Chaika company was a “front company”). A friend from the prosecutor's office, the Governor of the region, Anatoly Artamonov, personally delivered a ceremonial speech dedicated to the beginning of the development of the Vorobyovskoye salt deposit in the Kaluga region. At the opening of a new “salt” plant in Kaluga, Artem Chaika laid a “time capsule”, and his brother Igor was present among the guests. When the fictitious auction for the Vorobyovskoye field was played out, the prosecutor of the Kaluga region was Dmitry Demeshin. “By a strange coincidence,” Demeshin turned out to be very friendly with the son of the Prosecutor General Artem Chaika. Of course, the prosecutor’s office did not even think of looking for violations of the law in organizing a competition for a license to develop the Vorobyovskoye salt deposit. “Non-metallic” king There is an opinion that Artem Chaika may soon seriously become a “non-metallic” king. This guess is supported by information about his assets, which, however, are also connected with other areas of business. The “flagship” of Chaika Jr.’s financial empire is obviously the First Nonmetallic Company (PNK), through which he owns 18 crushed stone plants. Moreover, the son of the Prosecutor General controls PNK not directly, but through the Chelyabinsk non-metallic company (NRC) Berdyaush. Deal with Russian Railways By the way, according to media reports, Artem Chaika, through his structures, bought the First Nonmetallic Company from Russian Railways. The PNK company was founded by Russian Railways relatively recently, in 2008, but for some reason just 3 years later it was classified as a “non-core asset” and put up for sale. The “non-core” nature of PNK for Russian Railways raises some doubts. Crushed stone produced in factories is used for the construction and repair of railway tracks. This business is called “perpetual contracting”. Russian Railways annually requires gigantic volumes of crushed stone worth billions of rubles, so the buyer of PNK would never have problems with customers. In this regard, there is an opinion that Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika could “agree” with the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, so that the shares of PNK were sold to Artem Chaika’s structure. Immediately after Chaika Jr. gained control of PNK through NRK Berdyaush, the company of the Prosecutor General’s son began receiving government contracts from Russian Railways. Attack on “Pavlovskgranit” In addition, Artem Chaika managed to “light up” in the scandal with the raider takeover of “Pavlovskgranit”. Along with the owner of the National Nonmetallic Company (NNC) Yuri Zhukov and the son of the head of Sberbank German Gref Oleg Gref, Artem Chaika is called one of the beneficiaries of offshore companies that became the main owners of Pavlovskgranit after the company lost its previous control due to a raider attack owner Sergey Poimanov. By the way, in May 2008, when Sberbank of Russia issued a loan to Pavlovskgranit OJSC, the independent Financial Consulting CJSC valued the enterprise at 13.01 billion rubles, and in April 2011, the NEO Center Consulting Group, controlled by Oleg Gref, valued it only 3.5 billion rubles (that is, obviously less than the real value of this asset). So Gref Jr. also took part in the seizure of Pavlovskgranit. It is possible that after Pavlovskgranit became part of the National Nonmetallic Company (NNC) of Yuri Zhukov, Artem Chaika’s supposed share (according to media reports) was converted into NOC shares. It seems that Artem Chaika could have been one of the orderers of the raider attack on Pavlovskgranit. Igor Chaika is also in business. It is worth noting that Chaika Jr. has other partners in business besides Yuri Zhukov. For example, there is a company in which Artem Chaika has a share (27%) - this is Georesurs LLC. This is a joint business with the Tashir group of companies owned by Samvel Karapetyan. Georesurs is building the RIO shopping center in Mytishchi. In addition, until 2010, Artem Chaika was the sole owner of the largest brick factory in Siberia, Siberian Element. Shares in this company at different times belonged to Igor Chaika, as well as Elena Chaika (the wife of the Prosecutor General). Igor Chaika has a common business with Oleg Mitvol. As it turned out, Mitvol and the youngest son of the Prosecutor General, Igor Chaika, are united by a joint business, and a very large one at that - shares in the Invest City company. Mitvol has 5% in this project, and Igor Chaika’s company Encon has 10%. Invest City is the main shareholder (73%) of City Land Group, a company that has 8,000 hectares of land in Stupino and Mozhaisk with a total value of 150 billion rubles. “Golden Boy” According to FBK, Igor Chaika controls companies with a turnover of 300 billion rubles and is fully incorporated into the business of his older brother. Previously, he was an adviser to the governor of the Moscow region, Vorobyov, on issues of culture, tourism, youth policy and sports. However, recently Igor Chaika has completely devoted himself to business. “Klin” interest While working in the Moscow region, Chaika Jr. implemented his main projects in the Klin region. For example, he oversaw the creation of a new brand book for the city of Klin. According to FBK, this project was implemented by a company in which Igor Chaika himself owned a share. By the way, in 2014, the city of Klin was headed by Alena Sokolskaya. Sokolskaya is the wife of the former Klin prosecutor, and later deputy prosecutor of Moscow, Alexander Kozlov. Kozlov was also involved in the case of casinos near Moscow, but did not officially become a defendant. According to testimony given in court, Kozlov’s role was limited to advance notification of the owners of underground halls about upcoming inspections. From 2012 to the present day, Alexander Kozlov has been the prosecutor of the Tula region. That is, the husband of the head of the district in which Igor worked is a subordinate of his father. The position of head of the Klin administration is occupied by Eduard Kaplun. He is a former prosecutor of the city of Klin, also involved in the case of protecting casinos near Moscow. It is worth noting that after Igor Chaika left the post of adviser to the Moscow region governor, his interest in Klin clearly fell, and Chaika Jr.’s activity in the capital sharply increased. Capital tender Recently, the presence of Igor Chaika has been increasingly felt in “Moscow business”. Let us recall that in 2012–2014, the Moscow City Hall held nine tenders for the right to conclude 15-year contracts for waste removal totaling more than 142 billion rubles. The city pays for waste removal and disposal services, and tender winners are required to purchase new garbage trucks, waste collection containers and build sorting plants and waste disposal sites. The two largest lots in terms of amount (42.6 billion rubles) - waste removal in the North-Eastern and Eastern districts of Moscow - were taken by the Charter company registered in 2012 with an authorized capital of 10 thousand rubles. The latest data on its financial performance dates back to 2013. At that time the company was unprofitable: revenue was 1.8 million rubles, net loss was 9.5 million rubles. But in 2014 everything changed. Having won the right to collect garbage in the North-East Administrative District and the Eastern Administrative District, Charter secured a multi-billion dollar turnover for the next 15 years. The trace of the Prosecutor General's youngest son Opposition bloggers have established a connection between Charter LLC and the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Igor Chaika. The blog of Lyubov Sobol states that at the time of receiving the contract, the founder and general director of Charter LLC was Alexander Tsurkan. As it turned out, Tsurkan is also the general director and sole founder of Urban Sreda LLC (another company name: Navigation Solutions LLC). It is interesting that when posting their vacancies, this company indicates the logo of the company “Innovations of Light”, and both companies submitted applications for the same state tender from the same IP address, which established

Igor Chaika, the youngest son of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, was awarded a presidential certificate, Znak.com reports. The award took place in the summer of 2015, when, according to presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin knew about compromising evidence on the sons of the head of the Prosecutor General's Office. At the beginning of December, an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation about the sons of Yuri Chaika was published.

Igor Chaika received a certificate of honor “For merits in the implementation of effective projects for innovative development of the Moscow region and active social activities” in August of this year by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Information about this was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. At that time, Chaika had just left his post as adviser to the governor of the Moscow region to take up business projects.

Meanwhile, the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the results of the anti-corruption investigation into the business of the children of the Prosecutor General, conducted by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, said that the information contained in the investigation was available back in June.

The Kremlin also said that information about the business of the family of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika is not of interest, since Chaika’s children are adults. Yuri Chaika stated that the information presented in the FBK investigation “is deliberately false and has no basis.” After this, the Anti-Corruption Foundation filed a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity.

Last week, FBK published an investigative film about the sons of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika - Artem and Igor. Most of the materials are dedicated to the eldest son of the Prosecutor General Artem Chaika. In particular, the investigation alleges that the son of the Prosecutor General owns expensive real estate in Greece and Switzerland, the money for the purchase of which he received from a business that allegedly flourished thanks to his father’s connections. In addition, the report shows the connections of Artem Chaika’s business partner with the gang of the famous defendant in the case of the high-profile murder of 12 people in the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, Sergei Tsapok. Igor Chaika is getting rich by receiving contracts, and his business employs the same people who support his brother Artem, the FBK investigation stated. The Moscow region government refused to stop working with Igor Chaika.

Igor Chaika

Igor Chaika graduated from the Moscow Law Academy. Shortly after graduating from university in February 2014, he was appointed adviser on culture, sports and youth policy to the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov.

In July of this year, a message was published on the website of the Moscow region government about the dismissal of Igor Chaika from the post of adviser and his refusal to take the post of deputy prime minister of the regional government. “I decided to refuse this offer, because all this time I have not stopped doing business, and the projects that I currently have in implementation or in launch status require daily operational support. And, of course, I have certain obligations in business. Therefore, based on priority, I decided to resign from the post of deputy chairman of the government and work in business for now,” explained the son of the prosecutor general.

He promised not to leave the Moscow region and to implement various social projects for extra-budgetary money. As an adviser to Governor Vorobyov, he oversaw the reconstruction of museums, the development of navigational tourist infrastructure, the construction and reconstruction of parks, the construction of sports and recreation complexes and flat sports facilities within walking distance.

In October, Vedomosti became interested in Igor Chaika’s business. The publication claimed that his company’s order portfolio exceeds 300 billion rubles, primarily contracts with Russian Railways and Moscow. As stated, by the age of 27, the young man managed to try his hand at credit brokerage and financial consulting, improved public spaces, carried out state contracts for lighting the Crimean overpass and the Novospassky Bridge, illuminated Novorossiysk and Armavir, laid out parks, almost went bankrupt in the production of shoes and fast-heating semi-finished products, was a partner of VTB in a large development project and removed garbage under the motto “Let it always be clean.”

Earlier, the awarding of the son of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, caused a great public outcry: Ivan Sechin received the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, for his “great contribution to the development of the fuel and energy complex and many years of conscientious work.” Moreover, at the time of receiving the award he was only 25 years old.

Yuri Chaika is an “old-timer” of the Russian government, who has held leadership positions in the highest echelons of the country’s government for more than 20 years. The biography of Yuri Chaika began with the Ministry of Justice, where the official served as head for several terms in a row, and then became the Prosecutor General of Russia. The work of the Prosecutor General is periodically shaken by scandals, which does not prevent him from confidently continuing his career, as well as supervising the implementation of laws by the federal executive authorities in the state.

Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika was born on May 21, 1951 in the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, located in the Khabarovsk Territory. Yakov Mikhailovich, the father of the future official, was the secretary of the Nikolaev city committee of the CPSU. Maria Ivanovna, Yuri's mother, worked as a mathematics teacher, and later became a school director. The future Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was the youngest son in the family - he has three more older brothers and sisters.

Yuri Yakovlevich's childhood and school years passed as usual. Yuri graduated from local school No. 4 and soon entered the Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Shipbuilding. After 1.5 years of study, Chaika left the university and went to work as an electrician at a shipbuilding plant. From 1970 to 1972, Yuri completed military service in the Soviet army, and then decided to get a higher education and entered the Sverdlovsk Law Institute, Faculty of Law.

During this period, the future Prosecutor General met Yuri Skuratov, who, after the collapse of the USSR, served as Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. This acquaintance played a key role in the career of Yuri Chaika, since thanks to this he was able to rise from the position of an ordinary investigator to the highest rank in the Russian prosecutor's office and remain in the prosecutor's chair for many years.

Service in the authorities

Yuri Chaika’s prosecutorial career started in the Ust-Udinsky District Prosecutor’s Office as a deputy interdistrict prosecutor. From 1979 to 1985 he worked in the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office, from where he was transferred to the Irkutsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, which he headed from 1992 to 1995.

During that period, Yuri Yakovlevich became famous for becoming the first Russian prosecutor to send a criminal case to court under the article “Banditry,” which attracted the attention of the country’s leading prosecutors. Thanks to this, the same Yuri Skuratov, an acquaintance from the institute who headed the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, remembered him. Skuratov appointed Chaika as his first deputy, as he believed that he had shown results after working in the Irkutsk region, which was a crime-prone region at that time.

In 1999, after Yuri Skuratov was removed from office, Chaika was appointed acting prosecutor general of the country. Soon, Yuri Yakovlevich headed the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, where he proved himself to be an energetic, demanding and tough official who fights crime. This made it possible to carry out fundamental changes in the country’s criminal legislation and influenced the reduction in the number of prisoners in the Russian Federation by almost 200 thousand people. Chaika also created the Office for the observance of the rights of citizens serving sentences in prison. Yuri Chaika's achievements as Minister of Justice also include the adoption of a law on non-profit organizations and the abolition of the death penalty in Russia.

On June 23, 2006, by a resolution of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Yuri Chaika was appointed Prosecutor General of the country, whose duties are already in his second term. During this period, he was responsible for the detection of many crimes related to corruption, the rotation of personnel in the department, which made it possible to make the activities of the Russian prosecutor's office transparent, as well as to expand public understanding of the plans being implemented in the country.

He has the honorary title “Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.”

Scandals

The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation has repeatedly become involved in “prosecutorial” scandals, the most notorious of which was the story of an underground casino in the Moscow region. Then high-ranking officials were accused of covering up the organizers of an illegal business, one of whom was allegedly the son of the Prosecutor General Artem. Later, the criminals involved in this case were punished in accordance with Russian law.

In 2015, Yuri Yakovlevich, or rather his family business, again came to the attention of the public. This time, the oppositionist brought charges against the prosecutor's son Artem Chaika, who conducted an anti-corruption investigation into the family of the Prosecutor General and disclosed the facts to the public. Navalny also presented a new one about corruption in law enforcement agencies.

Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation called the business of the Chaika family “banditry, racketeering and raiding,” which is patronized by the country’s prosecutor general. We are talking about investing tens of millions of euros in Greek real estate, which, according to Navalny, Chaika’s son earned in a joint business with criminal gangs.

Yuri Yakovlevich called the oppositionist’s accusations false and groundless. Chaika considers Navalny’s revelations an “order” and promised to soon reveal the names of those behind him.

Later, Yuri Chaika told media representatives that he did not help his sons because they are “smart guys” and achieve everything themselves, and called the news regarding offenses by family members fiction. Nevertheless, the Prosecutor General added that his sons also received government orders, “but there is no talk of any 300 billion rubles.”

Chaika added that Igor “always fulfilled his obligations on time,” and also invested personal funds in charitable projects that he developed in the Moscow region. According to Chaika, the son “does charity work not for the sake of gratitude or awards, but at the call of his heart.”

Yuri Yakovlevich noted that his son Artem “often takes on what others refuse” and “devotes a lot of time to helping those who need it.”

To support his words, the Prosecutor General cites Artem’s acquisition from Russian Railways of the unprofitable company PNK, which united two dozen crushed stone plants. According to Yuri Yakovlevich, his son turned this company into a profitable enterprise in a short time.

Personal life

The personal life of Yuri Chaika is stable. At the dawn of his prosecutorial career, the official met Elena, his future wife, whom he married in 1974. The wife of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation is a teacher by training, but after the birth of her own children she devoted herself to their upbringing and stepped away from teaching work.

The children of Yuri Chaika are of particular interest to the people - sons Artem and Igor, born in 1975 and 1988. Artem and Igor have repeatedly become involved in scandals in which they were accused of illegal activities and illegal earnings. It is known that Chaika’s sons followed in their father’s footsteps and became lawyers. Today they are dedicated to business and are co-founders of several companies.

Income

Yuri Chaika’s income for 2014 was 8.5 million rubles, and his wife’s income was 8.28 million rubles. The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation does not have real estate; the official owns only the rare GAZ-13 car, the famous Soviet “Chaika”, produced in a small series in 1959-1979. Yuri Yakovlevich also has two parking spaces and an apartment with an area of ​​203 square meters. m, half of which belongs to the wife of the prosecutor general.

In 2016, the total income of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was just over 9.275 million rubles.

Yuri Chaika now

In April 2017, Yuri Chaika demanded that the department he heads have the right to authorize arrests. According to Yuri Yakovlevich, today investigators are “a working tool in the hands of the prosecutor.” According to the official, this situation needs to be changed, since this threatens serious consequences for the law enforcement system in the future.

The Prosecutor General, speaking in the Federation Council, said that over the past 2 years, employees of the Investigative Committee have illegally opened thousands of criminal cases, in which law enforcement agencies asked the courts to arrest the defendants.

“When the constitutional rights of a citizen are affected, such actions must be sanctioned by the prosecutor. Throughout the world, the prosecutor performs one of two functions: he investigates the criminal case himself or leads the investigation. In Russia, unfortunately, there is neither one nor the other function,” said the Prosecutor General.

Chaika believes that before starting the procedure of going to court and asking to send the person involved in the case to an isolation ward, the representative of the investigation needs to obtain the prosecutor’s permission to do so. The Prosecutor General also noted that operational investigative actions must be authorized by his department. We are talking about test purchases and operational experiments.

Experts note that tense relations have long been developing between the prosecutor’s office and the Investigative Committee. Both structures are actually fighting, trying to gain control over the legal principles of conducting business. The hardware structure demands increased permissions and also fights for increased permissions for its system.

In June 2017, Yuri Chaika announced that he intended to check compliance with laws and agreements that relate to the ban on the import of vegetables and fruits. Chaika’s department is obliged to fulfill the order of the President of the Russian Federation before December 1, 2017.

Companies will be examined for their use of the import substitution plan, as well as the effective direction of federal resources. According to the Russian government, such an initiative will support Russian agricultural products and also rid the domestic market of low-quality goods.

Awards and titles

• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree
• Order of Alexander Nevsky
• Order of Honor
• "Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation"
• "Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation"

Igor Chaika, the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika (Photo: Pavel Bednyakov)

RBC investigation: who won a 15-year contract for garbage collection in Moscow

A fifteen-year contract for waste removal in Moscow districts went to the company of the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Igor, says a lawyer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny. RBC found out who the companies that have won tenders in Moscow for almost 50 billion rubles over the past few years are connected with.

Garbage Charter

In 2012-2014, the Moscow City Hall held nine tenders for the right to conclude 15-year contracts for waste removal totaling more than 142 billion rubles. The city pays for waste removal and disposal services, and tender winners are required to purchase new garbage trucks, waste collection containers and build sorting plants and waste disposal sites.

The two largest lots in terms of amount (RUB 42.6 billion) are waste removal in North-Eastern AndEastern districts of Moscow - won by the company "Charter", registered in 2012, with an authorized capital of 10 thousand rubles. The latest data on its financial performance dates back to 2013. At that time the company was unprofitable: revenue was 1.8 million rubles, net loss was 9.5 million rubles. But in 2014 everything changed. Having won the right to collect garbage in the North-East Administrative District and the Eastern Administrative District, Charter secured a multi-billion dollar turnover for the next 15 years.

Soon after winning the competition, Charter bought it from the Bank of Moscow for 267 million rubles. a waste sorting complex on Altufevskoye Highway and the Dominanta company, which owns a fleet of old garbage trucks. The source of investment is a loan from the Bank of Moscow, Charter CEO Alexander Nikolsky told RBC. In addition, according to him, the company has already purchased about 50 new garbage trucks and other equipment, and installed 8.5 thousand containers for garbage collection (13 thousand are to be installed in total). By 2018, Nikolsky plans (this is required by the terms of the contract) to build its own landfill for solid waste disposal and a waste sorting station. He is also considering the possibility of leasing waste incineration plant No. 4 in the Nekrasovka district, owned by the city.

To submit an application, it was necessary to provide security in the amount of 1 billion rubles, another 2.2 billion rubles. The winner must contribute in equal installments over 15 years. How was an unknown company able to fulfill the terms of the tender and break into the government waste contract market?

RUB 40.1 billion for the removal and disposal of waste from the South-Western and Western districts, the MKM-logistics company will receive (100% of the company’s shares were divided between three offshore companies: two from Cyprus and one from the British Virgin Islands). The beneficiary of one of the Cypriot offshore companies, Ervington Investments Limited, is Roman Abramovich. In two tenders for a total amount of 25.6 billion rubles. the Ecoline company won to serve the Central and Northern districts of Moscow (according to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, it is associated with the Arks group of the son of former Minister of Transport Sergei Frank and son-in-law of Gennady Timchenko Gleb Frank, the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg, in charge of housing and communal services , Vladimir Lavlentsev. A representative of the Timchenko-owned Volga Group denies this. According to him, the possibility of participating in this project was studied, “but a decision was made not to enter into it”). Waste removal from the South-Eastern and Zelenograd districts of the capital is carried out by Msk-NT LLC, which won two contracts worth 21.4 billion rubles, owned by businessman Igor Cheremsky. Another 12.4 billion rubles. The Spetstrans company will receive compensation for waste removal from the North-Western District of Moscow. Its sole owner is Elena Mochalova, who heads the “granddaughter” of the Russian Technologies State Corporation, the RT-Invest Finance company. A tender for the collection and disposal of waste in the Southern District of Moscow has not been announced.

Seagull and son

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the sole owner of “Charter” is Alexander Tsurkan. The general director of Charter, Alexander Nikolsky, told RBC that he did not know how to contact Tsurkan, since he himself “saw him twice.” When asked why Moscow entrusted waste removal to a company about which nothing is known, the press service of the Moscow government did not answer. A source close to the mayor’s office told RBC that Charter is controlled by the son of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Igor, this was confirmed by an interlocutor in one of the departments of the Moscow government. Another Moscow official and another acquaintance of the businessman heard about Igor Chaika’s interests in the capital’s garbage business. A representative of the mayor's office promised to comment on the situation on Thursday morning.

Igor Chaika is the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. Little is known about his official biography. He is 26 years old and graduated from the Kutafin Law Academy in 2011. In February 2014, he began working in the administration of the Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov as a voluntary adviser on sports, culture, tourism and youth affairs. In an interview with Afisha in the summer of 2014, he said that in this position he deals with issues of updating the urban environment of cities near Moscow. Having not worked for Vorobyov for even a year, Chaika left his post, explaining that he had not stopped doing business all this time and “these projects require daily operational support.”

There is no documentary connection between Chaika’s business and Charter; there are only indirect overlaps. In an interview with Izvestia Seagull was telling, that the business he has been involved in since his second year has been associated with food production, landscaping, development of public spaces and the creation of the architectural appearance of cities. In 2010, according to SPARK, he registered the company “Innovations of Light”, which over three years received several contracts worth almost 700 million rubles. In particular, this company created New Year's illumination in the Central and Southern districts of Moscow, artistic lighting of the Novospassky and Krymsky bridges and artificial lighting of the Adler - Krasnaya Polyana highway on the eve of the 2014 Winter Olympics. “Innovations of Light” also participated in tenders of departments of the municipal services complex of the Moscow government, but several times lost victory to the Kaliningrad “Sitistroyservis” and the St. Petersburg “BalticStroyCompany”.

In 2013, the relationship between the three listed companies attracted the attention of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). The service suspected them of cartel conspiracy during one of the tenders for the improvement of the Ostankino park worth 686 million rubles. The list of companies that attracted the attention of the Federal Antimonopoly Service also includes the Moscow-based Urban Sreda (developing elements of street navigation). According to SPARK-Interfax, the only owner of Urban Environment is the owner of Charter, Alexander Tsurkan. The Antimonopoly Service was concerned by the fact that the applications from these four companies were sent on the same day and from the same IP address.

However, representatives of the companies convinced the FAS that there was no collusion on their part; they simply all used the services of the Tender-inform company, which provides intermediary services when participating in government procurement. This company declined to comment on its “customer relationships.” A FAS representative, in response to clarifying questions from RBC, stated only that “the results of the investigation are set out in the decision of the FAS commission, which no one, including the applicant, appealed.” The applicant was LLC “Management Construction Company of the St. Petersburg Stone Processing Company.”

Waste removal and disposal in Moscow brings in a lot of money - the winners of nine tenders received 15-year contracts totaling 142 billion rubles. (Photo: Kommersant)

Holding

The four companies included in the FAS investigation are connected, if not by property relations, then at least by projects. The press service of Innovations of Light distributes press releases about projects completed by CityStroyService and BalticStroyCompany. In particular, the contacts of the PR managers of Innovations of Light were indicated in the press release about the completion by the Citystroyservice company of work on the improvement of the Ostankino park, a tender to which the FAS made claims. Two employees in these companies call these structures a “holding”, and Light Innovations the management company. “From conversations with the companies “Innovations of Light”, “CityStroyService” and “BalticStroyCompany”, it was clear that this is one holding,” shares his observations with architect Boris Aksentsev, who carried out a number of projects commissioned by companies. Another contractor of the company spoke about this on condition of anonymity: “Professionals in the market know that this is one company.”

Over the past three years, Citystroyservis has completed work commissioned by the Moscow municipal services complex for more than 5 billion rubles. At the same time, in the office building where Chaika’s company “Innovations of Light” is located, an RBC correspondent was told that the company “Sitistroyservis” is located here.

From time to time, CityStroyService wins tenders for construction work on projects developed by another company, part of the holding, BalticStroyCompany: for example, the improvement of 16 public gardens in the Garden Ring area worth 1.4 billion rubles. The same situation arose during the reconstruction of Ostankino Park. The construction was carried out by Citystroyservice (issue price was 2.1 billion rubles, of which 209 million rubles were spent on the construction of the largest skate park in Europe), and the design was carried out for 22.8 million rubles. - "BalticStroyCompany". There was a scandal associated with this contract: the construction of the skate park was delayed for more than a year; in the fall of 2014, it was opened by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. However, two days later, after a series of skater injuries due to faulty design, the facility was suspended. The “holding” company was also found in projects that Igor Chaika supervised while still in the rank of adviser to the governor. Thus, Urban Environment developed a navigation system for the Tchaikovsky museums in Klin, the Pushkin Museum in Bolshiye Vyazmy, and the New Jerusalem nature reserve.

In addition, specialists from Urban Environment were part of the working group to update the appearance of Klin, headed by Igor Chaika.

In addition to Alexander Tsurkan, these companies are united by their appearance - their websites were created by the same designer Oksana Korshunova, who placed these works in her portfolio. She refused to talk to RBC. The connection between the four companies and Charter, which won the garbage tender, can be traced only by indirect evidence. The Charter domain - hartiya.com, according to the Who-is service of the domain registrar Ru-Center, is maintained by the administrator Artem Mayerle, who works at Innovations of Light. True, he said over the phone that he had transferred the rights to the “Charter” domain to another administrator.

For several days, the head of the marketing department of Urban Environment, Irina Levakova, was unable to contact the owner of the company, Alexander Tsurkan. When asked for an interview with Igor Chaika, she said: “I don’t understand what you’re talking about” and hung up. Soon, an RBC correspondent received an SMS from her: “Talk to Vladimir Putin. Please don't bother me anymore." The company "Innovations of Light" was not surprised by the request of the RBC correspondent to connect with Alexander Tsurkan, but they suggested calling back to another office, where they had no longer heard of him. General Director of Innovations of Light Ivan Zavorotny refused to answer RBC’s questions. Questions sent to RBC through Igor Chaika’s reception at the Innovations of Light company remained unanswered.​

Igor Chaika's older brother Artem was born in 1975. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of Irkutsk State University, he became a co-founder and lawyer of the law firm Chaadaev, Kheifetz and Partners. In 2011, Artem Chaika was summoned for questioning in the case of “protection protection” for the gambling business in the Moscow region, RIA Novosti reported. In February 2014, Artem Chaika became the sole owner of the Berdyaush Nonmetallic Company, which won a tender for the supply of crushed stone to Russian Railways for 7.5 billion rubles. In the summer of 2014, this company acquired from Russian Railways a controlling stake in the largest supplier of crushed stone for the state monopoly - the First Nonmetallic Company (PNK), which owns 18 crushed stone plants. PNK's revenue in 2014 was 4.37 billion rubles, net profit was 13.7 million rubles. According to Forbes, Artem Chaika is the beneficiary of the largest salt producer in Siberia, Tyretsky Salt Miner. In 2014, Tyretsky Salt Mine won a license to mine rock salt in the Kaluga region.