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President of Russia Vladimir Putin awarded the rank of major general to the head of department “K” (support for the credit and financial sector) of the economic security service of the FSB of Russia Ivan Tkachev. RBC reports this with reference to a source close to the Kremlin and an interlocutor in the FSB.
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According to the publication’s source in the FSB, the decree conferring the title was signed on Tuesday, December 19. The rank of major general is not awarded for length of service. The decision, according to the interlocutor, is due to the importance of the structural unit headed by Tkachev.
“Ivan Tkachev is one of the most influential security officials. The department he heads has access to control the movement of large financial flows in the country and is involved in supporting all corruption investigations,” the publication’s interlocutor said.
Let us recall that last summer the appointment of Ivan Tkachev to the position of head of the “K” department of the FSB of Russia, which deals with counterintelligence in the credit and financial sphere.
Prior to this, Tkachev served as head of the sixth management service own safety The FSB, which provided operational support to a number of high-profile processes. It's about about the case of the ex-head of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, the case of the former governor of Sakhalin, the ex-head of Komi
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1. Before his death in the pre-trial detention center, Evdokimov was being released. At that time, deputy head of the CSS FSB Oleg Feoktistov, one of the most influential intelligence generals of the past decade, worked. It was Feoktistova, through her boss Sergei Shestakov, as well as the head of the 6th CSS service Ivana Tkachev Denis Tarabakin was supposed to report the information received from Yuri Sudgaimer.Date: 10/26/2017 2. Smuggling stars. ... with everyone, and called the published information about Uvarov’s participation in smuggling in St. Petersburg dirty slander from his brothers,” says the employee FSB. Our sources say the most likely candidate to replace Viktor Voronin is the head of the 6th Internal Security Service FSB Ivana Tkachev, and the place of Yuri Yakovlev should supposedly be taken by the head of the CSS FSB Sergei Korolev. In this case, our sources believe, the post of head of the CSS FSB Most likely, the current deputy head of the department, Oleg Feoktisov, will take over...
Date: 06/21/2016 3. Kirill Cherkalin was charged with multiple charges. According to Kommersant's sources, Kirill Cherkalin has recently allegedly been one of the trusted representatives of the head of the K department of the SEB FSB Ivana Tkachev. Previously, the general himself served in the CSS unit FSB, the so-called 6th service. Based on its materials, in particular, the former head of the GUEBiPK Denis Sugrobov along with his subordinates were arrested and convicted. In turn, management “K” under Mr. Tkachev distinguished itself by the developments of former Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev and Minister of Open...
Date: 04/26/2019 4. Alexey Ulyukaev was taken without detention. - K.ru insert] The order to start the special operation, according to the witness, was given by the head of department “K” (anti-corruption) FSB Ivan Tkachev. Employee FSB confirmed the information already heard earlier in court that the cash dollars for the operation were handed over to the security officers by Rosneft employees, but he could not remember who exactly.
Date: 09.19.2017 5. War of two towers. The names of the employees are extremely interesting FSB, “came to light” in the situation with the arrest of the minister. This is a powerful general sent to reserve by Putin back in the summer FSB Oleg Feoktistov and head of Department “K” FSB Ivan Tkachev. Feoktistov and Tkachev- come from the most influential and effective interdepartmental team of security officials in the recent past, which included the closest associate of the Chairman of the ICR Bastrykin, the head of the ICR Internal Affairs Directorate Mikhail Maksimenko and his deputy Alexander Lamonov.
Date: November 22, 2016 6. Brother, matchmaker and penal battalion. The building was registered as Agrokompleks CJSC, FSB didn't mind. “It was probably easier for them to keep an eye on the governor,” says a federal official. - Under Tkachev We've been digging for a long time, waiting for the go-ahead.
...we didn’t get there, we were stopped at the stage of collecting documents, and the winner was Agrokompleks, they received subsidies and subsidies for fertilizers, chemicals, and seed material,” complains the chairman of the collective farm named after Agrokompleks. S. M. Kirov" Ivan Yaroshenko...
Date: 08/10/2015 7. BONY case: Evenki trace. Let us only note that Ivan Bakhtin was never arrested, and let's move on. A month later, the investigative team FSB with the cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Finance, a second criminal case with a similar wording is being initiated against Bakhtin.
Soon, at the beginning of 1997, under the administration of Norilsk, a municipal institution was created under the name "Interregional Supply and Sales Organization", the director of which was Muscovite Akatov, after which Tkachev appointed him as his deputy.
Date: 05/06/2000 8. Lubyanka organized crime group. ... RBC's interlocutors. What changes await FSB RBC's interlocutors in the special services believe that the operation to detain the raiders from FSB“successfully fit into the purge” started in the special service by people from the internal security department FSB, who have been appointed to key positions in the department over the past three years. Among them are the head of the economic security service Sergei Korolev, his first deputy Sergei Alpatov, the head of the key department for SEB “K” Ivan Tkachev and the head of the department...
Date: 07/08/2019 9. “Base of scoundrels.” The database also contained personal data of employees of classified units FSB, including those that are specifically designed to prevent the leakage of such databases. Also among the exposed clients are high-ranking officials, deputies and more than 100...
As the security service found out, “Khodorkovsky” had previously applied for loans from banks and introduced himself as David Tkachev, then David Rosenberg and somehow managed to lure $200 thousand from a Sakhalin businessman. Another character introduced himself...
Date: 10/07/2016 10. Federation Council: billionaires, bandits, lobbyists, athletes. There are major security officials from the army, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and FSB. Many former governors, speakers of legislatures and mayors (and their deputies). In some regions, protégés of current senators are in power (for example, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev- successor to Federation Council member Nikolai Kondratenko).
Date: 03/26/2010 11. Three security officers broke the bribe record of one policeman. ... Ivan Tkachev, who previously served in the CSS FSB. It is the special service’s own security officers who are now providing operational support for the investigation into both criminal cases against the security officers. Alexander Bastrykin’s subordinates are not yet planning to merge investigations. Lawyers for the defendants were unavailable for comment. IA "Rosbalt", 05/18/2019, "A video of searches with items seized from the colonel FSB billions": "Rosbalt" publishes a video of searches of the ex-head of the banking department of Directorate "K" FSB ...
Date: 05/20/2019 12. “Permtransgazstroy” was destroyed in the name of General Zolotov. That he has direct access to management FSB Russia – head of the economic security service Sergei Korolev and head of department “K” Ivana Tkachev.
Date: 09/28/2017 13. Mansur - “33 percent”. In one of the conversations, the “curator” flaunted the names of high officials FSB: Oleg "Ficus" Feoktistov and Ivana Ivanovich Tkachev. Sonorous surnames made the position of Gadzhiev and Kononenko practically untouchable. Andrei Kononenko has repeatedly stated that he “decides selfishly” for the current “fighters” FSB through his man at the tax office, meaning Mansur Gadzhiev.
Date: 08/11/2015 14. Barack on the path of the presidential administration. There is information that the order to detain was given by the deputy head of police department No. 10, colonel Ivan Gorlov. When Arkady returned home and wrote a statement to the prosecutor's office, Colonel Gorlov invited him to a conversation, where he apologized for what happened. I have an audio recording of Arkady and a man with a voice similar to Gorlov’s talking. Arkady is trying to find out who ordered his detention, to which the voice replies: “There was an office right there.” What is this - FSB?
Date: 04/23/2010 15. “Ugra” loomed in the Kirill Cherkalin case. Frolov had direct access to the deputy director in charge of economic crimes FSB Sergei Smirnov. RBC's interlocutors FSB they said that the current head of the “K” department came from the internal security department FSB general Ivan Tkachev While still in his previous position, he was developing connections between Cherkalin and Frolov, but he was informed about the operation to detain them immediately before it began. Supervised the arrests of the deputy head of the Internal Security Service FSB Alexey Komkov.
Date: 05/24/2019 16. Three security officers and “Darth Vader”. A person from the internal security department was directly involved in the investigation of criminal cases against Mikhalchenko FSB general Ivan Tkachev, who eventually headed the “K” department FSB after Voronin's resignation.
Date: 04/29/2019 17. Stanislav Küner will be saved from confiscation. Operational support is provided by Department “K” FSB Russia, led by a general Ivan Tkachev.
Date: 03/13/2019 18. Schemes of gas theft by the Arashukovs. The case against the Arashukovs was initiated on the basis of a report from the head of department “K” of the Economic Security Service FSB general Ivana Tkachev, followed from the documents attached by the investigation to the arrest petition.
Date: 02/21/2019 19. Alexander Shestun was presented with a land scheme. The videos contained audio recordings of conversations that Shestun allegedly had on Staraya Square with the head of the internal policy department of the presidential administration Andrei Yarin, the head of the administration of the governor of the Moscow region Mikhail Kuznetsov and general FSB Ivan Tkachev.
Date: 06/19/2018 20. Alexander Shestun was dug up on a land matter. [Vedomosti.Ru, 06/13/2018, “The head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, was detained for the elections”: In a video message to Putin, Shestun included audio recordings of his conversations, including with a person whom he introduced as the head of department “K” FSB Ivana Tkachev.
Date: 06/14/2018
The collection of evidence of guilt of employees of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs in the illegal criminal prosecution of officials and entrepreneurs took the preliminary and judicial investigation about three years. However, journalists were not able to hear and compare the arguments of the investigators and the accused - at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, the consideration of the case took place behind closed doors. The basis for this decision of the Moscow City Court was the presence in 400 volumes of information constituting state secrets, namely: several intelligence files and personal files of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Over the past five months, we have been talking about the background of this closed criminal trial as part of the crime series “The Case of the Special Services. Revelations of generals."
Today we are completing it.
In the final series, we will talk about the most resonant operational activities of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, carried out at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, and we will also reveal the unique details of the complex operational combination of the FSB, as a result of which Denis Sugrobov’s unit was defeated. (Everything we talk about is based on documented data from operational activities - including authorized hidden audio and video recordings - and on materials from criminal cases at the disposal of the editors.)
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“Of course, Georgy Sergeevich. All the best!" - Head of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Sugrobov in good mood finished the conversation with the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, then increased the volume of the TV and turned to his interlocutor. Sitting opposite, the deputy head of the anti-corruption department of the presidential administration, Artur Zavalunov, who was once introduced to Sugrobov as a confidant of billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, looked questioningly at the general.
“Poltavchenko asks to find a candidate for the position of head of the local BEP ( UEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs — A.S.),” Sugrobov calmly explained.
“Poltavchenko? Poltavchenko just asked Chaika…” Zavalunov, who came to Sugrobov from the Prosecutor General’s Office, began cheerfully, but immediately stopped short.
“Arthur, everything is written here. One hundred percent. Still under Shalakov ( former head of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. — A. S.) they installed the equipment,” the general warned.
Sugrobov was right: since 2010, his office was under the control of employees of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB. Knowing or guessing about this, he nevertheless had rather frank conversations in his office for the last three years, apparently believing that they would not be used against him.
But right now, in October 2013, when the Lubyanka special officers received permission to develop his main directorate, the risk that every word he said would become evidence of his guilt increased significantly.
At first, Arthur Zavalunov took the general’s warning seriously, took out a pen and wrote “Valery Kryazhev” on a piece of paper. “Do you know this? “he asked quietly.
Sugrobov paused for a short time.
“Are you talking to me seriously now? — the general said in a whisper and, without waiting for an answer, continued, raising his tone: “Listen, we have it fully documented.” But I do not want. This is not my war. I'm telling you honestly, I don't want to. Kryazhev... Here I will receive a command, for example, from the director of the FSB or, for example, the minister [Kolokoltsev] will tell me: “Agreed with the director, act!” - so we will detain him the next day. We will charge him with three or four episodes with all audio and video recordings.”
Sugrobov spoke quickly and nervously, as if he was trying to get rid of the information he knew.
“Well, okay, okay, but if we detain Kryazhev, Ivan Ivanovich won’t be offended?” - Sugrobov again switched to a whisper, as if emphasizing the significance of the figure of Ivan Ivanovich Tkachev, the long-time head of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB.
Zavalunov put his pen aside: “Do you know how Tkachev treats you? He always says: “It’s a pity that we can’t work together. Denis is normal. He's just like me." I even feel a little sorry for him, Denis.”
Sugrobov immediately picked up: “Yes, I know that he has neither money nor real estate. He is a hard worker. But very loyal. Feoktistov will tell him to jump out the window - he will immediately do a somersault.”
Sugrobov pronounced the name of the deputy head of the FSB Internal Security Service, General Oleg Feoktistov, curator of that same 6th service, with undisguised irritation. Relations between the two generals have deteriorated greatly in the last couple of years - both have long been looking for compromising information on each other.
“You know, we detained six people in one case. I told Denis Nikandrov ( investigator of the Investigative Committee, subsequently detained on charges of receiving a bribe from thief in law Shakro Molodoy. —A.S.), which neither I nor my employees received Money from detainees. If the FSB Internal Security Service does not believe in this, they can carry out operational support of the case... If they want, let them place everyone in Lefortovo and... torture them in the hope of getting something on me,” Sugrobov said confidently.
Zavalunov nodded again at the piece of paper: “In general, Kryazhev is their snoop... He was a witness in many criminal cases, in which they provided operational support... He is their breeder. He meets with businessmen abroad. They can't meet. And he flies abroad and meets there once a year. He is now in Gena ( in slang General Prosecutor's Office. — A.S.) comes in and tells all sorts of nasty things about me.”
Sugrobov left this tirade without comment, probably having lost interest in retired FSB officer Valery Kryazhev.
“But this one... He recently sent me an SMS, come on, he says, let’s have some tea,” Zavalunov pushed a piece of paper towards Sugrobov, on which a new name and surname were written.
It is difficult to imagine what the general was thinking about at that moment. He once admitted that any mention former first Deputy Head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Andrei Khorev brought him back to the events of 2011, when his pregnant wife received a call from a Moscow funeral bureau asking for clarification of the inscription on the wreath for her late husband. Since then, Sugrobov, who guessed who was the organizer of this provocation, had exclusively hostility towards his colleague.
“Yes, maybe I sent him there harshly then...” Sugrobov returned to the conversation with Zavalunov and recalled in detail how, after his appointment as head of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, he categorically refused FSB General Oleg Feoktistov’s request to “establish an agreement with Khorev business relationship" From that moment, Sugrobov admitted to Zavalunov, his protracted conflict with Feoktistov began.
“No one tried to reconcile us with him [Feoktistov]. I am Vadim Yakovenko ( former head of the Main Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. —A.S.) said: “Denis, why the hell do you need all this? Let me act as a guarantor, we’ll sit down in my office and talk”...
“Now what? Feoktistov, because of his ambitions, sets the task of destroying anyone in order to get to me. One, two, three... If only I crawled on my knees, and he could influence me. But this will not happen! I understand that everyone is freaking out that I stood up against them [Khorev and Feoktistov] in full force. Everyone falls under them, but I stood up..."
Detention of Denis Sugrobov. Action shot Start of service
Sugrobov and his future friend and deputy Boris Kolesnikov after graduation High school police officers entered the service of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department (MUR), both junior lieutenants showed themselves with the best side in the first year. Sugrobov, who served in the Central Administrative District of the capital, solved five serious crimes, Kolesnikov, who found himself in the north of Moscow, solved twelve.
In March 1999, the leadership of the Moscow Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP), during the next recruitment, drew attention to the results of young operatives and asked the capital’s criminal defense to second them to the location of its territorial unit - ROOP of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow. Working in the homicide department, Sugrobov and Kolesnikov together took part in risky operations to detain drug dealers and weapons sellers.
According to their colleague, the young officers experienced their “baptism of fire” in 2000, during the arrest of natives of Georgia who were selling heroin in Moscow. “The test purchase was supposed to take place in one of the apartments. Borya was supposed to buy this heroin, and Denis - he was part of the task force - was supposed to detain the criminals. There was a discrepancy - Entrance door It was closed with three powerful bolts, so it took about three minutes to break it, no less. During this time, Borya, who was already engaged in hand-to-hand combat, killed half of the merchants. But he himself suffered - a knife wound in the arm.”
A year later, the partners swapped places - now, when purchasing weapons from a group of Chechens at the Varshavsky technical center, Sugrobov infiltrated, and Kolesnikov covered him in the capture group. “And then an incident happened, only worse. A SOBR vehicle was involved in an accident. The minutes were ticking - Denis could naturally have been shot if he had been discovered. Then Borya pushed several “heavy” people into a taxi and rushed towards the technical center. As a result, firearms, ammunition and plastic were confiscated from members of the organized crime group,” recalls a colleague of Kolesnikov and Sugrobov.
Together again
In 2002, Sugrobov and Kolesnikov radically changed their profile - having received a transfer to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District, both began investigating crimes in the credit and financial sector, insurance organizations and foreign economic activity. In the new unit, young officers quickly moved up the ranks. Sugrobov was especially noted - for several years of service he was recognized as the best employee of the criminal police, and at the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the formation of the BKhSS-BEP service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was prematurely promoted to the rank of colonel.
Denis Sugrobov at a hearing in the Duma. Photo: RIA Novosti At the same time, by order of the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District, Nikolai Aulov, Sugrobov and Kolesnikov were seconded to the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The order for Sugrobov’s enrollment was signed by the then head of the Internal Affairs Ministry’s Department of Security Investigations, Evgeniy Shkolov.
In his new capacity, Sugrobov took part in his first federal operation - in 2008, under his leadership, an interregional ethnic criminal group was detained, which was engaged in the production and sale of counterfeit money in order to finance extremist organizations in the North Caucasus.
In 2010, Denis Sugrobov was appointed head of ORB-10 DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Sugrobov was recommended for this position by the same Evgeny Shkolov, who was already considered the main patron of the talented operative.
Having received the appointment, Sugrobov achieved the transfer of Boris Kolesnikov to his ORB. Since then, responsibilities in this tandem have been clearly delineated: Sugrobov was involved in strategic planning of operations and interaction with the top management of the department, and Kolesnikov was in charge of coordinating the actions of personnel.
In 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev decided to reform the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and create the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs on its basis. A powerful bureaucratic struggle began for the post of head of the new main board. Medvedev himself put an end to it by appointing the little-known Denis Sugrobov to the position.
Sugrobov later admits that at a meeting with Medvedev, where he was brought by the head of the presidential control department, Konstantin Chuychenko, he had the audacity to refuse the president: “I asked to be appointed minister [of the Ministry of Internal Affairs] in any republic of the North Caucasus, or to be transferred to work in the criminal investigation department [GUUR Ministry of Internal Affairs], but not in the GUEB. But he [Medvedev] said: “Either you accept my offer, or you will no longer serve in the internal affairs bodies.”
Having made his choice, Denis Sugrobov nevertheless asked Evgeny Shkolov to assist in translating into North Caucasus. Shkolov gave his word to do this immediately after the Olympic Games in Sochi.
After the Olympics, Sugrobov will be in pre-trial detention center.
GTO norm
As soon as Denis Sugrobov took up his duties in the newly created head office, he immediately carried out several successful operations to identify major fraud in the federal executive authorities. The first victims of the young general were officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and officials of OJSC Rosagroleasing.
As the police established, the former head of the administrative department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Oleg Donskikh, in collusion with the general directors of commercial companies in the Lipetsk region, organized the conclusion of fictitious contracts for the supply of non-existent equipment for distilleries, dairy farms and elevators in the amount of more than 973 million.
In a memo addressed to Minister Kolokoltsev, Denis Sugrobov wrote: “Currently, information about Elena Skrynnik’s involvement in the theft is being verified ( Minister of Agriculture at that time. — A.S.), her brother (also former deputy director of Rosagroleasing) Novitsky, former assistant to minister Grigorashchenko..."
In parallel with the investigation of thefts in agriculture employees of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs began checking operational information about possible violations during the alienation of real estate of the Ministry of Defense.
So in February 2012, police detained on suspicion of commercial bribery a reserve colonel of the Ministry of Defense Boris Miroshnikov and a retired colonel of the internal service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Ambarov. As part of an operational experiment, officers received 18 million rubles from representatives of a commercial company for services to include four Voentorg stores in the directive on the sale.
When detained, Ambarov and Miroshnikov immediately admitted that they had acted in collusion with Ekaterina Smetanova, the general director of Legal Support Center Expert LLC (later renamed Mira LLC), with whom the Oboronservis holding entered into an exclusive agency agreement for the assessment and sale released property. The next day, Smetanova was detained while receiving 6 million rubles.
Further criminal prosecution director of the agent company was terminated, but a year later she was again taken into custody. This time, the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs already acted jointly with the Department of Military Counterintelligence (DVKR) of the FSB, and the decision to bring Smetanova to criminal responsibility was made by investigators of the Main Military Investigation Department (GVSU) of the ICR.
Once in the pre-trial detention center, Ekaterina Smetanova entered into a pre-trial agreement, which was classified as “secret”. Thus, the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs and the DVKR FSB received a valuable informant, whose testimony made it possible to obtain evidence of theft during the sale of other objects of the Ministry of Defense and to identify those involved in these crimes.
Ekaterina Smetanova in court. Photo: RIA Novosti “It was we who laid the foundations for a large criminal case, which the whole country was then making noise about,” notes the ex-employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, not without pride, and recalls that this operational development brought the police closer to military counterintelligence officers and opened up new opportunities for them. — Working with DVKR was a pleasure. Full understanding, no intrigue. It was only a shame to see how well they were technically equipped, and how poorly we were. I remember we tracked the planned location of the negotiations between the general director of Slavyanka OJSC, Alexander Elkin. He agreed to meet at a restaurant. We had half an hour. We shrugged our shoulders - how can you equip the required table with equipment in such a short time? As a result, counterintelligence officers sent us an audio recording made at a distance of ten meters. Kolesnikov howled with envy. We were also impressed by the capabilities of the operational search department of the FSO, which helped us in one operation.”
“Usually outdoors” ( external surveillance. — A.S.) allocate a maximum of two or three crews, but an experienced person can easily notice everything. And here all the cars that surrounded the “object’s” car along the route were FSO crews. In such a situation, not a single person will think that he is being “led.” Well, imagine that all the people around you are watching you.”
Big corruption scandal, in which several dozen employees of the ministry and commercial companies were involved, became the reason for the resignation of Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. Later, Denis Sugrobov, listening to the report of his subordinates, will say that the decision to bring criminal charges against people from Serdyukov’s entourage was made personally by President Vladimir Putin.
For the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs itself, according to its former employee, the investigation into thefts at the Ministry of Defense became a kind of test for combat readiness and loyalty to the presidential course: “We even joked among ourselves at the headquarters that this was a kind of GTO norm for us. And we passed it, the president believed in us.”
Olympic program
On February 6, 2013, President Vladimir Putin arrived in Sochi for another inspection of Olympic facilities. On the eve of his visit, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak called Denis Sugrobov and asked him to prepare information regarding all Olympic venues.
While inspecting the Gornaya Karusel complex, the president was outraged by the delay in the completion of the bobsleigh and luge track. “This is due to the failure of the previous contractor to complete the work... The previous contractor is the [former] owner of Krasnaya Polyana, Comrade Bilalov,” Kozak explained.
The next day after criticizing the president, operatives of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs were already confiscating documents from Krasnaya Polyana OJSC related to the construction of the ski slope. Entrepreneur Magomed Bilalov canceled his flight to Moscow from London. A month later, police detained the general director of Krasnaya Polyana, Stanislav Khatskevich, on suspicion of abuse of power. Magomed Bilalov was charged in absentia.
At the same time, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, informed the president about the results of the work of the GUEBiPK: “Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! During the investigation of the criminal case, it was established that the deputy chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Krasnaya Polyana, Magomed Bilalov, the director of the company, Khatskevich, and his deputy, Reiterer, received more than 1 billion rubles from Sberbank as part of agreements for participation in the shared construction of Olympic facilities. However, in order to extract personal benefits, these persons unlawfully placed them in the form of deposits from 4 to 7 percent per annum into the account of the National Bank for Business Development (NBRB), controlled by Bilalov. Subsequently, these funds, through legal organizations controlled by Bilalov, were sent to OJSC Krasnaya Polyana in the form of loans from 12 to 16 percent per annum. As a result of these banking operations, Krasnaya Polyana suffered damage in the amount of 45 million rubles.”
In total, during the preparation for the Olympics, Denis Sugrobov’s unit identified more than ten cases of theft of budget funds and receipt of bribes by civil servants.
The last successful implementation of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was still not known, was the detention on the eve of the start of the Olympics on suspicion of commercial bribery of the vice-president of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Igor Stolyarov.
As the police established, during the construction of the Bolshoi Ice Palace, where hockey competitions were planned, instead of catering points, VIP boxes were equipped, for which an additional quota of tickets was produced with a total cost of 360 million rubles. The operatives sent their agent to the sellers, who offered them to purchase the entire quota. On December 16, 2013, three entrepreneurs were detained in the meeting room of one of the capital's banks. During the interrogation, two of them pointed to Stolyarov as the organizer of the crime. Stolyarov was detained and placed in a pre-trial detention center, and the materials of the criminal case were classified. “But interaction with foreign delegations was tied to him; no one could reach him by phone. Therefore, it was decided to change his preventive measure to house arrest. This is how he spent the entire Olympics - at home, with his phone,” says a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Thanks to the pre-Olympic raids, Denis Sugrobov’s unit was increasingly perceived as the president’s personal guard.
“Of course, everyone saw the rise of these guys. Where there is a loud detention, there they are. The president criticized someone - Sugrobov immediately became more active. A significant part of Lubyanka, frankly speaking, was jealous of this state of affairs,” says an FSB officer.
The President was regularly reported to the President about high-profile implementations of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs Teacher
Evgeny Shkolov, who once hired Denis Sugrobov to serve in the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was appointed in 2012 to the position of assistant to the president, overseeing the activities of the department for civil service and personnel issues. Since then, Shkolov has the right to so-called final approval of candidates appointed by a separate presidential decree. Therefore, after leaving the internal affairs bodies, Evgeniy Shkolov did not lose his influence on their work. Moreover, having received the authority to check the declarations of all categories of civil servants, Shkolov, in fact, himself became a law enforcement agency in one person.
It was Shkolov, as Denis Sugrobov admitted more than once in his own office, who achieved a significant strengthening of the positions of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs in the security bloc. And it was Shkolov who until the last moment remained the main and, perhaps, the only boss for General Sugrobov. “The schoolboy needs me while I’m working. And I strictly follow his instructions. “He does his job with my hands,” Denis Sugrobov once said emotionally during a conversation with his friend and deputy Boris Kolesnikov.
Therefore, when Evgeny Shkolov at the beginning of 2012 gave Denis Sugrobov the command to start developing Andrei Khorev (who by that time had left his service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and went into business), the general formed a task force without any wrangling.
“The task was simple - to objectively verify Khorev’s economic interests. And he is a versatile person, he had interests everywhere - in the alcohol business, in the customs and banking spheres...” says former employee GUEBiPK MIA.
Sugrobov’s wards dealt the first significant blow in the summer of 2012, when Andrei Khorev’s business partner, advisor to the head of the FSUE ROSTEC, subordinate to the customs service, Alexander Romanov, was detained on suspicion of commercial bribery. As the investigation established, Romanov illegally collected money from shippers for unhindered and expedited clearance of their goods at customs posts.
According to a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, once in custody, Romanov testified about his relationship with Khorev, but the police did not check them - billionaire Arkady Rotenberg stood up for Andrei Khorev.
Rotenberg's idea
“Arkady Romanovich was one of the few authorities for Denis. He tried to listen to his opinion,” says Sugrobov’s former subordinate.
Evidence of Sugrobov’s respectful attitude towards Rotenberg can be found in his negotiations with the head of one of the federal services, in which the general often referred to the position of “Arkady Romanovich” in controversial issues. And this respect, according to a businessman close to Rotenberg, was mutual: “Arkady is a wise man. He saw a lot of potential in this young guy.”
In mid-2013, Rotenberg, according to our interlocutor, even discussed with Sugrobov the issue of his possible appointment to the post of Minister of Internal Affairs:
“Arkady had this idea: Sugrobov is a minister, and Alekseev ( at that time - head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. —A.S.) - Chairman of the Investigative Committee."
Denis Sugrobov himself sometimes spoke about meetings with Arkady Rotenberg in the break room at SMP Bank in his own office. In October 2013, Sugrobov told Artur Zavalunov about the details of one of them, at which the plans of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding Khorev were discussed.
“When I showed Romanych the materials, he said: “Denis, give me your boy’s word that you won’t do this. Just because he covered some of my business, he helped me. I don’t exchange mine.” I say, “Okay, I value friendship. Although, like this, if you invite him to your place now, I will tell you about what he did against me,” said Sugrobov.
Zavalunov, in turn, told Sugrobov about one of Arkady Rotenberg’s assets, which Andrei Khorev once “covered up”. It turned out to be the Lotus City trade and exhibition center in the Sosensky settlement of the Moscow region, which formally belonged to the structures of the deputy head of Gazprom Invest Yug Andrei Goncharenko, but could supposedly serve as a source of cash for individual projects of Arkady Rotenberg.
In 2013, according to Zavalunov, operatives of the Moscow Department of Economic Security and Commissariat of Crime, together with riot police, conducted a large-scale raid at the Lotus City TV Center, during which a large batch of counterfeit goods was seized. “They took some loader named Gadzhiev, he gave evidence... Riot police came in, three hundred people, containers with cargo were taken away. All the traders rushed out of fear,” Zavalunov described this event.
The orderers of the large-scale search at the Lotus City TVC, he explained to Sugrobov, were allegedly businessmen God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev - billionaires, owners of the capital's shopping and entertainment centers and operators of a number of markets. According to Zavalunov, they were allegedly prompted to organize this attack by Andrei Khorev, while allegedly prudently keeping silent about who is the real owner of the object.
The response was not long in coming: in the fall of 2013, counterfeit goods were discovered at the Sadovod market, which belonged to Nisanov and Iliev. Then Rospotrebnadzor, during an unscheduled inspection, revealed gross violations in this market sanitary standards and sent a demand to the court to close it. According to Zavalunov, Andrei Khorev was also allegedly involved in organizing these searches.
“When God realized who they had targeted, he walked around pale for several days,” recalls an acquaintance of Nisanov.
This mistake was costly for the capital's rentiers - at the beginning of 2014, the structures of Nisanov and Iliev were forced to purchase the Lotus City TV Center for 1.5 billion rubles, which exceeded market value complex at least three times.
The story described by Zavalunov, according to a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, well reveals the character of Andrei Khorev: “This is all Andrei. To solve a problem, you need to create it. And this is a very subtle operational game that they don’t teach in police school - it either exists or it doesn’t. Sugrobov, entering into conflict with him, did not take this into account.”
Sanction for development
Many acquaintances of Denis Sugrobov and Boris Kolesnikov note that they made key mistakes in the first half of 2013. Then, carried away by high-profile investigations into the theft of budget funds in preparation for the Olympics, the young generals lost their sense of proportion. “We saw how they were changing - until recently they were cautious, but now they started waving sabers. But it was useless to explain anything. You tell them that you can’t fight with everyone, but in response they open a new front,” says a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Employees of the “M” department of the FSB, a unit that provides counterintelligence support to the country’s law enforcement system, provided all possible assistance in this war “with all” police officers.
At the end of last year, during an operational audit in this structure, it turned out that the “M” department of the FSB, which oversaw the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was under the operational control of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB all this time. “At least three former subordinates of Sugrobov confidentially interacted with the M department of the FSB, not knowing that the curators themselves were registered as agents in the FSB Internal Security Service,” says the intelligence officer.
According to the interlocutor, in February 2013, employees of the “M” department received an operational task from the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB - to implement information about corruption in the leadership of the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor’s Office (MMTP) through the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs. As part of an operational experiment carried out in March, police and FSB officers detained a certain Igor Ozarzhitsky and the deputy head of the MMTP department Denis Evdokimov while receiving a bribe in the amount of 5 million rubles from businessmen.
According to a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, immediately after the successful arrest, the security officers reported that the money was also intended for other MMTP employees, insisting on continuing development. Boris Kolesnikov responded to this proposal, says a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs: “Denis had no one closer to Kolesnikov. He often relied on his opinion. And Boris, he was an operative, not a politician - he could design operational measures, but did not know how to assess the consequences.”
Soon, Denis Sugrobov wrote a memo to Vladimir Kolokoltsev, in which he said that the money could have been intended not only for Evdokimov, but also allegedly for the first deputy head of MMTP, Murad Kekhlerov. Murad Kekhlerov is the son of the then Deputy Prosecutor General Sabir Kekhlerov.
Information that the son of the Deputy Prosecutor General is involved in corruption was not confirmed in the criminal case, but quickly spread in the press. Kekhlerov Jr. left MMTP .
“So Sugrobov received a guaranteed enemy in the person of the Prosecutor General’s Office,” says a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Subsequently, Sugrobov’s relationship with the head of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Alekseev, also deteriorated: at departmental meetings, the head of the main department began to complain that investigators ignored the operational materials of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Combating of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and refused to initiate criminal cases.
However, as follows from Denis Sugrobov’s report addressed to Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the real cause of the conflict was his suspicions that Alekseev was working for the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB. Operatives from the “M” department of the FSB fully supported these suspicions, an FSB officer says: “The lever was very short. They convinced Kolesnikov of this, Kolesnikov convinced Sugrobov.”
At one of the private meetings, Boris Kolesnikov, on the instructions of his FSB curators, recorded his conversation with General Alekseev. “On this tape, transferred to the M department, Alekseev shared his plans to head the Investigative Committee,” recalls an FSB officer.
This film will be used at the most opportune moment - in February 2014, shortly before the arrests at the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Putin will sign a decree terminating the powers of the head of the Investigation Department. Alekseev learns about his own resignation during a meeting with his subordinates.
And in mid-2013, according to an FSB employee, operatives of the “M” department transferred secret audio recordings of Kolesnikov himself to the 6th service of the FSB Internal Security Service, in which he and someone in a friendly atmosphere discussed the likelihood of the dismissal of a number of people from the leadership of the Lubyanka . This was reported to the director of the FSB.
The information received by Bortnikov, according to our sources in the presidential administration, was orally reported at the May meeting of the Security Council, whose members made a collegial decision to begin training policemen from the GUEBiPK.
After the sanction was received, employees of the “M” department of the FSB invited Boris Kolesnikov to document the fact of corruption in the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB. After lengthy negotiations, the tactics of which were adjusted by the “six” themselves, Kolesnikov agreed.
Alexey Bodnar, one of the three operatives who confidentially interacted with the FSB’s “M” department, was chosen to be responsible for searching for operational approaches to the 6th service of the FSB Internal Security Service.
Bodnar's handler at the FSB was officer Yevgeny Lobanov.
As soon as Kolesnikov and Bodnar began developing a plan, an operative of the 6th service of the FSB Internal Security Service, Ulyanov, opened an investigation case with the qualifying feature “provocation of a bribe,” and the deputy head of the FSB Internal Security Service, Oleg Feoktistov, sent a resolution to the Moscow City Court to “wiretap” the phones of Alexei Bodnar and Boris Kolesnikov.
Now the special officers could only wait for the police to lead themselves into a trap.
Bait
In February 2013, former employee of ORB-7 DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and agent of Alexey Bodnar, Sergei Pirozhkov, received an unexpected invitation to work - to head the legal service of the little-known Paritet Group of Companies LLC. This proposal came from a veteran of the Alpha special unit of the FSB TsSN Andrei Baranov, who headed the security service of the financier Sergei Magin, known for many scandals in the press.
At the beginning of June, Magin sent Pirozhkov to one of his facilities in the same TV center “Lotos City”, where he was introduced to the new head - a veteran of the FSB Center for Special Operations and the Vikhr-Ya private security company Pavel Globa.
Quite quickly, both retired security officials found mutual language. At some point, Pavel Globa admitted to Pirozhkov that he left Lubyanka due to the fault of the leadership of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB. And just at this time, Pirozhkov received instructions from Alexei Bodnar to find people through whom he could get close to the leadership of the “six”.
Globa, to whom Pirozhkov addressed this question, admitted that he maintained good relations with only one person - the deputy head of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB, Igor Demin. As if Demin did not participate in the dismissal of Globa, since during this period, by order of the director of the FSB, he was seconded to the Dar charity foundation.
An introductory meeting between Globa and Bodnar took place in November 2013. Bodnar literally showed his cards to his interlocutor right from the start, explaining the meaning and details of the operation. The operational plan turned out to be simple: Globa must introduce agent Bodnar to Igor Demin, to whom a business proposal will be made - money in exchange for patronage.
Bodnar’s colleagues at the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs still do not understand how an experienced operative came into operational contact without going through the standard set of actions: making inquiries, external surveillance, wiretapping the phone. The usually meticulous Boris Kolesnikov had no questions about the quality of the development.
According to the FSB officer, Bodnar and Kolesnikov “received the go-ahead for an operational approach through Globa from curators from the FSB “M” department.”
Bodnar also hinted to Globa himself about the presence of these curators. “I think everything will work out for us, because there are certain comrades who are running around and want to harpoon them in the office,” Bodnar reasoned. “That is, the FSB men of the FSB men?” - Globa asked, feigning surprise. "Yes. Look, they’ve already gotten into trouble with a lot of people, and there are serious players... And in principle, the [FSB] directors, I think, are already fed up with them too.”
We must pay tribute to Pavel Globa: during controlled meetings with Bodnar, he brilliantly demonstrated doubts, either enthusiastically agreeing to take part in this operational combination, or categorically refusing. And in the meantime, he deftly found out who in the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs knew about this operation. “Kolesnikov is aware. Sugrobov is aware,” Bodnar answered innocently.
Slightly “doubting,” Globa nevertheless agreed to participate in operational search activities. Further events developed according to the scenario of the FSB Internal Security Service. In February 2014, during the transfer of 10 thousand dollars to the deputy chief of the “six” Igor Demin, the first police arrests took place.
Boris Kolesnikov, according to a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, immediately gave the task of establishing the identity of Pavel Globa. However, the police were unable to obtain information even about his telephone connections. “In operational language this is called a “dome.” No one can obtain data about your movement or listen to your phone. This is used extremely rarely in relation to three categories of persons: embedded agents, participants in an operational experiment, or a person under state protection,” explains a former employee of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to the interlocutor, Boris Kolesnikov, until the moment of his arrest, believed that the criminal case for provoking a bribe would be dropped. However, the opposite happened - within a few months, the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB detained both Kolesnikov himself and his boss Denis Sugrobov.
Boris Kolesnikov in custody, shortly before his death. Photo: RIA Novosti In May, General Kolesnikov jumped from the window of the Investigative Committee building in Tekhnicheskiy Lane. Shortly before this, he was diagnosed with closed craniocerebral injuries received in the Lefortovo detention center.
Immediately after this incident, operative Alexei Bodnar entered into a pre-trial agreement, within the framework of which he admitted the existence of a criminal community in the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was engaged in “inducing officials and entrepreneurs to illegally accept funds for the purpose of their illegal detention and criminal prosecution.”
Judgment Day
The trial of Denis Sugrobov, closed from the media at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, lasted more than a year. During this time, about two hundred witnesses were questioned in court, among whom were former and current officers of the FSB, FSO, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Department and the Investigative Committee, who investigated criminal cases together with the GUEBiPK, the fabrication of which the police were eventually accused of.
During the debate between the parties, the representative of the state prosecution, prosecutor Pavel Filipchuk, who became famous thanks to the trial of the Ukrainian soldier Nadezhda Savchenko, called the guilt of the police fully proven.
Justifying his own position, the prosecutor over and over again received applause from the audience with the ornateness of his formulations: “The testimony of all GUEBiPK employees that they know nothing about the existence of a criminal community is proof of the deep conspiracy of the criminal community within the GUEBiPK. What kind of criminal community would it be if everyone knew about it? And all the documents drawn up by the defendants are outwardly legal, since they were conspired to look legal - so that no one would know about their illegal methods.”
Concluding his short speech, Filipchuk addressed the prisoners:
“People are sinful, and taking on the responsibility of determining the level of sin is immoral.”
Denis Sugrobov, having listened carefully to the sermon of the state prosecutor, nodded to the former head of department “B” of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Salavat Mullayarov: “Your move.” Mullayarov held in his hands a tiny metal board with magnetic figures. Former colleagues started a new party. The previous one, the sixth one, was won by Sugrobov.
But the general did not react in any way to Mullayarov’s congratulations. He had already lost the main game of his life.
from the editor
The story of the confrontation between Denis Sugrobov and Oleg Feoktistov looks like an action-packed detective story worthy of a film adaptation. The entire range of operational capabilities of the units entrusted to them was involved in the struggle between the two generals.
The FSB FSB bugged Sugrobov’s office, the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs recorded business negotiations of Lubyanka veterans hiding behind connections with Feoktistov.
For every action there was a reaction.
Observing this struggle from the outside, it may seem that the FSB Internal Security Service ultimately won. Formally, this is so - as a result of a unique operational combination, in which the intelligence apparatus of the FSB Internal Security Service in the “M” department was involved, Oleg Feoktistov’s subordinates forced the police to act according to their scenario. And we must pay tribute to the counterintelligence abilities of General Feoktistov, who actually sent his enemies to the scaffold.
But in essence, in this interdepartmental war, as in any other war, there are no winners. For several years, people responsible for ensuring state security spent their operational resources on destroying each other.
The war also cost the career of Feoktistov himself, who at first did not receive the long-awaited promotion, then was “seconded” to Rosneft, and now from the state company, which was preparing a new luxurious office for him.
The main candidate for the post of the new head of the “K” department of the FSB was an employee of the intelligence service’s Internal Security Directorate, Ivan Tkachev. He was involved in the development of the case of MVD generals Sugrobov and Kolesnikov
FSB building in Moscow (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)
"Banking" department
The main contender for the post of head of the “K” department of the FSB was the head of the 6th service of the FSB Internal Security Directorate, Ivan Tkachev, an interlocutor close to the counterintelligence leadership told RBC, and confirmed a source in the FSB.
Tkachev’s appointment is expected in the near future, says one of RBC’s interlocutors. But his candidacy has yet to be approved by FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov. If the appointment takes place, for Tkachev the transition from the post of head of the service to the post of head of the department will be “a jump through several steps at once,” says a source in the intelligence service.
The 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB was created in 2008, it includes only 35 people, says an RBC source. The powers of this unit were not officially announced.
Tkachev played a key role in the case ex-head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, says RBC’s FSB interlocutor.
Sugrobov and his deputy Boris Kolesnikov were detained in 2014 on charges of provoking a bribe, exceeding official authority and organizing a criminal community. In June of the same year, Kolesnikov died after falling from a balcony in the Investigative Committee building after interrogation.
Resignations in two departments
According to Rosbalt, resignation reports were written by the heads of two more departments that are part of the structure of the FSB SEB - these are the heads of divisions “P” and “T”, which are engaged in counterintelligence support for industrial and transport enterprises, respectively.
“The heads of the entire economic bloc of the FSB are leaving the department. All of them have been in place for a long time, age. But, of course, this is not the reason for the resignation. Recently, the SEB's relations with the Internal Security Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation have become strained; scandalous stories began to arise that developed into criminal cases or so-called operational reports. There was a rather difficult situation last summer, but then somehow the parties were “taken to the corners.” Now it didn’t work out,” said a Rosbalt source in the intelligence services.
According to him, Oleg Feoktistov, who is now the deputy head of the department, could become the head of the CSS.
After it became known in early June that all key leaders of the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB had submitted their resignations, not all of them immediately left the department. A source in law enforcement agencies told Rosbalt about this.
“The head of Department “K”, Viktor Voronin, quickly handed over the case to one of his deputies, and the head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev, led the service for more than a month,” a source in law enforcement agencies told Rosbalt. According to him, only on July 8, the new head of the SEB, Sergei Korolev, was introduced to counterintelligence officers, previously the former head of the CSS. A little later, the employees were introduced to the new head of Directorate “K” - Ivan Tkachev, who previously headed the main strike “fist” of the special services to combat corruption - the 6th service of the FSB of the Russian Federation.
As the agency's interlocutor noted, the new heads of the SEB have now begun to sell the materials they have accumulated for a long time. “For the last two years, the CSS and the 6th Service have been collecting materials against SEB employees; during this time, about 10 criminal cases were initiated based on these materials. But not all materials have been implemented, and now, based on them, personnel decisions are made. One after another, deputy heads of departments, heads of departments and their deputies are being sent for dismissal,” a Rosbalt source expressed his opinion.
The agency's interlocutor also associates a number of major anti-corruption events carried out by the FSB of the Russian Federation in July 2016 with the arrival of new leaders at the SEB. “After personnel changes in the FSB of the Russian Federation, certain individuals lost reliable cover,” the source believes.
As for the vacant position of the head of the Internal Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, this issue is still in a “suspended” state. According to Rosbalt’s interlocutor, the first deputy head of the department, Oleg Feoktistov, has been appointed acting head of the department. However, it is not yet clear whether he will become the boss. “A number of other applicants are being considered for this position, including the head of the FSB Directorate for the Voronezh Region, Oleg Nefedov. I think a personnel decision should be expected in the near future,” Rosbalt’s interlocutor expressed his opinion.
Let us recall that at the beginning of June 2016, reports of dismissal were submitted by the heads of departments “K”, “T” of the FSB SEB and the head of this service. The vacant positions were filled by people from the Internal Security Service of the FSB, with whom the former leaders of the Security Security Service had a difficult relationship.
Just a couple of years ago, the CSB and the FSB SEB were considered extremely friendly departments to each other. In particular, these two units literally “bombed” an influential team of employees of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and its leader Denis Sugrobov even went to jail, and is now on trial. However, then the Security Service turned a significant part of its attention to representatives of the Security Security Service. Some of their operational activities even ended up in the media. Thus, in February 2015, representatives of the CSS detained an employee of the “P” department of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Igor Korobitsin. He is accused of demanding $1 million from the head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie Igor Chuyan.
At the beginning of 2016, influential St. Petersburg businessman Igor Khavronov contacted the CSS. A few months earlier, Directorate K had identified a large smuggling channel for expensive mobile phones, which it was assumed Khavronov could be involved with. As a result, a case was brought to light about extorting bribes from telephone carriers, in which the head of the 7th department of the department “K” of the FSB SEB Vadim Uvarov became a defendant.
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