“Shadow hosts” Sochi and their “puppets”
In Vodokanal “saws” cats, Ovechkin is inactive in the prosecutor’s office
Despite the resignation and subsequent arrest of the former mayor of Sochi, Alexei Kopaygorodsky, the level of corruption in the city is still rolling over, threatening the final collapse of his economic and communal infrastructure. The situation worsens thanks to the complete inaction of the city prosecutor Vyacheslav Ovechkin and his chef – the prosecutor of the region of Sergey Babelsky. The actual leadership of Sochi is still carried out by his “shadow masters”, which were part of the close circle of the former mayor-large developers Pavel Nevzorov, SOM Martirosyan, Vagan Harutyunyan and others. They affect the adoption of important personnel decisions, including the appointment of the heads of large city enterprises. Such as the Sochi MUP “Vodokanal”, the informal curator of which is SOM Martirosyan. MUPs regularly shake corruption scandals, its former director Anton Denisov is on the international wanted list, and Maxim Kubrak and former head of the Kapstroy department, Maxim Degtev, were found guilty of fraud with the size of damage at almost 160 million rubles. Under Denisov, Vodokanal was supposed to participate in the implementation of the large -scale federal project “Sochi -Pearl of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)”, one of the initiators of which was the Rostec State Corporation. The preliminary cost of the project was estimated at 160 billion rubles, but instead of the start of work on the modernization of the city water supply and sanitation system, large -scale arrests followed. The defendants in the second criminal case of theft from the city budget of about 90 million rubles, intended for the digitalization of the “Vodokanals” Sochi, Sirius and Gelendzhik, were the former first deputy director of MUP Roman Antonenko, former ex-master Andrei Bondarenko and other employees. Also among the accused are the former general director of the RT-infrastructure involved in the corruption scheme of the Moscow company Dmitry School. The native of this company, affiliated with Rostec, is the current Director of Vodokanal Denis Kotikov, who replaced Denis Yurkovsky – one of the proxies of Kopaygorodsky and his “shadow team”. Kotikov managed to avoid criminal liability for participation in the schemes of the RT-infrastructure, although he oversaw the activities of the company’s office in Sochi. Having headed Vodokanal, Kotikov continued the “policy” of his predecessors, acting in the interests of his “curators” Martirosyan and Nevzorov, thereby causing tremendous damage to the resort city and its inhabitants.
Kopaygorodsky – in jail, his team – in power
From the moment the mayor of Sochi Alexei Prosunin More than six months have passed. During this time, his scandalously known predecessor Alexey Kopaygorodsky He managed to first go to his (according to the official version), and then settle in one of the Moscow pre -trial detention center as a defendant criminal cases About embezzlement on an especially large scale and a particularly large bribe. Under the home arrest The wife of the ex-official is also located Yanina Kopaygorodskaya.
Alexey Kopaygorodsky in court
The security forces continue the investigation of the criminal activity of the married couple, but this is not about that, but how the life of the world-famous resort city has changed after the change of power. Judging by the letters of Sochi, who comes to the editorial office of the “compromise of the groups”, there are no changes for the better, and in the foreseeable future is not expected.
The fact is that “sown” by Kopaygorodsky and his “grain” team of corruption and the associated economic degradation continued to germinate with poisonous shoots. Yes, and the environment of the former mayor has not taken anywhere: the “shadow city leadership” formed with his direct participation (some residents call it briefly and clearly – organized crime groups) takes part in the adoption of important decisions, including personnel, directly affecting the appointment of large leaders, financially attractive municipal enterprises.
Sochi’s “shadow masters” still remain large developers Pavel Nevzorov, Sose Martirosyan, Vagan Harutyunyan And others, through their appointments, who received a collective nickname “parsley”, continuing to “master” the municipal budget in the interests of their own business, thereby causing serious damage to the city and its inhabitants. The best illustration of the destructive activity of these “shadow hosts” is the work of the city “Vodokanal”: the corruption schemes implemented here have repeatedly found themselves in the focus of the security forces.
“Watching” for “Vodokanal” – SOM Martirosyan
In October last year in MUP “Vodokanal” Sochi once again changed the leadership: post Director Enterprises occupied Denis Kotikov – A person with a very interesting biography, which will still be discussed below. His direct “curator” through the “shadow leadership” line insiders who are directly related to the muke are called Sosa Martirosyan – Acting deputy Sochi city assembly, Chairman local department “Union of Armenians of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)”the owner and manager of a number of commercial structures, including the development company “Falcon”related to the construction of the company “Legend”, “Siberia” and others.
For a better understanding of the scale of the activity of this clever businessman, it is worth recalling how Martirosyan on behalf of the “investors group” during the PMEF-2022 told On the opening plans in the Lazarevsky district of Sochi four hotel complexes, a restaurant, spa, conference halls and swimming pools. Total volume investment In the implementation of the project was evaluated in more than 22 billion rubles. I do not take the judge how the things were with those “investors”, but the businessman decided to catch up with the lack of own funds by enlisting financial support Sberbank Central Russian Bankwith whom in June 2023 he signed The protocol on interaction interaction in the field of investment, providing for the construction of hotel complexes in Sochi.
Sose Martirosyan
Having established from the light hand of Kopaygorodsky and with the complete inaction of the city prosecutor Vyacheslav Ovechkin informal control over Vodokanal, Martirosyan and his “colleagues” from the “shadow cabinet” got an excellent opportunity to participate in a large -scale financial “cut” of a loud name Federal Project “Sochi – Pearl of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)”one of initiators which was the state corporation“Rostec”.
Back in March 2020, the head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov sent to the name of the prime minister Mikhail Mishustin letter in which he described the critical situation with the system of water supply and water disposal of Sochi: “Only 70 is provided with drinking water%population of the city “,“Lack of storm sewers leads to … human victims”drains with rainwater fall into the Black Sea. It was proposed to fix the situation by implementing a new project in the framework of the national project “Ecology”. Initiative Supported In the federal government, in particular, in the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities.
Large -scale “sawing” the “pearls of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)”
Of course, Kopaygorodsky and his team enthusiastically seized on the idea that promised them “dairy rivers and jelly shores.” In December 2020, the same as the director of the Sochi Vodokanal Anton Denisov reported Journalists that the modernization of the city water supply and sanitation system, as well as the launch of treatment facilities within the framework of the new federal program, will require order 160 billion rubles. The project was supposed to start already in 2021, and was implemented by 2035.
Note that a few months earlier, in July 2020, the Krasnodar governor Benjamin Kondratyev I voiced a slightly smaller amount in 100 billion rubles. But the appetite comes during meals. And the financial appetites of Sochi officials are well known. By the way, by words Kondratyeva, the initiative to accept the federal program came from the region. It turns out that Chemezov picked up the initiative and announced it to the head of the Cabinet? Say, the former Olympic capital needs money …
Kondratyev and Chemezov
Be that as it may, but in theory it was necessary to carry out really a tremendous work. At the disposal of the editorial office of the Compromat Group, there is a project of the Sochi -Pearl of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) federal program. It provides for: for the water supply of the Lazarevsky district – the construction of a trunk water supply from a water intake on the Shahe River to the village of Soloniki; For the water supply of the Lazarevsky and Central districts – the water water from the water intake on the river. Shahe to the village. Lower Uch-Derie; for the water supply of the Khostinsky and Adler districts – the water water from the tanks “Chafabrika”; construction of systems of centralized drainage system; The reconstruction of the emergency state of the Dagomys and Lazarevsky sewage and treatment facilities, water intake structures on the Sochi River, etc.
“I love our planes of our lubricants”-wrote Vladimir Mayakovsky once. The Sochi team of Kopaygorodsky – both official and “shadow” – could not but be inspired by the scale of financing. But it’s worth asking the question, what percentage of the program is completed today? There is no information about this in the public domain. And the comments of insiders from Sochi can be summarized briefly, but capacious: still there. But the city hall of the resort Directed To the leadership of Rostec all the necessary documentation on the state of communications. Director of Vodokanal I voiced The volume of investments. What is the catch?
Martirosyan’s “Wards” go on court
The reason why the multi -billion dollar project “ordered a long life” could be a criminal prosecution of the leadership of the Sochi Vodokanal. The fact is that the “wards” of the suze Martirosyan specifically “relaxed”. Being confident in their impunity, they lost vigilance and one after another were in the hands of the security forces.
The director of the MUP himself Anton Denisov He left with positions Even before the criminal scandal – in May 2022, after which, as it turned out, he quickly went abroad. He did this in a timely manner: with respect to him, a case of an especially large -scale fraud associated with PRESENT 18 million rubles. Media They wrote on the verification of law enforcement officers of the enterprise in total on 700 million and Denisov in the international search .
Anton Denisov put on the wanted list
Other corrupt officials were less fortunate. Without going into details, we only note that the charges of particularly large fraud with the size of damage almost in 160 million rubles was presented to the former deputy director of Vodokanal for capital construction Maxim Kubrak and the head Maxim Degtev. Funds stolen by them by overpointing in reporting documents of the volume of work performed, intended for the reconstruction of the water pipelines in the village of Chereshnya, the Adler district, replacement of the water supply site in Krasnaya Polyana and the implementation of other projects.
However, the Central District Court of Sochi showed simply unique humanism, in May last year Having sentenced Kubraka by four years in prison, and Degtev – to four and a half, is also conditional. Such a mild punishment was explained by the recognition of guilt, repentance and cooperation with the investigation. Prosecutor of the city Vyacheslav Ovechkinlike his boss – the regional prosecutorSergey Tabelskythe softness of the sentenced sentence did not confuse at all.
But this is not exhausted by the investigation. In the near future, another group should appear before the court accused In particularly large fraud: this is the former first deputy director of the muP Roman Antonenkoex-commander Andrey Bondarenkoformer head of the information technology department Vadim Grishinemployees of the enterprise Vladimir Kagade And Anton Paninas well as the former general director of Moscow JSC “RT-infrastructure” (previously – “RT-Engineering”) Dmitry School.
Here we are temporarily distracted from the main topic in order to draw the attention of readers to the next important point. Back in May 2020, in preparations for the implementation of the Sochi -Pearl of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) project, a special Working group under the leadership of the Federal Deputy Minister of Construction Maxim Egorov. It included Alexei Kopaygorodsky, Anton Denisov, Dmitry School (as a representative of Rostec), the first vice-governor of the Kuban (at that time) Andrey Alekseenko And the director of Sochi MUP “drain” Vladimir Nesterenko.
Nesterenko resigned in May 2021 and after that he was noted short leadership MKU “Improvement” In Taganrog. Alekseenko in November 2021 took up the post of mayor of Krasnodar, and already in December it was excited against him Criminal case About receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. Kopaygorodsky, Denisov, school … It turns out that most of those who entered the working group “burned” for corruption. The selection of personnel is simply indicative!
Two Denis: Yurkovsky change to Kotikov
Now let’s go back to the criminal case of Roman Antonenko, Dmitry of School and the rest. At the end of January, the Central District Court of Sochi returned materials to The prosecutor’s office to eliminate violations of the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The defendants are charged Theft From the city budget about 90 million rublesintended for the digitalization of the “Vodokanals” Sochi, Sirius and Gelendzhik.
Particular attention should be paid to the aforementioned RT-infrastructure (until June 2021-RT-Engineering JSC), which was led by Dmitry School until June 2023. It is not difficult to guess from the name, it was created with the direct participation of Rostec. School is still listed CEO Moscow LLC “RT-Vodokanal”registered in October 2020 and associated with Rostec through one of founders – LLC “RT – Directorate of the Technical Customer”.
School itself controls almost 25%in the authorized capital of the RT-Vodokanal through belonging He is a company “Vodakakonsultinggroup” (unless, of course, it is not a banal face value). With a certain degree of confidence, it can be argued that the RT-Vodokanal was created to participate in the Sochi-Pearl of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) project, which the wards of Martirosyan’s sunese failed safely.
But the “development” of the budget was connected by the “RT-infrastructure” under the leadership of the same school. At the time of the initiation of a criminal case of a multimillion -dollar embezzlement, the post of deputy general director of the company Denis Kotikovlast October, heading the “Vodokanal” Sochi. His job responsibilities included the supervision of the Sochi Office of the RT-infrastructure and the signing of all the necessary documents on the basis of the power of attorney issued to him, including invoices for actually not completed work.
That’s just among the defendants in the criminal case of Kotikov: during the interrogations, he assigned all the responsibility to the higher management, including the school. What is this – incredible luck or help of “senior comrades” who advanced such a valuable frame to the post of director of the MUP? Note that as the head of the city “Vodokanal”, Kotikov changed Denis Yurkovsky -former vice-mayor Sochi, supervised Including issues of architecture, urban planning and municipal land control.
Yurkovsky, like Denisov, strengthened his own positions, becoming deputy City Assembly Sochi. That’s just the heavier of the Kopaygorodsky team assigned to him did not master: he was not able to reduce the level of accident rate on water supply and canning networks, uninterrupted water supply of the resort and stop the sewage emissions into the Black Sea.
Denis Yurkovsky (in the center)
The last straw was a large -scale accident that occurred in July 2024 at the Bzugu OSK, the information about which the city leadership preferred to hide from the public. Then hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of unpeeled household drains were dropped into the Black Sea water area, and the central part of Sochi was left without water supply for several days. “Compromant Group” in detail He wrote About this incident, including receiving information from their own sources in the Sochi Vodokanal.
Kotikov and his team
As a result, the “shadow leadership” decided to replace the expectations and frankly annoying the citizens of Yurkovsky on Kotikov, whose loyalty was checked through the “RT-infrastructure” schemes. The media emphasized attention The fact that Yurkovsky resigned the authority just at that time “When the whole city was discussing the arrest of Kopaygorodsky”. The Director of Vodokanal left the “drowning ship” very timely. True, unlike his predecessor Denisov, Yurkovsky did not defend the criminal case and continues to fulfill the deputy powers .
Denis Kotikov
And Kotikov, who secured the confidence of the developers of Martirosyan and Nevzorov, rolled up his sleeves, took up the work. Moreover, the enterprise has already been equipped with the necessary personnel. So, leading positions in Vodokanal occupied Milena Kokorin (Deputy General Director for Legal Affairs, previously bore the surname Popova) And Vyacheslav Sabelfeld. The latter appeared in the mope as an auditor by the city hall, and then took the position of chief accountant.
With Sabelfeld, the Kotikov family is associated with a long-standing person-business relationship. It is known that until August-September 2023, Sabelfeld served as a general director and was one founders registered in Sochi and specializing in engineering surveys and engineering and technical design LLC “goal” (until September 2024- ABVK-Sochi LLC). To date, the only The owner “Goals” is Ekaterina PolyakovaWhich our sources call Kotikov’s civilian wife.
The post of First Deputy Director General of Vodokanal was occupied by a well -known Kotikov Alexander Vershinsky. For the post of deputy for construction and investment, they assigned Pavel Kopylovuntil September last year the leading The company “goal”, and even earlier, who worked in the “RT-infrastructure”. Ibid the head of the water supply and sanitation group He worked and chief engineer of the enterprise Maxim Sopyevaev. In general, all their people, controlled by the “shadow owners.”
The schemes “torment”, Ovechkin is inactive
As we can verify, since the resignation of Kopaygorodsky there has been a change in personnel, but the policy of the “shadow city leadership” remained the same: “mastering” budgetary funds contrary to the interests of Sochi and its inhabitants. What is really amazing is the silence and inaction of the prosecutor Ovechkin, who assigned the appointment of one of the key communal assets of Kotikov-a person “lit up” in the muddy schemes of “RT-infrastructure”.
By the way, the aforementioned RT-Vodokanal previously nurtured far-reaching plans for transferring to the concession of communal assets of the Sirius federal territory. Is the updated Sochi team going to return to this not yet implemented project?
In the meantime, Kotikov and the company are engaged in other activities in the interests of curators who prefer to stay “in the shade”. Not forgetting, however, about their own well -being. We are talking about connecting large objects built by developers associated with the mayor. Such, for example, as an apart-hotel under construction in the Central District, at the address: st. Crimean, 44. The company is officially building construction “Sochiylstroy”, decorated on Pavel Seropyan And Sergey Gavenyan.
In fact, the object is associated with the interests of Sos Martirosyan and his colleagues Pavel Nevzorov – A businessman who was in the close circle of Alexei Kopaygorodsky, who had the status of an adviser to the mayor, owner Company “Stroygarant-n”the beneficiary of the group “Metropolis”. Officially founder LLC “Metropolis” is the wife of Kommersant Anna Nevzorova – Acting deputy Krasnodar Regional Legislative Assembly.
Anna Nevzorova and SOM Martirosyan
Without Kotikov and his subordinates, the collars of the construction business would have had to be tight. Judge for yourself. The primary cost of the technological connection of the apart-hotel on the street. Crimean exceeded 118.3 million rubles And it included the implementation of a number of works necessary in order to avoid pollution of the Psahe River and the Black Sea of the Black Sea of immediate vicinity from the residence of the President Bocharov stream.
But as a result of the agreements between Martirosyan and Kotikov, a scheme was implemented to illegally evade the implementation of measures that provokes environmental risks in the form of unauthorized emissions into the water area of unpeeled household drains. We are talking about the “crushing of the object” and artificial underestimation of volumes, as a result of which the cost of technological connection was a little more 33.3 million rubles. There is no doubt that both interested parties remained in the financial gain.
And in the end he lost the resort city, where, after the departure of Kopaygorodsky and stripping by the security forces of the Vodokanal leadership, almost nothing changed: corruption schemes are still “tormented” with the complete inaction of the city prosecutor’s office. It remains only to ask the question of what is the cause of the passive position of its leader Vyacheslav Ovechkin: personal interest or inanimate and banal absence of proper qualifications?
