Gens will be poured into Lanit: what is wrong with the scandalous company

The former governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Khloponin, could emigrate to Italy - this is reported at once by several sources appealing to the data of the customs service. The mining company Intergeo Management Company, where Khloponin is listed as chairman of the board of directors, says that they do not know anything about the ex-official's departure, he has not yet commented on the information - Argumenty i Fakty reports.

The correspondent of The Moscow Post understood what Khloponin could run away from and why he did not warn anyone about his departure.

Man with connections

For about six months now, the case of the embezzlement of 603 million rubles from the state budget through Lanit JSC in 2013-2015 has been going on. According to the investigation, the former Deputy Minister of Energy Anatoly Tikhonov was the organizer of a criminal scheme for laundering money allocated for the creation of the information system (GIS) of the fuel and energy complex and the purchase of computer equipment, Kommersant wrote.

Here it is worth making a remark: Tikhonov is, firstly, a person of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak, whose deputy was during the latter's work as head of the Ministry of Energy. Secondly, when Khloponin was the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tikhonov worked as a deputy and for him for five years.

It seems that gentlemen are not bad, as they say in certain circles, "sang" with each other. Does this mean that Khloponin participated in Tikhonov's affairs related to Lanit? In this case, there is reason to believe that the latter began, after his wife, also involved in history, to cooperate with the investigation, which could lead law enforcement officers to Mr. ex-governor. Then it's definitely time for him to run, and quickly and without looking back.

Anatoly Tikhonov. Photo: Maxim Shemetov/ https://www.rbc.ru

A protracted case

Last year, Tikhonov was taken into custody, together with him, several top managers of Lanit - entrepreneurs Viktor Serebryakov and Vladimir Makarov, as well as Deputy Minister Roman Ryzhkov, who held the post of adviser to the Deputy Minister. The story also featured the wife of Tikhonov, allegedly engaged in the opening of foreign accounts.

She was detained while trying to go abroad, the woman agreed to cooperate with the investigation and confessed, explaining even how and where the stolen funds went, as a result of which her husband was put in jail, and she was transferred to house arrest. Among other things, a huge amount of real estate was found and seized from Tikhonov, including foreign ones.

The ex-official himself and his possible accomplices do not admit guilt at least openly, and the case continues to drag on, and there are no documents that would reveal his move for six months. And this is despite the confessions of Tikhonov's wife and the case that has almost become "transparent" for the court. So there is reason to believe that the participants in the scheme are trying, as they say, to "agree" with the investigation.

The mission is to blame the dead man?

There are interesting details in the case - firstly, the main beneficiary of Lanita, which was behind the company at a time when, according to the investigation, fraudulent actions were committed, Georgy Gens died in 2018 under not fully clarified circumstances. Now, according to sources, in this story they are trying to make him "extreme."

In any case, if the late owner of Lanita Gens was to blame for something, it is simply impossible to do this alone.

His sudden death may indicate that either his position on this case did not coincide with the position of the rest of the participants (for example, he was ready to write a confession). Or I searched against possible frauds and was going to hand over to the authorities the entire company of "good-hearted."

Now the office continues to function. The place of the main beneficiary was taken by the son of Gens Philip. And let it sound cynical - it is beneficial for him that the hype around the office subsides as soon as possible. And even there is, on whom hypothetically it is possible to blame - on a deceased relative.

The company continues to work and receive government contracts - only in 2021 there were 33 more of them. The total amount of revenue from procurement for the entire existence of Lanit amounted to more than 36.8 billion rubles. The amounts are colossal. Against this background, the withdrawal of 603 million rubles from Lanit even seems to be something small. The guys were not greedy!

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Another interesting detail is that Gens Jr. is the current founder of 29 legal entities. Moreover, in general, he was related in this capacity to 45 offices! Among them are firms, mainly engaged in computer equipment. Many came from their father.

Did you think 36.8 billion rubles in the office of one beneficiary - a lot? Do not rush to conclusions - "Lanit Integration" of the same Gens earned an almost identical amount on government contracts. Gens companies have contracts with Sberbank, Rostelecom and a bunch of other state customers, so given what we know about the Lanit and its beneficiaries, there is a feeling that the Gens family is almost the wallet of all the main top managers of state corporations.

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And Gens has enough such companies "under the wing," so a person, apparently, can make confetti out of money.

He also has a real estate office - Ritvel Capital LLC. It is tied, among other things, to the Cypriot offshore company SKILLMATE INVESTMENTS LIMITED, through which money, including Lanita, could be withdrawn.

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Did they take everyone?

There are other equally curious details in the case, indirectly indicating that not all participants in the "Lanit case" have already been brought to trial. For example, the fact that Tikhonov was dismissed from his post in the Ministry of Energy only six months after the initiation of a criminal case against him. I wonder what Novak was waiting for?

There are rumors that Tikhonov's lawyer Mikhail Bagmet is on friendly terms with the investigator in the case, Maxim Bakun. The latter is allegedly an old acquaintance of the leaders of the RF IC Anatoly Magmet and Alexander Bastrykin.

As The Moscow Post previously wrote, Bakun is famous for his "inactivity": at least it was he who could refuse to consider the application for Anatoly Tikhonov, filed by ISSB LLC, which seems to be about the situation around Lanit and why this particular contractor was chosen by the Ministry of Energy for the development of GIS TEK.

So there is a possibility that the case is "stalling," including with the filing of Bakun. Surely not free, given its resonance and the possible risks that Bakun's behavior carries.

By the way, it's funny, but in 2016, according to unconfirmed information, another person involved in the Tikhonov case, Mr. Roman Shcherbov, extorted a bribe from an adviser to the head of ISSB. This is the former head of the information technology department of the fuel and energy complex of the Russian Energy Agency. After a while, Shcherbov ended up in a pre-trial detention center for taking a bribe, but soon came out, apparently, only to sit down again, now together with his possible patron Tikhonov. This is the cycle of "accomplices" in nature.

In addition, another acquaintance of Tikhonov, a former official Alexei Shevlyakov, was involved in the case. Like Tikhonov, he oversaw the GIS TEK in the Ministry of Energy, and it was he who was supposed to sign the contract with Lanit. There is a possibility that it was Shevlyakov, together with Bagmet, who could "fly" with examinations in the Tikhonov case, which allegedly acquitted the former official.

Alexander Novak. Photo: Alexey Druzhinin/ https://tass.ru

"White Spots" in History

Let's summarize: from the GIS TEK, which was planned to be commissioned back in 2014, it works "every other time," "Lanit" under the leadership of Gens Jr. "blooms and smells," and the case of embezzlement of millions of budget funds "stags" possibly with the complicity of officials on the part of the investigation.

Mr. Nikolai Shulginov, who came to Novak's place in 2020, also feels great, and as you know, they do not put such posts out of nowhere, especially after the case with Lanit and Novak "spun" neatly "tears" from the post, transferring the affairs to a trusted person.

Top managers of "Lanit" keep a proud silence, and indeed the resonance around this story is declining. Will the perpetrators be at large, and the deceased Gens will be made extreme? At the place of the investigation not favored by bribes, we would take a closer look at the personality of his descendant, who, together with his father's case, could adopt his partnership with the participants in the Tikhonov case and still continues fruitful cooperation with state customers. Is everything there clean?