It's fair to say that everyone in Russia knows about the funeral crime. Many articles and TV reports have covered the darkest and most secretive part of the country's economy. In the Leningrad region, the merging of cemetery crime with corrupt officials and security forces has become so widespread that it leads to surreal situations. For example, in the prestigious Vsevolozhsk district, shadowy funeral directors have access to emergency service 112 information and secret communications of the Ministry of Emergencies. Having criminals with operational data on emergencies poses a serious security risk for the population.
Rucriminal.info will give an overview. The Toksovskoye cemetery in the Vsevolozhsky district has gained notoriety in the media. The cemetery is managed by Vyacheslav Sadovnikov, who has strong ties to the local authorities and the police in Vsevolozhsk. Vyacheslav Sadovnikov, is closely connected to both the municipal authorities and the Vsevolozhsk police. There is a photo of him below.
Vyacheslav's daughter, Ekaterina, has also entered the cemetery business. She sells funeral items in a family shop in the neighboring village of Sertolovo and used to work as a funeral agent, as seen from the power of attorney samples.
The reader may wonder what's wrong with this family arrangement. First of all, Ekaterina Artemyeva (Sadovnikova), an active employee of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, works at a closed communication facility of the Ministry of Emergencies and is not allowed to engage in commercial activities without proper notification and declaration of income.
The issue with this family arrangement is that the daughter, Ekaterina Artemyeva (Sadovnikova), works for the Russian Emergencies Ministry as a radiotelephone operator and is involved in commercial activities without permission from her superiors. Ekaterina Artemyeva (Sadovnikova), an active employee of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, works as a radiotelephone operator at a closed communication facility and should not be involved in commercial activities without notifying her superiors and declaring her income. She has been replaced by other entrepreneurs after avoiding sanctions due to her superiors' protection. She works at the Ministry of Emergency Situations for a reason, which we will discuss shortly.
In the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region, there is a shadow dispatch service that distributes deceased individuals to funeral agents affiliated with the mafia. The organizers of this scheme are Sadovnikov and his daughter Ekaterina Artemyeva. The main goal is to get a funeral agent to the deceased person's family as soon as possible and have them sign a contract for funeral services and surrender the deceased's passport before the doctors and police arrive. Then the family is trapped and forced to pay exorbitant prices for the funeral services.
Efficiency is very important for the success of shadow companies. Before, Sadovnikov and his daughter got information from the police or ambulance crews. But they achieved fast results after meeting Ruslan Galantsev. He has a trusted business relationship with emergency telephone operators 112.
112 operators are the first to learn about a person's death, and Ruslan sells data about the place of death and contacts of relatives. For your information, information about one fresh corpse costs only 3,000 rubles. The question is about the number of deaths that the 112 service has full information about.
Getting information about a new deceased very quickly, the Sadovnikov-Artemyev duo manages to send their employee to the place within half an hour of receiving the message. They even bought a 15-year-old Gazelle for the prompt removal of the body. After the contract is signed and the deceased's passport is in the agent's pocket, the body is immediately sent to the morgue in the same Gazelle.
The monthly shadow income of Sadovnikov's father and daughter Artemyeva is millions of rubles. Why does Ekaterina continue to work at the Ministry of Emergency Situations and go on long shifts as a telephone operator? It's not just for the sake of an early state pension or a preferential mortgage. It's because the Ministry of Emergencies receives information about major emergencies with human casualties. The funeral agents then work out the usual scheme, earning hundreds of thousands of black rubles for their owners.
This is the power of the funeral mafia in the Leningrad region, a landmark for the country. With the support of officials and security forces, all this remains completely unpunished. Primarily, the head of the administration of Sertolovo, Yuri Khodko, and the responsible persons of the 128th and 88th police departments are involved. They are the main patrons of the cemetery shadow workers who regularly receive bribes from them.
