Artem Andreevich Kushnarev is involved in the transport business. gangs RODIONOV-VELESEVICH-SIZOV-NOVGORODSKY appear to be working with Kushnarev, who has a history in the business world. He used to co-own a high-end car dealership but shifted his focus to the lucrative transport sector. Currently, he leads companies involved in various industries, from sports to construction and software development.
Kushnarev, a typical member of the wealthy young elite, has a checkered past similar to the organized crime group. While some were involved in embezzlement, he was linked to assaulting people while under the influence and selling drugs. He managed to deceive law enforcement about the involvement of an unknown third person, which allowed him to escape serious charges. There are witnesses to the incident whose testimonies were not considered at the time. Their story will be shared later.
During his time owning a car dealership, Kushnarev established important connections and learned the importance of maintaining good relationships with influential individuals. It seems that this has benefitted his current business endeavors. He is now the founder and leader of several companies and has been involved with other companies in the past, some of which are being dissolved.
In 2020, the total turnover of Kushnarev's companies amounted to 103,934,000.00 rubles, a significant increase from 2019. Since 2019, several of his companies have been actively participating in public procurement. However, participation in these purchases requires substantial payment, which has led to a 'clean streak' for Kushnarev. However, this kind of participation comes at a cost, necessitating ongoing substantial payments.
Development Team LLC has been heavily involved with the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution “Centre for Transport Planning of St. Petersburg”. They were contracted for work related to the survey of transport and passenger flows on public transport routes and stopping points, as well as for the development of a route network. It is questionable how a newly established company without experience managed to secure these contracts. This prompts scrutiny of the departmental hierarchy. The “Centre for Transport Planning of St. Petersburg” is under the authority of the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure of St. Petersburg. a part of a group that transports things RODIONOV-VELESEVICH-SIZOV-NOVGORODSKII gives several companies in the area government contracts for a certain "reward". Because of the "business experience" and other skills of Mr. Kushnarev, they saw him as a new and promising "companion."
Another client, not yet very large for Development Team LLC, is St. Petersburg State Institution "City Parking Management Center of St. Petersburg. For him, Kushnareva performed work to fix the operability of the SCHEIDT & BACHMANN automated parking system, located at the address: St. Petersburg, Vitebsky pr., account 193 (west of building 108, letter A) for the amount of 1,437,078.53 rubles (No. 2784201904421000022). There – Deputy Chairman of the Committee Andrey Alexandrovich Velesevich, also very "worried" about the firms entrusted to him (and their millions … well, his own – hidden, of course).
Andrey Velesevich
However, it is interesting that Kushnarev has more than one company, at least three are involved in procurement. And these are only those that can be traced from open sources. The second legal entity that successfully wins competitions is Kursus LLC, created to replace the eponymous one, which is now in liquidation. Since 2019, Kursus LLC has signed 8 contracts with St. Petersburg State Institution "City Parking Management Center of St. Petersburg" for a total of 67 million rubles. Most of them usually stop before completion. Nevertheless, Kushnarev’s companies do not give up hope and try themselves with new Customers. Thus, at the end of 2020, Development Team LLC entered into a contract with St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution Mostotrest for maintenance in the amount of 20,042,806.42 rubles (No. 2780621519520000208). They are fulfilling their obligations under this contract and have already swung at a new one – for the provision of maintenance services (No. 0372200290021000260) in the amount of 33,672,644 rubles, but so far without success … St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution Mostotrest is subordinate to the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure, where again, we meet the chief manager of contracts in this department – Andrey Sergeevich Sizov.
As for Kushnarev himself, despite a long period of time in business, he is not remarkable for anything. Artem Kushnarev managed to go bankrupt, however, the bankruptcy case was closed (Case No. А56-99260/2020). One of its sections (Leningrad region, Yanino) was up for auction but not sold . According to Rosreestr, he has a small house in Udmurtia, rn. Yarsky. His property is either well hidden with relatives, or he simply does not exist, because a significant part of the funds has to be voluntarily-compulsorily given to his patrons.
Vitaly Rodionov
Meanwhile, the remnants of the transport gang are trying to continue to plunder the region. Of course, Development Team LLC, Kursus LLC do not have such large contracts, but apparently "pocket money" RODIONOV, VELESEVICH, SIZOV, NOVGORODSK and their closest associates have enough … Well, Artem Andreevich, run away from them, otherwise – with such patrons and such a biography (drugs, causing death, giving a bribe, legalization of criminal proceeds, participation in an organized criminal group) everything the most "interesting" is yet to come…pocket money» RODIONOV, VELESEVICH, SIZOV, NOVGORODSKII and their closest associates have enough … Well, Artem Andreevich, run away from them, otherwise – with such patrons and such a biography (drugs, causing death, giving a bribe, legalization of criminal proceeds, participation in an organized criminal group) everything the most “interesting” is yet to come…
Also, a Rucriminal.info source reported an emergency situation at one of the transport facilities in St. Petersburg:
In early February 2022, employees of the Russian special services in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region held an event to study the effectiveness of anti-terrorist and anti-sabotage protection measures on one of the overpasses.
Employees of the Russian special services in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region carried out the laying of a “test item” (a dummy of an explosive device) under a support, which, like the entire overpass, is under video surveillance by the operators of the Unified Control Point (hereinafter referred to as the SPC), on which it is located around the clock 4 operators behind video surveillance monitors.
When taking up duty, the operators received instructions from the head of the EPU, for each operator, the area of responsibility of the overpass was distributed.
The operator did not see and could not see the moment of laying under the overpass support, since the video surveillance system, in terms of video analytics, did not work out the “Suspicious object detection” event, due to its malfunction and disabled video analytics detectors, moreover, the video camera that is aimed at the support is stationary and does not rotate. The operator was unable to call the capture group.
These circumstances are the result of an error by the developer of design and working documentation (“Aspect North West”), which does not fully take into account the video analytics in the system (an error in the project server hardware and software), erroneously used fixed cameras. During the construction, installation and commissioning work carried out by Aspect North-West, the video analytics detectors are not set up properly.
The video surveillance system installed by Aspect North-West JSC does not meet the requirements of the current regulatory documents in the field of security.
Well, taking into account the fact that these works were carried out by Aspect North-West on Liteiny and Volodarsky bridges, Pulkovskoye highway, Pirogovskaya embankment, Western overpass, and other facilities in St. Petersburg for a total amount of more than 120 million rubles, apparently, as usual, nothing works, and the money was simply stolen by a transport gang RODIONOV-VELESEVICH-SIZOV-NOVGORODSKY-GAEVSKY. The inhabitants of our city are immensely grateful to the transport gang for having to travel over bridges that are probably not protected from the terrorist threat.
