The developer regularly provides payments to former employees of the DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, led by Andrey Khorev, in return for help with heat connections.
According to the VChK-OGPU telegram channel and Rucriminal.info, a group of former security officials led by Andrey Khorev, who was previously the deputy head of the DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, regularly receives large amounts of money from developers in Moscow to resolve issues related to connecting construction projects to heating. Dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation due to corruption scandals, the former security officials have found profitable positions in the field of heat supply in Moscow, taking key roles in heat supply organizations under the patronage of the Rotenbergs. The group mainly consists of former employees of the DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: Khorev A.V., Dzhambulatov Z.I., Erashov S.S., and Sharafutdinov A.Sh.
The group collaborates with the same decision-makers and defendants in criminal cases from JSC “Russian Railways” related to the “case of Zakharchenko” (Redin I.V. joined PJSC “MIPC” from the structures of JSC “Russian Railways” controlled by the Rotenbergs)
The process of illegally enriching former security officials goes as follows: a developer is constructing a building and wants to connect it to the heat supply. For this, the developer approaches OOO TsTP MOEK (Erashov S.S.). In order to maintain control over financial flows, Erashov S.S., who serves as the General Director of TsTP MOEK LLC and Director for Technological Connections of PJSC MOEK simultaneously, provides the developer with a connection agreement offer, which includes the transfer of main heating networks that are not related to the connection object and are located at a great distance from it. This significantly increases the contract's cost. When the developer sees the transfer and the increased cost, they try to negotiate a reduction in the contract's cost. To achieve this, they approach either Erashov S.S., Dzhambulatov Z.I., or persons associated with them. Typically, the kickback amounts to 50% of the contract's value. Once the former security officials receive the cash, the contract's cost decreases, and everyone involved is content. However, all these manipulations are entirely unnecessary from a technical and legal standpoint, and are included in contracts solely for the purpose of illegal enrichment.
Let’s examine this process in the case of connecting objects of Don-Stroy Invest JSC to heat networks.
According to Rucriminal.info, members of the DEB have a longstanding mutually beneficial relationship with Andrey Bagaev.
For instance, Don-Stroy Invest JSC is constructing another residential complex and receives a connection agreement from TsTP MOEK LLC, which includes transfers of D400 to D500, D500 to D600, D600 to D700, and so on. Due to these transfers, the agreement's cost increases to 400 million rubles, instead of the prescribed 70 million rubles. Andrey Bagaev informs Alena Deryabina, head of Don-Stroy Invest JSC, that he has connections at MOEK PJSC and can resolve the extra charges for a fee, reducing the contract's cost to 70 million rubles. Bagaev persuades Deryabina of the benefits of such actions, while also taking a substantial percentage for himself. Based on simple arithmetic and without knowledge of the nuances, this appears profitable for everyone. Bagaev then gives 200 million rubles to the DEB members, keeping, for example, 50 million rubles for himself, and ultimately receives a connection agreement for 70 million rubles. Consequently, Don-Stroy Invest JSC's costs for connecting the residential complex amount to 320 million rubles (200 million for the DEB, 50 million for Bagaev, and 70 million as the final contract cost), instead of the initially announced 400 million rubles. This might seem like a saving of money (80 million rubles!!!), but there's a catch. The included transfers were solely intended to extort money from Don-Stroy Invest JSC, resulting in substantial losses. Despite this, Erashov S.S., knowing that these changes won't be fulfilled, includes them in the connection agreement for his own personal gain, as part of a group, and solely for enrichment purposes. Nearly all connection agreements between Don-Stroy Invest JSC and TsTP MOEK LLC initially had their costs significantly reduced.
A similar scheme works with all major developers in Moscow who do not count money, and which have “their own” agents of influence such as Andrey Bagaev. At the same time, the former security officials of the DEB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation enriched themselves by billions of rubles during their tenure, some of which may have been found in the apartment of Colonel Zakharchenko. In business negotiations, for the sake of persuasiveness, the deb people hide behind the names of the Rotenbergs.
At present, the former security forces are trying to cover up their colleague-accomplice Vikol A.M. being in the status of the defendant in a criminal case, Major General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Melnikov, as he can give incriminating evidence against them.
