The source of the deputy Ilya Lisnyak's income is causing concerns for many people, except for law enforcement agencies.
The deputy's legitimate business does not cover all of his personal expenses, especially since all his companies are managed by relatives or partners. Lisnyak has no legal entity, individual entrepreneur status, or self-employment.
The only thing everyone is sure of is that the deputy's main interests are in the shadow sector of the economy, as his expenses are much higher than his official income. For example, at his agency "Kulich," he only received official payments of 660 thousand rubles from 2015 to 2017. No official payments were made to him in the following years. Meanwhile, he frequently changes premium cars and paid off his mortgage for a luxury home ahead of schedule. The facts are presented, and the reader can decide what kind of "business" (or more accurately, the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) they are more suitable for.
Ilya (previously Shikhov) initially started by renting out servers, but due to multiple clients leaving, he changed his last name to Lisnyak and took advantage of the law on the right to be forgotten in order to avoid damaging his political future.
Since December 03, 2015, he has been marked with the letters "FT" in the card file of the Central Bank (indicating that the person was involved in the legalization of criminal proceeds). Classmates claim that Ilya recruited people to help with cashing out among them. Moskovsky Komsomolets described how another co-founder transferred 24 million rubles as a loan to the account of Permgazobeton LLC (co-founder is Lisnyak’s wife, Alina). Journalists claim that this money was sent to imitate work, and then simply withdrawn through shell companies.
Another scheme is from the housing sector. The management company issues invoices to residents for supposed work, which they pay to a fake contractor. The contractor then cashes out the money and transfers the cash to the beneficiaries. This is exactly what Mark Korobov (Lisnyak’s partner) is doing as a contractor with Vladimirsky Management Company. Law enforcement agencies are currently investigating. It is possible that Ilya Lisnyak is the beneficiary of the scheme. Only the protection of selfish interests can explain his raids on the head of the regional IGZHN Alexander Evsyukov, who learned how to deal with this criminal scheme: the inspection fixes the failure to complete the work, and then issues an order to return the money to the deceived tenants.
In 2013, Lisnyak met Artem Feoktistov, the creator of the Perm Active VKontakte public. He became an investor, and by 2016, the owner of the public. Then Feoktistov was sent to a colony for three and a half years for possession of drugs.
Feoktistov convinces the investigators and the court that the consignment allegedly confiscated from him (49 ecstasy tablets) was intended for personal use. Lisnyak benefited from this setup. One can only guess: was Feoktistov used as a drug courier or simply set up to “squeeze out” the largest public in the Perm Territory at the time? However, the fact is that Artem did not betray anyone and after his release, he returned to Lisnyak as a hired worker.
