As reported by the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info telegram channel, a serious scandal is developing in the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
After the uncovered instances of widespread corruption and large fires in 2019 Zinicheva E.N.. was chosen as the Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia to bring order to the troubled department. Zinichev E.N. took the initiative to establish the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and set up anti-corruption units in several regional central offices to prevent pressure on the police officers monitoring the various regions of the Russian Federation. Zinichev E.N. brought in a seconded FSB officer – Tsekhanova S.V.., and his First Deputy – Shamraya A.P.. Tsekhanova S.V. and Shamray A.P. were reportedly removed from their positions in the Russian Emergencies Ministry at the end of 2022 and sent back to the FSB of the Russian Federation.
Sources indicate that in late 2018, a senior official named A.Yu. Laricheva was appointed as chief specialist in combating corruption for the Leningrad region. Laricheva was subjected to special checks and approved by the FSB for the job. From late December 2018 to September 2019, Laricheva was tasked by the GUSB of the Russian Emergencies Ministry to oversee the combatting of corruption in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region and organize joint efforts with law enforcement to tackle corruption in the EMERCOM of Russia. While fulfilling these responsibilities, Laricheva reported extensive corruption schemes mainly led by Deineka E.G. (Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Leningrad Region) and his group, as well as nationwide corruption schemes in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, including illegal land deals, embezzlement, and fund withdrawals through affiliated organizations. According to Rucriminal.info, Shamray A.P. and Gubanov R.V. pressured Laricheva A.Yu. until December 2019 to report on the corruption schemes she had uncovered. However, they changed their approach and began threatening Laricheva A.Yu. at the end of 2019, possibly offering dismissal or demotion and a transfer to the Tver region if she did not stay silent about the corrupt actions of Deineka E.G. and accept the FSB's influence under the leadership of Nikolaev A.I. Laricheva A.Yu. disclosed that Nikolaev A.I. 'protected' local groups including Eliseeva A.N. and Deineki E.G., while also keeping silent about instances of corruption. From December 2019, the leadership of the Main Directorate of the State Security Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia demanded Laricheva A.Yu. to be inactive, and she was offered a transfer to the Tver region at a training camp in February 2020 by Gubanov R.V. and Babushkin I.P., who incidentally still serve in the Main Directorate of the Emergencies Ministry of Russia.During 2019, A.I. Nikolaev, who oversees the units of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region through the FSB, carried out work on Larichev A.Yu.: from being inactive in combating corruption, not sending reports on them to the Main Directorate of the Emergencies Ministry of Russia, to merging Deineka E.G. information received on him and his people from the Main Directorate of the State Security Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, to directing threats of creating problems in the service and in life, threats of dismissal, provocations, fabrication of a criminal case against Larichev and physical violence (“they will break his head”), assault (after a call in early December 2019 for a failed recruitment in the FSB building in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region near the front door on 4 Liteiny Ave.). Nikolaev A.I. demanded not to deal with Deineka E.G. and his people, informing him that allegedly “no one wants any work from you and we know everything.”
In February 2020, the leadership of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia started demanding the transfer of Larichev A.Yu. to the Tver region at the training camp personally by Gubanov R.V. and Babushkin I.P., but Larichev A.Yu. refused. Gubanov R.V. then said that they would treat him differently and began to prepare an operation to reduce Larichev, and at the same time, Nikolaev A.I. ordered by Deineka E.G. to initiate a fabricated criminal case and waited for Shamray A.P.’s approval, so that one day Larichev A.Yew. received a Notice of Reduction (without an official order to reduce the Minister of EMERCOM of Russia) and received a second blow – an initiated fabricated case, so that Larichev A.Yu. could never return to office and not interfere with stealing the budget and off-budget, and also did not interfere with the functioning of their large-scale corruption schemes. It is noteworthy that at the beginning of December 2019 Larichev A.Yu. reported in a conversation to the immediate superior of Nikolaev – Krasotkin A.G. about all the actions of Nikolaev A.I., but Krasotkin A.G. was inactive.
According to Rucriminal.info, in March-April 2020, sources told Larichev A.Yu. about the fact that, by order of the corrupt official Deineka E.G. they remove that with the GUSB of the EMERCOM of Russia and with the local FSB for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the issue was resolved at Deineka, but as a result, they began to remove it in parallel: through the GUSB of the EMERCOM of Russia – to “reduce” the position of the police officer in only one region of the Russian Federation – the Leningrad Region (there was no need to fight corruption there!), through the FSB of the Russian Federation – to prepare a criminal case, since Larichev A.Yu. voluntarily-compulsorily refused to transfer, and then to reduce. Overall, an uncorrupt fighter against corruption is to be reduced and fired, a criminal case is fabricated, calling him a corrupt official! Outcome: revealed corruption in previously controlled Larichev A.Yu. in the units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia on the territory of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region continues to flourish due to unrealized information from his reports, Larichev A.Yu. no longer interferes, but runs around the courts himself, fights for his honest name, such is the reality, although it is absurd.
In April 2020, Larichev A.Yu. received reports that he was being threatened by A.I. Nikolaev. He experienced several provocations and seeks permission to go to Moscow for a meeting with the heads of the Emergencies Ministry, Internal Security Service of the FSB, and the Minister of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and the Director of the FSB of Russia. However, the leadership of the Emergencies Ministry denied Larichev A.Yu. permission to leave St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region to go to Moscow. Additionally, joint forces were preparing to take action against Larichev A.Yu., and Uspensky A.A. did not allow him to take his scheduled vacation in April 2020. Larichev A.Yu. expressed that he would report this injustice to Minister Zinichev EN.
Meanwhile, Major FSB Nikolaev A.I. initiated the initiation of a criminal case against Larichev A.Yu. on 04/23/2020, and investigator Tonkopryadchenko N.D. proceeded with it without properly verifying information from Nikolaev A.I. and initiated searches in Larichev A.Yu.'s home and office.
The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg overseeing the criminal case against Larichev A.Yu. found no major violations of the law, even though the initiation of the case itself was deemed illegal and criminal. The court disregarded official examination results and failed to assess them. Additionally, some audio records of court hearings went missing, the defense witness V.V. Mikhalchuk was not allowed to be interrogated, and the preliminary hearing lasted much longer than usual. Despite these irregularities, the Court of Appeal did not acknowledge any violations and upheld the conviction against Larichev A.Yu.
Meanwhile, the “roof” of Deineka E.G. Major FSB Nikolaev A.I. 04/23/2020 initiated the excitation of Larichev A.Yu. criminal case under Art. 159 h. 3, and then under Art. 327 part 2 and “pocket” investigator Tonkopryadchenko N.D. with pleasure without checking the information from Nikolaev A.I. and formally approaching his work, he initiated the ordered case and on the evening of 04/23/2020 arrived at Larichev A.Yu. in the dwelling and in the office with illegal searches.
The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, where this criminal case was dragged (as well as the Prosecutor’s Office), did not find large-scale violations of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation and the legislation of the Russian Federation in the criminal case against Larichev A.Yu., saying “everything is legal and justified” , not noticing that even the very initiation of a case is illegal and criminal, and that there is not even the very event of a crime, turning a blind eye to the results of official examinations, without giving them an assessment, part of the audio records of court hearings disappeared somewhere, for some reason the court (as before the investigator of the Investigative Committee Tonkopryadchenko N.D.), having rejected the petition of the defense side, refused to interrogate the witness of the defense side V.V. Mikhalchuk, the preliminary hearing lasted about 7 months instead of 1 month, and on 03.03. under Art. 159 part 1. The Court of Appeal also did not notice any violations and on 11/18/2022 left the fake conviction in “legal” force. It is noteworthy that the testimony against Larichev A.Yu. were given by the persons involved (interested) in the investigations of the officially appointed anti-corruption official Laricheva A.Yu. – the so-called “witnesses of the crimes of Larichev A.Yu. for 115,795 thousand rubles ”(members of the OPS Eliseeva A.N. – Chebotaeva M.V. and Shilov D.V., as well as their“ roof ”- Nikolaev A.I.), a classic of the genre!
Outcome: Laricheva A.Yu. dismissed due to the entry into force of an unlawful conviction dated 03.03.2022 in a fabricated criminal case ordered by Deineka E.G. and initiated by the investigator of the SO for the Nevsky District of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg, Lieutenant Tonkopryadchenko N.D. The “pocket” judge inserted false information into the Sentence, and also, in the absence of common sense, is based, judging by the text, on assumptions that, among other large-scale violations, was reflected in the Appeal against the Sentence of 03/03/2022.
