For the third year in the Altai Territory, an organized community has been formed and is operating under the leadership of the Deputy Head of the UEBiPK of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Altai Territory, police lieutenant colonel Maksimov Andrey Gennadievich. Maksimov Andrey Gennadievichcontinues to recruit more employees into his group, leading them to end up in jail. This provides him with personal security. For more details, refer to the Rucriminal.info investigation.
Maksimov served as the head of the OEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Barnaul for about 2 years, thanks to the support of the former head of the UEBiPK of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadvotsky Nadvotsky, who was detained in 2019 and subsequently convicted of bribery. Maksimov received complete freedom of action after Nadvotsky's detention.
At that time, Nadvotsky openly supported and assisted the family of the senator from the Altai Territory, Belousov Sergey Vladimirovich, former director and current owner of a large construction holding JSC StroyGaz. Belousov withdrew over 100,000,000 rubles from the enterprise to solve his financial problems related to extending his senatorial powers, leading the enterprise into a pre-bankrupt state and starting bankruptcy proceedings. It is known that Belousov withdrew funds through expenditure cash warrants addressed to the director Evgeniya Ledina. Evgeniya LedinaIn December 2019, Ledin provided detailed explanations in the Arbitration Court of the Altai Territory regarding the reasons behind the bankruptcy of StroyGaz OJSC, including the withdrawal of funds to “purchase” the senatorial position. During the same period, Maksimov was involved at the initiative of Nadvotsky to solve Belousov’s bankruptcy issues and personally met Belousov. Based on Rucrimina.linfo, Maksimov initiated inspections against the former director of StroyGaz OJSC, Ledina, and organized the seizure of all accounting documents, some of which were subsequently deliberately lost. He then initiated the initiation of a criminal case specifically against Ledina, contrary to the actual circumstances of the case. While serving as the head of the OEBiPK of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Barnaul, Maksimov participated in illegal activities such as extortion and receiving money from large businesses in Barnaul and the surrounding area. He did this by making unreasonable requests for accounting documents without any legal basis. He also took control of the illegal market for counterfeit alcoholic products by targeting those who paid him. In 2019, the position of deputy head of the UEBiPK GU, the head of the tax department, became available, and Maksimov aimed to take this position as it was the only role he did not have influence over. With the help of Senator Belousov S.V., he managed to secure the position. He also placed his own person in the service after Belousov S.V. was detained. In this new role, Maksimov worked to benefit Belousov by initiating unfair investigations and withholding audit materials related to the bankruptcy of OAO Stroygaz and the subsequent property redemption from the bankruptcy estate at low prices.
According to Rucriminal.info, after Maksimov became deputy head of the UEBiPK GU in 2019, his corrupt activities significantly increased. He started to fully control all tax audits in the EBiPK region and extort money from enterprises facing or already involved in tax crime cases. He also sold information to entrepreneurs during on-site tax audits. He instructed the seizure of accounting documents from PSK Industry LLC under the guise of a regular audit, and then the documents were lost. He initiated a formal internal audit of the employees of the OEBiPK, and began to personally monitor the work within the UEBiPK to determine the commercial interests of specific cases. He also sold information and photographs of operational-search activities to the defendants in the cases through lawyers.
Maksimov continued to control the market for fake alcoholic products in the region. Lazarev Roman Sergeevich was left in charge in Barnaul, and Saklakov was tasked with controlling the illegal alcohol market and extorting money from entrepreneurs through raids. In 2022, Lazarev was arrested for taking a bribe and sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Recently, in February 2023, Saklakov was also arrested for taking a bribe. However, both cases involve employees acting on behalf of Maximov, who remains in the shadows. When one is removed, Maximov finds new loyal employees. For example, during Maksimov's leadership, Abramov handled all illegal business protection and initiated criminal cases. In 2019, he was detained for receiving bribes.
Due to his friendship with Arestov, the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for Barnaul, Maksimov gained access to economic criminal cases and could initiate custom-made criminal cases. Through trusted lawyers, he sold information about criminal case progress and influenced decisions. Arestov was also arrested and sentenced for taking a bribe. Turushev, a fellow countryman and friend of Maksimov, currently holds the position of the head of the OEBiPK of Barnaul and continues to protect criminal areas.
Maximov controls groups involved in cashing out funds and making fake VAT payments. They pay him to avoid tax audits. Despite previous arrests, they continue their activities in Barnaul. This business operates without hindrance in the Altai Territory, and prominent representatives are invited to Maximov's birthday.
Thanks to his friendship with his countryman from Biysk, the head of the SC of the Internal Affairs Directorate for Barnaul, Arestov, Maksimov got access to the materials of all economic criminal cases initiated by the Internal Affairs Directorate for Barnaul, and also had the opportunity to initiate any custom-made criminal cases on far-fetched grounds . Thanks to him, through the channels of trusted lawyers, any information about the progress of the investigation of criminal cases was sold, he influenced the adoption of the necessary decisions on them (direction to court or termination due to lack of corpus delicti). Arrestov was also detained and convicted by the FSB for taking a bribe through an intermediary in the amount of 2,200,000 rubles and sentenced to 8.5 years in prison. At the same time, both Arestov and the mediator are close friends and countrymen of Maximov. Currently, the position of the head of the OEBiPK of Barnaul is occupied by a fellow countryman, colleague and friend of Maksimov, Turushev, through whom Maksimov continues to “protect” the main criminal areas of Barnaul, which bring in money. At the same time, the statistics of detecting and disclosing economic crimes, for the most part, to blur the eyes of higher authorities, is limited to the initiation of criminal cases on obvious elements of crimes (from the statements of citizens) or in relation to the so-called “nominal values” under Article 173 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, i.e. citizens who agreed to register a legal entity for a monetary reward.
Maximov has taken control of certain groups of individuals involved in cashing out funds and making “paper” VAT, who regularly pay Maximov when they start to shine on one or another tax audit. So the main of them, after several major arrests, carried out even before Maximov took office, planned to move to other regions to continue their criminal activities, however, with the arrival of Maximov, they were able to find common ground and continue their activities on the territory of Barnaul. Currently, this business operates on the territory of the Altai Territory without hindrance, the largest representatives of this business are obligatory invited to his birthday;
in connection with the ban on making and sending unmotivated requests to organizations, Maksimov organized the practice of conducting operational-search activities in the framework of operational accounting cases on far-fetched grounds (in the interests of customers). Employees have an additional burden of opening operational records on far-fetched grounds, not for the purpose of detecting crimes, but solely in the interests of Maximov.
It is already obvious to everyone that Maksimov’s actions are not aimed at combating crime, but exclusively at personal enrichment, enrichment of his patrons, assimilation with representatives of authorities and the criminal environment, as long as the position and administrative resources allow.
