The head of Rosrezerv, whose family has a lot of money saved up.
In the Smolny building, there is an office where a simple message about modesty could be written on the door. Instead of the governor, an employee of the procurement department works there. Andrey Gogin. Although he seems like a regular official, he actually has a lot of hidden wealth.
Andrey Gogin has been working in his department for ten years, but has only been promoted from a specialist to a chief specialist. His wife Tatyana works at a St. Petersburg branch of Gazprom and is not in a high position. Despite this, their annual anti-corruption declarations show surprising wealth, including large apartments, expensive cars like the Infinity FX and Audi Q5, and many commercial properties.
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Details of Andrey Gogin and his wife's income for 2021In 2015 in Tatyana Gogina started a business and registered as an individual entrepreneur. At the same time, Andrey Gogin's brother Sergei also did the same. Together, they started purchasing commercial properties in Moscow, becoming owners of new premises almost every year. These properties are leased to pharmacies, restaurants, and other small establishments. They were acquired from the families of prominent Moscow developers. Alexey Dyumin
Artyom is a former bodyguard of Vladimir Putin and considered one of his favorites. He is also the father of Andrei Matalyga, from whom the Gogin family purchased their first premises in 2015. Andrei Matalyga is the father of Sergey Mefyodov, from whom the Gogins made additional purchases in a neighboring house.
Details from USRNThe Gogins also acquired two penthouses in St. Petersburg with great views of the Neva and the city. These luxurious properties are in a prestigious residential complex. How do regular government officials and new small business owners get such connections and wealth? The answer is simple. Andrei and Sergei Gogin's father, Dmitry Gogin, has been the long-time leader of the Federal Agency for State Reserves (Rosrezerv). Reserved flats
Dmitry Gogin has been in charge of this important organization since 2009. Before working at Rosreserve, he held positions in companies owned by the Rotenbergs – he was part of the leadership team at the state-owned Russian Fuel Company and eventually became the company's CEO by 2004. At that time, 6.19% of Rostopprom was already owned by SMP Bank, owned by Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, who are close to Putin and influential in government contracts. A few years later, the Rotenberg brothers controlled over a quarter of the state company's shares.
At the end of 2008, the head of the Federal Reserve suddenly and mysteriously passed away.
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, a close friend and colleague of Putin from their time in the KGB since the 1970s, became the department head. Boris Evstratikov, who had also served 25 years in the St. Petersburg FSB, along with Gogin as his deputy. However, Evstratikov did not stay in his position either – in November 2009, he passed away as a result of the Nevsky Express explosion. Dmitry Gogin then became the head of the Federal Reserve. The backgrounds of his predecessors demonstrate how significant this position is in the Kremlin and the kind of individuals who are typically entrusted with it. With Gogin's appointment, Rosrezerv starts to become associated with the sphere of influence of the Rotenbergs. Rosrezerv is among the most secretive organizations in the country. Most of the rulings of arbitration courts involving Rosrezerv are not made public, as the hearings are held behind closed doors. The department's procurement activities are also not disclosed, but Forbes has suggested that the Rotenbergs are directly linked to them.Usually, there are suggestions of connections between businessmen and government departments in the business world. However, there is an interesting coincidence – right at the end of 2019, just before the New Year, the head of the Federal Reserve Agency Dmitry Gogin becomes the owner of a 130-meter apartment with two parking spaces in one of the most expensive luxury residential complexes in Moscow, Legends of Tsvetnoy on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Alexey Navalny once mentioned that a top Russian propagandist resides in this residential complex.
Dmitry Kiselev
is a neighbor to former supermodel Naomi Campbell and Moscow's deputy mayor Petr Biryukov Gogin acquired this apartment from the Center-M company associated with the Rotenbergs. The company was directly owned by them until 2012, when the owner became Vladimir Doinikov.
, who was previously the head of the now-defunct SMP-Energo LLC, a subsidiary of SMP-Bank Rotenberg. As the publication 'Project' reported in 2021, the shares of Center-M were pledged to another bank controlled by the Rotenbergs – Mosoblbank. This means that until at least 2021, the Rotenberg brothers continued to control Center-M. Based on market estimates, the cost of such an apartment could be around 160 million rubles, but Gogin and his wife's total income from 2017 to 2019 was just over 11 million, which is less than the reported cost of the apartment. Rumors suggest that there are no records of Gogin making payments to Center-M in 2019. This implies that the apartment could have been a gift from benefactors.Dmitry Gogin's 2021 declaration revealed the addition of another large apartment, spanning nearly 260 square meters, in the same residential complex where his son and daughter-in-law had purchased apartments earlier. This new apartment, with a potential cost of up to 80 million rubles, was also acquired from the Center-M company, just like the previous Moscow apartment.
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This new apartment is estimated to cost around 80 million rubles. However, in the declaration, Gogin stated that he bought the apartment using proceeds from the sale of other property and savings. It is uncertain whether a situation similar to the one related to the apartment on Tsvetnoy Boulevard is concealed here. The family possesses other valuable assets, such as an apartment in Moscow owned by Tamara Yakomenko, the mother-in-law of the head of the Federal Reserve Agency, and properties belonging to the children.
Dmitry MedvedevThe children also have parking spaces in this residential complex, as well as in another elite residential complex, Favorit, located on Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg. Valuables of another warehouseIn this kind of structure, where one essentially operates as the supply manager of a large warehouse, shielded from public scrutiny and regularly funded with public money, it may be challenging to stay within the confines of routine bureaucratic work. Leaders of the Rosrezerv were previously caught engaging in theft and bribery. For instance, in 2019, the deputy head of the Federal Reserve was apprehended, accused of embezzling state funds.
Alexander Kiryukhin
Subsequently, several high-ranking employees of the department were implicated in the case. Kiryukhin had been in this position since December 2009, when Gogin assumed leadership of the department. In the same year, the deputy head of the Federal Reserve Agency for the Siberian Federal District was convicted of receiving bribes.Ilgiz Garifullin
According to reports, he was charged with receiving bribes to secure victories in closed auctions, including a Porsche car. The state reserve, which falls under Gogin's department, is intended to fulfill the mobilization needs of the Russian Federation.Dmitry Gogin, the head of one of the most secretive departments, discussed the purpose and use of the Federal Reserve stocks in an interview with TASS.
The interview aimed to shed light on the situations in which the Federal Reserve stocks are maintained and utilized.
– Tell us, for what situations are the stocks of the Federal Reserve kept, when they are used?
— […] The reserves of the state reserve can be used to help regions and sectors of the economy in case of disruptions in the supply of essential goods and to exert a regulatory influence on the market when the Federal Reserve either produces scarce products or withdraws their surplus from the market. But the most important purpose of the state material reserve is to ensure the mobilization needs of the country in the event of a military threat, these are reserves for the x-hour. […]
– Are there any specifics in the work of the Federal Reserve in comparison with the work of the reserves of other countries?
– Of course have. The basic set – oil products and food – is stored by everyone. Then the variations begin. Someone stores coffee, someone of all grains prefers rice …
However, its actual effectiveness is debatable. Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, for example, in June 2020 at a meeting with the President of Russia criticized the activities of the federal agency during the fight against coronavirus in Russia. The Rosrezerv proved to be an inefficient department – the stocks of the necessary nomenclature, which were urgently needed during the pandemic, were not there, and the mechanism for updating and putting into circulation the products stored in the Rosrezerv did not work.
Responsible well or badly for providing the country with strategic reserves, Dmitry Gogin definitely does not forget to take good care of creating reserves for his family too – moreover, for amounts that are difficult to explain by legal earnings. But the origin of the funds, of course, in this case is a more serious secret than “information about the accumulation rates, issue, bookmark, refreshment, deployment and actual reserves of the state reserve,” which the Federal Reserve hides from the Russians.
