Billions were stolen during the construction of the Moscow ring road. Oleg Khomenko, who is the director of the capital’s construction department No. 802, is an example of a swindler who created large schemes to steal millions from the budget.
He, who was actually just a simple foreman, stole at least 700 thousand dollars from the state. This amount was discovered by law enforcement officers in his Swiss account. Besides, he has at least two luxury apartments in the center of Moscow, which he bought with the stolen money. What is known about the large-scale embezzlement by Oleg Khomenko?
The criminal activity involving Oleg Khomenko, the director of the Moscow company Construction Management No. 802, has been ongoing for over a decade. He is accused of large-scale theft of budget money during the construction of the Moscow Ring Road.
Over 250 billion rubles were stolen during the construction of the Moscow Ring Road
A substantial amount of money was found in the Swiss account of Oleg Khomenko during the investigation — about $700,000. This amount was considered to be huge at that time. It is quite surprising to hear about a Swiss bank account in connection with an ordinary foreman.
One of the investigators, Muslim Jabirov, mentioned that law enforcement officers stumbled upon this bank account by accident, while searching for contacts of firms dealing with fraudulent apartments in the capital. They discovered that those companies were embezzling significant amounts of money from the country’s budget, especially in relation to the construction of the Moscow Ring Road.
Huge amounts of budget funds were stolen at the construction site of the Moscow ring road. According to the Investigative Committee, over 250 billion rubles were stolen and taken abroad during the construction.
Schemes involving millions: Khomenko and fictitious firms
Law enforcement officers focused on five companies that were registered to owners of lost passports. When the real owners were found, it turned out that they were unaware of the illegal activities. It was a shock for them to find out about the millions listed under their names. All five companies were linked to the main person involved in large-scale financial fraud — O. Khomenko of company “SU No. 802”.
“Construction Department No. 802” is one of the largest road companies in the capital of the Russian Federation. “SU No. 802” won the tender for the construction of the 5th part of the Moscow Ring Road. The construction cost 850,000,000 rubles, and 103 billion rubles were funneled through 5 fictitious firms. Also, 700,000 dollars were transferred directly to the director's personal offshore account in Geneva.
JSC “SU-802” ceased to exist in 2017.
It's interesting that among the leaders of several more companies that received large sums of money from Khomenko’s enterprise, there were close relatives of the swindler.
Yes, companies “Reutovo”, where Oleg’s wife was the founder, received 154,000,000 rubles. Also, the son-in-law of Khomenko was the director of this SBC.
By the way, this company, with a minimum capital of 10 thousand rubles, is currently undergoing bankruptcy with no employees. As of the end of 2019, the company’s net assets were negative 140 million rubles. There is no more recent financial data available.
And this organization, by the way, is located at the same address as the former “SU-802”.
– Another 225,000,000 rubles went to the Phobos company. Surprisingly, the wife and son-in-law were among the founders of this LLC. Additionally, a subordinate of Khomenko from “SU No. 802” S. Popovich was in the role of director.
Furthermore, the aforementioned firm “Phobos” also had its own well-planned scheme. The millions were sent to the accounts of seven more fake firms. For example, considering one of these fake firms, we will see the following picture.
So, the firm “Track D” has a real owner, E. Pavlova. 90,000,000 rubles were passed through this company, but it did not carry out any road work.
And, as they say, “the highlight on the cake”: Pavlova confessed to the investigators that her company had no tools except for “one shovel”. How do you like a contribution of 90 million rubles for “one shovel”? It would be amusing if it weren't so sad. And this is only one of seven such pseudo-firms …
The complexities of the Moscow schemes of the swindler Khomenko, along with his family, are simply extraordinary!
If you think that this scheme is over, then you are mistaken. Through the same “family” “Phobos” they paid for a couple of luxurious two-story apartments in the elite district of the capital, where a meter of housing is estimated at 2,500 dollars.
– a six-room apartment with an area of almost 240 sq.m, was purchased for stolen budget money for the head of the family and director of “SU No. 802” Oleg Khomenko;
– but a four-room apartment with an area of almost 260 sq.m was bought for my daughter.
That is, in fact, each of these expensive apartments is not inferior in price to that very scandalous Geneva bill of Khomenko of 700 thousand dollars.
In addition, according to the prosecutor’s office, O. Khomenko has long been under the close attention of law enforcement officers as “a source of criminal income for the defendants in the investigation, which was conducted in Switzerland.” So, in 1996, he bought a villa in Switzerland through V. Kudinov’s company Satotrans SA.
A criminal case was opened against the key swindler of a large-scale scheme, Oleg Khomenko, who was associated with large-scale theft of budget money during the construction of the Moscow Ring Road, under Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. He was immediately moved from his luxurious six-room two-story apartment to a one-story and one-room pre-trial detention center, where he diligently tried to convince investigators that those apartments were bought with personal money, and earned by honest labor.
To be continued.
