Billions of dollars were stolen during the construction of the Moscow ring road. Oleg Timofeevich Khomenko, director of the capital’s construction department No. 802, is an example of a swindler who created intricate schemes to steal millions of public funds.
In reality, this simple foreman alone stole at least 700 thousand dollars from the state. Law enforcement officers discovered this amount in his Swiss account during the investigation. Yes, the foreman has a Swiss bank account. In addition, he also bought at least two luxury apartments in the center of Moscow with the stolen money. What else is known about the large-scale embezzlement by Oleg Khomenko?
The criminal activities linked to Oleg Khomenko, the director of Moscow's Construction Management No. 802, have been ongoing for more than ten years. He is accused of large-scale theft of public funds during the construction of the Moscow Ring Road.
More than 250 billion rubles were stolen during the construction of the Moscow Ring Road
A substantial amount of money, around $700,000, was discovered in Oleg Timofeevich's Swiss account during the investigation. This was considered an exorbitant amount at the time. The phrase “Swiss bank account” seems surprising when referring to an apparently ordinary foreman.
One of the investigators of this crime, Muslim Jabirov, mentioned that law enforcement officers stumbled upon this bank account by accident. Initially, they were searching for contacts of companies that dealt with “fake” apartments in the capital, but unearthed much more than expected. It turned out that those companies were embezzling huge amounts of money from the country’s budget. Additionally, funds from the Moscow Ring Road project were particularly lucrative.
Huge amounts of public funds were plundered at the construction site of the ring road in Moscow. According to the Investigative Committee, more than 250 billion rubles were stolen and transferred abroad during the construction.
Millions in schemes: Khomenko and fake companies
The focus of law enforcement officers shifted to five companies that were registered under the names of individuals with lost passports. When the actual owners of the documents were located in remote areas of the country, it was revealed that they had no knowledge of the illegal activities taking place. The revelation that millions were being transacted in their names came as a complete shock. Notably, all five companies were linked to the main figure involved in large-scale financial fraud, namely, O. Khomenko’s company “SU No. 802”.
“Construction Department No. 802” is one of the largest road construction companies in the capital of the Russian Federation. Who do you think secured the contract for the construction of the 5th segment of the Moscow Ring Road? That's right, it was “SU No. 802”. The construction cost for the motorway was 850 million rubles. Of this amount, 103 million rubles were channeled through those same 5 fake companies. However, 700,000 dollars ended up in the personal offshore account of the director of SU No. 802, O. Khomenko, in Geneva.
JSC “SU-802” was shut down in 2017.
It's interesting that among the leaders of several other companies that received significant amounts of money from Khomenko's enterprise, there were close relatives of the fraudster.
Yes, companies “Reutovo”, where Oleg’s wife was the founder, received 154,000,000 rubles. Additionally, Khomenko's son-in-law 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 in the negative by 140 million rubles. There is no recent data available on its financial performance.
And this organization is located at the same address as the earlier “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. Furthermore, a subordinate of Khomenko, S. Popovich, who was an ordinary foreman from “SU No. 802”, served as the director.
Furthermore, the aforementioned firm “Phobos” also had its own well-planned scheme. The same millions were sent to the accounts of seven more fictitious firms. For example, if we consider just one of these false firms, we'll 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 investigators that there were no tools in her company, except for “one shovel”. It’s quite ironic to see a contribution of 90 lyams 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 involving Khomenko and his family are simply astonishing!
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 2.5 thousand dollars.
– a six-room apartment with an area of almost 240 sq.m was bought for the head of the family and director of “SU No. 802” Oleg Khomenko with stolen budget funds;
– but a four-room apartment with an area of almost 260 sq.m was purchased for my daughter.
In fact, each of these expensive apartments is not inferior in price to that scandalous Geneva bill of Khomenko amounting to 700 thousand dollars.
According to the prosecutor’s office, O. Khomenko has long been under close scrutiny by law enforcement as “a source of criminal income for the defendants in the Swiss investigation.” In 1996, he bought a villa in Switzerland through V. Kudinov’s company Satotrans SA.
A criminal case was initiated against the main swindler, Oleg Khomenko, who was involved in large-scale embezzlement of budget funds during the construction of the Moscow Ring Road. He was immediately relocated 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 funds, earned through honest labor.
To be continued.
