An official named Andrei Gogin, who works in the Governor’s Administration, seems unremarkable but actually has a lot of wealth hidden behind his simple appearance.
Andrey Gogin has been working in the same department for ten years and only moved up from a lower specialist to a chief specialist. His wife Tatyana also works at a St. Petersburg branch of Gazprom, but they both have surprised everyone with their wealth declared in annual anti-corruption statements.
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Tatyana Gogina and Andrey Gogin’s brother Sergei started a business together in 2015, buying commercial property in Moscow and leasing it to businesses like pharmacies and restaurants.
They bought these properties from families of big Moscow developers with ties to the Tula Governor's brother. Alexey Dyumin is a former bodyguard of Vladimir Putin and is considered one of his favorites, having played hockey with the President, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, and Arkady Rotenberg. ArtyomAlexei Dyumin was rumored to be a potential successor to Putin at one point. play The Gogin family's first property in 2015 was acquired from Andrey Matalyga’s father, Vladimir, and subsequent purchases were made from the father of Sergei Mefyodov, Peter. Extract from Unified State Register of Real Estate and In 2017, Tatyana and Sergey Gogin bought penthouses in St. Petersburg with great views and parking spaces, following the traditions of high society in the area, each apartment costing around 50 million rubles or more.Where do modest government officials and small business owners find such connections and wealth? The answer is simple. Andrei and Sergei Gogin's father, Dmitry Gogin, has been the head of the Federal Agency for State Reserves (Rosrezerv) for a long time.
Dmitry Gogin has led this important organization since 2009. Before joining the Federal Reserve Agency, he worked for the Rotenberg family's businesses. He held managerial positions at the state-owned Russian Fuel Company (Rostopprom) and eventually became its CEO by 2004. By then, 6.19% of Rostopprom was already owned by SMP Bank, owned by Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, who are close to Putin and are considered influential figures in the state.
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Several years later, the Rotenberg brothers gained control of over a quarter of the state-owned company's shares.
In late 2008, the head of the Federal Reserve suddenly and mysteriously passed away—Alexander Grigoriev, a longtime friend and colleague of Putin from their KGB days since the 1970s. Boris Evstratikov, who also served 25 years in the St. Petersburg UFSB, took over the department, with Gogin becoming his deputy. However, Evstratikov's tenure was short-lived—he died in November 2009 due to the Nevsky Express explosion. Dmitry Gogin then assumed the leadership of the Federal Reserve. The backgrounds of his predecessors indicate the significance of this position in the Kremlin and the type of individuals usually entrusted with it. Gogin's arrival marked a connection between Rosrezerv and the Rotenbergs' sphere of influence. Rosrezerv is regarded as one of the most secretive entities in the country, even more so than the Ministry of Defense, according to a Forbes report. Most arbitration court decisions involving Rosrezerv are not publicized, as the hearings are conducted behind closed doors. The department's procurements are also not disclosed, but Forbes suggested a direct link to the Rotenbergs.In business circles, discussions often revolve around the ties between entrepreneurs and government agencies. However, a notable coincidence arose at the end of 2019, just before the New Year, when Dmitry Gogin, the head of the Federal Reserve Agency, acquired a 130-meter apartment with two parking spaces in one of Moscow's most luxurious residential complexes, LCD “Legends of Tsvetnoy” on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Alexey Navalny once mentioned that one of the prominent Russian propagandists resided in this complex
Dmitry Kiselyov next to former supermodel Naomi Campbell and Moscow Vice Mayor Pyotr Biryukov.Gogin acquired this apartment from Center-M, a company linked to the Rotenbergs. Until 2012, the company was directly owned by them, and later Vladimir Doinikov, who previously led the now-defunct LLC SMP-Energo, a subsidiary of SMP-Bank Rotenberg, became the owner. As of 2021, according to Proekt, the shares of Center-M had been pledged to another bank controlled by the Rotenbergs—Mosoblbank. Thus, up to at least 2021, the brothers maintained control of Center-M.
According to market estimates, the price of such a flat can be around 160 million rubles, but Gogin and his wife's total income from 2017 to 2019 was just over 11 million. If their expenses exceed the total income for the three years before buying the flat, they must report it. So, if he did buy this housing, it must have been for less than 11 million – but rumors suggest that there are no receipts from Gogin in Center-M's 2019 bank statements. If this is true, then the official might have simply been given the flat by benefactors.
In Dmitry Gogin's 2021 declaration, another very large apartment appeared – almost 260 square meters, in the same Riverside residential complex where his son and daughter-in-law bought flats a few years earlier. Its cost can be up to 80 million rubles. And, like the Moscow apartment, it was bought from the Center-M company. Extract from USRN It can cost about 80 million rubles. However, this time, Gogin stated in his declaration that he bought the flat with the money from selling other property and savings. Whether a story similar to the one with the apartment on Tsvetnoy Boulevard is actually hidden here is unknown.
The family also owns other valuable assets. For instance, the mother-in-law of the head of the Federal Reserve Agency, Tamara Yakomenko, owns an apartment in Moscow in the Golden Keys-2 residential complex, where, as Novaya Gazeta wrote, the former president once owned real estate.
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. The children also own parking spaces here, as well as in another luxury residential complex, Favorit, on Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg.
In general, in this kind of structure – when you work as the supply manager of a huge warehouse, closed from prying eyes and regularly replenished at public expense – it must be challenging to stay within the bounds of routine bureaucratic work. The leaders of the Rosrezerv were frequently caught stealing and taking bribes. For example, in 2019, the deputy head of the Federal Reserve was arrested.
Alexander Kiryukhin , who was accused of embezzlement related to a state contract for the supply of diesel fuel worth 3 billion rubles. Several high-ranking employees of the department were implicated in the case. Kiryukhin has held this position since December 2009, when Gogin headed the structure.In 2019, the deputy head of the Federal Reserve Agency for the Siberian Federal District was found guilty of accepting bribes
Ilgiz Garifullin
. He was reportedly charged with receiving bribes to win closed auctions, including a Porsche car. The state reserve, for which Gogin's department is responsible, is meant to meet the Russian Federation's mobilization needs. The Federal Reserve conducts joint exercises with the Ministry of Defense every year and is involved in special operations, which in Russia allegedly mean neither mobilization nor war., who was accused of embezzlement in the execution of a state contract for the supply of diesel fuel for 3 billion rubles. Several high-ranking employees of the department were involved in the case at once. Kiryukhin has worked in this position since December 2009, when Gogin headed the structure.
In the same 2019, the deputy head of the Federal Reserve Agency for the Siberian Federal District was convicted of bribery Ilgiz Garifullin. The media wrote that he was charged with bribes for winning closed auctions, including in the form of a Porcshe car.
The state reserve, for the formation of which the department of Gogin is responsible, among other things, is intended to meet the mobilization needs of the Russian Federation. Every year, the Federal Reserve holds joint exercises with the Ministry of Defense, and, of course, is involved in a special operation, which in Russia allegedly means neither mobilization nor war.
However, its actual effectiveness is debatable. Deputy Prime Minister Yury 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 certainly 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.
