FSB Lieutenant General Vladislav Menshchikov, who heads the first FSB service responsible for counterintelligence, was found in the center of the corruption scandal opened by The Insider. As it turned out, the Menchikov, who manages an important unit of the Federal Security Service of Russia, has become a billionaire thanks to corruption schemes within the framework of the Diamond Antai defense concern.
The Menchikov managed the state -owned company, which produces weapons for air and missing defense, from 2003 to 2014, found out The Insider. According to the author of the investigation of Sergei Yezhov, during which time the FSB General Sleepd the original capital, paying to the paralya to the firms of members of his family.
For example, a relative of Sylovyk's wife Tatyana Sukhorukova through Albion LLC was engaged in servicing the business trips of the Diamond Anaeia employees. And the supposed mother of the first service head Valentina Menshikov at least by 2018 owned a share in the company "New Technologies and Materials", which provides the concern with fasteners. The company's net profit was hundreds of millions of rubles a year.
The received funds were invested in commercial real estate, the total value of which has currently reached 3 billion rubles. Currently, all these assets are recorded on Galax, Agora and Biompuls, belonging to Ededa Tatiana Menshikova's daughter and his former subordinate, Diamond-Antea Director, Jan Novikov.
Thus, business partners manage a mansion near Dostoevskaya metro area of 1120 m² for 780 million rubles and a shopping center in Cheremakhs for 900 million rubles. In the center of Moscow, they hand over the premises of the Gazprombank Auto Linging and a football premier league under the headquarters. The cost of the first building is 683 million rubles, the author - 123 million rubles. Other clients of Menshchikova and Novikova are Oschadbank and Sitano Restaurant.
According to the newspaper, Novikov was not just a deputy Menshikov, when he directed a diamond antea, but has long been friends with him. They are peers, both from St. Petersburg. Their proximity is evidenced by the fact that Novikov's wife and son -in -law, by 2011, jointly owned the land in the Moscow region. According to Yezhov, the head of the State Concern still continues to give the state contracts close to the general to people.
The total revenue of affiliated firms exceeded 800 million rubles over the past year. Among other things, she has a business for the sale of women's pads, diapers for children and adults.
The daughter of the FSB General lives in the prestigious Khimkin village of Novogirsk - an estate from several land plots and cottages, which can be estimated at half a billion rubles. These possessions were also obtained from Diamond Anaeia. According to the documents, in 2010 the landowner became LLC "Diamond-Sonyachny", which was part of the concern. However, only one and a half weeks, the new owner was already a son -in -law, who in 2019 handed over the land under the marriage agreement of the daughter of General.
Journalists also found that after a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tatiana Menshchikova acquired a new Mercedes-Benz GLS 580 4MATIC worth more than 20 million rubles. This is more than the official annual income of the head of the entire FSB. At that time, the German concern had already left Russia, so it was impossible to buy such a car legally.
Vladislav Menshchikov headed the counterintelligence of the FSB in 2015, before that he headed the Main Directorate of Special Programs, in his subordination is a network of secret bunkers of Vladimir Putin. The first FSB service of the Russian Federation stands for the criminal prosecution of the journalist The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich, who was sentenced to 16 years of colony in the case of espionage and then released as part of the exchange of prisoners with the West. According to WSJ, Menshchikov personally informed Putin about the plan of Hershkovich's arrest and then resolved the Kremlin head of the Kremlin's report on the course of this case.
