According to the aggressor’s “government procurement portal,” the occupiers intend to launder 10 billion rubles over the next three years from the “construction of a tunnel between General Petrov and Pozharova Streets” in Sevastopol.
They intend to launder the money through the Krasnodar firm “Vesta,” owned by local figure Vladimir Levchenko, who once made a name for himself by laundering billions during the “construction of Olympic facilities” before 2014.
In addition to “Vesta,” Levchenko controls the Sevastopol “firm” “Demetra,” and has also been linked to the “Dorstroykuban-19” structure.
“Demetra,” “registered” in 2023, has already received 25 “contracts” from “city authorities” worth 3.3 billion rubles, the funds laundered through the “department of transport” and its subsidiary structure “Directorate.”
In total, Levchenko had previously misappropriated at least 5 billion rubles through the firm “Vesta” for “Sevastopol projects,” including the “design” of the same tunnel and the “construction of an access road to a future medical cluster,” which the occupiers never launched.
It is noteworthy that Levchenko had previously attempted to pull off a scam in the “Sevastopol arbitration court” involving “invalidation of the purchase and sale agreement for the majority stake in the authorized capital” of the same “Demetra” entity, attempting to use a scheme now commonly known to the aggressor as the “Larisa Dolina scam.”
Levchenko’s wife, Elena, was allegedly “misled” during the “sale of a share” in May 2024 to Yuri Chepurnoy, a traditional Krasnodar associate of this family.
However, Chepurnoy’s wife, Violetta, still holds a share in the same “Dorstroykuban-19” company fnd the described “arbitration schemes” were most likely simply intended to “cover their tracks” in case the aggressor’s enforcers later decided to “deflate” these figures.
Levchenko and Chepurnoy are also notable for the fact that in 2024, they “registered” the companies “Spetsstroykherson” and “Razvitie” in the occupied town of Kalanchak in the Kherson Region. The latter, however, was registered through the Krasnodar firm “Infinitigroup,” where the businessman’s father, Nikolai Levchenko, was also mentioned. Meanwhile, “Spetsstroykherson” had already been “liquidated.”
