We have previously written on numerous occasions about the fraudulent schemes surrounding the “state-owned company” “Sevastopolstroyproekt”, a shell entity used by the “governor’s group” to siphon off millions from “federal programs” and engage in other forms of “financial asset stripping.”
The occupiers have rotated the nominal “leadership” of this lucrative organization like a revolving door; among the seven “general directors” who have cycled through the post over the last six years, we have specifically detailed the scams involving Yulia Gubanova, whom the aggressor transferred from Sevastopol to the occupied mainland in the spring of 2023 to assume the criminal role of gauleiter of Yakymivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Gubanova, an entrepreneur hailing from Saratov and Moscow, first appeared in occupied Sevastopol as a “business partner” of the wife of Denis Maidanov, a singer and member of the State Duma.
We have also reported on the “eventful adventures” within this organization of Konstantin Pirogov, a relative of deputy gauleiter Svetlana Pirogova, who recently became embroiled in a “scandal among the gentry” due to her ties to the Russian “relocated oligarch” Mikhail Prokhorov.
Most recently, the collaborator Yuri Klepche attempted to “secure a foothold” within “Sevastopolstroyproekt”; Klepche is the former “Director of the department for governor and government affairs,” whom the aggressor’s punitive forces subsequently placed under “house arrest” for “inflating contract prices for the installation of security alarm systems in government buildings.”
In this regard, we have previously noted that the inter-clan struggle within the corridors of the Sevastopol “authorities”, which intensified in 2024, manifested vividly in a series of “nationalizations” in 2025, and subsequently evolved into a public “exchange of compromising material”, has now “opened the doors” for various Kremlin punitive agencies in search of lucrative targets for “asset stripping.”
And now, Viktor Maksimets, a native of Rostov, has been spotted at “Sevastopolstroyproekt” in the role of yet another “acting director general.”
Previously, prior to 2017, Maksimets had already been “parachuted in” to Sevastopol by the occupiers as the illegitimate “head of the road management department”; however, he subsequently “failed to see eye to eye”, specifically regarding the size of kickbacks, with the current “London exile” Dmitry Ovsyannikov, who was at the time the “governor”.
Later, in 2021, Maksimets “resurfaced” as the first deputy minister of construction and road management for the Penza Region; however, from 2023 onward, he once again “dropped off the radar.” It is highly probable that he is now being viewed by the Razvozhaev clan as a “compromise figure” suitable for executing specific corrupt schemes.
