In early April, the occupiers announced the “transfer to the Sevastopol Leninsky district court” of the case of Dmitry Koiro, allegedly a “member of the organized crime group ‘Slavyane,'” while the occupiers also placed Koiro, a “Sevastopol businessman,” on their wanted list.
The aggressor’s punishers claim that Koiro’s case is supposedly a “continuation” of the “Leninsky disctict court verdict” announced in 2024 regarding Eduard Eshanu, Vyacheslav Krivoshein, Nikolai Salamahа, Lev Servatovsky, and Dmitry Shengelai.
In this context, what’s notable isn’t even that “Slavyane” was, for many years, considered by many Sevastopol residents to be the “city branch” of the “Seylem” group, whose members include the current Crimean gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov and other “officials” of the occupiers.
And what’s interesting isn’t even that all of the individuals mentioned have actively and publicly contributed to the occupation of the peninsula since 2014, with Krivoshein, for example, heading an organization known as “Sevastopol in support of the President of Russia.”
More notable is that Eshanu himself is a major beneficiary of maritime transport and, until 2024, systematically fulfilled “city government orders” for passenger sea transportation, signing “state contracts” worth millions. Among other things, Eshanu controlled the passenger ships “Lieutenant Grinko” and “Poet Andrukhaev” and, as a “promising businessman,” regularly received funds from the occupiers through the so-called “Sevastopol fund for support of entrepreneurs.”
Eshanu was also implicated in the systematic laundering of millions from the government-controlled “A.S. Krupoderov Sevelektrotrans” for transporting passengers on his boats, including situations where the boats were practically unused, “due to weather conditions” or as a result of the occupiers blocking the roadstead for “military reasons.”
What went “wrong” in this “noble family” since 2024, in connection with the distribution of kickbacks with the “authorities,” can only be guessed at, but it is already clear that the entire “Sevastopol business” of these individuals, including the boats, is gradually being transferred to the “caring hands” of gauleiter Mikhail Razvozhaev’s inner circle.
