Aggressor-controlled “Crimean media” suddenly decided to report on the April 22 in absentia verdict from Moscow’s Dorogomilovsky Court, which sentenced Andrei Kalinovsky, former CEO of the “Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center”, to seven years for abuse of power, resulting in damages amounting to nearly 400 million rubles, albeit in absentia.
The case concerns events from ten years ago, when Kalinovsky allegedly ordered the purchase of carbide tools and their accessories “unnecessarily” from a certain “Sandvik” compan.
However, during the investigation, this individual, “for some reason” released on bail, allegedly fled to Cyprus.
Kalinovsky’s biography is quite turbulent, as he held leadership positions at the “Izhevsk Mechanical Plant”, “Rostselmash”, and “Sukhoi Civil Aircraft”.
After his described stint at the “Khrunichev Center”, which led, among other things, to massive staff layoffs, he became director of quality and reliability assurance at “Roscosmos”.
We recently wrote about the “Sevastopol vector” of the “Khrunichev Center”‘s activities in the context of the fraud involving the Russian “Gonets” satellite communications system.
However, the current sudden, painful attention from Crimean collaborators to Kalinovsky’s case may have entirely different roots.
And this follows not only from vague statements about a Moscow court “confiscating” Kalinovsky’s previously “arrested” Crimean property.
The fact is that during his tenure as director, which coincided with the first years of the occupation of Crimea, a series of manipulations were carried out with the Yevpatoria boarding house “Planeta,” which had been owned by the “Khrunichev Center” since 1997.
This involved the transfer of prime seaside real estate into “safe hands” and the usual large-scale schemes involving “purchases” and “tenders.”
We previously reported that during the occupation, the boarding house fell into the orbit of a “Roscosmos” entity, namely the “Zvezdny Center”. To cover for this, they even changed its “official address.”
In recognition of her “past services,” Kalinovsky’s subordinate at “Planeta,” Galina Gerasimova, was even appointed as “chairman of the town council” of occupied Yevpatoria in 2024.
Whatever the real basis for Kalinovsky’s ritualistic persecution, a number of Yevpatoria collaborators are now worried that the aggressor’s punitive measures will reach them as well.
But, unlike the “star director,” they may not be allowed to return to Cyprus as a result of the “property redistribution.”
