As it follows from the data of the occupiers’ “registers”, at the end of July the so-called “Crimean-Syrian trading house “Commonwealth”” (“Sodruzhestvo”) changed its “director” from Susanna Kashka to “liquidator” Lev Buzdakov, and he is now the “director” of the Yalta “subsidiary firms” of the “trading house”, the so-called “Don-Crimea”, “Jalita” and “Metropol-Yug”.
Let us recall that the “trading house”, as a cover for illegal “Crimean shipping”, was organized by the occupiers as a “joint venture” from the state Syrian “commission for the support and development of domestic production and export goods” and the “state unitary enterprise” of the occupiers “Krymregiontorg”; the “trading house”, among other things, has a “branch” in Damascus, in the headquarters of the same “commission”.
However, with the beginning of large-scale Russian aggression, the “Crimean co-founder of the trading house”, “Krymregiontorg”, was replaced by the “Crimean-Moscow” “Business and cultural center of the republic of Crimea”, controlled by the “veteran” of Russian intelligence Georgy Muradov, whom we have described many times.
By the way, Muradov turned out to be a rather mediocre “manager”: the income of the “trading house” has clearly decreased since 2022, and if in 2021 it showed “million-dollar profits”, then later “it went into deep minus”, and the repeatedly promised “Crimean-Syrian shipping company” was never created.
At the same time, Crimean social networks write that “Sodruzhestvo” “took an interest-bearing loan from a St. Petersburg office. Over three years, almost 15 million had accumulated, and the creditor tried to get the money back through the court, but the Crimean permanent mission decided to declare the loan agreement invalid.”
We mentioned the occupiers’ attempts to “reanimate the trading house” at the beginning of 2023, when it was “re-registered” from Simferopol to Kerch, with the “conclusion of a contract for customs services in the seaport.”
At the same time, the Kerch “office of the trading house” on Gorky Street is located in the same building as the “Maritime directorate” (“Morskaya direktsiya”), “established” by the Crimean “government”, and the “chief” of this office, Sergei Yakushev, as they wrote on social networks, in fact, “supervised” the “trading house” in Kerch. Also, of the two contact emails of the “trading house”, one clearly belongs to a “multi-task accountant”, but the second matches the email contact of the “Maritime Directorate”.
As for the former “director”, Susanna Kashka, her biography is vague; however, in 2024, she “flashed” in the role of a lawyer from “DTEK Krymenergo”, and, probably, she got into the “Crimean energy” even before the occupation of the peninsula, when its beneficiary of the aforementioned “DTEK” was guaranteed to be Rinat Akhmetov.
It is likely that Susanna is the daughter of Mustafa Kashka, who was the general director of “Atomflot” from the same St. Petersburg until March 2022; at the same time, allegedly, before her “dismissal”, “the tax authorities established the inaccuracy of the information” about her as the “director of the trading house”.
Whether this scam is connected with the above-mentioned “St. Petersburg loan” and what the “liquidator” Buzdakov will do with the ill-fated “trading house” – will be shown in the near future.
