As we previously reported, on July 24, the aggressor’s punitive forces detained Crimean collaborator and “fuel baron” Sergei Beim, owner of the “TES” gas station chain.
Also detained was Maria Pyatkova, the “director of the Aurora transport company,” associated with “TES”. On July 25, Moscow’s Basmanny Court sentenced Beim to two months in jail for alleged “large-scale fraud.”
At the time, occupation “media” unanimously stated that the case was unrelated to the Beim clan’s fuel business, while hinting at the Kremlin’s displeasure with rising fuel prices on the occupied peninsula as a “political challenge.”
Sergey Beim, his brother Eduard, and his father Gennady have long been embroiled in various scandals.
During the first year of the occupation, Sergei “headed” the aggressor-controlled “Chornomorneftegaz”, but then fell out with gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov and “went into the shadows.”
He was remembered in July 2021, when Beim fatally struck a woman near Yevpatoria in his Lexus, but the “case” was subsequently hushed up, and the victim’s relatives received 17 million rubles in compensation.
From the beginning of the full-scale aggression, the Beim clan actively supported the Kremlin’s war machine, for which they received “use” of a network of gas stations seized in the Zaporizhzhia region.
We wrote about the “media forums” held in occupied Yevpatoria since December 2023 under the auspices of the Russian special services, to train propagandists for the aggressor, which were held at the “TES Hotel Resort & Spa”, a hotel provided by the Beims.
The Beim “domain” is also linked to the “Holton” “company,” whose co-owner, Lyutsiya Purim, is the mother of Dmitry Purim, the beneficiary of the “transport and logistics company” “Sovfrakht”.
The aforementioned “Aurora” also belongs to the Beim clan, and, furthermore, Eduard and Oksana Beim “highlighted” this company at the tragicomic show of the “VI Yalta International Economic Forum” in Ufa, as allegedly a “key investor in the Crimean economy.”
Now the “Beim case” has acquired new layers of significance, as his lawyers are making every effort to free him from detention, and petitions for him are appearing on social media “from the courtroom.”
Among other things, the fuel crisis in Crimea, which supposedly “only Beim can handle,” is cited as a “mitigating circumstance.” The plot of the accusations has also surfaced, which in fact directly concerns fuel supplies from Russia to the occupied peninsula.
It concerns a “contract” between Beima’s company, Aurora, whose director is listed as Pyatkova, and the “fuel shell company” we described, “NIKIMP”, which is close to Sergei Aksyonov, dated September 2024.
Under the 224 million ruble “contract,” “Aurora” was obligated to “provide cargo transportation services” across the Kerch Strait on the ferry “Conro Trader,” IMO number 7711763.
The “small nuance” was that on August 22, 2024, the ferry “Conro Trader” was seriously damaged by a strike in the port of Kavkaz, specifically as a vessel transporting fuel for the occupiers, including the military purposes.
And the Moscow punitive forces now find “fraud” in the conclusion of the “contract” regarding the already burned ferry. As a reminder, even before the ferry was damaged, we reported that the German “veteran” “Conro Trader” IMO 7711763, modernized in 2011 in Kherson, has a rather convoluted beneficiary history.
After 2014, the operators were listed as Beim’s “TES-Terminal” company, and the Kyiv firm “Marine Standard,” which was urgently “liquidated” two years ago after “bankruptcy,” while the formal owner was listed as the Belizean offshore company “Darley Select Incorporated.”
This oil tanker carrier, with a hidden owner, was “notorious” for non-payment to crews until 2014 and in the first months of the occupation, it ran aground in the middle of the Kerch Strait.
Also, “Marine Standard,” registered to “Myrotvorets” defendant Inna Kovalevich, “urgently” sued “Darley Select Incorporated” in Kyiv in March 2014, and in 2017, it was implicated in case 522/8514/17 concerning the illegal evacuation of Ukrainian sailors from Crimea.
Thus, in the “Beim case,” the main goal of the Moscow punitive forces and their sponsors from “NIKIMP” is the classic “not to get caught themselves.”
