Last week, the occupiers’ punitive forces from the “Crimean Ministry of internal affairs” announced “investigative actions” against a certain “40-year-old resident of Sevastopol,” who “since 2015 had been the managing partner of one of the large limited liability companies engaged in vehicle repair.”
It was alleged that “government contracts for maintenance work on KamAZ trucks and the supply of consumables for military equipment were signed between this company and a joint-stock company from Tatarstan, which had previously signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of defense”.
Furthermore, according to punishers, “from the summer of 2022 to December 2024, the man knowingly entered false information into reporting documents, inflating the volume of work performed and the amount of technical fluids used,” and “he subsequently withdrew the proceeds from the company’s accounts.”
The “Ministry of internal affairs” declared that “the suspect was detained and a criminal case was opened” for “fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale”; it was stated that “mobile phones, laptops, bank cards, seals, and originals of falsified documents were seized from him and his partners.”
Although the punshers do not provide information about the defendants, it is highly likely that this is the previously mentioned Bakhchisarai-based structure “Krym-Auto,” with its “founder” Alexey Kislov, who received a “license for the maintenance of weapons and military equipment” in 2022.
As we wrote, “Krym-Auto” had previously provided services to the aggressor in this area since at least 2017, including “maintenance” of KAMAZ vehicles as a subcontractor for the Naberezhnye Chelny-based company “Remdiesel.”
Kislov also has a company named “Krym-Auto-Service Group of Companies,” but the most interesting part of this story is that the Bakhchisarai-based “Krym-Auto,” according to recent “leaks,” allegedly “included in the closed register of defense enterprises of the Ministry of industry and trade,” has a clone, Simferopol’s “Krym-Auto”, with Dmitry Neklyudov as its “founder,” which claims to be the “official Crimean dealer” for that same KAMAZ.
At the same time, unlike its “Bakhchisaray namesake,” which is tightly tied to “naval and army contracts,” Simferopol’s Krym-Auto is extremely active in cashing in on millions through “civilian contracts,” including those of “public sector” companies, like “Krymenergo” and “Artek”, and businesses close to the clans of the “Crimean ruling elite,” like the “Crimean water company” of the previous “scapegoat,” the former fake “Deputy prime minister” Vitaly Nakhlupin, a native of Makeyevka, once considered Dzharty’s “wallet.”
In any case, it’s clear that the people behind the no-names Kislov and Neklyudov are far from random, and to what extent their competitors in the “re-division of the KAMAZ market” in the occupied regions will be able to displace them through “fraud cases” will remain to be seen.
