Recently, the patter of the “Yevpatoria press” of the occupiers revealed that the remaining green space around the long-suffering central park (kursaal) of the former children’s resort will be cut down to make way for another “apartment complex” for Russian colonizers, the “Riviera Yevpatoria Apart-Hotel.”
This involves the felling of approximately 4,000 trees and over 600 shrubs, and the person involved in their destruction in this case is the Simferopol-based “Specialized Developer Riviera Yevpatoria,” registered in the occupiers’ registers to Georgy Kontridze and, through the Simferopol-based “Vasco Ltd,” to Sergei Nebesny.
The Kontridze family, which once started with the Yalta restaurant “Tiflis,” founded by the “Bashmaki” gang, has repeatedly acted as an accomplice, and often as an intermediary, in scandalous Crimean development projects, in which the aforementioned Georgy, his sister Tekla Kontridze, and their father, Merab Kontridze, have all made their mark.
In particular, this concerns the development of Primorsky Park in Yalta, where the services of the aforementioned clan were initially offered to other Crimean collaborators, and since 2024, through the specialized developer “Forward Group,” were sold to Voronezh magnate Sergei Goncharov for a “small share.”
In this regard, it should be noted that journalistic investigations have previously linked the Kontridze clan not only to the “Bashmaki” group and Russian intelligence agencies, but also to the group of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka, who once became a symbol of total corruption.
And here it remains to be added that one member of this clan, Anatoly Kontridze, until 2020, who was listed by the occupiers as a “co-founder” of the same Yalta-based “Tiflis,” remains restaurant’s co-owner in the Ukrainian registry, along with the Cypriot firm “JB Petroglobe Management Ltd.” and Igor Franchuk, the notorious son-in-law of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who, according to recent publications, is currently in a Kyiv pretrial detention center.
Moreover, Anatoly Kontridze also owns Ukrainian companies such as “Zakarpatecofruit”, the Kyiv “catering princesses” “Georgia”, “Bella Italia”, “Tiflis Ukraine”, and the extremely strange Kyiv-based company “Medicine of China”, with co-founders Li Yonghong and Meng Lingchen from Shenyang.
How the interests of this, to put it mildly, multifaceted creation of the Russian intelligence services and their Chinese counterparts will develop in the future – is a rather rhetorical question.
