On January 18, aggressor-controlled “anonymous channels” began disseminating “sudden insider information” about the unsavory activities of the Sevastopol “government,”
with a “systemic link” between these large-scale corruption schemes and the “Onexim Group”.
This structure is controlled by Russian “oligarch-relocant” Mikhail Prokhorov,
who has “disappeared from the radar” in recent years and avoided inclusion on most of the current sanctions lists.
Moreover, deputy-gauleiter Svetlana Pirogova has been named as Prokhorov’s “main puppet” in the occupied city, allegedly “without whose approval and decision nothing has happened in Sevastopol for a long time.”
Allegedly, it was Pirogova who transferred her relative Konstantin Pirogov to Sevastopol as the “general director” of the infamous “Sevastopolstroyproekt”.
We previously described “Sevastopolstroyproekt” as a permanent intermediary between the “authorities” and developers for the embezzlement of “federal target program funds” by the Razvozhaev clan.
Now it has been claimed that the authorities’ waning interest in this intermediary was allegedly caused by Pirogov’s “riotous lifestyle.”
After which, allegedly, “oversight of the business sector” was entrusted to his former partner, Alina Barvitskaya, who was listed as a “founder” in the “Social Developer Temprano” structure, through which approximately 900 million rubles of “budget” money were laundered.
It was stated that Yuri Baranov, who served a five-year term as the “general director of the Sevastopol seaport,” was also “Prokhorov’s man.”
Baranov, a Sochi resident who served the interests of “Cypriot investors” at the Sochi firm “Pamir” before his “Sevastopol assignment,” later became the “general director” of the “state-owned enterprise” “Balaklava Development Project,” which is in charge of creating a yacht marina for Russian oligarchs.
The “anonymous channels” described also link Alexander Podturkin, whom we previously described, to Prokhorov’s “Civic Platform.”
He was allegedly “appointed” to Sevastopolgaz on Pirogova’s initiative,
and has now become the “head of the utility payments operator” “Digital Innovations.” Additionally, the story of the scam involving 122 hectares of land on a scenic Black Sea coastline is recounted,mallegedly transferred to Vadim Bagno’s “Chateau Duvancoy” with the involvement of the same Pirogova.
The reasons for the current “exposure of Prokhorov’s people” may vary, but they began against the backdrop of the January death in Cyprus of Vladislav Baumgertner, described by us.
A former “Uralkali” functionary, after whose “prison” scandals Prokhorov bought out his stake in the corporation in 2013, Baumgertner became the subject of a series of scandals.
And although the authors of the current “investigations” are clearly familiar with the realities of total corruption in Sevastopol, it is described as if gauleiter Razvozzhaev himself is practically a puppet of Pirogova, and the role of Prokhorov’s structures in the careers of a number of local swindlers is highlighted.
It appears that, given the Kremlin’s potential “disfavor” toward Prokhorov, occupier groups are seeking to take advantage of this to purge Sevastopol’s “feeding troughs” of competitors associated with the “toxic” oligarch.
