In January, we wrote about the dissemination of “sudden insider information” through aggressor-controlled “anonymous channels” about the unsavory activities of the Sevastopol “government,” focusing on vice-gauleiter Svetlana Pirogova and linking it to the activities of Russian “oligarch-relocant” Mikhail Prokhorov, who has “disappeared from the radar” in recent years and avoided inclusion on most of the current sanctions lists.
Also, in these “exposés,” Pirogova’s competitors “suddenly recalled” the long-standing scams surrounding the “Sevastopolstroyproekt” structure, which served as a conduit between the “authorities” and developers for the embezzlement of “federal target program funds” by the Razvozhaev clan. However, the scams surrounding “Sevastopolstroyproekt” and its constantly changing “general directors” were well-known even without the aforementioned “exposures.”
Specifically, we wrote about the recent replacements of Konstantin Pirogov in this role with Yuri Klepcha, and the latter with Viktor Maksimets.
The aggressor’s “anti-corruption activists” claim that this “change of positions” allegedly does not affect the actual control of the structure by Pirogova and by its “shadow director” Dmitry Pirogov.
At the same time, they claim that “Pirogova, trying to protect herself, is holding strategic sessions” with “chief budget administrators” and “department heads,” and that they were allegedly “given scenarios and are being trained on how to conduct themselves during potential interrogations.”
We wrote that, although the authors of “investigations” from the aggressor’s “press” are clearly familiar with the realities of total corruption in Sevastopol, it is described as if gauleiter Razvozhaev 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.
We noted that it appears that, given the Kremlin’s possible “disfavor” toward Prokhorov, the occupying forces are seeking to exploit this to purge Sevastopol’s “feeding troughs” of competitors associated with the “toxic” oligarch.
However, something else is now of interest: the alleged connection between the current “spring exacerbation” and the case of Sergei Malofeykin, the founder of the VIJU neural network and a former official of “Delovaya Rossiya”, who was arrested in Moscow on March 24 for “organizing a criminal organization” through which billions of rubles were allegedly cashed out, with the funds being transferred to the UAE and Singapore.
The aggressor’s enforcers and their information service claim that, since 2023, Malofeykin’s primary clients for cashing out and laundering funds have been entities associated with the major developer “Samolet:, and that one of his accomplices was Boris Pugachev, who “concurrently” served as the next “CEO” of “Sevastopolstroyproekt” until 2022.
It’s not surprising that the aggressor’s enforcers have decided, given the current unique situation regarding “banking secrecy” for Russians in the UAE, to “hide” Malofeikin and Pugachev as far away as possible.
However, further events will reveal how much the current “Dubai scandal” will influence the clan struggle over the Sevastopol “budget trough.”
