We have previously written extensively about the schemes involving the inner circle of Sevastopol’s gauleiter Mikhail Razvozhayev, specifically the conflict between two entities both operating under the name “Sevastopolgaz”, a “state-owned enterprise” and a “public joint-stock company”, as well as an organization called “Digital Innovations” (“Tsifrovye Innovatsii”).
This saga involved Yevgeny Gorlov, a former “deputy” to Razvozhayev who was eventually “stripped of his assets” by the occupiers’ enforcers. Following Gorlov’s arrest, Alexander Podturkin took over the leadership of both “Digital Innovations” and the “state-owned” “Sevastopolgaz”.
We recently reported on yet another “battle of compromising material”, during which various claims circulated: that Podturkin had been “detained by the FSB for high treason,” that he was “cooperating with investigators,” or that one of his subordinates had received a “formal warning from the FSB,” among other rumors.
Meanwhile, Podturkin, portrayed as a “prisoner”, worked alongside Razvozhayev to rebrand “Digital Innovations” into a new entity called “My Payments” (“Moi Platezhi”). This new structure, which operates seven offices, was established as a subsidiary of the aforementioned “state-owned” “Sevastopolgaz”.
Now, the occupation “authorities” have announced a “verdict” against Eduard Tretyak, the former “chairman of the board of directors” of the “private” “Sevastopolgaz”, who was thrown into a detention cell, or “the basement,” in local parlance, last summer.
It is alleged that Tretyak, who effectively ran the company, orchestrated a series of transactions for the benefit of his own associates, thereby “causing damages amounting to 34 million rubles.”
Furthermore, in May 2023, “on his orders, an illiquid piece of real estate on Bolshaya Morskaya Street was purchased at an inflated price” from a firm controlled by his son, a property that “was not actually being used.”
Additionally, until 2024, “sublease agreements were concluded, following the same scheme, with the sister of the convicted man’s wife,” under which “the area paid for significantly exceeded the area actually in use.” It is also noted that, “at the direction” of Tretyak, “company equipment was sold to individuals connected to him at below-market prices.”
It should be recalled that the aforementioned “sister of the convicted man’s wife” is Elena Meshkovskaya, who served as a “director” and “co-founder” of the “Digital Innovations”. The second co-founder of “Digital Innovations” was Valeria Zinchenko, the wife of Tretyak’s business partner, Kirill Zinchenko.
It was Meshkovskaya who “leased out” office space to “Sevastopolgaz” in the “Avangard” shopping center, while the aforementioned scheme involving the office on Bolshaya Morskaya St. was orchestrated by the “convicted man’s” son, Ilya Tretyak, and the aforementioned Kirill Zinchenko, through an entity called “UK Ultramarine.”
Previously, the occupation authorities “nationalized” the assets of Elena Meshkovskaya and Valeria Zinchenko. It is therefore evident that the repressions described above served to replace the key figures within the “consolidated” “Sevastopolgaz” entity—a vehicle through which, in conjunction with the aforementioned “My Payments” service, billions in “utility payments” will continue to be laundered for the benefit of Razvozhayev.
They began doing this through the aforementioned puppet, Podturkin, and his current “right-hand man” at “My Payments”, Alexandra Zamureenko, formerly the “deputy general director” for “gas supply and accounting” under Tretyak, both of whom are now the subjects of “ironclad compromising material” held by the occupiers’ punishers.
