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In Russia, it is not customary to talk about biographies. Most often, even their names are known only to a narrow circle of people who are really interested in this topic. Businessman Sergei Vasilyev was no exception, having become famous mainly for his private palace, copying the famous one in Tsarskoye Selo, and experienced a daring attempt on his own life. Who is the owner of elite housing and the victim of gang warfare?
The beginning of the way
Vasiliev Sergey Vasilyevich - a businessman, now quite famous - the middle of three brothers. All of them were born in the village of Vyritsa, in the Leningrad region. From childhood, the boys were fond of boxing, so they had no shortage of stamina and strength - perhaps such tempering of character became one of the main reasons for their success in business. At the age of 19, Sergei went to jail, but served 3 of the prescribed five years. Ten years later - a new walker, but this time already on a par with his older brother on charges of extortion, to which fraud was added at the trial - at that time the Vasilievs, as they say, controlled video salons and the so-called thimble-makers in the city on Neva.
Freed in the early nineties, the brothers switched to a popular occupation at that time - distillation of cars from Europe to Russia, while they actively used old acquaintances, which allowed them to take one of the automobile markets of the northern capital under their wing.
Petersburg Oil Terminal
Businessman Sergei Vasilyev began his independent swimming from the Petersburg Oil Terminal. Interestingly, instead of looking for outside investors who could claim a stake in PNT as a token of gratitude for their help, Vasilyev turned to modernization using the terminal's own revenues.
AT this moment According to expert estimates, the share of this enterprise in the oil products market of the Baltic region is 15%, and the annual income of the Petersburg Oil Terminal is about 60 million dollars.
Union
Vasilyev Sergey Vasilyevich is a businessman, photo, whose biography is shrouded in mystery. But it is known that another major undertaking of the entrepreneur was the Soyuz corporation, which is engaged in the production of specialized fats (vegetable, palm oil and others); the share of this enterprise in the Russian market is 18%, which allows us to speak with confidence about its influence. Troubles in this company began in 2012, when a personal conflict occurred between Vasiliev, who owns a controlling stake, and his partner, who held a quarter of the corporation's shares.
Consequences of the "Union"
As a result of this, as financial experts say, a kind of raider takeover of the enterprise began: the more objectionable partner was removed from the management of the company, the lion's share of the property was allegedly sold for the debts of the Soyuz, and sold at a price much lower than the real market value and to firms for which , according to some analysts, businessman Sergei Vasiliev is also worth it.
It all ended with the fact that the incident acquired a truly global scale: the outcast partner was forced to leave for Holland with his family after an attempt on his own life, organized, quite likely, by Vasiliev; many Russian and foreign firms refuse to cooperate with the corporation; is in full swing trial, initiated by the fleeing partner in order to return the selected share in the Soyuz.
Arcros
Russian Funds is another project led by Sergei Vasiliev. The businessman, whose biography includes several large-scale enterprises, with the help of this investment group, recently became the owner of the London-based diamond trader Arcos, which began its history back in 1920. Previously, it was under the wing of Alrosa, a mining company specializing mainly in diamond mining. They say, however, that at the time of the sale, Arcos owned only a medium-sized apartment in London, while all the rest of the property had already been sold to an unknown investor. Alrosa notes that two entrepreneurs took part in the auction where this company was at stake, and, as is already clear, Sergey Vasiliev offered a big price.
The businessman, whose photo appeared in many specialized publications in connection with this event, notes that this acquisition will allow him to expand his influence in the commodity markets, moreover, it will be an excellent addition to the Seligdar gold mining company already owned by the businessman. By the way, they note that Arcos was sold at a price that turned out to be lower than the market value, so Vasilyev made a bargain a priori.
assassination attempt
Russia has a huge number big businessmen are citizens of other countries. Sergey, a businessman, whose photo appeared in many local and all-Russian media in connection with the high-profile assassination attempt, was no exception, and was chosen for a long time, despite his now Dutch citizenship. In this city, he began his career, suffered the first failures here, and immediately took up new ideas. And in the city on the Neva, he almost died. In 2006, the car in which the entrepreneur was located was fired upon by unknown people.
The attack was clearly well planned: one of the attackers' cars blocked the businessman's Rolls-Royce road, while the other was aimed fire: as a result of the assassination attempt, one Vasilyev's guard was killed, three were injured, he himself, who was also injured, spent about a week in intensive care.
Versions of the assassination
All versions of the attempt are associated with professional activity. Some say that Sergei Vasiliev is a businessman who survived even refused to "share" with one of the well-known crime bosses "Petersburg Oil Terminal", for which he almost paid with his life. Others link the assassination attempt to Vasiliev's famous mansion, which he refused to sell. In any case, the charge was brought against the head of the Tambovskaya who, according to the investigation, had views on some of Vasiliev's enterprises.
Vasilievsky Palace
Vasiliev Sergey Vasilyevich is a businessman whose photo of the mansion has stirred up the Internet. It is believed that a citizen of an EU country should spend most of the year on the territory of the EU, but contrary to this rule, Vasilyev settled in his native village, where he built himself a small copy of the famous palace in Tsarskoye Selo. The house is located on the shore. They say, by the way, that due to construction, the village has lost part of the wild beach. Experts note that if the Vasiliev Palace is in no way inferior to the Catherine Palace in terms of external design, then it even surpasses it in interior decoration.
There were rumors that the front doors of the mansion, made of tortoise shells, somehow did not please the owner, so businessman Sergei Vasilyev ordered one of them, worth $30,000, to be replaced with a new one. The abundance of marble and gold, the baroque decoration gives the house a certain “museum quality”, perhaps that is why this building is used more for receiving high-ranking guests than for ordinary life. By the way, the exact area of the site is unknown.
patronage
But it is worth noting that Sergei Vasiliev, a businessman whose name often pops up in the media in connection with scandals, assassination attempts and other unpleasant events, is also known for his patronage. He completely restored the Church of the Kazan Mother of God - a wooden cathedral with more than a century of history, which is now one of the main places for pilgrims. True, not all fellow villagers are happy with such changes: from a small local church, the temple has turned into a tourist Mecca, which obviously pleases not everyone.
In addition, Sergey Vasilyev takes part in various projects for young entrepreneurs, businessmen, telling own history success, thus inspiring young people to new achievements. It is worth noting that a year ago he tried himself in a new field: it all started with notes in one social network, in which Vasiliev shared with his subscribers some stories from his business past. Later, due to the popularity of these notes, the idea arose to create a whole book in which Vasiliev's path would be shown from the very beginning.
In his "memoirs", called "How it was for me: 90s", the entrepreneur writes about the specifics of business in the 90s, as well as about all kinds of business schemes that he created himself and that he had to face - this book promises to be one of the tutorials for those who are going to start their own business.
Conclusion
Of course, it is difficult to form an unambiguous opinion about such an extraordinary personality as Sergei Vasiliev. Someone considers it one of the "cleanest" Russian businessmen, saying that he did not clear his way with murders - for this alone he can be respected. Others blame the numerous scandals associated with the name of the entrepreneur: here is the incident with the Soyuz corporation, the trial of which is still not completed, and the likely behind-the-scenes games around the Petersburg Oil Terminal, for which Vasilyev almost paid with his life. In any case, it is worth noting that Sergei Vasilyevich Vasilyev really achieved a lot, not retreating from any difficulties and demonstrating his entrepreneurial talent and outstanding business skills. It is worth giving him credit only for the fact that he is also engaged in cultivating his own kind, which means that Russian business definitely has a future.
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The Vasiliev brothers were born in the village of Vyritsa, Leningrad Region. At first they were engaged in video salons, then they drove cars from Europe for sale in Russia, they kept car markets. Sergei Vasiliev controlled and controls the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal, the largest bunkering company in the Seaport of St. Petersburg, with a 15% share of the volume of oil products transshipped in the Baltic.
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Despite the presence of real estate in St. Petersburg, the Vasilievs generously helped their native Vyritsa, where the brothers still live, for example, they restored the wooden church of the Kazan Mother of God, which is popular with tourists. It was in this village on the banks of the Oredezh River that the brothers decided to build their estate. What is interesting about this estate is that it is a reduced copy of the Catherine Palace - the famous royal residence in Pushkin. The patterns on the cast-iron grating, the golden domes of the chapel, the sky-blue color and white statues - a lot here reminds of Catherine's.
There is only contradictory information about the interior: ceilings 14 meters high, marble stairs, doors made of tortoise shells, mosaic marble floors with a total area of more than 600 square meters. m, black marble Atlantean knights. According to the author of the project, architect Igor Gremitsky, only natural materials were used for the decoration of the palace, including 19 varieties of marble from Italy.
This Saturday, a post appeared on the entertainment portal YaPlakal, the author of which claimed that he participated in the construction of a residence for the head of the Russian railways Vladimir Yakunin - was engaged there in the so-called smart home.
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According to him, on several dozen hectares of forest near Domodedovo, their own lakes were dug, a garage for 15 cars was built, a separate box for an executive class limousine, one and a half kilometers of underground passages to the garage were built, there was its own cinema, a bath complex (1400 sq. m.) sauna, Russian, Turkish baths, salt room, swimming pool, separate massage room and more.
Then a certain builder Aleksey, who allegedly worked there, spoke on the air of the RSN. “300 Vietnamese people worked there, they killed all the fish with electric fishing rods. Finishing external - Italian marble. Sauna - three buildings, 14 by 14 meters, Italian furniture, marble bar counter, fireplace, stained glass windows. It is glass, there are no walls as such, locker rooms, showers, everything is very expensive. Swimming pool 50 meters in the house. There is a storage room for fur coats and a refrigerator. The small house is the son, the guest house, and the main one is his. There is a prayer house and a chapel. It seems that Metrostroy dug ponds there for 150 million. There are golden tiles, and the room is very large - a hammam, a bathhouse, a steam room, a panorama to look at the forest, ”Alexey said about what he saw near Domodedovo.
Igor Shuvalov, who has been Deputy Prime Minister since 2008, according to his declaration for 2012, is the wealthiest member of the government. His income amounted to about 226 million rubles (about $7 million). The income of the spouse is slightly less.
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In his declaration, the official indicated that, together with his wife and three minor children, he rented a house with an area of 4174 sq. meters. The residence of the Deputy Prime Minister is located next to the innovation city Skolkovo (Moscow) on the territory of the former dacha of the Brezhnev-era Politburo member Mikhail Suslov (gosdacha Zarechye-4), is under zealous guard and is surrounded by a high fence. Natalya Pelevina, in her blog on the website of the radio station Ekho Moskvy, talks about the "palace" with an area of 1500 square meters. meters, built in the shape of the letter P. On a plot of 7.5 hectares, according to Pelevina, there are also indoor tennis courts, a swimming pool, luxurious gardens “with shrubs trimmed in the Versailles style”, a greenhouse for exotic plants, separate houses for servants and guards And so on.
Another very impressive mansion stands on the banks of the Sunzha River in Grozny. The official residence of the head of the Chechen Republic with an area of 260 thousand square meters. meters cost the budget, according to Novaya Gazeta, about 10 billion rubles ($310.8 million).
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Novaya Gazeta notes that 48 million rubles (360,000 sq. m of lawn, 77 thousand sq. m of flower beds, 16 thousand roses, 14 thousand square meters. m curly cut shrubs, hedges and more. Approximately 36 million rubles have been allocated for public utilities of the residence.
Nikolai Uskov, the head of the Snob project, after a meeting of the club of editors of the central media in Grozny, eloquently described what he saw: lined with minarets. […] Among the picturesque hills stretching to the left and Chechen ancestral towers, a small farm is hiding. With her, a bear cub lives in a cage, chickens and turkeys walk on the grass, roosters crow, a stream flows down into an artificial pond.
In February 2011, Novaya Gazeta published an article suggesting that on the territory of the Bolshoy Utrish nature reserve ( Krasnodar region) a personal dacha is being built for ex-president and current prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. The mansion in Bolshoi Utrish was to be equipped with a marina and a helipad. Two wide roads leading to it were specially planned (according to the publication, these are the safety requirements Federal Service protection). With its architecture, the Medvedev's dacha project is similar to the so-called Putin's palace in Gelendzhik.
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The land on which the palace is located has been leased since July 2008 by the Department of Forestry Krasnodar Territory to the fund of regional non-commercial projects A gift for the construction of a sports and recreation complex there. For a territory of 120 hectares, the fund will transfer 15 million rubles every year for 49 years.
According to Novaya Gazeta, the Dar Fund Management Company was located at the same address as the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives (FSCI) of the President's wife Svetlana Medvedeva, the companies had the same phone number, and the CEO of both organizations was in different time the same person (Olga Travina). The Office of the President's Affairs stated that it had nothing to do with the construction.
In the Blue Bay near the village of Bzhid, Dzhubga urban settlement Tuapse district Krasnodar Territory there is an object that some consider the residence of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev.
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According to Rosreestr, some of these lands really belong to the governor. However, according to environmentalists, the fenced area (about 7 hectares) significantly exceeds the area of land owned by Tkachev (1 hectare).
Vladimir Kumarin, a native of the Tambov village, and his group were first seriously discussed in the autumn of 1989, when a violent clash with the so-called "Malyshev group" took place near the market in Devyatkino. Kumarin spent several years in prison.
Returning to St. Petersburg, he completely reformatted his shadow structure. By the second half of the 1990s, she emerged from the shadows, turning from a "group" into a "business group". The basis of the "Tambov" business was the legal sale of petroleum products through the St. Petersburg Fuel Company (PTK). Until 1999, Vladimir Kumarin, who by that time had taken the surname Barsukov, was the vice president of the company. The system of business relations focused on the entrepreneurial pool, which was traditionally associated with the informal Tambov community, included dozens of St. different areas and branches of trade and industry.
The decision on the measure of restraint against Vladimir Barsukov was taken by the court of the Petrogradsky district. The same one where in May last year on Levashovsky Prospekt they shot at the owner of CJSC Peterburgsky oil terminal» (PNT) Sergey Vasiliev. And this says a lot about the background of current events.
Cut IA "Ruspres". The assassination attempt on Sergei Vasiliev and Ilya Traber, "News of Petersburg", 08/28/2009:"... immediately after the automatic execution of Sergei Vasiliev, at the suggestion of people close to influential Tambovites, two versions of the crime were thrown into the St. Vyritsa According to another, the incompletely completed deal to buy an oil terminal back in the 90s backfired. Then the owner of the enterprise was Ilya Traber, also known as Antiquary. It is Ilya Ilyich who should be grateful to both Vladimir Kumarin and the Vasiliev brothers for a ticket to a bright future, where fortunes were made with a strong fist. But having parted ways with Vladimir Kumarin, the wealthy Antiquarian soon fell out of favor with the Kremlin, where quite a few immigrants from St. Petersburg were already working at that time. As a result of the persecution that began, Ilya Traber was forced to leave the country, hastily selling his main assets to loyal people. It is difficult to argue how true these people actually turned out to be. But a couple of years ago, Ilya Ilyich obtained indulgences from the top government officials and returned to St. Petersburg. Characteristically, Traber immediately formed a security service of special forces with combat experience, without stinting to provide them with luxury cars at their personal disposal. It was the returned businessman and his security forces who in May last year tried to present the Tambovites as those who decided to put things in order in the deal with the PNT.
The conflict around the PNT (the price of the issue is $600 million) was considered in the context of the "raider epic" - the main criminal and economic plot of St. Petersburg life in recent years. The personality of the victim gave a special flavor to what was happening.
The path of St. Petersburg tycoon Sergei Vasilyev to big business is marked by numerous potholes and potholes. The start was given to him by the article "rape" of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, the article "fraud" served as an intermediate frontier. And only the beginning of the "great criminal revolution" gave Vasiliev a chance to develop at first not very big, but profitable family business. Together with his brothers Alexander and Boris, Sergei Vasilievich, according to rumors, was allegedly engaged in extortion, car theft, protection of merchants, pimps, and video rentals. The business structure created by the brothers in the jargon of the 1990s was called the "Vasiliev organized criminal group."
In the summer of 1999, Sergei Vasilyev greatly offended his Caucasian partners. Rather, guarantors. During one of the conflicts with the "Tambov" he led three dozen Caucasian fighters to the arrow, who convinced the "Tambov" to forget about the differences. Some Aslan and Jafar especially tried to extinguish the conflict.
After the successful resolution of this case, according to rumors, the peacekeepers took Vasiliev into circulation. When he stretched out his hands to the St. Petersburg oil terminal and ran into the business system of the famous Ilya Traber, who controlled the St. Petersburg Seaport, he again needed strong support. It was provided by the same Aslan and Jafar, counting on appropriate gratitude in the near future. And here they apparently miscalculated - there was no rollback. In any case, it is to their account that the chic Rolls-Royce stolen from Vasilyev is attributed - either in the form of a warning, or as compensation.
There is another version of events. Hurrying up for an indefinite business trip abroad, Mr. Traber hastily sold off real estate, including PNT. According to rumors, he agreed to cede the terminal in installments to the Skigin brothers, longtime friends of Sergei Vasilyev. Thus, Vasiliev became a co-owner of CJSC Petersburg Oil Terminal. And after a short time, Dmitry Skigin, following Traber, moved abroad, where he died suddenly.
The subsequent course of events was generally predictable. The son and brother of Dmitry Skigin, Mikhail and Vladimir, quarreled with Vasiliev. Considering that the Skigins, owners of a controlling stake in PNT, have common interests with one of the richest people in Russia, Vitaly Yuzhilin *, it would not be a stretch to assume that an intractable shareholder with an impressive criminal biography they didn't really need it.
All this, of course, is nothing more than speculation. As well as the currently official version put forward by the investigation regarding the involvement of Vladimir Kumarin in the assassination attempt on Vasiliev.
* "Red oligarch" Vitaly Yuzhilin, former deputy State Duma from the Communist Party, was considered at that time the main owner of the St. Petersburg Seaport, and his brother Evgeny directly partnered with the Skigins.
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Sergei Vasiliev between Sechin and Sych
It was hardly possible to pull off such a large-scale operation in St. Petersburg [the arrest of Vladimir Kumarin], and even by the capital's forces, without its approval "at the very top" (not even the Ministry of Internal Affairs, take it higher). Rumor has it that the decision was made, perhaps, not at the level of the deputy head of the presidential administration, Igor Sechin. Sechin is closely connected with the oil business, being the chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft and having serious business ties with Lukoil.
Moreover, Sechin is well acquainted with Sergei Vasiliev from the Petersburg Oil Terminal, Vladimir Barsukov is now accused of organizing the assassination attempt and attempting to seize PNT. As an employee of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, Igor Sechin crossed paths with former criminal Sergei Vasilyev, who served time for fraud and rape. At that time, and it was the beginning of the 90s, the Sea Port of St. Petersburg joint-stock company issued its first shares. In fact, the port was then run by Ilya Traber, once a submarine officer, bartender, and antique dealer. The "brigade" of short-haired and thick-shouldered henchmen of Sergei Vasiliev provided "informal" cover for Traber's business, and Igor Sechin, as they say, resolved issues in Traber's interests with the lease of land in the state border zone, which is the Seaport of St. Petersburg. Gratitude to Sechin amounted, as evil tongues assure, to a third of the shares of the St. could perceive otherwise as a personal challenge. In addition, after Vladimir Barsukov left the game, an opportunity arose to try to take control of the Petersburg Fuel Company with its network of gas stations not only in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, but also in a number of neighboring regions. Previous attempts did not meet with understanding from Barsukov, who retained influence on the management of the holding even after his official resignation from the post of vice president of PTK.
Do not discount the possibilities of Sergei Vasiliev himself. They say that over the years, strong informal relations have developed between him and Vladimir Sych, who has grown to the post of head of the St. Petersburg Department for Combating Organized Crime. They could play a role in organizing a mass attack on the "raiders" undertaken by the Organized Crime Control Department in the spring and summer of 2006, when Badri Shengelia, Andrey Leukhin, and Vyacheslav Drokov, and "werewolves from 15 MIFNS", and a host of other characters were behind bars. this confusing story.
An active fighter against raiding, Lieutenant Colonel Sych, as a result of this operation, moved from a two-room apartment in a "dormitory" area to a four-room apartment in a prestigious area of old St. Petersburg.
"Biography"
Vasiliev Sergey Vasilyevich was born on December 5, 1955 in the village of Vyritsa, Gatchina region. In 1974, he received his first conviction, but three years later he was released on parole. Around the same time, a criminal community begins to form.
In 1986, he receives another conviction for fraud and leaves only after 4 years. Since the late 80s, he has become known as the leader of the organized criminal group of the Vasiliev brothers. In those same years, he controlled the car market on Energetikov Avenue. Later, the criminal gang of the Vasiliev brothers joined the ranks of the Tambov OPS.
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St. Petersburg City Court sentenced Vladimir Barsukov to 23 years in prison
He was found guilty of the attempted murder of the owner of the Petersburg Oil Terminal, Sergei Vasilyev, and the murder of his bodyguard. Barsukov's accomplices received from 4 to 20 years in prison.
Barsukov is currently serving a 15-year sentence for raiding and extortion.
As previously reported, Mikhail Glushchenko, who made a deal with the investigation and was convicted for organizing the murder of Galina Starovoitova, called Barsukov the customer of this crime.
The founder of the "Tambovskaya" organized criminal group Kumarin was sentenced to 23 years
On Thursday, the St. Petersburg City Court sentenced businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin) in the case of an attempt on the life of Sergey Vasiliev, co-owner of the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT). Barsukov (Kumarin) is called by the media one of the founders of the Tambovskaya organized criminal group. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison and a fine of one million rubles.
Vladimir Barsukov will be tried for attempted raiding
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation sent to court the criminal case investigated by the ICR against the reputable businessman Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin) and his accomplices, accused of attempting to assassinate the actual owner of the joint venture ZAO Petersburg Oil Terminal, Sergei Vasilyev, and the murder of his bodyguard. The direct perpetrators of the crime have already been sentenced by the St. Petersburg City Court to long terms of imprisonment, and now Barsukov himself, whom the investigation considers to be the customer of the assassination, and his three accomplices who participated in organizing the crime, will be in the dock.
Vladimir Barsukov left in Moscow
In St. Petersburg, the consideration of the third criminal case of Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), accused of organizing a criminal group, the purpose of which was the murder of Sergei Vasiliev, the actual owner of PNT, began. This step was taken by a reputable businessman, because Mr. Vasilyev opposed the forceful seizure of the terminal, which was undertaken by Vladimir Barsukov and his associate Vyacheslav Drokov.
50 BULLETS PER TERMINAL. How did the investigation of the high-profile execution of the owner of the St. Petersburg oil terminal by killers from machine guns end?
The attempt on the life of the co-owner of the joint venture CJSC "Petersburg Oil Terminal" Sergei Vasilyev (pictured) was committed on the afternoon of May 5, 2006 on the Petrograd side of St. Petersburg. The armored Rolls-Royce Phantom of a businessman, accompanied by a Chevrolet Tahoe jeep with security guards, was moving along Levashovsky Prospekt towards Ordinary Street. Before the crossroads, a Zhiguli blocked their way, overtaking the businessman's cortege and forcing him to slow down.
Who was shooting anyway?
Week after week goes on, but interest in the assassination attempt on the co-owner of CJSC Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT) Sergei Vasilyev does not cool down. The “Big Boss”, as in the best gangster films, was shot at in broad daylight in the middle of Petrogradka from machine guns in a chic Rolls-Royce (which, by the way, was cut off by a mysterious police car just in time ...). We can only guess what saved him.
Demonstration execution
On Friday, the first high-profile assassination attempt took place during the governorship of Valentina Matvienko. The victim was Sergei Vasiliev, co-owner of ZAO PNT.
Companion of the authority of Kumarin: “They will imprison me, and the business will be taken away”
Businessman Alexander Merkulov, one of the former associates of the authority of Vladimir Kumarin, turned to the Ukrainian authorities with a request for asylum. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation accuses him of organizing an assassination attempt on the co-owner of the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal, Sergei Vasiliev.
Rich Russians wished to live in palaces
As usual, let's start the review from the third place in the rating. There is no doubt that it goes to the palace in the village of Vyritsa near St. Petersburg. The mansion, reproducing the historical Tsarskoye Selo residence of Catherine the Great, was built by the famous St. Petersburg businessman Sergei Vasilyev in his family's small homeland.
Barsukov and the group "Elephants" are accused of attempting to assassinate the owner of the St. Petersburg oil terminal
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation sent to court a criminal case on an attempt on the life of the owner of the joint venture CJSC "Petersburg Oil Terminal" Sergei Vasiliev. On May 5, 2006, on the Petrograd side of St. Petersburg, a businessman and three of his bodyguards were seriously injured, and another bodyguard was killed.
THERE WOULD BE A MAN, A GANG WILL BE FOUND
One of the key litigations has started modern Russia. On April 24, hearings began on the case of the attempted murder of Sergei Vasiliev, co-owner of Petersburg Oil Terminal CJSC (PNT). As they say, the meeting promises to be long. Among the defendants is the former "night governor" of St. Petersburg Vladimir Kumarin-Barsukov. According to investigators, he was the customer. Half a dozen more people will be in the dock with him. Several participants in the attack on Vasilyev have already been sentenced to various terms. It turns out that we are talking about a whole gang. Or, to put it politically correct, criminal community. But with this qualification recent times and there are great difficulties.
Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin approved the indictment in the criminal case against Vladimir Barsukov and his accomplices accused of murder and attempted murder
As established by the investigation, no later than November 2005, Barsukov, acting out of mercenary motives, having the intent to kill one of the actual co-owners of the joint venture JSC "Petersburg Oil Terminal" Sergei Vasiliev, with the aim of illegally taking the property of the said joint venture CJSC after the elimination of the latter, created in the city St. Petersburg stable organized crime group to commit premeditated murder for hire.
Criminal case on attempted assassination of businessman Sergei Vasiliev sent to the City Court of St. Petersburg
The criminal case on the attempt on the life of businessman Sergei Vasilyev was sent to the St. Petersburg City Court for consideration on the merits - six years after the actual attempt. The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia approved the indictments - the brothers Andrey and Oleg Mikhalev will sit in the dock, according to investigators, the direct perpetrators of the execution. Recall that this criminal drama played out in the center of St. Petersburg on March 5, 2006. The Rolls-Royce of Sergei Vasiliev, whose name is associated with the Petersburg Oil Terminal company, and the jeep of his guards were shot from machine guns at the corner of Ordinarnaya Street and Levashovsky Prospekt. Numerous passers-by were witnesses. As a result, one guard was killed, three others and Sergey Vasiliev himself were taken to hospitals. The investigation into the other defendants in the case is ongoing. We are following the progress of this criminal process.
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May 4, 2006 Levashovsky prospect. Two cars were shot from machine guns. One person died, three were injured. The target of the killers was Sergei Vasiliev, who controls the St. Petersburg oil terminal. He received a bullet wound, but survived. His bodyguard was killed. According to investigators, the assassination attempt is revenge for the failed raider seizure of a key energy facility in the region. And Vladimir Barsukov (former surname Kumarin), who is considered the leader of the so-called "Tambov group", wanted to take the terminal.
“His grouping existed quite comfortably for a long time - more than ten years. Totally agree last years she attempted to illegally seize nearly 40 businesses in the city. Having started this work, we immediately faced in St. Petersburg with outright betrayal in the service interests both on the part of our employees and on the part of some government officials, individual leaders and operatives of law enforcement agencies, ”said Yuri Chaika, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation .
Vasiliev Sergey Anatolievich(born July 18, 1965, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Chairman of the Board of Directors and co-owner of the investment group "".
In 1990 he graduated from the Faculty of Aerodynamics and Flight Engineering of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). After graduation, he worked as an engineer at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) named after. Zhukovsky.
Since 1991, he worked at Tveruniversalbank, at first he was the director of the Moscow branch, later vice-president for managing branches of the Moscow region, in 1993 he became the first vice-president. In July 1996, after the introduction of a temporary administration in connection with the crisis in Tveruniversalbank, he was removed from his post.
In 1996-1997, he was the head of the debt market department of the joint-stock company commercial bank"International Finance Company" (IFC). From October 1997 to April 1999 - Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of JSCB "MFC". Since April 1999, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian Funds investment group.
Married. Has four children: three sons and a daughter. He is fond of collecting lifetime collections of poets of the Silver Age, and also restores the estate of the princes Kurakins in the Tver region.
Vasiliev Sergey Vasilievich(born December 5, 1955, the village of Vyritsa, Leningrad Region, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian reputable businessman, is a co-owner of one of the largest Russian oil product transshipment terminals in the Baltic region.
There is no information about education. He was first convicted in 1974 of rape for five years in prison, of which he served only three (he went on parole). In 1986, he was again convicted under the article "fraud" for six years with confiscation of property. Released in 1989.
After his release, together with his brothers Alexander and Boris Vasiliev, he controlled video salons and the so-called thimble-makers in St. Petersburg. He was engaged in distillation of cars from Europe to Russia. In the early 2000s, he became a co-owner of the Petersburg Oil Terminal.
In May 2006, an assassination attempt was made on Vasiliev. On the Petrograd side of St. Petersburg, his armored Rolls-Royce Phantom was fired upon. One of the guards, 32-year-old Roman Ukharov, died at the scene of the crime, two more were injured. Vasiliev was hospitalized with severe wounds in the clinic of military field surgery of the Military Medical Academy, where, according to media reports, he was visited by the then worker in the mayor's office of St. Petersburg. The organizer of this crime, according to investigators, was an authoritative St. Petersburg businessman (Kumarin), who, together with his accomplices, intended to seize the St. Petersburg oil terminal.
According to media reports, Vasiliev is also associated with and Tambov organized criminal group. According to a former FBI officer who worked for the secret service of Prince Albert II of Monaco Robert Eringer in the early 2000s, Vasiliev controls Sotrama. Sotrama (renamed CINPIT) is associated with the Tambov criminal group from St. Petersburg and Vladimir Putin personally. The firm was part of a network of oil trading companies set up across Europe by Putin and his cronies to get money out of Russia and launder it by investing in European real estate.
In his native village on the banks of the Oredezh River, Vasiliev built a small copy of the Catherine Palace in Pushkin. Restored the Church of Our Lady of Kazan.
