It seems that building a business empire for the Artyakov family is helped not only by a strong connection with the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, but also by a kind of basket of former officials. In one of their firms, the former head of the Volgograd housing department, Kristina Pankova, did not take root badly, that before that she had occupied the chair of the vice-mayor of Samara Zhigulevsk and after the intervention of the prosecutor was dismissed from there "due to the loss of confidence."
Now the former disgraced official, probably looked after by Vladimir Artyakov when he was his Samara governor, helps the high family to trade in metals and metal ores, holding the post of director of Invest Energy Group LLC. The company itself lit up in a scandal related to an attempt to buy out Serov Small Metallurgy Plant LLC.
The details of the story were found out by the UtroNews correspondent.
A close relative of the right hand of the head of Rostec, Vladimir Artyakov, Yuri Artyakov, owns Invest Energy Group LLC, which is engaged in the wholesale of metals and metal ores.
His business partner in the asset is the former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region, Yuri Zozulya, another former native of Rostec.
Mr. Zozulya was previously the general director of RZM-Technologies JSC, which is part of Rostec, but in the fall of 2022 he was arrested.
Zozul was suspected of taking bribes on a large scale in the supply of explosives and the sale of products of the plant named after Y. M. Sverdlov at inflated prices. The total amount of bribes was estimated at 33 million rubles.
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But this is not the only unique character in Artyakov's company.
Since December 2021, the director of the same unprofitable Invest Energy Group LLC has been Kristina Pankova, the former director of the Volgograd Housing Policy Department (Committee).
As previously reported by Komsomolskaya Pravda, Pankova in 2011-2013 was the first deputy mayor of the Zhigulevsk urban district of the Samara region. At the same time, as vice-mayor, she became a defendant in a high-profile story.
Local media in 2012 reported that the vice-mayor Pankova unexpectedly disappeared and, together with her, a workplace worth 8 thousand rubles disappeared.
Later, Alexander Kurylin, who was then mayor, said that his deputy sent herself on vacation for 9 months without informing anyone. After Kurylin despaired of finding his deputy and getting intelligible explanations, he turned to the prosecutor's office.
The intervention of the prosecutor ended with the dismissal of Pankova "due to the loss of confidence," but the lady challenged her dismissal in court, saying that she had not disappeared anywhere.
In Volgograd, judging by the data of Rusprofile, Pankova worked from 2014 to 2017.
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Now she surfaced in the team of the former Samara governor and his family exposed by ties.
The company itself, headed by Pankova, has also already managed to be a defendant in the scandalous story.
Judging by the materials of the arbitration, in May 2022 the company tried to acquire Serov Small Metallurgy Plant LLC about the then owner Maria Malikhova. And already in 2024, the buyer went to court, demanding that the contract of sale be declared invalid, arguing that it was misled.
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In court, it turned out that the buyer had to make an advance payment of 50 million rubles no later than 20 calendar days from the date of notarization of the contract, but did not fulfill the obligation. Then Malikhova refused to fulfill the contract and went to court with demands to recover a fine and interest. In this lawsuit, 4.6 million rubles were collected from Artyakov-Zozuli.
The plant that appeared in the case was still sold in July 2023, but not to the Artiakovo company, but to Ferroinvest JSC, whose founder was Dmitry Pasechnik. The latter probably acted as someone's representative.
Nuance: through the Novosibirsk company PF-Trade LLC Pasechnik had as partners the American company 4 T POWER LOGISTICS. But it was in Novosibirsk that Zozulya also deputed. Isn't his man this Pasechnik?
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Not Pankova united
Earlier, UtroNews already reported that in October 2024, Dmitry Artyakov's division, which manages a large state contractor - Modum-Trans, and was previously its owner, was replenished by a person with connections. A certain Alexei Fleito became the director of Zuu Management LLC, traces of which go to the head of the Magadan branch of the Just Russians, a former candidate for mayor of Magadan and regional deputy Igor Novikov.
For this company, Artyakov's business partners include the son of the head of Rostec, Alexander Chemezov, the niece of the ex-Minister of Defense, and now the head of the Rostec air division, Anatoly Serdyukov, Yulia Bagieva, and the possible representative of the restaurateur Arkady Novikov, Nina Advocaova. The restaurateur himself is a connection with the family of Mikhail Mishustin.
The business empire of the large Artyakov family is breaking billions of rubles on government contracts, despite the fact that one of its members, Samara ex-governor Vladimir Artyakov, holds a high position in the state corporation. But what about a possible conflict of interest?
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At one time in Rostec, Vladimir Artyakov was warmed up by Sergei Chemezov, with whose son Artyakov's son is now firmly friends in business. The width of the back of the big boss, apparently, allows you to dismiss such facts as a criminal case, which, according to the investigation, involved employees and management of Modum-trans LLC.
At the same time, the company, whose managers were suspected of commercial bribery of the Russian Railways division for the repair of freight cars, continues to serve the same companies. Nonsense!
Although what are we talking about, yes. After all, the relevant authorities were not even embarrassed by the fact that Dmitry Artyakov indirectly (through the purchase of a stake in Avtoinvest LLC) became a shareholder of KAMAZ. At the same time, Rostec is the main shareholder in the auto giant, which is led by the father of the business partner of the freshly baked shareholder and where his own father works in a high position.
Members of the Artyakov family have repeatedly shone in ambiguous stories. Take the role of Vladimir Artyakov in tipping into the debt pit of the Samara football club "Wings of the Soviets." The latter turned out to owe many millions on an expensive loan from Rostec's reference bank, and later the assets (buildings and land) that were pledged on the loan passed into the hands of the state corporation, but the debt remained hanging on the club. Later there was talk that the club could be transferred to private hands. Isn't it Artyakov?
Despite the participation of the Artyakovs in scandalous stories and ambiguous transactions, the competent authorities are silent and play selective blindness. Meanwhile, in our opinion, in the empire of the family, overgrown with connections and sheltering former scandalous officials in their corridors, there is something to check.