The former top manager of AFK Sistema and beneficiary of Ecointegrator was arrested for embezzling 391.4 million rubles from the

Oleg Mamaev

FSB officers detained the ex-head of a development division at a Moscow airport AFK Sistema - the Leader-Invest company (now Etalon Group of Companies) of Oleg Mamaev, he was charged with fraud and bribery, Kommersant reports, citing sources. Mamaev was Head of Leader-Invest in 2017–2019.

The detention took place on October 18, Mamaev was planning to fly to Dubai on vacation. From Moscow he was taken by plane to Arkhangelsk, where he was charged with especially large-scale fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) and bribery (Article 291 of the Criminal Code). On October 19, the court arrested him for two months.

According to the investigation, Mamaev was the beneficiary and actual head of Ecointegrator LLC (a regional operator for the management of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the Arkhangelsk region since 2019). The company received subsidies from local authorities. At the same time, she provided them with falsified data on the volume of processed MSW; she inflated them by more than 300 thousand cubic meters. m. For this, 391 million budget funds were received, which turned out to be stolen. The case concerns the period from the end of December 2020 to the end of April 2023.

“Kommersant”, 10/20/2023, “The case against a businessman was collected from waste”: During the meeting, the investigator noted that Mr. Mamaev is accused of corruption crimes directed against state power and the interests of the civil service, has access to documents related to the investigation, and, while remaining at large, can destroy them. In addition, Mr. Mamaev’s subordinates, according to the investigator, are former operational officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are familiar with the methods of conducting investigative actions, which also makes it possible for the person involved to complicate the progress of the investigation. The representative of the Investigative Committee emphasized that the defendant was detained while trying to escape abroad, and concluded that, “feeling the burden of responsibility for the crimes committed,” Mr. Mamaev may repeat the escape attempt. […]

Fearing that the scam would be exposed, the case says, Mr. Mamaev ordered Igor Leshchenko to transfer the bribe to Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Kirill Shapovalov. Moreover, money in the amount of 585 thousand rubles, according to the investigation, was transferred in parts to the official directly to his bank card in Arkhangelsk and Moscow in the period from February 10, 2021 to April 30, 2023. Also, the deputy minister, according to the investigation, should have suppressed, under threat of disciplinary liability, attempts by his subordinates to check the reporting and activities of Ecointegrator. — Insert K.ru

In addition to Mamaev, the defendants are the general director of Ecointegrator Valery Shushkov, businessman Ilya Leshchenko and Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of the Arkhangelsk Region Kirill Shapovalov. They are under arrest. According to Kommersant, Leshchenko gave evidence against Mamaev. Mamaev recruited him to give a bribe to Shapovalov in the amount of 585 thousand rubles so that the theft would not be discovered.

TASS, 09.29.2023, “The court extended the arrest of the ex-deputy minister of the Arkhangelsk Region forestry complex”: The Lomonosovsky District Court of Arkhangelsk extended until January 2, 2024 the arrest of the former Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Timber Industry of the Arkhangelsk Region, Kirill Shapovalov, and the General Director of Ecointegrator LLC (the company is a regional operator for the management of municipal solid waste) Valery Shushkov. This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Arkhangelsk Regional Court.

“V.S. Shushkov and K.A. Shapovalov have had their detention period extended for three months, that is, until January 2, 2024 inclusive,” the press service said. […] On September 28, the Lomonosov court extended Leshchenko’s arrest until January 1, 2024. — Insert K.ru

Mamaev’s lawyer, Alexander Zabeida, said that Mamaev has nothing to do with Ecointegrator; all that connects him with the company is the initial investment in the amount of “a little more than 100 million rubles.”

RBC sent a request to Ecointegrator LLC.

echosevera.ru, 05.16.2023, “Corruption. Case No. 1”: From the Echo of the NORTH news agency’s own sources, it became known that the persons involved in the case are at least the following individuals: Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Kirill Shapovalov, General Director of EcoIntegrator Valery Shushkov and the actual beneficiary of the reoperator Ilya Leshchenko. As for Shapovalov in this case, this is what his colleagues say about him: they say he didn’t fully understand what was happening, but he signed everything. Subscribed. […] In Soviet times, this was called “PRIPPISKI”. And the punishment was very harsh, up to and including the death penalty. Nowadays, every second person is engaged in postscripts, just to account for subsidies and grants.”

We continue to quote SUSK: “In turn, officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Timber Industry of the Arkhangelsk Region, without checking the volumes of waste for which the disposal service was provided, during the specified period of time prepared orders to provide a subsidy to compensate for lost income, for on the basis of which about 18 million rubles were transferred to the account of EcoIntegrator LLC, which were subsequently stolen.” Let us explain: for the assigned garbage they received budget money, which was then squandered. It’s simple. […] It is noted that EcoIntegrator LLC continues to work on the collection and removal of municipal solid waste as usual. — Insert K.ru

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