Sources of Rucriminal.info said that in August 2020, reassignment of the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert, who will be 65 years old, may not occur. (He has been in this position since 2004). The reason for this is scandals in his department, including corruption. Also Dankvert "caught up" with a satisfied old story, 2008. Then the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation managed to prevent the theft and export of a unique black sable population abroad, whose market value is $ 1 billion. The investigation was conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, which raised the issue of charges against Dankvert. The main defendants in the case testified at him, including those who concluded pre-trial agreements. But, for mysterious reasons, Dankvert did not become an accused. Now this story has again attracted the attention of operatives. Another defendant was George Boos.

Employees of the FSB of the Russian Federation became interested in the story of an attempt to export a black sable population from the country in the spring of 2008. They managed to prevent the animals from being transported abroad, and all materials about the grandiose scam were transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, where a criminal case was opened. Police and counterintelligence conducted a series of searches and seized documents showing how the high-profile crime was carried out.

Since 1929, in the suburbs there was a Pushkinsky pet farm, in which in 1931 a unique and only breed in the world was bred - the black Russian sable. During the Great Patriotic War, with the skins of these animals, the USSR paid the United States for various goods. Then the price of rare fur on the world market was constantly growing, in recent years, on average, it was $ 3-4 thousand per skin. In general, the entire population is estimated at $ 1 billion.

In 2000, Sergey Dankvert took the post of First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and immediately became interested in expensive animals. According to his order, the director of the FSUE “Plemzavod“ Pushkinsky ”Vladimir Los turned one of the most profitable enterprises into a debtor. He began to conclude fake agreements that FSUE would take giant loans from firms registered for lost passports, which he would not be able to repay on the farm. It is worth noting that this was not the first joint scam of Dankvert and Elk. The latter, previously headed several more federal state unitary enterprises, which were successfully ruined and passed into private hands.

The bankrupt “Pushkinsky Plemzavod” was arrested by bailiffs who sold it to businessman Denis Lavrov for 30 million rubles. Also familiar to Dunkvert. It is noteworthy that the bailiff who carried out this operation immediately moved to live in a luxury cottage in one of the countries of Europe.

Lavrov again began to actively bankrupt the pet farm, and the company “Russian Fur” became its major creditor. When the FSB of the Russian Federation intervened in the situation, Russian Fur had already begun to transport the animals to the Kaliningrad Region as a result of debts. According to sources from Rucriminal.info, according to the seized documents, the entire population had to be taken out to Denmark from there. Moreover, in this operation, in addition to Dankvert, the governor of the Moscow region Boris Gromov and the then head of the Kaliningrad region, Georgy Boos, took an active part. The latter lobbied for the interests of Russian Fur and asked Gromov to contribute so that no one would interfere with the implementation of the grandiose scam from the authorities of the Moscow Region. According to the investigation, at the site of the pet farm that would be freed after the sables were transported to Denmark, firms controlled by Dankvert were planning the construction of commercial and residential real estate. So that the official shone from fraud double profit.

The Investigative Committee has actively taken up the work. In March 2009, Lavrov was taken into custody. At first he denied guilt, but then he began to testify. Policemen gradually approached Dankvert. When “quite a bit” was left, the investigator Gennady Shantin was unexpectedly removed from the case, and all the materials were handed over to Oleg Silchenko, who also led the investigation team in the case against lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. However, by that time Magnitsky himself had already died in a pre-trial detention center and Silchenko had free time for new things. He promised to hold all officials accountable, but as a result, the $ 1 billion embezzlement investigation itself turned into a grandiose scam.

Denis Lavrov made a deal with justice. According to her terms, he told everything that he knew about participation in the fraud of Elk and Dankvert. The moose was detained. He also signed a pre-trial agreement and testified against Dankvert. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation everyone was perplexed why to conclude deals with people who were full of evidence. However, Silchenko explained that in this way he “encircles” Dankvert (since 2004 Dankvert has been the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor) and will certainly imprison him over time. However, the investigator constantly pushed the date of landing. The last reason Silchenko voiced: it is necessary that the courts pronounce sentences on Los and Lavrov.

And then he will take on Dankvert.

As a result, in 2010, thanks to transactions with the investigation, both escaped with a slight startle: Elk got six years probation, and Lavrov - one year in prison, which he had already spent in pre-trial detention during the preliminary investigation.

However, later it turned out that Silchenko was not going to initiate a case against Dankvert. The investigator sent all the materials to the archive and also received a double profit. And he “otmazat” the minister and helped Los and Lavrov get ridiculous punishment.

 

To be continued

Arseny Dronov