The North-West Investigation Department of the RF IC in the criminal case of May 22, 2020 No. 12002009711000006 indicted the acting head of the Maritime Service, Khaustov Andrey Viktorovich, under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy by a person using his official position in especially large amount) for organizing the theft in 2014 in the department headed by him 29.4 million rubles. He was selected a preventive measure in the form of a recognizance not to leave.

It would seem that the amount at the current scale of the theft of officials at various levels is insignificant. However, as it became known to Rucriminal.info, it can be said that this is the first small victory of law enforcement agencies in the fight against this presumptuous leader and his patrons in the person of the immediate head - the head of Rosmorrechflot A. Poshivaya and Deputy Minister of Transport Tsvetkov Yu.A., who oversees the activities of Rosmorrechflot and the Maritime and Rescue Services.

Otherwise, how can one understand their active unwillingness to remove Khaustov from the post of head of the Maritime Service, in respect of which in recent years the police, the Prosecutor’s Office, the FSB have carried out a lot of activities to expose his criminal activities and his accomplices, they’ve searched his apartment and office, are seized documents, large sums of money and valuables (only in the place of residence of A.V. Khaustov during the search more than 3 million US dollars, jewelry and antiques were seized). The supervisory authorities against the head of Khaustov have already issued a lot of instructions requiring the elimination of violations of laws, but Khaustov ignores them and does not comply, so they are forced to turn to the courts to force the official to comply with the law.

The Association of Sea and River Bunkering Companies, representing the interests of Russian bunkering companies, as well as representatives of individual companies, write statements and appeals to various departments (including the heads of the Ministry of Transport and Rosmorrechflot) about gross violation of laws by Haustov, as the head of the state executive body, for the sake of his own benefit and the benefits of his companion firms. Here are excerpts from only two of these appeals, after reading which you will immediately understand everything.

 

Appeal to the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation in April 2019:

“Participants in the bunker market of the Azov-Black Sea region are addressing you, who are forced to put up with arbitrariness in their professional activities, which is committed in the Maritime Service as a whole and its Azov-Black Sea unit, in particular, regarding the provision of emergency rescue services to participants in the bunkering market of ships in the waters of the ports of Novorossiysk , Taman, Caucasus and Tuapse.

All participants in the bunker market of the Azov-Black Sea region received a written notification from the Maritime Service that from 01.05.2019, the Maritime Service ceases providing emergency services, allegedly due to a shortage of emergency and rescue equipment in the Maritime Service. At the same time, market participants received a notification from a commercial company Express-Service LLC (TIN 2315184637) with a proposal to conclude contracts for this type of service.

The only founder of the Express-Service company is a resident of the city of Novorossiysk, Maly Andrei Filippovich, known as a long-time friend of the head of the Maritime Service A. Haustov The friendship of Malyi and Khaustov is based on joint commercial projects, the legality of which causes great doubts among the participants in the bunker market. So, for example, LLC Novorossiysk Fuel Company (TIN 2315083910), owned by Mr. Maly, for many years with the permission of A. Khaustov. leases from the Novorossiysk Administration of the Marine Rescue Service a specialized berth for parking the emergency and rescue fleet, on which illegal commercial activities for the transshipment of fuel oil are launched, bringing accomplices more than 120 million rubles a year.

However, what Khaustov and Malyi are planning to do now with the participants in the bunker market now means that the emergency services market in the Azov-Black Sea region is completely removed from the sphere of activity and control of the state body, and the transfer of these state functions (and essentially their monopolization ) own commercial structure of Express-Service LLC. This company will provide emergency rescue services fictitiously (only on paper), since it does not have the necessary manpower and resources for this. At the same time, they have already raised the rates for emergency services by 5 times. In whose pocket this money will go is not at all difficult to guess.

Dear Mr. Minister, we hope that you will be able to stop the transfer of state functions from the Maritime Service to the jurisdiction of the Express Service commercial structure and the like, and also protect our business from the arbitrariness of the head of the Maritime Service A.V. and his accomplice Maly AF ".

Application to the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (registered in KUSP dated 10.23.2019 under No. 24367):

“From September 8 to September 19, 2019, a group of civil servants holding senior positions in the Federal Maritime and Social Security Service (Khaustov A.V., acting head of the Federal State Institution“ Marine Service ”, Vagil V.D., acting director of the Azov-Black Sea Branch, Kobelev A.S. - Director of the Baltic Branch, A. Hanenko - Director of the Sakhalin Branch), rested in Greece, while the flight was carried out in a private plane from Anapa Airport and back. The famous Novorossiysk entrepreneur Maly A.F. - Owner of LLC Express-Service and LLC Novorossiysk Fuel Company, a long-time friend and business partner A. Haustova

We don’t know if these government officials were on official holidays or formalized business trips, but the company in this composition did not come together by chance. They gathered to discuss the transfer of state powers to provide emergency and rescue services in the North-West and Far East regions from the Federal State Institution "Morspasluzhba" to commercial entities controlled by Khaustov and Maly.

We believe that the fact of rest and flight on a private plane of civil servants at the expense of a private individual is, at a minimum, a sign of corrupt relations between them. And given the reason for this gathering, it’s also a serious crime, because if their plans are implemented, cash flows for the provision of emergency and rescue services will flow not into the state treasury, but into the pockets of Maly and Haustov. ”

We hope that now, after Haustov’s well-deserved transition to the status of the accused, his friends and patrons, the head of Rosmorrechflot A. Poshivy, and Deputy Minister of Transport Tsvetkov Yu.A. finally, they listen to the opinion of investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation who are planning to once again send them an idea of ​​dismissing A. Haustov from their position. Otherwise, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation may be interested in the reasons for such a steady love for a stealing official. ”

To be continued

Denis Zhirnov