Rucriminal.info talked a lot about Anatoly Bykov as a crime boss. Which he is - only his lawyer can doubt this. And then only as long as he continues to receive Bykov's money. Which, by the way, works out very badly, as we are told by the decision of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court, which on the eve recognized the lawyer's complaints about the earlier verdict in the first of the new-old Bykov cases unfounded and left it unchanged. 13 years in a general regime colony - from bell to bell. Today Rucriminal.info will talk about Bykov, an entrepreneur, investor, landowner and friend of those in power.
From the end of the nineties, the aluminum king began to attempt to denominate his criminal authority into a power-bureaucratic one - in which he succeeded in a certain period, sitting in the chair of a deputy of the Legislative Assembly. But flirting with the authorities began even earlier, at the end of the dashing 90s, under Lebed. The brief period of Bykov's friendship with the governor-general ended with the transfer, in fact, to the disposal of a land plot in the village of Udachny, beloved by elites of all stripes. Initially, more than 147 thousand square meters of “good” land were transferred by the administration of the Yemelyanovo district to KRAZ. In 1998, Bykov, attracting trusted people, played fictitious auctions, during which the land was bought out by Best Company, controlled by the aluminum king. The justification for the transfer today sounds like the first Siberian startup, whose courage many Business of Youth projects would envy. On the expanses of Udachny, under the supervision of "Best Company", a "Town of foreign specialists" was supposed to appear, consisting of 8 luxury villas, a sports and recreation complex, a business center and all the necessary infrastructure. The total declared cost of the work amounted to 6 million US dollars, and one of the participants in the financing was the Cypriot company HIH Management overseas Limited - in fact, Bykov's obvious "washing machine" for money laundering and returning them to the region under the guise of investment in construction. In 2003 - after the tragic death of Lebed and the completion of the construction of the "town" - the true intentions of the criminal authority were revealed, until the last moment they were not obvious even to the direct participants in the construction and business processes. Bykov himself drove into the newly built mansions, unambiguously pointing out the true source of financing for the facilities. "Gorodok" never saw the promised foreign specialists, becoming the Bykovo bastion, which held out until the memorable May 2020, when the rumble of the blades of the helicopters of the Russian Guard was heard over it. Let us sum up sadly the results of these events of bygone days, debunking in passing the folk legend about Bykov the philanthropist.
Bykov's offshore "washing machine" HIH Management overseas Limited is just one of the companies through which Bykov transferred KRAZ's proceeds abroad, depriving the budget of the Krasnoyarsk Territory of enormous tax profits. The money laundered in Cyprus was returned not only to the needs of the construction of properties on Udachny, but also to the Bykovsky charitable foundation "Faith and Hope", responsible for all patronage activities of the criminal authority. Having de facto robbed the budget and residents of the region, Bykov did not hesitate to put on the mask of a philanthropist, allocating grains of funds withdrawn offshore to support his orphanage, sports sections, the construction of temples, etc. At the same time, allegedly making broad gestures towards the disadvantaged, Anatoly Petrovich persistently and consistently did not pay taxes, accumulating up to 75 million tax debts, which he paid off only at the end of last year while already under investigation. Recall that now all Bykov's property is under arrest.
And in early March, in the Central District Court of Krasnoyarsk, sessions began on another criminal case, connected, however, not with commercial activities and taxes, but with the same bloody showdown. Tolya Byk has been charged with two crimes at once, combined into one criminal case, namely, the attempted murder of his close associate Andrei Grabovsky and the contract killing of local businessman Andrei Nekolov. Two assassination attempts, only one of which (against Nekolov) was brought to an end, unite the figures of the customer Bykov and the executor Alexander Zhivitsy, the regular killer of the group. They were made with a difference of 2 months - in November 2004 and January 2005.
To be continued
Arseny Dronov
Source: www.rucriminal.info
