The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info analyzed the assets owned by Ilya Traber (Antiques) directly, through partners, nominees, and through offshore and Western companies at the time of his arrest. Among the main holders of his Russian assets were Igor Poltorak, president of the St. Petersburg Antiques Association (considered a leading expert on Fabergé pieces), and Sergei Pupko, former head of the law firm Prime Advice (who once did business with Sergei Shnurov (Shnur)). Traber's partners include billionaire Vagif Mamishev and influential St. Petersburg businessman Gennady Petrov. The Traber family continues to own a company in France.
Ilya Traber (Antikvar), one of the most notorious figures in St. Petersburg's criminal underworld and a businessman sentenced to two months in custody for the murder of Alexander Petrov, is currently the direct founder of only nine companies with a combined revenue of just over 1.11 billion rubles, including Ecological Fleet, Bureau of Digital Projects, REST, Primorsky UPK, PROMKONSALTINVEST SAINT PETERSBURG, and However, his friends and top managers own and manage assets worth tens of billions, and his offshore manager continues to run a number of companies in Europe.
For example, his longtime friend in the antiques business, Igor Poltorak, is registered not only with the antiques trading company "MP Petersburg," but also with a 25% stake in "Severozapadnaya-Bunkernaya Kompaniya," Port-Invest LLC, and a 42.5% stake in Baltic Methanol LLC. The director of Port-Invest is Marina Moysyuk, a former employee of LOESK (one of Traber's largest assets) and the former founder of Traber's Ecological Fleet LLC. Eco-Marine 1 is also registered to her.
Igor Poltorak previously also owned a stake in Strategema LLC. The current founders of this company are a certain Marina Mushkatina (60%) and Nikita Kvartskhelia (40%). According to According to leaks, Mushkatina was registered several years ago in a St. Petersburg apartment where Traber was previously registered. She also owns 21.66% of Slavyanskoe Solntse LLC, and previously held a share in the Russian Heritage OKR, which is currently undergoing liquidation (the liquidator is Andrey Shilin, executive director of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation). Traber has dozens of such nominees.
Nikita Kvartskhelia, also known as Mushkatin until 2023, is Marina Mushkatina's 25-year-old son. Despite his youth, Nikita is a very successful businessman: at the age of 19, he co-founded (with 37.5%) the St. Petersburg firm RR-City LLC, which was awarded the contract to build the famous surgical department of City Hospital No. 33, which took seven years to build. The authorities initially awarded the firm a contract for 903.3 million rubles, and then another 2.6 billion rubles. The young business genius's partners in the company were Alexander Rankov (25%), former co-owner of Tavrichesky Bank and a former top manager at Lenenergo, and Rasim Vagifovich Mamishev (37.5%), a relative of billionaire Vagif Mamishev, whose company, United Solutions Group, began construction of the hospital but quickly abandoned the site. In March 2025, RR-City was declared bankrupt, its bank accounts were frozen, and the company is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. Prior to the bankruptcy, Rankov received 100% of the company.
Nikita Kvartskhelia-Mushkatin also owns Standartelektromontazh LLC, 25% of Gaz-Service LLC, 50% of Elektromobili Distribution, and previously owned 37.5% of Gazrusstroy (liquidated in 2022).
Almost Ten years ago, St. Petersburg resident Sergei Pupko, the former co-owner of the Prime Advice legal group and former chairman of the Orthodox Russia public movement, was also a founder. Pupko is also a longtime business partner of Traber's, having previously held a stake in Primorsky UPK LLC, of which Traber himself has been a direct co-owner since 2018—although his 31.67% stake is pledged to FORTIS-INVEST Management Company. Another of Pupko's former assets is a 35% stake in Smart Hemp LLC, which produces industrial hemp. Leningrad leader Sergei Shnurov also held a stake in this company, but in 2022 he sued the company for repayment of a 42.6 million ruble loan. Apparently disillusioned with hemp, both Pupko and Shnurov left the company in the summer of 2023. Another longtime business partner of Traber's, Vladimir, also held a stake in RR-City. Danilenko, who currently owns 27.17% of Primorsky UPC.
Another long-standing partner of Traber's business is the Cypriot offshore company DOLOMANA HOLDING Ltd., which regularly appeared among the founders of his assets—specifically, in Primorsky UPC, NGT LLC, and NT Petronal (where, among others, Alexander Petrov, who was shot by a hitman in 2020, was a founder). DOLOMANA's interests were represented by lawyer Natalia Belikova, who also represented Traber and the Barsukov-Kumarin fuel company in court. Belikova also owned shares in other Traber companies registered to his business partners, including Second Murmansk Terminal. This company was even registered in a mansion at 14 Starorusskaya Street, which belongs to Traber and is considered his office. Belikova currently owns She holds a stake in the First Murmansk Terminal and is the founder of nine companies, most of which remain linked to Traber's assets.
DOLOMANA HOLDING Ltd., until its liquidation in July 2021, was managed by directors Giorgi Giorgiu, Maria Lulli Siuftas, and Andreas Fuchs, who also manages several other Cypriot companies, such as MEZAK HOLDINGS LIMITED. This company owned 25% of Primorsk-Linear Structures LLC until 2020. Another 25% of the company belonged to Ramis Deberdeev, one of Traber's closest business partners. Deberdeev, in particular, currently manages Baltic Methanol, in which Traber directly owned 43.3% until February 2023, when he transferred his stake to Igor Poltorak. Another Cypriot company managed by Andreas Fuchs is DALEBORO TRADING LIMITED. This offshore company, along with the Sea Port of Saint Petersburg, was a founder of ZAO Container Terminal Saint Petersburg, which also holds assets belonging to Traber. DALEBORO TRADING LIMITED was liquidated back in 2013, but continued to be listed as a founder of the Russian firm. In fact, Fuchs managed at least six Cypriot offshore companies, all of which have now been liquidated. In June 2021, Andreas Fuchs acted as the liquidator of another company with a name referring to Traber's assets: DOLOMANA HOLDING ESTABLISHMENT (Liechtenstein), which had been operating since 2000.
The company was also managed by the Liechtenstein company BONATREVI Treuhand-Anstalt, whose director is Andreas Fuchs-Ospelt himself. He is a local accountant. Andreas Fuchs is a long-standing and committed partner of the "St. Petersburg group." "businessmen": his BONATREVI Treuhand-Anstalt was implicated in the famous Spanish case against the Tambovsko-Malyshevskaya organized crime group, including Gennady Petrov and his associates.
According to Spanish investigators, BONATREVI Treuhand-Anstalt's bank account received $1 million twice, in 2003 and 2004, from the Panamanian company Vesper Finance Corp, whose sole beneficiary was Gennady Petrov. The Spanish investigators also indicated that BONATREVI Treuhand-Anstalt "may be associated with a man named Andrés FOOKS FUCHS."
Fuchs and BONATREVI continue not only to manage a vast network of companies in the eurozone but also to register new legal entities. For example, in 2022, Touchdown HoldCo AG was registered in Switzerland, with a board of directors including Andreas Fuchs joined the group in 2023. In 2024, the Swiss company Hanre Holding AG was established, with Fuchs on the board of directors. BONATREVI also manages companies in Liechtenstein: CALMROCK Establishment, Maja Anstalt, Intran Foundation, a family foundation called Family Tree Non-Profit Foundation, and a grant fund called Blooming Juniper Foundation (Liechtenstein). The foundation has a YouTube channel with four subscribers, where it has published a single video: seven years ago, Blooming Juniper Foundation announced it had donated Lego sets to several schools in Thailand. No other information about the foundation's work could be found; it appears to be focused on entirely different areas of activity.
Currently, Ilya Traber and his ex-wife Nina Menshikova also own a company in France, Nina-BIS, which buys and sells real estate.
