VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info continue their reporting on N-Systems—a company awash in state funds and the commercial arm of the Turbostroitel Judo Club. The club was founded by Anatoly Rakhlin, the coach of Putin and the Rotenbergs. Today, the club’s president is his son, Mikhail Rakhlin, while Boris Rotenberg appears among the founders. The N-Systems story follows a classic pattern: billions of rubles flow in from the state, only to be siphoned off to a NATO country—Estonia. The managing partner of N-Systems is Liliya Krentsler (formerly Minderova); she has received an award from Putin and serves on the board of trustees of the "Turbostroitel Judo Club" regional public organization. N-Systems acts as a patron of the club. The board of trustees includes prominent business figures.
Examples include Nikita Murov, CEO of Bronka Group—grandson of former FSO chief Yevgeny Murov and son of Andrey Murov (former head of Pulkovo Airport, former Chairman of the Management Board of FSK UES, and currently Executive Director and Board Member of PJSC Rosseti); Andrey Turchak, Head of the Altai Republic (son of Anatoly Turchak, an associate of Putin and Sobchak); and Sergey Reutov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Siberian Industrial Group (SPG) JSC (Mikhail Rokhlin was employed at SPG), among others. Incidentally, in 2009, N-Systems carried out work for the Turchak family’s STC Leninets, handling the modernization of their plant's engineering infrastructure.
It has emerged that N-Systems has an Estonian branch, "N-Systems" Jsc Eesti filiaal, which has operated in Tallinn since 2012; it lists real estate ownership and rental income generation as its primary business activities. Its directors are Liliya Minderova and Alexey Osyka. The Estonian branch owned at least two properties: one in a residential building in Narva (at Energia tn 2) and another in Tallinn (at Marati 1a-12). The branch's operations were supported by the umbrella consulting firm Umbrella Corporate Services, led by Tatyana Dodatko. Additionally, between 2010 and 2012, Osyka and Andrey Kucherov served on the management board of the company OÜ. ...ECOENGINEERING, which also held several apartments in Estonia and a fleet of construction machinery among its assets.
Assets were siphoned off from the firm, and the company itself was driven into bankruptcy—a saga that became the subject of a criminal case in Estonia. At the time, Estonian lawyer Oleg Nishaev—who had helped the Russian principals register the company and conduct business in Estonia (and whom those top managers later accused of siphoning off the assets)—revealed the identities of the firm’s owners to journalists: "Do you know who these Russians are and whose money this is? Come on! This is money from Yakunin’s entities! You know a man named Vladimir Yakunin, don't you? This is money that was once siphoned out of Russian Railways (RZD)."
Following the 2015 resignation of Yakunin—infamous for his "fur coat storage room"—contractors and assets linked to Russian Railways began falling under the sway of entities close to the Rotenberg family. Significant changes occurred at N-Systems in 2017: its authorized capital increased from 15,000 to 1 million rubles, and the Central Bank of Russia registered an issue of the company's shares.
It is worth noting that N-Systems has long secured lucrative slices of the public budget; in total, it has signed over 60 government contracts worth 12.2 billion rubles—with 9 billion of that amount awarded in the last year alone. Notably, this includes a contract with the St. Petersburg Metro (a state-owned unitary enterprise) for the reconstruction of the "Park Pobedy" station vestibule, valued at 3.25 billion rubles.
To be continued...
