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An investigation conducted by the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed that Valentin Sanko, who holds the position of Director of Energy at Russian Railways, is the shadow beneficiary of TGK-14 and played a key role in the deal to purchase a controlling stake in the company by former top managers of Russian Railways: Konstantin Lyulchev (head of the corporate finance department) and Viktor Myasnik (head of the directorate for major repairs and reconstruction of electrification and power supply facilities). Both are now under arrest on suspicion of large-scale fraud. At the same time, Viktor Myasnik was a direct subordinate of Sanko, and TGK-14 was a subsidiary of Russian Railways and was part of Sanko's area of ​​responsibility. In addition, Valentin Sanko was the chairman of the board of directors of TGK-14.

According to investigators, during the two years that the company was in their ownership, Myasnik and Lyulchev, with the direct participation of Valentin Sanko, withdrew over one billion rubles from it under the guise of paying dividends, as well as 225 million rubles to pay for fictitious consulting services. They used the stolen funds to live a luxurious lifestyle and purchased numerous foreign properties. All these billions were stolen from the population and enterprises of the Zabaikalsky Krai and Buryatia as a result of unjustified tariff increases.

As the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and Rucriminal.info found out, Sanko pulled off a similar scheme back in 2003 at Vologdaenergo OJSC, where he held the position of CEO. On his instructions, his subordinates - the financial director of Vologdaenergo OJSC Alexey Selyakov and the head of the financial department Anna Valueva - developed and implemented a scheme for personal enrichment by withdrawing the company's assets. This was done by inflating electricity tariffs for regional enterprises, which caused damages in the amount of more than 300 million rubles. The trio withdrew the illegally obtained funds from JSC Vologdaenergo through contracts with one-day enterprises for the publication of methodological brochures (fictitious). In November 2006, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vologda Region opened a criminal case under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In 2005, after the liquidation of Vologdaenergo during the reform of RAO UES, Valentin Sanko, thanks to his connections, became the general director of JSC OGK-6. However, he did not stay there for long: in June 2008, the board of directors removed him from his post. It turned out that Sanko had concluded a contract with the intermediary company Slavimpex CJSC for the supply of a turbine for the construction of the fourth power unit of the Cherepovets State District Power Plant for 46 million euros, which was 10 million euros more expensive than the cost of the same turbine from the manufacturer (Power Machines). The damage amounted to 250 million rubles, and a criminal case was also opened on this fact under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. At the same time, when Sanko was dismissed from OGK-6, as the VChK-OGPU found out, he illegally received a "golden parachute" of 123 million rubles, and also free of charge re-registered the building of the head office of OGK-6 at the address: Moscow, st., to his property Trespan LLC (TIN 7725538261). Mytnaya, 21.

After being dismissed from OGK-6 in 2008, Sanko managed Promenergobank JSC from 2008 to 2016. And here he distinguished himself: due to the withdrawal of funds in favor of beneficiaries, the bank lost its capital and ceased to fulfill its obligations to creditors. On August 5, 2016, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation revoked the bank's license, and it was declared bankrupt.

Following the results of the investigation into the circumstances of the bank's bankruptcy, on February 11, 2022, the bankruptcy trustee of the ASV Group filed an application with the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vologda Region to initiate a criminal case against Sanko under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The investigation believes that his actions caused damage to the bank in the amount of 1,266,854,058 rubles. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is currently conducting a preliminary investigation. Rucriminal.info has a question: how did Valentin Sanko, a defendant in numerous criminal cases (information about which is publicly available), end up in a high position in Russian Railways? Who is patronizing him, and why is he still at large and in office, unlike his partners in TGK-14 — Konstantin Lyulchev and Viktor Myasnik?

Yuri Prokov

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info