Source: www.rucriminal.info

As reported yesterday by the VChK-OGPU telegram channel, the deputy chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region and the owner of one of the largest industrial holdings in the country, the founder of the Yuzhuralzoloto company, which specializes in gold and coal mining, Konstantin Strukov, against the background of investigative actions carried out by the FSB and the Investigative Committee of Russia and the anti-corruption lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, attempted to flee abroad.

He left his enterprises and the management under his control alone with law enforcement agencies, whose central offices are currently completing large-scale verification activities in the Chelyabinsk Region. According to a source of Rucriminal.info, having received information about the episodes of corruption of regional officials revealed by the Prosecutor General's Office and the FSB, Strukov decided to go to a place where a "backup airfield" had already been prepared due to fear of criminal liability.

He ensured that his family acquired citizenship of European countries. For example, his daughter, being a citizen of Switzerland, does not appear in Russia, despite the fact that she is listed as the owner of a number of legal entities in the Urals. Strukov also has his own hotel business in Montenegro, and his wife owns a commercial company in Serbia. It is not surprising that Strukov's main financial flows, received in Russia, then rush outside the Russian Federation.

Yesterday he tried to fly from Chelyabinsk to Turkey on a personal Bombardier business jet (registration number RA-67131, valued at over 50 million US dollars). However, the flight was interrupted by Rosaviatsia and the FSB and its continuation along the route is prohibited. At the request of the aviation security authorities, the private plane was grounded. On board, bailiffs confiscated Strukov's passport, which by that time had been cancelled by the Migration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. At the same time, the bailiffs seized the aircraft itself.

By the court's decision, Strukov and his family members are restricted from moving and leaving the country.

The Cheka-OGPU has learned details of the claims of law enforcement and supervisory agencies against the structures of the Chelyabinsk oligarch and part-time deputy chairman of the regional legislative assembly Strukov.

Let us recall that in recent days, FSB and Investigative Committee of Russia officers have been conducting investigative and operational activities at the enterprises of the largest holding company owned by him, which mines gold and coal in the Urals and Siberia. And on July 2, 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation filed an anti-corruption lawsuit against Strukov and his family members in the Sovetsky District Court of Chelyabinsk to confiscate property assets that Strukov, using his position in power, acquired and distributed among controlled persons in favor of the state. The total value of the seized business exceeds 200 billion rubles.

Before these events, Strukov was considered unsinkable, despite the fact that he formed his initial capital in an openly fraudulent manner, transferring the production capacities of former state enterprises of the region to his firms. He also built his further business in violation of all conceivable prohibitions, spitting on local residents and causing multi-billion dollar damage to the ecology of the region.

The reason for this behavior is his numerous connections and patrons. As Rucriminal.info found out, while in the regional parliament since 2000, he enjoyed the support of former governors of the Chelyabinsk region Sumin P.I. and Yurevich M.V. Currently actively sponsors the fund of the wife of the current head of the region Teksler A.L.

Despite the already expressed opinions of many analysts that the fate of Strukov's assets is predetermined, the latter does not plan to part with them without a fight. And to counteract law enforcement and obstruct justice, he has put into action all his contacts.

The Cheka-OGPU knows that Strukov turned for help to his old acquaintances - the chief federal inspector for the Chelyabinsk region Chernyatiev (previously dismissed from the post of head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for this region on discrediting grounds) and the head of the AP Department for Domestic Policy Shevyakov.

Over the long years of enrichment on the country's underground resources, he also engaged representatives of the judicial community. Chairman of the 18th Arbitration Appeal Court (Chelyabinsk) Krasheninnikov D.S. regularly spends his leisure time hunting and on nearby golf courses at his expense. and the former (until 2024) chairman of the Chelyabinsk Regional Court, Minin S.D. Through them, Strukov K.I. found a way to the recently appointed deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Ivanenko Yu.G. Despite the fact that the latter oversees exclusively economic disputes, to which the prosecutor's claim does not apply, his personal assistant Gorbyshev I.V. is already tearing up the phone of the Chelyabinsk Regional Court with a demand to transfer all available materials and coordinate further actions.

Timofey Grishin

To be continued

Source: www.rucriminal.info