According to the VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, a verdict has been issued in the case against Vladimir Shishov, Deputy Director of the Russian Ministry of Defense's Military Property Department, and Dmitry Levchenko, founder and director of IFC RNGS Capital LLC. This case conceals a major "war" involving FSB towers. Dmitry Levchenko is the son of Eduard Levchenko, the best friend of Alexey Komkov, head of the FSB's Fifth Service. The events were carried out as part of an "exploitation" of Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, who was still in office at the time.

 

Shishov and Levchenko were charged with embezzling 600 million rubles allocated for a Defense Ministry project. As a result, the court sentenced Shishov to eight and a half years in prison, while Levchenko received eight years in a penal colony. However, this story isn't quite so simple...

 

In 2015-2016, Ivan Tkachev, then head of the Sixth Service of the FSB's Internal Security Directorate (now the head of the Far Eastern Military District), waged a "war" against Alexey Komkov (former head of the FSB's Internal Security Directorate, then first deputy head of the First Directorate, and now head of the Fifth Service).

 

Komkov and Tkachev were vying for the position of head of the FSB's Internal Security Directorate, and Tkachev's subordinates arrested Alexey Roshal, the nephew of renowned pediatrician Leonid Roshal. He was accused of fraud, but Alexey was needed for one reason: he knew and did business with businessman Eduard Levchenko. Levchenko, in turn, is Alexey Komkov's closest friend, a regular guest at all of Komkov's family celebrations, etc. Alexey Roshal testified against Levchenko. As a result, Levchenko himself was detained by the 6th Service. According to a source, Tkachev immediately had a confidential conversation with him in his cell, offering to testify against Komkov. However, he refused. That same day, the 6th Service prepared a negative report on Komkov, accompanied by photos of him with Levchenko (seized from Levchenko's apartment) and testimony from Alexey Roshal. This information simultaneously leaked to the media, which began quoting Roshal's testimony, alleging that Levchenko had impersonated an FSB general to businessmen, etc. Six months later, Komkov finally became head of the FSB's Internal Security Directorate. Levchenko currently resides outside the Russian Federation, while his son, Dmitry, conducted business in Russia. He also found himself in trouble...

 

According to a source, in August 2023, Roman Sukhorukov, an officer with the 1st Service of the Far Eastern District of the Russian Federation, approached Dmitry Levchenko and asked him to file a statement alleging that he had paid bribes to Shishov for lucrative contracts. Shishov was sought after by the FSB's Far East Development Directorate (FED) as a close friend of Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov. Ivanov was arrested in April 2024, but according to these reports, his investigation began as early as the summer of 2023. Levchenko refused. Then, the FED's officers organized an embezzlement case at the Main Investigative Directorate (GVS) of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICR). According to investigators, the cost of the work and materials Levchenko's companies supplied to the Ministry of Defense was inflated. Moreover, to ensure the damages were substantial, the GVS investigators assessed the timber as Class 3, while Levchenko's company supplied the much more expensive Class 1 timber.

To avoid any unnecessary questions from the authorities, the case was sent to Diana Mishchenko, a judge at the Khamovnichesky Court who is a close associate of the FSB. She is known for being the daughter of crime boss Igor Mishchenko and for being implicated in the murder of lawyer Natalia Vavilina, who had a conflict with the Mishchenko family. The FSB made the right choice. Diana Mishchenko rejected all other expert reports showing that the timber was worth the price paid by the Ministry of Defense, and delivered a guilty verdict.

 

Ivan Tkachev became head of the Far Eastern Defense Department at the end of 2024, but rumors of his appointment began as early as 2023. At that time, there were reports that Tkachev had begun to take over the reins of the Far Eastern Defense Department. Whether he had any involvement in this situation remains unknown.