As revealed by VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, Liliya Krentsler (Minderova)—a business partner and friend of Mikhail Rakhlin (son of Vladimir Putin’s judo coach) and a recipient of both Russian presidential awards and government contracts worth billions of rubles—has so far been unable to lift the court-ordered freeze on her assets. These assets were frozen during the bankruptcy proceedings of DLN-Logistic LLC. Krentsler serves as the managing partner of N-Systems, a company that—as our project previously reported—secured a 4.6-billion-ruble government contract for the renovation of a tram depot. N-Systems is linked to the Turbostroitel Judo Club, an organization headed by Mikhail Rakhlin—the son of Putin’s judo coach—while Liliya Krentsler serves on the club’s board of trustees and is a close friend of his. The club was founded by Anatoly Rakhlin, the coach of both Putin and the Rotenberg brothers. Today, the club is presided over by his son, Mikhail Rakhlin, and Boris Rotenberg is listed among its founders. It is a truly significant venue for Putin’s St. Petersburg associates; notably, Putin himself visited the club in 2019 to present state awards to athletes and coaches.
At the same time, criminal cases have begun to emerge around N-Systems. Specifically, Liliya Krentsler and Dmitry Spodin—a former top executive at the group—are implicated in a case involving attempted fraud on an especially large scale (Art. 30, Part 3; Art. 159, Part 4 of the Russian Criminal Code). The case centers on a contract for the major renovation of the Pasteur Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, signed with another of the group’s companies, LenProfMontazh LLC. The firm inflated the reported volume of work performed and demanded payment from the institute. The court initially remanded Krentsler and Spodin in custody but later eased the restrictive measures against Krentsler, opting instead for a ban on certain activities. Spodin, meanwhile, has had his detention extended this year.
A number of companies affiliated with N-Systems help it "save" money on taxes and the quality of work. One such associated firm is DLN-Logistic, which is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. Creditors are seeking more than 200 [million rubles] from the company, which was previously co-founded by Minderova. ...million rubles. The entrepreneur, along with the case's second defendant, Alexey Osyka, appealed the freezing of their assets; both argued that the court had been overzealous and that the value of the seized property far exceeded 200 million rubles (of which the Federal Tax Service is claiming over 140 million from DLN-Logistic). The court is scheduled to hear the latest appeal from the firm's former co-owners in late October.
Meanwhile, increasingly odd circumstances are emerging in the DLN-Logistic bankruptcy case. The company is registered at 4 Optikov Street—the same location as N-Systems and several other affiliated firms. In May 2024, tax authorities seized documents from the premises of an affiliate, Lenprofmontazh LLC (which had been engaged in major residential renovations in St. Petersburg), and in the process, they also took boxes of documents belonging to related companies. Now, Elena Alexandrova, the former director of DLN-Logistic, refuses to hand over the firm's records to the bankruptcy trustee, claiming that the tax authorities had already removed everything. As for the assets listed in the accounting records (totaling over 10 million rubles), she claims the money does not exist because the accountant had entered the figures by mistake. Naturally, the court rejected these arguments, yet time is ticking, and the documentation and funds remain missing.
Incidentally, Lenprofmontazh currently shows outstanding tax arrears, fines, and penalties totaling nearly a billion rubles, and its accounts at Bank Saint Petersburg were frozen in early September. There is currently no talk of holding the firm’s associated beneficiaries and executives subsidiarily liable; however, given that the company’s assets barely exceeded 500 million rubles at the end of 2024, it is unlikely to be able to settle its debts on its own.
As for Minderova’s assets, her portfolio includes stakes in several companies linked to N-Systems, as well as real estate. Adhering to the adage that money loses value while real estate endures, Liliya Krentsler-Minderova snapped up apartments and non-residential premises in bulk—and not just in St. Petersburg. Consequently, by December 2025, she had amassed an impressive list of holdings. She owns two apartments and three commercial properties in St. Petersburg: a 54-square-meter apartment on Marshala Kazakova Street in the brand-new "Yuzhnaya Akvatoria" residential complex; a 94.5-square-meter apartment on Petergofskoye Highway in the "Duderhof Club" complex (where she also holds a share in a basement space exceeding 6,000 square meters, with a cadastral value of 122 million rubles); and two ground-floor non-residential units in a new development on Savushkina Street, measuring 133 and 126 square meters, respectively.
She also purchased a 332-square-meter house with a 2,000-square-meter plot of land right on the banks of the Nizhnyaya River in the Roshchino settlement (Vyborgsky District)—property located within a specially protected area.
Furthermore, Liliya Krentsler acquired real estate... in the Murmansk region. She owns four apartments in Monchegorsk, measuring 43, 51, 54.5, and 49 square meters. According to leaked data, in 2019 she also purchased a non-residential space of over 200 square meters there, at 13 Klimentyeva Embankment. A branch of the company N-Systems occupies this space. ...of which Krentzler herself is the managing partner. Evidently, she also faces no difficulty finding tenants for four one-room apartments in Monchegorsk.
Liliya Krentzler’s (née Minderova) current husband, 34-year-old Daniel Krentzler (née Semenov), has also begun amassing real estate; he is the director of the "Theodor" charitable foundation, the founder of a veterinary clinic of the same name, and a former co-owner of the "Flat SPb" real estate agency. He purchased an apartment in the upscale "Privilegiya" residential complex on the banks of the Malaya Nevka River.
Daniel Krentzler is a native of Kazakhstan; his mother previously owned two trading companies in St. Petersburg (both have since been liquidated). Daniel’s stepfather, Yevgeny Khavanov, was a former officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and later the Federal Tax Police Service (FSNP); from 2014, he headed the Leningrad Region branch of the "Rodina" party and served as a trustee for the Interregional Public Organization of Leningrad Veterans of War and Military Service. Notably, Vladimir Gudkov—the CEO of ZAO SU-6 Lendorstroy-2 (which went bankrupt in 2010) and a former vice-president of both the St. Petersburg Ice Hockey Federation and the SKA hockey club—ran for the State Duma representing "Rodina" in 2016.
According to public records, Yevgeny Khavanov passed away in August of this year. It was he who originally gave Daniel his start in life. Back in 2014, while still a student, Daniel ran for the municipal council of Aptekarsky Island for the first time; in 2016, he and Khavanov became co-founders of the "National Association of Housing and Utilities Infrastructure Participants" (Infraros). The Association included figures such as Svetlana Razvorotneva, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (and now a State Duma deputy). Daniel even held public consultations on behalf of the Infraros Association in St. Petersburg’s Admiralteysky District alongside fellow co-founder Andrey Khitrov—who is now the deputy head of the regional branch of "Officers of Russia." The Association has not yet been dissolved, although its founders are hidden from public view—a common practice for Russian legal entities linked to pro-war figures.
Khavanov also held stakes in several St. Petersburg companies; specifically, he owned 30.5% of LLC Rantye, with the remaining shares held by Andrey Efimov (39.5%), Marat Alkhlaev (29%), and Viktor Belousov (1%). The firm’s primary asset is the "Tochka" business center (formerly "Rantye") located at 10 Sedova Street. It is a building complex (comprising 11 structures with a total area of 15,000 square meters) situated on a 3.5-hectare plot. In 2013, the rental income generated for the beneficiaries was estimated at approximately $450,000 per month. However, the Krentsler family is unlikely to receive an inheritance from Yevgeny Khavanov: he divorced Daniel’s mother back in 2019.
