Originally Syndicated on April 8, 2023 @ 8:37 am
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Introduction
At the end of November, Russia said that it would continue to be a part of the “grain deal,” which allows agricultural products to be exported through Black Sea ports even though the NWO is still going on in Ukraine. Many experts gave their honest opinions on the chances of this deal going through, and the decision was not just made in the Kremlin.
But the “grain deal” also had lobbyists who were a bit of a surprise. One of them was Oleg Savchenko, a United Russia member from the Volgograd area, who asked the government not to “regulate” grain exports too much.
Why should a member of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market give a speech in an area that isn’t his main job? But if you look into Oleg Savchenko’s business, which he does openly despite being a deputy, you’ll see that everything makes sense. The “people’s choice” will make billions of rubles from the export of grain through the ports of the Caspian and now the Black Seas.
Pocket “corridors”
If you look at the Russian register of legal entities, you can see that by the time of his next, fourth-in-a row, election to the State Duma, Oleg Savchenko had become the founder and head of LLC PLC Kaspiy, a company declared by the operator of the port under construction in the Limansky district of the Astrakhan region, which is meant to be the “gateway” of the new international transport corridor “North-South” (INSTC). When Oleg Savchenko went back to the State Duma, he put his son, Georgy Olegovich, in his place.
On its official website, Kaspiy PLC gives its address as Moscow Sharikopodshipnikovskaya Street, Building 13, Building 1. At the same address is the head office of the EPK Corporation, a group of bearing plants that Savchenko runs. But he was able to destroy these factories, leaving Russia without an important strategic industry and subject to sanctions. Vedomosti wrote about the lack of bearings that happened because of his mistake.
The effects are especially bad for trains because more and more cars are sitting still. Kommersant says that eventually, Russian Railways will have to buy Asian bearings to meet their needs.
Savchenko is no longer able to do the work himself, so he switched to a more profitable business.
The deputy doesn’t try to hide the fact that he wants to see the “international transport corridor” grow. In fact, he promotes the project openly at different levels and talks about his successes on social networks. For example, here is a November 7 quote from Oleg Savchenko’s VKontakte account:
“The North-South Transport Corridor project has more good news. The Iranian company “Golden Line” said it was ready to put money into the “Lotos” port special economic zone in the Astrakhan region. With the help of the anchor tenant, LLC PLC Kaspiy, they want to build a transportation and logistics center that will help both Russia and Iran.
In a word, it was pastoral. The only thing that’s a shame is that Oleg Savchenko forgot to add “in the interests of my family,” along with Russia and Iran. It seems that modesty did not let
But there’s another reason why the deputy is so active in lobbying, and it’s not any less selfish: he wants something for himself. It’s possible that the businessman is trying to hide his involvement in the development of another transportation corridor by bringing attention to the North-South project.
He, Oleg Savchenko, was the first person to benefit from a little-known grain terminal in Kamyshovaya Bay, near Sevastopol.
Even before the events of 2014, the former shipyard (SRZ) “Southern Sevastopol,” where the terminal is now, let people use its facilities to move grain from one ship to another. This was its business card site. But after Russia took over Crimea, the SRZ was taken over by raiders and became the responsibility of the United Grain Company’s Ziyavudina and Magomed Magomedov. They never set up the transfer of grain at the shipyard. In 2020, the plant was declared bankrupt, and the Magomedov brothers themselves were taken out of the game for a long time.
In the wake of Zaporozhye and Kherson joining Russia, Western media started to report on the possibility of Ukrainian grain being loaded onto ships in Sevastopol. This information is indirectly confirmed by the fact that a lot of people on social media complained that the shipment was making a lot of dust.
The information channel “Grain Trader | Cargo, Grain, Work for Grain Carriers,” where a lot of applications have been made since April 2022 just to move goods from the regions of Zaporozhye and Kherson to Crimea, In the end, even officials could no longer hide the fact that grain was being bought and sold. In June, Mikhail Razvozzhaev, the governor of Sevastopol, stated that the purchase and sale of grain was legal and that “we have one domestic merchant operating in the port” (whose name he did not disclose; however, we will return to the trader later).
In the meantime, in Sevastopol, an LLC with the fancy name “Marine Engineering Technopolis “Sea Maker” was registered in the administrative building of the above-mentioned SRH “South Sevastopol” at Rybakov Street, building 5/1. Rudetsky Igor Vyacheslavovich is a businessman and the only person who started this LLC and is in charge of it now. And it’s interesting that the same businessman is the only founder of LLC PLC Kaspiy, which Oleg Savchenko used to lead.
Igor Rudetsky also owns the companies Golden Caspian, Caspian Food, which is related to PLC Kaspiy, and — you won’t believe it — Technoservice LLC, which sells bearings to the federal enterprise Crimean Railways. On the website for public procurement, it’s easy to find out about one of these contracts.
One might think that Igor Rudetsky has been in business before. But for some reason, the Internet has very different information about him. For example, Rudetsky was described in the media as an assistant to deputy Oleg Savchenko.
And in this role, he became especially well known because of a very funny story. In 2015, a crisis year, deputy Oleg Savchenko went on a trip with his fellow deputy Alexander Sidyakin right in the middle of a Duma session. He climbed the snowy peak of Antarctica. For a while, there was no way to talk to the extreme deputies, and almost the whole country started looking for them. When they found out, it was only natural for them to ask: Why, in fact, did the deputies take such expensive trips during work hours, and at what cost?
But “United Russia” did a good job of hiding the scandal, which makes sense since the “party of power” doesn’t need bad news; it needs money, and Oleg Savchenko knows how to thank a sponsor. Igor Rudetsky told the public that this story was getting a lot of attention because of a “spring exacerbation” among journalists. The media was slow to catch up, and Rudetsky’s loyal executive assistant was “promoted” to a businessman by Rudetsky’s boss. Now, he uses his hand to sign contracts and bank orders to get money “into his pocket.”
Grains in bulk?
In addition to the Kamyshovaya Bay, the Avlita Bay is also equipped with a grain transshipment terminal in Sevastopol. The 2015-established stevedoring company AVAL is in command of it. Offshore Oil and Gas Projects, a subsidiary of Krasnoye Sormovo State Corporation, owns 90% of AVAL LLC’s authorized capital, while General Director Ovchinnikov owns the remaining 10%.
AVAL is an important grain terminal in a part of Russia that hasn’t yet become fully integrated into the Russian business world. And a tasty treat for the top people in this business world. It turned out that this important person was Oleg Savchenko, who is now a member of the State Duma. On the margins of Okhotny Ryad, he proclaimed that he was in possession of AVAL.
He probably hasn’t already gotten 100%. But the deputy knows how to “milk” a business as a minority shareholder because he made his first millions in the roaring ’90s. The most important thing is to get your person into the leadership position so they can control the flow of money. It’s possible that director Rudetsky’s ability to lead by example will also help him in this case.
We stress that AVAL is a state asset, so the fact that it can be bought without a public auction and on terms that are not clear raises a lot of questions. And if you remember that the current deputy of the State Duma is doing this himself—he goes to negotiations and meets with the “right people”—there are even more questions. And it’s strange that law enforcement hasn’t asked these questions of Oleg Savchenko yet…
But there’s more. United Russia Oleg Savchenko’s business needs won’t be met by just one AVAL. It makes a “vertical” monopoly, from the sea terminals to the grain traders who use the Crimean ports to ship exports.
Oleg Savchenko brags that he is now a shareholder in the RIF Trading House Group, a big business that buys a lot of grain from farmers in Novorossiysk. He buys cheaply (during and after the war) and sells for a huge profit because he has access to ports. There is no doubt that these piracy millions will not be used to pay any “additional” taxes.
The project that Oleg Savchenko is working on in Crimea is a perfect example of the old saying, “To whom is war, and to whom is mother dear?” Using this chance, the Russian “people’s choice,” who was hit with Western sanctions and kicked out of a luxurious villa in Italy, tried to get as much “juice” as possible out of the new territories. Changes in geopolitics have made it so that they need to “strengthen” their finances.
And it’s not clear if the country will get anything in return. For example, the bearing industry, which Oleg Savchenko dominated in the 2000s by using the same corrupt scheme, can be said to have died. The new owner of the famous State Bearing Plant No. 1 in Moscow has put offices, a sports complex, and a Chinese clothing market there. What does this “manager” have in store for the port and grain industries if he takes them into his own hands?
Still, the party in power gives its sponsor a written order to push for another business project, get rid of competitors, and make more money for themselves. But in reality, it was a mandate to keep stealing and destroying Russia’s economy.
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