The FSB, the Border Guard Service and the Main Military Prosecutor's Office got out of a delicate situation after the discovery of a border guard general's dacha in the border area.
The power structures reacted in an original way to the October investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, during which the dacha of FSB Colonel-General Nikolai Kozik was discovered in a zone forbidden for engineering structures on the border with Finland. According to the Land Code of the Russian Federation, only engineering, technical and protective communications can be located in this zone.
Lawyers of the Anti-Corruption Foundation received an official response to their request to the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office. It was filed on December 2, 2016 following an investigation by the foundation.
In the response of the GWP, which was signed by the head of the 4th department - the deputy head of the Department for Supervision of the Execution of Laws on Federal Security Atamanyuk, it is reported that a land plot of 6600 sq. m in the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region, in question, is located at a distance of 4 kilometers from the state border of the Russian Federation with Finland.
KSP and special equipment "plough" / ©Google Maps
According to the military oversight agency, "the site is located on agricultural land with the right to use it for dacha farming."
And the energized fence, with cameras and “Mines” signs, as well as a well-groomed control and trail strip with a border harrow lying nearby, “is not used for its intended purpose,” the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office said. The technical structure serves as an obstacle for wild animals to enter the roads, the document says.
The prosecutor's office clarified that the site was indeed acquired by Nikolai Kozik in May 2014 from the previous owner on the basis of a sale and purchase agreement in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. The general, according to the GV, bought a summer cottage on a common basis, without using his official powers.
The FSB, to which the Navalny Foundation also sent a request to check the legality of Kozik's actions, did not find any violations. However, the verification of the legality of the transfer of border lands into a category that allows them to maintain a dacha economy, which is being carried out at the request of FBK lawyers by the prosecutor's office of the Leningrad Region, has not yet been completed.
Recall that in October, FBK employees, after analyzing satellite images of Google Maps, found residential buildings in the forbidden border strip. Subsequently, according to the documents of Rosreestr, it turned out that a plot of 6600 sq. m belongs to FSB Colonel General Nikolai Leonidovich Kozik, who holds the post of head of the border guard department of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia.
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Kozik Nikolai Leonidovich - Colonel General, Deputy Head of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, Head of the Border Guard Department
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Oleg Kulinich: Every year our radio company congratulates Russian border guards on their professional holiday. This year it is special - the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia turns 95 years old. The guest of our program is Deputy Head of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, Head of the Border Guard Department, Colonel-General Nikolai Leonidovich Kozik.
The border service plays one of the most important roles in the development of our state, in ensuring security. With what mood do you meet this holiday, how did the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia approach the 95th anniversary?
Nikolai Kozik: 95 years of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia is, of course, the history of our country, the history of our people, our employees, veterans. A lot has been done in these 95 years. I would like to dwell on a small part of our history. Over the past 10 years, the Border Service has been reforming and integrating the Federal Security Service. It should be noted that this program is currently implemented by 90%. Structural transformations within the service have been carried out. As for the results, I want to note that the results for 95 years are significant. We managed to build a well-functioning, harmonious system of security in the border area of the Russian Federation. Secondly, in 2012, more than 3 thousand violators of the state border were detained, more than 40 thousand violators of the border regime, the channels of contraband goods to the Russian territory, as well as drugs, were blocked, persons on the federal wanted list were detained. We have made great strides forward in terms of the social protection of our employees. This is providing housing, building a system of administrative facilities on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and making a decision by the government, the president to increase the salary, especially for junior employees, who are the main border activity.
Oleg Kulinich: Probably, this is facilitated by the fact that in 2007 the Border Guard Service, the first of our power structures, switched completely to contract work, that is, there are no conscripts. And this imposes positive moments, because people go voluntarily, they know what a difficult profession they are going into, and this affects the performance of their duties.
Nikolai Kozik: Yes, the transition to staffing border agencies throughout the Russian Federation required completely new approaches to building a system for protecting the state border. But it all depends on the employees, on the personal and management staff. It was necessary to determine the professional suitability of our employees, to determine the level of their training, educational qualifications. The management of the service made appropriate decisions to change the training program at the universities for our employees. Today we see that this system is built absolutely correctly and allows us to ensure the security of the Russian Federation in the border area.
Oleg Kulinich: We decided to touch on another side of the border service's activity - the creative side. Today in our program we represent the Central Border Ensemble of the FSB of Russia. I am pleased to introduce the head of the ensemble, Honored Artist of Russia, Colonel Andrey Kapralov. Tell me, when was the ensemble born?
Andrey Kapralov: We are 35 years old. The ensemble as a separate structure was born in 1978 on June 4th. But I want to talk about the backstory. First of all, we start from the first drummers and signalmen of a separate border guard corps. Not so long ago, the historians of our museum found a unique clavier, on which Count Sergei Witte, who stood at the origins of the creation of the Border Guard in Russia, put his marks. The next major stage is the creation of the current Moscow Border Institute of the FSB. It was at this institute that our team began to emerge as an institute orchestra. Considering that there were no other bands in the Central region that could provide service and combat activities, this orchestra slowly began to play the role of the central band in our region. The need to create such a team was obvious. In 1978, a decision was made that a separate team was being created. At that time it was called the Exemplary Military Band of the Border Troops of the KGB of the USSR.
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Sometimes you will stumble upon a small case in your work, but, damn it, what an indicative case it is. It is necessary to start a section for such people “Leviathan News”, because it is already impossible to be surprised at this, we will just shrug our shoulders and say: Well, this is not a state, but Leviathan, as it should be.
For example, we found the dacha of an FSB general here, and not just anywhere, but right on the state border. Behind the electric fence and the control strip. According to the law, land there is generally withdrawn from civil circulation. Nevertheless, he built and designed.
It seems to be a particularity, but it is so blatant against the backdrop of millions of owners of dachas, garden plots, garages, shops, tents, stalls, to which various inspectors go every single day with acts on the topic “I didn’t build it that way, I connected it wrong, I didn’t draw the border here, didn't make it that way." People are fined, dragged to the courts, and the land is forcibly confiscated - they are simply squeezed out of the light. And here is a cottage on the border.
Decided to make a new video about it:
And the story is like this.
There is a border between Russia and Finland. As expected, the border consists of border zone (5-30 km), only local residents or people with passes can be there, and zones of engineering structures (2-3 km).
The zone of engineering and technical structures is exactly the same thing that is shown in films about border guards. Fence under weak current (triggered by touch), control-track strip and all that stuff.
Staying in this zone is prohibited. Entering it is an attempt to illegally cross the state border and guarantees you a criminal case (here, for example, there are many of them).
So let's use a Google Maps photo and a satellite photo to take a virtual trip through the most beautiful, but forbidden places on the border with Finland.
We see a fence.
We see the control strip.
We see a harrow used by border guards.
We see the sign "mines in 100 meters."
We see a cottage. INSIDE THE ZONE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.
We rub our eyes and look from above:
Well, yes, it’s really a cottage on the lake in a restricted area, which, according to the law, is regulated as follows:
By virtue of subparagraph 10 of paragraph 4 of Article 27 of the Land Code of the Russian Federation, land plots occupied by federally owned engineering and technical structures, communication lines and communications erected in the interests of protecting and protecting the State Border of the Russian Federation are withdrawn from circulation.http://www.consultant.ru/docum...
Ofigevaem and run to the registry.
On a closed section of the state border between Russia and Finland with an area of 6.6 thousand square meters, there is a dacha that belongs to Colonel-General Nikolai Kozik, deputy head of the border service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, according to the Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation. In his material, the oppositionist refers to the relevant extract from Rosreestr and data from Google Earth and Google Maps.
“There is a border between Russia and Finland. As expected, the border consists of a border zone (5-30 km), where only local residents or persons with passes can stay, and a zone of engineering structures (2-3 km).The zone of engineering and technical structures is exactly the same as that shown in films about border guards. Fence under weak current (triggered by touch), control-track strip and all that stuff.
Staying in this zone is prohibited. Entering it is an attempt to illegally cross the state border and guarantees you a criminal case (here, for example, there are many of them).
So let's use a Google Maps photo and a satellite photo to take a virtual trip through the most beautiful, but forbidden places on the border with Finland.
We see a fence.
We see a cottage. INSIDE THE ZONE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.
We rub our eyes and look from above:
Well, yes, it’s really a cottage on the lake in a restricted area, which, according to the law, is regulated as follows:
"By virtue of subparagraph 10 of paragraph 4 of Article 27 of the Land Code of the Russian Federation, land plots occupied by federally owned engineering and technical structures, communication lines and communications erected in the interests of protecting and protecting the State Border of the Russian Federation have been withdrawn from their circulation."
It's impossible, but it's true. Dacha of an individual Kozik Nikolai Leonidovich
Google, what kind of amazing is this Kozik Nikolai Leonidovich.
We stop being surprised. This is Colonel-General of the FSB, Deputy Head of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, who is responsible specifically for protecting the state border.
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As RBC found out, a plot of land with an area of 47.4 thousand square meters. m., located in the area of the village of Druzhnoselye and Lake Povarskoye (the Kozik site also belongs to it), in 2010 it was transferred from the category of reserve land to the category of agricultural land. A decree on this in 2010 was signed by Valery Serdyukov, who at that time held the post of governor of the Leningrad Region. After that, as follows from the cadastral passport of the object, it was divided into several sections.Six land plots for dacha farming, one of which belongs to Nikolai Kozik, were formed in 2011, follows from an extract from the State Real Estate Cadastre (GKN) received by RBC. Prior to this, the land was assigned to the dacha non-profit partnership "Pikhkala", follows from the decree of the head of the municipality of the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region, published in December 2010.
In 2014, "Pikhkala" was liquidated. Prior to that, it belonged to Vladimir Leonidovich Bobrov, Leonid Mikhailovich Vorobyov and Yulia Nikolaevna Kuznetsova, follows from SPARK data.
Vorobyov and Kozik, according to SPARK, are also currently co-owners of another non-profit partnership, the Lesnaya Lubyanka Partnership of Individual Developers, which is registered in the city of Vsevolzhsk. According to SPARK, Kozik, who is a co-owner of Lesnaya Lubyanka, was previously the head of the department Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region The main activity of the partnership is the management of the operation of the housing stock for a fee or on a contractual basis.
The co-owners of Lesnaya Lubyanka are also the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin, the senator from United Russia Valery Vasiliev, the head of the M-11 highway department of the FKU Uprdor Rossiya Alexander Myatiev, and Alexander Nikitenko, the namesake of the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region .
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General Nikolai Kozik is the owner of a dacha on the border of Russia and Finland, which Alexei Navalny spoke about in his investigation. The editors of Russiangate followed his trail and discovered a secret elite village, where the second site, owned by the general, is located. In the cooperative with the characteristic name "Forest Lubyanka" Kozik is next to the director of foreign intelligence Sergei Naryshkin and high-ranking officials.
Lubyanka is not simple, but forest
"Forest Lubyanka" - this is the name of the secret partnership of homeowners in the Leningrad Region, which, according to the Kontur-Focus database, includes Kozik. Why secret? Because there is almost no information about Lesnaya Lubyanka in the public domain. It is only known that a non-profit partnership with this name is registered in the city of Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, and that it is referred to in social networks exclusively as a local "elite village for its own."
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Nikolai Kozik - Head of the Regional Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia for Northwestern Federal District, was awarded the orders "For Military Merit", "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree, five medals.
According to the Counter-Focus database, the co-founders of Lesnaya Lubyanka are 63 people. Among them are the already mentioned head of the SVR Sergey Naryshkin, the chairman of the financial committee of the Vsevolzhsky district Anna Popova, the senator from United Russia Valery Vasiliev and Alexander Nikitenko, the full namesake of the ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
List of high-ranking officials and businessmen - co-founders of Lesnaya Lubyanka
Neighbor neighbor friend, comrade and business partner
Everyone knows that it is better to be on good terms with neighbors. After all, a good neighbor can help in business. Thus, one of the members of the partnership, the head of Resurs-komplekt LLC, Gleb Bondarev, has repeatedly won tenders for the supply of equipment and wetsuits worth more than a million rubles from the Vaninsky Commercial Port company. Russiangate assumes that it could not have done without the help of his dacha neighbor Dmitry Babich, the full namesake of the deputy of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Sakhalin Port Authority.Another member of the partnership, the head of the UNR-17 and SMU-57 construction companies, Yuri Lopatin, has been successfully cooperating with the St. Petersburg Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time and wins tenders for the construction and repair of department buildings. His neighbor, Alexander Lvov, is directly related to the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: he commanded the troops of the North-Western District of the Internal Troops. Will Lopatin receive an order from the FSB in the near future? It is quite possible, because the already mentioned Kozik, his neighbor, holds the post of head of the Regional Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia for the North-Western Federal District.
But the most interesting member of the partnership is Leonid Vorobyov, the founder of Stroyimpulse SMU-2 LLC. This construction company in 2013 featured in one of the most high-profile scandals of recent years - the case of corruption in the Ministry of Defense.
Then it turned out that Sergey Amelin, the general director of the Stroyimpulse SMU-2 company, was acquiring buildings and land plots that previously belonged to the Ministry of Defense. Prior to that, he signed several contracts with one of the subsidiaries of Oboronservis, an enterprise controlled by the ministry. From them he received an advance payment, which he spent on the purchase of buildings. It is this scheme - the conclusion of contracts with shell companies - that is often used for illegal withdrawal of funds.
Was it not with the money of the Ministry of Defense that Leonid Vorobyov built himself a dacha in Lesnaya Lubyanka?
Later, the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, denied the connection of Sergei Amelin with the corruption case. He said that Amelin "during the investigation into the case of embezzlement of the property of the military department was not summoned to the Main Military Investigation Department and was not interrogated."
Thus, the fact of corruption of the head of the Stroyimpulse SMU-2 company - and his employer Leonid Vorobyov, who could not have been unaware of the company's contracts - was not proven. And yet, Stroyimpulse, according to Russiangate, has multi-billion dollar debts to the Russian Defense Ministry. The question arises: was it not with the money of the military department that Vorobyov built himself a summer house in Lesnaya Lubyanka?
This hypothesis is indirectly confirmed by the fact that the co-founders of the elite settlement "Lesnaya Lubyanka" are high-ranking officials from the FSB and internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - in particular, the same Nikolai Kozik. It was with these structures that Stroyimpulse worked.
Border is locked tight
Journalists would not have paid attention to Lesnaya Lubyanka if the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, had not talked about another dacha of General Nikolai Kozik, which was built on the Russian-Finnish border. According to Navalny, the general's cottage is located not just on the border strip, where local residents are allowed to stay, but in a special zone. This is a territory surrounded by a fence under voltage, with towers and a control strip, where people without special permission are even strictly prohibited from entering, the anti-corruption official claimed.
Russiangate denied Navalny's information: the editors managed to find out that the territory on the Russian-Finnish border, where Kozik's dacha stands, is not a specially protected object. The fence photographed through Google Maps, the pictures of which Navalny posted in his post, is part of the old barriers on the territory of the Saimaa Canal, which have remained since the Cold War. Residential development is officially allowed in this area.
The head of the border department of the FSB, Nikolai Kozik, could guard the border without leaving his home
Thus, formally, General Kozik did not violate the law by building his "dacha on the border." Even closer to it is another cottage village, about which there is almost no information in the public domain - Black Island.
On local websites, information has repeatedly appeared that its inhabitants are far from ordinary people. “Nearby is the eponymous cooperative of generals and deputies of the DNP Cherny Island,” an anonymous user said in the comments to the district map on the Wikimapia website. This information is confirmed by an advertisement found by Russiangate for the sale of a house in the nearby village of Torfyanovka. “Thirty meters from the porch to the coastline, pristine taiga, hunting, fishing, mushrooms! Thousands of hectares of untouched nature, in the border zone with Finland, which are shared with you by respectable neighbors, only 23 households belong to people with high social status (deputies, generals),” the announcement says.
The history of the Black Island is as follows: in August 2010, the Governor of the Leningrad Region, Valery Serdyukov, signed an order to transfer a plot of land in the Vyborgsky District of the Leningrad Region with an area of 47,400 square meters from reserve land to agricultural land. Two months later, a dacha non-commercial partnership (DNP) "Pkhikala" was registered there, and a large plot was transferred to its possession. Two months later, representatives of the DNP again appealed to the administration, this time to change the status of the land to "intended for dacha farming." Three people became the founders of the DNP. Among them, Russiangate found a familiar name - Leonid Vorobyov, the already mentioned founder of Lesnaya Lubyanka.
Four years later, the name of General Nikolai Kozik appeared in the documents, who formalized the ownership of 6,600 square meters of this land and built the “dacha on the border” discovered by Navalny.
Nikolai Kozik and Leonid Vorobyov are two names associated with two large holiday villages in the Leningrad region. These people - as well as other residents of elite villages surrounded by barbed wire and high fences - are not just "good neighbors", they form a network of contacts between government officials and big business. Although the facts voiced by Russiangate, of course, are not indisputable evidence of a criminal conspiracy between officials and businessmen, they raise questions: what tenders, contracts and socially significant problems are discussed on summer evenings at dachas in Lesnaya Lubyanka, Cherny Ostrov and dozens of other elite villages ?
