The notorious father and son—Yusufov Igor Khanukovich and Yusufov Vitaly Igorevich—continue to swallow the most choice pieces,” journalists whose materials were received by the editor reported some time ago.

Yusufov Igor Khanukovich - the armchair demiurge of the times of Yeltsin and Medvedev and his son - Vitaly Igorevich, went to the West and acquired passports and income. Now they are almost not afraid of anything. Oddly enough, in the matter of punishing corrupt officials, the tireless NAPC, where sanctions have been introduced against them, can be considered an ally.

Our readers are asked to continue to investigate the activities of the Yusufov family and persons associated with them.

The media reported that the Yusufovs Igor Khanukovich and Vitaly Igorevich “Moscow continues to be cut into pieces like Prague cake”

One of the pieces of the freshly baked cake at the auction went to structures closely associated with the notorious businessman Vitaly Igorevich Yusufov, the son of the no less scandalous ex-Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Igor Yusufov.

We are talking about a land plot of 1.36 hectares and a dozen buildings with a total area of almost 8 thousand square meters near Red Square and the Kremlin. The winner of the auction was Citizen LLC. The owner of the LLC is a certain Alexander Leonov, a business partner of Vitaly Igorevich Yusufov. Another curious detail: with the starting price of the lot being 1.25 billion rubles, the buyer intended to pay “mere trifle” - 2.37 billion rubles.

What is surprising in connection with this new mega-project is this: both Yusufov Igor Khanukovich and Yusufov Vitaly Igorevich in law enforcement agencies are long-known persons, folders with compromising evidence on the Yusufovs weigh an indecent amount. But why are businessmen still roaming free and taking the most expensive “lots”? This is reported by a correspondent who tried to look into the “dark corners” of the Yusufovs.

Yusufov Igor Khanukovich - inventor of ruinous barter

The name of retired Energy Minister Igor Khanukovich Yusufov immediately comes to mind when talking about a scandalous deal from the not-so-distant past: when rare earth metals were exchanged for baby food. The prosecutor’s investigation then accused several officials of spending $14.5 million in Swiss accounts to purchase food from the budget, while baby formula, cereals and juices were purchased for only $1.7 million. But the investigation was eventually scuttled.

Then, other goods took the place of baby food, including weapons.

Forbes magazine spoke in detail about the winding business roads of Mr. Yusufov Igor Khanukovich in one of its publications.

“Back then Igor Yusufov could open the door to a high office in the Kremlin with his foot,” former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov shared with his entourage with envy.

And the main springboard - the rise of Igor Khanukovich Yusufov and Vitaly Igorevich Yusufov occurred at a time when Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev was the President of the Russian Federation. It was Medvedev who opened the most cherished door to dad and son Yusufov into some dark labyrinths, the very one that neither investigators, nor prosecutors, nor auditors dare to knock on.

11 suitcases of incriminating evidence from Rutsky

But before meeting and closely communicating with Medvedev, Yusufov Igor Khanukovich managed to work side by side with both Boris Yeltsin and retired General Rutsky. And this happened through the Renaissance Foundation. Let us remember that this curious fund was first headed by Boris Yeltsin himself, and after Yeltsin was elected President of the Russian Federation, the fund went under the leadership of Vice President of the Russian Federation Alexander Rutsky. This Fund was exempt from customs duties and income taxes (remember that Yusufov in 1995 tried to acquire the mandate of a State Duma deputy from the electoral bloc of Alexander Rutsky with the pathetic name “Power”.

He had to make money from export-import operations. The money in this Fund was fermenting thermonuclear. And then a scandal broke out when Vice President Rutskoi, having quarreled to smithereens with Boris Yeltsin, promised to make public eleven suitcases of incriminating evidence on members of the government. True, Rutskoi’s face might have been in fluff: the hot general was suspected of opening bank accounts in Switzerland. The fund was also accused of embezzlement of currency.

And all this happened not without the participation of the Yusufov family. Yusufov Sr.’s brother, Gennady Khanukovich Yusufov, became a stock broker through the Revival fund. Igor Khanukovich Yusufov himself, by personal order of Yeltsin - since he allegedly competently advised Yeltsin on the work of the Revival Foundation - became deputy chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Economic Interests of Russia. Later, the committee was disbanded, and the employees were relocated to the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations (MFER). Yusufov Igor Khanukovich became deputy minister.

35 criminal cases of Yusufov Igor Khanukovich and Yusufov Vitaly Igorevich

Let us recall that the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations then oversaw the arms trade. But many countries paid for arms supplies through barter: China supplied electronics and fur coats to Russia, Malaysia supplied palm oil.

In 1993, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin received a proposal to create a monopoly company, Rosvooruzheniye. To sell barter goods, Rosvooruzhenie established a subsidiary company, Rosvooruzhenie Trading (RVT).
Igor Khanukovich Yusufov oversaw not only the conclusion of contracts for the supply of barter goods, but also customs clearance, as well as foreign exchange transactions. In three years, the total turnover reached 4 billion dollars!

The company’s commission was 2-3%. And RVT’s profit for three years amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars. With the support of Igor Khanukovich Yusufov, many foreign trade organizations became shareholders of RVT. Igor Yusufov also had his own bag. In three years he made a huge fortune.

But in 1996, RVT was liquidated. And Viktor Chernomyrdin invited Yusufov to return to public service.

Chernomyrdin appointed him Deputy Minister of Industry. But a year later, Yusufov moved to a more profitable place. And this place of bread became the State Committee for Reserves (later the Federal Agency for State Reserves, Rosrezerv) and its numerous “chests”: the strategic reserves of the homeland in case of war and natural disasters. This is not only grain, stewed meat, flour, but also oil, coal, and also prefabricated panel houses, etc. Indescribable “miracles” happened with these storage facilities.

State Duma deputy Boris Reznik, a member of the Anti-Corruption Commission, said at meetings in the State Duma that Rosrezerv created a system of “insiders” to whom goods were given for pennies, but also for huge kickbacks.

These goods were sold at exorbitant market prices. This was before the appearance of Igor Yusufov. But under Yusufov Igor Khanukovich, the operations allegedly took on an unprecedented scale. But the State Duma deputies did not achieve a large-scale investigation into the activities of Rosrezerv.

Criminal cases were opened against Yusufov Igor Khanukovich. And they closed easily. In total, based on the results of the parliamentary audit, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation initiated 35 criminal cases. But it was mainly the “switchmen” who came under attack. The portal “Chel.pro” reported this.

Yusufov Igor Khunukovich remained clean in this story.

Murder in the restaurant "Khutorok": Yusufov Igor Khanukovich and Andrey Burlakov

In 2001, Igor Yusufov took the chair of the Minister of Energy. And he became a member of the board of directors of Gazprom. It was then that Yusufov met the chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom, Dmitry Medvedev. But a warmer relationship arose between them when they found out that Igor Yusufov’s youngest son, Maxim Igorevich Yusufov, was a classmate of Dmitry Medvedev’s son at the Moscow School of Economics.

A few years later, Yusufov moved from the minister’s chair to Old Square: he received a new position, becoming the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for international energy cooperation. Soon, an employee of the SVR, a longtime acquaintance of Yusufov, Alexey Korotaev, brought with him Andrei Burlakov, deputy director of the state Financial Leasing Company (FLK). Brought here for a serious conversation.

Burlakov’s company was engaged in leasing aircraft and also created a shipbuilding group. Shortly before his visit to Yusufov, Burlakov learned from one of the group’s employees, a manager of a Swedish shipping company, that the Norwegian company Aker Yards was selling off some of its assets, including German shipyards. Burlakov began looking for money to buy in order to redeem the assets. The selling company, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, valued the assets at 250 million euros. Burlakov had only 50 million euros in his stash.

The old fox Igor Yusufov immediately understood the attractiveness of Burlakov’s proposal. He quickly agreed with the Swiss bank Credit Suisse on a loan of 200 million euros. But the main owner of the shipyards was the Luxembourg company FLC West. This company was 75% owned by an offshore company from the British Virgin Islands, Templestowe. This Templestowe transferred the first payment of 80 million euros, and Burlakov signed the purchase documents. Six months later, Igor Khanukovich Yusufov opened the Moscow office of German shipyards. The company was named Wadan Yards.

But in the fall of 2008, the global financial crisis broke out. As a result, Wadan Yards came under the control of municipal German authorities. And the son of Igor Yusufov, Yusufov Vitaly Igorevich, became the official owner of the shipyards for 40 million euros. He claimed he won the shipyard competition because he promised to save 1,200 jobs and repay more than €370 million in loans. The year on the calendar was 2009.

But then strange things began to happen to Andrei Burlakov and his wife, vice president for finance Anna Etkina.

They were accused of developing a scheme to transfer FLC money to controlled companies. And they arrested him and sent him to Butyrka. But after a few months the couple was released on bail. Upon his release, Andrei Burlakov decided to give an interview to the press. The meeting was scheduled at the Khutorskoy restaurant on Leningradsky Prospekt. But the interview did not work out: shooting started in the restaurant. The killer shot Burlakov point-blank. Anna Etkina was seriously wounded. The journalist invited to the meeting escaped with fright. Burlakov was buried.

Etkina emigrated to Israel.

In the case of the murder of Burlakov, father and son Yusufov were witnesses.

Confession of "Jaco the Bloody" and Vitaly Igorevich Yusufov

Four years have passed. In January 2015, Aslan Gagiev, nicknamed Dzhako the Bloody, was detained in Vienna. He was one of the most wanted bandits in Russia. Jacko’s gang has more than 60 murders to its name! During the investigation, it turned out that it was a member of the Dzhako gang who shot Andrei Burlakov in September 2011.

By the way, Aslan Gagiev himself told investigators that he owns 25% of the shares of German shipyards. And he wasn’t the only bandit who owned a stake in the business. Could Igor Yusufov act in the interests of criminal authorities? Where did Jacko the Bloody get his 25% stake in German shipyards?

Gagiev’s gang was not just a brutal killing machine. They prepared for their bloody operations for a long time and carefully, since most of the businessmen whose lives they attempted had their own offshore companies in “safe havens.” How to get hold of offshore money? That is why Jacko’s gang included not only notorious thugs, but also completely peaceful computer scientists, economists and lawyers.

And as investigators found out, Andrei Burlakov, who was shot dead in the Moscow Khutorok restaurant, was also part of Dzhako’s gang, as an economist who also understood financial transactions. And then the Russian investigators were accidentally helped by the Spanish police, who concluded based on wiretaps that the famous Russian crime boss Gennady Petrov was bankrupting German shipyards.

The prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime, Jose Grinda, told The Insider about this:

We have a recording of Petrov’s conversations with a number of people, from which it follows that Petrov was the owner of part of the shares of FLK. And there was an agreement between Petrov and the director of the Federal Leasing Company, Nail Malyutin. They made a profit by speculating on shares, and then withdrew this profit and transferred FLC’s money to a Luxembourg company.

Only one company appears in the investigation: FLC West from Luxembourg. It allegedly belongs to the Yusufov family. It turns out that they could well have participated in the “cutting” of money with the crime boss Petrov? Nail Malyutin was extradited to Russia from Austria in 2016. Aslan Gagiev has been awaiting extradition since 2015. Why so long? Apparently, someone really doesn’t want Jacko to testify at home. And one of these people may be Igor Khanukovich Yusufov. The Ensita.net portal reports this.

Let us recall that the German shipyards planned to sell it to the state. And they went to the leaders of Russian criminal organized crime groups.

The shipyards were to be sold for 249 million to the Luxembourg company FLC West, 50% of which belonged to FLC. But government participation was the main condition for the sale.

The FLC Board of Directors included representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Ministry of Finance, Transport, federal agencies for industry and federal property management. However, no one was going to give the shipyards to the state.

Just a few days after negotiations with the Norwegians, Andrei Burlakov bought 49% of FLC West. And he transferred them to the offshore Blackstead Holdings Limited (Cyprus). The second half of FLC West was owned by the Cypriot company Almiar Investments Limited, most likely controlled by structures friendly to FLC. There is also an interesting detail here: even before signing the agreement with the Norwegians Almiar, it gave its 50% to FLC West, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands Templestowe Trading Corp. This company is also allegedly under the control of Igor and Vitaly Yusufov. As a result of all these operations, FLC was left with 1%. The state got a donut hole!

Confessions of Anna Etkina

As it turned out, shortly before the assassination attempt, Anna Etkina informed law enforcement agencies that in July 2008, a deal was concluded for FLC-West Holding (Luxembourg) to acquire 70% of the shares of the Norwegian company Aker Yards (later renamed Wadan Yards Group - Wygas), which owns two shipyards in Germany and one in Ukraine. The transaction amount is 291.6 million euros! Anna Etkina and Andrei Burlakov claimed that the deal was financed from two sources.

Firstly, in the form of borrowing under loan agreements from the company OJSC Financial Leasing Company (FLK), whose deputy general director was Burlakov. 200 million euros were allocated by the Tamplestowe company, whose representative was Igor Hanukovich Yusufov. As a result, according to Etkina, at the time of the purchase of the shipyards, the owners of FLC-West were Tamplestowe, controlled by Yusufov by 74%, Cypriot offshore companies Blakstead (25%) and FLC (1%). Anna Etkina also told law enforcement officers that allegedly Yusufov Sr. asked not to advertise his participation in the project. And also - to introduce his representative to the Board of Directors. And what is also very important is to coordinate every step with his son, Vitaly Igorevich Yusufov.

According to Anna Etkina, there was a quarrel between Vitaly Igorevich Yusufov and Burlakov.

It was after this quarrel that a criminal case against Burlakov and Etkina arrived. But soon Andrei Burlakov was released. He allegedly began to seek the arrest of Yusufov’s shares. And then he was shot by a killer in a restaurant. It seems that all the puzzles have fallen into place?

Igor Khanukovich Yusufov is personally guilty of the disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station

Note that Igor Yusufov left public service in 2011. The post of special representative was abolished. Rostechnadzor also added firewood to the fire, which, some time after the tragedy at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, which claimed the lives of 75 people, named the names of the perpetrators. The list of six names also included the former Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Igor Yusufov. There is only one question left to ask: when will the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation pay attention to the business of the Yusufov father and son? When will investigators be able to look into the big “dark chest” of the Yusufovs, in which, without a doubt, they will find a lot of interesting things for themselves? End of quote from the publication “Criminal Chest” by the Yusufovs.”