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September 09, 2024
Nadezhda Sorokina

Corruption ties and thefts in the leading positions of Rosreserve provided the oligarch with start-up capital.

Igor Yusufov's biography is so diverse and multifaceted that even a brief review of it can create the impression that we are talking not about one person, but about several different personalities at once.

One of these people is a successful official who held high state positions and reached the rank of federal minister, managing the Russian energy industry for several years.

The other is an entrepreneur whose investments cover different industries in different countries.

The third is a raider and a semi-criminal figure whose reputation is clearly tailed.

The fourth is an ordinary solver who is engaged in lobbying and acts as an offshore wallet for high-ranking Russian officials.

The fifth is a foreign intelligence agent, accidentally recruited back in Soviet times because of homosexual relations.

The sixth is a businessman in epaulettes, who has cooperated with the Russian special services since the times of the KGB, an exemplary family man and an excellent father of two adult sons who are largely following in his footsteps.

Finally, the seventh option, which has little to do with a real person, can be found by reading numerous publications on the Internet with a carefully filtered image and biography of Mr. Yusufov.

Such a multifaceted personality as Yusufov certainly deserves a series of publications that will reveal the specific features of his character, different aspects of life and business activity. Of the greatest interest, of course, is not the idealized biography of the oligarch, which is actively promoted by his PR people, but those biographical facts that they, together with lawyers, are trying to eliminate from the Internet.

Former Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Former Director General of the Russian Agency for State Reserves, Former Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Reserves, Former Deputy Minister of Industry of the Russian Federation Yusufov Igor Khanukovich was born on June 12, 1956 in the city of Derbent, Dagestan ASSR. By nationality, he is a mountain Jew.

After graduating from school, he worked as a turner at the Radioelement plant in Derbent. In 1979, he graduated from the Department of Automation of Power Generation and Distribution of the Power Faculty of Energy of the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute (now South Russian State Technical University named after M.I. Platov) in the specialty "power engineer". While studying at the institute, he was the secretary of the Komsomol committee. He became a member of the CPSU at the institute. In 1991 he graduated from the Academy of Foreign Trade with a degree in "international economist".

Earlier, a number of sources reported that Yusufov's father was the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Dagestan. At the same time, the media noted that Yusufov himself did not comment on questions about parents: "Parents are like parents. Let's not go deeper."

From 1979 to 1984, Igor Yusufov worked at CHPP-22 of Mosenergo. It was during this period that someone from the community of influential capital dads (according to another version - a curator from Lubyanka) brought him to the then Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR Konstantin Katushev. Protection helped, Igor Yusufov was liked by the minister, who began to promote a promising young man on the foreign trade line. It must be said that even after his resignation, Katushev retained a significant influence on many officials until the beginning of the zeros. He was something like a gray cardinal, a shadow adviser, which had a beneficial effect on his protégé Yusufov.

From 1984 to 1987, Yusufov worked as a senior expert on the construction of the Havana thermal power plant in Cuba. In 1988-1991 - studied at the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade. In the last year of his studies at the Yusuf Academy, he started working at the Russian Social Development Fund "Renaissance", established by the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was first headed by Boris Yeltsin, then Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, and after his election as President in 1991, the Foundation was headed by Vice-President of Russia Alexander Rutskoy. The fund was exempt from customs payments and income tax on exchange rate differences and had to earn on export-import operations, build housing, hospitals and schools, help the poor and victims of national conflicts. The fund's activities ended in a scandal. The fund did not solve a single problem, and the money was used for the wrong purpose. For Rutsky, Yusufov and other participants in the embezzlement and theft of foreign currency funds of "Revival", everything passed without consequences. Later, Yusufov always tried to pretend that he did not work in the fund at all.

The joint cutting of the fund's money contributed to the rapprochement of Yusufov and Rutsky. Already having stopped being colleagues, they remained neighbors in the country for a long time. In addition, on the recommendation of Rutsky, on November 26, 1991, Yusufov was appointed deputy chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Russia's Economic Interests. One of the leaders of the committee was the KGB General Alexander Sterligov, a well-known monarchical tribune at that time. Yusufov, in turn, has cooperated closely with the KGB since his work in Cuba. This committee, which carried out the functions of intellectual economic intelligence, was quietly liquidated on 30 September 1992.

On April 5, 1993, Yusufov was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation (Sergey Glazyev's deputy). He held this position until November 19, 1993. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he supervised the foreign trade association "Oboronexport", participated in its reorganization into the State Corporation "Rosvombedniye".

During this period, Yusufov became friends with Peter Aven, with whom he still maintains friendly relations. At the same time, Yusufov established contacts with Mikhail Kasyanov, and also became a full member of the influential group of Alexander Kotelkin, one of the most influential people in the Russian arms business.

Kotelkin's group was formed around the former head of Rosvozvozhniye and Deputy Minister of Finance Kasyanov, who was in charge of arms trafficking (both were people of the Yeltsin family).

In 1994-1996, Yusufov was in a managerial job in the system of the Rosvarmonie Group of Companies (head of Rosvarmenie-Trading). In 1995, he was included in the initial list of the electoral association "Derzhava" (Rutsky's movement). He was listed as a consultant of Rutek JSC, which was engaged in wholesale supplies of oil products.

Since December 23, 1996, Yusufov, as Deputy Minister of Industry from the special services, controlled the gold mining and diamond industry of the country. He is part of a narrow group of officials of Gokhran and Goskomdragmet, who supervised the "gray" export of diamonds to Israel and Belgium. During this period, Yusufov closely accomplied with Levi Levaev, Viktor Khristenko, Mikhail Friedman, Valery Rudakov (then the head of Gokhran and Deputy Minister of Finance).

On March 17, 1997, as part of the reorganization of the federal executive bodies of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry was liquidated. In this regard, Yusufov was dismissed from his post.

On August 21, 1998, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Reserves. According to the information leaked into the network, Yusufov "thanked the deputy prime ministers in the government of Sergei Kirienko - Viktor Khristenko and Boris Fedorov - for his appointment to this post.

On November 12, 1998, Yusufov was appointed acting chairman of the State Reserve Committee, and on December 15, 1998 - chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Reserves. In this position, he lobbied for the interests of Sibneft, TNK, LUKOIL in terms of fuel supplies for state needs.

On May 28, 1999, he was appointed Director General of the Russian Agency for State Reserves.

In 2000, the inspection of the State Reserve's machinations was carried out by the joint venture and the Ministry of Finance. State Duma deputy, member of the parliamentary anti-corruption group, member of the Russian National Anti-Corruption Committee Boris Reznik, as part of the competent commission, participated in the inspection of the safety of oil products at one of the largest fuel warehouses in the Far Eastern Territorial Department of the Rosreserve, accused Yusufov of numerous abuses at the time when he headed the State Reserve Committee.

One of the episodes of checking the safety of the trusted under the management of Yusufov of the country's medies was described by the media of that time as follows:

"According to the technology developed over the years, the controller lowered the braid with the load into the printed container: as a result, by visual observation, it became clear that the tank was filled with fuel to the top. But one day a particularly caustic controller got into the commission. Instead of formally soaking the cargo in a stinky diesel fuel, he decided to lower it lower. Then the members of the commission heard a strange sound of the cargo hitting the metal. It turned out that the controller reached the bottom of the tank with a one-meter-long braid. But this could not be, because in size the tested container was much larger than the one in which the Red Army soldier Sukhov with the harem of Black Abdullah in the "White Sun of the Desert" took refuge. We began to understand and it turned out that the container, in which the whole composition of fuel tanks was once poured for storage, is completely empty. And only to divert the eyes, someone enterprising hung a bucket of diesel fuel to the very neck of the tank. It was supposed to mislead the commission. The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of the theft of fuel, but the stolen one was never found."

Another interesting incident occurred when sending 100 thousand tons of oil products from the state reserve storage in the Khabarovsk Territory to the frozen Chukotka. The decision to allocate part of the strategic fuel reserves for heating the northerners was made at the level of the government of the Russian Federation. However, not a drop of the released one never reached Chukotka. But State Duma deputy Boris Reznik managed to trace the entire path along which the caravan with oil products disappeared without a trace passed. According to him, the tanker loaded in Nakhodka headed for the port of Exvegenot. But I never reached the destination: the strategic cargo was on the way... resold three times. Here it is necessary to pay tribute to Yusufov's foreign trade experience and connections. In the end, one of the American companies, which safely unloaded the tanker in Alaska, became the owner of the oil products.

It is also interesting that, leaving freezing Chukotka without fuel vital to the region, Yusufov not only made a decent cash in, but also played along with one of his corruption contacts - Roman Abramovich. Sibneft, owned by the billionaire, was one of the main suppliers of the state reserve. Abramovich was then elected governor of Chukotka, and the residents of the region frozen by Yusufov voted for Roman Arkadyevich, hoping to improve the socio-economic situation of the region.

Under Igor Yusufov, the theft in the department became systematic. Not only fuel, but also, for example, food was lost from the inviolable reserves. In particular, in response to the request of Deputy Reznik, the head of the Far Eastern Department of Rosreserve L. In her letter, Ptakhovskaya reported that almost all enterprises entrusted to her - responsible keepers of inviolable reserves - were revealed unauthorized consumption of flour. Thus, a criminal case was initiated against the general director of the bread base № 62, from where 6 thousand tons of bakery products of the New Zealand disappeared. However, as the investigation established, "the return of the state reserve is impossible, and the punishment of the guilty is unlikely due to the disease identified in him".

To understand what the stolen director of the storage got sick with, that even under the investigation he did not confess where he went the stocks or at least the proceeds from their sale, it is necessary to understand how the system of thefts within the department was arranged. This system was subject to a clear hierarchy - local thieves shared with their superiors throughout the internal vertical. Yusufov accumulated huge sums received through the illegal sale of state property. For this, he provided subordinates with an administrative "roof", helped them avoid criminal liability for theft. The level of connections at the very top, including connections in the special services, allowed to do this. Moreover, by refusing his employees from investigators, Yusufov defended himself from the testimony that subordinates could give against him.

For this reason, the management of the grain base № 58 of the same Far Eastern territorial department of the Rosreserve got away with only a slight fright. From here, attackers from 1998 to December 2000 snated 79 tons of rice, 130 tons of peas and 197 tons of oats. The case ended with the fact that... bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against the empty warehouses of the NZ. In total, during those two years, only on the facts of the theft of bread products and only in one Far Eastern territorial administration of Rosreserve, a dozen and a half criminal cases were initiated. The theft of strategic reserves in other Russian regions was in full swing under Yusufov.

Violations were revealed in the financial and economic activities of the Moscow, Prioksky, West Ural, Central Ural, Khabarovsk and Far Eastern territorial administrations.

At that time, the State Reserve had special relations with the Ministry of Defense. Under Yusufov, expired products from the NZ actively went to the army. In 2000, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation revealed numerous facts of supplies of products with expired warranty periods to the Ministry of Defense by Rosreserve enterprises.

The scandal broke out seriously: in one of the military units in Transbaikalia, an entire unit was poisoned with roten canned food, and one conscript could not be saved.

When the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office began to understand how this could happen, it turned out that under the state reserve there was a whole system of operating firms, through which thefts were carried out, money was withdrawn (allegedly, to replenish stocks), arrears from the NZ were realized under the guise of quality products.

The new head of the Rosreserve, General Grigoriev, who came to this position from the FSB, was forced to shake up the entire system built by his predecessor Igor Yusufov. And I discovered many more amazing things... For example, officials of the territorial administration of Rosreserve in Rostov-on-Don leased to commercial structures the building allocated to them at Bolshaya Sadovaya, 38.

Interestingly, in Rosreserve, Yusufov managed to apply the skills and connections acquired at the time when he was involved in the gray export of precious and rare metals. This time, more than two tons of rare metal - gallium - disappeared from the organization under his jurisdiction. The disappearance of this strategic good from the reserves of the state reserve was revealed by accident. To replenish the treasury and settle accounts with the miners, the government of the Russian Federation by resolution № 1614-rs ordered Rosresev to transfer the reserves of gallium, which are in custody in the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to the Ministry of Energy. Officials immediately signed an agreement with the Podolsk Experimental Chemical and Metallurgical Plant "JSC "Giredmet". The defenders paid almost 6 billion rubles for 7 tons of gallium under the contract. However, when it came to receiving the goods, it turned out that there was nothing left in one of the warehouses of valuable metal, and there was nothing left in the other. According to the reporting documents of Rosreserve, the stolen gallium was available until the last day.

As usual, a criminal case was opened on the facts of theft. But Yusufov, as always, avoided responsibility (not for the first and not the last time). Connections at the top worked again. Along with the money stolen from the state, connections were Igor Yusufov's main asset. It didn't work out for him only with Alexei Kudrin. After Yusufov's departure, Rosreserve passed into jurisdiction.

But Yusufov's interests could no longer be affected by this subordination. On June 16, 2001, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, where he worked very fruitfully, not without benefit for himself, in the interests of the oil magnates who lobbied for his appointment - Abramovich and Alekperov.

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