Alexey Kudrin daughter. Valentina Matvienko’s namesake pretended to be her relative. The room we are in was created by you

The peculiarity of the moment is that in the past sanctions have become only a side topic: in Moscow they believe that there is nothing good about them, but they have learned to cope with them. The findings of the Budget Commission recently presented by the government are such that even skeptics are impressed. But before the start of this session, Vesti on Saturday had the opportunity to ask its participants about sanctions.

Will what is happening now push back growth prospects? As soon as everything calmed down and macroeconomic stability arose, the prospect of British sanctions arose again.

“There will be no more British sanctions,” says Andrey Kostin, President and Chairman of the Board of PJSC VTB Bank. “Right now.” “Because they believe that there is nothing new anymore.”

Jokes aside, but really, how to respond to new possible sanctions? Is it better to respond symmetrically, asymmetrically, or not notice at all?

“We need to pursue our agenda, do everything necessary to become less dependent on various external factors affecting the development of our economy. This is, in fact, what we are doing. These include the conditions for business development and the stability of tax, budget and economic policies. Response measures may simply be the creation of better conditions for the development of our entrepreneurs,” said Anton Siluanov, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Siluanov’s predecessor as Minister of Finance, and now the head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, was invited to the forum. “The fact is that we need to create our own systems of alternative payments. Maybe change the vector of our trade relations with some countries,” Kudrin noted.

The Mir system, not only Visa?

It’s very difficult for us to answer in terms of retaliatory steps,” admitted Alexey Kudrin.

Is it better to create your own?

It is better to create some alternative mechanisms. This is clear to me, and this was my opinion regarding the first sanctions.

The West was represented here by Kristalina Georgieva from the World Bank in Washington. But fortunately it’s Bulgarian. Her Russian is excellent.

Aren't you afraid to listen to such reasoning from the Russians when they say: we ourselves have a mustache?

It is very important that we all try to understand that the economic situation in the world is changing, and not necessarily for the better. And therefore it is absolutely correct that Russia tried very hard to build its own system. This is a large economy, its own system of macroeconomic stability - it already exists. But there is no high growth yet, we need to find it, says Georgieva.

According to the head of the Ministry of Economy, Maxim Oreshkin, in August-September Russia already experienced an outflow of funds from non-residents, which could have been frightening. But no one was afraid.

“Our financial system copes very well with the outflow that we have now. What needs to be done for economic growth? We need to concentrate on growth factors: the dynamics of the economically active population, a whole package of reforms, investment dynamics, improving the quality of investments, increasing labor productivity ", emphasized Oreshkin.

If only there were enough more workers in the country.

This is actually one of the most important limitations.

“And migration policy,” said Kristalina Georgieva.

“If you look at all the national projects, there are elements everywhere that help overcome existing barriers to growth,” assured Maxim Oreshkin.

Remember how Kudrin lectured Putin recently? How should the economy be organized?

But if you look at how Kudrin himself and his family live? In order to understand: what motivates this person, is it really pain for the ruined state of the country? Maybe even greater liberalization of Russia, according to Kudrin, will really make its citizens rich?

On the one hand, Kudrin is given credit for the sharp reduction in the external debt of the Russian Federation after 2000, just when Putin became President of Russia. And it’s not easy to say whose greater merit is here, the minister implementing the President’s strategy, or the minister showing his own initiative.

But everything flows and changes, so a second side has appeared: Kudrin’s rejection of Putin’s policies. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why Kudrin supported Bolotnaya Square, whose activity was aimed at preventing Putin’s re-election.

And even if the actions of individual sympathizers of Bolotnaya could then somehow be explained high motives(Truth, specifically unfounded: there was no specific program for the Swamp Protestants), then it is impossible to understand why the former deputy chairman of the Russian government, who wanted the good of Russia, was inflamed with democratic liberal love for his new comrades in the Committee of Civil Initiatives.

For reference: Among others, the founders of the Committee are the following persons.

• Kudrin A.L.


• Gozman L. Ya.


• Gusman Yu. S.


• Pozner V.V.


• Svanidze N.K.


• Yurgens I. Yu.


• Yasin E. G.

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The main financial mystery is how the Committee of Civil Initiatives of Alexei Kudrin conducts its vigorous activities.

Irina Tintyakova, wife (b. 1973)

“The Northern Crown Charitable Foundation has branches in London and New York”

Irina Igorevna Tintyakova, President of the Northern Crown Charitable Foundation. The foundation has branches in London and New York. The founders of this organization are also listed as Elena Voitsekhovich, a former employee of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

Her husband, Konstantin Voitsekhovich, was an assistant and press secretary to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. Fundraising, which is carried out by Northern Crown, occurs mainly at parties and VIP events.

It is known that in 2003 Alexander Lebedev’s National Reserve Bank transferred money to this organization, and in 2006 Philip Morris donated $52 thousand. "Northern Crown" owns LLC "Center for Analysis and Forecasting".

In 2001, Tinyakova, together with Murtazali Rabadanov (now rector of Dagestan State University), established Ambi XXII LLC for the production of artificial sapphires. Since 2002, Tintyakova has been registered as a co-founder of Valentin Yudashkin Group (13.5% of shares).

She owns two plots of land, two residential buildings (one of which was not included in the 2009 declaration) and two apartments, one of them with an area of ​​327.9 square meters. m. Kudrin’s wife has an Audi A5 Coupe car and an MV Augusta motorcycle at her disposal.

It turns out that as a major shareholder of the Valentin Yudashkin Group company, Alexei Kudrin’s wife ended up in a dangerous company. Recently it became known that “Moscow law enforcement officers discovered a gambling club in an apartment on Bryusov Lane, owned by the wife of fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin. During the inspection, eight slot machines, two poker tables, one roulette table, as well as cards and gaming chips were discovered.”

Polina Kudrina, daughter (b. 1986)

Kudrin's daughter from his first marriage is a co-founder of Art Center Grand Prix LLC, which offers training in vocals, acting and music theory. In April 2010, she was involved in a high-profile traffic accident in St. Petersburg: the Range Rover she was in drove into the window of a lingerie store on Nevsky Prospekt.

The driver was Mikhail Matvienko, stepson of Vadim Novinsky, Russian-Ukrainian billionaire, president of Smart Holding Group of Companies.

Artem Kudrin, son from his second marriage (b. 1998)
Alexey Kudrin’s declaration for 2009 states that Artyom is the sole owner of an apartment of 120 square meters. m, and in 2010 - the sole owner of, apparently, another apartment - 127.6 sq. m. m.

For information:

Veronica Sharova, ex-wife of Alexei Kudrin (b. 1967)

The ex-wife of Alexei Kudrin, Veronika Olegovna Sharova, is the owner of the Brothers Karamazov mini-hotel in St. Petersburg.

Anna Astanina, the ex-wife of former first deputy president of VTB Bank Vadim Levin, owns a share in the same hotel. Founder of Leader LLC, owner of the St. Petersburg socio-political newspaper Delo (the newspaper was co-founded by the chairman of the St. Petersburg Property Committee, Mikhail Manevich, who was killed in 1997).

The new website election2012.ru published the report “Power of Families-2011. Government. Part 1”, prepared by the “Monitoring Expert Group” created by Marina Litvinovich.

This is the result of the work of the last three hellish months, during which a huge amount of material and information was shoveled.

There are currently 17 parts to the report. 18 people from the Government are described. The remaining parts will be released by May. We paid main attention to nepotism - businesses tied not only to members of the government, but also to their wives, children, and immediate relatives. Everything is placed in the right places. Control the sweetest flows.

Everything was written from open sources, which were carefully double-checked. Available databases were also used. First of all, the database of registrations of legal entities (USRLE) and company reporting.

KUDRIN Alexey Leonidovich

Place of work

Government of the Russian Federation

Job title

Since 2000 - Minister of Finance, since 2007 - Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Participation in business

As a civil servant, he personally did not have the right to engage in business. The declared income of Alexey Kudrin in 2008 amounted to 5.690 million rubles, in 2009 - 9.239 million rubles, in 2010 - 7.857 million rubles. At the end of 2009, the minister owned an Audi A6 car, and since 2010, a Ford Thinkcity-Electric electric car, the car is not yet sold in Russia, the estimated cost is more than 2 million rubles. Kudrin does not own any real estate - his wife provided him with an apartment with an area of ​​327.9 square meters for free use. m.

Impact on business

Since 1991, Alexey Kudrin worked in the mayor's office of St. Petersburg, and since 1993 - as chairman of the Committee on Economics and Finance (KEF). This structure appeared in the investigation into the activities of the real estate company Renaissance. Its owner, Anna Evglevskaya, according to the Kommersant newspaper, “built luxury housing and gave it away to city officials as bribes,” for which she was arrested and convicted. During the investigation, Evglevskaya named the leaders of the St. Petersburg mayor's office whose services she paid for. According to press publications, she said that for $54 thousand she organized the resettlement of an apartment that bordered the mayor’s apartment through the wall, which was very profitable for the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. According to the testimony of a realtor, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the mayor of St. Petersburg, who fled the country. A number of city hall employees, including the future head of the department for ensuring the activities of the reception and office of the President of Russia, Viktor Kruchinin, were arrested.

• Is Kudrin preparing Russia for total unemployment?

Chairman of the St. Petersburg Creative Union of Journalists, head of the media holding “AZHUR” Andrei Bakonin (Konstantinov), citing sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, indicates that “in March-April 1995, Anna Anatolyevna [Evglevskaya] transferred 10 thousand dollars to one of the leaders of the Economics Committee and finance of St. Petersburg. The official facilitated the illegal signing of documents,” according to which several hundred million rubles were received, allegedly intended for the repair of the heating main. This episode was described in the press with a mention of KEF Deputy Chairman Sergei Vyazalov in 1996, during the election of the mayor of St. Petersburg. Vyazalov and Kudrin were not charged.

Two years later, Kudrin testified in criminal case No. 694259, which was conducted regarding abuses in the funeral industry. This area of ​​urban management was supervised by the former vice-mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. The order signed by him dated 07.10.1994 “On the activities of the Specialized Production and Household State Enterprise” (SPBGP) was attached to the case. The document mentioned the disposal of unclaimed bodies and the need to make changes to budget expenditures. Putin entrusted control over the implementation of his orders to Alexei Kudrin. According to investigators, the number of unclaimed bodies in St. Petersburg was systematically inflated, and funding was embezzled.

According to the story of Alfred Nobel’s family members living in Sweden, during their visit to St. Petersburg they had a personal meeting with the Chairman of the KEF. At the same time, Alexei Kudrin’s assistant took foreign currency (in Swedish kronor) to restore the neglected graves of the Nobels at the Smolensk Lutheran cemetery. According to the cemetery workers, this financial assistance did not reach them - minor repairs to the graves were carried out free of charge, by the ministers. According to the memoirs of the relatives of the founder of the Nobel Prize, during the investigation they were informed that in total it was a question of $40 thousand spent inappropriately. During interrogation, Alexei Kudrin admitted the fact of his contacts with the Nobels, but denied that he received money from them.

The head of the KEF and Vice-Mayor Vladimir Putin appear in the materials of criminal case No. 144128, initiated in 1999 in connection with the activities of the Twentieth Trust construction corporation (the head of the trust, Sergei Nikeshin, is a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg). The investigation used the results of an inspection of the enterprise, organized on behalf of the city UBEP by the Control and Audit Department (KRU) of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. According to the KRU act, Kudrin signed agreements to provide the corporation with state loans worth several million dollars. Money from the Twentieth Trust was transferred to more than two dozen companies in Spain, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Ireland and the USA. The investigation was closed after the inauguration of Vladimir Putin as President of Russia. According to the leaders of the investigation team, unprecedented pressure was put on them.

In 2000, Alexey Kudrin was involved in criminal case No. 31913, having been summoned for questioning. The investigation was conducted regarding housing loans that Kudrin, while working at the mayor's office, distributed from the budget to his St. Petersburg employees since 1993.

Critics accused the Minister of Finance of lobbying the investment bank KIT Finance. Kommersant and other business media pointed out that KIT Finance had a “very strong lobby in the government.” Alexey Kudrin was a public supporter of the bank.

The activities of KIT Finance managers are connected with the history of the St. Petersburg bank Palmira, registered on April 29, 1992. Its founder and member of the board of directors in 1994-2004. there was a businessman Otar Margania - a native of the widely represented economic and informal power elite of St. Petersburg in the 1990s. communities of "Ebraeli" (Georgian Jews). He graduated from the same university with Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, maintaining close personal and business ties after the latter moved to Moscow. In 2000, Alexander Vinokurov, an acquaintance of Otar Margania, who worked at the investment company BALTONEXIM Finance, became the chairman of the board of directors of the bank. A year later, the institution was renamed Web-Invest Bank. In 2005, the bank changed its name again - to KIT-Finance.

After the appointment of Alexey Kudrin as minister, the mentioned persons figured in financial and political conflicts related to the struggle for control over the assets of the Russian diamond monopolist, AK ALROSA. A significant stake in the company belonged to the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). In 2001, during the presidential elections in Yakutia, BALTONEXIM Finance Investment Company Alexander Vinokurov filed a statement with the prosecutor’s office demanding that the head of the region, Mikhail Nikolaev, be brought to criminal liability under a number of articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - it was about late payments by the local Ministry of Finance. The Company magazine wrote that the actions of BALTONEXIM Finance could have been carried out at the request of Otar Margania, a freelance adviser to Alexey Kudrin. Under the threat of criminal prosecution, Nikolaev withdrew his candidacy, Vyacheslav Shtyrov won the election for the head of the republic, after which the board of directors of ALROSA was headed by the Minister of Finance of Russia.

• Alexey Kudrin acted as a mediator between the authorities and the opposition
  

After Kudrin entered the diamond mining industry in 2002, Web-Invest Bank, being a small St. Petersburg credit organization, became the underwriter of the bond issue of AK ALROSA and the general agent for organizing the bond issue of Yakutia. AK ALROSA began placing large sums on deposits in the bank of Alexander Vinokurov, supervised by Otar Marganiya - in particular, in 2004, temporarily available funds in the amount of $75 million were transferred to Web-Invest Bank.

Simultaneously with Alexey Kudrin, Fedorov Andreev was appointed to AK ALROSA - in the company he took the position of first vice president for finance. According to SPARK-Interfax, Alexander Vinokurov from April 1999 to January 2002. was listed as the general director of LenRos Invest CJSC. The founder of the CJSC was Fedor Andreev, Vinokurov’s colleague from work at Tveruniversalbank and BALTONEXIM Bank. From the quarterly reports of KIT-Finance it follows that in 2002 Andreev, through Composition-Asset Management LLC, controlled 19.99% of the bank.

In 2003-09 Vinokurov’s friend worked at Russian Railways OJSC, whose shares were placed with him by the same Web-Invest Bank. Since July 2009, Fedor Andreev returned to AK ALROSA, becoming its president and is currently the president. Until 2011, the Minister of Finance remained the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Directors of ALROSA.

The role of Alexander Vinokurov and his colleagues was considered technical - there is reason to believe that the strategy of property and financial transactions was formulated by Otar Margania on the basis of his relationship with Alexei Kudrin. Forbes magazine described the system for making key decisions in the Russian diamond industry: “The name of... Otar Margania is well known in the gemstone industry. He works as a freelance adviser to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. Kudrin heads the supervisory board of ALROSA and oversees the industry. And Margania, according to experts interviewed by Forbes, has great influence on the minister. Forbes’ interlocutors are also confident that it is his companies that now own a significant share of the shares of the investment group that are not controlled by ALROSA.”

“Investment group” means OJSC IG ALROSA. The main owner of this joint-stock company, according to SPARK-Interfax, turned out to be private capital not associated with AK ALROSA. The monopoly transferred the largest promising deposits of gold and precious stones to the control of the group - up to 200 million carats of diamonds in the Arkhangelsk region and 700 tons of gold in Yakutia.

The ALROSA IG was formed from the structures of the Moscow Sobinbank, which was involved in the scandal of laundering billions of dollars through the American Bank of New York (BoNY). As Forbes reports, “at a hearing in the court of the Southern District of New York in the case of $15.3 million seized from the Sobinbank correspondent account in BoNY... the court agreed with the opinion of the American authorities that the Sobinbank correspondent account, like a number of other accounts , served as a “conduit for the clandestine transfers of approximately $7 billion from Russia to finance suspicious or illegal transactions.”

Since 2001, the chairman of the board of IG ALROSA has been the co-owner of Sobinbank, Khalid Aprilevich Omarov - in various official documents this person appears as Khalid April-ogly Omarov and Khalid Oprel-ogly Omarov. Until 1997, the banker lived in St. Petersburg, where, according to media reports, he met Otar Margania. The founder of the ALROSA IG was considered a businessman close to the Chechen community. In addition, information that has not been refuted until now has been published many times that Khalid Omarov is a close relative of cousins ​​Georgy Safiev and Imran Ilyasov. The first of them is the head of the Russian Capital bank, who was killed in 2002 in the USA. The second was convicted as the leader of the Kingisepp organized crime group, which specialized in contract killings.

IG ALROSA, whose curator Forbes calls Otara Margania, according to SPARK-Interfax, controlled shares of the KIT Finance bank through a number of legal entities. Thus, it can be assumed that the source of funds for the development of the KIT Finance bank could be income derived from the diamond mining industry.

The mechanism of transactions is described in open sources. Otar Margania is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Vozrozhdenie. In 2003, AK ALROSA placed 1.6 billion rubles into a deposit account with this organization. at 2% per annum in rubles. In any Russian bank under similar circumstances, ALROSA could receive at least 10% per annum.

According to one of the versions cited by Kommersant, the deposit became a condition for issuing loans for the purchase of 75% of the shares of the Moscow Stud Farm No. 1 (MKZ). This enterprise occupied land in the Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway area. By purchasing shares, their new owners intended to use the area for commercial development. As a result, as the Vedomosti newspaper reported, 900 hectares of land were bought by a group of investors led by Bank Vozrozhdenie and IG ALROSA. The total value of the land asset was determined at $3 billion.

News agencies at the same time described the assumptions of the former head of the legal department of AK ALROSA, Hamlet Akopyan, that “Alexey Kudrin and ALROSA President Alexander Nichiporuk were directly involved in the theft of company funds, possibly used to seize the lands of the Moscow Stud Farm No. 1.”

In his statement addressed to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Akopyan revealed the mechanism for purchasing the territory of the MKZ. According to this appeal, “money from Vozrozhdenie Bank was transferred to five companies (Avtodorpostavka LLC, Multifunctional Systems LLC, MIR Consulting LLC, Energogroup LLC, Sinist LLC) that were engaged in purchasing land shares Moscow stud farm No. 1 ... These five companies together own 21.06% of the Entrepreneurship Development Bank. At the same time, the directors of the LLC, I. Kulakov, A. Pankin, S. Ioganson, V. Arnautov, were simultaneously employees of JSCB BRP, that is, subordinates of Alexander Nichiporuk, who then headed the board of this bank.”

Alexander Nichiporuk has indeed served as Chairman of the Board of the Entrepreneurship Development Bank since 1994. Since 2003, he was vice president of AK ALROSA, in 2004-07. headed the company. The media have repeatedly called Nichiporuk “a protégé of Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin” and his longtime associate.

Based on the testimony of Hamlet Hakobyan, a criminal case of embezzlement was opened in 2005. According to the investigation, thanks to placing a deliberately unprofitable deposit in Vozrozhdenie Bank, ALROSA lost 153 million rubles. That same year, the prosecutor's office closed the case "due to the absence of a crime." In an interview with Kommersant, Hamlet Akopyan noted that he was not surprised by this procedural decision: “As soon as they realized that Kudrin himself should be a defendant in this case, everyone ran in. After that, the investigator was replaced...”

Minister Alexei Kudrin did everything possible to prevent the bankruptcy of KIT Finance when the bank was unable to fulfill its financial obligations to its partners. As a result of a series of actions, on October 8, 2008, a consortium of investors consisting of ALROSA Investment Group and Russian Railways OJSC acquired 45% of the shares of KIT Finance. The heads of the railway department were asked to intervene - the rehabilitation of KIT Finance took place at public expense. Subsequently, IG ALROSA withdrew from the capital of the bank, the only shareholders of which were structures close to JSC Russian Railways.

The reorganization of the private bank KIT Finance, close to Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, which owed debt to counterparties, cost the state an unprecedented amount of 130 billion rubles. – more than $4.3 billion.

Family

First wife

Veronika Olegovna Sharova, businessman. He is listed as the director and co-owner of the Brothers Karamazov Hotel in St. Petersburg. Anna Astanina, the ex-wife of former first deputy president of VTB Bank Vadim Levin, owns a share in the same hotel. In 2008, as a result of a family conflict (after the divorce, the spouses disputed the right to raise children), she was illegally placed in a psychiatric hospital. As the media wrote, this happened with the participation of her ex-husband, who in this way could have tried to take Astanina’s children away.

Veronika Sharova is the founder of Leader LLC, the owner of the St. Petersburg socio-political newspaper Delo. The publication was published from 1995-2009. and closed due to the cessation of funding. The newspaper's co-founders were also Mikhail Manevich, the former head of Svyazinvest Valery Yashin, the current owner of the International Bank of St. Petersburg and member of the Federation Council Sergei Bazhanov, another current member of the Federation Council Vyacheslav Shverikas and other persons.

Second wife

Irina Igorevna Tintyakova, philanthropist. Before her marriage to Alexei Kudrin, she worked as an assistant for Andrei Trapeznikov, a member of the board of RAO UES of Russia, in whose reception she met her future husband. Tintyankova is the president of the Northern Crown charity foundation. The foundation has branches in London and New York. According to SPARK-Interfax, the founders of the organization, in addition to the wife of the Minister of Finance, are Elena Voitsekhovich and Maria Margevich. The first of them was previously an employee of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, her husband Konstantin Voitsekhovich was an assistant and press secretary to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, and later became director of Medialogia LLC.

The Foundation does not publish on its website reports on the expenditure of collected funds. Fundraising, which is carried out by Northern Crown, occurs mainly at parties and VIP events.

According to Irina Tintyakova, as cited by Vedomosti, the annual budget is $150-250 thousand, 80% of the funds go to help orphanages and 20% to administrative expenses. It is known that in 2003, Alexander Lebedev’s National Reserve Bank transferred money to this organization, and in 2006, Philip Morris donated $52 thousand.

Northern Crown owns LLC Center for Analysis and Forecasting.

In 2001, Tinyakova, together with Murtazali Rabadanov, established the company Ambi XXII LLC (now excluded from the register) for the production of artificial sapphires. Rabadanov then headed the X-ray diffraction analysis laboratory at the Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Now he is the rector of Dagestan State University.

From 2002 to the present, according to SPARK-Interfax, Irina Tintyakova has been registered as a co-founder of Valentin Yudashkin Group (13.5% of shares), whose main activity is investment in securities. Tintyakova refers to a long-standing personal friendship with Yudashkin - according to her, they decided to create a joint company to produce casual clothing, but the business was unsuccessful. Valentin Yudashkin Group has two subsidiaries: Valentin Yudashkin Trade House and Yudashkin Fashion House.

In 2010, Irina Tintyakova joined the small jury of the Russian literary award “National Bestseller”.

The wife of the Minister of Finance in 2010 reported an income of 222 thousand rubles. She owns two plots of land, two residential buildings (one of which was not included in the 2009 declaration) and two apartments, one of them with an area of ​​327.9 square meters. m. Kudrin’s wife has an Audi A5 Coupe car and an MV Augusta motorcycle at her disposal.

Daughter

Polina Alekseevna Kudrina, businessman. In October 2009, together with friends, she founded Art Center Grand Prix LLC, which offers vocal training, acting and music theory training. In April 2010, she was involved in a high-profile accident in St. Petersburg: her acquaintance, businessman Mikhail Matvienko, lost control of his Range Rover car and drove into the window of a lingerie store on Nevsky Prospekt. Mikhail Matvienko is not a relative of the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko, he is the stepson of Vadim Novinsky, a major Russian-Ukrainian businessman, president of the Smart Holding Group of Companies, whose fortune in 2011 was estimated by Forbes at $2.7 billion.

Artem Alekseevich Kudrin, schoolboy. Born in 1998. Minister Kudrin’s declaration for 2009 states that Artem is the sole owner of an apartment of 120 square meters. m, and in 2010 - the sole owner, apparently, of another apartment - 127.6 sq. m. m.

Friends

Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei Storchak is accused of attempting to steal from the federal budget under the pretext of covering losses of Sodexim Bank. This private lending institution bought from several African countries their debts to the former USSR. According to investigators, the amount that the bank demanded to be paid from the Russian budget as compensation was inflated by $43.4 million. In 2007, Storchak was arrested, Minister Alexei Kudrin actively supported his subordinate, and the following year he was released from custody . Currently, Storchak continues to familiarize himself with the collected evidence base. According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, the person involved in the investigation is deliberately delaying the case in the hope that the Arbitration Court will satisfy the claim of Sodexim to the Ministry of Finance for recognition of the debt, including the disputed $43.4 million. The wife of the accused, Lyudmila Storchak, filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Finance demanding payment to her 5 million rub. The wife of Deputy Kudrin does not agree that during the search $1 million that belonged to her was seized and kept for a long time.

The criminal case of the Twentieth Trust corporation, investigated in 1999, involved employees of Alexei Kudrin, who subsequently moved to Moscow and were employed by the Ministry of Finance. Thus, Kudrin’s St. Petersburg deputy Dmitry Pankin (he put his signature on the payment orders for which money was allocated) works as Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. Now Pankin’s candidacy is being considered for the post of head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM).

The case also involved Nadezhda Savolainen, the future deputy director of the administrative department of the Ministry of Finance. Subsequently, she was deputy head of the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development, and is now director of the department of accounting policy and control of the Ministry of Health.

Zhanetta Krolli, also a defendant in the criminal case, became an adviser to the manager of Vneshtorgbank.

The media call the former deputy president of this financial organization, St. Petersburg resident Vadim Levin, a personal friend of the chairman of the supervisory board of VTB Bank Alexei Kudrin. In turn, businessman Shota Boterashvili is a close acquaintance of Levin and a likely acquaintance of Kudrin in St. Petersburg, as is Otar Margania, a representative of the city’s “Ebraeli” community. In the 1990s. Boterashvili, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, was a business partner of Mikhail Mirilashvili, the son of the head of the World Congress of Georgian Jews, a public figure and philanthropist. In 2001-09 Mirilashvili was in prison, having been convicted of kidnapping two subsequently killed immigrants from Georgia.

Companies of the Boterashvili family figured in the schemes through which ownership of the assets of the Shaumyan plant was registered. In the property conflict for control over this enterprise, as St. Petersburg media reported, “one suicide occurred (the deceased committed suicide on September 11, 2001, writing a suicide note that he could not survive the terrorist attack on America), and several murders,” which had a resonant character.

Later, the commercial transactions of Shota Boterashvili and his relatives are closely connected with VTB Bank. In 2005, the entrepreneur, in his words, as the “chief advisor” to the chairman of the board of Vsheshtorgbank, became one of the founders of the VTB Capital company (renamed VTB Development) and a full partner of the bank in the project approved by Vladimir Putin “ Embankment of Europe" - development of the Malaya Nevka area. The original beneficiary of Embankment of Europe, businessman Sergei Lvov, is trying to prove in courts that his assets, owned by VTB, were seized by criminal means.

Companies affiliated with the structures of the Boterashvili family provided Aeroflot with an electronic payment system, in St. Petersburg - the installation of a heating main from the North-Western Thermal Power Plant to the Primorskaya Boiler House, the construction of residential real estate at 139 Moskovsky Prospekt. VTB Bank took part in lending to the projects "

Shota Boterashvili was registered as a member of the board of directors of VTB Armenia and the United Georgian Bank (now VTB Georgia), and together with his wife Victoria Shamlikashvili was a member of the board of directors of Well Drilling Corporation. In 2009, a major scandal occurred around the cooperation between Boterashvili and VTB Bank, implemented under Vadim Levin. The incident is related to an agreement concluded in 2007 by VTB-Leasing and the Cypriot Clusseter Limited for the purchase of 30 ZJ50DBS drilling rigs at a price of $15 million per unit (excluding customs duties). According to the agreement, the installations were to be leased to Well Drilling Corporation. The contract was valued at $456.9 million, with customs duties and fees - $650 million.

It turned out that the Cypriot company is an intermediary, the drilling rigs are produced by the Chinese Sichuan Honghua Petroleum Equipment, and the manufacturer’s unit of production costs about $10 million. Thus, the total damage during the purchase could amount to about $160 million. Despite the appeals, no criminal case was opened. In 2010, Well Drilling Corporation LLC was declared bankrupt. In March 2011, VTB minority shareholder Alexey Navalny filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court against VTB-Leasing, the Cyprus company Clusseter Limited and Well Drilling Corporation, trying to challenge the deal to purchase drilling rigs.

Boterashvili, as Novaya Gazeta points out, allegedly participated in an attempt to improve relations between Anna Astanina and the first deputy president of VTB Bank Vadim Levin, which ended in the forced hospitalization of Levin’s wife in a psychiatric institution. The Chairman of the Board of VTB Development CJSC is Sergei Matvienko, the son of the Governor of St. Petersburg.

In 1983 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Leningrad State University.

From 1983 to 1985 - research intern at the Institute of Socio-Economic Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

From 1985 to 1988 - graduate student at the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Since 1988, research fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Since October 1990 - Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Reform of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council. After the liquidation of the Committee on Economic Reform, he transferred to the Committee for the Management of the Leningrad Free Enterprise Zone.

From November 1991 to 1992 - Deputy Chairman of the Economic Development Committee.

From August 1992 to 1993 - Chairman of the Main Financial Directorate of the St. Petersburg City Hall (later renamed the Financial Committee).

From 1993 to June 1996 - deputy, first deputy mayor, member of the city government, chairman of the Committee on Economics and Finance of the St. Petersburg City Hall.

In August 1996, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Head of the Main Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation.

In March 1997, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Since January 1999 - First Deputy Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia.

In June 1999, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Since May 2000, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation - Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.

On March 9, 2004, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Since September 2007, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation - Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Released from his position on September 26, 2011 by Decree No. 1251 of the President of the Russian Federation.

Since April 2012, he has been the Chairman of the Committee of Civil Initiatives, a community of professionals capable of offering alternative solutions to the problems facing the country.

In April 2016, he headed the Center for Strategic Research and was also appointed Deputy Chairman of the Economic Council under the President of Russia

On May 22, 2018, upon the recommendation of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to the position of Chairman of the Accounts Chamber.

Since November 2018 - member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the implementation of state policy in the field of protection of families and children

In 1988 he defended his PhD thesis on the topic: “Comparability in the mechanism for implementing relations of economic competition.”

In September 2018, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Theoretical and methodological approaches to the implementation of a balanced and effective budget policy.”

Reserve officer.

Married, has a son and daughter.

Participation in the work of educational and scientific organizations

Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University and member of the Board of Trustees of St. Petersburg State University

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gaidar Institute

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Yegor Gaidar Foundation

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Northern Arctic Federal University

Member of the Board of Trustees of the European University in St. Petersburg

Member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Economic School

In 2004, Alexey Kudrin was named Finance Minister of the Year by the British magazine The Banker, winning in two categories: “World Finance Minister of the Year” and “European Finance Minister of the Year.”

In 2006, the British newspaper “Emerging markets” named Alexei Kudrin the best finance minister among European emerging market countries.

In 2010, the British magazine Euromoney named Alexei Kudrin the best finance minister of the year. According to the magazine's publisher Padraic Fallon, Kudrin was awarded the award primarily for the fact that "overcoming significant political pressure, he achieved the creation of a Reserve Fund, which allowed Russia to emerge from the global financial crisis in much better shape than experts expected."

State awards

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree

Order of Friendship

Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation

Gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation

P. A. Stolypin Medal, 1st degree

Certificate of Honor from the Government of the Russian Federation

Gratitude from the Government of the Russian Federation

V. V. Leontiev Medal “For Achievements in Economics”

Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

The 23-year-old daughter of the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, Polina, the daughter of the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin, Polina, was involved in an accident on April 5 at the corner of Nevsky and Ligovsky prospects. A Range Rover jeep, driven by the girl's drunken friend, businessman Mikhail Matvienko, crashed at five o'clock in the morning, first into a sprinkler, and then into the window of a lingerie store.

The Range Rover suffered serious damage from the impact. The license plates of the foreign car were immediately removed and the car was evacuated from the scene of the emergency.

“The man was driving drunk,” said a source in the St. Petersburg traffic police. “He practically fell asleep while driving. In the car with him were another young man and a girl, the daughter of Finance Minister Polina Kudrina.”

As previously reported, after an accident on Nevsky Prospekt on April 5, law enforcement agencies remained silent for a long time regarding the identity of the Range Rover driver. Meanwhile, it was immediately clear to the employees who took part in the investigation of the accident that the young man who introduced himself as Matvienko was not the son of the city governor.

Vrez Ruspres, Fontanka.ru , 08.04.2010: “The driver of the car that crashed into the window was a namesake who, according to some sources, introduced himself as the son of the governor, then her nephew, and finally an adviser to Valentina Matvienko. In fact, it was 24-year-old Mikhail Matvienko, the son of Maria Novinskaya ( bore the surname Matvienko until 2002) and the stepson of businessman Vadim Novinsky. Police officers, forced to study the identity of the young offender, established that Mikhail Matvienko lives and studies in London, and arrived in St. Petersburg for the Easter holidays. On the night of the accident, he was resting in one of the. clubs in the city. Fontanka journalists found out that the impostor had been detained by traffic police officers before: a couple of years ago in the Central District for driving while intoxicated. Then he also tried to use a well-known surname in St. Petersburg and even presented his ID as an adviser to the governor, threatening the employees with “my mother.” “They didn’t have time to take the crusts from him that time, because when exposed, Mikhail simply ate the “xiva.”

As the traffic police officers, who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the accident, said, the matter was, after all, a close relative of a high-ranking official, but not Matvienko, but the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. According to available information, the car was driven by the 24-year-old stepson of Russian-Ukrainian businessman Novinsky, Mikhail Matvienko. In the back seat was the daughter of the Minister of Finance, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin, Polina Kudrina, with a companion.

“The girl received quite serious injuries,” the source continues. "The doctors insisted that hospitalization was necessary."

Kudrina received a serious concussion as a result of a night traffic accident.

“The doctors put me in the hospital - I have a severe concussion. I don’t feel well, I’m constantly sleeping,” she said. The young woman was hospitalized in an elite clinic almost immediately after the accident. Doctors diagnosed him with a concussion. The girl had to stay under medical supervision for almost a week.

Treatment and hospitalization cost the Kudrin family almost 70 thousand rubles. “One day in the clinic costs 12 thousand rubles,” says the administrator of the medical institution, Ekaterina V. “This amount includes treatment and three meals a day. Polina Kudrina was allocated a single superior room on the fifth floor.”

Now the victim of the incident has already been discharged from the elite clinic.

In the Northern capital, the daughter of the head of the Ministry of Finance has her own company, Art Center Grand Prix, which offers St. Petersburg residents training in vocals, acting, and music theory.