The court collected 30 billion rubles from ex-officials of Russian Railways and confiscated assets
As it became known to Kommersant, according to the anti -corruption lawsuit of the Prosecutor General’s Office, 12 companies of the Vector RALL group of the Group Rail group are turned into a total market value of more than 242 billion rubles. Their owners, former vice president of Russian Railways, Salman Babaeva and his sons, as well as their partner Alexei Tieter, will have to pay the state even more than 30 billion rubles. Supervision proved in court that they used their work in Russian Railways to perform a number of transactions that were unprofitable for the state and illegal personal enrichment.
On April 23, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg satisfied the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General’s Office against the former Vice President of Russian Railways Salman Babaeva, his adviser to Alexei Tieter and other defendants. By the court decision, 30.1 billion rubles received by defendants as a result of acts of corruption were recovered to the state treasury. 12 companies of the Vector Rail group with a total market value of more than 242 billion rubles were seized into federal ownership. Of these, five enterprises carry out railway cargo transportation, five provide leasing services in this area, and two more control the commercial structures of the holding. Societies occupy a dominant position in the liquefied gas railway market. They have more than 44 thousand wagons, as well as over 200 real estate.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, in 2015, control over JSC “Federal Cargo Company” (FGK), created at the expense of the property of Russian Railways, was established by the Israeli citizen and the UK resident Alexei Taher, who took the position of its general director. According to the prosecutor’s office, he took the place with the assistance of the senior vice president of Russian Railways Salman Babaev, whose adviser was previously. Mr. Tycher, for the patronage of Salman Babaev, was appointed to other leading posts in Russian Railways and its subsidiaries. This, according to the supervisory authority, allowed them to “have an unlimited impact on administrative and economic processes and organizational and administrative decisions of subsidiaries of Russian Railways, receive confidential information about their operating activities, income, profitability and high-liquid assets.”
The Prosecutor General’s Office found that in 2012-2013, FGK JSC concluded eight leasing agreements for 12.6 thousand freight railway cars with Railways PJSC (belonged to Russian Railways). In 2017, Mr. Tycher, “contrary to the decision of the Board of Directors of the Federal State Property Committee and, in the absence of economic expediency,” signed an agreement with the “transfin-M” on an increase in the amount of the wagons fee. As a result, the costs of FGK increased by 1.1 billion rubles, and PJSC income increased by the same amount.
After that, Mr. Tycher ensured the conclusion of Transfin-M Transfinch loan agreements with the Reilstream LLC. According to these contracts, the LLC accounts received 937.5 million rubles, most of which (about 710 million rubles) were brought abroad, after which the borrower was bankrupt. Within the framework of this episode, Mr. Tycher was arrested in 2024.
In addition, according to the prosecutor’s office, Mr. Tycher in 2018 ensured the sale of 3075 railway cars belonging to Transfin-M worth more than 6.5 billion rubles. Affiliated with him LLC RRL, owned by the Cyprus company.
Later, the RRL was liquidated, and the rolling stock was re -registered to another Cyprus company, which Mr. Tycher was transferred in 2021 by Vector Rail LLC. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, she belonged to Salman Babaev and his sons – Ruslan and Timur.
In 2019, Mr. Tycher, as an adviser to the chairman of the board of Russian Railways, learned about the planned sale of his “daughter”-PJSC “Transfin-M”. In this regard, the prosecutor’s office believes, he decided to increase the capitalization of the company at the expense of state funds and subsequently create conditions for the non -alternative implementation of this society “to himself on non -resident and non -competitive conditions”.
For this, Mr. Tycher organized early termination of the FGK concluded in 2012-2013 with the “transfin-M” leasing agreements of 12.6 thousand freight wagons and the FGK refusal from the redemption of the leased wagons in 2020–2021 for 14 billion rubles. As a result, Transfin-M sold wagons for 22.6 billion rubles. WTB-Leasing JSC. The latter, according to the agreement concluded in 2019, granted a rolling stock to the leasing of JSC FGK. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, these transactions caused the latter damage by 8.6 billion rubles. And led to an increase by 15% of the amount of monthly payments of the AO for renting property, which in fact did not leave the company.
Subsequently, Mr. Tycher acquired the shares of Transfin-M and « turned to his favor 22.6 billion rubles received by the company from the sale of wagons. »
In total, according to the calculations of supervision, gentlemen Babaev and Taher lred to their favor from the structures of Russian Railways at least 30.1 billion rubles, for which they acquired highly liquid assets, having issued them for relatives and persons controlled by him. “In turn, JSC FGK and JSC“ Vector Rail ”, as well as Timur and Ruslan Babaevs, committed an independent corruption offense, contributing to the father and Alexei the Tieter in the commission of corruption,” the statement of claim.
The lawsuit of the Prosecutor General’s Office was addressed by the court to immediate execution.
