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In Sweden in the case of corruption transactions with the authorities of Azerbaijan, a citizen of Russia Evgeny Pavlov, employee of the Swedish branch of Bombardier, was arrested

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A citizen of Russia, a local branch of the Canadian Machine-Building Company Bombardier, was sent in Sweden. This was announced by Prosecutor Thomas Forceberg, reports the Associated Press.

He explained that Russian Evgeny Pavlov, living in Stockholm, was one of several Bombardier staff, who were suspected of corruption transactions with the authorities of Azerbaijan. Pavlov was detained for two weeks, since Sweden's authorities feared that he could leave the country or try to put pressure on witnesses, the prosecutor added.

According to Forceberg, emails were based on emails, seized from the Bombardier's Swedish office during searches that have passed in October last year. According to investigators, Azerbaijani officials received bribes from the Swedish branch of the machine-building company in exchange for concluding contracts.

According to Sveriges Radio, the size of these bribes could be 700 million Swedish crowns ($ 77 million).

The Bombardier representative of Barbara Grimm confirmed that one of the employees was arrested, and assured that the company is ready to assist the consequence.

Bombardier Inc. Corporation It is the world's largest producer of the Bombardier Transportation railway equipment. The Bombardier Aerospace division is engaged in the production of aircraft and space technology.

New Gazeta connects the arrest of Russian with an investigation related to the "Panama Dossier" (Panama Papers), which was published by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in April last year. Then, in particular, the Center for Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) reported that the joint venture of Russian Railways and Bombardier Transportation - "Bombardier transport (" Signal) "concludes dubious transactions with offshores associated with the son of a close associate of the ex-head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin Alexey Karapivina. OCCRP indicated that the Swedish Bombardier Swedish branch was performed by the real founder of the joint venture, which is the main developer of the microprocessor centralization systems of the shooter and Ebilock-950 signals.

As noted in OCCRP, the Russian-Swedish company equipped railway stations in Russia and other countries of the post-Soviet space, including in Azerbaijan. In 2013, the Azerbaijani government held a tender for the supply of Ebilock equipment, which won a consortium led by Bombardier Transportation.

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Olesya Schmagun

Sweden Police investigates a criminal case against the Swedish "daughter" of the world transport giant - "Morning Bombardier". This investigation began after the publication of the "new newspaper" of documents from the Panama Archive offshore Empire Alexey Krapivina, Son of the former adviser and a good acquaintance of the ex-president of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunina. One employee "Bombardier transport", a citizen of Russia Evgeny Pavlov, was arrested, three more members of the Board of Directors - are in the status of suspected cases of a bribe. "New Gazette" together with OCCRP journalists, Swedish public television SVT, news agency TT-NEWS and Radio Canada received materials from a criminal case. Documents are shown: the World Giant "Bombardier" used the relationship of close acquaintances of Vladimir Yakunin to conquer the markets of the CIS countries.

The approximate former head of the Russian Railways received tens of millions of dollars on offshore accounts, shares in general enterprises with "Bombardye", and the management of the transport giant asked Canada's authority to not include Vladimir Yakunin in sanction lists (due to events in Ukraine) for his contribution to the development of joint business .

"Partners are asked to keep negotiations in secret"

A year ago, during the investigation of the "Panama Archive" - \u200b\u200bthe largest leakage of documents of the Panaman registrar MOSSACK FONSEKA, - "New Gazeta" wrote about Alexey Karapivina offshore empire - the son of a close companion of Vladimir Yakunin. Through offshore firms, Karapivin controlled the largest contractors of a billionth Russian Railways project for the reconstruction of the Baikal Amur highway. In addition, the unscrews associated with the equipment "Bombardier transport" for government Railways projects. A year after the publication, the Police of Sweden began its investigation.

Currently, the police are interested in one transaction: the reconstruction of the railway in Azerbaijan, from Baku to the border of Georgia.

In 2013, the Railways of Azerbaijan held an international competition, the winner was the consortium of the companies headed by the Russian "Bombardier transport (signal)" - a joint "daughter" of Russian Railways and Swedish "Bombardier". The consortium was supposed to replace outdated signaling equipment on railways and equip them with the Swedish development of EBILOCK-950 - the total cost of the work of the consortium estimated at 340 million dollars. Most of the money on the project was received in the form of a loan from the World Bank to the Government of Azerbaijan.

The largest companies from Italy, Turkey, China, Korea and the Czech Republic were represented by the competition. The price proposed by "Bombardier" was not the lowest, but several challengers were removed from the competition, because they did not satisfy other parameters of the tender.

According to the Swedish police, the "Bombardier" directly participated in writing the tender documentation. This version is confirmed by the documents that are at the disposal of the New Gazeta.

"I had several informal meetings with the leadership of the Azerbaijani railways and local representatives of the World Bank," writes in November 2012, for half a year before the official tender, the employee "Bombardier" Evgeny Pavlov, who is currently arrested. - They are ready to draw up competitive documents so that the "Bombardier" fit in all conditions. Our partners are asked to keep our negotiations in secret, so we need to keep this secret inside the company. In order to help employees of Azerbaijani railways, make a "right" tender documentation, I propose to create a group of employees who can trust ... "

"Little group of influential people"

"Bombardier" is one of the world's largest railway transport and aircraft companies, but in recent years the company is experiencing not better than the best times. In October 2016, the main office announced a reduction in 7,500 jobs.

CIS countries - a promising market for the development of the company: Railways here are extended, but the equipment is often outdated, requiring upgrades. However, the market is quite competitive: so, in 2009, Bombardier could not negotiate with Russian Railways on the production of trains for Olympic Sochi, the contract went to German Siemens.

But in the market of railway automation "Bombardier" - long-time leader in the post-Soviet space. Since the late 1990s, the company has been equipped with its EBILOCK-950 stations in Russia, as well as stations in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan.

In 2010, "Bombardier" announced that it begins to localize the production of Ebilock-950 in Russia. To this end, in 2011, the company acquired in Russian Railways in the Russian company "Elteza", which owns seven factories for the production of railway automation. But, as the "new newspaper" found out, "Bombardier" was the owner of 50% -1 Action "Elteza" not long. The privatization deal was slightly more difficult than it was announced in Russian Railways and the Bombardier itself.

At the moment, the Russian plants are businessmen from Russia close to Vladimir Yakunin. Judging by the documents that are at the disposal of the Novaya Gazeta, they also helped "Bombardier" to receive profitable contracts in the post-Soviet space.

In the documents directed by the Swedish Police to the court, there is an internal correspondence of the employees of the Bombardier transportier, which mention the names of Yuri Rododovsky and Alexey Karapivina.

"They enter a small group of influential people who have direct access to Vladimir Yakunin, and through it - practically to all the heads of railways in the former Soviet republics."

These words from the internal correspondence of the company once again confirm what has repeatedly wrote a "new newspaper" and other publications in their investigations.

Andrei Kratpivin and Yuri Ododovsky are well known in Russia, they manage the business empire built on Russian Railways, the last 10 years of their company received billions of rubles from the state-owned company.

Thomas Fosberg, a Swedish Police officer who is engaged in the investigation, refused to talk about whether the police are interested in the Bombardier Russian partners: "It's difficult for me to make some statements at this stage, we do not know how we will use this information. But, no doubt, we will try to trace the movement of money. We see that "Bombardier" edited the tender documentation on the Azerbaijani project for himself. This kind of help from the customer, of course, can not be free. So we suspect a bribe. But who exactly got money, we can not say confidently. "

Money movement towards the familiar Yakunin

The new newspaper has four contracts that we believe relate to one transaction for the supply of equipment to Azerbaijan. During the transaction, the Swedish branch "Bombardia" sells the equipment of his Russian "daughter" through a fictitious British company, in which significant funds are settled, and from there money is transferred to offshore jurisdictions under contracts that several experts called "fictitious". The cost of equipment for Azerbaijan thus increases 5 times.

Lifehak. How to increase the cost of goods 5 times

Stage 1. A mediator appears in the transaction

The Swedish branch "Bombardier" sells the Ebilock-950 fictitious British company Multiserv Overseas Ltd for 126 million kroons (about 19 million dollars). Multiserv Overseas Ltd has no office, nor employees, its owners are in offshore. But I registered the company in 2010, Yuri Ododovsky.


At the same time, the internal documents "Bombardier" show that the equipment went directly from Sweden to Azerbaijan, without any participation of the British company, and only money went on a broken path.

"We believe that the money on the accounts Multiserv Overseas Ltd was used in the future, including a bribe to" thank "those who helped the" Bombardier "to win a competition in Azerbaijan," says Prosecutor Thomas Fosberg.

Multiserv Overseas Ltd concludes contracts that several experts called "fictitious" in order to lead the money on offshore accounts. Money goes to the company where Krapivin acts as the final owner.

"Apparently, these contracts are needed only to ensure that money does not remain in the accounts of the British company, and they went further into offshore jurisdictions, where in fact zero taxes," the financial consultant considers and a certified specialist in identifying fraud from Montreal Carl Pelleter.

"The whole scheme is created in order to lead money and distribute them between interested people. These are bribes, "the auditor agrees, a member of the Management Board of Transparency International in Sweden Louise Brown.

Stage 4. The equipment acquires the final owner, for all pay taxpayers

The money is derived for offshore accounts, and the equipment of the "Bombardier (Signal)" for the full cost acquires the State Company Azerbaijan Railways.

The transaction in Azerbaijan is only part of the general picture. As customs data shows, at exactly the same way, the signaling equipment enters Russia for the needs of Russian Railways. Since 2011, Multiserv Overseas Ltd has supplied equipment to Russia for 150 million dollars. However, now "New Gazeta" does not have documents that could show which part of the money in the Multiserv Overseas Ltd accounts on Russian transactions.

At the disposal of Novaya Gazeta, there are documents confirming that in the supply of the same equipment in Mongolia, Bombardier also used mediators associated with rim and rope.

Prosecutor Thomas Fosberg said that at the moment the Police of Sweden investigates an exclusively transaction in Azerbaijan. "It is too early to talk about whether we will deal with episodes with Russia or other countries. But in general, this is a standard practice, we have good connections with law enforcement agencies of other countries, and if I need some help in the future, I think I will get it. "

However, the degree of the involvement of the Karpivin and its partners in the Bombardier business in Russia is not limited to mediation in the supply of EBILOCK-950. As the New Gazette found out, he is also one of the co-owners of Eltyza, privatized in 2010 through a holding company in the Netherlands. It was still believed that "Elteza" "50 to 50" own "Russian Railways" and "Bombardier".

Not only money

Eltza appeared in the Russian Railways structure in 2005, then in one joint-stock company, 8 factories were united, which produced alarm equipment for railways (in fact, the plants produced the Russian analogue of the Swedish Ebilock, only many technologies at Russian factories were outdated). The main consumer of products "Elteza" - "Russian Railways".

The holding company in the Netherlands was registered for six months before the transaction, and at first, indeed, 100% belonged to Bombardier. But already a week later, the ownership structure of the company has changed. According to open sources, it is impossible to track all the stages of the asset resale, but at least from the end of 2012, Alexey Karapivin appeared in the structure of owners - from 2012 to the present moment it owns 36% of the Netherlands company. That is, the effective proportion in the "Eltez" of Krapivina is almost 20%.

"It's hard to talk about something confidently, because we do not see the structure of the deal, we do not know how much I paid Krapivin for a share in the company," said Ilya Shumanov, deputy director of Transparency International - Russia. But, of course, all this looks suspicious: a major international player wins in a privatization competition, and a short time, the share in the state-owned company in the hands of the structures close to the head of the Russian Railways, that is, the seller. It is possible to make an assumption that there is a corruption component that the share in the business was a form of remuneration from "Bombardier" for victory in the competition. "

It is worth mentioning another service provided by the Canadian company chapter of Russian Railways. According to the largest Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail in 2014, when the issue of the introduction of sanctions against Russian citizens due to events in Ukraine was discussed in Canada.

"Bombardier" lobbied the exception of Yakunin from the sanctions list. Now sanctions against the Ex-Head of the Russian State Committee have been introduced in the United States, but not in Canada.

"We informed the authorities of the country about our investments in Russia and how our business interests may suffer from the introduction of sanctions," says Globe and Mail in a statement.

In a written comments for the New Gazette, the representative of Yakunin Grigory Levchenko once again confirmed that the ex-head of the Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, really knew Krapivina. "At the same time, they never had a joint business," Levchenko added. - I also have no reason to believe the documents that are represented in the Stockholm court. Yakunin never met with Yuri Rododovsky, so the words that he had direct access to Yakunin, are incorrect. In addition, the assumption that any person could have access to everyone and manipulate the results of international contests seems to me in a unlikely fairy tale, "said the representative of Yakunin.

"New Gazeta" has repeatedly tried to contact Alexey Khapivina, Yuri Rododovsky, Swedish branch "Bombardier" and the main office of the company in Canada. No one answered the requests of the "new newspaper" and media partners.

Last week, the Bombardye's main office released a press release, which noted that the company helps the Swedish police in the investigation and conducts its own internal test of the transaction. "So far, we have no confirmation that the company's employees somehow violated the law."

Sweden Police investigates a criminal case against the Swedish "daughter" of the world transport giant - "Morning Bombardier". This investigation began after the publication of documents from the Panama Archive on the offshore Empire Alexei Kratpivina, the son of a former adviser and a good acquaintance of the ex-President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin. One employee "Bombardier transport", a citizen of Russia Evgeny Pavlov, was arrested, three more members of the Board of Directors - are in the status of suspected cases of a bribe. "New Gazette" together with OCCRP journalists, Swedish public television SVT, news agency TT-NEWS and Radio Canada received materials from a criminal case. Documents are shown: the World Giant "Bombardier" used the relationship of close acquaintances of Vladimir Yakunin to conquer the markets of the CIS countries.

Approximate former chapters Russian Railways Tens of millions of dollars received on offshore accounts, shares in general enterprises with "Bombardier", and the management of the transport giant asked Canada's authority to not include Vladimir Yakunin into sanctions lists (because of the events in Ukraine) for his contribution to the development of joint business.

"Partners are asked to keep negotiations in secret"


A year ago, during the investigation of the "Panaman archive" - \u200b\u200bthe largest leakage of documents of the Panaman registrar Mossack Fonseka, - "New Gazeta" wrote about offshore empire Alexey Karapivina - Son of the close companion of Vladimir Yakunin. Through offshore firms, Krapivin controlled the largest contractors of a billion Russian Railways project for reconstruction Baikal Amur Highway . In addition, the unscrews associated with the equipment "Bombardier transport" for government Railways projects. A year after the publication, the Police of Sweden began its investigation.

Currently, the police are interested in one transaction: the reconstruction of the railway in Azerbaijan, from Baku to the border of Georgia.

In 2013, the Railways of Azerbaijan held an international competition, the winner was the consortium of the companies headed by the Russian "Bombardier transport (signal)" - a joint "daughter" of Russian Railways and Swedish "Bombardier". The consortium was supposed to replace outdated signaling equipment on railways and equip them with the Swedish development of EBILOCK-950 - the total cost of the work of the consortium estimated at 340 million dollars. Most of the money on the project was received in the form of a loan from the World Bank to the Government of Azerbaijan.

The largest companies from Italy, Turkey, China, Korea and the Czech Republic were represented by the competition. The price proposed by "Bombardier" was not the lowest, but several challengers were removed from the competition, because they did not satisfy other parameters of the tender.

According to the Swedish police, the "Bombardier" directly participated in writing the tender documentation. This version is confirmed by the documents that are at the disposal of the editorial office.

"I had several informal meetings with the leadership of the Azerbaijani railways and local representatives of the World Bank," writes in November 2012, for half a year before the official tender, the employee "Bombardier" Evgeny Pavlov, who is currently arrested. - They are ready to draw up competitive documents so that the "Bombardier" fit in all conditions. Our partners are asked to keep our negotiations in secret, so we need to keep this secret inside the company. In order to help employees of Azerbaijani railways, make a "right" tender documentation, I propose to create a group of employees who can trust ... "

"Little group of influential people"

"Bombardier" is one of the world's largest railway transport and aircraft companies, but in recent years the company is experiencing not better than the best times. In October 2016, the main office announced a reduction in 7,500 jobs.

CIS countries - a promising market for the development of the company: Railways here are extended, but the equipment is often outdated, requiring upgrades. However, the market is quite competitive: so, in 2009, Bombardier could not negotiate with Russian Railways on the production of trains for olympic Sochi The contract got German Siemens.

But in the market of railway automation "Bombardier" - long-time leader in the post-Soviet space. Since the late 1990s, the company has been equipped with its EBILOCK-950 stations in Russia, as well as stations in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan.

In 2010, "Bombardier" announced that it begins to localize the production of Ebilock-950 in Russia. To this end, in 2011, the company acquired in Russian Railways in the Russian company "Elteza", which owns seven factories for the production of railway automation. But, as the newspaper found out, the "Bombardier" was the owner of 50% -1 Action "Elteza" for a short time. The privatization deal was slightly more difficult than it was announced in Russian Railways and the Bombardier itself.

At the moment, the Russian plants are businessmen from Russia close to Vladimir Yakunin. Judging by the documents that the newspapers are at the disposal, they helped the "Bombardier" to receive profitable contracts in the post-Soviet space.

In the documents directed by the Swedish Police to the court, there is an internal correspondence of the employees of the Bombardier transportier, which mention the names of Yuri Rododovsky and Alexey Karapivina.

"They enter a small group of influential people who have direct access to Vladimir Yakunin, and through it - practically to all the heads of railways in the former Soviet republics."

These words from the internal correspondence of the company once again confirm what the newspaper and other publications in their investigations have repeatedly wrote.

Internal correspondence of employees of the Swedish office "Bombardier" with a dossier to Yuri Rododovsky

Andrei Krapivin I. Yuri Ododovsky Well known in Russia, they manage the business empire built on Russian Railways, the last 10 years of their company received billions of rubles from the state-owned company.

Thomas Fosberg, a Swedish Police officer who is engaged in the investigation, refused to talk about whether the police are interested in the Bombardier Russian partners: "It's difficult for me to make some statements at this stage, we do not know how we will use this information. But, no doubt, we will try to trace the movement of money. We see that "Bombardier" edited the tender documentation on the Azerbaijani project for himself. This kind of help from the customer, of course, can not be free. So we suspect a bribe. But who exactly got money, we can not say confidently. "

Money movement towards the familiar Yakunin


The newspaper has four contracts that we believe relate to a single deal for the supply of equipment to Azerbaijan. During the transaction, the Swedish branch "Bombardia" sells the equipment of his Russian "daughter" through a fictitious British company, in which significant funds are settled, and from there money is transferred to offshore jurisdictions under contracts that several experts called "fictitious". The cost of equipment for Azerbaijan thus increases 5 times.

Lifehak. How to increase the cost of goods 5 times


Stage 1. A mediator appears in the transaction

The Swedish branch "Bombardier" sells the Ebilock-950 fictitious British company Multiserv Overseas Ltd for 126 million kroons (about 19 million dollars). Multiserv Overseas Ltd has no office, nor employees, its owners are in offshore. But I registered the company in 2010, Yuri Ododovsky.


Stage 2. Mediator gets 400% of the transaction


Multiserv Overseas Ltd sells the same equipment in the same quantities of the Russian "daughter" "Bombardier transport", but by 85 million dollars more expensive. Thus, the accounts of the London company settles 400% of the total amount of the transaction.



At the same time, the internal documents "Bombardier" show that the equipment went directly from Sweden to Azerbaijan, without any participation of the British company, and only money went on a broken path.

"We believe that the money on the accounts Multiserv Overseas Ltd was further used as a bribe to" thank "those who helped Bombardia win a competition in Azerbaijan," says Prosecutor Thomas Forceberg.


Multiserv Overseas Ltd concludes contracts that several experts called "fictitious" in order to lead the money on offshore accounts. Money goes to the company where Krapivin acts as the final owner.

"Apparently, these contracts are needed only to ensure that money does not remain in the accounts of the British company, and they went further into offshore jurisdictions, where in fact zero taxes," the financial consultant considers and a certified specialist in identifying fraud from Montreal Carl Pelleter.

"The whole scheme is created in order to lead money and distribute them between interested people. These are bribes, "the auditor agrees, a member of the Management Board of Transparency International in Sweden Louise Brown.

Stage 4. The equipment acquires the final owner, for all pay taxpayers


The money is derived for offshore accounts, and the equipment of the "Bombardier (Signal)" for the full cost acquires the State Company Azerbaijan Railways.

The transaction in Azerbaijan is only part of the general picture. As customs data shows, at exactly the same way, the signaling equipment enters Russia for the needs of Russian Railways. Since 2011, Multiserv Overseas Ltd has supplied equipment to Russia for 150 million dollars. However, now the newspaper does not have documents that could show which part of the money in the Multiserv Overseas Ltd accounts on Russian transactions.

The newspaper has documents confirming that in the supply of the same equipment in Mongolia, Bombardier also used mediators associated with rim and historical.

Prosecutor Thomas Forceberg said that at the moment the Police of Sweden investigates an exclusively transaction in Azerbaijan. "It is too early to talk about whether we will deal with episodes with Russia or other countries. But in general, this is a standard practice, we have good connections with law enforcement agencies of other countries, and if I need some help in the future, I think I will get it. "

However, the degree of the involvement of the Karpivin and its partners in the Bombardier business in Russia is not limited to mediation in the supply of EBILOCK-950. As the newspaper found out, he is also one of the co-owners of the company "Eltza", privatized in 2010 through a holding company in Netherlands . It was still believed that "Elteza" "50 to 50" own "Russian Railways" and "Bombardier".

Not only money


Eltza appeared in the Russian Railways structure in 2005, then in one joint-stock company, 8 factories were united, which produced alarm equipment for railways (in fact, the plants produced the Russian analogue of the Swedish Ebilock, only many technologies at Russian factories were outdated). The main consumer of products "Elteza" - "Russian Railways".

The holding company in the Netherlands was registered for six months before the transaction, and at first, indeed, 100% belonged to Bombardier. But already a week later, the ownership structure of the company has changed. According to open sources, it is impossible to track all the stages of the asset resale, but at least from the end of 2012, Alexey Karapivin appeared in the structure of owners - from 2012 to the present moment it owns 36% of the Netherlands company. That is, the effective proportion in the "Eltez" of Krapivina is almost 20%.

"It's hard to talk about something confidently, because we do not see the structure of the deal, we do not know how much I paid Krapivin for a share in the company," said Ilya Shumanov, deputy director of Transparency International - Russia. But, of course, all this looks suspicious: a major international player wins in a privatization competition, and a short time, the share in the state-owned company in the hands of the structures close to the head of the Russian Railways, that is, the seller. It is possible to make an assumption that there is a corruption component that the share in the business was a form of remuneration from "Bombardier" for victory in the competition. "

It is worth mentioning another service provided by the Canadian company chapter of Russian Railways. According to the largest Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail in 2014, when the issue of the introduction of sanctions against Russian citizens due to events in Ukraine was discussed in Canada.

"Bombardier" lobbied the exception of Yakunin from the sanctions list. Now sanctions against the Ex-Head of the Russian State Committee have been introduced in the United States, but not in Canada.

"We informed the authorities of the country about our investments in Russia and how our business interests may suffer from the introduction of sanctions," the "Bombardier" statement says in the Globe and Mail statement.

In a written comments, the representative of Yakunin Grigory Levchenko once again confirmed that the ex-head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, really knew Krapivina. "At the same time, they never had a joint business," Levchenko added. - I also have no reason to believe the documents that are represented in the Stockholm court. Yakunin never met with Yuri Rododovsky, so the words that he had direct access to Yakunin, are incorrect. In addition, the assumption that any person could have access to everyone and manipulate the results of international contests seems to me in a unlikely fairy tale, "said the representative of Yakunin.

The newspaper has repeatedly tried to contact Alexey Khapivina, Yuri Rododovsky, Swedish branch "Bombardier" and the main office of the company in Canada . No one answered the requests of newspapers and media partners.

Last week, the Bombardye's main office released a press release, which noted that the company helps the Swedish police in the investigation and conducts its own internal test of the transaction. "So far, we have no confirmation that the company's employees somehow violated the law."

Sweden Police investigates on the international transport giant "Bombardier transport" after the publication of the Novaya Gazeta and the Center for the Research Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) within the framework of the so-called "Panaman Dossier". The case is associated with transactions for the supply of railway equipment to Azerbaijan. Russian Evgeny Pavlov from the "Bombardier transport" (signal) "arrested in Sweden.

In April 2016, based on documents from the "Panama Archive" - \u200b\u200ba massive leakage of the data of the internal office of the Offshore Mossack Fonseca, - "New Gazeta", as the Swedish Daughter "Bombardier" supplies EBILOCK-950 equipment to Russia and Azerbaijan through Multiserv OVEARSEAS registered in London.

Multiserv OVEARSEAS has no office or employees, it actually existed only on paper. And the first director of this company was Yuri Ododovsky - one of the key partners of Alexei Kratpivina, the son of the former adviser to Vladimir Yakunin.

The equipment was purchased by the Russian company "Bombardier transport (signal)", 36% of which belongs to the State PJSC Russian Railways.

Until recently, the "new newspaper" did not know how much money is deposited on the Multiserv Ovearseas accounts - neither the Russian, nor the Swedish representative office "Bombardier" did not respond to the requests of the newspaper.

Now, at the disposal of "New" already has a complete set of documents on one of the transactions between the Swedish manufacturer of Ebilock, the Russian buyer, "Bombardier of the transport (signal)" - and the English mediator Multiserv Ovearseas. Documents provided a "new newspaper" colleagues from Swedish public television SVT and the news agency TT-NEWS.

Deal

In 2013, the Azerbaijani government held a tender for updating automation systems on a railway site leading from Baku to the Georgian border. A total of $ 288 million won a consortium led by Bombardier of Morning. Works on the site led Russian "Bombardier transport (signal)" using buffet equipment.

At the disposal of Novaya Gazeta, there are two contracts that show the deal.

Here is the first.

Multiserv Overseas buys equipment for 126 million Swedish kroons (equivalent of 19 million dollars).

According to the first contract, June 16, 2014, the Swedish branch "Bombardier" sells the British company Multiserv Ovearseas signaling equipment for 46 stations for 126 million kroons (about 19 million dollars). The Multiserv Agreement signs Anton Belyakov - an employee of several companies associated with Alexei Krapivin.

Here is the second contract.

Page 1 Page 4. Contract price - almost 105 million dollars

According to the second contract, Multiserv Overseas sells the same equipment in the same amount of the Russian company "Bombardier transport (signal)" for 104 million dollars. Two contracts are identical in everything except the price.

Thus, the Multiserv Overseas accounts turned out to be more than 80 million dollars.

The Russian State Railway Railway Company, which belongs to 36% in the Bombardier transport (signal) could also lose from this transaction.

Investigation

Today, the district court of Stockholm was arrested by a citizen of Russia Evgenia Pavlova, an employee of the Swedish "Bombardier" on suspicion of bribery. Several managers of the company, including one member of the Board of Directors, were interrogated by the police.

New Gazeta is working on journalistic investigation together with OCCRP, SVT Swedish public television, TT-NEWS news agency and Canada radio. The investigation will be published in late March.

Sweden Police opened a criminal case against the "daughter" of the Canadian transport company Bombardier- Bombardier of Morning, which was suspected of illegal transactions involving people from the environment of the ex-president of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, reports Novaya Gazeta.

Suspicions appeared after the publication of the Panama Archive (see). Then it became known about the offshores Alexei Karapivina, the son of an old familiar Yakunin Oleg Krapivina. Documents from the criminal case referenced by the "New Gazeta" show that the close familiar Jacun helped the Bombardier to conquer the CIS market for which there were tens of millions of dollars on their offshore accounts.

Now the Swedish police are interested in the details of the Railways Transaction and the Transport Company for the reconstruction of the Azerbaijani railway from Baku to the border with Georgia. The tender for $ 340 million was then won by the consortium of companies led by "Bombardier transport (signal)" is a subsidiary of Russian Railways and Bombardier. The documents of the criminal case confirms the information that the company directly participated in writing the tender documentation.

"We see that" Bombardier "edited the tender documentation on the Azerbaijani project for himself. This kind of help from the customer, of course, can not be free. So we suspect a bribe," the "New Gazeta" words of the Fosberg Swedish Police of Thomas Fosberg reports .

In the documents directed by the Swedish Police to the court, there is an internal correspondence of the employees of the Bombardier Republican, which mention the names of Yuri Rododovsky and Alexey Kratpivina. According to the case, they are supposedly included in a small group of influential people who have access to Vladimir Yakunin, and through it almost to all the heads of railways in the former Soviet republics. " The Swedish police believes that in the course of the transaction, fictitious contracts were used, and the cost of equipment for Azerbaijan in the end rose five times.

However, these are not the only frauds that "Bombardier" conducted law enforcement officers in the supply of equipment. The publication reports that when delivered to Mongolia, mediators associated with rim and rope were also used.

The main office of "Bombardier" does not respond to requests, but last week representatives of the company released a press release, which states that the firm helps the Swedish police and independently conducts an inspection. The representative of Yakunin confirmed that the ex-head of Russian Railways knew Krapivina, but noted that they had never had a joint business.

 

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