The investigation came to the St. Petersburg office of the Monolit Group of Companies with searches in the case of a large bribe. The day before, the apartment and house of the firm’s lawyer, Yana Nikulshina, were searched. The editors of Kompromat found out what is happening around the leader of the concrete market in St. Petersburg, and how it is connected with the security forces. Group”.
Concrete structure
The other day, employees of the Investigative Committee visited lawyer Yana Nikulshina, who serves the Monolit Group of Companies. Searches took place in her apartment and house. According to the investigation, the lawyer tried to convey 10 million rublesin the interests of his boss Igor Konstantinov, co-owner of the company.
Yana Nikulshina, lawyer at the Leningrad Regional Collegium “Pelevin and Partners”, is now involved in a steep criminal story and has become one of the defendants in a criminal case under Art. 291.1 of the Criminal Code – “Mediation in bribery.” The bribe was supposed to be paid to the long-time hero of our last publication, ex-deputy of the Internal Security Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Tegza.
Let us recall that a retired colonel, who once held a major position in the Internal Security Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to the decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court, in March 2023, went to a pre-trial detention center as a suspect in mediation in giving a bribe. As we already wrote, businessman Igor Boldyrev, director of the companies PK M-Stal LLC and executive director of TAIR LLC, tried to “resolve” the issue with the criminal case of a difficult person in the criminal environment, Roman Shishkov. The bribe was planned to be given to certain “employees of the Leningrad Region Investigative Committee” for the termination of criminal prosecution.
Through an acquaintance, Boldyrev contacted Yuri Tegza, they agreed that the colonel would help transfer the money to the right people. This was such a long chain, and the story with the CSS colonel turned out to be much more interesting and complex than previously expected.
As we see, another interested party in the transfer of bribes turned out to be the co-owner of the Monolit Group of Companies, Igor Konstantinov. It was in his interests that lawyer Yana Nikulshina acted, conducted negotiations, and held meetings. Now she appears in a criminal case as a suspect, while her immediate boss fled abroad long ago and is hiding from the eyes of investigators in Turkey. Hiding because of his own criminal cases.
But what does the story with Roman Shishkov have to do with it, the question arises? It turned out that it had a lot to do with it.
Cycle of criminal cases
The roots of this story grow straight from 2020. Then there was an attack on the director of GC Beaton. The company at that time was one of the largest players in the St. Petersburg concrete business. At the beginning of January 2020, the head of Beaton Group, Sergei Kitunichev, was attacked in the courtyard of his house. Two scoundrels in construction helmets waylaid him and beat him with iron bars. The businessman survived, but it took a long time to heal the fractures, traumatic brain injury and other injuries.
But the attackers were found quite quickly. The video cameras in the courtyard of the house did not fail. The executors also quickly betrayed the one who hired them – a bandit with a large criminal past, Sergei Sharonov. He, in turn, named the name of the customer, a millionaire and the main competitor of the beaten Kitunichev – the head of the Monolit Group of Companies – Igor Konstantinov. The attackers were convicted in the spring of 2021.
And with the Konstantinov case, a real circus began. When confronted, he, of course, refused everything that was accused of him. He still denies his participation. Then, unexpectedly, the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg chose to prohibit the entrepreneur from certain actions instead of the guards, and a few months later the criminal prosecution of Igor Konstantinov was terminated. It is worth mentioning that during the year of investigation, the investigator in the case changed, and Kitunichev’s lawyers lost their last nerve cells by bombarding the prosecutor’s office and the Investigative Committee with complaints. The battle was merciless.
Subsequently, the courts several times overturned the decision to prosecute Konstantinov, but ultimately the investigation was resumed. The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg reinstated the criminal prosecution of Igor Konstantinov. A criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 112 of the Criminal Code (“Intentional infliction of moderate harm to health by an organized group using weapons”). FSB officers went after the head of Monolit, but he managed to escape from Russia. The case continued to be investigated by the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
And last fall, another criminal case was opened – about giving a bribe at one of the stages of the investigation. Konstantinov was put on the wanted list, and the operatives got some interesting material about Roman Shishkov, a man with a long criminal biography (we wrote about it in our previous material). According to investigators, it was he who helped Konstantinov over and over again cancel the initiation of a criminal case with the help of bribes.
Everything is captured
Roman Shishkov, as well as his friend Konstantinov, are now legal pariahs in their homeland, and are spending their long vacation abroad. Since Shishkov was put on the wanted list and began to be searched in connection with the story of Konstantinov’s bribes, he, as they say, in turn decided to help his friend, untie his “criminal knot”, in gratitude for his active participation in his fate. The accomplices decided to “stimulate” the investigators who were investigating Shishkov’s case, and as a result, the above-mentioned businessman Igor Boldyrev began to look for ways to contact the Leningrad Region Investigative Committee. Through a chain of acquaintances, he contacted Yuri Tegza and invited him to tell the investigators the same 10 million rubleswhich were discussed at the beginning of our article.
Negotiations took place in the spring and summer of 2022, and in March of this year 2023, Tegza was detained and is now sitting thoughtfully on a bunk in a pre-trial detention center. However, our sources do not rule out that the searches of lawyer Yana Nikulshina began for a reason, and most likely Tegza simply started talking.
As a result, both the lawyer herself and the entire chain of intermediaries received a criminal case, and Igor Konstantinov now has two criminal charges against him. But the most piquant thing is that neither the capture and arrest of Tegza, nor the detention of Nikulshina shed any light on the figure(s) of those “officials” from the Investigative Committee of the Leningrad Region who were supposed to resolve the issue with Shishkov’s criminal case. As knowledgeable people say, the figure of 10 million did not appear spontaneously. She was named.
It goes without saying that the names of potential persons of interest in uniform are already known to the investigative team. But since no one took the money, clear and intelligible testimony from several people is needed to bring down the corrupt officials in uniform. But according to our sources, it will not be easy to unwind the chain to the end, and the chances that they will eventually be caught are not great. The most realistic chance to find out more precisely is to extradite Shishkov and Konstantinov to their native St. Petersburg shores. Will the investigation cope with such a task? We’ll find out in the future.
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