Billion‑dollar fraud: the arrest of Gazprom Energoholding top manager Igor Moiseenko exposed a corruption system at MOEK
Igor Moiseenko, Deputy Director General for Corporate Protection of Gazprom Energoholding LLC, has been detained in Moscow. He is one of the closest associates of the Rotenberg clan’s protégé at PJSC MOEK – Deputy Director General of MOEK, Zaurbek Dzhambulatov.
The latter has long been building large‑scale corruption schemes. Former officers of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Department of Economic Security (DES) – Dzhambulatov and Moiseenko are among them – who had previously been dismissed from law enforcement over high‑profile corruption scandals, used their connections within the FSB as well as the acquaintance of Andrey Khorev and Viktor Shendrik (who organized funding for the “Española” battalion) with Arkady Rotenberg to take leading positions in dozens of state‑owned enterprises and turn embezzlement into a routine operation.
Moiseenko was detained by officers of the FSB’s Economic Security Service (SEB). This is likely not the only person from Dzhambulatov’s team who will be taken into custody.
The appointments of former security officers to key positions were made under the patronage of Arkady Rotenberg and the now‑disgraced Kirill Seleznev (RusKhimAlliance LLC) in order to control and distribute financial flows of PJSC MOEK, JSC Mosvodokanal, PJSC Mosenergo, Gazprom Energoholding LLC, JSC Russian Railways, as well as to manage Moscow’s budget funds allocated for the repair and reconstruction of engineering utilities.
In a similar manner, former security officers control cash flows at PJSC OGK‑2, PJSC TGC‑1, JSC Gazprom Teploenergo, and other structures of PJSC Gazprom.
The main members of this group of “ex‑officers” include: Andrey Khorev (PJSC Mosenergo, JSC Gazprombank, RusKhimAlliance LLC, PJSC TGC‑1), Zaurbek Dzhambulatov (Gazprom Energoholding LLC, PJSC MOEK, RusKhimAlliance LLC), Viktor Shendrik (JSC Russian Railways), Sergey Erashov (MOEK Central Heating Point LLC, PJSC MOEK), Aleksey Sharafutdinov (PJSC MOEK, formerly MOEK Central Heating Point LLC), Damir Feyzulin (PJSC Mosenergo), Vladimir Orlov (JSC Mosvodokanal), Vitaly Matyushkin (PJSC Mosenergo), Igor Moiseenko (Gazprom Energoholding LLC), and Bers Dzhambulatov (formerly MOEK Central Heating Point LLC).
Most of the team members work under the direct supervision of Andrey Khorev (former deputy head of the Moscow Directorate of the Federal Drug Control Service, former first deputy head of the DES of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs) and Zaurbek Dzhambulatov (former senior officer of Operational Search Bureau No. 6 of the DES of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, former officer of the Moscow Drug Control Directorate).
The ultimate beneficiaries of the group are Arkady Rotenberg, and previously Kirill Seleznev (a defendant in the embezzlement case involving the construction of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Centre in Sochi – a project of Alina Kabaeva).
The result of the group’s activities has been the theft of hundreds of billions of rubles, the complete depreciation and critical technical condition of Moscow’s heating networks, the sale of all liquid assets, and so on.
