New about General Kozik's dacha. Navalny showed the "dacha of the FSB general" on the border with Finland. He counted me
Colonel General border service FSB Nikolai Kozik built a dacha in the area of engineering structures on the state border with Finland. This was announced by the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who published the results of the investigation on his blog.
According to him, the site is located in the Vyborgsky district Leningrad region on the shore of Lake Povarskoe. This follows from satellite images and photo maps of Google Maps.
This territory belongs to the zone of engineering and technical structures, in which it is forbidden to be and the lands of which are withdrawn from circulation, writes Navalny.
He published an extract from Rosreestr, from which it follows that the specified land area of 6.6 thousand square meters. m belongs to Nikolai Vladimirovich Kozik. He is a colonel-general of the FSB, deputy head of the border service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, who is responsible specifically for protecting the state border.
“Really, just like in a Soviet joke. The dude privatized a piece of the state border,” Navalny summed up.
As reported Korrespondent.net , earlier Alexei Navalny announced the discovery. The area of the estate is 80 hectares, which is almost three times the area of the Kremlin.
General Nikolai Kozik is the owner of a dacha on the border of Russia and Finland, which Alexei Navalny spoke about in his investigation. The editors of Russiangate followed his trail and discovered a secret elite village, where the second site, owned by the general, is located. In the cooperative with the characteristic name "Forest Lubyanka" Kozik is next to the director of foreign intelligence Sergei Naryshkin and high-ranking officials.
Lubyanka is not simple, but forest
"Forest Lubyanka" - this is the name of the secret partnership of homeowners in the Leningrad Region, which, according to the Kontur-Focus database, includes Kozik. Why secret? Because there is almost no information about Lesnaya Lubyanka in the public domain. It is only known that a non-profit partnership with this name was registered in the city of Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, and that in in social networks it is referred to exclusively as a local "elite village for its own."
Our reference
Nikolai Kozik - Head of the Regional Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia for Northwestern Federal District, was awarded the orders "For Military Merit", "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree, five medals.
According to the Counter-Focus database, the co-founders of Lesnaya Lubyanka are 63 people. Among them are the already mentioned head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin, the chairman of the financial committee of the Vsevolzhsky district Anna Popova, a senator from " United Russia» Valery Vasiliev and Alexander Nikitenko, the full namesake of the ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
List of high-ranking officials and businessmen - co-founders of Lesnaya Lubyanka
Neighbor neighbor friend, comrade and business partner
Everyone knows that it is better to be on good terms with neighbors. After all, a good neighbor can help in business. Thus, one of the members of the partnership, the head of Resurs-komplekt LLC, Gleb Bondarev, has repeatedly won tenders for the supply of equipment and wetsuits worth more than a million rubles from the Vaninsky Commercial Port company. Russiangate assumes that it could not have done without the help of his dacha neighbor Dmitry Babich, the full namesake of the deputy of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Sakhalin Port Authority.Another member of the partnership, the head of the UNR-17 and SMU-57 construction companies, Yuri Lopatin, has been successfully cooperating with the St. Petersburg Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time and wins tenders for the construction and repair of department buildings. His neighbor, Alexander Lvov, is directly related to the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: he commanded the troops of the North-Western District internal troops. Will Lopatin receive an order from the FSB in the near future? It is quite possible, because the already mentioned Kozik, his neighbor, holds the post of head of the Regional Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia in the North-West federal district.
But the most interesting member of the partnership is Leonid Vorobyov, the founder of Stroyimpulse SMU-2 LLC. This construction company was featured in one of the biggest scandals in 2013 recent years- the case of corruption in the Ministry of Defense.
Then it turned out that Sergey Amelin, General Director of Stroyimpulse SMU-2, was acquiring buildings and land formerly owned by the Ministry of Defense. Prior to that, he signed several contracts with one of the subsidiaries of Oboronservis, an enterprise controlled by the ministry. From them he received an advance payment, which he spent on the purchase of buildings. It is this scheme - the conclusion of contracts with shell companies - that is often used for illegal withdrawal of funds.
Was it not with the money of the Ministry of Defense that Leonid Vorobyov built himself a dacha in Lesnaya Lubyanka?
Later, the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, denied the connection of Sergei Amelin with the corruption case. He said that Amelin "during the investigation into the case of embezzlement of the property of the military department was not summoned to the Main Military Investigation Department and was not interrogated."
Thus, the fact of corruption of the head of the Stroyimpulse SMU-2 company - and his employer Leonid Vorobyov, who could not have been unaware of the company's contracts - was not proven. And yet, Stroyimpulse, according to Russiangate, has multi-billion dollar debts to the Russian Defense Ministry. The question arises: was it not with the money of the military department that Vorobyov built himself a summer house in Lesnaya Lubyanka?
This hypothesis is indirectly confirmed by the fact that the co-founders of the elite settlement "Lesnaya Lubyanka" are high-ranking officials from the FSB and internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - in particular, the same Nikolai Kozik. It was with these structures that Stroyimpulse worked.
Border is locked tight
Journalists would not have paid attention to Lesnaya Lubyanka if the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, had not talked about another dacha of General Nikolai Kozik, which was built on the Russian-Finnish border. According to Navalny, the general's cottage is located not just on the border strip, where local residents are allowed to stay, but in a special zone. This is a territory surrounded by a fence under voltage, with towers and a control strip, where people without special permission are even strictly prohibited from entering, the anti-corruption official claimed.
Russiangate denied Navalny's information: the editors managed to find out that the territory on the Russian-Finnish border, where Kozik's dacha stands, is not a specially protected object. The fence photographed through Google Maps, the pictures of which Navalny posted in his post, is part of the old barriers on the territory of the Saimaa Canal, which have remained since the Cold War. Residential development is officially allowed in this area.
The head of the border department of the FSB, Nikolai Kozik, could guard the border without leaving his home
Thus, formally, General Kozik did not violate the law by building his "dacha on the border." Even closer to it is another cottage village, about which there is almost no information in the public domain - Black Island.
On local websites, information has repeatedly appeared that its inhabitants are far from ordinary people. “Nearby is the eponymous cooperative of generals and deputies of the DNP Cherny Island,” an anonymous user said in the comments to the district map on the Wikimapia website. This information is confirmed by an advertisement found by Russiangate for the sale of a house in the nearby village of Torfyanovka. “Thirty meters from the porch to the coastline, pristine taiga, hunting, fishing, mushrooms! Thousands of hectares of untouched nature, in the border zone with Finland, which are shared with you by respectable neighbors, only 23 households belong to people with high social status (deputies, generals),” the announcement says.
The history of the Black Island is as follows: in August 2010, the Governor of the Leningrad Region, Valery Serdyukov, signed an order to transfer a plot of land in the Vyborgsky District of the Leningrad Region with an area of 47,400 square meters from reserve lands to agricultural lands. Two months later, a dacha non-commercial partnership (DNP) "Pkhikala" was registered there, and a large plot was transferred to its possession. Two months later, representatives of the DNP again appealed to the administration, this time to change the status of the land to "intended for dacha farming." Three people became the founders of the DNP. Among them, Russiangate found a familiar name - Leonid Vorobyov, the already mentioned founder of Lesnaya Lubyanka.
Four years later, the name of General Nikolai Kozik appeared in the documents, who formalized the ownership of 6,600 square meters of this land and built there the “dacha on the border” discovered by Navalny.
Nikolai Kozik and Leonid Vorobyov are two names associated with two large holiday villages in the Leningrad region. These people - as well as other residents of elite villages surrounded by barbed wire and high fences - are not just "good neighbors", they form a network of contacts between government officials and big business. Although the facts voiced by Russiangate, of course, are not indisputable evidence of a criminal conspiracy between officials and businessmen, they raise questions: what tenders, contracts and socially significant problems are discussed on summer evenings at dachas in Lesnaya Lubyanka, Cherny Ostrov and dozens of other elite villages ?
Experts:
Kozik Nikolai Leonidovich - Colonel General, Deputy Head of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, Head of the Border Guard Department
Kapralov Andrey Anatolyevich - Head of the Central Border Ensemble of the FSB of Russia
Oleg Kulinich: Every year our radio company congratulates Russian border guards on their professional holiday. This year it is special - the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia turns 95 years old. The guest of our program is Deputy Head of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia, Head of the Border Guard Department, Colonel-General Nikolai Leonidovich Kozik.
The border service plays one of the most important roles in the development of our state, in ensuring security. With what mood do you meet this holiday, how did the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia approach the 95th anniversary?
Nikolai Kozik: 95 years of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia is, of course, the history of our country, the history of our people, our employees, veterans. A lot has been done in these 95 years. I would like to dwell on a small part of our history. Over the past 10 years, the Border Service has been reforming and integrating the Federal Security Service. It should be noted that this program is currently implemented by 90%. Structural transformations within the service have been carried out. As for the results, I want to note that the results for 95 years are significant. We managed to build a well-functioning, harmonious system of security in the border area of the Russian Federation. Secondly, in 2012, more than 3 thousand violators of the state border were detained, more than 40 thousand violators of the border regime, channels of smuggled goods were blocked on Russian territory, as well as narcotic drugs, detained persons who are on the federal wanted list. We have made great strides forward in terms of the social protection of our employees. This is providing housing, building a system of administrative facilities on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and making a decision by the government, the president to increase the salary, especially for junior employees, who are the main border activity.
Oleg Kulinich: Probably, this is facilitated by the fact that in 2007 the Border Guard Service, the first of our power structures, switched completely to contract work, that is, there are no conscripts. And this imposes positive moments, because people go voluntarily, they know what a difficult profession they are going into, and this affects the performance of their duties.
Nikolai Kozik: Yes, the transition to staffing border agencies throughout the Russian Federation required completely new approaches to building a system for protecting the state border. But it all depends on the employees, on the personal and management staff. It was necessary to determine the professional suitability of our employees, to determine the level of their training, educational qualifications. The management of the service made appropriate decisions to change the training program at the universities for our employees. Today we see that this system is built absolutely correctly and allows us to ensure the security of the Russian Federation in the border area.
Oleg Kulinich: We decided to touch on another side of the border service's activity - the creative side. Today in our program we represent the Central Border Ensemble of the FSB of Russia. I am pleased to introduce the head of the ensemble, Honored Artist of Russia, Colonel Andrey Kapralov. Tell me, when was the ensemble born?
Andrey Kapralov: We are 35 years old. The ensemble as a separate structure was born in 1978 on June 4th. But I want to talk about the backstory. First of all, we start from the first drummers and signalmen of a separate border guard corps. Not so long ago, the historians of our museum found a unique clavier, on which Count Sergei Witte, who stood at the origins of the creation of the Border Guard in Russia, put his marks. The next major stage is the creation of the current Moscow Border Institute of the FSB. It was at this institute that our team began to emerge as an institute orchestra. Considering that there were no other bands in the Central region that could provide service and combat activities, this orchestra slowly began to play the role of the central band in our region. The need to create such a team was obvious. In 1978, a decision was made that a separate team was being created. At that time it was called the Exemplary Military Band. Border Troops KGB of the USSR.
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On Wednesday evening, another scandalous investigation of an opposition blogger came out Alexei Navalny, which, in fact, puts an end to his career as a "denunciator of human morals." Search for the dacha of the FSB general Nicholas Kozik, which allegedly, according to Navalny, is located right on the state border between Russia and Finland, led to unexpected results: it turned out that Navalny - or his curators who prepared the text for him - simply wishful thinking. How Navalny's investigation of the "dacha on the state border" turned out to be a failure and shame for the scandalous blogger - in the material.
"Border is locked tight"
The story of the search for the notorious dacha began on Wednesday, October 12th. According to the website of the Navalny-led organization with the loud name "Fund for Combating Corruption", which is responsible for posting scandalous videos on the Web, the dacha, owned by Colonel General Nikolai Kozik, deputy head of the FSB border service, is located right on the state border between Russia and Finland.
According to Navalny, the dacha is located in the Vyborgsky district of the Leningrad region, allegedly in the "zone of engineering structures" - 2-3 km from the border. Recall that in accordance with Russian law, being in such a zone of proximity to the border is prohibited: it must be protected by a fence and a control strip.
Alexei Navalny expressed bewilderment at this fact - how, they say, so: not only did he build a dacha, Colonel-General Kozik even registered it as a property, which is impossible according to the law. However, in reality, behind the bewilderment of the odious blogger lies an elementary inattention and ignorance of Russian legislation.
He counted me too!
Natural errors in Navalny's calculations and frank blunders of the FBK "investigation" about the "dacha of the FSB general" were very quickly discovered by inquisitive minds. In particular, the blogger Manzal threw his weighty word against the "investigation" (in the world - Andrey Manzolevsky): in his opinion, finding the general's dacha was a "big disappointment" and even a "failure" of the scandalous oppositionist. Leaving aside the talk about who owns the "dacha of discord", Manzolevsky suggested turning to the documents that Navalny "lit up" in his video - since they contain many mistakes of the scandalous blogger.
First of all, the location of the cottage, based on the information on the video - the village Druzhnoselye on the lake Povarsky. However, with a detailed measurement using maps, it turns out that a significant amount of territory separates the dacha to the very border of Russia and Finland. Firstly, the customs point "Brusnichnoye" is located at a great distance from the place of construction. And secondly, together with Navalny's promised "two kilometers from the border", the dacha is located on a free territory - almost 4 kilometers from the barrier between Russia and Finland.
But most of all, the blogger is surprised by Navalny's inattention to the fact that so many people live in close proximity to the state border of Russia. For example, following Navalny's "logic", half of the population of the city of Svetogorsk, located 1.5 km from the border with Finland, can be called "crooks and thieves". Continuing the same "logic", the inhabitants of Ivangorod should be called "corrupt" - they generally adjoin the border with Estonia: on the other side of the river stands the city of Narva, and two border settlements are separated by a bridge across the river of the same name.
Where is the fence?
Another point of Manzal's direct accusations against the so-called FBK investigation was, oddly enough, Navalny's inattention to Russian legislation, which he likes to flaunt right and left. As Andrey Manzolevsky notes, after the collapse of the USSR, the concept of a "border zone" has undergone many changes - including, regional authorities can set the size. In a number of regions of Russia, there is now officially only a narrow strip along the border - as can be observed in the Republic of Karelia.
As for access to border settlements, here, as the blogger assures, not everything is so simple either. According to the law, immediately after the line of engineering structures there is a site, stay in which is necessary if you have property or permission to the territory. However, the size and possibility of travel to these sections of the border zone in each individual subject is again set by local authorities - so, in most cases, in order to find yourself in "closed cities", it is enough to present a passport of a Russian citizen.
"Even if you don't believe the 'experts', let's assume another option. Google panorama. Would it pass in the restricted area? Would they let a car with a camera into the zone of a strategic facility? No. If you don't believe it, try to find panoramas on the real border of any countries. No one and will never allow this, sorry for the slang, pale," writes Andrey Manzolevsky.
The most curious thing is that other people also live in the village of Druzhnoselye, where the “dacha of the FSB general” was found: the settlement is considered sparsely populated, with a population of less than 100 people. But then where did the fence with barbed wire come from in the village?
And this is where the key to Navalny’s shame lies, Manzolevsky is sure: the village could simply fall under the transfer of the border zone, and when the decision was made to narrow the border segment, the border guards with the shepherd dogs left - and the fence remained in place.
Expert: Navalny only does what he is told
Sometimes you will stumble upon a small case in your work, but, damn it, what an indicative case it is. It is necessary to start a section for such people “Leviathan News”, because it is already impossible to be surprised at this, we will just shrug our shoulders and say: Well, this is not a state, but Leviathan, as it should be.
For example, we found the dacha of an FSB general here, and not just anywhere, but right on the state border. Behind the electric fence and the control strip. According to the law, land there is generally withdrawn from civil circulation. Nevertheless, he built and designed.
It seems to be a particularity, but it is so blatant against the backdrop of millions of owners of dachas, garden plots, garages, shops, tents, stalls, to which various inspectors go every single day with acts on the topic “I didn’t build it that way, I connected it wrong, I didn’t draw the border here, didn't make it that way." People are fined, dragged to the courts, and the land is forcibly confiscated - they are simply squeezed out of the light. And here is a cottage on the border.
Decided to make a new video about it:
And the story is like this.
There is a border between Russia and Finland. As expected, the border consists of border zone (5-30 km), only local residents or people with passes can be there, and zones of engineering structures (2-3 km).
The zone of engineering and technical structures is exactly the same thing that is shown in films about border guards. Fence under weak current (triggered by touch), control-track strip and all that stuff.
Staying in this zone is prohibited. Entering it is an attempt to illegally cross the state border and guarantees you a criminal case (here, for example, there are many of them).
So let's use a Google Maps photo and a satellite photo to take a virtual trip through the most beautiful, but forbidden places on the border with Finland.
We see a fence.
We see the control strip.
We see a harrow used by border guards.
We see the sign "mines in 100 meters."
We see a cottage. INSIDE THE ZONE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.
We rub our eyes and look from above:
Well, yes, it’s really a cottage on the lake in a restricted area, which, according to the law, is regulated as follows:
By virtue of subparagraph 10 of paragraph 4 of Article 27 of the Land Code Russian Federation land plots occupied by federally owned engineering and technical structures, communication lines and communications erected in the interests of protecting and protecting the State Border of the Russian Federation are withdrawn from circulation.http://www.consultant.ru/docum...
Ofigevaem and run to the registry.
