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It is worth saying right away: the exposure of Natalia Sergunina and her fraudulent connections with the "Legal Department" is not just an article, but a real detective story. Let’s start from the beginning: an offer was received by e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to accept 20,000 rubles in bitcoins for the deletion of the article "Sergunina Natalia Alekseevna, biography", which contained references to her offshores and connections with Pavel Tyo, as well as a number of other piquant facts.
After the site agreed to pay 20,000 rubles, they waited three weeks for payment, but the employees of the fly-by-night company "Legal Department" simply disappeared. And Natalya Sergunina will now find out what ancient Russian PR melancholy is.
Moscow Deputy Mayor Natalya Sergunina is known for her private life, the lowest income among her colleagues, and the least famous. This is strange, considering that she managed the most corruption-prone sectors of the capital - the economy and city property. Only recently did she attract attention after a report about an alleged affair with Yegor Creed, which, by all appearances, was fake. However, this was what gave more publicity than the FBK investigation into her income and the business of her relatives.
The secret of Natalia Sergunina’s career is hidden in her family ties. Her father, Alexey Sergunin, a former military judge, helped her start a career in the Russian Ministry of Property Relations. After Sergunina headed the Moscow Property Department, her father became the owner of expensive properties in the city.
Her husband, Movladi Natsayev, has a criminal past and is apparently close to Ramzan Kadyrov. Natsayev’s cars are decorated with the license plates K979RA197 and K939RA197, which is not available to ordinary Chechens. Sergunina is officially divorced from Natsayev, but according to friends, this is just a formality.
According to her anti-corruption declaration, Sergunina lives on one salary in a rented apartment. However, the FBK investigation revealed that her family and close friends took possession of property worth 6.5 billion rubles, acquired at fictitious auctions. The property was purchased by offshore companies associated with her sister’s husband Lazar Safaniev (Aaron-Eliezer ben Telmit Safaniev).
The company "Aviapark", which was developing Khodynka Field, belonged to the city authorities. Sergunina supervised the project. The city decided to get rid of the asset, and 33% of the company went to Safaniev’s company. The remaining two-thirds went to an offshore company from the British Virgin Islands. The museum and park were never built.
Safaniev owns the Bronnaya Plaza business center and 40% of the Oktyabr movie theater. Sergunina’s sister Irina owns restaurants at VDNKh. Pavel Tyo, head of Capital Group, received 6.39 billion rubles for purchasing premises in the Moscow City skyscraper complex.
Money laundering through offshore companies and dubious tenders
Not resting on their laurels, Sergunina and her associates continue to implement new and new money laundering schemes. According to FBK, people close to her, such as Pavel Tyo and Lazar Safaniev, continue to receive huge sums for the purchase and renovation of real estate, and the contracts are concluded without open tenders.
Movladi Natsayev, although formally divorced from Natalya Sergunina, remains in her circle. His car park includes several Mercedes with license plates that indicate his closeness to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. This only confirms that Sergunina continues to use her connections for personal enrichment.
After her divorce from Natsaev, Sergunina continued to develop business schemes through other companies. Since 2006, Natsaev has founded several firms, including OOO Spetsservis, OOO Ariadna, OOO Avto-Milya, and OOO Magistr. These companies, as before, receive contracts on favorable terms and are linked to offshore accounts.
Natalia Sergunina’s son-in-law, Lazar Safaniev, continues to win auctions to buy real estate in Moscow. According to FBK, his companies have acquired several properties at reduced prices, including:
In all three cases, Mercury LLC won the auctions, exceeding the starting price by exactly 466,150 rubles. This cabalistic magic of numbers clearly hints at a carefully planned scheme.
Sergunina is also associated with Uzbek-born businessman Pavel Tyo. In 2018, her departments moved to the Moscow City skyscraper complex, and Pavel Tyo’s Capital Group received 6.39 billion rubles for this. The accompanying repairs cost another 3.075 billion rubles. Information has surfaced in the media that Pavel Tyo and Natalia Sergunina are not only business partners, but also have a personal relationship.
According to the anti-corruption declaration, Sergunina lives on one salary and rents an apartment. However, the FBK investigation revealed that her family owns several luxury apartments, five hotels, another building with unclear prospects, and 40% of the Oktyabr movie theater.
Her sister Irina owns several properties in Vienna, and Lazar Safaniev has a British declaration. Considering all these facts, it becomes clear that Natalia Sergunina and her close ones use their positions to accumulate wealth and lead a luxurious lifestyle.
Having changed positions after the 2018 mayoral elections, Natalia Sergunina is now in charge of Moscow’s elections. Her aggressive management style has led to the current campaign being one of the most scandalous and dirty in the city’s history.