Trutnev Yuri Petrovich Plenipotentiary. “Family contract” by Yuri Trutnev? Family of Yuri Trutnev
Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far East and Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev gained scandalous fame thanks to the services of the shaman “Nicholas with the bells.” Trutnev trusted the psychic so much that he could advise him to his companion, billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who emigrated from Russia. In addition to other tasks, “Nikolai with the bells” tried to damage Rybolovlev’s wife, who was trying to sue for family property during the divorce. Experts suspect that Trutnev is the shadow owner of these assets. Both the plenipotentiary and the oligarch still sincerely believe in the magical talent of the shaman.
An important source of informal income for Yuri Trutnev is the Alrosa diamond corporation, which he supervises. The gem control center, which makes Trutnev richer every day, is located in a white three-story building on the northern outskirts of Moscow at 12 Smolnaya Street. The Art Nouveau building looks like a large Soviet cultural center. You can only get inside with a special pass. The main entrance leads into a spacious hall, in the center of which there are shelves with jewelry, and around the perimeter there are small offices for viewing jewelry. The second floor is a production area with seven-meter ceilings: diamonds are cut here.
In Soviet times, the building on Smolnaya housed the production of the Moscow cutting plant "Crystal", and now the premises belong to OJSC "Almazny Mir" (52.37% belongs to the Federal Property Management Agency, the rest to Alrosa and several minority shareholders). In 2002, Gokhran, the Central Excise Customs, the Assay Office and the customs broker TBSS moved under the roof of the Diamond World. Until recently, it was possible to register the import and export of all types of precious stones and metals and pass state control only here.
In September 2016, another special post was opened - in the Far East. “Vladivostok fits more logically into the structure of trade relations between Yakutia (Alrosa’s mining center) and China than, for example, Antwerp,” Trutnev said in September 2016 at the opening of the diamond exchange in Vladivostok. Forbes sources at Alrosa are confident that Trutnev has the “highest influence” on the company. Every Monday, Alrosa President Andrei Zharkov, who took office in April 2015, reports to Trutnev on the state of affairs.
For Trutnev and Zharkov, 2016 was eventful: a diamond center opened in Vladivostok, a 10.9% stake was privatized, the export duty on diamonds was abolished, and joint projects were being prepared in Africa.
Brokerage rollback frequency
The idea of developing a diamond cluster in Primorye is attributed to Trutnev. But the TBSS project is being handled by the same customs broker that processes diamonds at Smolnaya; it is he who owns Eurasian Diamond Center LLC. The company will lease space to residents of the cluster, engage in transportation, customs clearance and storage of valuable cargo, explained Evgeniy Sachkov, general director of the Eurasian Diamond Center.
Almost the entire export flow of diamonds passes through TBSS. Historically, Alrosa, the largest diamond exporter, exclusively cooperates with TBSS. TBSS's revenue for 2015 amounted to 1.18 billion rubles, net profit - 405 million rubles.
TBSS was founded in the 1990s by people from the state special communications, the abbreviation in the company’s name stands for “Customs Broker of Special Communications,” said participants in the diamond and logistics markets. The co-founder of TBSS in 2002 was Mikhail Poletaev, whose full namesake in the late 1990s worked as the first deputy head of the Main Center for Special Communications (GCSC), and in 2007 he was acting. O. Head of the State Center for Social Sciences. The current main owner of TBSS, Sergei Khiryakov, also comes from special communications, say two of his acquaintances. In 1999, the Yakut news agency YASIA called Sergei Khiryakov deputy head of the State Center for International Relations and Customs Operations. How did his company manage to virtually monopolize the processing of diamond exports?
TBSS fulfills its function, testifies one of the diamond market participants: “On the same day that the goods leave (to TBSS), I receive documents.” TBSS charges about $2,500 per $1 million of item cost (0.25%). TBSS's competitive advantage comes from its registration in the Diamond World. State control procedures actually take place on the territory of TBSS, so valuables are necessarily placed in the broker’s warehouses.
A broker can influence the time of cargo clearance and delay it if this cargo is carried by a competitor, complains a manager involved in the transportation of jewelry. There is no alternative to TBSS, because its warehouse is the only place where controllers of Gokhran, headed by Andrei Yurin, are present, explains one of the broker’s competitors. All over the world, global jewelry carriers act as customs brokers: Brink’s, Malca-Amit, Ferrari. TBSS only deals with customs clearance and engages third-party companies for transportation. “This is an outright farce,” says Oleg Khanukaev, president of the African Mining Company (AMC) diamond mining holding.
This approach is consistent with world practice, Andrey Yurin is not ashamed. The main owner of TBSS Khiryakov is well acquainted with Yurin’s first deputy, Andrey Kutepov. He oversees customs at Gokhran.
“Diamond World” became the prototype of the diamond center in Vladivostok, says an Alrosa representative. For the Ministry of Finance, the appearance of TBSS at the special post in Vladivostok came as a surprise. “We did not take part in making this decision,” says Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev. TBSS and Alrosa agreed on this after a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Trutnev, the press service of the diamond monopoly responded.
Launders diamonds through Leviev
The creation of a diamond cluster in Vladivostok caused a lot of noise and allowed Alrosa to lobby for changes in legislation.” By the time the second special post for customs clearance of diamond exports was opened, the Russian authorities had lifted restrictions on the export of large diamonds and, in agreement with the WTO, canceled the export duty. “The speed with which decisions are made is amazing,” admits one of the market participants. Exporting diamonds has become much easier.
“Our goal is to increase direct sales to China and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region by at least two to three times,” says Alrosa President Andrey Zharkov. In 2015, sales to China and India brought Alrosa 44 billion rubles, or 20% of revenue, according to the company’s IFRS. Legislative initiatives will allow Alrosa to increase diamond exports by 20–25%, or approximately $1 billion.
Almost 70% of the world diamond market is occupied by Indian manufacturers. They often sell cut stones 20–25% cheaper than the market, says Maxim Shkadov, general director of the Smolensk Kristall plant: “They need cash to close the loan and get the next one. Otherwise they face bankruptcy.” And the first resident of the diamond cluster in Vladivostok was the Indian cutting company Shree Ramkrishna Export Private. The Indian group KGK Diamonds announced plans to invest up to $8 million in a new production facility in Vladivostok.
Foreigners organize processing in Russia only for preferential access to raw materials. KGK has already asked Alrosa to conclude a five-year contract (currently a maximum of three years) and to increase the volume of raw materials sold. The group annually purchases $200 million worth of diamonds from Alrosa. The list of Alrosa’s long-term clients includes three companies of the KGK group. Also widely represented among Alrosa’s clients are the structures of the Israeli billionaire and Trutnev’s longtime acquaintance, Lev Leviev. From the archives of the Ruspres agency it follows that Leviev was suspected of diamond smuggling.
In 2016, Leviev, with a fortune of $1 billion, entered the Forbes world ranking and took 15th place on the Israeli list. On the website of LLD Diamonds, which manages Leviev’s diamond projects, the billionaire is called the “diamond king”, and the company itself is the world’s largest private diamond producer. The company also points out that Leviev “made a name for himself by ousting the De Beers diamond cartel by independently striking deals with diamond-producing countries such as Russia and Angola.”
It was diamonds that brought Leviev together with Yuri Trutnev. They knew each other well since the mid-1990s, when Trutnev, as the mayor of Perm, visited Leviev’s production in Israel, says former governor of the Perm region (now Perm region) Gennady Igumnov. This official covered Rybolovlev’s (actually Trutnev and Rybolovlev’s) business from the interest of law enforcement agencies. Trutnev accompanied Igumnov on that trip. Perm officials and Leviev agreed to create the Kama-Crystal cutting enterprise, which later became a monopolist in cutting Perm diamonds - close in quality to Namibian diamonds, Igumnov claims. And when Trutnev took the governor’s chair, Leviev also gained control over the Perm miner Uralalmaz. In 2013, Uralalmaz ran out of reserves and went bankrupt. Kama-Crystal was liquidated in 2014.
After Trutnev became the curator of Alrosa, Leviev’s business on the Russian diamond market went uphill. In 2014, Alrosa’s list of long-term clients included only one billionaire’s structure - the Moscow cutter Ruiz Diamonds. A year later, in addition to Ruiz, the list included LLD Diamonds and the Yakut Tunalgy LLC, affiliated with Leviev. In addition, in October 2015, UralTransService LLC won the auction for the development of a diamond deposit in the Perm region with total reserves of more than 1 million carats. Until August 2013, the company belonged to Uralalmaz, and then went to the Moscow-based AV-Invest. Its owner and general director, Mikhail Medvedev, heads the Ruiz Leviev Group of Companies and is on the board of directors of his Moscow Jewelry Factory. In addition, AV-Invest is registered at the same address as the Ruiz Group of Companies, and the telephone numbers are the same.
Zharkov confirmed that three of Leviev’s companies are now among Alrosa’s long-term clients. At the same time, he noted that LLD has been a long-term client since 2012, and Tunalgy is a long-time client of Alrosa for one-time transactions. According to Zharkov, Alrosa “is trying to sell no more than $20 million per month to one person.” Each of Leviev’s two Russian enterprises purchases $2–3 million worth of diamonds from Alrosa per month, he notes. It turns out that the structures of the Israeli “wallet” of Yuri Trutnev may have access to Alrosa diamonds worth approximately $300 million per year.
At the beginning of 2014, Alrosa bought 11 thousand square meters for $91.5 million. m in the Aquamarine complex on Ozerkovskaya embankment near AFI Development. This development company belongs to Leviev. In fact, the residential apartments had to be converted into an office, an Alrosa employee complains. Almost 2 billion rubles were spent on repairs, according to government procurement data.
Through the diamond center in Vladivostok, Trutnev opened up another route for Leviev to Alrosa’s raw materials. LLD Diamonds became the largest buyer at the first diamond exchange auction, buying almost half of the diamonds. Auctions at the Eurasian Diamond Center site will become regular, Zharkov said.
Suleiman's acquaintances
“If no measures are taken, we will go to Africa after 2021,” Alrosa Vice President Rinat Gizatulin stunned the participants of the Geological Exploration 2016 forum, held in September. There, the cost of geological exploration is 14 times cheaper than in Russia, he explained. Alrosa President Andrei Zharkov rushed to establish ties with Africa almost immediately after his appointment. Just two months later, he already met with Manuel Vicente, vice president of Angola, where Alrosa is involved in several projects. Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has long-standing ties with the USSR and Russia. His daughter Isabel dos Santos, born of a Russian wife, owns assets worth $3 billion.
An entire team from the gold mining company Polyus Gold flew to Angola with Zharkov, says a source close to Alrosa shareholders. The controlling stake in Polyus Gold belongs to Said Kerimov, the son of businessman Suleiman Kerimov.
The day after Zharkov’s meeting with Vicente, the Angolan press reported that Alrosa planned large-scale investments in the country, in particular in the project to develop the Luaxe diamond mine with a total value of $1 billion. Alrosa could receive up to 30% in the project and claims reserves of up to 350 million carats. The company's current reserves are estimated at 0.66–1 billion carats of diamonds.
Kerimov has been interested in Alrosa since 2011. Then the government was considering the issue of complete privatization of the company, and Kerimov intended to buy it out. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich works in the Russian government. His wife Zumrud Rustamova received large sums from Suleiman Kerimov and at the same time represented the interests of the state in Alrosa.
A friend of the Rustamov-Dvorkovich family had serious ambitions, a federal official claims: “He didn’t just want to compete with De Beers and Anglo American, he had a coherent concept of how Russia could dominate the world diamond market.” Kerimov enlisted the support of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, but the deal fell through. The head of Yakutia, Yegor Borisov, said that he was against the full privatization of Alrosa and appealed personally to Putin. The head of the Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, also drew the president’s attention to the low valuation of Alrosa (about $9 billion). Kudrin was also involved in Alrosa; the corporation’s funds were transferred to the structures of Kudrin’s friends among the leaders of St. Petersburg criminal groups.
As a result, only 16% of the company was put up for sale. Kerimov lost interest in the deal and, before the IPO, sold his stake (1%) in Alrosa.
The connection between Kerimov and Alrosa was discussed again after Zharkov’s arrival. The reason was the appointment of several people from Kerimov’s structures to significant positions in Alrosa. The sales division of the company was headed by former top manager of Uralkali Oleg Petrov, and Andrei Rodionov, a native of Nafta Moskva, became Zharkov’s financial adviser. It was Dmitry Rybolovlev who sold Uralkali to Kerimov. Zharkov claims that he met Kerimov when he was already the president of Alrosa, through the CEO of Polyus Gold, Pavel Grachev. According to him, Petrov was recommended by the current co-owner of Uralkali, Dmitry Mazepin, and he contacted Rodionov himself.
Kerimov is familiar not only with Zharkov, but, more importantly, with Trutnev. They met even before Trutnev became the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District. Uralkali, owned by Rybolovlev and then Kerimov, is one of the largest taxpayers in the Perm region. At the same time, it was believed that Yuri Trutnev had an informal share in this company, the interests of which he lobbied for.
Kerimov became the owner of Uralkali in 2010. Trutnev then headed the Ministry of Natural Resources and the government commission to prevent the negative consequences of the disaster at the Uralkali mine. Thanks to the commission, Dmitry Rybolovlev and other leaders of Uralkali did not go to jail. After some time, Murad Kerimov became Trutnev’s adviser. This is the nephew of Suleiman Kerimov, says a former official of the Ministry of Natural Resources. In 2013, Murad Kerimov, following Trutnev, moved to the presidential administration, and then, when he was appointed plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District, he became his assistant. In 2016, Murad Kerimov was appointed Deputy Minister of Natural Resources. He took the place of Rinat Gizatulin, who became vice-president of Alrosa and is considered Trutnev’s creation. Close ties and appointments gave rise to market rumors about plans to merge Alrosa and Polyus Gold. But both companies subsequently denied negotiations.
Polyus claimed 4% of Luashe. But now the company has distanced itself from the project. Its prospects are unclear: the Ministry of Finance is wary of projects in Africa. And the relationship between Trutnev and Kerimov could have deteriorated. The reason is considered to be the fight for the Sukhoi Log gold deposit, which both companies lay claim to.
Kerimov’s influence on Alrosa is not the main one. Since the time of Alexei Kudrin, the Ministry of Finance has been closely monitoring everything that happens in the company, and representatives of the Yakut administration (the authorities of Yakutia and the uluses own a total of 33% of Alrosa) find fault with everything that seems to them “an attempt by other shareholders to pull the blanket over themselves.” Egor Borisov said that Kerimov does not influence strategic decision-making at Alrosa. “We clearly control this,” the head of Yakutia emphasized.
Battle of the Yakut Khans
There are a lot of Alrosas in Yakutia, says Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev. In houses, in maintaining infrastructure, in providing heat and work. “This is everything for us!” - admitted the head of Yakutia Egor Borisov in October at a press conference in Moscow.
In 2015, the company paid 43.3 billion rubles to the budget of Yakutia (77% of its tax and non-tax payments). Alrosa is also the largest employer (about 40 thousand employees) in the region. In 2015, Alrosa’s social investments amounted to 5.4 billion rubles. Of these, the company allocated 1.7 billion to maintain local infrastructure, and 2.9 billion to charity.
Under an agreement with the Yakut government, Alrosa annually transfers more than 500 million rubles to the Fund for Future Generations of Yakutia. Formally, these funds are spent on social infrastructure. In fact, the money is spent in an extremely non-transparent manner, note two sources close to the Yakut authorities. In 2011, the republic’s prosecutor’s office revealed that the foundation carried out commercial activities “not pursuing socially beneficial goals.” For example, in 2009–2010, the fund issued loans worth 700 million rubles to various companies. After the audit, the fund's management changed. But, apparently, the fund continued its commercial activities. So, at the end of 2015, the central hospital of the city of Mirny entered into a contract with him to purchase 35 apartments for 90 million rubles, according to data from the zakupki.gov portal.
Historically, the management located at Alrosa’s headquarters in Moscow controls the sale of diamonds, and purchases for the needs of its mining subsidiaries are “farmed out to the Yakuts.” An analysis of contracts of Alrosa structures showed that one of its largest contractors is Alexey Pavlov. Since 2015, companies affiliated with the entrepreneur have won more than fifty tenders worth about 4 billion rubles. The main customer for Pavlov’s structures is Alrosa’s subsidiary Almazy Anabara. Its former general director, Matvey Evseev, who led the company for almost 20 years, according to SPARK, in 2007 owned ADK LLC - now the largest contractor for Alrosa among Pavlov’s structures (orders for more than 2 billion rubles since 2015). Pavlov is a relative of Yevseev, says a source close to the Yakut authorities. Between Evseev and Pavlov, ADK LLC belonged to Olga Zemskova, its current director. Zemskova’s full namesake appears in documents for some purchases of Almazov Anabar as the head of the competitive procurement department. Another major contractor of Almazov Anabar is GRP-group LLC (since 2015, it has won three tenders totaling 4 billion rubles). Its owner, Dmitry Anatolyevich Gorshunov, acted in Omega-Orion LLP as a partner of a person with the same last name and initials as Evseev. The son of Evseev’s cousin, Mikhail Vitalievich Evseev, heads Almas LLC, which since 2015 has won more than 30 tenders of the same “Almazov Anabar” for 710 million rubles.
An internal audit revealed multiple violations at Almazy Anabara: interested party transactions, non-transparent purchases, and expenditure of funds. In the spring of 2016, Evseev left Almazy Anabar and moved to Alrosa with the status of vice president for non-core assets. Recently, Evseev left the company altogether.
According to sources, Evseev was let down by the fact that he “behaved like a khan” and did not work well with the like-minded Yegor Borisov. After Evseev’s departure, Almazy Anabar was headed by Pavel Marinichev, the former first deputy prime minister of Yakutia Galina Danchikova, whom Yegor Borisov called “his faithful comrade-in-arms.” Last fall, Danchikova became a State Duma deputy from Yakutia and deputy chairman of the strategic planning committee under the Alrosa supervisory board.
There have also been changes in Alrosa's procurement. A year ago, Zharkov introduced a new position of vice president for procurement and appointed Alexander Parshkov, a native of Rosneft and Gazprom, to it. In the year since Parshkov’s appointment, Alrosa’s largest suppliers included Gazprom’s subsidiary Gazenergoset Resurs, Rosneft and NG-Energo, a contractor for Gazprom (Alexey Miller) and Rosneft ( Igor Sechin).
Exchange fraudsters Trutnev
In the summer of 2016, the Federal Property Management Agency sold a 10.9% stake in Alrosa for 65 rubles, gaining just over 52 billion rubles. At the end of November, the company's capitalization was 655 billion rubles (revenue for the nine months of 2016 was 256 billion rubles, EBITDA was 150 billion rubles). A significant part of the state stake was bought by RDIF and its co-investors from Asia and the Middle East. Among Russian buyers, the main share came from non-state pension funds, but there were also family offices of large businessmen. The latter “did not dominate,” assured Deputy Finance Minister Moiseev. Kerimov was not among them, assure two federal officials and a person close to Alrosa.
Officials and organizers of the SPO unanimously insist that “the deal exceeded expectations.” For a budget, it’s unlikely: shortly before the placement, even Trutnev indicated that the price was at rock bottom. “The level of skepticism was high,” admits one of the organizers of the deal. According to him, at first even the Ministry of Finance was against it, although the money from the sale of Alrosa at such a low oil price is definitely not superfluous.
But investors were right. Upon purchase, they received a 3% discount to the market price and 50% of the profit under IFRS in the form of dividends. Three months after the SPO, the shares rose in price by more than a third; at the end of November, one Alrosa paper on the Moscow Exchange cost about 90 rubles. Quotes are rising on news about Alrosa's export prospects. In order to sell the stake at a higher price, it would be logical for Trutnev to organize the placement after all the legislative changes. But Trutnev's task was probably the opposite.
Cutting Pest
Alrosa was the main payer of the export duty and will benefit from its abolition. Moiseev estimates its size at 10–12 billion rubles. Alrosa is not able to sell any stones for export, so the remainder will go to the domestic market at lower prices, the Deputy Minister of Finance believes.
“Alrosa is destroying the entire cutting industry of the country,” says Oleg Khanukaev. “Alrosa’s task is to extract and sell,” says Maxim Shkadov, general director of the Smolensk Kristall plant. According to him, already in September Alrosa raised selling prices for diamonds on the domestic market by 8%. Now the diamond cutting business may become unprofitable, because even before the abolition of export duties, the margin here did not exceed 1–2%. As a result, the most advantageous position will be for the Alrosa branch - the diamond cutting company ALROSA Diamonds. “Within a year they will have no competitors left on the Russian market,” says Khanukaev. Zharkov does not agree with this and cites the example of profitable Russian enterprises of the Indian KGK. True, they have a significant advantage over their Russian competitors, the head of Alrosa admits: they are part of an international group with their own sales channels.
The son of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev is going to capture the Perm market. Dmitry Trutnev begins with the purchase of the Vivat retail chain.
Information has emerged that the son of a high-ranking official wants to gain a foothold in the Perm market. Businessmen say that Trutnev Jr. will use his father’s connections.
"Drone" in the Far East
Let us remind you that Yuri Trutnev is the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District. And in this position he was able to do a number of “interesting” things.
For example, it turned out that Trutnev’s son, being a 23-year-old “boy,” was incredibly able to acquire a plot of 48 acres in size as an individual developer in Perm - at the address Tantsorova, 10 in Perm. This is an elite place with a beautiful view of the Kama River, and the most interesting thing in the sanitary protection zone! The law has been broken, but Dmitry Trutnev is “gaining momentum.”
Interestingly, the situation with the sanitary zone became public. Then, Dmitry Trutnev, as the son of a decent official, refused the object. Only soon it became clear that the asset was taken over by a certain Alexander-Bisman Vladimirovich Ross-Johnson. He is the customer of the work carried out by Trutnev Jr. It looks like the official’s son simply took and re-registered the asset...
“Younger” Trutnev is called by his ill-wishers a member of the board of directors of JSCB TatInvestBank, OJSC Insurance Company Itil, a financial adviser to the Bulgarian Central Cooperative Bank and the owner of the Ural de-icing materials plant. Great talent? Anti-corruption fighters believe that Dmitry Yuryevich’s successes are associated with his father’s patronage.
"Trutnev's Hive"
In addition to his great talent son, Trutnev has many other successful relatives. So one of the former wives (it is not known exactly whether Trutnev had two or three wives) of an official, Marina Lvovna Trutneva, was able to “take over” a clothing store in Perm..
Trutnev’s other wife, Natalya, at the end of 2006, according to media reports, began construction of a residential building in the coastal protective zone of the Kama Reservoir in the Dobryansky district. By the way, local journalists said that the construction was supervised by Trutnev’s beloved son, Dmitry Trutnev.
It should be noted that in August of this year, Trutnev supervised the Alrosa company as deputy chairman of the Russian Federation. Why do you need to know this? But the fact is that a certain Rinata Gizatulina came to Alrosa, which is noteworthy, the nephew of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev!
At the beginning of 2016, after a couple of months of service in the Far East Development Corporation (KRDV), Alexander Korneychuk was rebuffed. As they said on the sidelines, they took away Korneychuk in order to install Trutnev’s “protege” in his place - the ex-deputy chairman of the Tula region government Denis Tikhonov.
Start
But first, a few words about the “presidential representative” himself. Yuri Petrovich's march to power began at the end of 1996. Then Trutnev, in a strange way, was able to win the mayoral elections in Perm. No, then he had not yet built up the picturesque views of the city.
In 2000, Trutnev already won the gubernatorial elections.
Trutnev was helped by local companies, including Lukoil-Perm. But bandits could also help Trutnev in his first and second elections! After all, he and Ivo Kmnev are co-founders of the All-Russian Kyokushinkai Karte Union. Mr. Kamnev was allegedly a member of the TIM group.
“The group is believed to have been founded in Varna in 1993 by approximately ten former Marines who served in an elite military unit before they were disbanded in the early 90s... As an organized crime group, TIM is involved in a variety of criminal activities: kidnapping and extortion, organizing prostitution, gambling, drug trafficking and stolen cars,” said documents published by WikiLeaks.
According to some reports, Trutnev could have been involved in fraud with the products of Ural Plant of Anti-icing Materials LLC (UZPM) worth 2.5 billion rubles.
Yuri Petrovich and his “talented” wives and children have always managed to run a business in Perm. It looks like Trutnev Jr. decided to expand his sphere of influence. The question is whether law enforcement agencies will finally pay attention to the couple of officials or not...
Yuri Petrovich Trutnev - ex-mayor of Perm, from 2000 to 2004 - governor of the Perm region, led the process of uniting the Perm region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug into a single Perm region. Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation in 2004-2012, assistant to the president from 2012 to 2013. Currently he is the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Far Eastern District.The childhood of Yuri Trutnev
Yuri was born in the Perm region. His father worked as an oil pipeline section manager, and his mother also worked in the oil industry. Since childhood, the boy was familiar with the lifestyle of oil workers. As Yuri Petrovich recalled, at that time work in this area was completely different: very often something broke or fell somewhere. The father could leave in the middle of the night, getting up at the bell.After graduating from school, the young man decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents, despite all the hardships of being an oil worker. He entered the Polytechnic Institute of the city of Perm, becoming a student at the mining faculty. The young man studied the first three years without stress and special effort, but starting from the fourth year, he was truly captivated by his studies, so much so that he began to receive an increased scholarship.
The beginning of Yuri Trutnev’s career: a long path into politics
After the institute, Trutnev was assigned to the Perm Research Institute and Design Institute of the Oil Industry, where he began his career as a junior researcher. He decided not to build a scientific career, so he left the institute, refusing graduate school. At that time, he believed that the position of instructor of the Komsomol city committee would be much more interesting, and most importantly, more important for society. 
His responsibilities included organizing youth rallies and student construction teams. The young man devoted himself to his new job with all zeal, and in 1986 he was offered to head the regional sports committee. This was largely influenced by Trutnev’s passion for sports: tourism, wrestling, sambo, and subsequently karate.
Cooperative movement and commercial activities of Yuri Trutnev
With the beginning of perestroika, the young man was fascinated by the cooperative movement. He wanted to understand how an enterprise could earn money on its own and manage the funds it earned. He left his position and organized a cooperative with his partners. 
Yuri’s mother was most worried: she did not understand how it was possible to exchange a respected position for an unknown one. The cooperative, called “Contact,” was located in a room that was rented on the first floor of the sports committee building. The guys earned their first capital by coming up with a program of demonstration sports performances and independently performing in different areas of the city. Having collected a considerable sum, they used it to develop training complexes. Later, these simulators were supplied to educational institutions in the Perm region.
Yuri Trutnev answered uncomfortable questions
The nineties came, and instead of Contact, the company EKS Limited appeared, supplying food products to the region from abroad. Business was booming. Over time, a new company appeared, Doctor EKS, which supplied imported medicines.
The beginning of Yuri Trutnev's political activity
Trutnev found doing business not only profitable, but also interesting, but he also wanted to try himself in politics. The first step in his political career was the local Legislative Assembly, where he headed the Committee on Taxes and Economic Policy. In 1996, Yuri Petrovich became the mayor of Perm. With his arrival to this position, things began to improve in the city, in particular, a tunnel was built under the Trans-Siberian Railway. It was a grandiose project that significantly improved the transport situation in the city.Minister Yuri Trutnev: Think about how to become successful
At the end of 2000, Trutnev won the elections and became governor of the Perm region. During his work as governor, the Perm region was united with the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. They decided to enlarge the Russian regions, and the first, one might say experimental, was the unification of these two regions. A referendum organized in 2003 gave consent to the unification. This is how the Perm region appeared.
Trutnev's work in Moscow: Government and the Kremlin
In 2004, the governor of the Perm Territory was offered to head the Ministry of Nature instead of Vitaly Artyukhov, who had held this post for the past three years. Trutnev accepted the offer and held this post until 2012. His first serious business in this place was organizing inspections of the Sakhalin-2 project, as a result of which Gazprom became its controlling shareholder, receiving 51% of the shares. 
In 2012, Trutnev became an assistant to President Vladimir Putin. His responsibilities included supervising the resource department and supervising the State Council.
Since August 2013, Yuri Petrovich became the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Far Eastern District.
Personal life of Yuri Trutnev
Yuri Petrovich has always been interested in sports, but in recent years he has devoted a lot of time to Kyokushinkai karate. He holds the 5th dan, since 2005 he has been the co-chairman of the Russian Union of Martial Arts, and since 2011 - the co-chairman of the World Kyokushin Union (he was also one of the initiators of its creation). 
Yuri Trutnev is also an avid racing driver. Since 2000, he has been a participant in the Cup and National Rally Championship stages for four years.
Yuri Petrovich has five children - two daughters and three sons. He is currently married for the third time. His second wife is Marina Lvovna Trutneva. She is an athlete, namely a master of sports in rhythmic gymnastics. Today Marina Lvovna owns a clothing store in Perm. Both of his sons (Alexander and Dmitry) were born from his second marriage. The politician got married for the third time in 2006. His wife is Natalya Sergeevna Petrova.
Yuri Petrovich does not forget his hometown - he often comes to Perm, where his friends and relatives live.
Yuri Trutnev - Mayor of Perm, Governor of the Perm Territory. Head of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. Council member "United Russia".
Childhood and youth of Trutnev Yuri Petrovich
The future statesman was born on March 1, 1956 in the Perm region, in the village of Polazne. The small town is located near the beautiful Kama Reservoir. It was there that his happy years of childhood and youth passed. He grew up in a not poor family; his parents worked as oil workers.
His father was in charge of the site and he was often called to work on weekends, holidays and even at night, because there were always accidents and breakdowns on the lines. The head of the family was not at home for 2-3 days, all the difficulties of housework fell on the shoulders of the mother. But the fact that the father did not complain or leave his job under any circumstances was reflected in the character of the future capitalist. He inherited his passion and determination in his profession from his parents. He graduated from the local village school, was an ordinary student and did not amaze everyone with his abilities and talents, then he entered the Perm Polytechnic Institute. He followed in the footsteps of his parents and also chose their profession and entered the faculty where they train future specialists in the oil industry.
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From the first to the third year, Yuri did not particularly like his future profession and studies; during these years he felt all the delights of student life, but in the fourth year he surprised everyone and worked hard and received a long-awaited increased scholarship.
In 1978, the young student graduated from university and received a diploma of higher education. Yuri Trutnev was a wise guy beyond his years; during his student life he decided to work in a new oil and gas organization "Polazneft", there he gained work experience and acquired a lot of skills and knowledge. In this department, he served as an assistant driller and gas and oil production operator.
Since he graduated from the fourth year with an increased scholarship, he was enrolled among the best students of the university. And the best student of the Perm Polytechnic Institute, Yuri Trutnev, was sent to the Perm Research Institute as a junior researcher.
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The beginning of the career and commercial activities of Yuri Trutnev
Yuri Petrovich began his career as a junior researcher at the Perm Research Institute. But the work quickly became boring for him, and he decided not to engage in scientific activities. He left the institute and refused graduate school, but his teachers and staff shared with the press that they expected a professorship from him. But Yuri considered that the position of instructor of the Komsomol city committee would be much more important for him and for society. His responsibilities included organizing all kinds of student fraternities, construction teams and youth rallies. Trutnev was delighted with this work and enjoyed coming up with something new for the students. This passion for work was inspired by his love for sports, wrestling, sambo, tourism and karate.
At the beginning of perestroika, Yuri Trutnev decided that he wanted to connect his life with the cooperative movement and this matter fascinated him very much. He became interested in how an organization could earn money itself and manage the money it earned. He set himself the goal of organizing his own cooperative or company. To do this, he left his job and decided to start a new business.
Most of all, his mother was worried about an incomprehensible and unknown matter; she did not understand how he could exchange a good position with a stable salary for a ridiculous decision. He and his companions created a small cooperative called “Contact”; it was located in a rented room on the ground floor of the sports committee’s territory.
They earned their first money easily; they came up with a program of sports performances and performed independently in small towns. The partners collected a considerable amount of money and donated it entirely to the development and installation of training complexes. After some time, quite a bit, good simulators were supplied to schools and boarding schools in the Perm region.
In the 1990s, the Contact company was replaced by the EKS Limited organization. She specialized in supplying food products to the region from abroad. Capital grew and business flourished. After some time, Yuri Trutnev opened a new company - Doctor EKS, which supplied imported medicines.
Yuri Petrovich loved his job very much and helped him develop in every possible way, but over time he decided that this was not the peak of his capabilities. I decided to try myself in a political career. He moved up the career ladder very quickly and at the beginning of his career he took a good place. Yuri Petrovich immediately took a place among a number of officials of the local district, where he became the head of the Committee on Economic Policy and Taxes. Already in 1996, Yuri Petrovich Trutnev was appointed Mayor of Perm. With the arrival of such an important position, things began to improve in the city and region, the people were very pleased with this representative of the authorities. Thanks to him, a tunnel was built under the Trans-Siberian Railway. This project has changed the transport situation in the city for the better.
Thanks to his good reputation, at the end of 2000, Yuri Petrovich became the governor of the Perm region. Under his leadership, the unification of the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug with the Perm region took place. And in 2003, a referendum agreed to the unification of these two territories, and the Perm Territory was formed.
Yuri Trutnev communicates with young people at the Islands forum
In 2004, the capitalist heading the Perm region was offered to become the head of the Ministry of Nature, instead of Vitaly Artyukhov, who had held this position for the last three years. Trutnev could not refuse and headed the Ministry of Nature of the Russian Federation until 2012. His first, important and serious task in this position was the formation of inspections of the Sakhalin-2 project, after which Gazprom became its controlling partner and shareholder, receiving 52% of the shares.
Already in 2012, Yuri Trutnev became the first assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. He was obliged to supervise the resource department and supervise the State Council. Already in August 2013, Yuri Petrovich was appointed to a new position - he became the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern District.
Family life of Yuri Trutnev
The government official has five children - two daughters and three sons. He is currently married for the third time. The second wife, Marina Lvovna Trutneva, is an athlete. She is an Honored Master of Sports in rhythmic gymnastics. Now she has a clothing store in Perm. Both of his sons, Dmitry and Alexander, were born from his second wife. The businessman married for the third time in 2006, to Natalya Sergeevna Petrova.
Yuri Trutnev now
From an early age he was interested in sports, but in recent years he became seriously interested in karate. He has the highest degree of wrestling - fifth dan, and since 2005 he has become the chairman of the Union of Martial Arts of the Russian Federation. And since 2011 - co-chairman and one of the organizers of the World Kyokushin Union. He is also an avid extreme sports enthusiast and racing driver.
Governor of the Perm Territory, thanks to whom the region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug united. Former Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation in the Far East.
In 1978 he graduated from the Perm Polytechnic Institute.
Deputy Prime Minister - Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Far Eastern Federal District (since 2013), Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (2004-2012).
“A little more a businessman than an official,” he is considered to be part of the “technical bloc” of the elite, and is considered the creation of Igor Shuvalov.
Main achievements
Successful unification of the Perm region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug in 2003; attracting serious investments to the Perm region, brilliant work as Minister of Natural Resources.
Biography
1978 – graduated from the mining department of the Perm Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mining engineer, worked as an assistant driller, oil production operator at NGDU Polaznaneft and Komineft. Then he became a junior researcher at the Perm Research and Design Institute of the Oil Industry.
1981-1989 - Komsomol work, appointed head of the Sports Committee of the Perm Regional Executive Committee, at the same time he organized a company selling sports equipment to government organizations.
1994 – Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Region and the Perm City Duma, headed the Committee on Economic Policy and Taxes. In 1996 elected mayor of Perm. Business problems pushed him to participate in the elections: this was the only way to resolve financial troubles using administrative resources. Soon, the banks to which Y. Trutnev’s company owed money quickly went bankrupt, and their leaders went to work for the city administration.
2000 – Yu. Trutnev, supported by the local business community in the person of businessmen Dmitry Rybolovlev and Andrey Kuzyaev, won the election for governor of the Perm region, ahead of the current governor Gennady Igumnov. Under Yu. Trutnev, the unification of the Perm region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug began, ending in 2003, which was exemplary. Under Yu. Trutnev, the companies of Viktor Vekselberg “Renova” and Vladimir Potanin “Interros” came to the Perm region.
2004 – Yu. Trutnev was appointed Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation in the government of Mikhail Fradkov. Retained his position after Vladimir Putin was re-elected as president. At his new post, he began an official investigation against his predecessor Vitaly Artyukhov, who on his last day in office signed 62 licenses for geological exploration in five regions. Soon after his appointment to the post of Minister of Natural Resources, he turned out to be the most mentioned official in the media: his last name appeared more often than the president’s name. The minister’s subordinates declared war on pop stars, businessmen and officials who built facilities in environmental zones. Even foreign companies that were caught violating environmental legislation fell under the hot hand of Yu. Trutnev. Among the minister’s other “accused” were RUSIA Petroleum and Oleg Deripaska’s ill-fated Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill. Yu. Trutnev even had to be shortened from above.
2012 - appointed assistant to the president, supervised the State Council. He took part in the State Duma elections and lost his mandate to billionaire Anatoly Lomakin. August 31, 2013 - Appointed Deputy Prime Minister - Plenipotentiary Representative in the Far Eastern Federal District. The media called Trutnev the “creature” of Igor Shuvalov and announced the victory of the deputy prime minister, who lobbied for the appointment of a deputy. Touches to the portrait
He was awarded the Order of Honor for his great contribution to the development of Perm, the Stolypin Medal for his services in solving strategic problems of the socio-economic development of Russia, and the Order of Honor from South Ossetia for his contribution to strengthening friendship between peoples.
He is seriously interested in sports - martial arts (co-chairman of the Russian Martial Arts Union together with Sergei Kiriyenko; initiator of creation, co-chairman of the World Kyokushin Union) and auto racing (classic rally, from 2000 to 2204 he participated in the stages of the Russian Rally Championship in Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution cars. Sponsored was performed by the LUKOIL company). Co-chairman on the Russian side of the mixed intergovernmental commissions on cooperation between Russia and South Africa, the Republic of Guinea, Angola and Namibia.
Family
Married, three sons and two daughters. Son Dmitry is a financial advisor and member of the Board of Directors of the Central Cooperative Bank.
Financial interests
He earned his capital in the 1990s by selling sports equipment on the basis of the EX LIMITED cooperative. In addition, he was involved in organizing tours of strongmen, selling imported cars and supplying Swiss chocolate to Nestle together with the trade representative of Russia in Switzerland Oleg Chirkunov. Upon O. Chirkunov’s return to Perm, they jointly headed the “7ya” supermarket chain. In 2009 and 2012 set a record for personal income among government members: 155 and 210 million rubles. respectively.
In an interview in 2010, answering the question whether he regretted leaving business for the civil service, he replied: “I like to understand economics. I believe that I understand how business works, but the minister’s information platform is much wider. Therefore, from the point of view of intellectual development, these are incomparable positions,” he argues. The minister has no thoughts about ever returning: “If they tell me: “Thank you, you did a good job, you’re free,” then I’ll think about it.”
Gossip
Despite the fact that he came from a wealthy family, during his student years he worked as a freelance inspector of the criminal investigation department, unloaded wagons with meat, built roads and barns. He explained the activity as “interest.”
As Minister of Natural Resources, he had strained relations with the government of Karelia. He was in a cool relationship with the poor student of TNK-BP in 2006. even threatened to revoke the license of the company, which holds the record for the number of idle wells.
In 2007 The media named Yuri Trutnev one of the beneficiaries of Uralkali. Trutnev did not ignore this fact and demanded that a case be opened under the article “Slander” against journalists. At the same time, the minister had a conflict with the Perm governor and former business partner Oleg Chirkunov regarding solving the problem in Berezniki.
In 2007 Trutnev’s son received a plot of land in the coastal protective zone of the Kama Reservoir for individual development. After the scandal broke, construction in the environmental zone had to be curtailed.
In 2008 Yu. Trutnev was called one of V. Putin’s possible successors as president.
