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Yuri Chaika is an “old-timer” of the Russian government, who has held leadership positions in the highest echelons of the country’s government for more than 20 years. The biography of Yuri Chaika began with the Ministry of Justice, where the official served as head for several terms in a row, and then became the Prosecutor General of Russia. The work of the Prosecutor General is periodically shaken by scandals, which does not prevent him from confidently continuing his career, as well as supervising the implementation of laws by the federal executive authorities in the state.

Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika was born on May 21, 1951 in the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, located in the Khabarovsk Territory. Yakov Mikhailovich, the father of the future official, was the secretary of the Nikolaev city committee of the CPSU. Maria Ivanovna, Yuri's mother, worked as a mathematics teacher, and later became a school director. The future Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was the youngest son in the family - he has three more older brothers and sisters.

Yuri Yakovlevich's childhood and school years passed as usual. Yuri graduated from local school No. 4 and soon entered the Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Shipbuilding. After 1.5 years of study, Chaika left the university and went to work as an electrician at a shipbuilding plant. From 1970 to 1972, Yuri completed military service in the Soviet army, and then decided to get a higher education and entered the Sverdlovsk Law Institute, Faculty of Law.

During this period, the future Prosecutor General met Yuri Skuratov, who, after the collapse of the USSR, served as Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. This acquaintance played a key role in the career of Yuri Chaika, since thanks to this he was able to rise from the position of an ordinary investigator to the highest rank in the Russian prosecutor's office and remain in the prosecutor's chair for many years.

Service in the authorities

Yuri Chaika’s prosecutorial career started in the Ust-Udinsky District Prosecutor’s Office as a deputy interdistrict prosecutor. From 1979 to 1985 he worked in the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office, from where he was transferred to the Irkutsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, which he headed from 1992 to 1995.

During that period, Yuri Yakovlevich became famous for becoming the first Russian prosecutor to send a criminal case to court under the article “Banditry,” which attracted the attention of the country’s leading prosecutors. Thanks to this, the same Yuri Skuratov, an acquaintance from the institute who headed the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, remembered him. Skuratov appointed Chaika as his first deputy, as he believed that he had shown results after working in the Irkutsk region, which was a crime-prone region at that time.

In 1999, after Yuri Skuratov was removed from office, Chaika was appointed acting prosecutor general of the country. Soon, Yuri Yakovlevich headed the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, where he proved himself to be an energetic, demanding and tough official who fights crime. This made it possible to carry out fundamental changes in the country’s criminal legislation and influenced the reduction in the number of prisoners in the Russian Federation by almost 200 thousand people. Chaika also created the Office for the observance of the rights of citizens serving sentences in prison. Yuri Chaika's achievements as Minister of Justice also include the adoption of a law on non-profit organizations and the abolition of the death penalty in Russia.

On June 23, 2006, by a resolution of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Yuri Chaika was appointed Prosecutor General of the country, whose duties are already in his second term. During this period, he was responsible for the detection of many crimes related to corruption, the rotation of personnel in the department, which made it possible to make the activities of the Russian prosecutor's office transparent, as well as to expand public understanding of the plans being implemented in the country.

He has the honorary title “Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.”

Scandals

The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation has repeatedly become involved in “prosecutorial” scandals, the most notorious of which was the story of an underground casino in the Moscow region. Then high-ranking officials were accused of covering up the organizers of an illegal business, one of whom was allegedly the son of the Prosecutor General Artem. Later, the criminals involved in this case were punished in accordance with Russian law.

In 2015, Yuri Yakovlevich, or rather his family business, again came to the attention of the public. This time, the oppositionist brought charges against the prosecutor's son Artem Chaika, who conducted an anti-corruption investigation into the family of the Prosecutor General and disclosed the facts to the public. Navalny also presented a new one about corruption in law enforcement agencies.

Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation called the business of the Chaika family “banditry, racketeering and raiding,” which is patronized by the country’s prosecutor general. We are talking about investing tens of millions of euros in Greek real estate, which, according to Navalny, Chaika’s son earned in a joint business with criminal gangs.

Yuri Yakovlevich called the oppositionist’s accusations false and groundless. Chaika considers Navalny’s revelations an “order” and promised to soon reveal the names of those behind him.

Later, Yuri Chaika told media representatives that he did not help his sons because they are “smart guys” and achieve everything themselves, and called the news regarding offenses by family members fiction. Nevertheless, the Prosecutor General added that his sons also received government orders, “but there is no talk of any 300 billion rubles.”

Chaika added that Igor “always fulfilled his obligations on time,” and also invested personal funds in charitable projects that he developed in the Moscow region. According to Chaika, the son “does charity work not for the sake of gratitude or awards, but at the call of his heart.”

Yuri Yakovlevich noted that his son Artem “often takes on what others refuse” and “devotes a lot of time to helping those who need it.”

To support his words, the Prosecutor General cites Artem’s acquisition from Russian Railways of the unprofitable company PNK, which united two dozen crushed stone plants. According to Yuri Yakovlevich, his son turned this company into a profitable enterprise in a short time.

Personal life

The personal life of Yuri Chaika is stable. At the dawn of his prosecutorial career, the official met Elena, his future wife, whom he married in 1974. The wife of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation is a teacher by training, but after the birth of her own children she devoted herself to their upbringing and stepped away from teaching work.

The children of Yuri Chaika are of particular interest to the people - sons Artem and Igor, born in 1975 and 1988. Artem and Igor have repeatedly become involved in scandals in which they were accused of illegal activities and illegal earnings. It is known that Chaika’s sons followed in their father’s footsteps and became lawyers. Today they are dedicated to business and are co-founders of several companies.

Income

Yuri Chaika’s income for 2014 was 8.5 million rubles, and his wife’s income was 8.28 million rubles. The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation does not have real estate; the official owns only the rare GAZ-13 car, the famous Soviet “Chaika”, produced in a small series in 1959-1979. Yuri Yakovlevich also has two parking spaces and an apartment with an area of ​​203 square meters. m, half of which belongs to the wife of the prosecutor general.

In 2016, the total income of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was just over 9.275 million rubles.

Yuri Chaika now

In April 2017, Yuri Chaika demanded that the department he heads have the right to authorize arrests. According to Yuri Yakovlevich, today investigators are “a working tool in the hands of the prosecutor.” According to the official, this situation needs to be changed, since this threatens serious consequences for the law enforcement system in the future.

The Prosecutor General, speaking in the Federation Council, said that over the past 2 years, employees of the Investigative Committee have illegally opened thousands of criminal cases, in which law enforcement agencies asked the courts to arrest the defendants.

“When the constitutional rights of a citizen are affected, such actions must be sanctioned by the prosecutor. Throughout the world, the prosecutor performs one of two functions: he investigates the criminal case himself or leads the investigation. In Russia, unfortunately, there is neither one nor the other function,” said the Prosecutor General.

Chaika believes that before starting the procedure of going to court and asking to send the person involved in the case to an isolation ward, the representative of the investigation needs to obtain the prosecutor’s permission to do so. The Prosecutor General also noted that operational investigative actions must be authorized by his department. We are talking about test purchases and operational experiments.

Experts note that tense relations have long been developing between the prosecutor’s office and the Investigative Committee. Both structures are actually fighting, trying to gain control over the legal principles of conducting business. The hardware structure demands increased permissions and also fights for increased permissions for its system.

In June 2017, Yuri Chaika announced that he intended to check compliance with laws and agreements that relate to the ban on the import of vegetables and fruits. Chaika’s department is obliged to fulfill the order of the President of the Russian Federation before December 1, 2017.

Companies will be examined for their use of the import substitution plan, as well as the effective direction of federal resources. According to the Russian government, such an initiative will support Russian agricultural products and also rid the domestic market of low-quality goods.

Awards and titles

• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree
• Order of Alexander Nevsky
• Order of Honor
• "Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation"
• "Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation"

Education

In 2011 he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy named after O. E. Kutafin.

Activity

In 2010, according to SPARK, he registered the company “Innovations of Light”, which over three years received several contracts worth almost 700 million rubles: it created New Year’s illumination in the Central and Southern districts of Moscow, artistic lighting of the Novospassky and Krymsky bridges and artificial lighting of the Adler highway - Krasnaya Polyana on the eve of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

From 2012 to 2013, he was a partner of lawyer Dmitry Yakubovsky and VTB Bank in the development company City Land Group.

"Connections / Partners"

"News"

Homeowners associations near Moscow filed a lawsuit against a garbage collection operator owned by the son of the Prosecutor General

In the Moscow region, several homeowners' associations (HOAs) from Chernogolovka filed a lawsuit against the Charter company, whose owner is the son of the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika, Igor Chaika.

Shestun's family asks Putin for protection from harassment by the FSB, investigators and prosecutors

Alexander Shestun: “Vladimir Vladimirovich! Why was my father’s property seized, which he earned and acquired before working as the head of the Serpukhov region? Why does Prosecutor General Chaika, who has never worked in business for a day, live in a huge castle on Rublyovka? Did you know that the second son of Yuri Yakovlevich, Igor Chaika, is the owner of the Charter company, the largest garbage waste operator from Moscow, earning tens of billions of rubles from our health!”

ALEXANDER SHESTUN: MY REPLY TO THE FALSE STREAM FROM THE PROSECUTOR GENERAL OFFICE

Shestun: The cynicism of law enforcement agencies has gone beyond all reasonable limits...

The very young but incredibly talented Igor Chaika, not yet thirty years old, became a dollar billionaire. His company Charter is the largest operator of waste removal from Moscow worth tens of billions of rubles. How long has this daddy's boy poisoned people with the stench from garbage dumps? Igor Yuryevich wins many large government contracts with incredible luck.

My eternal critic Alexei Navalny, in his investigation, pointed out the connection of the Chaika family with the companies of Tsapok and Tsepovyaz. How can Yuri Yakovlevich with such a tarnished reputation even be the Prosecutor General of Russia? What moral right does he have to instruct the supervised services to comply with the law?

Why did Yuri Yakovlevich appoint Alexei Zakharov as prosecutor of the Moscow region, because he is Sergei Shoigu’s son-in-law? Doesn’t Chaika know that the Shoigu family and Governor Vorobyov have a joint business - the Russian Fishing Industry Company (RRPC), and Andrei Yuryevich’s dad was Sergei Kuzhugetovich’s 1st deputy? True, Gennady Timchenko and Garik Makhachkala were also taken into the business. That is why the Moscow region is mired in corruption with the “family” prosecutor. Therefore, landfills, without any sorting or refilling, poison entire areas with the stench. Naturally, Mr. Zakharov does not notice how the local government was destroyed, imprisoning all the dissatisfied, violating all possible laws, collecting all powers and finances in the sticky hands of VORobiev.

Chaika and Zakharov did not notice how I was not allowed to participate in the elections in the pre-trial detention center, contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, even the letter from the Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova to the Prosecutor General’s Office did not help. My wife was removed from the election race due to lawlessness and again no word..."

The company of Chaika's son signed a 16 billion contract for garbage removal

IA SakhaNews. The Charter company, most of whose shares belong to Igor Chaika, the son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, has become the sole waste removal operator in the Yaroslavl region. The cost of the contract will be about 16 billion rubles, Novaya Gazeta reports.

Did Chaika's son lobby for the resignation of the regional prosecutor?

IA SakhaNews. The prosecutor of the Tula region, 49-year-old candidate of legal sciences Alexander Kozlov, was dismissed. Kozlov’s dismissal was preceded by his long conflict with the son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, Igor Chaika, Legal.Report reports, citing a source in the prosecutor’s office.

The conflict began about a year ago, when Chaika Jr. suggested that his father appoint another prosecutor in Tula. After this, the Tula Regional Prosecutor's Office was checked, but apart from the fact that Kozlov used a company car to travel home to Klin, near Moscow, they did not find anything significant.

Dakaitaowa opened to investors

Igor Chaika’s company will receive RDIF funding

An online platform for exporting Russian goods to China, Dakaitaowa, the youngest son of Russian Prosecutor General Igor Chaika, has agreed on financing from the state-owned Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). Since last year, Dakaitaowa has been discussing raising about 300 million rubles with RDIF. and was considering selling 25% of the business. According to Kommersant, in the near future the company will receive part of the amount in the form of a convertible loan.

Igor Chaika’s company will invest 5 billion rubles. to waste recycling in Yaroslavl

The Charter company of businessman Igor Chaika, son of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, is investing 5 billion rubles. in waste recycling in the Yaroslavl region. Igor Chaika himself told RBC about this on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), an RBC correspondent reports.

Igor Chaika will introduce blockchain into industry

Igor Chaika invested 400 million rubles. to the National Engineering Corporation, which will introduce high-tech technologies in industry. Experts believe that the company will be able to fit into the Digital Economy program

Igor Chaika’s company will begin supplies of Zhigulevsky and Lakinsky to China

The export company Dakaitaowa, which is owned by the son of the Russian Prosecutor General, businessman Igor Chaika, will begin supplying Russian-made alcoholic beverages to the Chinese retail chains Vanguard and Bubugao. Kommersant writes about this with reference to company representative Anna Kosyreva.

Igor Chaika's company refused to build a desalination station in Iran

The Russian-Middle Eastern Export Center (RBEC) company, founded by the son of the Russian Prosecutor General Igor Chaika and the chairman of the presidium of the Green Alternative public movement Oleg Mitvol, abandoned plans to build a water desalination station in Iran. Mitvol reported this to the Kommersant newspaper.

The company of Chaika’s son “Charter” will take care of waste removal in the Tula region

The LLC Charter company, owned by Igor Chaika, the son of the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika, has become an operator for the removal of municipal solid waste in Tula and two districts of the Tula region. This information follows from the tender protocol.

Igor Chaika will manage Moscow's largest waste incineration plant

Businessman Igor Chaika completed a deal to purchase 60% of the waste processing operator Charter. Now the company is negotiating to manage the largest waste incineration plant in the Moscow region - MSZ-4

Igor Chaika will become a partner of Ginza in the Chinese market

The restaurant holding Ginza Project plans to open its first restaurant in China in 2018. The founder of the Russian Export company, Igor Chaika, may become a partner of the group.

Igor Chaika disclosed investments in the Russian pavilion on Alibaba

The owner of Russian Export and First Russian Cross-Border International Trading Ltd (FRC, owns the Dakaitaowa platform) Igor Chaika revealed the terms of the agreement with Alibaba to open a Russian pavilion on the Chinese trading platform.

Chaika announced the possible creation of mining farms in Transnistria

The founder of the Russian Export company, Igor Chaika, told RBC about the prospects for creating mining farms in Transnistria.

Igor Chaika’s companies will supply chocolate and kvass to China

The Russian Export and FRC companies, whose largest shareholder is the son of the Prosecutor General of Russia, entrepreneur Igor Chaika, intend to export chocolates, other sweets and kvass to China. Igor Chaika spoke about this in an interview with the Moscow city news agency.

Igor Chaika invested in an application for Chinese tourists

Igor Chaika is investing in the LeRu project - an application aimed at Chinese tourists with the functions of a concierge service, posters, etc. In the year of the 2018 World Cup, Russia expects a new peak in tourist flow from China - there are 300 million football fans in the country

The youngest son of Prosecutor General Chaika established a development company

Igor Chaika, the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, created a development company that will build residential real estate in Moscow and the Moscow region. According to him, the planned volume of construction is 1 million square meters. m of housing

Outside the Sapsan: how Russians live along the country’s most modern railway

While Pavel is talking, the train approaches Klin station. In 2014, this city near Moscow became a testing ground for the implementation of an ambitious experiment. Advisor to the governor of the Moscow region and son of the Prosecutor General of Russia, Igor Chaika, dreamed of making the “very neglected” Klin similar to the Austrian Salzburg (Tchaikovsky lived in Klin, Mozart lived in Salzburg).

Chaika came up with a city improvement concept called “The Wedge Sounds.” The project included a total reconstruction of public spaces: from sound zoning of the city to the development of a light ground metro.

"Olga Troll" Gerasimenko

Anti-corruption fighters note that the sons of the head of the department, Yuri Chaika, made their fortune from state tenders only thanks to their father’s connections. One son of the Prosecutor General, Igor Chaika, earned 300 billion rubles from contracts with Russian Railways and the Moscow government.

Igor Chaika also appeared in a major scandal. A commercial company associated with it received a lucrative government contract worth 42.6 billion rubles. from the Moscow government.

It is interesting that the two largest tenders worth 42.6 billion rubles. - waste removal in the North-Eastern and Eastern districts of Moscow was taken over by the Charter company, registered in 2012, with an authorized capital of 10 thousand rubles. Charter LLC is affiliated with the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Igor Chaika.

Earlier, in 2014, Igor Chaika was appointed advisor on sports, culture, tourism and youth affairs to the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov. Mr. Chaika immediately announced his desire to work on parks near Moscow.

The Navalny Foundation spoke about the business empire of the sons of Yuri Chaika

The authors of the investigation believe that Artem Chaika opened the first Swiss account back in the early 2000s. It was allegedly registered in the name of his wife Marina. Until 2013, the affairs of the Chaika family were handled by the Juridical House company, the foundation believes. Its representatives came to this conclusion by comparing addresses: the company is registered in the same room of an office building in Lausanne as F.T. Consei. The connection of this company with Chaika is confirmed by the fact that in the building of the Geneva office of Juridical House there is also the company of Bogdan Lisurenko, in whose house Artem Chaika is registered.

Like on rails: what does the son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika do for a living?

The 38-year-old son of the Prosecutor General managed to build a diversified business empire, the revenue of which is at least $200 million. Forbes studied the success story of the entrepreneur

“A calm, educated, polite young man of average height with glasses. He never raises his voice, is always self-possessed and sometimes taciturn.” This is how people who interacted with him described their impressions of meetings with the eldest son of the Prosecutor General Artem Chaika in conversations with Forbes.

The name of Artem Chaika has already surfaced several times in the scandalous case of prosecutors in the Moscow region who protected underground casinos, in the story of an attempt to seize the Serpukhov Subsoil Municipal Unitary Enterprise, a potential participant in the construction of the Central Ring Road.

Clan values

Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika is actively fighting against foreign influence on the political life of Russia. He became one of the first senior government officials to say that the protests in December 2011 may have been financed from abroad. And after the adoption of the so-called law “on foreign agents” in 2012, the Prosecutor General’s Office began mass inspections of Russian NGOs that received foreign grants.

And it so happened that around the time that Chaika’s department became more active in the fight against foreign agents in Russia, his sons, together with close subordinates of the Prosecutor General, began to actively invest tens of millions of euros in assets in Western countries. Today, Chaika’s eldest son, Artem, owns two magnificent hotels and a plot of land in Greece, as well as a house and a law firm in Switzerland. The Prosecutor General's son also has a document giving him the right to reside in Switzerland. Chaika’s partner in the hotel business in Greece was Olga Lopatina, the ex-wife of Deputy Prosecutor General Gennady Lopatin.

Studying Lopatina’s commercial interests, Novaya Gazeta discovered that she and another wife of a high-ranking employee of the Prosecutor General’s Office owned a sugar production company together with the wives of the leaders of the Tsapkovskaya organized crime group, one of the bloodiest gangs in the history of Russia.

FBK spoke about business partners of the family of Prosecutor General Chaika, connected with relatives of Tsapka gang members

FBK employees noticed that in the documents for the Pomegranate Hotel, Artem Chaika is called a “resident of Switzerland.” In the unofficial database of Swiss addresses, a fictitious address was discovered for the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and his wife Marina - a house registered in the name of Ukrainian Bogdan Lisurenko, who is also indirectly connected with Lopatina.

Soon, FBK employees also found real estate in Switzerland registered to Artem Chaika: it turned out that in September 2014 he purchased a house with an estimated value of 2.7 million francs (approximately 198 million rubles). “Now we can say that Artem Chaika not only obtained a residence visa for himself in Switzerland, but also purchased real estate there. Having housing also means having accounts in local banks necessary to service the house,” the authors of the investigation concluded.

Navalny: The Seagull - crime drama

Artem Chaika is the same investor who invested millions of dollars in the reconstruction of the hotel

In fact, it was difficult to guess. There is not a single photograph of the eldest son of the Prosecutor General in the Russian media - but this is exactly what Artem looks like, as it turned out, about whose enormous successes you could read if you are interested in the business of children of high-ranking parents. And if you haven’t heard about business successes, then most likely you know about the “gambling case”, in which testimony was given against Artem Chaika (allegedly he protected underground casinos). Well, if you don’t know about the casino, then you’ve probably heard the story of how he gave power of attorney for his father’s car to two Ingush men, who were detained in it with a bunch of weapons and drugs. Artem then managed to get away with it solely thanks to the efforts of his dad. In general, as you can see, the Prosecutor General has a rather colorful son.

OCG "Chaika and Sons"

Chaika’s Swiss partner is the ex-head of the Migration Office of the canton of Vaud, Francois Tharen, FBK found out. It is with its help that visas are issued and the possibility of obtaining resident status in Switzerland is simplified.

The sons of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika are buying up the assets of Russian Railways

The sons of Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika are acquiring the assets of Russian Railways OJSC, Kommersant writes. The T-Industry company, where the youngest son of the head of the supervisory department, Igor Chaika, controls 30%, on July 9 won the Russian Railways competition for the sale of 50% minus two shares of Beteltrans (BET), Russia's largest manufacturer of sleepers.

JSC Russian Railways has summed up the results of the competition for the sale of 50% minus two shares of the largest sleeper manufacturer in Russia, Beteltrans (BET). The winner was the T-Industry company, which is almost a third controlled by the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, Igor. Kommersant writes about this on July 10.

The sons of the Prosecutor General go to the railway

The sons of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika are one after another buying up the assets of Russian Railways. Following the eldest son of the Prosecutor General Artem, whose structures bought a controlling stake in the First Nonmetallic Company (PNK) in the spring, Igor Chaika also became interested in supplies for the monopoly. Yesterday, the T-Industry company, where he controls 30%, won the competition of Russian Railways OJSC for the sale of 50% minus two shares of the largest sleeper manufacturer in Russia, Beteltrans (BET).

The sons of Prosecutor General Chaika started buying up the assets of Russian Railways

The sons of the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika, Artem and Igor, began acquiring the assets of Russian Railways, including the purchase of a controlling stake in the First Nonmetallic Company (PNK) and a victory in the railway monopoly competition for the sale of 50% minus two shares of the largest sleeper manufacturer in Russia, Beteltrans ( BET), the Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday.

Seagull Children

Yakunin sold Russia's largest sleeper production plant to the son of Prosecutor General Chaika, Igor. Before that, he sold another of Chaika’s sons, Artem, a crushed stone production concern.

The Seagulls are buying up the assets of Russian Railways

Following the eldest son of the Prosecutor General Artem, whose structures bought a controlling stake in the First Nonmetallic Company (PNK) in the spring, Igor Chaika also became interested in supplies for the monopoly. The T-Industry company, where the youngest son of the Prosecutor General controls 30% (the remaining 70% belongs to the Dutch Spoor Struuktuyur Investing), won the competition of Russian Railways for the sale of 50% minus two shares of Beteltrans (BET).

Russian Railways sold the sleeper manufacturer to the son of Prosecutor General Chaika

The T-Industry company, 30% of which belongs to the youngest son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Igor Chaika, won the competition for the sale of 50% minus two shares of Beteltrans, the largest sleeper manufacturer in Russia, writes Kommersant. Experts interviewed by the publication believe that the manufacturer’s prospects in connection with the expansion of the BAM and Trans-Siberian Railways look quite attractive.

The sons of the Prosecutor General are buying up the assets of Russian Railways

According to SPARK-Interfax, T-Industry was registered in February, and its activities include financial intermediation and the production of concrete products. By 70%. the company is owned by the Dutch Spoor Struuktuur Investing (beneficiaries unknown), the remaining 30%. - from the Moscow LLC Aqua Solid (engaged in the wholesale trade of agrochemicals), the main owner of which (99% of shares) is Igor Chaika (pictured).

“A calm, educated, polite young man of average height with glasses. He never raises his voice, is always self-possessed and sometimes taciturn.” This is how people who interacted with him described their impressions of meetings with the eldest son of the Prosecutor General Artem Chaika in conversations with Forbes.

The name of Artem Chaika has already surfaced several times in the scandalous case of prosecutors in the Moscow region who protected underground casinos, in the story of an attempt to seize the Serpukhov Subsoil Municipal Unitary Enterprise, a potential participant in the construction of the Central Ring Road.

There is little official information about him. A graduate of the Faculty of Law of Irkutsk State University, Artem Chaika, a year after graduation, became a member of the Moscow City Bar Association, and later a founding partner of the law firm “Chaadaev, Heifetz and Partners.” “[Artem] is my favorite student, my former intern and my deputy,” Leonid Kheifets, partner of the bureau, explains to Forbes. “I keep his qualifying work - it was written under my supervision.” Artem Chaika actively participates in the work of the bureau. “This weekend we are supposed to discuss a complaint to an international commercial arbitration court, and Artem Yuryevich, who is fluent in several foreign languages, will help us translate it,” Kheifetz said in the spring of 2014.

Artem Chaika is successful not only in law. His business career is no less successful.

In the summer of 2014, his company acquired from Russian Railways a controlling stake in the largest supplier of crushed stone for the state monopoly, the First Nonmetallic Company, and the company of his brother Igor Chaika became a minority owner of the country's largest manufacturer of sleepers. Artem Chaika is called the beneficiary of the largest salt producer in Siberia - Tyretsky Salt Mine. It was this company that six months ago won a license for the right to mine rock salt in the Kaluga region on the only unexplored site in the country.

How did the 38-year-old son of the Attorney General manage to build a diversified business empire with revenues of at least $200 million?

Rubble flies

In August 2009, Moscow region businessman Ivan Nazarov came to a meeting with the head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, and proposed a deal: if the head of the district pays $2 million and appoints the right person as director of the Serpukhov Subsoil Municipal Unitary Enterprise, the local prosecutor’s office will not prosecute the official for the allegedly premeditated bankruptcy of the municipal unitary enterprise. Energy service".

This is one of the episodes of the scandalous case of “protection protection” for casinos by prosecutors near Moscow, which became the cause of a bureaucratic war between the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office. As witnesses later stated at the trial, the extortion of $2 million from Shestun was initiated by the head of the 15th Directorate of the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office, Dmitry Urumov. Having control over Serpukhov Subsoil and using connections in the Ministry of Transport of the Moscow Region, prosecutors expected to receive contracts for the supply of sand and crushed stone for the construction of a new ring road in the Moscow region, according to the materials of the interrogation of a classified witness (a copy is in Forbes).

The extraction of sand and crushed stone was carried out by the Serpukhov Subsoil Municipal Unitary Enterprise. According to a classified witness, whose testimony was heard at one of the court hearings, “Artem Chaika, the son of the Prosecutor General of Russia, had an interest in this case” (information posted on the website of the Serpukhov district administration). Then the administration managed to defend the enterprise. But Artem Chaika has not lost interest in the construction industry.

In January 2014, Chaika became the sole founder of Sibirsky Element - Renta-K LLC, registered in the Kaluga region. The company supplies sand, crushed stone and gravel in the Kaluga, Yaroslavl, Tver and Moscow regions. The general director of the company, Alexander Rengach, refused to comment, saying that the co-owner of their company is “another Chaika, a complete namesake,” despite the coincidence of the TIN and the mother’s name among the former co-owners.

However, the real news for the construction market was the information that Artem Chaika has been listed as the sole owner of the Berdyaush Nonmetallic Company since February 2014. It was this unknown company from the Chelyabinsk region that in June 2014 acquired a controlling stake in a subsidiary of Russian Railways and its largest supplier of crushed stone, beating the industry leader National Nonmetallic Company Yuri Zhukov, which was not allowed to participate in the competition. How did she do it?

Owners of "Berdyaush"

The idea to develop a granite quarry in the village of Berdyaush, Chelyabinsk region, belonged to businessman Aron Yudashkin. The administration of the city of Satka (which includes the village of Berdyaush) assures that the project was conceived as an anti-crisis solution to the problem of a single-industry town. According to Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Chelyabinsk Region Irina Akbasheva (it was she who developed the anti-crisis plan), construction of a crushed stone plant in Berdyaush began in 2008, and a total of private investors invested 1.4 billion rubles in the project. The plant reached full production capacity by 2010. Currently the company employs 340 people. She did not name the current owner of the business, noting only that in September 2011 another legal entity took over the management of the plant: Berdyaush Nonmetallic Company LLC instead of Berdyaushsky Nonmetallic Quarry LLC.

At the initial stage, Aron Yudashkin’s partner in the project was 30-year-old Sergei Vilshenko, a native of the Ural Zlatoust, the son of the first secretary of the city committee of the CPSU, and later the head of the FSB branch for Zlatoust. In 1998, Vilshenko Jr. graduated from South Ural State University. An acquaintance of Vilshenko says that he has been involved in the construction and road business in the region for a long time.

A few years later, Sergei Vilshenko’s career took off sharply - in February 2009, he took over the post of commercial director of the Russian Railways Trade House. The trading house was responsible for supplying the monopoly with rolling stock, as well as necessary goods and materials to all its subsidiaries. Vilshenko worked here until June 2011, then he was expelled from the board of directors. Russian Railways did not comment in any way in their responses to Forbes’ request for Vilshenko’s work in the monopoly. The press service of the Russian Railways Trading House reported that such issues are commented on only by the parent company. It was not possible to get Vilshenko’s comments either through Russian Railways or through his wife. According to a person familiar with the businessman, in the fall of 2010, Omega LLC, controlled by Vilshenko, bought out Yudashkin’s share in the Berdyaushsky quarry.

Judging by the reports, the company’s business went uphill immediately after the launch of production. The revenue of the Nonmetallic Company Berdyaush in 2010 amounted to almost 1 billion rubles and later never fell below 900 million rubles.

In 2012, NC Berdyaush, judging by the available reports of Russian Railways, its subsidiaries and the company itself, became a supplier of crushed stone for Russian Railways worth 740 million rubles. A year later, she managed to conclude an even more lucrative contract: in 2013–2016, she undertook to supply the monopoly with 20 million cubic meters. m of crushed stone for 7.5 billion rubles. That is, approximately a quarter of all crushed stone required by Russian Railways for this period. In September 2013, another native of Russian Railways, Vladimir Gatsa, became the new general director of NK Berdyaush. At least until November 2012, for nine years he worked in various positions in the structures of Russian Railways, going from the head of the financial service of the Gorky Railway to the deputy head of the central directorate of Russian Railways for track repairs. It was for her that in 2009 the Berdyaushsky quarry began shipping the bulk of its products.

Omega LLC owned 95% of NK Berdyaush at least until January 17, 2014, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (in 2011, a share in this company belonged to Sergei Vilshenko’s wife Olga, a famous Russian designer). In February 2014, Artem Chaika became the sole owner of the company.

"Eternal Consequence"

After the abolition of the Ministry of Railways, about 30 crushed stone plants became the property of the railway monopoly. Subsequently, 18 of them became part of the First Nonmetallic Company (PNK), a subsidiary of Russian Railways and the main supplier of crushed stone for the monopoly. Three years ago, in October 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order to sell 75% minus two shares of PNK to a private investor.

PNK is called an “eternal contract” in the market due to the fact that its business is directly tied to Russian Railways. It is not surprising that after the announcement of the start of accepting applications, the National Nonmetallic Company (NNC) was one of the first to announce itself. A person close to the company says that NNK is already one of the largest in the industry, and with the acquisition of PNK it could finally strengthen its position.

However, a week before the deadline for accepting applications, the organizing bank unexpectedly extended the deadline for submitting documents by another month. The press service of Russian Railways, in a written response to a request, explained the postponement of the privatization of PNK “[in order] to attract a wider range of investors to participate in the auction.”

The goal was achieved: in April, an application for the acquisition of PNK was submitted by the Nonmetallic Company Berdyaush from the Chelyabinsk Region and Yuzhuralavtoban from Magnitogorsk. At the same time, NOC was not allowed to participate in the competition. The press service of Russian Railways left Forbes' question on this matter unanswered. “They did not fulfill the requirements for the project participants,” senior vice-president of Russian Railways Valery Reshetnikov explained at the St. Petersburg forum. NNK tried to challenge the sale in court. During the trial period, NOC founder Yuri Zhukov’s home and company were searched in connection with a case from previous years that was not directly related to the company’s current activities. After some time, NNK's lawyers withdrew the claim. A company representative declined to comment.

Thus, NK Berdyaush, whose owner Artem Chaika became a few months before the competition, received full control over PNK. The money for the purchase was provided by the Moscow Sberbank. At a cost of 4.9 billion rubles, NK Berdyaush received a loan of more than 4.2 billion rubles. Sberbank refused to comment on this transaction, redirecting the request to Berdyaush. But Forbes didn’t respond there either. A source close to Russian Railways says that “obviously, the competition was made for a specific company - because strict conditions were imposed on the participants, but Russian Railways always find a way to justify these conditions.” According to him, Chaika has a small share in this project: the main owner of the asset is structures close to the management of Russian Railways. They took him as a share so that he would “cover” if necessary, says Forbes’ interlocutor. Artem’s acquaintance also adheres to the same version.

What about Vilshenko, the former owner of Berdyaush? As it turned out, he was in business all this time. On August 6, 2014, Artem Chaika and Sergey Vilshenko registered PNK Management Company LLC in Moscow, in which they own 51% and 49%, respectively. Two young ambitious entrepreneurs have finally become full owners of the “perpetual contract”.

Salty share

A few days before the new year, 2005, FSUE Sibsol was headed by a new director. It was 29-year-old Timiryazevka graduate Mikhail Karamushka. “Sibsol” is 35% of the salt of Siberia and the Far East, mined at the city-forming enterprise (in 2005 it employed more than 700 people).

By the time of his appointment, Karamushka already had some experience in the salt business: in 2004, from February to December, he worked as general director at another state enterprise - Tyretsky Salt Mine OJSC (the third deposit in the country in terms of salt reserves). For some reason, the work here did not work out, and Karamushka headed the neighboring, smaller enterprise “Sibsol”.

After working in his new place for just under a year, Karamushka decided to take radical measures. On October 27, 2005, FSUE Sibsol filed an application to the court for its own bankruptcy. Two months later, the court declared the enterprise insolvent and introduced a monitoring procedure. Three years passed from the filing of the bankruptcy petition to the liquidation of the company.

Why did the company decide to liquidate itself? Karamushka, in a written response to a request from Forbes, claims that he served as an anti-crisis manager at the enterprise. “At the time of my appointment, the company had accumulated more than 120 million [rubles] of debt, of which 80% was tax debt. The company’s accounts were frozen,” writes Karamushka. However, as follows from the company’s own profit and loss report, published in 2007, in 2005 the net profit was 207,000 rubles with revenue of 184 million rubles. Nevertheless, in the fall of 2007, the property of one of the largest Russian salt mining companies was auctioned off.

Karamushka claims that the decision to introduce bankruptcy proceedings at Sibsol was made at a meeting of the Federal Property Management Agency and the tax office “in order to preserve production and jobs and in connection with the social significance of the enterprise.” Creditors unanimously approved the sale of the plant as a single complex, and “the proceeds from the sale made it possible to fully repay budget debt, modernize production and save jobs.” The Sibsol plant again became attractive to investors and was acquired by the structures of Russol LLC, which currently manage it, summarizes Mikhail Karamushka.

Who became the buyer? In 2009, Sibsoli's capacity was actually acquired by Russol, owned by Maxim Protasov and Sergei Cherny. But not during bankruptcy, as it might seem from Karamushka’s answers. On November 16, 2007, Salt Mining Company LLC, founded a month before this date, acquired the property of the bankrupt FSUE Sibsol for 120 million rubles during the bankruptcy procedure. As follows from the materials of one of the court cases between the FAS and the Salt Mining Company at that time, during the period of the transaction, Mikhail Karamushka was the general director of both the bankrupt enterprise and Salt Mining Company LLC, which bought the assets of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, it was Karamushka who was the founder of the Salt Mining Company at the time of its creation.

Only two years later, in 2009, Russol’s structures acquired 100% of the shares in Salt Mining Company LLC. The company representative did not say from whom exactly and at what price Russol acquired the asset; he refused to comment on other details of the transaction.

While Russol was negotiating the purchase of Sibsoli's assets, the state put up for sale the country's third largest salt mine - Tyretsky, also in the Irkutsk region.

Salty privatization

When you ask former and current officials of the Federal Property Management Agency about the ultimate beneficiaries of the Tyretsky Salt Mine, they make surprised faces and immediately ask a counter question: “Who is the beneficiary? Who do you know? Local officials seem to know better: “I know who the beneficiary of our mine is, but let’s not say his name, and I won’t tell you yes or no to this,” an official from the Irkutsk region responded to Forbes' request to provide the name of the owner of the country's third largest salt mine in terms of reserves.

The state tried to privatize the Tyretsky salt mine from the end of 2008 for three years. It was put up for auction six times, but for various reasons the auction was postponed. And it’s not that there weren’t contenders. Applications for participation in privatization were submitted by the largest domestic salt producer in the country, “Russol” of Protasov and Cherny, and by smaller Russian enterprises like “Silvinit”, and even by the largest manufacturer of powder coatings, the Dutch Akzo Nobel. However, as in the case of the sale of the First Nonmetallic Company, the leaders were not allowed to participate in the competition. Russol received a refusal even before the start of the competition: the FAS considered it unacceptable to increase the company's share in the rock salt market from 60% to 65% if the Tyretsky salt mine went to Russol. Silvinit itself refused to participate in the competition - the new owner was merging the company with Uralkali. The Alzo Nobel structure in Russia was not allowed to participate in the competition, citing an incomplete set of documents as the reason for the refusal.

The winner of the one-step privatization auction for 661 million rubles was the unknown LLC Solidarnost from Irkutsk, created two months before the deal. Its only founder and general director was Nikolai Kulgaev.

It was this person who was supposed to take the place of one of the leaders of the Serpukhov Subsoil Municipal Unitary Enterprise - businessman Nazarov demanded this from the head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, in 2009. Kulgaev also appeared in that story - as a person acting in the interests of Artem Chaika. This follows from the materials of the Investigative Committee.

Four months later, Solidarity, founded by Kulgaev, sold 100% of the shares of the salt mine to another newly created company, LLC East Siberian Trade and Industrial Company (VSTPC). The sole owner of VSTPC is Andrey Svyatoshenko, the son of Vladimir Svyatoshenko. Svyatoshenko Sr. is a deputy of the Moscow City Duma of the 2009–2014 convocation from the Moscow Solntsevo district, where he is registered, as well as the deputy chairman of the central control and audit commission of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (in party work since 1984, according to the party website). The post of general director of Tyretsky Salt Mine is today occupied by Mikhail Karamushka, Svyatoshenko’s classmate at the Timiryazev Academy, where they studied together. As of the beginning of 2014, Kulgaev held the post of director of production at Tyretsky Salt Mine. Svyatoshenko did not respond to Forbes’ request.

Since privatization at the end of 2010, the company has doubled its revenue to 1.17 billion rubles and more than doubled its net profit, to 320 million rubles in 2012. At the end of 2013, the company's revenue fell by 15%, to 988.8 billion rubles, net profit almost doubled, to 171.8 million rubles. Despite the fall in financial performance, Tyretsky Salt Mine decided to increase its share in the Russian market. In December 2013, the company received a license to develop the Vorobyovskoye rock salt deposit in the Kaluga region.

Victory procession

The Vorobyovskoye rock salt deposit is the only unexplored one in the country, and salts of the highest class occur here. Of the well-known manufacturers, Tyretsky Salt Miner and Russol, as well as two unknown companies, Maloyaroslavetsky Salt Promysel LLC and Energoinvest, submitted documents for the auction.

The Subsoil Use Department for the Central Federal District allowed only two of the four companies to participate in the auction at which the license was awarded: Tyretsky Solerudnik from Irkutsk and

"Maloyaroslavets salt production" from Kaluga. Russol was rejected on the grounds that the company “did not demonstrate experience in the industry.” Who competed with Tyretsky Salt Mine?

According to SPARK, Maloyaroslavets Salt Production LLC was registered at the end of August 2013. Former vice-governor of the Kaluga region Ruslan Zalivatsky said that until now no one had mined salt in the region. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the founders of the Maloyaroslavets Salt Industry are LLC Galit and Anna Sumina. As follows from court materials on the website of the Supreme Arbitration Court, Sumina, together with her colleague Vyacheslav Plahotniuk, who represented Tyretsky Salt Mine at the auction, at least once represented the interests of this company in court by proxy. It turns out that structures acting in the interests of one company took part in the auction.

As for Galit LLC, its sole owner is Elizaveta Berezina (Unified State Register of Legal Entities). In 2013, she was the junior founder of ALG LLC, half of which, until April 24, 2013, belonged to Igor Yuryevich Chaika. This is, let us remind you, the name of the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. In February 2014, Igor Chaika was appointed advisor to the governor of the Moscow region on a voluntary basis. Igor Chaika confirmed that he knew Berezina and indeed sold her a stake in the company, but he no longer remembers the details.

During the auction for the sale of a license for the development of the Vorobyovsky site, the prosecutor of the Kaluga region was 37-year-old Dmitry Demeshin. A person familiar with Artem Chaika says that Demeshin is very friendly with the son of the prosecutor general. When Demeshin came to Kaluga, the prosecutor's office immediately began large-scale checks of the regional government. The regional administration does not deny that the new prosecutor, after his appointment, began to actively check them, but they consider this normal: “You have been entrusted with a new site, and you, of course, must check everything so that the work on it complies with the law,” says a representative of the region. “But everyone in his place would have done the same thing.” Be that as it may, Tyretsky Salt Mine received a license to develop the Vorobyovsky site in December 2013. A month later, Demeshin was promoted and transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office.

“No matter what Artem does, his father supports him,” says Forbes’ interlocutor, who is familiar with the Chaika family. Artem Chaika himself did not respond to Forbes’ requests either through the law firm Chaadaev, Kheifetz and Partners, or through his younger brother Igor Chaika, who agreed to forward the questions to him. Back in the spring, Igor Chaika promised to find time to meet with Forbes correspondents and answer questions in detail, but he never found it.

- With the participation of Ksenia Dokukina and Galina Zinchenko

Chaika Yuri Yakovlevich- Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. Active State Counselor of Justice (since 2006), member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. From 1999 to 2006, Yuri Chaika was the Minister of Justice of Russia. Chaika's biography includes more than 20 years in the highest echelons of power.

Childhood and education of Yuri Chaika

Father - Yakov Mikhailovich Chaika— was the secretary of the Nikolaev city committee of the CPSU.

Mother - Maria Ivanovna Chaika- Mathematics teacher, later was appointed school director.

The family had four children. Yuri Chaika is the youngest son.

Yuri Yakovlevich told Moskovsky Komsomolets about his relatives in an interview: “My grandfather was a Cossack officer, he died in civilian life. And when de-Cossackization began, my father, an 18-year-old boy, went to build Komsomolsk-on-Amur. He never told me anything about my grandfather. I was probably afraid."

Yuri Yakovlevich graduated from high school No. 4. After school, Yuri Chaika first chose technical education and entered the Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Shipbuilding. However, after a year and a half, he left the university and went to work as an electrician at a shipbuilding plant. After serving in the army (1970−1972), Yuri abruptly changed the direction of his education - he entered the Sverdlovsk Law Institute, Faculty of Law.

In the biography of Yuri Chaika, which was presented to Meduza by the editor-in-chief of Mediazona Sergey Smirnov, it is said that “Chaika received a referral to study at a prestigious university from the prosecutor’s office, where he got a job as a public assistant for several months.”

Career in the prosecutor's office Yuri Chaika

Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika in 1976, having become a certified specialist, began his career in the prosecutor's office of the Ust-Udinsky district as an intern, then in his career he worked as an investigator, then as a deputy interdistrict prosecutor in the Irkutsk region.

From 1979 to 1984, Yuri Chaika worked in the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office. The biography of Yuri Chaika on the RIA Novosti website says that the future Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in 1979-1983 worked as the Taishet transport prosecutor of the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office.

From 1984 to 1992, Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika worked as an instructor in the department of administrative bodies of the Irkutsk regional committee of the CPSU, first deputy prosecutor of the Irkutsk region, head of the department of administrative bodies, head of the state legal department of the Irkutsk regional committee of the CPSU, East Siberian transport prosecutor, according to the biography on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office.

Then Yuri Chaika was transferred to the regional prosecutor's office of Irkutsk, which he headed from 1992 to 1995.

At that time, Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika became famous for being the first Russian prosecutor to send a criminal case to court under the article “Banditry,” which attracted the attention of the country’s leading prosecutors. Thanks to this, it is believed that he was remembered Yuri Skuratov, Yuri Yakovlevich’s acquaintance from college, who headed the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. Skuratov appointed Yuri Chaika as his first deputy in 1995, as he believed that he had shown results after working in the Irkutsk region, which was a crime-prone region at that time, as stated in Chaika’s biography on the 24-SMI website.

In 1995-1999, Yuri Chaika was the first deputy prosecutor general of the Russian Federation. From the point of view of Yuri Yakovlevich’s professional activities, the media mentioned the accusation of the ex-president of Transneft Valeria Chernyaeva in the illegal purchase of 25% of the shares distributed to the team. As a result, the auction for the privatization of the remaining state stake was canceled (currently the state owns 100% of the company’s ordinary shares), as stated in the material of the Russian Air Force Service.

After the famous scandal with the video “Three in a Bed” in 1999, in which “a man who looked like the prosecutor general” had sex with two girls, Yuri Skuratov lost his post with a scandal. Yuri Chaika, who was then appointed acting prosecutor general, said that the case against Skuratov was initiated “on legal grounds.” Skuratov himself called this a betrayal in his book “The Dragon Option,” while the ex-prosecutor general noted that Yuri Chaika maneuvered and took a half-hearted position. “On the one hand, he obediently followed the Kremlin’s instructions, in particular regarding my persecution, but on the other hand, he was cautious,” Skuratov wrote.

In 1999, Yuri Chaika took the position of head of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. To the merits of Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika in this post, the media included changes in the country’s criminal legislation, which influenced the reduction in the number of prisoners in Russia by almost 200 thousand people, as well as the law on non-profit organizations and the abolition of the death penalty.

On June 23, 2006, by resolution of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Yuri Chaika was appointed Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, replacing Vladimir Ustinov, which is curious, also a native of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. On June 22, 2011, by a resolution of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika was again appointed Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

On June 15, 2016, the Federation Council, after the presentation of the president, reappointed Yuri Chaika to the post of Prosecutor General for a five-year term.

Yuri Chaika is a member of the Russian Security Council.

Yuri Chaika Awards

Yuri Yakovlevich has state and departmental awards, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III (2011) and IV degrees (2006), and the Order of Honor (2001). Chaika was also awarded the honorary titles “Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation” and “Honored Worker of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation.”

Yuri Chaika as Prosecutor General

Yuri Chaika, as the Prosecutor General, often appears in media news, commenting on the situation in the country.

In 2014, Yuri Chaika called what is happening now in Ukraine the genocide of the Ukrainian people. According to the head of the Russian supervisory agency, war crimes are being committed against the Ukrainian people, which have already been recognized by the international human rights community.

In January 2015, prosecutors during inspections revealed an unreasonable increase in prices for food and medicine by almost 400 percent. “The picture is, of course, depressing. In many cases, prices are unreasonably high, some food prices have increased by hundreds of percent - by 300, 400 percent. There are such cases,” the Prosecutor General was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

As the Prosecutor General of Russia, Yuri Chaika spoke about the damage caused by corruption crimes in the country.

“As follows from the results of the investigation of criminal cases, the amount of material damage caused by corruption-related crimes over the past two years and three quarters of the current year amounted to more than 148 billion rubles. The voluntarily repaid damage amounted to more than 11 billion. Measures have been taken to ensure its recovery in the amount of more than 78 billion. We are talking about seized and seized property,” Kommersant quoted Chaika as saying.

So, for example, a colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was arrested for bribes Dmitry Zakharchenko. Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin revealed impressive facts about how the arrested person’s family treated various amounts of money. For example, they considered the amount of 600 thousand euros a trifle. He also clarified that the 8.5 billion rubles seized from the colonel’s sister’s apartment were obtained illegally, including through bribes.

Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, speaking at a plenary meeting of the Federation Council, demanded that the problem of expelling illegal migrants from Russia be resolved.

According to him, there are often more foreigners in temporary detention centers than required by regulations, while many wait there for deportation for several months, despite the fact that keeping one migrant per month in the center costs the budget twice as much as a plane ticket, he informed Interfax.

“It is interesting that according to the terms of the tender, Charter was supposed to sort and only then transport 30% of waste to landfills, in 2016 - 70%, and in 2017 - 100%. But this was never done because it was expensive. By the way, another of the privileged “exporters” is Gleb Frank, Maxim Vorobyov’s partner in the Russian Sea company. And why then does the governor say that his brother has no business in the region, since all the garbage is disposed of in the Moscow region, and according to the law it is supposed to do this only with sorted waste?” - Nikolai Dizhur, a deputy of three convocations of the Serpukhov district, a deputy of the Chekhov city district, said in an interview with SP.

“We can’t find out who exactly owns the landfills, for example Yadrovo. Our offshore business is thriving, so even municipal and regional contractors are offshore. Yes, there is some director sitting at the training ground, but everyone understands perfectly well that he is not actually responsible for anything. But who the beneficiary is is unclear. Only the big players are more or less known. This is the son of Chaika, Abramovich was until recently. But who is doing this at the test site level? Perhaps this is the same Chaika, but there are also performers and beneficiaries below,” Alexey Nezhivoy, head of the Laboratory of Political and Social Technologies, told SP.

Personal life, family, sons

Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika is married. He met his future wife Elena at the very beginning of his working career. Elena is a teacher by profession, but after the birth of her children she devoted herself to raising her sons.

Children - sons Artem and Igor - born in 1975 and 1988.

It is known that Chaika’s sons followed in their father’s footsteps and became lawyers. Today they are dedicated to business and are co-founders of several companies.

Artem Chaika graduated from the Faculty of Law of Irkutsk State University in 1997. In 1998 he was admitted to the Moscow City Bar Association. In 2002, at the Institute for Strengthening Law and Order under the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Artem Chaika defended his dissertation “Organization of interaction between preliminary investigation and inquiry in the investigation and detection of crimes,” receiving a candidate of legal sciences degree.

Artem Chaika’s biography on Wikipedia says that he is the sole owner of the Berdyaush Nonmetallic Company, which supplies crushed stone to Russian Railways and the Sibirsky Element-Renta-K company, which mines sand in the Kaluga region. Artem Chaika is called one of the beneficiaries of the Tyret Salt Mine. The son of the Prosecutor General is also a co-owner of the Pomegranate Wellness Spa Hotel on the Greek peninsula of Halkidiki. Since 2003, Artem Chaika has been a lawyer at the Chaadaev, Kheifets and Partners Bar Association.

It also says that in September 2014, Artem Chaika bought a house in Switzerland for 2.7 million francs and obtained resident status in this country.

Igor Chaika from February 2014 to July 2015 was an adviser to the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov on culture, sports, tourism and youth policy.

In the summer of 2017, the news reported that Igor Chaika- the youngest son of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika - created a development company that will build residential real estate in Moscow and the Moscow region with a planned delivery volume of 1 million square meters. m of housing. Igor Chaika also created the South Coast Construction Company in Crimea. Judging by the registration data, in addition to construction, UBC plans to engage in 40 different types of activities, including work as a tour operator, which also has the right to provide excursion services.

Income of Yuri Chaika

In 2016, the total income of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika was just over 9.275 million rubles.

In 2013, President Putin increased the salary of the Prosecutor General, after the increase, Yuri Chaika's salary, as reported in the news, exceeded 312 thousand rubles in 2013 and 506,190 rubles since September 2014. It was noted that in October 2013, Vladimir Putin for the first time established a monthly cash incentive for Yuri Chaika of 55% of the remuneration amount. From September 1, 2014, it amounted to 151% of the remuneration.