Yevgeny's arrest in Sweden. In Sweden, in the wake of the "Panamanian dossier", a Russian suspected of taking bribes was detained. The largest "drain" in history

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On March 10, the Swedish police notified the Russian embassy in Stockholm about the detention of a Russian citizen in the country. This was reported on the page of the diplomatic mission in the social network Facebook.

As the Swedish authorities informed, the detainee Pavlov Yevgeny Vladimirovich, born in 1979, was placed in the central prison of Stockholm "on suspicion of committing a crime."

At the same time, as noted, the police representatives refused to provide details about the charges against the Russian citizen, referring to the "confidentiality of the case."

“A lawyer for a Russian citizen reported that they intended to incriminate him with fraud. According to her, charges have not yet been filed, a hearing in the case will take place in the near future, ”the message says.

The Russian side demanded that the Swedish authorities visit the detainee by the consul at the place of detention, but no response has yet been received. The police referred to the need to obtain consent for such a meeting of the detainee himself, which is mandatory under local law.

“We continue to persistently seek admission to the Russian citizen and clarification of all the circumstances of the case in order to ensure the protection of his rights and legitimate interests,” the Russian embassy noted.

Background

In most cases, incidents with Russian citizens abroad are transport accidents or crime. It can be air or sea accidents, traffic accidents. A common thing is theft in hotels or on the streets. Rarely - terrorist attacks against tourists.
It is not surprising when accidents happen to those involved in extreme tourism, such as mountaineering or rafting. But in some cases, simple tourist activities, such as swimming in the sea or riding attractions, end in tears.
Sometimes accidents occur due to the fault of workers in the tourism industry. For example, when swimming in the wrong place, non-compliance with sanitary rules or improper arrangement of tourist infrastructure.
In some cases, the perpetrators of the incidents are the tourists themselves due to alcohol abuse and inappropriate behavior. Ignorance of local laws can result in high costs or even criminal prosecution. For example, a Russian tourist almost ended up in prison in Sri Lanka when he hit an annoying monkey.
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for tourists to get stuck abroad or cannot check into a hotel due to the fault of tour operators. Sometimes this is unskilled work of the tourism industry, and sometimes it is outright abuse.
A separate category of troubles is the capture of Russian citizens abroad based on the claims of unfriendly foreign states. Often such actions have no legal basis.
About 500 Russian citizens die abroad every year.

Bombardier employee from Russia arrested in Sweden in bribery case

Russian citizen Yevgeny Pavlov, an employee of the Swedish branch of Bombardier, was arrested in Sweden in the case of corruption deals with the Azerbaijani authorities

In Sweden, a Russian citizen, an employee of the local branch of the Canadian engineering company Bombardier, was taken into custody. This was announced by prosecutor Thomas Forsberg, reports Associated Press.

He explained that the Russian Evgeny Pavlov, who lives in Stockholm, was one of several Bombardier employees who were suspected of corrupt deals with the Azerbaijani authorities. Pavlov was detained for two weeks because the Swedish authorities feared that he might leave the country or try to put pressure on witnesses, the prosecutor added.

According to Forsberg, the case was based on emails seized from Bombardier's Swedish office during raids in October last year. According to investigators, Azerbaijani officials received bribes from the Swedish branch of a machine-building company in exchange for contracts.

According to Sveriges Radio, the amount of these bribes could be 700 million Swedish kronor ($77 million).

Bombardier spokeswoman Barbara Grimm confirmed that one of the employees had been arrested and assured that the company was ready to cooperate with the investigation.

Novaya Gazeta links the arrest of the Russian with an investigation related to the Panama Papers, which was published by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in April last year. Then, in particular, the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) reported that the joint venture of Russian Railways and Bombardier Transportation, Bombardier Transportation (Signal), enters into dubious deals with offshore companies associated with the son of a close associate of the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, Alexei Krapivin. OCCRP pointed out that the Swedish branch of Bombardier, which is the main developer of the Ebilock-950 microprocessor centralization systems for arrows and signals, acted as the real founder of the joint venture on the part of a foreign partner.

As noted in OCCRP, the Russian-Swedish company equipped railway stations in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, including Azerbaijan, with these systems. In 2013, the Azerbaijani government held a tender for the supply of Ebilock equipment, which was won by a consortium led by Bombardier Transportation.

Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is the world's largest manufacturer of railway equipment. The division of Bombardier Aerospace is engaged in the production of aircraft and space technology.

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Swedish police are investigating the international transport giant Bombardier Transportation following the publication of Novaya Gazeta and the Organized Crime and Corruption Research Center (OCCRP) as part of the so-called Panama Papers. The case is related to transactions for the supply of railway equipment to Azerbaijan. Russian Evgeny Pavlov from Bombardier Transportation (Signal) was arrested in Sweden.

In April 2016, based on documents from the Panama Archive - a massive leak of data from the internal database of the offshore Mossack Fonseca - Novaya Gazeta, as the Swedish subsidiary of Bombardier, supplies Ebilock-950 equipment to Russia and Azerbaijan through Multiserv Ovearseas registered in London.

At the same time, Multiserv Ovearseas did not have an office or employees, it actually existed only on paper. And the first director of this company was Yuri Obodovsky, one of the key partners of Alexei Krapivin, the son of former adviser Vladimir Yakunin.

The equipment was purchased by the Russian company Bombardier Transportation (Signal), 36% owned by the state-owned Russian Railways PJSC.

Until recently, Novaya Gazeta did not know how much money was deposited in the accounts of Multiserv Ovearseas - neither the Russian nor the Swedish representative office of Bombardier responded to the newspaper's inquiries.

Now Novaya already has a complete set of documents at its disposal for one of the transactions between the Swedish manufacturer Ebilock, the Russian buyer Bombardier Transportation (Signal) and the English intermediary Multiserv Ovearseas. The documents were provided to Novaya Gazeta by colleagues from the Swedish public television SVT and the news agency TT-news.

Deal

In 2013, the Azerbaijani government held a tender for the renewal of automation systems on the section of the railway leading from Baku to the Georgian border. The contract for a total of $288 million was won by a consortium led by Bombardier Transportation. Work on the site was carried out by the Russian Bombardier Transportation (Signal) using Swedish equipment.

Novaya Gazeta has two contracts at its disposal, which show how the deal went.

Here is the first one.

According to the first contract, on June 16, 2014, the Swedish branch of Bombardier sells signaling equipment for 46 stations to the British company Multiserv Ovearseas for 126 million crowns (about $19 million). The contract on the part of Multiserv is signed by Anton Belyakov, an employee of several companies associated with Alexei Krapivin.

Here is the second contract.

Under the second contract, Multiserv Overseas sells the same equipment in the same quantity to the Russian company Bombardier Transportation (Signal) for $104 million. The two contracts are identical in every way except for the price.

Thus, more than 80 million dollars appeared on the accounts of Multiserv Overseas.

The Russian state company RZD, which owns 36% in Bombardier Transportation (Signal), could also lose from this deal.

Investigation

Today, the Stockholm District Court arrested Russian citizen Yevgeny Pavlov, an employee of the Swedish Bombardier, on suspicion of bribery. Several company managers, including one member of the board of directors, were questioned by the police.

Novaya Gazeta is working on an investigative report with OCCRP, Swedish public television SVT, TT-news news agency and Radio Canada. The investigation will be published at the end of March.

In Sweden, the Stockholm City Court continues to study materials in the case of Yevgeny Pavlov, an employee of the Canadian engineering company Bombardier, who was arrested in March and is accused of bribery. The signature of Pavlov, who served as head of the Bombardier subsidiary in Azerbaijan, is on key documents related to the 2013 deal. Under this contract, a consortium led by Bombardier won a $340 million contract to install computerized railway signaling systems at Azerbaijan's railway stations.

According to prosecutors, Bombardier's local partner, Trans-Signal-Rabita, was controlled by employees of the state-owned Azerbaijan Railways, the same organization responsible for selecting the winning bid from eight competitors.

In turn, the lawyers of the Russian lay responsibility for decisions on the contract in Azerbaijan on high-ranking employees in the railway division of the transport giant, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail writes. In addition to Trans-Signal-Rabita, the Azeri consortium included Bombardier Transportation Sweden headquartered in Stockholm and Bombardier Transportation (Signal) - a joint venture between Bombardier and Russian Railways headquartered in Moscow.

Yevgeny Pavlov, 37, faces up to six years in prison if convicted on charges of aggravated bribery by the Swedish National Anti-Corruption Bureau, according to an article cited by InoPressa.

Earlier, the media wrote that the Russian "daughter" of Bombardier makes dubious deals with offshore companies associated with Alexei Krapivin, the son of a close associate of the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin. In another article, The Globe and Mail journalist Mark McKinnon writes that the name of Yakunin himself, "one of the confidants of Russian President Vladimir Putin", appears in the documents in the bribe case.

This is the only mention of Yakunin's name in a memo from 2014. It follows from the context of the document that familiarity with Yakunin was key to the implementation of plans in the railway sector in Russia and other parts of the former USSR, according to an article cited by InoPressa.

However, Yakunin's name is not included in documents about 100 transactions that the newspaper studied during the investigation in 2016, which affected Bombardier Transportation Sweden and the mysterious shell company Multiserv Overseas Ltd. However, according to company registration documents, Multiserv Overseas was founded in 2010 by Yury Obodovsky, deputy chairman of the board of Elteza, a joint venture between Bombardier and Russian Railways, who is often referred to in the Russian press as a longtime business partner of Yakunin.

Contracts submitted to the prosecution by the prosecution indicate that Multiserv Overseas made an $84 million profit from the Azeri deal by purchasing railway signaling equipment from Bombardier Transportation Sweden for $20 million and then selling it to Bombardier Transportation (Signal) for 104 million dollars.

Internal Bombardier documents and transcripts of telephone conversations recorded by the Swedish police indicate that Multiserv Overseas is linked to Alexei Krapivin and Yuri Obodovsky, who together own 4% of Bombardier Transportation (Signal) and are also major partners in Elteza, another Bombardier JV and Russian Railways.

Last year, in a letter to The Globe and Mail, Yakunin admitted that he only "vaguely remembers the name Multiserv", and stated that it was "simply impossible" that Russian Railways contracts were concluded in an inappropriate way. a clear line between Obodovsky and Yakunin: "It states that Obodovsky is part of a 'small group of powerful people' whom the author of the note calls 'partners'," the paper writes. The document notes that the partners have access to Yakunin and all key members of the management of Russian Railways, except for one vice president of the company, as well as almost all the heads of the railways of the former USSR countries. "Having such connections, they can influence the decision made on both sides - technical and commercial," the note noted.

The Globe and Mail got to the bottom of why Canada did not impose sanctions on Yakunin

The newspaper considers it "interesting" that Canada did not impose sanctions on Yakunin "for Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014." The United States announced sanctions against Yakunin in March 2014. The EU did not take restrictive measures against Yakunin due to the fact that the ex-president of Russian Railways has a number of the highest awards of European states. Yakunin himself has repeatedly denied his involvement in the events in Ukraine and Crimea.

Bombardier's vice president of communications, Mike Nadolsky, insisted that Multiserv Overseas was a legitimate business partner, but he had to admit that Bombardier had indeed lobbied to keep Yakunin's name off the sanctions list, the article notes.

An email from Bombardier's internal correspondence dated September 2015, which was recently submitted to a Swedish court, stated that Multiserv Overseas "is owned by the management of the public sector companies involved in these transactions, it is used as a means to withdraw funds from the public sector into pockets individuals".

However, the Swedish court is reviewing only one deal concluded in 2013 by Bombardier Transportation Sweden in Azerbaijan, partly through Multiserv Overseas. At the same time, this deal was one of 100 transactions that The Globe looked at in 2016 in its investigation into the supply of Bombardier signaling equipment to Russia through the same padding firm.

It should be noted that the criminal case in which Yevgeny Pavlov is a suspect was launched after the publications of the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime in the framework of the so-called Panama Dossier. Law firm Mossack Fonseca was at the center of a scandal in the spring of 2016, when the International Consortium for Investigative Journalism released excerpts from 11.5 million documents from the MossFon archive with data on offshore accounts of its clients. From the archive it followed that Mossack Fonseca helped clients launder money, avoid sanctions and evade taxes.

Vladimir Yakunin stepped down as head of Russian Railways in August 2015. After his resignation, he opened a center in Berlin "Research Institute" Dialogue of Civilizations ". In April 2016, Yakunin registered the Bridgens company, headquartered in Moscow, in order to provide consulting services in the field of infrastructure projects and management.

A loud scandal involving Yakunin broke out after the appearance in the press of publications about his estate in Akulinino with a fur coat store. An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation dedicated to luxury real estate was published in 2013 by Alexei Navalny. In addition, the oppositionist reported on the firms of Yakunin and his sons registered in foreign offshores. These are, in particular, a chain of hotels, a company that owns plots in a port in the Leningrad Region, and a resort complex in Gelendzhik.

Russian citizen Yevgeny Pavlov, an employee of the Swedish branch of Bombardier, was arrested in Sweden in the case of corruption deals with the Azerbaijani authorities

Photo: AftonbladetIBL via ZUMA Wire / TASS

In Sweden, a Russian citizen, an employee of the local branch of the Canadian engineering company Bombardier, was taken into custody. This was announced by prosecutor Thomas Forsberg, reports Associated Press.

He explained that the Russian Evgeny Pavlov, who lives in Stockholm, was one of several Bombardier employees who were suspected of corrupt deals with the Azerbaijani authorities. Pavlov was detained for two weeks because the Swedish authorities feared that he might leave the country or try to put pressure on witnesses, the prosecutor added.

According to Forsberg, the case was based on emails seized from Bombardier's Swedish office during raids in October last year. According to investigators, Azerbaijani officials received bribes from the Swedish branch of a machine-building company in exchange for contracts.

According to Sveriges Radio, the amount of these bribes could be 700 million Swedish kronor ($77 million).

Bombardier spokeswoman Barbara Grimm confirmed that one of the employees had been arrested and assured that the company was ready to cooperate with the investigation.

Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is the world's largest manufacturer of railway equipment. The division of Bombardier Aerospace is engaged in the production of aircraft and space technology.

Novaya Gazeta links the arrest of the Russian with an investigation related to the Panama Papers, which was published by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in April last year. Then, in particular, the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) reported that the joint venture of Russian Railways and Bombardier Transportation, Bombardier Transportation (Signal), enters into dubious deals with offshore companies associated with the son of a close associate of the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin Alexey Krapivin. OCCRP pointed out that the Swedish branch of Bombardier, which is the main developer of the Ebilock-950 microprocessor centralization systems for arrows and signals, acted as the real founder of the joint venture on the part of a foreign partner.

As noted in OCCRP, the Russian-Swedish company equipped railway stations in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, including Azerbaijan, with these systems. In 2013, the Azerbaijani government held a tender for the supply of Ebilock equipment, which was won by a consortium led by Bombardier Transportation.