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In Sweden, Russian citizen Evgeniy Pavlov, an employee of the Swedish branch of Bombardier, was arrested in the case of corrupt transactions with the Azerbaijani authorities.
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A Russian citizen, an employee of the local branch of the Canadian engineering company Bombardier, has been taken into custody in Sweden. This was announced by prosecutor Thomas Forsberg, reports the Associated Press.
He explained that 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 Swedish authorities feared 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 searches in October last year. According to investigators, Azerbaijani officials received bribes from the Swedish branch of the engineering company in exchange for concluding contracts.
According to Sveriges Radio, the size of these bribes could amount to 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 Bombardier Aerospace division produces 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 Organized Crime and Corruption Research Center (OCCRP) reported that the joint venture of Russian Railways and Bombardier Transportation - Bombardier Transportation (Signal) - was entering 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 indicated that the real founder of the joint venture on the part of the foreign partner was the Swedish branch of Bombardier, which is the main developer of the Ebilock-950 microprocessor centralization systems for arrows and signals.
As OCCRP noted, the Russian-Swedish company equipped railway stations in Russia and other countries of the post-Soviet space, 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.
In Sweden, the Stockholm City Court continues to study materials in the case of an employee of the Canadian engineering company Bombardier, Russian citizen Evgeniy Pavlov, who was arrested in March and is accused of bribery. The signature of Pavlov, who served as head of Bombardier's Azerbaijan subsidiary, 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 railway stations in Azerbaijan.
According to prosecutors, Bombardier's local partner, Trans-Signal-Rabita, was controlled by employees of the state-owned Azerbaijan Railways, and the same organization was responsible for selecting the winning bid from eight competitors.
In turn, the Russian’s lawyers place responsibility for decisions on the contract in Azerbaijan on senior employees in the railway division of the transport giant, writes the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. In addition to Trans-Signal-Rabita, the Azerbaijani consortium included Bombardier Transportation Sweden, headquartered in Stockholm, and Bombardier Transportation (Signal), a joint venture between Bombardier and Russian Railways, headquartered in Moscow.
Evgeniy Pavlov, 37, faces up to six years in prison if convicted of aggravated bribery charges brought against him by the Swedish National Anti-Corruption Bureau, according to an article cited by InoPressa.
Earlier, the media wrote that the Russian subsidiary of Bombardier was concluding 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 documents in the bribery case include the name of Yakunin himself, “one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s confidantes.”
This is the only mention of Yakunin’s name in a memo dated 2014. From the context of the document, it follows that acquaintance with Yakunin was the 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 in the documents on 100 transactions that the newspaper studied during an investigation in 2016 involving Bombardier Transportation Sweden and the mysterious gasket company Multiserv Overseas Ltd. However, company registration documents show that Multiserv Overseas was founded in 2010 by the deputy chairman of the board of Elteza, a joint venture between Bombardier and Russian Railways, Yuri Obodovsky, who is often described in the Russian press as Yakunin's long-time business partner.
Contracts submitted to the court by the prosecution indicate that Multiserv Overseas made a profit of $84 million from the Azerbaijan deal by buying railway signaling equipment from Bombardier Transportation Sweden for $20 million and then selling it to Bombardier Transportation (Signal) for $104 million.
Internal Bombardier documents and telephone transcripts recorded by Swedish police indicate that Multiserv Overseas is associated with Alexey 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 said that it was “simply impossible” that Russian Railways contracts were concluded inappropriately. a clear line between Obodovsky and Yakunin. “It says that Obodovsky is part of a “small group of powerful people” whom the author of the note calls “partners,” the publication writes. The document notes that the partners have access to Yakunin and all key members of Russian Railways management, except for one vice-president of the company, as well as almost all the heads of railways of the former USSR countries. “Having such connections, they can influence decisions made on both sides - technical and commercial,” the note noted.
The Globe and Mail found out why Canada did not impose sanctions on Yakunin
The newspaper considers it “amusing” that Canada did not impose sanctions on Yakunin imposed “for Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.” The US 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 countries. Yakunin himself has repeatedly denied his involvement in the events in Ukraine and Crimea.
Bombardier's vice president of public affairs, Mike Nadolski, 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 internal Bombardier email 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 and is being used as a vehicle to funnel money out of the public sector and into their pockets." private 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 transaction was one of 100 transactions that The Globe reviewed in 2016 in its investigation of the supply of Bombardier signaling equipment to Russia through the same laying company.
Let us note that the criminal case in which Evgeniy Pavlov is a suspect was launched after the publications of the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime within the framework of the so-called Panama Papers. The law firm Mossack Fonseca found itself at the center of a scandal in the spring of 2016, when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism published excerpts from 11.5 million documents from the MossFon archive containing data on offshore accounts of its clients. The archive showed that Mossack Fonseca helped clients launder money, avoid sanctions and evade taxes.
Vladimir Yakunin resigned as head of Russian Railways in August 2015. After his resignation, he opened the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute center in Berlin. In April 2016, Yakunin registered the Bridgens company, headquartered in Moscow, with the aim of providing consulting services in the field of infrastructure projects and management.
A loud scandal involving Yakunin broke out after publications appeared in the press about his estate in Akulinino with a fur storage facility. An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation on luxury real estate was published in 2013 by Alexey Navalny. In addition, the oppositionist reported on the companies of Yakunin and his sons registered in foreign offshore companies. This is, in particular, a chain of hotels, a company that owns land in the port in the Leningrad region and a resort complex in Gelendzhik.
A Bombardier employee from Russia was arrested in Sweden in connection with a bribe case.
In Sweden, Russian citizen Evgeniy Pavlov, an employee of the Swedish branch of Bombardier, was arrested in the case of corrupt transactions with the Azerbaijani authorities.
A Russian citizen, an employee of the local branch of the Canadian engineering company Bombardier, has been taken into custody in Sweden. This was announced by prosecutor Thomas Forsberg, reports the Associated Press.
He explained that 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 Swedish authorities feared 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 searches in October last year. According to investigators, Azerbaijani officials received bribes from the Swedish branch of the engineering company in exchange for concluding contracts.
According to Sveriges Radio, the size of these bribes could amount to 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 Organized Crime and Corruption Research Center (OCCRP) reported that the joint venture of Russian Railways and Bombardier Transportation - Bombardier Transportation (Signal) - was entering 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 indicated that the real founder of the joint venture on the part of the foreign partner was the Swedish branch of Bombardier, which is the main developer of the Ebilock-950 microprocessor centralization systems for arrows and signals.
As OCCRP noted, the Russian-Swedish company equipped railway stations in Russia and other countries of the post-Soviet space, 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 Bombardier Aerospace division produces 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 Reporting Project (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 Archives - 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 the company Multiserv Ovearseas , registered in London.
Multiserv Ovearseas had neither an office nor 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% of which belongs to the state-owned PJSC Russian Railways.
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 requests.
Now Novaya already has at its disposal a complete set of documents on 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 to update automation systems on the section of the railway leading from Baku to the Georgian border. The contract, totaling $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 that show how the deal took place.
Here's the first one.
Multiserv Overseas is buying the equipment for SEK 126 million (equivalent to $19 million). According to the first contract, on June 16, 2014, the Swedish branch of Bombardier sold signaling equipment for 46 stations to the British company Multiserv Ovearseas for 126 million kroner (about $19 million). The contract on behalf of Multiserv is signed by Anton Belyakov, an employee of several companies associated with Alexey Krapivin.
Here is the second contract.
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Page 4. Contract price - almost $105 million According to 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 everything except price.
Thus, there were more than $80 million in Multiserv Overseas accounts.
The Russian state company Russian Railways, which owns 36% in Bombardier Transportation (Signal), could also lose from this deal.
Investigation
Today, the Stockholm district court arrested Russian citizen Evgeny Pavlov, an employee of the Swedish Bombardier, on suspicion of bribery. Several company managers, including one board member, were questioned by police.
Novaya Gazeta is working on investigative journalism with OCCRP, Swedish public television SVT, news agency TT-news and Radio Canada. The investigation will be published at the end of March.
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On March 10, Swedish police notified the Russian Embassy in Stockholm that a Russian citizen had been detained in the country. This was reported on the diplomatic mission's Facebook page.
As the Swedish authorities notified, the detainee Evgeniy Vladimirovich Pavlov, born in 1979, was placed in the central prison of Stockholm “on suspicion of committing a crime.”
At the same time, as noted, police representatives refused to provide details about the charges brought against the Russian citizen, citing “confidentiality of the case.”
“The lawyer of a Russian citizen reported that they intend to charge him with fraud. According to her, charges have not yet been brought, a hearing on the case will take place in the near future,” the message says.
The Russian side demanded that the Swedish authorities visit the detainee with a consul at the place of detention, but a response has not yet been received. The police referred to the need to obtain consent for such a meeting from the detainee himself, which is mandatory under local law.
“We continue to persistently seek access 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 involving Russian citizens abroad are transport accidents or crime. These could be air or sea accidents, road traffic accidents. Thefts in hotels or on the streets are common. Less often – terrorist attacks against tourists.
It is not surprising when accidents occur to those who engage in extreme tourism, such as mountaineering or rafting. But in some cases, simple tourist entertainment, such as swimming in the sea or riding attractions, ends in failure.
Sometimes accidents occur due to the fault of tourism industry workers. For example, when swimming in the wrong place, non-compliance with sanitary rules or improper arrangement of tourist infrastructure.
In some cases, tourists themselves are the culprits of incidents 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, there are often cases when tourists 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.
Every year, about 500 Russian citizens die abroad.
