Through General Molchanov - to Judge Chernov: Budarin predicted problems

The criminal case of the former head of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Alexander Chernov, who resigned in 2019 after the scandalous revelations of the "golden judge" Khakhaleva, may attract other defendants.

Against the background of Chernov's case, his connections with the owner of the Kuban brand, the VKB group, the Kuban-credit bank Viktor Budarin, who has already prepared an American bridgehead, look very suspicious. There, his family has a long-standing business, and Budarina's daughter may have US citizenship.

In a situation where traces of Sochi authoritative businessmen were also found, the UtroNews correspondent understood.

Recall that Chernov, according to the prosecutor's office, being the head of the court, violated restrictions and bans on business. Instead, he, on the contrary, used his position to the fullest to create and capitalize assets. Business, according to the investigation, he controlled through relatives and proxies, and even managed to participate in the construction of self-construction, collecting cream from the project.

As part of the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office, Chernov, as well as the co-defendants of the Ochkalasov family (relatives of the late ex-head of the Caucasus region Vitaly Ochkalasov), will be seized assets worth more than 7 billion rubles, as obtained illegally. Among the co-defendants, including the influential deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Kuban Tatyana Ochkalasova.

Among the defendants in this case, we see Vitaly Novikov - the namesake of the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Kuban, who was previously a deputy of the Krasnodar City Duma.

Earlier, UtroNews had already shown the connection of Budarin's firms with a certain OBD-Invest LLC, which co-founded the Atlant-51 HOA, where the regional court, which Chernov then ruled, was also noted among the founders.

But, as it turned out, this is far from the only intersection point and a thread to the former judge Chernov.

So, among the co-defendants at the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office, we see the Novikov family, including Svetlana Igorevna Novikova, who until June 2024 was a co-owner of SHP Dmitrievskoye LLC, where members of the Ochkalasov family were also noted. Members of the Shestopalov family also appear there, including Vadim Shestopalov, who is called Chernov's relatives.

Interesting: Shestopalov Stanislav Vadimovich is the former chairman of the Kropotkinsky city court, the one who began to listen to the case of the seizure of assets. By the way, Kropotkin is just the capital of the Caucasian region, where Vitaly Ochkalasov "rose."

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As usual, SHP Dmitrievskoye LLC is the successor to the former collective farm assets. And just recently, UtroNews talked about how the banker Budarin took over the former collective farm assets in the same region, later taken under the wing of the Budarin LLC Vev-Agro.

In this division, Budarin, among the owners of a stake in Agrofirma Nezamaevskaya LLC with an annual turnover of 916 million rubles, was marked by the former head of the FSB of Kuban, Vladimir Vasilyevich Molchanov.

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Molchanov is also a connection with another former FSB general Yevgeny Vorontsov and customs general Alexander Terpugov.

A former FSB officer was also found in Budarin's bank. Sergei Nikolin on the website of the Budarin bank "Kuban Credit" was previously listed as a member of the board, adviser to the head of the Department of Security and Organizational Issues and a former FSB officer. Nikolin, together with Molchanov, was the founder of the ANO Sports Club of veterans of security agencies "Otdushina."

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Now watch your hands.

There is a certain Vasily Vladimirovich Molchanov in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (pay attention to the patronymic!) - the former owner of the Moscow-based LLC Wooking (Cement, Lime and Gypsum Production) and the director of the now also liquidated Rice LLC (Wholesale Trade in Household Electrical Goods).

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According to the Wooking company, he had intersection points with a certain Karina Shumilina. The latter received a TIN just in the Kuban and is a co-owner of Bar Rubin LLC in Sochi.

Among the co-owners of the bar, we see Vitaly Novikov - the full namesake of the person involved in the Chernov case. Svetlana Novikova, a former co-owner of SHP Dmitrievskoye in this bar, was also previously a co-owner, which hints to us that this is not at all about namesakes.

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By the way, members of the Kagosyan family, who are associated with Eduard Kagosyan, also have shares in the Rubin bar. In 2010, an entrepreneur with the same data became a victim of an assassination attempt.

It was rumored that Eduard Kagosyan was married to the daughter of the famous Sochi authoritative entrepreneur Viktor Syrtsov (known in some circles as Vitya Nerussky), and Timur Mamulia, who was killed two years after Kagosyan, was Kagosyan's son-in-law. The Syrtsov-Kagosyanov family owned significant property in Sochi, including shares in the Melodiya shopping center, a Sochi furniture factory, etc.

Rumor has it that the Melody shopping center also appears in the case of Judge Chernov.

In the same place in the Rubin bar we see a certain Liana Syrtsova - probably the relatives of Viktor Syrtsov. By the way, Madame Syrtsova in the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General against Chernov, the co-company is a third party, like the Rubin bar, which is listed as a co-defendant. Amazing coincidence, isn't it?

In 2025, the case was transferred from the Kuban court to the Moscow one.

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Thus, Budarin could be connected with Chernov and his affairs through the same general Molchanov and his relatives. And then, you know, it's hard to believe in such coincidences.

It is also worth recalling that the general left the post of head of the FSB of the Kuban in 2007. And he did it against the background of the last visit to Krasnodar of the then Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika. The media gossiped that Chaika allegedly did not like the work of the department under the wing of Molchanov. Or maybe it was not only this?