The top manager of Gazprom, Alexander Tyulyakov, who died under strange circumstances in 2022, was allegedly associated with financial fraud, on which the family of the company's deputy chairman of the board, Sergei Khomyakov, earned money. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of the investigation, which was jointly conducted by Novaya Gazeta Europe and Transparency International – Russia.
According to Transparency and New Europe sources, Khomyakov served in the KGB of the Republic of Karelia in the past. In Gazprom, he deals with the security of both the corporation itself and its subsidiaries, and also oversees the certification of the state-owned company and organizations cooperating with it. As follows from the publication, Khomyakov's relatives and his friends, immigrants from the KGB and the Ministry of Defense, created a network of companies that earn money on government contracts with Gazprom.
One of these organizations is Gazinformservice (GIS), which is part of the Gazprom Certification Authority Network (CCA). This organization is officially accredited by the Ministry of Digital Development and operates under a license from the FSB of Russia. It follows from these public procurements that Gazinformservice is engaged in the installation of security software, system maintenance and quality control. From 2014 to 2019, the company earned 4.23 billion rubles on government contracts. In this company, according to sources, the son of Sergei Khomyakov, Fedor, works. In total, structures associated with relatives and friends of Sergei Khomyakov have earned more than 6 billion rubles on government contracts with Gazprom over several years.
As the investigators found out, the mentioned Fedor Khomyakov is also a co-owner of Imperio Holdings Limited, which, through another company, owns the five-star Lazure Hotel in Montenegro. A source from Novaya Evropa said that in 2022, the financial intelligence of this country discovered € 30 million of unknown origin on the accounts of Imperio Holdings Limited and demanded explanations from the owners of the company, and also sent a request to Russian law enforcement agencies. According to reports, Russia did not react in any way. According to investigators, the reason for this may be in the relationship of the owners of Imperio Holdings Limited with Gazprom.
Sergey Khomyakov's daughter Daria works at Gazprombank, and her husband Denis Boldyrev is the head of Gazprom's treasury. Boldyrev's deputy for security Alexander Tyulyakov died in February 2022 in the Leningrad region – according to the official version, he committed suicide. Sources of "New – Europe" connect his death with an investigation launched in Montenegro.
A month earlier, in January, Leonid Shulman, a top manager at Gazprom Invest, was reported to have committed suicide. And in April 2022, the bodies of Gazprombank Vice President Vladislav Avaev, his wife and minor daughter were found in an apartment in Moscow. According to investigators, Avaev killed his wife and daughter, and then committed suicide.