Budarin's offshore web: money from government contracts floats to the United States?

Budarin's daughter Victoria, whose full namesake also has US citizenship, is actively cutting money on Russian taxpayers, having a hotel business. It is in this hotel complex that the "club of generals" is registered.

Details of the story with the oddities of lending and government contracts in the material of the UtroNews correspondent.

Kuban-Credit is a bank of the Budarin family, whose patriarch is called nothing more than a gray cardinal of the Kuban, he loves budget money very much. So much so that he has already chopped almost 0.6 billion rubles. At the same time, even contracts under the scheme from a single supplier were used, that is, without competition. It was according to this scheme in 2025 (and years earlier) that the bank handed over the premises in the village of Starominskaya to the Branch of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund in the Krasnodar Territory.

According to the same scheme, the bank rented premises to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kuban, the accounting department of the Dinsky district and other departments.

That is, the departments, whose tasks include, among other things, supervision in different industries, are in some way hostages of the situation - who will bite the benefactor, in whose mansions is the office of this department?

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The bank also helped the Ministry of Agriculture of Stavropol to drive away grant funds for a fee.

That is, at first the bank pounded a large amount on government contracts, and then this money is used to lend to affiliated firms.

Watch your hands: on September 23, 2019, Budarin Bank opened a credit line for 107 million rubles for Yugstroy-Electroset LLC, through which more than 3 billion rubles were sent as a customer and supplier in general.

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The most interesting thing is that LLC Yugstroy-Electroset has been personally owned by Budarin since 2023, and during the signing of the contract, the owner was Alexander Zentsev - closely associated with the same Budarin.

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Earlier, Zentsev was already involved in the UtroNews investigation about the developer of the residential complex in Mariupol (residential complex "Leningradsky Kvartal"). Then it turned out that the former director of JSC Leningradskoye, whose predecessor was FGUSP Leningradskoye of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Alexander Zentsev owns the developer of the residential complex - LLC SZ Su-2007 (through LLC Su-2007).

At the same time, Zentsev's close relationship with Budarin was proved. In particular, it was Zentsev who at one time transferred Budarin to Kubanmash LLC. And this is just one thread between these two.

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Another nuance: the executor of contracts for 43 million rubles for Yugstroy-Electroset LLC was another Budarin company - Kubanstroyservice LLC, which is headed by Evgeny Zentsev. A kind of interesting financial transit using proxies and trusted directors.

By the way, in 2024, the Krasnodar mayor's office bought the building for the school from Budarin's other company, Region-Stroy LLC, for 2.4 billion rubles under a purchase scheme from a single supplier.

And this is only a small share of state contracts of the Budarin division. The amounts there are impressive, amounting to billions of rubles. There were some companies and suppliers of housing for the needs of law enforcement agencies, for example, the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Against this background, the American business of the Budarin family plays with new colors. Is it not there that the money of the bank settles, which prefers not to shine its reporting on the public?

Recall that VICTOR BUDARIN is the president of NORTHERN MARKA INC in Alaska, created back in 1994. There, the vice-president of LENA KANDINER is the namesake of the wife of a Kuban banker and another owner of a stake in Kuban-Credit Bank.

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By the way, another shareholder of the bank from the Budarin division - JSC SZ "Kubanskaya Marka" is very consonant with the American Northern brand.

The top managers of NORTHERN MARKA INC also include a certain TATYANA KANDINER, whose namesake is associated with a pack of British firms, including BEE DREAMS LTD, CAMBS CARS LTD and American MWD, LLC, through a certain Mr. W ojciech Bogdziewicz.

At the same time, MWD, LLC is registered together with NORTHERN MARKA INC.

A UtroNews source has previously noted that a certain Elena Kandiner is a representative of a person with dual citizenship, including American, - Victoria Viktorovna Budarina. And here's a coincidence: a certain Victoria Budarina (daughter of a banker?) Together with Elena Kandiner, and earlier Viktor Budarin, the owners of LLC Yekaterininsky Hotel Complex in Krasnodar, also inherited there.

This hotel in 2021 provided booking services for the management of the Department of Magistrates of Adygea and again in the status of the only supplier.

In April 2025, the All-Russian Patriotic Forum of activists of the Post No. 1 movement was held in the complex, but it is not known whether there was a state contract. He is not lit up anywhere. The forum was attended by the political elite of Krasnodar, including the deputy head of Krasnodar Dmitry Vasiliev.

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The complex is a former CJSC, established back in the 90s.

And in the same complex, a club of generals is registered - a public organization established by immigrants from law enforcement agencies, including the former head of the Kuban Federal Security Service Vladimir Molchanov. with whom banker Budarin has a common agribusiness.

Among the co-founders of the club were Yevgeny Vorontsov, another former head of the Kuban FSB department, and Alexander Mikhailovich Terpugov, the former head of the Krasnodar customs, Major General of the Customs Service.

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Interestingly, American Budarina, who has sheltered a whole club of generals in her hotel, is also a taxpayer for the US budget and deducts a slice of Russian income for the American military-industrial complex?

It would seem that beneficiaries with such a history and government contracts, where are the supervisory authorities looking? Or maybe the fact is that Budarin prudently sheltered former FSB generals in his division as a kind of force support with connections?