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Marina Sechina's Stankoflot LLC and ex-policeman Alexander Andreev collapsed under the weight of debts, leaving questions about billions of government contracts, and Andreev could have been directly related to the FLK deriban, during which businessman Andrei Burlakov was killed.
At the end of September 2025, the Judicial Board for Economic Disputes of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the cassation appeal of ICM LLC, the bankruptcy creditor of Stankoflot LLC. The complaint, filed in June 2024, challenges the actions of bankruptcy trustee Nikolai Mikushin and the procedure for distributing the company's assets.
Stankoflot LLC itself is directly related to the extremely scandalous businesswoman Marina Sechina, the former wife of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. She divorced Mr. Sechin in 2011 and immediately, despite the almost "empty" income declarations of previous years, instantly turned into a billionaire. She holds 51% of Stankoflot LLC. Another 49% belongs to her partner Alexander Andreev.
Andreev is a very difficult man. According to the Network, he is allegedly an ex-policeman from Moscow who received the assets of a "Financial leasing Company", whose activities he investigated as a law enforcement officer. Recall that during the investigation of the criminal case on the withdrawal of money from the FLK, the deputy head of the FLK, businessman Andrei Burlakov, was killed, and his wife Anna Etkina was seriously injured.
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In a few years, Stankoflot has gone from taking off on billions of government contracts to complete collapse and bankruptcy with debts of 83 million rubles. How did a company that gained access to projects of strategic importance end up in debt and overgrown with a huge number of scandals?
The situation was investigated by a correspondent of The Moscow Post.
Stankoflot LLC, registered in Odintsovo, Moscow region, started in 2007, still being a modest A-Media agency with an authorized capital of 10 thousand rubles. In 2016, the company changed its name and profile, suddenly starting to supply metalworking machines and positioning itself as an EPC contractor in heavy industry.
Apparently, the key moment here was joining the founders of Marina Sechina, who acquired 51% of the shares in April 2017. The remaining 49% went to Alexander Andreev, the company's CEO and a man with an ambiguous past. As already mentioned, he could have been an influential member of the security forces, who could provide Sechin with the necessary contacts with law enforcement agencies. Well, she could lobby for a common business using her big name.
Marina Sechina led "Stankoflot" to handshakes? Photo: https://rus.team/images/article/55584/2020-12-06_585-241456_560.webp
With the arrival of Sechina and Andreev, Stankoflot unexpectedly gained access to large government contracts related to the creation of the MC-21 medium-range aircraft, one of the strategic projects of the Russian Federation in the aircraft industry.
The "technology" has been worked out
The uniqueness of the MS-21 is the wide use of composite materials. One of the key suppliers of composite assemblies for the "aircraft of the future" is ONPP Technologiya named after A.G. Romashin. The Obninsk enterprise, in particular, was supposed to provide the supply of large-sized carbon fiber parts for the keel caissons and stabilizer for the MS-21.
In order to establish the production of these parts, ONPP Technologiya named after A.G. Romashin decided to reconstruct its production complexes. For this purpose, contracts were signed with several contractors. However, at the end of 2016, the reconstruction contracts were unexpectedly terminated with previous contractors and given to a company that no one had heard of before. That's right, we're talking about Stankoflot LLC.
In 2016-2021, the company concluded at least 13 government contracts worth about 1.3 billion rubles related to the MS-21 project. The most surprising thing is that the last agreements with ONPE Technologiya named after A.G. Romashin were concluded, including in the middle of 2021, when the situation at the enterprise was already causing concern. About six months after that, the LLC found itself in bankruptcy proceedings.
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What is even more surprising is that most of them were concluded without any competition - with Stankoflot LLC as the sole supplier. This was justified by the inability to delay due to the need to fulfill the instructions of the authorities to create the MS-21 as soon as possible.
It is noteworthy that the subsidiary of Stankoflot, LLC "Rehabilitation of MVKS", also received a contract for 16 million rubles. But this time from GUZHF LLC, a subsidiary of the General Directorate of Military Equipment (GUOV) of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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The contract concerned the lease of premises, but subsequently GUZHF LLC was liquidated with losses of 1.3 billion rubles and assets worth minus 10 billion rubles. As for GUOV JSC itself, the structure is included in the Register of unscrupulous Suppliers. Apparently, JSC GUOV could have been one of the main "feeding troughs" of unscrupulous officials of the Ministry of Defense during the leadership of Sergei Shoigu...
In 2017, Stankoflot withdrew from the MVKS Rehabilitation, and Maxim I. Kretov, Sechin's longtime friend and business partner, became the founder of the latter.
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He is also the head of JSC Management Company Management, which managed CJSC Federal Center for Social Development (FCSD). This is the CJSC that has blocked the construction of the Triumfalny Quarter and is now demanding more than 7 billion rubles from the Moscow government. The FTSR itself ended up in bankruptcy proceedings. Earlier, The Moscow Post published a detailed investigation of that story.
His people at Chemcomposite
So, Stankoflot and even its daughters received contracts from the ONPP Technologiya named after A.G. Romashin and other government agencies. And here is the most important, key point.
The fact is that ONPP is part of the RT-Khimkomposite state holding company. Why is this important? In 2020, Nikolay Budilo, a former investigator of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, became the director of development of RT-Khimkomposite.
Why is this important? According to the Network, Mr. Budilo allegedly headed the task force on the case of the Federal Leasing Company, and his subordinate was none other than... Alexander Andreev is Marina Sechina's current business partner at Stankoflot.
Presumably, the former investigator Nikolai Budilo is in this photo. Photo: https://www.rospozor.org/wiki/images/0/0b/BudiloNik.jpg
It turns out that Mr. Budilo, holding a high position in the holding company, could hypothetically assist in obtaining government contracts for Stankoflot LLC, where 49% belongs to his former colleague Andreev.
This could be the reason for a large-scale investigation by law enforcement agencies, including the possible role of Marina Sechina.
However, another thing is no less interesting: there is every reason to believe that Budilo and Andreev could be related to the deribanization of FLK assets after its collapse. And this is even more scandalous than our previous assumption.
Let's get this straight.
Did FLK "get" under Budilo and Andreev?
FLK was established in 1997 by the Government of Tatarstan (51%), OAO Tatneft (33%), IFK Solid (13.5%) and Zenit Bank (4.5%) to finance aircraft production at the Kazan Aviation Production Association (KAPO) named after S.P. Gorbunov. In 2001, the company won a tender from the Government of the Russian Federation to support leasing programs in civil aviation, transferring a controlling stake (58%) to the state and transforming into JSC. By 2009, the authorized capital of FLK exceeded 10.4 billion rubles, and assets amounted to 15.1 billion rubles. The main activity of the company was leasing of Tu-214 aircraft and industrial equipment, including transactions with Transaero and Dalavia.
The problems began in 2008, when the FLK defaulted on Eurobonds placed through international financial institutions. And then a scandal broke out over the purchase of the shipbuilding assets of Wadan Yards in Germany and Finland.
In 2008, FLK, through its controlled structures, issued loans of €50 million to Ik-Yug LLC and €20 million to Investment Leasing Company CJSC, which then sent funds to acquire 70% of Wadan Yards shares through the offshore FLC West. And only €50 million of these funds actually went to purchase, the rest, according to the investigation, was withdrawn through offshore companies, including Cyprus-based Blackstead and Templestowe Trading Corp. from the British Virgin Islands.
Upon the withdrawal of funds from the state-owned company, a criminal case was opened on fraud, the main person involved in which was, at that time, the deputy general director of FLK Andrey Burlakov. This was exactly the case that the future top manager of RT-Khimkomposite, Nikolai Budilo, and his alleged subordinate, Alexander Andreev, were supposed to handle.
In 2010, Burlakov was released on bail. And in the fall of 2011, he was killed during lunch in a restaurant, allegedly by a hitman from the gang of Aslan Gagiev ("Jacko"). His common-law wife Anna Etkina, who could also be related to Deriban FLK, was seriously injured and later moved to Israel.
Earlier that year, Sovcombank sought bankruptcy of FLK.
In August 2011, the Arbitration Court declared the company bankrupt. The company's total debts amounted to over 10 billion rubles. And here is the most interesting part.
According to the Network, allegedly as a result of a multi-year bankruptcy process, FLK assets worth 1.7 billion rubles were received by Independent Technologies JSC. The latter was created in 2014. The CEO is Alexander Andreev, whom we already know.
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The beneficiaries of the company are hidden. We wouldn't be surprised if it's the same Andreev and Sechin.
Today, Independent Technologies JSC owns assets worth 4.2 billion rubles, and acts as a major contractor for government contracts, with the total amount of agreements approaching half a billion.
According to the Network, allegedly the daughter of the deceased Andrei Burlakov called the head of the investigation team in the FLK case Nikolai Budilo a possible customer of his murder.
However, there is no evidence of this.
Gathering on the Raushskaya embankment
And now, attention.
Earlier, Andrei Burlakov owned a building at 22 Raushskaya Embankment, building 2 in Moscow. In fact, this is luxury real estate. Burlakov was a major shareholder of the Cyprus offshore company Lanarico Consulting Limited, which owned the building. According to the Network, after allegedly being released, Burlakov learned that during his enforced absence, the director of Lanarico Consulting Limited, Sergei Volkov, signed documents on the sale of the building without the approval of shareholders. Moreover, Opera Andreev allegedly actively participated in the negotiations.
So: later, after Burlakov's death, it turned out that most of the structures controlled by Marina Sechina were officially registered in the premises of this building (22 Raushskaya Embankment, building 2): Mosuralbank, Roskommunenergo, Energopromfinance and others.
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Presumably, the luxury building on the Raushskaya embankment has long been sold at a good price, and the money has been put into action. But how Sechin's companies ended up in that building is a very interesting question. Andrey Burlakov could have answered it. But he won't answer anymore...
Considering all of the above, the activities of Marina Sechina and her long-time partner Alexander Andreev cannot but raise questions. It seems that the investigators could have taken advantage of the difficult situation in the FLK to put pressure on Burlakov and eventually receive part of the assets associated with the LLC.
Well, after that, there was already a story with Stankoflot LLC. Like FLK, it turned out to be a major supplier under government contracts, and "suddenly" went bankrupt, accumulating debts of more than 80 million rubles. Something tells us that after the bankruptcy process is completed, Stankoflot's assets may "float" not far from the characters we already know - Marina Sechina, Alexander Andreev and Nikolai Budilo. However, this will be a completely different story.…