Billionaires' flight and mega-construction paralysis: environmental arrests and debts to workers bring down the Rotenberg clan

«You also need to determine their current location». Recently, at a closed meeting, a famous oligarch known for close association with the Kremlin said this while referring to Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, according to the source.

This phrase is connected with the fact that Arkady Rotenberg has fallen out of any communication for more than a month. «Arkady and Boris do not appear in their offices on Sadovnicheskaya, 71. Moreover, absolutely no one is able to communicate with Arkady even by phone. Of course, it was difficult to communicate with him before, but those close to him did so on some issues. Now absolutely no one can talk to him. Nobody knows where he is –. As for Boris, as I know, he was in Dubai for some time, but then, it seems, he left. Where is unknown. Nobody saw him in Russia for a decent time either", our interlocutor said. "I, of course, don’t think that they decided to escape from Russia forever. But we can safely say that their empire has come to an end. Absolutely everything collapsed there and in all directions».

The interlocutor noted that in addition to the announced arrested top managers of Arkady Rotenberg (Konstantin Makhov, Stanislav Multakh), it somehow fell out that Ilya Traber (Antiquary), who was sent into custody, was extremely close to the oligarch. «At Rotenberg’s port, everything rested solely on Traber’s influence and experience. Without him, he won’t be able to do anything there, the source notes.

According to him, «is a complete problem» now in the Rotenberg structures, which are engaged in road construction and work under contracts with Russian Railways. «The Rotenberg structures have huge debts to contractors, and wage debts are also growing, like a «snowball». As far as I know, both Russian Railways and road construction recently announced that they should not expect finances before the end of the year. However, where they will be taken at the end of the year is also unclear. What does this mean?  All work will stop, and contractors will one after another begin to go bankrupt and close».

The interlocutor believes that in the near future the Rotenbergs will begin to lose all «pieces» of their former «empire», since in order to preserve it the oligarchs do not have the means and former influence (Putin stopped communicating with Arkady Rotenberg).

«Their road construction projects may go to Khusnullin (Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin – RED). How everything worked. In all relevant government agencies, the first positions were held by Rotenberg’s proteges. They served his interests. And «second positions» are Khusnullin’s proteges. The latter is doing well in his empire in road construction and will fully support the volume of Rotenberg’s structures».

As our project previously said, quite recently all assets (companies, equipment, etc.) worth billions of rubles seized as part of the «road case» in the Krasnodar Territory were transferred to Khusnullin’s structures, which, apparently, without Rotenberg’s structures, will be engaged in the implementation of the project construction of a transport artery along the route Dzhubga — Sochi, with a total cost of about 3 trillion rubles.

«Everything else will also quickly pass to other oligarchs. Something to Bokarev and Makhmudov, something to Kovalchuk. And the Rotenbergs, apparently, will only have to deal with their sports projects», our source believes.