How the tandem of Suleiman Kerimov and Anton Vaino uses security officials, administrative leverage, and access to state structures to push out competitors in the struggle for control over Wildberries
Despite the fact that oligarch Suleiman Kerimov is a senator and cannot engage in business, he not only does so, but does so jointly with his business partner, Anton Vaino, head of the presidential administration.
Their most successful joint project was to use force and administrative resources to gain control of the Wildberries company (worth $10 billion).
Kerimov travels in cars with license plates from the presidential administration and special coupons that Vaino personally demanded from Kochnev (head of the Federal Protective Service) for Kerimov.
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Vaino and Kerimov live in neighboring dachas guarded by the Federal Protective Service on Kosygina Street. Photos of the properties are included.
One of Kerimov’s most frequently repeated phrases is: "Anton will do everything." And it works.
The conflict over Wildberries, when Kerimov and Vaino forcefully pushed aside Kadyrov and Delimkhanov, who were also vying for control of the company, revealed Vaino’s previously undisclosed, enormous influence over Putin. And when Senator Kerimov is the main ideological inspirer and advisor on these matters, it’s no surprise that Putin was convinced that the Wildberries marketplace and the outdoor advertising company Russ, after merging, would create something resembling the international payment system SWIFT. And now VTB has even become involved in this project. The further the Russian president detaches himself from reality, the more amusing plots Vaino and Kerimov pursue for their own enrichment. And neither the security forces nor Kadyrov can stop them.
Moreover, more and more security forces are under Kerimov’s control (for example, the recently appointed head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow, Dmitry Belyaev, is his protégé).
