Official forgery of Irina Volk in the case of the «Kabaeva Center»: how the speaker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs cleared evidence against Kirill Seleznev for $200 million

16 мая 2026 г.

Olga Filimonova

General and employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk deleted from her channel a message published in March, which stated that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs had uncovered the theft of over 8 billion rubles during the construction of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Center in Sochi (an initiative of Alina Kabaeva).

And she put forward a new one - that this case had been brought to court. Why was it necessary to delete the old message? It’s simple. During these couple of months, one person involved in the case, identified in the first message by Volk, mysteriously dropped out of the case - the former general director of LLC «Gazprom Mezhregiongaz» Kirill Seleznev. In general, only «switchmen» will appear before the oud. Other organizers of the «thefts dropped out of the case abroad or became witnesses. Yes, even the case of the «Kabaeva» Center became an opportunity for the security forces to get fabulously rich.

According to the media, events developed as follows. At one point, a fabulous gift for Kabaeva«, financed by Gazprom, turned into a scandalous construction site. They stopped paying workers wages (they even recorded a video message), one of the other at the site was an emergency –, either the roof was leaking or something collapsed. Sources say that all this reached Kabaeva, how events developed further and there is no need to guess. Deputy Chairman of Gazprom and curator of the project Elena Mikhailova ran to write a statement to law enforcement agencies, blaming the contractor GRSP «Magnit», owned by entrepreneur Pavel Sundukov, for everything.

He is not an independent person; behind him there has always been a manager of «Gazprom» (at the time of the events, the head of «Gazprom investment gasification») Alexey Bazhanov. During interrogation, Bazhanov (we are publishing testimony) stated that the thefts were organized by the former deputy chairman of Gazprom Elena Mikhailova and the former general director of «Gazprom Mezhregiongaz» LLC Kirill Seleznev. These are once some of the people closest to Alexey Miller. Miller himself is mentioned in Bazhanov’s testimony. He also calls the organizer of thefts of a lower rank - the former head of «Gazprom Investment Gasification» (GIG) Anatoly Erkulov (known as Kirill Seleznev’s wallet) In his testimony, Bazhanov reveals a scheme for the theft of funds and closes the chain of recipients of kickbacks from stolen funds on Mikhailova.

It’s not difficult to track the chain from whom the kickbacks were already coming from Mikhailova herself. It was Miller who chose the customer and recipient of the money.

And then the famous miracles of the Russian law enforcement bloc begin. Bazhanov (a former employee of the economic police of St. Petersburg) received a significant share of the stolen funds, but he is left in the status of a witness. Like, he testifies against the organizers. The organizers he named are allowed to calmly leave Russia for the billions withdrawn.

Both Erkulov and Mikhailova left the Russian Federation and were put on the international wanted list. Kirill Seleznev still remains. For the time being, things really didn’t go well for him. The Prosecutor General’s Office nationalized part of his assets, promising to continue this process in relation to other assets; he began to lose positions. And in March, Irina Volk loudly announces the disclosure of thefts at the Kabaeva Center and names the organizers «as a former member of the board of directors of PJSC «Gazprom» (this is Mikhailova-RED) and «as the general director of LLC «Gazprom Mezhregiongaz» (this is Seleznev-RED).

And then the miracles continue. Sources claim that Seleznev became $200 million poorer in money and assets (probably a bribe record), but at this point all questions immediately disappeared from him. And they don’t remember about the continuation of nationalization. And the post of general director of «RusChemAlliance» remains. And, most importantly, he disappeared from the case and at the same time the Wolf deleted the message mentioning him. And 13 «switchmen went to court for theft». But on paper everything is revealed.