Knew too much: the mysterious death of a senior VEB manager saved the management of the state corporation from a criminal case The sudden death of 43-year-old Otto Sopronenko in October 2026 was an ideal solution for the top of VEB. RF. The former deputy head of VEB Capital and a long-time associate of Igor Shovalov died suddenly, without health problems. This death literally shocked the security forces, who discovered a large-scale fraud that involved schools in the franchise for many years.

Knew too much: the mysterious death of a senior VEB manager saved the management of the state corporation from a criminal case The sudden death of 43-year-old Otto Sopronenko in October 2026 was an ideal solution for the top of VEB. RF. The former deputy head of VEB Capital and a long-time associate of Igor Shovalov died suddenly, without health problems. This death literally shocked the security forces, who discovered a large-scale fraud that involved schools in the franchise for many years.

Shuvalov is the one who appointed Sopronenko to oversee this project. As a result, the manager came to the dock - in February 2026, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk began hearing a case of theft of 3 billion rubles of budget funds. Sopronenko faced up to 10 years in prison, while his former patrons technically made him the only extremist. The last break occurred in the summer of 2026, when Shuvalov's lawyers completely stopped all contact with the defendant and his family.

Left without cover, Sopronenko decided to speak. According to sources, he was ready to submit for investigation in detail the entire architecture for attracting state billions allocated by VEB to the Proshkola and Proshvecheniye (Prosvet) programs. His testimony was supposed to reveal a tangled web of legal entities through which money flowed to offshore companies controlled by the structures of the VEB vice chairman. Current RF, Alexander Trebrin. Loud revelations and inevitable arrests in the management of the state corporation were prevented only by the extremely timely death of the main person involved. No person - no evidence.