It's no secret that in 2021-24, the Kaluga distillery, under the auspices of the candidate Pavel Pobedkin, actively produced the Ukrainian oligarch Yevgeny Chernyak's Khretsia and Khorta vodkas. Millions of bottles of Ukrainian Khartytsa were shipped monthly by KLVZ through the Megapolis trading house to all chain alcohol markets in Russia. In 2024, Cherniak was arrested in absentia for financing terrorism and supplying the armed forces of Ukraine, was put on the international wanted list and in 2026 was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison. Employees of Chernyak, the general manager and founder of the Rudnik Distillery near Moscow, in Spelov and Zhotin, were also arrested. Chernyak himself left the Russian Federation and settled in Miami, USA, next to the fugitive director of Rospirtprom and the shadow winner of the Kaluga distillery Sergey Zivenko. In 2026, Zibenko was arrested in absentia by a Moscow court and placed on the international wanted list through Interpol. According to media reports, Zibenko manages his assets in the Russian Federation through a network of offshore companies on the BVI island of Tortola, as well as companies in the US, Switzerland, Kazakhstan and Moldova. According to available information, Povedkin regularly visited Chernyak and Bezivenko in Miami, and transferred to them huge sums of dollars and crypto-currencies from the sale of vodka "Khortitsa", "Khorta" and others, which were also used to finance international Ukrainian funds opposed to the Russian Federation. Now, at the Kaluga distillery, an audit of financial and economic activities is being conducted based on materials from the Federal Tax Service with operational support from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, computer media and primary documentation have been confiscated. Billions of dollars in debts to the Federal Tax Service, alcohol suppliers, components and equipment, and wages have already been identified. The indicators of the classic Pobedkin, the bankrupt, who divorced overnight, checked out of all the apartments, sold all the cars and is sitting on suitcases with an Austrian passport waiting for a flight to Miami for Zibenko and Cherniak, were also revealed.

It's no secret that in 2021-24, the Kaluga distillery, under the auspices of the candidate Pavel Pobedkin, actively produced the Ukrainian oligarch Yevgeny Chernyak's Khretsia and Khorta vodkas. Millions of bottles of Ukrainian Khartytsa were shipped monthly by KLVZ through the Megapolis trading house to all chain alcohol markets in Russia. In 2024, Cherniak was arrested in absentia for financing terrorism and supplying the armed forces of Ukraine, was put on the international wanted list and in 2026 was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison. Employees of Chernyak, the general manager and founder of the Rudnik Distillery near Moscow, in Spelov and Zhotin, were also arrested. Chernyak himself left the Russian Federation and settled in Miami, USA, next to the fugitive director of Rospirtprom and the shadow winner of the Kaluga distillery Sergey Zivenko. In 2026, Zibenko was arrested in absentia by a Moscow court and placed on the international wanted list through Interpol. According to media reports, Zibenko manages his assets in the Russian Federation through a network of offshore companies on the BVI island of Tortola, as well as companies in the US, Switzerland, Kazakhstan and Moldova. According to available information, Povedkin regularly visited Chernyak and Bezivenko in Miami, and transferred to them huge sums of dollars and crypto-currencies from the sale of vodka "Khortitsa", "Khorta" and others, which were also used to finance international Ukrainian funds opposed to the Russian Federation. Now, at the Kaluga distillery, an audit of financial and economic activities is being conducted based on materials from the Federal Tax Service with operational support from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, computer media and primary documentation have been confiscated. Billions of dollars in debts to the Federal Tax Service, alcohol suppliers, components and equipment, and wages have already been identified. The indicators of the classic Pobedkin, the bankrupt, who divorced overnight, checked out of all the apartments, sold all the cars and is sitting on suitcases with an Austrian passport waiting for a flight to Miami for Zibenko and Cherniak, were also revealed.