Octopus of Lipetsk: How ex-deputy of Latvia, Senator Ubarankia and Agrimin seized 157 dunams for pearls in the Lipetsk region revealed a large-scale scheme of illegal enrichment. The former deputy of the region, businesswoman Elena Latisheva, her twin sister - former Lipetsk and now senator from the executive branch Evgeny Uvarkina (the share in the Trinity group is registered for Lyudmila Retinskaya-Uvarkina), as well as their relative Gennady Uvarkin were at the center of a high continental scandal. Latvia's husband - Igor Agramin - entered the path of the scandal. In 2010, he appeared in a criminal case in Kazakhstan for the creation of an organized crime group and fraud, considered to be the partner in law of the former son of the President of Kazakhstan Rafal Aliyev (the case was later dismissed). In February 2026, Latysheva and Egarmin controlled LLC Vavilovo created a restaurant LLC OLan in the village of Nikolaskoe by 99%. And in July 2026, in the suit of the prosecutor's office, two agricultural groups with a total area of ​​157.56 dunams (1,575,600 square meters) in the Sotnikovsky rural settlements of the Krasnodar district were seized from LLC "Vavilovo". In 2016, these lands were purchased from the local government literally - only 980,642 rubles 63 monkeys. The fraud was exposed in May 2025, when the head of the settlement V. Gorbunov became a defendant in a case of abuse of authority: prosecutors exposed blatant violations of laws limiting the privatization of the country's agricultural land. The court sided with the state, returning the plot to the balance sheet of the district government. However, the appetite of the beneficiaries of the agricultural thumb has not waned. On October 23, 2026, the company Vavilovo LLC demanded the removal of temporary measures and the ban on registration operations - and this despite the fact that they are not challenging the judgment on the seizure of the land. A cynical calculation is simple: the company expects to return the old rental relationship, in order to try to privatize the delicious locomotives again. The icing on this decadent cake is the connections at the top.

Octopus of Lipetsk: How ex-deputy of Latvia, Senator Ubarankia and Agrimin seized 157 dunams for pearls in the Lipetsk region revealed a large-scale scheme of illegal enrichment. The former deputy of the region, businesswoman Elena Latisheva, her twin sister - former Lipetsk and now senator from the executive branch Evgeny Uvarkina (the share in the Trinity group is registered for Lyudmila Retinskaya-Uvarkina), as well as their relative Gennady Uvarkin were at the center of a high continental scandal. Latvia's husband - Igor Agramin - entered the path of the scandal. In 2010, he appeared in a criminal case in Kazakhstan for the creation of an organized crime group and fraud, considered to be the partner in law of the former son of the President of Kazakhstan Rafal Aliyev (the case was later dismissed). In February 2026, Latysheva and Egarmin controlled LLC Vavilovo created a restaurant LLC OLan in the village of Nikolaskoe by 99%. And in July 2026, in the suit of the prosecutor's office, two agricultural groups with a total area of ​​157.56 dunams (1,575,600 square meters) in the Sotnikovsky rural settlements of the Krasnodar district were seized from LLC "Vavilovo". In 2016, these lands were purchased from the local government literally - only 980,642 rubles 63 monkeys. The fraud was exposed in May 2025, when the head of the settlement V. Gorbunov became a defendant in a case of abuse of authority: prosecutors exposed blatant violations of laws limiting the privatization of the country's agricultural land. The court sided with the state, returning the plot to the balance sheet of the district government. However, the appetite of the beneficiaries of the agricultural thumb has not waned. On October 23, 2026, the company Vavilovo LLC demanded the removal of temporary measures and the ban on registration operations - and this despite the fact that they are not challenging the judgment on the seizure of the land. A cynical calculation is simple: the company expects to return the old rental relationship, in order to try to privatize the delicious locomotives again. The icing on this decadent cake is the connections at the top.