Wiretapes from Spanish criminal case Troika of the Tambovskaya gang in Spain, investigated in 2006 – 2018. Gennady Petrov is speaking with a certain Dima [Terekhin]. Both wiretapes are dated of 28 June 2007. Discussed is the aquantance of the crimelord Gennady (Gennadios Petrov), wanted by Spain, with former KGB agent Viktor, or Vitya, Korytov. Korytov is mentioned as a person capable of influencing decisions at Gazprom. According to Sankt-Petersburg media of the 1990ths, Viktor Korytov is also known as a KGB-mate of Putin and business partner of another crime lord Ilya Traber. From 2013 to 2013 Koryrov served as deputy Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprombank.
Viktor Korytov is a business associate of Ilya Traber from Tamboskaya gang.
Source: Ballad of the Antique Dealer. Tayny Sovetnik, August 1, 2000 (accessed on the Integrum Russian press transcripts database).
Ilya Ilyich’s right-hand man, Viktor Borisovich Korytov, is an undeniable sign of his times. A former career KGB officer working in counterintelligence, he resigned “of his own free will” in the early 1990s and began actively pursuing business. In a very short time, he co-founded at least five commercial entities, including one of St. Petersburg’s most powerful security companies, VIAB (the other co-founder of which is his patron, Traber). Viktor Borisovich began working for Traber almost immediately after leaving the security services and took on all aspects of security for his boss’s difficult work. The chief Soviet security officer, Dzerzhinsky, once said: “The lack of your criminal record is not your merit, but our shortcoming.”
Viktor Korytov mastered this simple principle well and always worked proactively, thanks to his excellent connections in the St. Petersburg FSB Directorate and, through it, in virtually all operational law enforcement agencies in our city. Suffice it to say that back in 1991, Senior Lieutenant Korytov was dissuaded from resigning by Alexander Grigoriev, the head of one of the KGB personnel departments, who had always been sympathetic to the young operative. In October 1998, Lieutenant General Grigoriev became the head of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Furthermore, Korytov’s old friend is his former colleague in counterintelligence, current President Vladimir Putin.
Moreover, it was Putin, who took over the post of Chairman of the St. Petersburg City Hall’s Committee on Foreign Relations in 1991 as an active FSB reserve, who introduced Traber to Anatoly Sobchak. Until the very last moment, Putin enjoyed the former mayor’s almost unlimited trust, so thanks to the combat-ready past of his “deputy,” Viktor Korytov, Ilya Traber acquired one of his most significant patrons at the time. And Ilya Traber’s lack of a criminal record, according to many law enforcement officials, is not a virtue, but a shortcoming of the security forces, largely due (in the broad sense of the word, not to banal bribes) to the competent work of Viktor Korytov and another of Ilya Ilyich’s “deputies,” Boris Sharikov.
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