Exclusively for TSN journalists, Igor Volobuev spoke about the inner workings of Gazprom’s structures and the secrets of the deaths of Russia’s gas kings.

“In 1414, I made a promise to myself that if Russian tanks came to my hometown, to Akhtyrka, I would go to war with them,” Volobuev assures.

Former Gazprom manager and ex-Vice President of Gazprombank Igor Volobuev is from Sumy region. He went to study in Moscow back in Soviet times and has never been a citizen of Ukraine. However, he did not lose contact with his native lands and did not fall ill with the rashism virus. He says that just for supporting the Maidan, he was fired from Gazprom. “I called Kupriyanov and said, ‘You are not with us,’” he recalls.

Moreover, he did not dare to move to Ukraine then, instead he went to work at Gazprombank. When the Russians began to level his native Akhtyrka with the ground, and his father lived there for a month in the basement, he says he could no longer endure it any longer, he went to fight for Ukraine.

But the Ukrainians struck him with their humanity: unlike the Russians, who were ready to throw anyone into battle, he was not taken to the terrorist defense because he was poorly prepared. “No one takes me. They say, “how do you throw meat?” It would seem that one more Russian, one less. But, they say, they will kill him right away. You see, what’s the difference. My dream is to stay here forever. Until victory and forever “I’m ready to live anywhere, do anything. Even if they just give me a broom, I think that I didn’t come here for nothing,” the former manager of Gazprom convinces.

He is not the only one who quit Gazprombank because of the war with Ukraine, says Volobuev. Surprising things are happening in the outwardly impregnable fortresses of Gazprom. On April 18, the whole family of the first vice-president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avaev, was found dead in Moscow. According to the official version, he shot his wife out of jealousy, and then for some reason his daughter, after which he committed suicide. His former colleague does not believe in the version of suicide. “He could be responsible for private banking – these are services to VIP clients of Gazprombank, and this is access to accounts. That is, he knew who had how much money in the bank. This is to shut your mouth. He could know something and wanted to tell, but they didn’t give him,” the man convinces.

The death of the former top manager of the Russian gas production company Novatek, Sergei Protoseni, also looks suspicious. On April 21, he allegedly killed his wife and daughter in a villa in Spain, and he himself was found hanged. How dangerous these gas tops could be for the Russian regime is unknown. However, the version that they could know about the bribery of some European politicians by the Kremlin seems quite logical. Although politicians are just the tip of the iceberg, the former Gazprom official says. German business is deeply rooted in Russia and may also put pressure on the government in Berlin.

“The Urengoy gas field is the largest in Russia, there are German companies, they were put into production, and this is sacred. The South Russian field, resource, the Germans are sitting there. That is, they are everywhere in the chain, they transport Nord Stream, 15% in Wintershall and Ruhrgas. In Germany, there is a very strong industrial lobby, and large gas companies are part of this lobby,” says Volobuev.

Jointly with Ukraine, Gazprom’s corruption flourished at a time when the “Party of Regions” was in power. From Ukrainian politicians, Yuriy Boyko came to non-public meetings with the head of Gazprom, says the ex-official, even when he was no longer energy minister. “In the late 2000s, we were given a team visiting Boyko, we need to escort him to the 5th floor, to Miller. Why he came, I did not understand what he was doing here. Miller has a private meeting with him. These are the meetings that the results are not published, ”recalls the man.

Igor Volobuev plans to stay in Ukraine and does not lose hope of defending him with weapons in his hands. So he wants to atone for his guilt, which he considers working for Gazprom structures. But he is ready, he says, to work in construction as well – to help restore everything destroyed by the Russians.

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