He is the co-founder and head of Yat, Podmoskovnye Vechera trade house, and Krasnaya Zvezda group of companies engaged in the production and marketing of vodka.

He is a financier and a member of an Ingush gang, chairman of the board of trustees in Bank Malogo Biznesa that served as a money laundering tool for Caucasian criminal groups.

[2] In 1992–1997, Zvagelsky established a dozen companies engaged in similar business, including Amalgama, Iks-Ring, Vtoroi Vitok, Magistral, Larisa plus, and Soyuzproduct.

In 1998 Zvagelsky, Leonid Vigdorovich, Tatiana Iremashvili, and Aleksandr Mayorov bought Krasnaya Zvezda vodka distillery in Moscow region.

The two entrepreneurs began offering to hundreds of entities, mainly in spirit drinks business, to use the bank’s services for tax dodging.

By the way, it was connections established through Gatchina distillery controlled by Sergei Naryshkin’s family that helped Zvagelsky strengthen his position in the State Duma.

[3] In 2006, one of the dozens of Zvagelsky’s subsidiaries, Artelskie Vodki LLC, as main component of the manufacturing process used liqueurs that it bought in Kabardino Balkariya.

In 2006, Yat was fined 600 thousand rubles for not informing the Federal Antimonopoly Service of having bought six entities, which was a violation of the law on competition and limiting of monopolistic activities in commodities market.

Mass media, in contrast to the Antimonopoly Service, knew perfectly well that Kazenka brand belonged to Vodochnaya Artel Yat Management Company, a co-founder in which is deputy Viktor Zvagelsky, who claims to actively fight alcoholism in Russia.

The tolls are now paid to Ingush gangs, the speaker of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, other lobbying deputies, and head of Federal service on control over alcohol manufacturing Igor Chuyan.