Dmitry Pankin Eurasian Development Bank. Billion-dollar business of Dmitry Pankin's relatives. The head of the FSFR will not go to work in the Bank of Russia

Head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets of the Russian Federation

Head of the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation since April 2011. He was Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2011. Previously, in the Department of International Financial Relations, Public Debt and Public Financial Assets of the Ministry of Finance of Russia, he held the positions of Deputy Director (2004-2005) and Director (2005-2008). In the past - Chairman of the Board of the St. Petersburg Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1994-1999, 2000-2004), Head of the Department of RAO UES of Russia (1999-2000), Deputy Head of the Economics and Finance Committee of the St. Petersburg City Hall (1994). Candidate of Economic Sciences.

In 1981, Pankin graduated from Leningrad State University named after A. A. Zhdanov with a degree in political economy. In the same year, he began teaching at the Leningrad Agricultural Institute, where he worked until August 1989. At the same time, in 1984-1987, Pankin studied at the graduate school of his native university and received the degree of candidate of economic sciences.

Since 1989, Pankin worked as a senior lecturer at the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography named after N.K. Cherkasov.

In 1990, Pankin took the position of head of a department in the committee on economic reform of the executive committee of the Lensoviet (the first deputy chairman of the executive committee and chief economic adviser to the chairman of the Lensoviet Anatoly Sobchak at that time was Anatoly Chubais). In December 1991, Pankin received a similar post at the International Center for Socio-Economic Research created by Chubais (the so-called "Leontief Center" - after the American economist, Nobel laureate in economics Vasily Leontiev).

In 1992-1994, Pankin was acting deputy head of the department, deputy chairman of the financial committee of the main financial department of the executive committee of the Lensoviet and deputy chairman of the financial committee of the mayor's office of St. Petersburg, which at that time was headed by Alexei Kudrin. In July 1994, Pankin was appointed as Kudrin's deputy, who became chairman of the mayor's office committee for economics and finance. In December of the same year, Pankin left the post of deputy head of the committee and was elected chairman of the board of the St. Petersburg Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It was noted that the bank in the early 1990s worked with the committee on foreign economic relations of the mayor's office of St. Petersburg, which was headed by Vladimir Putin,. It was noted that after the governor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak was replaced by Vladimir Yakovlev, Pankin's bank continued cooperation with the city administration.

In August 1999, Pankin received the position of head of the department of the Russian Open Joint Stock Company for Energy and Electrification "UES of Russia" (RAO "UES of Russia", whose chairman was Chubais). A year later, Pankin returned to the "St. Petersburg Bank for Reconstruction and Development" and again took over as chairman of the board of a commercial bank.

In 2004, Pankin joined the Russian Ministry of Finance headed by Kudrin. In the Ministry of Finance, he took the post of Deputy Director of the Department of International Financial Relations, Public Debt and State Financial Assets Sergei Storchak,,. In November 2005, Pankin headed the department,.

In June 2005, Pankin was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of Russia on the board of the Interstate Bank, replacing Alexei Ulyukaev in this post.

In January 2008, Pankin was appointed Deputy Finance Minister Kudrin. It was noted that, thus, he became the fifth deputy minister: shortly before the appointment, the chairman of the government of the Russian Federation, Viktor Zubkov, signed a special government decree on this occasion. It was reported that the official in this position will "coordinate issues and provide leadership and organization of work on the development of state policy and legal regulation in the field of public debt, management of state financial assets and the Stabilization Fund, as well as solving general issues of the international activities of the Ministry of Finance." The press wrote that Pankin was supposed to replace his immediate superior, Storchak, who was in jail (he was arrested in November 2007 on suspicion of financial fraud, but formally retained his position in the ministry),,,,.

In April 2008, Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Pankin was appointed Deputy Governor from the Russian Federation at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), replacing Storchak,.

In February 2011, the criminal case against Storchak was closed, and in May of the same, he replaced Pankin as Deputy Governor from Russia at the EBRD and Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of Russia on the Board of the Interstate Bank.

In December 2011, the process of joining the Federal Service for Insurance Supervision (FSSN, Rosgosstrakh), which began in March of the same year, was completed.

Pankin is fluent in English and French.

In 2004, Pankin was awarded the minister's commendation, and in 2007 he was awarded a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.

Pankin is married and has a daughter. He is fond of tennis and skiing.

Used materials

Maria Zhilkina. FFMS plus FSSN: merger or acquisition? - financial matrix, 10.12.2011

Storchak became deputy governor from Russia at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. - Newspaper.Ru, 24.05.2011

D. Pankin has been officially appointed as the new head of the FFMS. - RBC, 11.04.2011

The Ministry of Finance proposed Pankin to replace the resigned head of the FFMS. - RIA News, 31.03.2011

Polina Smorodskaya. The financial market is heavily regulated. - Kommersant, 05.03.2011. - №39 (4580)

Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. On measures to improve state regulation in the sphere of the financial market of the Russian Federation. - Consultant Plus, 04.03.2011. - №270

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation dropped the case against Deputy Finance Minister Storchak. - RIA News, 31.01.2010

Zubkov fired Storchak from the post of deputy manager at the EBRD. - Kommersant, 26.04.2008

Storchak has been relieved of his post as Deputy Governor at the EBRD. - RIA News, 26.04.2008

Former Deputy Minister of Finance, and now Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) Dmitry Pankin swears that he has nothing to do with the St. Petersburg company A-project, which is developing multi-million dollar contracts for the reconstruction of roads and infrastructure construction. Officially, indeed, the owner of the company is his father, Vladimir Pankin. It remains, however, a mystery how the elderly man, who will celebrate his 90th birthday next year, manages to get one order after another, sometimes even bypassing the protests of the antimonopoly service.

The fact that the A-project company will complete the reconstruction of Bogatyrsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg was reported by The Moscow Post. The cost of the contract was also announced - 387 million rubles. The reconstruction of the avenue began in 2012, however, Smolny terminated the contracts with the two previous contractors.

Victim of "Peresvet"

The reconstruction was started by the Akros company, which went bankrupt and did not fulfill its obligations. The Construction Committee recovered 100 million rubles from her. The next contractor was MK-20SH, which, for 394 million rubles, was supposed to complete the reconstruction at the end of 2017. However, her contract was terminated. According to Smolny, the company constantly missed deadlines.

The "MK-20SH" do not agree with this and say that they were required to perform additional work without payment. Now the company and Smolny are suing. The next meeting is scheduled for June 28.

In 2011-2012, one of the group's companies regularly received orders from the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation, headed by Dmitry Pankin at the time, and in 2015 became an EDB contractor. And, of course, this is again a coincidence. And Dmitry Pankin has nothing to do with them. As well as to the group of his father "A-project".

Dmitry Pankin

The firms are not active, but are registered at legal addresses along with dozens of other companies and, possibly, are shell firms for turning the "deals" of the Pankin family. Which can only be guessed at.

For example, the Sky Terrace Limited account is opened with the Latvian bank ABLV. The account is most likely regularly used, but it is not known for what purposes.

There is Gudym, and he is judged

Strangely, Dmitry Pankin doesn't seem to care about his father's reputation at all. What a normal son would allow Aleksey Gudym, a man who was convicted twice, to run his father's company.

Such a leader can bring dad to the monastery. Or is it just such a person that Dmitry Pankin himself needs as the head of the "A-project"? But he does not seem to be involved in the work of the company.

Dmitry Pankin's career went uphill after he met in the early 90s with Anatoly Chubais. And for many years, Dmitry Pankin confidently walked up the career ladder, gaining the necessary connections.

And now they seem to work on their own. Otherwise, where does A-project get so many government orders from? Dmitry Pankin, according to him, does not help his father. And this is also very strange for a son. Maybe the daughter somehow rules from London?

Somehow everything is confused in the Pankin family. The influential son is allegedly aloof from business, while government orders for A-Project are coming. As if some invisible hand is directing them to the company. Or is it still the hand of Dmitry Pankin? And what will happen if the secret of the Pankin family becomes clear?

Agency "Ruspres" previously drew attention to the existence of a twin company "A-project" called "Orion plus". For a number of large contracts (for example, in the tender for the repair of the Krasnoselsky and Petrodvorets districts for 226 million rubles and in the tender for the repair of the Kolpinsky and Pushkinsky districts for 264 million rubles), these companies fought each other - the rest of the applicants were eliminated under formal pretexts at the stage submission of applications. Such a series of coincidences should theoretically be of interest to the antimonopoly authorities to check the two companies for affiliation.

The daughter and father of the former Deputy Minister of Finance, and now the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Dmitry Pankin, turned out to be the owners of billions of assets in St. Petersburg. Among them are an audit firm, a building contractor, firms specializing in earthworks and equipment rental, and others.

The largest of the assets is the St. Petersburg company A-Proekt, whose billion-dollar turnover is formed mainly due to state orders for road repairs and infrastructure construction. The other day, with a scandal, she received another state contract for 271 million rubles: Smolny signed a contract with the company, ignoring the claims of the antimonopoly service.

However, the company told DP that Dmitry Pankin never took part in its activities. He himself conveyed the same thing through the EDB press service. According to Dmitry Pankin, his father Vladimir Pankin is in charge of managing the company. By the way, the year of birth of Dmitry Pankin's father is 1928, a successful entrepreneur under 90 years old.

["Vedomosti", 03/30/2011, "Kandidat Kudrin": Pankin was born in Leningrad, where he graduated from the university (specialty "political economy"). In the mid 90s. He was Kudrin's deputy in the Committee for Economics and Finance of the City Hall of St. Petersburg. He was in good standing with the leadership, already at that time he was familiar with Putin, recalls a colleague of Pankin and Kudrin from the mayor's office. Then he headed the St. Petersburg Bank for Reconstruction and Development for five years, and in 2004 he joined the Ministry of Finance as deputy director of the department of international financial relations, public debt and state financial assets. A year and a half later, Pankin headed the department, and in 2008 he became deputy minister in charge of the international bloc. - Inset K.ru]

State order in English

Dmitry Pankin's daughter Elena Arkhangelskaya and his father Vladimir Pankin became successful businessmen when Dmitry Pankin worked in the civil service, in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. In January 2008, he was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Finance, and in February, his father, through two legal entities, received 100% of the shares of the A-project company. Then the ownership structure changed several times.

Today, the company is owned in half by Vladimir Pankin and Elena Arkhangelskaya (through the St. Petersburg company "Stroyinvest-SPb", which specializes in accounting and auditing). Vladimir Pankin is under 90 years old. Elena Arkhangelskaya lives in London and works for Deutsche Bank. By the way, in 2014, she bought an apartment there for 1.1 million pounds (an extract from the UK real estate register is at the disposal of DP). The A-Project company of Dmitry Pankin's relatives is a major St. Petersburg contractor that builds roads and infrastructure in the city and the region. The company's annual turnover reaches 2.5 billion rubles a year. Her portfolio includes work at the Western High-Speed ​​Diameter, at the St. Petersburg Treatment Facilities Complex, at the deep oil refining plant in Kirishi, and much more. The company has its own fleet of vehicles - more than 40 units.

Stable victories

In recent years, the portfolio of government orders "A-Project" has been constantly expanding. In 2013, the company completed work worth 2.5 billion rubles, according to its official website. In 2015, the company received government orders for more than 600 million rubles, according to the SPARK system. And the other day, with a scandal, she won the next competition for a state order for the repair of roads in the Admiralteisky, Vasileostrovsky and Kirovsky districts in 2016, worth 271 million rubles.

It is noteworthy that the victory in this competition was awarded to A-Project, despite the fact that the day before the anti-monopolists (UFAS for St. Petersburg) suspended the competition and demanded amendments to the documentation. However, the customer - the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure (CTTI) - referred to the fact that he had not received official documents from the OFAS for St. Petersburg.

Noteworthy is the fact that the only rival of "A-Project" in this competition was the company "Orion Plus". The remaining firms did not qualify for the final. "Orion Plus", in turn, won five more competitions for similar works in other parts of the city. In two of them - in the tender for the repair of the Krasnoselsky and Petrodvortsovoy districts for 226 million rubles and in the tender for the repair of the Kolpinsky and Pushkinsky districts for 264 million rubles - the only rival of Orion Plus was none other than A-Project.

Now the main object of the "A-Project" is the construction of a section of the Obvodny Canal embankment. There, the company works as a subcontractor for Mostostroy No. 6, which could not withstand the crisis and is close to bankruptcy. Because of this, work on the Obvodny Canal worth 4.5 billion rubles was frozen in 2015. However, Smolny found an opportunity to support the company: he persuaded the Globex bank to give Mostostroy No. 6 more money - a loan of 500 million rubles, and the A-Project subcontractor was able to continue work.

close people

The business interests of Dmitry Pankin's family are not limited to A-Project. Thus, the interest of the Pankin family may also extend to the small St. Petersburg design and construction group Stroyengineering. It is headed by the general director of "A-Project" Alexey Gudym, ex-employee of the tax police. According to DP, in 2012 he was detained by the Federal Security Service of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region while transferring a bribe, allegedly in the interests of the Financial Management Agency.

Then this company belonged to Vladimir Pankin and also worked on government orders, but then accumulated debts and went bankrupt. Together with it, the subsidiary St. Petersburg Leasing Company went bankrupt.

But the top managers of both firms remained close to Dmitry Pankin's family and built a successful career. So, Olga Glukhova, who was the general director of the Financial Management Agency, became the managing director of the EDB, where Dmitry Pankin is the chairman of the board. Viktor Silkin, who was the general director of the St. Petersburg Leasing Company, is now successfully developing the Superwave group of companies. In 2015, one of the group's companies became an EDB contractor, and before that, in 2011-2012, it received orders from the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation, which was headed by Dmitry Pankin during these years. The family of Dmitry Pankin also has business assets abroad. His relatives own three development firms in Bulgaria - Niya, BG Fortis and Rikedom, as well as the London company Sky Terrace Limited. The firms do not conduct active business activities, they are registered at legal addresses along with dozens of other companies. All that DP managed to find out is that the Sky Terrace Limited account is opened with the Latvian bank ABLV and is regularly used, but it is not known for what purposes. "DP" sent a question about the work of these companies to Dmitry Pankin through the press service of the EDB, but there was no answer to this question. Aleksey Gudym, general director of A-Project, replied to DP that he did not have any data on the personal business of the company's co-owners. He also noted that for the entire period of work under government contracts, there were no claims from customers, contractors, law enforcement and other regulatory authorities against A-Project.

[GSU of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg, 04/03/2012, "In St. Petersburg, a former representative of a commercial structure was found guilty of giving a bribe": The evidence collected by the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg was recognized by the court as sufficient for sentencing Alexei Gudym, director of Stroyservis LLC. He was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 5 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (bribery).
The court and the investigation established that in May 2011, Gudym, acting in the interests of the Financial Management Agency LLC in the premises of this LLC, located at 51 Shpalernaya Street, repeatedly offered a bribe to the head of the field inspections department No. 2 of the MI FTS No. 11 in St. Petersburg for reducing the amount of unpaid income tax by LLC for the period from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009 when drawing up an act of an on-site tax audit.
On May 23, 2011, Gudym handed over a bribe in the amount of 500 thousand rubles to the head of the on-site inspection department at the indicated address, after which he was detained by officers of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
By a court verdict, Gudym was sentenced to 5 years of suspended liberty with a probationary period of 3 years and a fine of 1 million 500 thousand rubles. - Inset K.ru]

[Fontanka.Ru, 05/24/2011, "The director of the economic security department of the PSCB was under investigation": Aleksey Gudym, director of the economic security department of the St. Petersburg Social Commercial Bank, was under investigation in the case of giving a bribe. According to the security officials, a bank employee tried to negotiate with tax officials for a million rubles to reduce payments to the state by a certain LLC. On the life path of Gudym, this is not the first contact with law enforcement agencies. […]
According to the investigation, on May 18, a bank employee, acting in the interests of the Financial Management Agency LLC, offered a bribe to the head of the on-site inspections department No. 2 of the Federal Tax Service No. 11 in St. The amount of remuneration for reducing the amount of income tax due, revealed during the audit of compliance with the requirements of tax legislation (two million rubles), was exactly half.
The next meeting took place on May 23. Gudym, according to the GSU, handed over a bribe in the amount of 500 thousand rubles, after which he was detained by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Currently, the issue of choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention and charging him with is being decided. […]
Yandex knows a little more about Aleksey Gudym. So, the criminal chronicles of the St. Petersburg media of 2004-2006 reported on a criminal case in which, along with the surname of Gudym (at the time of the crime, which was discussed in the case, he served in the tax police of the Central District), the surname of the current chief anti-raider was found - Badri Shengelia. As journalists wrote at the time, the tax police organized an inspection of CJSC "TTS", the company's property was arrested, confiscated and transferred for storage. Then the seized property was first taken to the warehouse of OAO "Petrokholod", and then transferred to the custody of LLC "Katran", to which it allegedly belonged. After that, traces of the equipment were lost, as a result of which the TTS company and one of its founders suffered damage of more than 11 million rubles. The investigation accused Shengelia of ideological leadership and the development of a cunning plan, but the evidence base of the prosecutor's office did not convince the court, and he was outright acquitted. But Gudym was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment on probation with a probationary period of 3 years. This conviction has now been expunged. - Inset K.ru]

A-project will receive 387 million rubles for the reconstruction of Bogatyrsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. Ex-deputy finance minister Dmitry Pankin lobbying for the interests of his relatives?

The A-project company will complete the reconstruction of Bogatyrsky Prospekt. This was reported by the correspondent of UtroNews. The cost of the contract is 387 million rubles. The reconstruction of the avenue began in 2012. Smolny terminated the contracts with the previous two contractors. The work is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018.

Smolny is sorting out contractors

The reconstruction was started by the Akros company, which went bankrupt and did not fulfill its obligations. The Construction Committee exacted 100 million rubles from her. The next contractor was MK-20SH, which for 394 million rubles. was supposed to complete the reconstruction at the end of 2017. However, the contract with her was also terminated. According to Smolny, the company constantly missed deadlines.

The "MK-20SH" do not agree with this and say that they were required to perform additional work without payment. Now the company and Smolny are suing. The next meeting is scheduled for June 28. The Construction Committee filed a claim for 91.7 million rubles. and to the Peresvet bank, which acted as a guarantor of the execution of the contract with MK-20SH. The next hearing in this case will take place on August 3.

Finally, apparently, they chose the "right" company. "A-project" is a company with a turnover of billions, constantly receiving government orders. Is it because the company is run by Vladimir Pankin, who, according to media reports, is the father of Dmitry Pankin, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and ex-Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation?

It is quite possible that it is Dmitry Pankin, thanks to his connections, who lobbies the interests of his father's company, who is already under 90 years old. And despite this, Vladimir Pankin continues to successfully manage the company, regularly winning government tenders. Such performance at this age can only be envied.

"A-project" under the "roof" of Pankin

Naturally, Dmitry Pankin never took part in the activities of his parent's company. As reported by the press service of the EDB and the company itself. Vladimir Pankin at his venerable age, for sure, has enough wisdom even without a son. Moreover, the granddaughter, most likely, helps. Although he lives far away - in London. In February 2008, Dmitry Pankin was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance, and already in February, Vladimir Pankin, through two legal entities, received 100% of the company's shares. Became its owner in 80 years! Son gave dad a birthday present? Now, together with Vladimir Pankin, the company is owned by Elena Arkhangelskaya, the daughter of Dmitry Pankin.

Elena Arkhangelskaya

Her life is going very well. Working at Deutsche Bank, Elena managed to buy an apartment in London in 2014 worth 1.1 million pounds. And, of course, she did it on the salary of a bank employee, and not on government orders from A-Project.

Amazing "luck" "A-project"

But it could! The annual turnover of the firm "A-project" reaches 2.5 billion rubles. Her portfolio includes construction, oil refining and much more. The company has its own fleet of 40 vehicles. In 2016, the company won another tender with a scandal - a state order for the repair of roads in the Admiralteisky, Vasileostrovsky and Kirovsky districts in the amount of 271 million rubles. The victory of "A-project" was awarded despite the fact that before that the OFAS demanded that amendments be made to the tender documentation. The customer - the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure (CTTI) - said that he had not received any documents from the antimonopolists.

And, of course, Dmitry Pankin also had nothing to do with this victory. As, most likely, to other "victories" of the "A-project". It's just that the stars stand up so that the company regularly wins. Now A-project is participating as a subcontractor at Mostostroy No. 6, which is close to bankruptcy. Because of this, work on the Obvodny Canal worth 4.5 billion rubles. in 2015 they even froze. And then "A-project" was "lucky" again. Smolny persuaded Globex Bank to issue a loan of 500 million rubles to Mostostroy No. 6. And "A-project" was able to continue work. And Dmitry Pankin - again, nothing to do with it?

Business interests of the Pankins

By a strange coincidence or, again, by the arrangement of the stars, the general director of A-project is ex-tax official Alexei Gudym. And he also manages the Stroyengineering company. And it is quite possible that this company is also included in the business interests of the Pankin family. In 2012, Aleksey Gudym was detained by officers of the Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region while transferring a bribe, allegedly in the interests of the Financial Management Agency. This company was previously also owned by the hardworking and indefatigable Vladimir Pankin.

And oddly enough, she also "sat" on government orders. But then, due to accumulated debts, it went bankrupt. As well as its subsidiary - "Saint-Petersburg Leasing Society". And again, surprisingly, the ex-general director of the Financial Management Agency Olga Glukhova became the managing director of the EDB, and the ex-general director of the St. Petersburg Leasing Society Viktor Silkin is successfully developing the Superwave group of companies.

In 2011-2012, one of the companies of the group regularly received orders from the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation, headed by Dmitry Pankin at that time, and in 2015. became an EDB contractor. And, of course, this is again a coincidence. And Dmitry Pankin has nothing to do with them. As well as to the group of his father "A-project".

Dmitry Pankin

From somewhere, the Pankin family also has assets abroad. Evil tongues suggest that her relatives own three development firms in Bulgaria - Niya, BG Fortis and Rikedom, as well as the London company Sky Terrace Limited. The firms are not active, but are registered at legal addresses along with dozens of other companies and, possibly, are shell firms for turning the "deals" of the Pankin family. Which can only be guessed at. For example, the Sky Terrace Limited account is opened with the Latvian bank ABLV. The account is most likely regularly used, but it is not known for what purposes.

Pankin hiding in the shadows

Strangely, Dmitry Pankin doesn't seem to care about his father's reputation at all. What a normal son would allow Aleksey Gudym, a man who was convicted twice, to run his father's company. Such a leader can bring dad to the monastery. Or is it just such a person that Dmitry Pankin himself needs as the head of the "A-project"? But he does not seem to be involved in the work of the company. Dmitry Pankin's career went uphill after he met Anatoly Chubais in the early 90s. And for many years, Dmitry Pankin confidently walked up the career ladder, gaining the necessary connections.

And now they seem to work on their own. Otherwise, where does A-project get so many government orders from? Dmitry Pankin, according to him, does not help his father. And this is also very strange for a son. Maybe the daughter somehow rules from London? Somehow everything is confused in the Pankin family. The influential son is allegedly aloof from business, while government orders for A-Project are coming. As if some invisible hand is directing them to the company. Or is it still the hand of Dmitry Pankin?

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