Yatsun Maxims Andreevich

Yatsun Maxims Andreevich

Biography

2025: Initiation of a criminal case for organizing a mining farm

At the end of November 2025, employees UFSB Russia Chelyabinsk region stopped the activities of an illegal mining farm. Its owner was Maxim Yatsun - the son of the famous Chelyabinsk politician Andrei Yatsun.

According to the press service of the FSB in the Chelyabinsk region, Maxim Yatsun and his accomplices, having conspired to enrich themselves, from November 2024 to April 2025 repeatedly provided LLC Uralenergosbyt"" with fictitious reporting documentation with underestimated data on the volumes and capacities of electricity consumed for the work of the mining infrastructure.

As a result of illegal actions, the electricity supplier suffered damage in the amount of over 121 million rubles. Based on the results of operational-search activities, the investigative body of the FSB in the Chelyabinsk region opened a criminal case. Investigative actions are underway.

According to the publication "Ура.ру," Maxim Yatsun provided a platform for placing mining equipment to third parties and also used it himself. At the same time, payments for electricity were not carried out. The attackers used the funds received from mining at their discretion.

According to RIA "European-Asian News," in November 2025, a separate criminal case on abuse of authority has already been opened against Yatsun Jr. The Investigative Committee of the Chelyabinsk Region has established a long-term violation by the construction company (LLC SZ Dominanta), headed by Maxim Yatsun, of the deadlines for the delivery of an apartment building in Miass.

According to the UK, since September 2023, "unidentified persons performing management functions in a commercial organization" have spent the company's funds for other purposes. This made it impossible to commission the facility in the fourth quarter of 2024, as stipulated by the contracts, leaving about 80 families without planned housing.^[1][2]

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