Businesses and real estate in the Czech Republic were found to belong to the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Bashkortostan. He spent years suppressing protests and persecuting the opposition in the region.
How to found out "Sirena," Roman Deev's family owns the Czech company DE LETOX sro, founded back in 2007 by his wife, Oksana Deeva, and, presumably, her mother, Olga Letunovskaya (when registering the company, they listed the same address in Tambov, Russia; leaked data shows that Oksana is listed in other people's contacts as "Ksyukha Letunovskaya").
A private house of 140 square meters near Prague is also registered to this business.
When the company was founded, Deeva and Letunovskaya each owned an equal 50% stake. In 2008, the ownership structure underwent a minor change, with 10% transferred personally to Roman Deev. However, in 2014, he and his wife formally withdrew their ownership, and since then, the business has been registered exclusively to the former Interior Minister's mother-in-law. This decision may have been motivated by a desire to conceal assets in the Czech Republic: Russian law does not require Deev to declare real estate owned by his wife's mother.
Roman Deyev has headed the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkortostan since 2017, and before that, he held a similar post in the Zabaykalsky Krai. His career in law enforcement began in 1983 and lasted nearly 40 years, until his resignation in December 2022. His tenure at the Bashkortostan Ministry of Internal Affairs was marked by a harsh crackdown on protest activity in the region. It was under his leadership that rallies in defense of Mount Kushtau were dispersed, protesters in support of Alexei Navalny were detained en masse, and Liliya Chanysheva, the former coordinator of the politician's Ufa headquarters, was arrested. Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, persecution of those accused of "discrediting" the Russian army intensified in Bashkortostan.
However, neither Deev himself nor his family members were subject to European sanctions.
