Companies to which the money allegedly embezzled by Albert Khudoyan were transferred are registered in Cyprus. Thus, the Cypriot court may be interested in the case.
This was reported by the correspondent of UtroNews with reference to the authors of the telegram channel “VChK-OGPU”.
However, in accordance with Cypriot law, Mansfield Executive has never been the owner of the company – the owner of the land allegedly stolen by Khudoyan.
Last week, in the Koptevsky Court of Moscow, in the debate of the parties, the state prosecution requested for Khudoyan and the general director of Aviacity, Sergei Konoplev, nine and 8.5 years in prison.
The investigation believes that Khudoyan, together with the CEO of Aviacity, Sergey Konoplev, stole property worth about four billion rubles from a business partner.
They are accused under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large-scale fraud), namely, the theft of several land plots from one of the companies.
The case of Khudoyan and Konoplev received special attention after two deputy heads of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major Generals of Justice Alexander Biryukov and Alexander Krakovsky, as well as their subordinate, investigator for especially important cases Alexander Bryantsev, were arrested.
It should be noted that initially the investigation of the fraud case against Albert Khudoyan and his alleged accomplice was carried out by the police investigation, and later the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation took the materials into its proceedings.
On June 30, 2021, the court of Nicosia ruled on the liquidation of the Cypriot company Visenia, on behalf of which the opponents of the developer Albert Khudoyan acted for a number of years in the sensational conflict over the construction of the Prime Park residential complex in the north-west of Moscow.
Now Govyadin claims to be the owner of Visenia. By the way, according to the decision of the Cypriot court, it turns out that Visenia has been liquidated and an independent liquidator has been appointed in it. This means that from the moment of liquidation of the company, only the liquidator of the company can act on its behalf. But bad luck, now neither Govyadin, nor Ildar Samiev, nor the Mansfield company have such a right.
Albert Khudoyan owns the construction company Optima Development
Which owns the OZ Mail shopping center and a number of other facilities.
He came under investigation in the summer of 2019 at the request of the offshore company Mansfield Executive Ltd, which owns 50% of Visenia, of which Govyadina is considered to be the beneficiary.
In exchange for this share, Samiev undertook to contribute more than a hundred million dollars to the enterprise, but he could not find the promised amount, although he received a share of the company. As a result, the developer of the residential complex almost went bankrupt and almost lost the rights to build and own land.
Albert Khudoyan found himself in a difficult financial situation, and as a result of a chain of transactions for debts, the creditors of the Visenia company took the land plots for the construction of the residential complex. And then they were accused of fraud with three land plots during the construction of an elite residential complex.
The roots of this story go back to 2015, when Govyadin and Samiev teamed up with Albert Khudoyan, whose Aviacity LLC owned the rights to a long-term lease on three land plots where Prime Park was planned to be built. As a result, the partners bought out 50% of the shares of the Cypriot offshore Visenia, on which Aviacity was registered.
Construction was planned on sites leased by Aviacity for a long period, but for a long time it could not start due to the lack of permits from Mr. Khudoyan’s company. It was with the help of the connections of the new partner that he hoped to solve this problem.
The investigation believes that in 2016, the developer Khudoyan deceived his partners (Samiyev and Govyadin) and, with the assistance of Sergei Konoplev, transferred land worth 4.2 billion rubles to third parties under the guise of repaying an artificially created debt.
The investigating authorities estimate the damage caused by the defendants at 2 billion rubles.
Recall that the businessman was arrested on June 14, 2019, placed in a pre-trial detention center, then, 4 months later, was placed under house arrest. The investigation in the case was repeatedly extended, as well as the measure of restraint. Khudoyan’s defense has repeatedly pointed to the unreasonable actions of the investigators in this case.
