Andsource Businessmen go to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Claims were received by the company that built the LCD “Crystal” in Tyumen. A large construction group TIS, headed by Viktor Belichenko, has become a participant in another tax scandal. This time, the fiscals came for hundreds of millions to the Kristall company, which was building the residential complex of the same name in Tyumen, and then faced a financial recovery procedure. Representatives of the state agency have already demanded to suspend operations on Kristall's accounts, citing the threat of asset stripping, but they were refused because the court pointed to the risks of problems with the fulfillment of obligations, including wages, the introduction of bankruptcy proceedings and the dismissal of personnel, which means that and exacerbation of social tension. Now the firm of Viktor Belichenko, by the way, is trying to challenge the conclusions of the fiscals, and industry experts and observers point to other conflicts between the Federal Tax Service and the TIS, “which does not change,” and talk about business losses. Given the plans to implement large projects in Tyumen, the claims of the state agency will become reputational damage, and the withdrawal of funds, in turn, risks inflicting a significant blow against the backdrop of falling demand in the real estate market and growing crisis phenomena. In the meantime, merchants are forced to go to the RF Armed Forces in an attempt to defend operations worth almost half a billion.
The Federal Tax Service for the Tyumen Region demanded in court to suspend operations on the accounts of Kristall LLC (the ultimate beneficiary, according to Kontur.Fokus, Viktor Belichenko, the head of TIS Group of Companies), in the amount of 235.7 million rubles. Earlier, the department announced a debt to the budget of 225.5 million and the need to include the corresponding amount in the register of claims of the company's creditors.
economic activity. However, the court did not agree with this position, pointing out that there was no evidence of a significant decrease in assets.
“On the contrary <…> it follows that the debtor is carrying out economic activities, as a result of which the receipt of funds is planned in accordance with the financial recovery schedule. <…> At the moment, in the third turn <…> includes claims from two creditors totaling $16.4 million, <…> suspend operations <…> in relation to all open accounts, it will lead to the impossibility, among other things, of paying wages to employees, will create prerequisites for the introduction of bankruptcy management, the dismissal of employees, as a result, an aggravation of social tension, ”concluded the Arbitration Court of the Tyumen Region, refusing interim measures.
It should be noted that a financial recovery procedure was previously introduced in relation to Kristall. Lenders recently agreed to extend it in 2023. According to the Unified Builders' Resource, Kristall built the eponymous residential complex Kristall, located in a new dynamically developing part of Tyumen, at the intersection of Mendeleev and Abdullina streets, opposite the Kristall shopping center.
Now LLC, by the way, is trying to challenge the decision of the Federal Tax Service Inspectorate for Tyumen No. 3 on bringing to responsibility for committing a tax offense, to which the above-mentioned amounts were accrued. In this dispute, Kristall managed to obtain interim measures – the company referred to the threat of significant damage in the event of a forced recovery of funds.
Recall that Pravda UrFO has already reported in detail about the disagreements between the companies of the TIS group of Belichenko and the Federal Tax Service for hundreds of millions of rubles. Then the fiscals presented to the organizations both offshore companies and relatives of the businessman who participated in the creation of the formal document flow.
“The creation of a formal document flow is aimed at illegally preserving the right to apply a special tax regime – the simplified tax system, concealing proceeds from the sale of apartments (non-residential premises) to individuals. The financial result of the construction determined by the taxpayers did not correspond to the actual tax liability,” representatives of the state agency insisted in the arbitration of the Tyumen region, analyzing the obligations of OOO Specialized Developer Montazhtis.
In addition, later disputes with the tax authorities affected the court between BusinessRealt LLC (Tyumen) and Siberian Construction Company LLC (SSK; according to Kontur.Fokus, the head and sole participant is Viktor Belichenko) for 400 million. , the appeal pointed the firms to tax schemes and connections within the group.
As a result, Siberian Construction Company LLC, BusinessRealt LLC and Decor LLC have now filed complaints on this dispute with the Supreme Court of Russia.
Meanwhile, industry representatives, commenting on these proceedings, point to the next negative consequences for the construction business. “We live in a rapidly changing world. Everything is changing – from the state and the economy to the climate. And only the TIS developer remains true to himself. Doesn't change at all. Confirmation of this fact is another lawsuit filed by one of the structures of the TIS group against the tax inspectorate. <…> We venture to suggest that this time we are also talking about the schemes used by the developer when selling apartments through a chain of affiliates,” the Agenda telegram channel shares his opinions. group of companies for the development of territories. “Of course, any such requirements from a government agency that go public will negatively affect the developer's activities, since a significant part of its business depends on the PR component. From a financial point of view, even the liquidation of the obsolete OOOshka, which built the residential complex of the same name, is not so terrible. But reputational losses, given that TIS has large projects, such as the DOK residential complex (“DOK”) or the site near Alebashevo, can be significant. However, in the event of a loss, the impact on finances will be tangible – in the face of falling demand, money for developers is not superfluous at all, ”concludes a source on the market.
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