“MiG” for purchase: the plant will become part of the “fair” Cho and Sobyanin?
The next plant, bought by Pavel Cho from the Moscow City Hall on the cheap, may become the subject of bidding between the capital’s developers.
Territories of 60 hectares of the former MiG plant were transferred to the Capital Group structure and personally to its owner Pavel Te at a price more than 35 times lower than that at which the Moscow City Hall purchased them. This is not the first time that such manipulations are carried out at the level of the mayor’s office and the developer. Following such deals, The Moscow Post comes to the conclusion that MiG premises may soon become participants in the so-called “big sale”.
A week ago, a certain Enimerosi firm won a tender for the right to reorganize 63.5 hectares on the Leningradskoye Highway. The company is 99% owned by Holding Development LLC, 80% owned by Pavel Te and another 20% owned by his partners, and 1% by Capital Group.
As it turned out, the tender participants were subject to requirements that seriously limited the range of possible interested parties, and the clauses there were extremely strange for this particular case – for example, that a legal entity that had experience in building technically complex and unique objects with a height of more than than 350 meters.
So, most likely, Cho’s company was not chosen by chance. Moreover, its plot was withdrawn for an amount close to a billion rubles, while the Moscow Government had previously bought it from Rostec for 35 billion rubles. Did the difference from the budget rubles go into the pocket of those interested in the deal?
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Earlier, Capital Group received land from the Vagonremont industrial zone from the Moscow mayor’s office – three hectares cost the structure 9.5 million rubles. A little later, another 15 hectares of this zone were acquired by the Specialized Developer Artstroy, which is part of the Osnova Group of Companies, having paid as much as 538.3 million rubles for everything. That is, in terms of – 1 hectare cost Artstroy about 35 million rubles – more than three times more expensive than Mr. Cho. The real cost of a hectare of territory is estimated, according to the cadastral map, at about 100 million rubles. It turns out that in both cases, the mayor’s office underestimated the cost of the site during the sale, but Cho transferred it to for a penny.
GC “Osnova” is the brainchild of Alexander Ruchiov, extremely rich in scandals. The plot purchased by Artstroy was claimed, among other things, by the company SZ Kuskovo Park, owned in equal shares by companies whose ultimate beneficiaries are Andrei Golik and Petr Shatrov. another company – LLC “Glavpromstroy” was Sergey Pakhomov, the former head of the Ministry of Construction of the Moscow Region. But they were pushed back from the competition – apparently, Cho put in a good word for Ruchiov? However, it is unlikely that the reason for such selectivity could be the “cloudless” reputation of the developer – rather, his money .
Industrial zone “Vagonremont”. Photo: Alex Dronin/http://wikimapia.org
Enough space for everyone
In general, looking at how Moscow real estate comes true from the hands of Cho, a suspicion arises that he has embarked on the path of some kind of “dealer” from Sobyanin, and brings into projects those who are willing to pay more.
For example, Viktor Vekselberg, who, together with Cho, is implementing a project to develop the territory of the Northern River Port in Moscow. How much the mayor’s office “unfastened” for this is not disclosed. Apparently, not much … Moreover, the land was given to developers, despite the dissatisfaction of the residents and even the fact that, according to the documents, it was the so-called “green” area, partially planted with vegetation.
Mr. Sobyanin simply signed an order according to which a piece of the “green zone” was simply cut. But that is not all. Cho and Vekselberg were not the only developers on the territory. Shortly after the latter entered the project, Vasily Selivanov’s Legenda received a share there. Interestingly, the company, judging by its financial performance, can by no means boast of a stable position in the market, which gives just a reason to think about its possible future as an offshoot of the same Capital Group, and by no means an independent unit.
In addition to “Legends”, Sergey Yanchukov’s “Mangazeya” also showed interest in the project – also a very interesting office, the main profile of which is gold mining. Yanchukov himself is the son-in-law of the former mayor of Kiev, Leonid Chernovetsky, who almost went to jail in 2009 because of wage arrears to the employees of his offspring and is the defendant in a lawsuit from Maksim Finsky, who filed a “seizure of business using threats, blackmail and criminal prosecution” .
In Moscow, Yanchukov may have another controversial partner – Denis Bass. Also a former resident of Ukraine and close associate of Chernovetsky. The Moscow Post wrote in detail about him and the connections of the two entrepreneurs.
Northern river station. Photo: https://severny-rechnoy-vokzal.ru
How profit is forged
And we will return to the Northern River Port project. Recently, the architect, who had been developing the development concept for this site for three years, Sergey Skuratov, stopped cooperating with customers with the words “we do not want to spoil with our own hands what we have been doing for three years of hard creative work and one year of waiting.”
According to Skuratov, the new owners of the site, including Mangazeya, in fact, reduced the cost, cut down, simplified the project and increased the number of floors. In other words, they made a “human” out of the flagship. No wonder: all the money, apparently, went to the “salary” of Cho and Sobyanin, apparently diligently adjusting the territory to specific individuals.
Capital Group has let in another project – to remake the Sorge transport hub into a multifunctional residential complex – by the Akvilon developer. The Cho structure received this plot of 5.8 hectares for a miserable 383 million rubles. Whereas plots here, according to cadastral data, cost about half a billion per one (!) Hectare. Cho again saved about 2.5 billion rubles?
Returning to the MiG territories, PIK, MR Group, LSR and Asterus (part of Vitaly Maschitsky’s Vi Holding) may be interested in joining the project. At least these companies, according to media reports, showed interest in him. Vedomosti even wrote that Amigo Holding, which is currently undergoing liquidation, where 40% belonged to Capital Group, and the rest to the above-mentioned companies, was created specifically for this project.
Then the territory still belonged to Rostec, but, apparently, they decided to turn the deal not directly, but through the Moscow City Hall – with all the ensuing benefits for individuals and budgetary expenses. Because “Amigo holding” has lost its relevance. But the participants of the “big sale” have not gone away. It seems that now prices for participation in the project are being agreed with Mr. Cho.