Joint business with a reputable entrepreneur from the 1990s. This is not the portrait of the senator of the Russian Federation that propagandists would like to paint. However, this is precisely the new hero of “Chronicles” Andrei Kutepov.
In 2013, the senator’s wife rented a summer cottage plot in Komarovo on Gornaya Street, 2/13 with an area of more than 1 hectare from the government of St. Petersburg for 48 years. The site was intended for a hotel, but instead of it there is already a private house. This is the former dacha of the merchant Zabelin. After World War II, a children’s holiday camp was located here. In the 1990s, the building was placed under state protection as an architectural monument, but later it was deprived of this status and demolished in 2009.
Kutepova herself just recently, in May 2023, registered as an individual entrepreneur whose main activity is “Rental and management of own or leased non-residential real estate.”
Finally, the image of the senator’s wife will be complemented by a bright quote from her pages on VKontakte.
As Chronicles established. Media”, no later than 2020 Nikita Kutepov have worked Advisor to the Governor of the Kursk Region Roman Starovoit. Starovoit once worked in the government of St. Petersburg and knows Kutepov Sr. very well. And now it’s January 31, 2022 Ulyanovsk media congratulated Happy birthday to the assistant to the governor of the Ulyanovsk region Nikita Andreevich Kutepov (the senator’s son has a birthday on January 31). The governor of the Ulyanovsk region is Alexey Russkikh, who worked together with Papa Kutepov as a senator in the Federation Council.
Kutepov’s daughter Sofya Garifullina, naturally, is also a successful individual entrepreneur (IP). Her main type of activity, like her mother’s, is “Renting and managing own or leased real estate.” Also Kutepova (Garifullina) is the general director of her mother’s company “Cafe-01”.
Even the youngest daughter of Senator Kutepov, Polina, who is not yet 20 years old, is in action. She is also an individual entrepreneur, but rents and leases “other machinery and equipment not included in other groups.”
Initially, the building was purchased by Stroyskan LLC. And for good reason: after all, Elena Gerasimenko worked as its general director. She worked in the same position at Lopatovich’s Petersburg Transit company. This office was founded in 2008 and liquidated in 2014. However, it should not be confused with the operating legal entity of the same name, Petersburg Transit, which Lopatovich owns jointly with the defender of the white race, Kutepov’s wife.
In addition to this plot, the enterprising 84-year-old Lopatovich in Komarovo also has a neighboring plot with a huge house on Ostrovsky Street.
But how could all this stuff end up in the hands of a modest pensioner, a child? blockade? The secret is simple – Lopatovich has a grandson named Dmitry Bykov. When Kutepov headed the Primorsky district, Bykov worked as deputy chairman of the city Economic Development Committee, and then as deputy chairman of the Improvement Committee. The cunning officials definitely had to meet.
Do you remember one of the founders of the company that built the Tukan shopping center near the Ploshchad Lenina metro station, Artem Sheikin? He became a senator despite trying to bribe a policeman. Bykov has a similar story. According to the Chronicle, in 2002 a criminal case was opened against him for embezzlement, which did not prevent him from building a career.
Today Bykov owns many companies. For example, Cavedium LLC. He previously owned it together with Sergei Samodelov. This is the same person who insured Tatyana Nikolaevna Lopatovich’s Lexus.
And here is Bykov’s Aptekarsky LLC. He owned such shopping centers as Vladimirsky Passage in the city center, Avenue in the north of the city and Cosmos in the south. Valentina Matvienko herself, when she was governor, called “Vladimirsky Passage” an urban planning mistake.
Until 2022, Aptekarsky belonged to an offshore company from Belize, Victoria Stratton Ltd. The media wrotethat the offshore was controlled by businessman Maxim Zhukov, the son of an “authoritative” entrepreneur who survived the 1990s, co-owner of the large St. Petersburg holding company “Adamant” Vladimir Golubev, known in certain circles as Barmaley. The fact that Bykov and Golubev’s son are business partners, in The media wrote: in 2016 they were co-owners of the bankrupt Energy Mechanical Plant.
At the end of 2022 – beginning of 2023, 50% of Aptekarsky belonged to the former St. Petersburg official Bykov and a certain Yulia Serykh. Moreover, the shares of both, as journalists wrote, were in collateral with the same Maxim Zhukov. In April 2023, Aptekarsky became the property of Baltinvest UK LLC, associated with Barmaley.
Interestingly, the governor of the Kursk region Starovoit, whose adviser Kutepov’s son worked, is also connected with Golubev. In 2019, the authorities of the Kursk region entered into a concession agreement for the development of the airport terminal with the advertising agency Bravo. “Bravo” tied up with Barmaley and his son. The airport terminal, however, did not receive any development, but the connections remained.
The St. Petersburg pensioner Lopatovich ended up with such a difficult grandson. So complicated that he even somehow managed to get his grandmother a second Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) in order to confuse the connection with his past companies. Previously, she had the number 781612535163 and most of the companies in which she acted as a founder under this TIN have already been liquidated. In October 2010, our Lopatovich, with a new number 781000358310, became the owner of a 50% stake in the company Petersburg Transit LLC. The second half is owned by the wife of Senator Kutepov.
Let’s summarize. Excellent company: the son of a reputable entrepreneur from the dashing 1990s, through Bykov’s nominee and his blockade survivor grandmother, does business with Senator Andrei Kutepov. Well, where else can a poor politician go: after all, for supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he is under sanctions from the European Union, Switzerland, Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States.
