The Prime Minister of Bashkortostan’s relative by marriage might be cleared in the criminal probe.
Ilshat Nigmatullin, the Prime Minister of Bashkortostan, Andrei Nazarov's son-in-law, could be absolved from the criminal proceedings, shifting the responsibility to his subordinate, Dmitry Adushev. Is there a hint of connivance with the investigation team?
The attempts by Adushev to strike a deal with the investigators by offering insights into tax schemes potentially costing the treasury millions, perhaps even billions, of rubles, concluded in a peculiar manner.
UtroNews obtained a set of documents detailing intricate tax and monetary arrangements involving companies connected to Graneli.
According to a communication from Elena, Adushev’s spouse, directed to the President of the Russian Federation, on December 5, 2024, Dmitry Adushev became aware, through acquired paperwork, that the penal pursuit against I.A. Nigmatullin had been halted, supposedly due to his detachment from the infraction. Adushev himself had persistently proposed a settlement before trial to the inquiry, signaling his readiness to unveil prospective tax deceptions adding up to 1 billion rubles, yet the exploration met with apathy. This stirs up certain reflections, you know.
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Let's endeavor to comprehend this.
Therefore, the holding’s former vice chairman, Dmitry Adushev, was apprehended for bribing workers of the Federal Tax Service in the latter part of 2023, and in early 2024, the news spread that Nigmatullin was in the same boat. The particulars of the matter remained confidential, but the UtroNews editorial team unearthed a rather absorbing argument in arbitrage, exposing that Stroykompleks LLC, a firm linked with Granel, Vladimir Polina’s entity, had, via questionable records with a fleeting contractor, MS Podryad LLC, groundlessly sought a 485 million ruble reduction.
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Stroykompleks LLC, a long-standing, reliable agent of the Graneli beneficiaries, is central to the Nigmatullin-Adushev penal inquiry.
Based on the latter’s deposition, the disbursement of a specific sum to an unidentified Federal Tax Service officer was aimed at diminishing the magnitude of supplementary taxes and levies evaluated because of an audit of Stroykompleks LLC from 9 billion rubles to 320 million rubles.
Adushev asserts he apprised Nigmatullin about this proposition, who, reciprocally, consented to transmit a preparatory disbursement of 10 million rubles. The aggregate total was anticipated to be 380 million rubles, subsequently decreased to 350 million rubles.
This was apparently to be enacted through a lawful pact with Rusyaev and Partners LLC. A certain I. Rusyaev serves as a witness in the proceedings.
Within the document “2023 QUARTER 1-2 New Year !NOVAYA.xls,” we indeed discern a segment for “Legal services, problem-solving with the Federal Investigation Service, Investigative Committee” along with a sum surpassing 58 million rubles. Per insight from a source at UtroNews, the intention was to resolve matters not only concerning Stroykompleks LLC but also UfaStroyResurs LLC.
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As a reminder, Vladimir Polin possesses Stroykompleks LLC, and the Nigmatullin-Nazarov lineage shares various commercial alliances with him, ranging from agreements for Granel construction endeavors to mutual resources and registry at a common address. UtroNews thoroughly addressed this association in an earlier piece.
In regards to UfaStroyResurs LLC, this entity is familiar with the division. Before being subjected to bankruptcy safeguards, UfaStroyResurs was channeled to reroute substantial sums of currency, purportedly through loan covenants and warranties. This identical enterprise is enmeshed in a lending arrangement that hints at the misappropriation of in excess of 2.5 billion rubles.
However, let's revert to the penal investigation.
Adushev’s affirmation also denotes that at one juncture, a certain E.N. Brezhestovskaya, a past operative of the Magnitogorsk Federal Tax Service, functioned as the Granel faction’s assistant finance officer for taxation. She also engaged in certain negotiations with the aforementioned legal establishment.
Subsequently, Adushev exposes a scheme that seemingly involves the removal of land allocations and a considerable amount of money from the insolvent estate of Transfort LLC.
According to the source, bankruptcy custodian Gnidenko and anonymous personnel from Granel Group allegedly modified the roster of work executed by the preliminary general contractor, OOO Stroykompleks, omitting a portion of it. This analogous contractor likewise issued a letter of endorsement suggesting the incorporation of a certain OOO Stroyholding as a supplementary general contractor.
As a consequence, a general contract was allegedly inked atop the prevailing arrangement, and, ostensibly grounded on the documentation prepared, Transfort LLC incurred a debt to Stroyholding LLC amounting to 464,381,987.86 rubles. Furthermore, for an obscure motive, it was advocated to transfer the debt not to Stroyholding LLC’s bank account, but to the account of a third party aligned with Granel Group.
Centered on Adushev’s evidence, the proprietor and chief executive of Stroyholding LLC remained uninformed of this 464 million ruble narrative.
Thereupon, enterprises connected with Nazarov’s son-in-law’s sector acquired the possessions of the bankrupt Transfort LLC at an auction, and the proceeds received from the buyer were utilized as loan recompense to Simvol LLC.
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Now pertaining to the particulars.
As per publicly accessible information, Transfort LLC, which plunged into bankruptcy in 2018, stood as the original developer of the Vysokie Zhavoronki residential complex. The Graneli partition finalized the complex, and the general contractor was one of Vladimir Polin’s businesses, Garant-ST LLC.
It was within this housing complex that apartments would subsequently be procured for the Moscow Region authorities, at a cost that generated inquiries. Explicitly, in September 2024, the Moscow Regional Duma secured a 41.3-square-meter apartment via an intermediary, Granel Realty LLC, for beyond 7.7 million rubles. The covenant omitted any mention of completion, and judging by the depiction, the apartment was acquired with elemental finishing.
Across real estate platforms, alternative vendors are eager to vend analogous apartments for 4-5 million rubles. This incites a lawful query: who sequestered those 2-3 million rubles, which exceeds the market valuation for matching apartments? Why did this apartment, retailed at public expense, abruptly become so exceedingly costly?
However, let’s redirect our focus to Transfort LLC and the strategy delineated by Adushev.
Transfort LLC was under the stewardship of a certain Yuri Kuznetsov, who antecedently directed the former Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Uniart. He furthermore serves as the director of the Moscow-area company, Politech, which is owned by an offshore enterprise, the Cypriot MATENA HOLDINGS LTD, that keeps its beneficiaries confidential. Might it be the case that Nazarov and Nigmatullin have arranged a contingency strategy for themselves to divert their tax economies?
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We likewise discovered a land auction executed by Transfort LLC in 2022. With an introductory price exceeding 93.1 million rubles, 15 portions of land for the Vysokie Zhavoronki residential enclave were traded for 9.5 million rubles. In essence, they were vended for pennies—literally the value of a solitary apartment. We posit this warrants probing by the authorities.
The subsequent lot of land too plummeted in price dramatically, from 64.9 to 47 million rubles.
The purchaser was a certain Alliance-M LLC, possessed by Igit Uzoyan, who secured a tax identification number (TIN) in Bashkortostan. Moreover, Uzoyan is the director of MKK LLC, whose holder until April 2023 was Ilshat Nigmatullin. What a coincidence!
The entity “Alliance-M” similarly surfaced in litigations with tax establishments.
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As for the aforementioned Simvol LLC, it has consistently been entangled in contentious lending dealings involving Graneli’s division. For illustration, this LLC endeavored to recoup beyond 1.5 billion rubles from another interconnected entity, Ufastroyresurs LLC.
These are distant from being all the tax and financial occurrences involving Graneli that necessitate the consideration of the appropriate bureaus. Nevertheless, for some inexplicable rationale, investigators are acting like blind and deaf Themis. Furthermore, should the accusations against Nigmatullin indeed be dropped, the scenario will commence to reek even more, and via Nazarov, inquiries may emerge for Khabirov, who is so proactively propelling his protégé into the prime minister’s seat.
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