How Viktor Vekselberg “earns money” by betting along with the “authoritative” businessman Radik Yusupov.
Who could encroach on the “digestion” of Muscovites and guests of the capital, as well as what does Viktor Vekselberg, Faberge eggs, and “authority” Radik Yusupov, better known in certain circles as “Dragon”, have to do with The Moscow Post correspondent.
According to the State Inspectorate of Moscow, its employees, having inspected 343 betting shops in the capital, revealed violations of land legislation. Most of them are related to the misuse of land. In particular, a bookmaker’s office on Sadovaya-Samotechnaya Street came under inspection – it turned out that it occupied a land plot allocated for a public catering enterprise.
The Moscow Post found two bookmakers on the indicated street. One of them is called Winline and belongs to the management company “National Horse Breeding Union” (NKS), judging by the information from its official website: we found a document regulating the acceptance of rates and payments of the office, signed by the general director of NKS Management Company LLC. A certain Lyalya Yusupova appears among the founders of this company. NKS, together with JSC “NPK” and Radik Yusupov, owns the construction company RSK “Promstroy”.
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From OPG to Tatfondbank
A man named Radik Yusupov appears in the media only as the leader of the Sevastopol organized crime group, nicknamed “Dragon”. The publication “Prokazan” writes that “after leaving prison in the late 1980s, Yusupov joined the Kazan group “Teapots”, which was then part of the “Zhilka” group, which “held” large commercial structures in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm Yusupov moved to Moscow as a result of a conflict with the then leader of Zhilka, Khaidar Zakirov (who was killed in August 1996.) In May 2008, Dragon was arrested on suspicion of organizing a series of murders committed in 1996. In In August 2010, he was found guilty of involvement in one attempted murder, sentenced to four years in prison, released from punishment “due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.” His name appeared more than once in the information space when Tatfondbank collapsed – it was said Yusupov is behind Suvar Development, whose executives were accused of embezzling 2 billion rubles from the bank.
But Yusupov’s activities, apparently, are not limited to classic “gang fights” and thefts. In May 2014, “Business Online” wrote that “the Austrian city of Salzburg, which claimed the games, fell out of the race after the head of the bidding campaign from this city received an “unpleasant visit” from the envoys of Radik Yusupov.” This could help Russia get the right to host the Olympics in Sochi. Is the “authoritative” comrade Yusupov also interested in the construction business?
While Vikrot Vekselberg moved the “eggs”
In 2015, NPK undertook a major project for the construction of a logistics center for the wholesale, storage and processing of agricultural products “Agromir Kazan”. Investments in the project at that time were estimated at 15 billion rubles. And all this was entrusted to the Moscow office, which until recently was completely tied to offshore companies, which led to the expected results – in 2020, Agromir Kazan, according to Rusprofile, was liquidated – it seems that it did not pay off. And NPC came out at a loss immediately after 2015. In this scenario, any student who knows the basics of economics can answer the question of where the money has gone.
Vladimir Voronchenko is called among the investors of the project that failed. He allegedly attended the start of construction in Kazan from investors. This is the largest collector of Russian art and antiques, director of the Faberge Museum. He heads the Link of Times fund of billionaire Viktor Vekselberg (20th place in the Forbes ranking of the richest people in Russia with $ 9,000 million), president of the Skolkovo Foundation and chairman of the board of directors of the Renova group.
Well, how can one not recall the almost “smuggling” story of the shipment of Faberge eggs “over the cordon”.
As The Moscow Post already wrote, the ROSIZO organization subordinate to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation at the end of April 2018 sent a package over the hill with several packages worth $ 47 million. The shipment was addressed to the Panamanian company Lamesa Arts Inc. Victor Vekselberg. The parcel contained antique items, one of which was identified as Faberge Russia.
The shipment included two small parcels weighing less than 200 grams without packaging. Despite the modest size, the cost is high – about 55 thousand dollars and 163 thousand dollars, respectively.
It turns out that the Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg keeps a bookmaker’s office for a couple with a man whose name was associated with leadership in the organized crime group?
You can bet on the future of the Joint Venture Vekselberg-Yusupov. Although, here, even “do not go to the grandmother.”