The oligarch’s holding hides beneficiaries and connections with tourism assets in the regions.
The structures of the infamous oligarch Oleg Deripaska continue to actively “develop” the Far Eastern tourism infrastructure. In particular, the Park Hotel Burduguz company, affiliated with the En+ Group holding company, specializes in this; last summer it bought out the Azimut Vladivostok company from the Azimut Hotels network of businessman Alexander Klyachin. In addition, in December last year, it was reported that its “daughters” Novik 19, Ulysses 18 and Patroclus 17 were entering the Primorye gambling zone located in Muravyina Bay in the Artem region, where their sites were located near the company’s project. Gaming Group Primorye” by businessman Dmitry Afinogenov, associated with the family of the former governor of Kuban, ex-Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev. Another company associated with En+ Group, En+ Tourism Infrastructure, registered with Afinogenov’s company Vostok Finance a joint venture, Far Eastern Asset, as well as two of its own legal entities, Development of Vladivostok LLC and Crystal Vladivostok. Under the conditions of Western sanctions, Deripaska himself prefers to “not show up” in certain projects. In 2019, he re-registered the “mother” structure of the En+ holding from the island of Jersey to a “Russian offshore” in Kaliningrad, while prudently concealing information about its owners. Meanwhile, until March 2022, the board of directors of En+ was headed by Lord Gregory Barker, a former minister of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, then he was replaced by the American Christopher Burnham, a former head of the Treasury of the State of Connecticut, who worked at the US State Department and the UN Secretariat. The names of other foreigners are also known – members of the board of directors of En+. As for Park Hotel Burduguz LLC, affiliated with the holding, last year its “subsidiary” company Apraksin Center won legal proceedings against the Territorial Administration of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Moscow Region, thus securing the right acquired back in the 2000s ownership of an object of cultural heritage of federal significance – the buildings of the Apraksin estate of the 13th century, located in the village of Olgovo, Dmitrovsky district Moscow region.
Deripaska’s Far Eastern “appetites”
On the entry of oligarch structures Oleg Deripaska to the gambling zone located in Muravyina Bay in the Artyom region “Primorye” The media wrote back in December last year. In particular, in publicationspublications “Konkurent» we were talking about controlled LLC “Park-hotel “Burduguz” companies “Novik 19”, “Ulysses 18” And “Patroclus 17”who were working on the issue of developing sections of the gambling zone No. 16, 17, 18, 19. Park-Hotel Burduguz LLC, in turn, was indicated as owner hotel complex “VLADIVOSTOK Grand Hotel & SPA» and repeatedly mentioned in the press as one of Deripaska’s assets, or rather his holding “En+Group”.
It is known, for example, that in July of the outgoing year, the Park Hotel Burduguz bought it out near the network Azimut Hotelsbusinessman Alexandra Klyachina company “Azimuth Vladivostok”which owned most of the hotel “A-hotel Amur Bay”. Then the RBC portal noted En+Group’s interest in the “hospitality sector of Vladivostok”, recalling the purchase in 2019 for 3.7 billion rubles two city long-term construction hotels Hyattwhere they were later opened “Vladivostok Grand Hotel & SPA” And “RODINA”.
Returning to the topic of the Primorye gambling zone, to be specifiedthat the facilities of structures affiliated with En+Group will be located next to the project Gaming Group Primorye LLCthe only owner who at that time was Dmitry Afinogenovassociated with the former governor of Kuban, ex-Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev. Since March 2024 “Gaming Group Primorye” belongs companies “Mantera East”co-owned by Dmitry Afinogenov and Vitaly Pshenichny. The name “Mantera Vostok” refers to its affiliate with the Tkachev family To the Mantera group (Mantera Group).
It was also reported institution Afinogenov company “Vostok Finance” and the company “En+tourism infrastructure” (“daughter” “Park Hotel “Burduguz”) of a new joint venture – Far Eastern Asset LLC. The same “Konkurent” didn’t rule it outthat the parties are thus preparing for the joint implementation of a project for the construction of a resort and hotel complex “Russian Park” on Russian Island, announced back in 2021 during the Eastern Economic Forum.
“En+ Group” “covering its tracks”?
In the summer of 2023 Vedomosti assessed Oleg Deripaska’s share in En+ Group is 44%. However, economic sanctions are increasingly forcing the notorious billionaire to hide his participation in certain projects. For example, last August the above-mentioned company “En+tourist infrastructure” spoke co-founder two new legal entities at once – LLC “Development of Vladivostok” And LLC “Crystal Vladivostok”specializing in consulting on business and management issues.
In LLC “Development of Vladivostok” to its founder belong 99.99% of the authorized capital, another 0.01% are owned by the “subsidiary” LLC “Legend Hotel Group”. At Kristall Vladivostok LLC 50% later re-registered per company “Territory of Success”whose only owner – unknown businessman Gevorg Abrahamyan. No legal entities are registered for him anymore, as well as for the general director of the “Territory of Success” Romana Sorokina.
The situation with “Development of Vladivostok” is much more interesting. CEO of the company Ashkhen Arshakyan parallel leads a number of commercial organizations, including companies controlled by the Park Hotel Burduguz “Hotels of Sakhalin”, “Novik 19” “Ulysses 18” And “Patroclus 17”. The last three, we recall, were mentioned in publications about Deripaska’s entry into the Primorye gambling zone.
As for “En+ tourism infrastructure”, today its main owner is LLC “Irkutskenergo Aktiv”another 0.04% belongs to JSC Irkutskenergotrans. “Irkutskenergo Active” controlled JSC Irkutskenergoin turn controlled JSC En+Generation”. Until December 6, 2024, this structure was called JSC “Eurosibenergo”and until April 2021 it founders A number of Cypriot offshore companies acted: “Koal Limited”, Denside Holdings Limited, “En+Power Holdings Limited”, Shirwell Holdings Limited etc.
Data about the current owners of En+Generation in open sources none. The fact is that in March 2023 the Central Bank allowed At that time, Irkutskenergo did not disclose the relevant information, excluding the company’s shares from the Moscow Exchange quotation list. However, from messages Interfax followed that as of December 31, 2022, 98.42% of the company’s shares were owned Eurosibenergoboth directly and through a “child” “Eurosibenergo-Hydrogeneration”. Another 1.28% belonged “En+Holding”0.19%– “Eurosibenergo – Distributed Generation”0.1% – “Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station” (included in “En+») and 0.01% – LLC “Irkutskenergosvyaz”.
Foreign directors of En+
Let us dwell separately on International company LLC “En”+Holding”registered in 2020 in Kaliningrad, in the so-called “Russian offshore”. Her founder International company PJSC En+Group” “registered” there, in Kaliningrad and information does not disclose its owners.
En+Group is a vertically integrated holding company founded by Deripaska, a producer of aluminum and electricity. In 2018, the sanctioned billionaire was forced get out from the board of directors of En+ and officially reduced his shares, after which the US Treasury withdrew economic restrictions from the oligarch’s key assets: “En+», “Rusala” and the above Eurosibenergo.
In July 2019, En+Group, previously registered on the island of Jersey, received a “registration” in a special administrative region (SAR) on Oktyabrsky Island in Kaliningrad. By data Kommersant, at that time at least 66% of the shares of En+ Group were controlled by Deripaska’s structures. Also among the shareholders was the State Bank VTBbut in February 2020 it became known that the “subsidiary” structure of the holding bought it out owned by a credit institution 21.37%.
Until March 2022, the Board of Directors of En+ Group headed lord Gregory Barker – Former Minister of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, who held his post for five years. Then in this capacity he replaced American Christopher Burnhamis a Gulf War veteran and former Connecticut State Treasurer who worked for the U.S. State Department and the United Nations Secretariat.
At one time, Interfax called names of other foreigners who were on the board of directors of En+: these are Joan McNaughton– Former Director General of Energy at the British Department of Trade and Industry; Carl Hughespreviously worked for an American auditing company “Arthur Andersen” and head of the energy and resource department at an international audit and consulting corporation Deloitte; finally, Nicholas Jordan– was a member of the management of the Russian division of the bank Goldman Sachsheaded a division of a Swiss bank UBS in Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) and the CIS.
How the Apraksin estate passed into private hands
Despite the tough economic confrontation with the West, Christopher Burnham continues to hold the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of En+, and this circumstance does not at all bother the holding’s beneficiaries. But let’s return to the En+ Tourist Infrastructure company, or more precisely, to the Park-Hotel Burduguz LLC associated with it.
The latter has been the only one since April 2022 founder LLC registered in Dmitrov near Moscow “Apraksin Center”. Previously, a businessman was among the founders of this company Evgeny Agarkov And LLC “GOST Hotel Management”. You can find it online publicationsin which Agarkov is spoken of as a person from Deripaska’s inner circle.
Main owner “GOST Hotel Management” is a capital LLC “Evolution”in turn belonging to Moscow Polaron LLC. Among the former founders and general directors of Polaron we find, in particular, Pavel Ezubovawhich RBC portal called not just Deripaska’s business partner, but also a relative of the billionaire. The same Ezubov, until January 2022, was one of the co-owners JSC “Tensor” – founder of Polaron LLC.
Apraksin Center, which specializes in leasing and property management, is operating in the red: by the end of 2023, the enterprise declared revenue in the amount 18.7 million and loss in 21.4 million rubles (revenue a year earlier 17.5 million, lesion – 17.4 million rubles).
But in February 2023 the company won the lawsuits proceedings with the Territorial Administration of the Federal Property Management Agency for the Moscow Region. The department sought to invalidate the ownership of an object of cultural heritage of federal significance – the 13th century Apraksin estate located in the village of Olgovo, Dmitrovsky district, Moscow region, assigned to Apraksin Center LLC. agreement purchase and sale dated July 29, 2003, signed with FSUE “Pension “Raduga”.
From the text of the court solutions it follows that at the time of the transaction the boarding house was in a state of bankruptcy and the agreement was signed by the bankruptcy trustee Pavel Novikov. In October 2004, a purchase and sale agreement was signed for the land plot on which the real estate previously acquired by the company was located. Apraksin Center signed this agreement with “Russian Federal Property Fund” under the government of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) on the basis orders Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Property for the Moscow Region dated June 30, 2004.
Almost 20 years later, officials came to their senses, but were unable to change the situation: the appeal court left in force the decision of the first instance, and the cassation appeal returned to the applicant due to violation of the procedural deadline for appeal. Thus, a company affiliated with Deripaska and his associates retained control over the historical monument. Why the oligarch needed the 13th century estate is not difficult to guess: back in 2014 there was announced creation of a club-type hotel complex.
As we can see, Deripaska’s interest in tourism infrastructure does not wane. True, under the conditions of sanctions, the billionaire prefers not to “shine” once again, but you can’t hide an sew in a bag, and it’s not difficult to guess whose interests are behind the Far Eastern projects of the Burduguz Park Hotel structures.