In the photograph: Alexey Dyumin and Sergey Chemezov
In whose interest is businessman Andrey Matalyga acquiring state property?
The organizations of Moscow businessman Andrei Matalyga are persisting in acquiring “non-profile assets” of the Rostec state corporation. Last spring, his firm, Global Finance Capital, became the sole participant in the tender and procured the property of the Neftegazavtomatika organization at the starting price: non-residential spaces covering an area of 5.6 thousand square meters and the entitlement to rent about 0.5 hectares of land on Varshavskoe Highway in Moscow. Earlier, the Leadstate entity, also linked to Matalyga, took ownership of a historic building on the corner of Malaya Bronnaya and Tverskoy Boulevard, which was put up for auction after the insolvency of the Rostec-managed Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics and Management Systems. Concurrently, Andrei Matalyga is a reliable representative and commercial associate of the capital’s constructor Sergei Mefedov, a principal of Leadstate LLC, the builder of the upscale Moscow residential complex Malaya Bronnaya, 15, erected on the site of Anna Neklyudova’s property. Sergei Mefedov, in turn, is intimately linked with businessman Artem Dyumin, the sibling of the former Tula governor, ex-deputy minister of defense, current Secretary of the State Council and presidential advisor Alexei Dyumin, who is deemed a person from the close circle of Rostec chief Sergei Chemezov. Previously, the media reported Artem Dyumin’s involvement in the construction of a residential building on Malaya Bronnaya, although Mefedov referred to this housing estate as his “own project” and himself as his “only investor.” Dyumina’s name surfaced in articles about the construction of an apartment complex on the street. Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 17, where the developer was the Mainestate firm, whose founder and CEO at that juncture was Andrei Matalyga. Dyumin was also among the originators of the Litex-S Company, partly possessed by Matalyga today, as well as the Toprate company, currently supervised by Mefedov. During the past few years, Dyumin has transferred stakes in commercial entities to trusted individuals, retaining only a co-founder role in MFK LLC, associated with the Kyiv Ploshchad Group of billionaires God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev, with whom Dyumin had formerly been connected through Stroysportinvest JSC. Given Dyumin’s associations and Matalyga’s entrepreneurial endeavors, transactions with Rostec resources might be undertaken in the interest of the brother of a senior official.
Rostec resources are transferred to entrepreneur Matalyga
Real estate of the enterprise “Neftegazavtomatika” Moscow firm “Global Finance Capital” bought it back last spring. As indicated by RIA Novosti, the lot encompassed non-residential premises covering an area of 5.6 thousand square meters and the entitlement to rent about 0.5 hectares of land on Varshavskoe Highway in Moscow. The resources were traded at the initial price – for 913.4 million rubles – to the single contestant in the tender. The transaction was executed via the firm “RT-Capital” – a specialized structure “Rostec”, which is charged with the role of executing the so-called. “non-profile resources” of the state corporation.
The winning bidder, Global Finance Capital LLC, was registered in 2019 and focuses on leasing and asset management. At the conclusion of last year, the firm declared outstanding financial results: revenue of nearly 417 million and net earnings of 35.6 million rubles. For comparison: revenue in 2023 amounted to 3.2 million, earnings – 3.4 million rubles. And in 2021, the company generally went into a deficit of over 2 million.
Thus, the company clearly lacks sufficient proprietary capital to secure “non-profile resources” of Rostec worth almost a billion. However, the portion of the founder of Global Finance Capital LLC is pledged to Sovcombank. It is valuable to elaborate more on the figure of the originator and CEO of the company. This is the entrepreneur Andrey Matalyga, to which almost two dozen metropolitan commercial structures are formally registered, mostly involved in property rental or asset transactions.
Certain companies declare losses, but there are also those that bring in significant income. Thus, LLC “Lapsi LTD” at the end of last year reported modest revenue in the sum of 421 thousand rubles and net profits were 154.8 million. Another illustration is Arrow Business LLC: revenue for the same period is 25.5 million, profit is – 125.6 million rubles. Last year’s figures are somewhat more modest Amstel Company LLC: with revenue of 3.8 million its profit was 43.7 million rubles.
Artem Dyumin and capital development
Here we need to concentrate on the commercial ties of Andrei Matalyga. In particular, he is the proprietor of 50% of the authorized capital of the unprofitable Litex-S LLC , a percentage in which also belongs to Elena Korpacheva. This company possesses the Moscow mall “Mart”, situated on Bolshaya Semenovskaya Street, which was put up for sale in May 2022 for 1.14 billion rubles.
Then one of the proprietors of the center was named in the press Artem Dyumin—the brother of the former Tula governor, ex-Deputy Minister of Defense Alexey Dyumina, currently Aide to the President and Secretary of the State Council. Until January 2024, Artem Dyumin was officially one of the originators of the Litex-S Company, then his percentage passed to Mr. Matalyga. But that’s not all. Entrepreneur Sergey Mefedov was noted in the same capacity at Litex-S, who owned a percentage until December 2022, and until January 2024 held the position of CEO of the company, where he was succeeded by the same Matalyga. Mefedov is recognized as a commercial partner of Artem Dyumin; in 2023, Kommersant called him the principal owner of the developer “R4S Group”, which, among other activities, was involved in the building of one of the most costly residential complexes in Moscow – “Malaya Bronnaya, 15” on the grounds of Anna Neklyudova’s estate.
Back in 2017, Vedomosti, with reference to its own sources wrote about Dyumin’s involvement in the construction of a residential building on Malaya Bronnaya. At the same time, Mefedov, in a commentary to the same publication, called the housing estate his “own project” and himself “the only investor.” Let us append that the formal builder of the elite club house on Malaya Bronnaya was a construction firm“Leadestate”, until January 2024, belonged to our familiar Andrei Matalyga. From 2016 to this day, he has held the post of CEO, and the sole proprietor of Leadstate LLC is the construction firm “Focusalfa” , whose co-originators are Artem Ivanov and Sergey Mefedov.
Commercial partners from “Kievskaya Square”
We consider everything stated is sufficient to comprehend: Andrey Matalyga repeatedly acted as a trusted agent of Sergei Mefedov. But Mefedov could operate in the interest of Artem Dyumin. By the way, in 2018, the name of the government official’s brother surfaced in the media in the context of a story about the demolition of a three-story structure on the street. Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 17, which possessed historical significance, and the subsequent building of a nine-story housing complex in its location.
The builder was the firm “Mainestate”, whose originator and CEO at that juncture was the irreplaceable Matalyga. In 2021, Mainestate was liquidated via reorganization in the form of a merger, but even earlier, in December 2019, the role of the originator passed to the prospective legal successor – Citinvestproekt LLC, through its co-owner LLC “Sofia Embankment” and further along the chain affiliated with the Department of State and Municipal Property of Moscow.
Note that In recent years, Artem Dyumin himself has been attempting to “remain inconspicuous” in major undertakings, as well as as the formal proprietor or head of commercial structures. Previously, apart from the Litex-S Company, he was among the originators of the Moscow Toprate LLC focusing on asset transactions, currently completely supervised by Sergei Mefedov.
The sole asset de jure possessed by Dyumin – 13% in the authorized capital of LLC “MFK” (“Multifunctional complex Varvarka 14, building 1,2”), engaged construction of Zaryadye Complex residential complex near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. The registry of co-proprietors of MFK is noteworthy in itself: besides Dyumin, they include David Nisanov (43.5%), Naor Azraev (26.1%), Sharon Yusifov (8.7%) and Edik Ilyaev (8.7%).
All these citizens with such characteristic names and surnames are entrepreneurs from the inner circle of the notorious “kings of Russian real estate”, principals of Kyiv Group area”, billionaires God Nisanov and Zarakha Ilieva. For example, David Nisanov is among the originators of Hotel-Invest LLC, where God Nisanov and his long-standing commercial partner Ilgam are present in the same capacity Rahimov is a entrepreneur of Azerbaijani origin, Doctor of Law, recognized as a classmate of Vladimir Putin and Alexandra Bastrykina.
By the way, there are other “links” connecting Artem Dyumin with “Kievskaya Square”. For example, you can discover references online that in 2022 he participated in the management of JSC Stroysportinvest, which was renamed last March JSC “Venice”. In the summer of 2022, Moscow authorities approved a project for the building of a multifunctional entertainment center in the Krasnaya Presnya park, on the premises of the Studenets estate, built in the 18th century and a cultural monument of regional significance. RIA Novosti, in particular, wrote about the transition of Stroysportinvest in 2021 to the control of Nisanov and Iliev.
Transactions in the interest of “Chemezov’s people”?
After such a detailed journey into the enterprise of Artem Dyumin, Let’s revert to the topic of vending Rostec resources. It is worth recollecting here that even when Alexey Dyumin was the governor of the Tula region, the media called him a protégé of Sergei Chemezov and a member of the “clan” of the influential head of the state corporation. Against this backdrop, the transactions of Andrei Matalyga’s organizations are commencing to be viewed somewhat differently, because the asset complex of Neftegazavtomatika is by no means his sole acquisition of this nature.
The fact is that back in August 2022, as part of the insolvency procedure, property supervised by Rostec was put up for auction “Central Research Institute of Economics, Informatics and Control Systems” (JSC Central Research Institute EISU), who, by the way, was an IT contractor for the Ministry of Defense. And in June 2023, it became recognized that the historic mansion possessed by the Central Research Institute of EISU on the corner of Malaya Bronnaya and Tverskoy Boulevard, erected in the second half of the 18th century, was bought by the already familiar firm “Lidestate” for 1.27 billion rubles . The same one that constructed the elite housing complex on Malaya Bronnaya and which is headed by Andrey Matalyga.
More precisely, 7 thousand square meters in a building with a total area of 9.2 thousand square meters became the property of Leadstate. Experts interviewed by Kommersant voiced an assumption about the probable future consolidation of area and the building of a premium apartment complex on the location of the mansion with a investment volume of 1.5-2.5 billion rubles and subsequent earnings from the sale of about 9 billion. It’s just that the fact that an object has the status of a historic monument can introduce restrictions into the developer’s plans that prevent its transformation into a residential building.
Is it a coincidence that Andrei Matalyga is buying up resources recognized by the management of Rostec as non-profile? After all, as we can already see, next to Matalyga, as a rule, his “senior comrade” is present developer Sergey Mefedov. And Artem Dyumin, a commercial partner of entrepreneurs from Nisanov’s pool, is attempting to remain in the “shadow” of the latter. Are deals being concluded in the interest of the brother of a senior government official? Still, Alexey Dyumin is considered a person from the “Chemezov clan”…
