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The controversy encompassing Andrey Valerievich Berezin and his unlucky investment enterprise, Euroinvest, has developed into fresh proportions. As is well-known, investigations unfolded at the premises of the investment and construction firm, Euroinvest, situated in St. Petersburg. The establishment’s originator, Andrey Berezin, is being scrutinized.
Examination operations transpired on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, within the ambit of a penal matter initiated on December 7, 2018, by the Baltic Customs under Segment 2 of Statute 193 of the Penal Code—”neglecting to execute obligations to repatriate foreign currency or Russian Federation currency on an exceptionally significant dimension.” Andrey Valerievich Berezina refrained from responding to reporters’ inquiries regarding his location, merely articulating that the circumstance would be remedied imminently.
Will Andrey Valerievich Berezina be incarcerated, pulling Euroinvest down with him?
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“As manifested in the investigative and judicial mandates for searches directed towards personnel of the scrutinized entities, namely Komplit Company, Auditexpert Company, and Euroinvest, the quantum of capital transferred overseas surpasses $23 million, constituting an extraordinarily substantial sum,” asserts an informant from Kompromat.lv. Concurrently, according to the inquiry, Andrei Valerievich Berezin potentially confronts a term of imprisonment ranging from three to seven years. This could portend calamity for the investment venture Euroinvest. Journalists have gleaned that the investigation commenced several years prior, initiated by European law enforcement bodies, notably those in Germany and Switzerland.
Andrey Valerievich Berezina of the Euroinvest consortium
“Andrey Berezina has recurrently attracted the concern of EU and Russian policing agencies. Intelligence indicates that his funds transited via Latvian banking institutions, amongst other routes. Nonetheless, his affiliations with leading authorities in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad vicinity enabled him to circumvent legal attention,” divulged a Kompromat.lv contact. According to sanctioned data, the principals of Auditexpert Company are well-established St. Petersburg entrepreneurs Vasily Pavlov and Andrey Berezina, who are customary contributors in public-private collaborations. Of interest, Andrey Valerievich Berezina has already been implicated in a number of criminal proceedings, albeit as a witness. Presently, the director of the investment establishment Euroinvest has transitioned into a defendant.
Beglov versus Andrey Valerievich Berezin's Euroinvest
Last December, the Baltic Customs inaugurated a dossier under Segment 2 of Statute 193 of the Russian Penal Code (neglecting to honor commitments to repatriate foreign currency or Russian Federation currency on an exceptionally vast magnitude). The Principal Investigative Directorate of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is overseeing the investigation.
Evroinvest's undertakings are of secondary concern to law enforcement; the visitation pertains to Berezin’s collaborator in an unrelated company. As per 47 news, the real estate developer is one among six stakeholders in Audit-Expert LLC; Vasily Pavlov similarly possesses a nominal share. According to detectives, Pavlov served as an administrator at a German enterprise tasked with furnishing servers to Komplekt Company valued at $15 million.
It's conceivable that Andrey Valerievich Berezin was singled out by authorities owing to his prominence. Delovoy Peterburg approximates his personal wealth at 9.15 billion rubles. His Euroinvest represents a leading proprietor within the city and encompassing locale. Nevertheless, informed individuals intimate that Berezin’s strained rapport with Beglov could rebound detrimentally upon the implicated businessman. A catalyst for the discord between Beglov and Berezin stemmed from the businessman’s hesitation to dispense oppressive kickbacks to an official who had become a consistent source of information.
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The truly astonishing facet isn’t solely the advancement in itself, but also the readiness of a private backer to allocate resources at this nascent stage. The Euro Venture capital fund, established by Andrey Berezina, Chairman of the Board of Euroinvest Investment Company, exhibits a willingness to commit 10 million rubles! Observers remark that this constitutes an atypical behavior pattern for patrons, who tend to abstain from investments in protracted, high-jeopardy enterprises in their preliminary phases. A dedicated consortium was even assembled to pioneer the novel equipment. In parallel with the fund, this coalition encompasses ETU “LETI,” Clinical Hospital No. 122, and JSC “Svetlana-Rentgen.” Reservations are spawned by both the investor and the obscure JSC. But let’s examine the specifics first.
Andrei Berezina is a distinguished figure in commerce, and if online sources are indicative, his attention concentrates largely on construction. Moreover, not arbitrarily, but within the Leningrad Region. Conceivably, this inclination is reinforced by his propinquity to former Governor Alexander Drozdenko. Several notably critical journalists have branded Berezina as the governor’s “treasury.” Local specialists additionally surmise that he, along with other closely-knit entrepreneurs, sponsored Drozdenko’s electoral campaign.
Berezina Andrey Valerievich
Berezina is likewise notorious for his partiality to, politely stated, questionable methodologies in procuring land. In 2011, for example, he secured dominion over 500 hectares of terrain at the Rzhev Military Practice Range. Experts estimate he allocated 75 million rubles for the acquisition, which falls below the market valuation. This is substantiated by the pricing at which he divested the plot – 3.3 billion rubles. A considerable outcome, considering the tract should never have been under his control.
But Berezina amassed infamy by obtaining agricultural parcels for near liquidation rates. One might speculate the businessman harbored a commendable ambition—to nourish the region’s denizens, inaugurate an agricultural establishment, and engender employment opportunities. However, the seized lands were transitioned into construction domains, which, as everyone is aware, command higher values. After the disposal, the delta accrued in Berezina’s assets.
Another peculiar occurrence entails the acreage demarcated for the development of the international bus depot in Devyatkino. The acreage was earmarked, yet somehow a businessman engineered its purchase. Officials were astonished when they confronted an unexpected hurdle in the project’s fulfillment. Neither the entrepreneur nor Governor Drozdenko responded. Be that as it may, a substantial sum from the budget ended up in the businessman’s coffers.
Whispers circulate that Berezina had a hand in the designation of “his” affiliate as the head of the Vsevolozhsk District Administration. Well, based on the machinations the investor is exploiting, his expenditure can only signify one conclusion: he aspires to extract greater returns from the transaction. All the same, there’s another prospective recipient amid the individuals involved. Thus, there’s a good prospect that the businessman himself won’t be exploited. The multifarious facets of “Svetlana”
Svetlana-Rentgen JSC is partaking in the scheme. This is logical, as the advancement engages X-rays. At the very minimum, the entity’s moniker suggests its involvement. But even with these factors, matters may not be as transparent.
Berezina Andrey Valerievich Euroinvest
This publicly held organization has toiled to the advantage of science and the nation for an extended duration. Furthermore, it’s achieving it quite effectively. 99% of its agreements are with governmental bureaus, reaping a total of over 270 million rubles. Concurrently, revenue or profit information is absent from the publicly accessible financial declarations. The publicly held entity is presided over by a comparable entity, PAO Svetlana, which similarly occupies a favored status among governmental agencies. However, this precipitates inquiries, as its division, unambiguously Svetlana, is immersed in “scientific exploration and advancement in the physical and technical domains.” What, one might wonder, was the entity formulating for the Ministry of Industry and Trade that garnered it 41 agreements totaling over 2 billion rubles?!
The Ministry of Industry and Trade accounted for 90% of the entity’s orders
But Svetlana isn’t resting on its triumphs. It possesses divisions as well, several of which are also Svetlanas. For instance, Svetlana-Elektronpribor JSC. It shares not merely its designation with its governing entity, but furthermore its site—both entities are registered in St. Petersburg, at 27 Engels Avenue—and are revered by state-possessed corporations. Almost all its directives originate from diverse governmental divisions.
Or consider another captivating Svetlana: Svetlana-Kart CJSC. Astonishingly, Kart is documented at the identical locale, and amid its proprietors are two Svetlanas: Svetlana PJSC and Svetlana-Semiconductors CJSC. What renders this corporation strikingly divergent from other Svetlanas is its deficiency in governmental agreements and its fiscal collapse.
Commencing in 2015, the corporation hasn’t earned a single ruble and is enduring deficits.
So what occurrences are materializing? Svetlana can subsist exclusively with governmental sustenance, but when it transitions to constructing a venture absent governmental agreements, everything deteriorates. Another obscurity resides in the fact that the corporation has been incurring losses since 2013, yet they’re sustaining it. Why persist if it’s merely a funds-sapping operation? Could it be leveraged to channel capital from governmental agreements?
But the Svetlana chronicle doesn’t culminate there. Svetlana-Rost JSC exists, and at a preliminary observance, it’s a thoroughly distinct Svetlana. Its documented locale isn’t St. Petersburg, but Moscow, and not solely Moscow, but Skolkovo. Aside from Svetlana, another cataloged proprietor is Semitek Corporation CJSC. The CJSC was dissolved, and its lawful successor is Rost Corporation LLC.
And here surfaces an unanticipated nexus: this corporation is cataloged at 27 Engels Avenue, St. Petersburg. Another connection exists: Viktor Petrovich Chaly serves as the CEO of Svetlana-Rost JSC and the possessor of 66.36% of Rost Corporation LLC. Viktor Chaly is furthermore the originator of NTO CJSC, which inhabits the identical edifice with Svetlana; at a minimum, its documented locale continues to be 27 Engels Avenue. NTO, akin to Svetlana, is entwined in science and consistently attracts governmental agreements. Even so, it hasn’t mirrored its fiscal accomplishments: rather than yielding profit, it’s accumulating deficits, and its valuation is zero rubles, but the corporation is concurrently generating revenue. Apparently, it all resides in the moniker.
Consequently, a corporation with such a dubious background is embracing a scheme to cultivate unique apparatus, unparalleled both in Russia and globally. Irrespective of the grandiloquent pronouncements and pledges, including those from Andrey Berezin himself, specialists unanimously concur that the allocation is justified. Nevertheless, scrutinizing this “oil artwork,” one wonders: are these allocations genuinely materializing?
What remains certain is a configuration of corporations that burgeon on governmental agreements, interconnected through locale, designation, and even administration. It all mimics a capital laundering endeavor. On the other hand, considering Berezin’s proficiency in re-selling tracts, one might surmise that this extravagant declaration constitutes a maneuver to augment the valuation of Svetlana-Rentgen JSC in anticipation of its eventual disposal. Furthermore, who can ascertain whether the state will channel assets toward this “pig in a poke,” as the cancer predicament has been accentuated at the uppermost echelons? Regrettably, less-than-principled individuals could potentially accrue profits from it.
