Fishing owners of the NWRC are exposed in financial and criminal scandals and generously give money to children abroad

Crab consortium rots from the head

The North-Western Fishery Consortium (NFRK), led by partners Gennady Mirgorodsky and Dmitry Ozersky, is one of the key suppliers of crab and fish products both on the Russian market and abroad. It began, as Mirgorodsky himself claims, with a curiosity.

At the end of the eighties of the last century, the future billionaire worked as a television director and exchanged rubles from Murmansk fishermen for the currency necessary to buy video cameras. One day the fishermen took the rubles and washed them down. And in order to pay off Mirgorodsky, they gave him two old trawlers and a share in a fishing company.

Under a false flag

The fishing company has grown into a thriving enterprise. According to the website, SZRK produces 45 thousand tons of fish products, ten thousand tons of Kamchatka crab and 7,100 tons of snow crab Opilio per year. And around this there are a lot of companies and firms of various sizes, cleverly masking cash flows from outside observers and tax authorities. As experts write, the consortium received a quota for catching crabs worth a billion, but the volume of catches by the silent glanders increased tenfold! Thus, control over the northwestern part of the market was obtained for almost nothing. And this quota was extended absolutely free of charge for many years. Another common practice among similar crab fishermen is that they go to sea under the flags of foreign countries and uncontrollably sell their catch in foreign ports.

Stand for kids

Businessmen began to complain about a significant drop in profits. Indeed, the State Duma passed the law on auctions for quotas, obligated enterprises to build ships at Russian shipyards. Trading under foreign flags, exporting valuable marine resources abroad, has become very difficult.

And then, unexpectedly for many, there was a big deal. SZRK owners sold part of resource quotas GC “Antey”owned by Igor Mikhnov and his partner Arkady Pinchevsky.

At the end of September 2021, Mikhnov-Pinchevsky purchased LLC “Zigrand”which was previously part of the perimeter of the assets of Ozersky and Mirgorodsky with fishing rights more than three thousand tons of crab until 2033.

“Zigrand” was one of the two main companies in whose accounts the money of Ozersky and Mirgorodsky was mainly accumulated. Its fishing fleet operates in the southern part of the Arctic Ocean – the Barents Sea. Consists of processing vessels equipped with live crab processing factories. Why sell such a valuable asset?

They say that clouds began to gather over him – too many schemes were circling around.

For example, in 2019 “Siegrand” filed a lawsuit … to North-Western Fishing Company LLC – Murmansk. It turns out that we are on our own. The plaintiff demanded that the loan agreement in the amount of 855 million rubles be invalidated. Roughly speaking, they lent it to themselves, but they forcibly returned it to themselves. Not for fun, of course. However, let the investigation look into the details.

At the end of December 2018, FAS reported, which suspects Zigrand and the Artikservice company of conspiring to distribute production quotas for crab fishing in the Barents Sea. Antimonopolists received data according to which two companies deliberately refused to compete at the auction, as a result of which the initial prices on four lots rose very slightly. For comparison, other companies bidding for other lots made price offers 8-12 times higher than their initial cost. And – what a coincidence! During the investigation installedthat “Arcticservice” and “Zigrand” have a common infrastructure and are located… at the same address.

And one more touch. If Mirgorodsky at least conducted business on his own behalf, then Ozersky, as one can understand, formally registered the company in the name of his daughter and son. According to documents, Daria and Daniil (probably available meaning Ozersky’s son) were the same founders as Gennady Mirgorodsky, with equal shares. At the same time, daughter Daria is clearly as far from business as a mechanic from a ballet tutu. And Daniil had barely finished school then.

Photo by Daria Ozerskaya

However, there is no need to worry about them. They live far from their homeland in London and feel great. Dasha graduated from Sotheby’s Institute of Art – tuition there costs from £52,410 (more than 6.2 million rubles). Specialist in Asian art. Daniil graduated from Bayes Business School. Master of Science – Investment Management. He has worked as a venture capital analyst at London-based Leafy Tunnel and as a private equity analyst at CEECAT Capital. I wonder how they feel about SVO? I should ask dad.

In the service of the “night governor”

Since the “goldfish” is now difficult to catch, Mirgorodsky and Ozersky announced their desire to enter a non-core business. Namely, to the methanol complex in Ust-Luga Leningradskaya Luga Vitaly Yuzhilina. He has been working with petroleum products for a long time, but for him methanol is something new. Fish kings took a 25% share “UK Ruskhim”which is management company “Ruskhimkom”.

Mirgorodsky manages it through his wife Maria, and Ozersky through his company Capital Trust Company LLC.

The organization was specially created for a new methanol complex project, which should include a plant with a capacity of 1.7 million tons per year, a methanol pipeline and a shipping terminal. It was planned to build the complex by 2023, and the amount of investment was estimated at a billion euros.

But what’s interesting is that the organization was created in 2016 and since then there have not been more than five thousand rubles in its accounts.

Mirgorodsky and Ozersky claim that the fishing and crab business has become not so profitable, so, they say, they got into another area – they are spinning as best they can. But they are clearly becoming poor. One gets the impression that by showing stunted income in key assets, they are pouring money into small ones.

Thus, Stolichnaya Trust Company LLC had revenue of 22 million rubles, and profit of 2.5 billion rubles. Exactly the same amount is in the accounts of one of Gennady Mirgorodsky’s companies LLC “Moscow Capital”. Three billion rubles of net profit lie in the accounts of Zigrand LLC. And so on. An interesting idea is suggested by the financial indicators of the North-Western Fishing Consortium, which, with zero revenue, has a profit of 20 million rubles, and founder stories Almost all of her companies have already been liquidated. Just like the North-West Fisheries Association, in founder stories of which 11 companies and 9 of them are liquidated or in the process.

So why methanol? Experts believe that our couple represents the interests of the notorious Ilya Traber, who is called the “night governor of the Leningrad region.” Ust-Luga is usually associated with his name. Traber is a man from the “nineties” who supposedly “controls” the entire Leningrad region for many years. And in certain circles he has the nickname “Antique”. This not easy “roof” and unique connections and opportunities on access to resources and their movement. Well, everyone can imagine for themselves what methods of doing business are in Antikvar’s arsenal.

If this is so, we can assume that Traber wants to take over the methanol business for himself, competing with a company that is going to build a similar plant in Ust-Luga.

Then Yuzhilin, Mirgorodsky and Ozersky acquired “Pechory LNG”which indicates their plans to work in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where, in fact, the deposits are located.

In addition to the methanol production plant, there are plans to build a gas pipeline to the coast of the Barents Sea. And here I involuntarily remember Traber again – the “port” business included in his immediate area of ​​interest.

“Gene on White”

A few more words about Mirgorodsky – oh, what a colorful character! All sorts of scoundrels are spreading rumors about him that he allegedly makes money by transporting substances. Yes, as soon as the tongue turned to blurt out such a thing about the former director, an intellectual who made the first music videos for the cult rockers “DDT”, “Alice”. He considered himself a dissident, but the fair-faced ones have clean hands.

But there are strange people who believe such a story. And they almost call him “Gena on White.” Yes, maybe he drove a white Zhiguli – nothing like that!

Mirgorodsky is still no stranger to creativity. Produced musical in Russia “Pola Negri” – a large-scale project in which 3D rear projection technology was used for the first time in the world. Became a shareholder of the company Fancy Show, in the 2018/19 season the company sold tickets for approximately six hundred million rubles. In 2020, Fancy Show and the telecommunications company Mobile Telesystems released the successful musical Chess for 180 million rubles. MTS receives from pure arrived musical “Chess” 35% share.

The remaining 65% comes from the Fancy Show.

Mirgorodsky’s interests in the Fancy Show are represented by his wife Maria Vasilievna, owning 35%. As we have already written, many assets are recorded on it. For example, 26% of capital Virma LLC (a fishing company in Arkhangelsk), more than that of her husband, who has “only” 24%. Ozersky’s partner has 50%. Last year, the company’s net profit amounted to 997.5 million rubles.

However, let’s return to art. The Mirgorodsky spouses are not at all embarrassed that the general director their company, as the media write, a former criminal Dzhabarov Aziz Narimanovich. In the zero years was convicted according to 162.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – “Robbery on a large scale.” He also has a criminal record under 158.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Theft by a group of persons on a large scale.” Upon release, he turned to business. He is the General Director of MDM Show LLC and Fancy Show LLC. Until July 2022, he also headed LLC “MDM Production”. His musicals are market leaders at the box office. These are productions such as “Cats”, “The Phantom of the Opera”, “Mamma Mia”, “Chicago”, “Ball of the Vampires”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “The Sound of Music”, “Ghost”, “Chess”, “Nothing” Be afraid, I’m with you.” At the same time, Dzhabarov’s social networks have a permanent status of “No to war.” His attitude towards the SVO is no secret to anyone. Having enormous influence in show business, Dzhabarov has the capabilities directly and indirectly agitate for defeatist scenarios of their employees and their environment. Is it any wonder, any wonder, that most of show business is against SVO.

Russian mentality is alien

Well, okay, this is a companion, but here’s what her daughter told about the billionaire’s wife Maria Vasilyevna Agnia Mirgorodskaya.

– At home we speak Lithuanian, – stated Agnia portal rus.tvnet.lv – And in terms of

In my sense of self, I feel more like a Lithuanian.

And further.

– My mother has always been European-oriented personthat’s why my thinking always didn’t fit into the Russian mentality, I often felt like an outsider,” Agnia Mirgorodskaya told the magazine L’Officiel Baltics.

She turned out to be a good daughter. Since the spring of 2016 he has been living in Riga. Before that, she spent more than a year in New York and eight years in London. Founder, Founderdirector and commissioner of the Riga International Biennale of Contemporary Art (aka RIBOCA).

However, with the beginning of the SVO, strong pressure began to be exerted on the biennale, they say, it is financed by a Russian billionaire, how is this possible! Agnia began to wag and say that “her husband, American businessman Robert William Pokoroy, gives the money.” But it turns out that in fact only 150,000 euros came directly from Pokora’s business.

As a result, she was forced to announce the cessation of work and began raising funds for Ukrainian refugees. Naturally, we don’t know which part will go to them and which, for example, will be used to finance Russophobic structures.
Here are Agnia’s posts on the network:

A prominent Russian businessman and loving father gave approximately five million euros for this exhibition.

Well, and for a snack – about the restaurant. Mirgorodsky owns the “edalnyaya” Fancy Crab in London. There, the British are treated to juicy Kamchatka crab and wine from a family friend Evgenia Chichvarkina, recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent. Mirgorodsky’s youngest daughter Alisa hangs out a lot with Chichvarkin, because she also lives in London.

Alisa Mirgorodskaya with her best friend Chichvarkin

Average check in Fancy Crab – about £50, which, by London standards, is quite affordable, and even surprising for Kamchatka crab. But why be surprised if the restaurant receives crab directly from the Russian consortium SZRK. Therefore, prices are two to three times lower than others.

Mirgorovsky with his sister Nina, who owns a crab restaurant in London

In 2017, Gennady appointed his sister as director of the company Nina Mirgorodskaya (“Nina Mirgorodskaya”) (and she’s also in London – imagine!). And in July 2022 passed on she manages the restaurant and has a controlling share in the business – 75%.

This is what they are – Russian fishing producers. This is where the money earned in Russia goes, in the era of the Northern Military District and the historical confrontation with the West. This is who will get the inheritance made on the diagrams – children to whom Russia is alien and unpleasant. I would like to hope that the time of entrepreneurs who received the opportunity to integrate into a great country for decades for next to nothing is already running out.