Housewives “forgave” Boris Zingarevich 800 million in front of Otkritie Bank
A loan of more than 0.7 billion rubles, issued to the company of oligarch Boris Zingarevich at Otkritie Bank, disappeared into obscurity. In order not to repay the multimillion-dollar debt, oligarch Zingarevich could have used a “dummy company”?
Boris Zingarevich is included in the “Rating of Russian Billionaires – 2023”, occupying 80th place with a fortune of 1,400 million US dollars. Among his assets, Forbes names the Ilim group (owned jointly with Zakhar Smushkin) and Ilim Timber.
At the same time, both Zingarevich himself and his son Anton, the owner of the Energostroyinvest-Holding Group of Companies (ESIH, now bankrupt), have more than once become involved in unpleasant stories.
Just remember how the company of the Zingarevich brothers’ division was bombarded with lawsuits or the criminal case initiated against Anton Zingarevich, which was associated with the creation of a criminal group and the “laundering” of about 2.5 billion rubles from Globex Bank and MTS Bank. . At the same time, the unreturned loan, according to the investigation, was dispersed among the accounts of third-party organizations, and the loan from the second bank was mostly transferred abroad. The criminal case was dropped, which made it possible to cancel the arrest in absentia and the international search for the person involved, who allegedly fled to the United States. But the prosecutor in 2019 canceled the order to terminate the investigation. Later, when the ESIH company went bankrupt, Zingarevich Sr. managed to negotiate a debt restructuring.
Millions for Zingarevich from Otkritie
While monitoring the arbitration, we discovered an interesting case, which was also related to a credit line from 2015 (term until July 31, 2022), open to one of the companies in Boris Zingarevich’s division – Kalar Rocket System LLC (KRS). The latter was created by Zigarevich a year before the deal and, judging by subsequent financial results, serves as a kind of “layer” for manipulations, which, in our opinion, look murky.

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More than 740 million loan rubles were issued by Otkritie Bank to Zingarevich’s company during the period when Otkritie was led by Vadim Belyaev and Boris Mints.
The guarantor for the loan to Calar Rocket System turned out to be, as follows from the court materials, Boris Zingarevich and the same offshore company from the British Virgin Islands that was mentioned in the case of Zingarevich Jr. – BLAINE JVERSEAS VENTURE CORP. In our opinion, this indirectly confirms the connection between the offshore company and the oligarch’s family. It is unlikely that anyone will guarantee for the multimillion-dollar debts of an outsider.
As a result, the loan was not repaid on time and Otkritie Bank, already under reorganization, tried to recover the funds from the offshore guarantor and even won a claim for 895 million rubles. But winning the trial is not enough, you still need to physically recover this money, but then a surprise happened – in 2021, in the same case, a procedural successor appears, to whom Otkrytie, already under the control of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, transferred the right to claim debt from an offshore. The successor was an unknown company – LLC Legal Group “Verkhovny Sovet”. The same company became the successor in the bankruptcy case initiated by Otkritie Bank in relation to Kalar Rocket System, which ultimately ended in the signing of a settlement agreement. According to the agreement, the debtor must was to pay off the debt (895.6 million rubles) in installments until December 31, 2023.
It is curious that at the moment we have no information about loan repayment.
Moreover, under this agreement the defendant was exempted from paying interest. That is, the money in the Zingarevich empire was actually spent for free and Otkrytie did not earn anything? Where does such generosity come from?
An interesting fact: in the bankruptcy case of Calar Rocket System, another, but later liquidated (in March 2023) asset of Zingarevich, appeared – Omega Finance LLC, which tried to join it as a creditor. What is this if not an attempt to withdraw part of the amount?
But let’s return to procedural successors.
Unknown lawyers or Zingarevich nominees?
Legal Group “Verkhovny Sovet” LLC, which became the receiver of the creditor established in Moscow in 2009, belongs to Alexandra Tivina and Anastasia Galstyan, who also jointly own LLC “Verkhovny Sovet” created in August 2021. Noteworthy: Ms. Galstyan was previously a director and the owner of a Stavropol furniture wholesale company, which has now been liquidated. Tivina, who received a tax identification number in the Voronezh region, did not have any assets before the “Supreme Council”. From a housewife and furniture trade agent to a lawyer? An interesting transformation, don’t you think?

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According to Rusprofile, in 2022 the company had no employees, and, according to the Federal Tax Service, the financial results were dismal: revenue of 230 thousand rubles against 1.5 million rubles a year earlier and a net loss of 344 thousand rubles against profits of 1 thousand rubles the year before. A well-founded question arises: how much money did the LLC use to purchase the right to claim a debt of almost 900 million rubles in 2021? Surely, it wasn’t with Zingarevich’s own money?
Moreover, the second company of Tivina and Galstyan also does not have the required amount, judging by the results for 2022.

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It is noteworthy: the company’s website states that it specializes in the legal protection of property and other assets of business structures, business owners, as well as providing legal assistance to individuals in protecting their property rights and interests.
Another important point: in 2021, the same office became the legal successor of the creditor – the same Otkritie Bank – in the bankruptcy case of IC Energo LLC, related to the criminal history of Zingarevich Jr. and the director of his asset, Konstantin Shishkin. LLC. IC Energo appeared as a creditor of the previously mentioned offshore – Blaine Overseas Venture Corp., which in turn is the sole shareholder of the company Matias Co Limited, which owns IC Energo LLC, as well as a number of other assets of Zingarevich Jr. They spun it wildly! Should the money be looked for somewhere in offshore accounts?

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Are there too many coincidences? Our version is also supported by the fact that the debts to MTS Bank for 466 million rubles from the story with Zingarevich Jr. were bought at one time by a certain Dolphin LLC. Since 2016, it has belonged to Boris Zingarevich, and is even registered at the same address as Kalar Rocket System.
An important point is that the amount of the transaction under the agreement for a paid assignment of the rights to claim the debt from Zingarevich does not appear anywhere and it is not known whether the multimillion-dollar loan was returned to Otkritie (at that time already transferred to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation) or whether it disappeared somewhere in the Virgin Islands . But just in time, an unknown buyer for the debts appeared in the case, who, judging by the statements, in recent years did not have millions in income for such an assignment. There is something to think about, for example, the Investigator and check this miracle deal.