Maxim Nemchinov: Long Live Rotterdam Plus! PART 1

Nemchinov Maxim Alexandrovich was born on March 5, 1976 in the city of Kommunarsk (now Alchevsk) in the Luhansk region. His parents, Aleksandr Ivanovich and Elena Fedorovna, were engineers at one of the city’s industrial enterprises. They lived almost in the city center, next to the city executive committee, in a large nine-story panel building with a grocery store downstairs.

He has an older sister, Larisa Mamusheva (born in 1964), who, together with him, is one of the founders of ALTRADE LLC (EDRPOU 32898958), created in 2003. This company can be found in Nemchinov’s declarations for 2017-2019; he did not even bother to rewrite it to his wife (like his other companies). By the way, this enterprise was created and registered in Alchevsk, which has been under the control of the “LPR” since 2014. But, judging by all Ukrainian databases, it continues to operate successfully, its types of activities have changed, all these changes are reflected in these Ukrainian databases. By the way, about the types of activities: earlier in the media it was mentioned that this enterprise is engaged in coal trading. That is, there is obvious involvement of this company in the “gray”, and perhaps even “black” coal schemes that have been operating in the Ukraine-LDNR-Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) triangle for several years now.

Apparently, we simply misunderstand something – or is it not forbidden for a Ukrainian Secretary of State, that is, a high-ranking official, to be a co-owner of a private company registered and operating in the occupied territories, paying taxes to the budget of aggressors and terrorists? And it was not we who came up with these ominous terms, but the Ukrainian government, of which Maksym Nemchinov has been a part for several years now.

However, according to data Skeleton.InfoNemchinov has another form in ORDILO, which is not reflected in his declarations – this is the servicing cooperative “Universitetsky” (EDRPOU 35554305), opened in 2007. It is registered in Lugansk itself, at the address Stepnoy quarter, house 19, apartment 6. This company also operates as if nothing had happened, its data is regularly updated in Ukrainian databases. And Nemchinov’s partner in this cooperative is Alexander Sergeevich Podkolzin – who also has his share in OOO “ALTREYD”. That is, Maxim Nemchinov and Alexander Podkozin are long-standing (since their youth) friends and partners.

Now let’s be curious, who is this Podkolzin? And suddenly we find him in Kyiv, in the chair of the deputy director for financial and economic affairs of the Atompribor Design Bureau at the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom! And for some reason, it immediately becomes uneasy to realize that a person who has operating companies in Lugansk and Alchevsk occupies a senior position in the Energoatom structure. What if Podkozin not only finances the Lugansk separatists, but also carries out some kind of bad task, maybe even prepares sabotage? Where is the SBU looking? Maybe this is just a namesake? No, we look into the declaration of the deputy director of the Atompribor Design Bureau, Alexander Podkolzin, and see that very same company, ALTREYD! But he also hid his Lugansk cooperative, Universitetsky, just like Nemchinov. I wonder why?

This same Podkolzin was the head of the Alchevsk city organization of the Socialist Party of Ukraine – exactly when his friend Nemchinov ran for the city council from the SPU in 2006. But the most interesting thing is that this same Podkolzin was Nemchinov’s accomplice in his coal scams when he held positions in the Ministry of Energy. And now we will tell you all about it…

The Twisted Paths of Coal Corruption

After graduating from high school #11, in 1993, Maksim Nemchinov entered the Donbass Mining and Metallurgical Institute (in Alchevsk), where he received his diploma only in 2001. Judging by this delay, Nemchinov’s education was apparently interrupted by military service. But he began working while still a student: in 1998, Nemchinov became a manager at AOZT Meridian, which was later liquidated in 2003.

The company that brought Maksim Nemchinov to big people was the private enterprise PKF Almaks (EDRPOU 31212135), which also specialized in fuel (coal) trading. By the way, due to the fact that in his autobiography Nemchinov made a mistake in spelling the name of this company (“Almako” and not “Almaks”), and this mistake was copied by the media, many journalists tried in vain to find some information about Nemchinov’s previous place of work. Well, now this mistake has been corrected.

He got a job at Almax in 2000, from the moment the company opened, and worked there continuously for ten years: first as a manager, and from 2006 as a deputy director. And he worked hard there until the spring of 2010, after which he was called to Kyiv to the position of “leading legal consultant” at the state-owned enterprise “Coal of Ukraine”. From provincial coal dust – and straight to the leading specialists of the capital’s department of one of the largest state-owned enterprises! But this was only the beginning of his unexpected career. Already in September 2010, Nemchinov became the chief specialist of the Restructuring Department of the Ministry of Coal Industry. From March to June 2011, he worked as the chief specialist of the Coal Industry Department in the already restructured Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry – under the leadership of Alexander Vivcharenko, who, according to Skeleton.Infois a trusted person of Akhmetov (previously Vivcharenko commanded DTEK’s Pavlogradugol and Rovenkianthracite). Since the summer of 2011, Nemchinov was appointed head of the Department of Economic Reforms in this ministry.

Many Ukrainians probably remember in whose interests the “Donetsk people” who came to power “reformed” and “restructured” the coal industry in 2010-2013. It was the time of the grandiose schemes of Rinat Akhmetov, Sasha Stomatolog (Alexander Yanukovych), Yuriy Ivanyushchenko and other “coal kings”.

But then the second Maidan broke out, the “Donetsk people” lost power, but their people remained in its corridors. And one of them was Maksym Nemchinov: despite all the changes taking place in the country, he continued to work in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, receiving a new position there as the head of the Department for Coal Enrichment and Operation of Peat Extraction Enterprises. As is known, fraud at coal enrichment plants is one of the main coal schemes in Ukraine, where billions are made. One can only guess what dirty deeds Nemchinov covered up. It was in this position that he was almost grabbed by the flabby buttocks by the hand of the law, a criminal case was even opened against him – but he managed to slip away.

In March 2016, clouds of smoke from burning peat bogs began to thicken over Nemchinov. He managed to get away with dismissal and returned to his native company, Almaks, to the position of commercial director. Where he “sat out” for almost two years until he received the position of state secretary at the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry.

Maxim Nemchinov

Nemchinov and Almax are a rather interesting topic. And not only because the name of the company is too reminiscent of Alchevsk-Maxim. But the company could only be named after a student manager working there in one case – if it was founded by Maxim Nemchinov himself or his parents. But he, of course, will not tell us about this. And the ends have long been hidden in the water during the re-registration of the company. And yet, let’s trace their joint path as best we can. So, PCF Almax appeared in Alchevsk in 2000, and its first founders, alas, do not appear in open databases. Then, after that, Maxim Nemchinov moved to Kyiv for government service, and the Almax company moved there with him. It is known that at the time of 2014-2015. It was registered in the Podolsk district of the capital, and its founder was already Olga Nemchinova, the wife of our “hero”. And the director of the company was… his friend and companion Alexander Podkolzin! This continued until the fall of 2017, when “Almax” was re-registered again: it was registered in the Dniprovsky district of Kyiv, and its founder and director was Alexander Shinkarenko.

Who is this? Apparently, some Nemchinov figurehead, since in 2019 another of Nemchinov’s companies was re-registered to him – Energotransline LLC (EDRPOU 37907102), which is engaged in coal trading and electricity distribution. By the way, it is registered in the Podolsk district of Kyiv, at the same address where the Almaks company was previously registered. Previously, before Shinkarenko appeared, Energotransline was run by spouses Alexander and Irina Podkolzin, and even earlier – by Olga Nemchinova! Initially, Energotransline appeared in 2011 in Alchevsk, that is, this company also later moved to Kyiv to its real owner Nemchinov.

Well, and adds to the list of Nemchinov’s coal companies OOO Geos VKF (EDRPOU 37339683), now registered to the Panamanian offshore TNP Industries, which previously also belonged to Olga Nemchinova. All this, by the way, became one of the reasons that Maxim Nemchinov received his coveted position of Secretary of State only in the spring of 2018.

Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info

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