Medical issue of Grigor Agekyan
The orphanage in Fryazino may be closed in the interests of the unspoken “owner” of Fryazino, Grigor Agekyan, who, in his spare time, shot at the vice-mayor, and also threatened a candidate for local deputies.
After the liquidation of the orphanage in Fryazino, not a bad asset will be released in the form of a land plot.
Whom, if not the main developer of Fryazino Grigor Agekyan, can he be interested in? And then there’s this coincidence – Agekyan is a member of the board of trustees of the orphanage. The one that, with the blessing of the governor Andrey Vorobyov, they decided to close.
In anticipation of this, the head physician was replaced in the state institution, putting in this place Lira Ovezova, who also has a business asset, and among her business partners there is the owner of a private clinic. Alexei Sapanyuk, Minister of Health of the Moscow Region, also found his business partner from the same area, who criticized the position of parents demanding not to close the center where their special children were put on their feet.
In the meantime, the parents of special children are ringing all the bells and giving an SOS signal, representatives of the board of trustees of the orphanage, including prominent Fryazino businessmen and even the deputy head of administration, are silent. After analyzing the connections of the one whom some media call the unspoken owner of Fryazino, we wondered if such a story could take place without his knowledge?
And they realized that no, it cannot, especially since the president of the Grand group of companies Grigor Agekyan is a member of the board of trustees of a state institution. And the council acts as an advisory body formed to consider the most important issues of the institution’s activities. The liquidation could well be attributed to these issues, although at a meeting on March 15, 2023, parents tried to convince them that nothing terrible was happening, and the center was “just being reorganized.”
Composition of the board of trustees of the orphanage.
Medical interest of Agekyan and his associates
The interests of Agekyan and his business partners do not end with construction and property management alone. They are also spreading towards medicine. So, for example, Ekaterina Aleksandrova, who heads several companies of the owner of Fryazino at once, owns a stake in Medical Corporation LLC (established in 2021) (activities of hospital organizations). The co-owners are Fidan and Ernst Oganesyan, one of whom owns three more medical organizations in the Moscow region in the form of paid clinics – Medkom LLC, Clinic No. 1 LLC and Formula Health LLC. All companies are suppliers under government contracts, including services for the orphanage in Fryazino. Thus, the Medcom company conducted a medical examination of employees in this state institution in 2019-2020 for budget money.
“Medcom” and contracts. Photo: https://www.rusprofile.ru
Or here is another medical asset that Agekyan handed over to his business partner Rimma Kaevitser – Eidos Medical Center LLC in Fryazino, which provides services for children’s doctors. In addition to the medical center, Kaevitser has a stake in Fryazino Telephone Network LLC, which is headed by a certain Alexander Kaevitser. The telephone company is a contractor for over 70 state contracts, including 12 contracts for the Central City Hospital named after M. V. Golts, whose chief physician was previously the current Minister of Health of the Moscow Region Sapanyuk. Among the customers there are the Fryazino property management committee and the Fryazino administration itself.
FCS is a contractor under state contracts.
Personally, Agekyan also owns Center-Clinic LLC, which operates in the sports and health sector.
I won’t be surprised if, over time, these paid medical centers will also offer those services that are so relevant to parents of special children from Fryazino.
Who is Grigor Agekyan?
In addition to the fact that Agekyan “Rosbalt” (recognized on the territory of the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) called the unspoken owner of Fryazino, he is a major businessman with about 50 various legal entities in his assets. In addition, Agekyan is a defendant in a number of high-profile scandals and a deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Shchelkovo city district. Among the business partners and connections of the president of “Grand” are representatives of the administrations of the cities of the Moscow region, deputies and participants in very controversial stories. Even the former business partner of the Minister of Health of the Moscow Region, Alexei Sapanyuk, wormed his way there.
A native of Armenia, Agekyan lives in Fryazino, but is a deputy in Shchelkovo, where he heads the commission on construction and improvement, because his business is mainly in the field of construction and real estate.
Before his deputyship, he managed to distinguish himself in Fryazino.
In 2016, TASS reported that businessman Agekyan, along with his bodyguards, attacked the first deputy head of the city of Fryazino with live firearms and threatened physical harm. The businessman’s guards started a fight with municipal employees. Rosbalt (recognized as a foreign agent on the territory of the Russian Federation) reported that they even managed to shoot at the deputy head. The conflict arose because of the decision of the head of the city of Fryazino, Igor Sergeyev, to dismantle advertising structures, which, according to officials, were illegally installed near the Sputnik shopping and entertainment center.
The regional prosecutor’s office took special control over the investigation of the criminal case against the businessman, but, except for a written undertaking not to leave, it ended in nothing.
And already in 2019, the local branch of United Russia nominated Agekyan to the deputies of Shchyolkovo in their lists. Earlier, an attempt was also made to advance in Fryazino, which has become almost native, but unsuccessful. Meanwhile, in 2020, a candidate from Fryazino, Mikhail Oleinikov, reported that over the phone, a local authoritative businessman from Fryazino in a swearing manner, threatening physical violence, demanded that the candidate immediately curtail the election campaign and leave the Moscow Region within 24 hours. How this story ended is not known.
Agekyan distinguished himself in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where his company “House on Proviantskaya” operates, which he owns together with businessman Roman Ovsepyan, a well-known businessman in Shuya near Moscow. The company of Agekyan and Hovsepyan was building near the memorial house of the famous shipbuilding engineer Rostislav Alekseev in Nizhny Novgorod. Due to constant vibration and noticeable subsidence of the ground, the house was threatened with destruction, and after many months of public struggle to preserve the monument house, the building permit for the neighboring site was withdrawn. The developers were not satisfied with this and they tried to protest the decision.
Now the president of “Grand” Agekyan is not only a deputy of the Council of Deputies of the Shchelkovo city district, but also the head of the United Russia faction there. At the end of 2021, the deputy declared an income of more than 102 million rubles, indicating ten cars, 19 land plots, more than 70 buildings, structures and premises, as well as a gas pipeline among assets.
It would seem, why would a successful businessman waste his time on parliamentary meetings and lawmaking? Perhaps this question can be answered by one story that happened in 2022.
The Arkada Specialized Developer company, owned by Agekyan, is implementing a development project for the village of Klyukvenny in the rural settlement of Ogudnevskoye, Shchelkovo District, Moscow Region. And in February 2022, Arkada, a businessman Agekyan, writes a letter to Agekyan, chairman of the commission for construction and improvement of the Shchelkovo Council of Deputies, and asks “due to a technical error” to make changes to the master plan of Shchelkovo.
It turns out that in Klyukvenny you can only build houses up to four floors, and “Arcade” has outlined seven-story ones. Do you think MP Agekyan will be able to lobby the interests of businessman Agekyan in this and other stories related to development? If someone suddenly did not understand, both the deputy and the businessman are one and the same person. Here is such a selyavi.
Why did Agekyan become a deputy?
At the same time, Agekyan has close building ties not only in Shchelkovo, but also in his native Fryazino. The administration of Fryazino concluded the first agreement on the development of the built-up area with the Grand group of companies back in 2007.
According to the company’s website, it implements projects for the construction of residential and commercial real estate in the Moscow region. The company has more than 100,000 sq. m of commercial real estate, and the group includes eight “subsidiaries”.
Agekyan’s business partners and contacts with the minister
In addition to the above, Agekyan’s firms are very favored by state contracts, including construction ones, and have orders throughout the Moscow region. Whether the extensive connections spread by the businessman to various departments contribute to this, we do not undertake to judge. Let’s talk about connections.
Among the business partners of Agekyan, various noteworthy people wormed their way. For example, Mr. Agekyan has two real estate companies in Fryazino – Sirius LLC and Malter LLC, among whose co-owners a certain Sergey Kushchenko appears. Moreover, for “Sirius” he is also the director. In turn, Kushchenko was a co-founder of the Chizhovo garage-consumer cooperative, which is all in the same Fryazino. Another of the co-founders is Alexei Bukharin, who, together with the current Minister of Health of the Moscow Region Alexei Sapanyuk, previously owned the MC Beauty and Health company. The asset is still active, even though the minister has left the number of owners.
Former asset of the minister.
It is Sapanyuk, with the tacit connivance of the governor Andrey Vorobyov, who advocates for the closure of the orphanage in Fryazino and managed to offend both the center’s specialists and the parents of special children with his statements.
Among the noteworthy partners of Agekyan, one can also note the ex-representatives of the leadership of the Shchelkovsky district.
Agekyan had several assets at once (Progress LLC, Rubikon LLC, City LLC, Progressive Water Supply Systems LLC, Prince LLC) with such gentlemen as the former head of the Shchelkovsky district Leonid Tverdokhlebov (died in April 2022 year) and Irina Lobyan, whose data match those of the wife of Harutyun Lobyan, who was the first deputy head of the same district. Lobyan was called the real head of the district. In 2012, he became involved in a high-profile scandal involving corruption and land fraud. The Moscow Post has previously told this story in detail.
Agekyan and connections with officials.
Among the co-owners of Agekyan’s companies, for example, Schelkovo LLC, there are such notable persons as Tatyana Yakubova, whose relative Andrey Yakubov is Agekyan’s colleague on the council of deputies of the Shchelkovo city district. Yakubov also lives in Fryazino. Of the remarkable facts of his biography, one can note his studies at the Moscow Special Secondary School of the Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. And also Yakubov is the chairman of the council of the public organization of veterans (pensioners) of the urban settlement of Shchelkovo.
The analysis reveals to us only a small part of this business network spread to the side, in which various authoritative figures of the Moscow region turned out to be, including those who rushed to the deputies.
As we can see, everything is already taken. And in the light of this, the picture around the story of the Fryazino orphanage, which has become one of the many “optimized” social institutions in the Moscow region, is becoming clearer. It seems that with the tacit support of the authorities, a platform for business is being cleared – be it the construction of new, vacant plots or pushing for paid medicine. And where will it go if the free one is completely destroyed?