Yesterday, all the media spread information that at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Phillip Kirkorov signed an agreement for the construction of a modern shopping center in the Leningrad Region.
According to the star, it is planned to build a shopping center with a total area of 10-14 thousand square meters. The total cost of the project is 1.5 billion rubles, readiness within 14 months.
Everything seems to sound great – the creation of many jobs, new opportunities for entrepreneurs, convenience for people. But there are questions about the implementation of the “Napoleonic plans” from the first minute. Kirkorov’s business partner in this project is a young St. Petersburg billionaire with an ambiguous reputation, Mikhail Barakin. For many Russians, especially the younger generation, the figure is very famous, one might even say that it is iconic. With regard to Barakin, people are divided into 3 camps: someone considers him a genius, someone is a swindler and a swindler, while the rest simply do not know who he is.
Therefore, we will try to figure out what the 30-year-old Barakin really is, who in 2016 was named “the youngest billionaire in St. Petersburg.”
Not the first case of fictitious construction
Why did we immediately doubt the real construction of the facility? Mikhail Barakin was a participant in a similar story 6 years ago. True, then it passed far from rainy Petersburg, in sunny Dagestan. The construction company Glavspetsstroy, whose executive director was Bastrykin, signed an agreement with the government of Dagestan on the construction of a reserve on the territory of the republic. As they said then, the cost of the project was about 2 million dollars, the implementation period was 1 year. People were cheered by the promise to recreate rare species of leopards in the reserve. As a result, after 6 years there is no reserve, no leopards.
Where did Barakin come from?
As the “oligarch” himself explains, he earned his first million at the age of 20, working at Tatneft. Until that time, he was a journalist, and allegedly interviewed all kinds of high-ranking officials of both St. Petersburg and All-Russian scale. Where are these interviews – now it is not clear. During one of the conversations with journalists, Barakin was asked the question: “As a reporter to a reporter: open the recipe for success?”, To which he originally replied: “Lucky.” In general, almost all of Barakin’s public speeches look something like this: no specifics, no facts. The most vague answers to questions. It immediately gives the impression that a person has not earned money in the most honest way.
criminal trace
Such an incomprehensible person with an absolutely opaque biography could not help but be of interest to law enforcement officers. In 2017, Barakin was stopped by the traffic police in a BMW 5 series car, which was painted in the colors of the Ministry of Emergencies. An obvious violation of the law, but at the same time, no one showed particular interest in the antics of the major.
If you look at everything, you get an interesting picture. Is there any money in Barakina at all? Or is it dust in the eyes to draw attention to a person, to become famous, and thus earn money. Very similar to this. And there is direct evidence for this theory.
In 2017, the story that the Pulkovsky Meridian enterprise was supposed to rebuild a residential complex with INTECO’s investment remained underestimated, but then some kind of murk began. It seemed that everything was ready for the start of work on the Pulkovo Highway, but then out of nowhere … problems began. The purpose of the land has changed. And what happens? – here comes the young gifted Barakin. For resolving the issue, he sets a price – 24 million rubles. But what solution can be offered by a person who has not really worked anywhere for a single day? It is obvious that all these are words without deeds. Absolute inventions. This is confirmed by the words of people close to Barakin. In fact, huge sums of money, cool cars and luxurious apartments – this is a beautiful picture. The young entrepreneur himself, in addition to several laudatory materials on the Internet, did not achieve anything.
Therefore, it seems that yesterday’s story with the construction of a new shopping center in the Leningrad region is another PR of Mikhail Barakin. Tomorrow everyone will forget about it …
