“Monarch” Ambartsumyan and Tsaturyan in the “Reserve”: who will “eat” on Saltykovskaya?

Businessman Tigran Tsaturyan became the new owner of Azbuka Investments LLC, which owns 4.4 hectares on Saltykovskaya Street in eastern Moscow. The entrepreneur is associated with the beneficiary of the MonArch development group, Sergei Ambartsumyan, who is considered a developer close to the Moscow City Hall.

The site will most likely be developed. And for sure, the project will take into account the interests of another developer allegedly close to Tsaturyan – Sergey Govyadin, who was prominent in the story of the alienation of property from Albert Khudoyan.

The site was sold to Tsaturyan by the Hals Development group, which is part of the VTB circuit. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but the businessman is unlikely to have the funds for such a purchase. He acted as the founder of 8 legal entities, the total value of which is estimated at minus 60 million rubles, the value of his shares is minus 46 million rubles.

Sergei Ambartsumyan could give funds, whose interests Tsaturyan can represent. He may be the general director of MonArch Concern LLC – earlier, in this capacity, he signed an agreement on the implementation of an investment project on the territory of the Dubna Special Economic Exhibition in the Moscow Region. In addition, he is the owner of Grid Company LLC. Until February 2023, Sergey Ambartsumyan was among the owners.

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It must be assumed that in the case of building up a site on Saltykovskaya Street, Tsaturyan can count on the full assistance of the mayor’s office. Its alleged boss Sergei Ambartsumyan is considered close to the city authorities – in 2003-2007 he served as deputy head of the Department of Urban Planning Policy, Development and Reconstruction of the City of Moscow. The work of his department was to be supervised by Petr Biryukov, who is still the deputy mayor of the city.

Enough scandals are connected with Ambartsumyan and MonArch. Rumor has it that he can do almost everything on the Moscow construction market. Can you remember history with the construction of a plant in Marushinsky, in New Moscow.

After the start of construction, it turned out that the local residents, who were clearly not enthusiastic about this project, were not even notified about it. At the same time, Ambartsumyan’s company handed over to the mayor’s office documents signed by supposedly local residents, on the basis of which, in the end, they received a building permit.

Among other things, the entrepreneur loves to sue. Including with their customers. This was the case with the Higher School of Economics, for which Ambartsumyan’s company reconstructed a complex of buildings on Pokrovsky Boulevard and Vorontsovo Pole for 9.9 billion rubles. The deadlines for the delivery of objects were shifted, for which the HSE counted penalties of almost 1 billion rubles. As a result, Hambardzumyan went to the courts.

Ambartsumyan’s companies also had problems with the FAS. In 2017, the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Center addressed to the FAS and the Chamber of Control and Accounts of Moscow (KSP) regarding a government contract of 916 million rubles. for an innovative facade and renovation of the Central Entrepreneur’s House (CDP). The center considered that the contract was concluded with violations.

In any case, it can be assumed that if Ambartsumyan is behind Tsaturyan, problems may arise with the construction site.

Beef and the fate of Khudoyan

Tsaturyan may not just be Ambartsumyan’s subordinate. Allegedly, Tsaturyan is his son-in-law, and also the “special envoy” of the developer Sergei Govyadin.

The latter is best known for the situation with another developer – Albert Khudoyan, who, as a result of cooperation with ex-State Duma deputy Ildar Samiev and his close partner Sergei Govyadin, lost part of the business.

Previously, Samiev was under consequence in the case of fraud with suburban real estate worth $ 850 thousand. In 2012, his Soratnik LLC decided to sell 23 acres of land and a cottage located on them in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region to the offshore company Risegate Enterprises Ltd. According to investigators, after receiving the funds, the money was stolen, and the property was never re-registered for the company.

A huge number of assets are associated with Govyadin and Samiev. Photo: Lenta.en

The situation with Khudoyan is similar to a raider takeover. In 2015-2017, Khudoyan’s company Optima Development built the Prime Park residential complex in Moscow. The lease rights to the land for the new residential complex were issued to the Aviacity company. However, the developer did not have any other necessary documents.

Then Khudoyan turned to Ildar Samiev, Sergey Govyadin’s partner, with a request to help with paperwork. In return, the new partner was promised 50% of the profit from the project. After receiving the documents, the offshore company Mansfield Executive Ltd, owned by Samiyev, bought out half of the shares in Aviacity LLC, which owned the right to lease land for Prime Park.

After receiving the documents, the offshore company Mansfield Executive Ltd, owned by Samiev, bought out half of the shares in Aviacity LLC. And then a criminal case of fraud against Khudoyan suddenly appeared – allegedly, having created an artificial debt to Aviacity, he sold it to third parties.

As Khudoyan’s lawyer Alexander Kabanov explained at the time, they wanted to “force” his client to transfer his property without compensation in favor of other persons. In a conversation with journalists, the lawyer mentioned one of the business partners of his client, Ildar Samiev.

Later, Khudoyan’s company Optima Development sold the Prime Park development project to the A1 structures of oligarch Mikhail Fridman. Those. if the pressure version is true, it worked. However, Khudoyan was still sentenced to six years in prison.

It is possible that Sergey Govyadin and his likely “guarantor” Tigran Tsaturyan, whose boss Ambartsumyan has serious connections in the Moscow mayor’s office, could have been involved in that story.

Tsaturyan in “Reserve”

Another story is connected with Tsaturyan, which may also resemble an unfriendly takeover of an asset. We are talking about the company “Creative Production Association “Reserve” (TPO “Reserve”), which is engaged in architectural research.

The company is successful and favored by the Moscow authorities. The amount of government contracts (mainly with metropolitan structures) is over 325 million rubles. Revenue for 2022 – more than 266 million rubles. There is something to fight for.

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The founders of the company were Semyon Lamdon, Sergey Zaitsev and Moscow architect Vladimir Plotkin. At some point, Lamdon decided to go out of business, remaining as a managing partner. In 2019, he entered into an agreement with Zaitsev, according to which Lamdon was to be paid a salary of 1.7 million rubles a month in exchange for transferring a majority stake in the business to Zaitsev at face value.

For the first months, the owners of the company adhered to the agreement, and then they stopped paying money to Lamdon. In 2020, he finally quit, but they did not pay him. The businessman went to the courts, which he won. However, at the same time it became known that even before the execution of the decision of these courts on the payment of money to Lamdon, Zaitsev sold his shares to Tigran Tsaturyan. Writes about it “Moment of Truth”.

Later, Mr. Tsaturyan filed a lawsuit against Lamdon to recover from his 388 million rubles a loss from allegedly unfair actions – transactions that were unprofitable for the company, carried out under his supervision. The court agreed with the plaintiff’s arguments – Lamdon was left not only without a business, but also without money. Looks like Lamdon just got thrown out of business. Tsaturyan and his supposed father-in-law, Sergei Ambartsumyan, could have played a role in this.Photo: https://sudact.ru/arbitral/doc/Edn4KNwiisN4/

In 2021, Zaitsev withdrew from the capital of the company, Tsaturyan and Plotkin remained the owners.

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It is quite possible that it was not Zaitsev who invited Tsaturyan to the company, but just the architect Plotkin. Both have been working in the construction and architecture market of Moscow for many years, they should be perfectly familiar with each other.

At the same time, if Tsaturyan is the deputy general director at MonArch, numerous scandals of this development group may also be associated with him. Moreover, Hasmik Sergeevna Tsaturyan, the alleged wife of Tigran and the daughter of Sergei Ambartsumyan, owns 5% in MonArch Group of Companies LLC. So TPO Resource can be a structure directly affiliated with the owner of MonArch.