MR Group of Roman Timokhin and Viktor Labuzdko withdrew from the project for the reconstruction of the building on Sofiyskaya Embankment in Moscow – it could assign it to a structure associated with the former top manager of Tekta Group, and now the owner of the Gravion development group, Yuri Nemazhenin.
Nemazhenin may act in the interests of the former boss – the owner of Tekta Group Dmitry Starostin. A whole series of scandals is associated with the latter, including the criminal smell. Among other things, he is the managing partner of the Aeon Corporation of the scandalous oligarch Roman Trotsenko. It is possible that he is also interested in the project on Sofiyskaya embankment.
More details – in the material of the correspondent of The Moscow Post.
Grid Rus LLC received the rights to reconstruct part of the Kokorevsky courtyard on Zolotoy Ostrov opposite the Kremlin (real estate is more elite and more expensive than ever) through several steps of ownership. Now she is the beneficiary of Suplex Technologies LLC, on the balance sheet of which there is a plot and the building itself for 5.7 thousand square meters. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed.
Two companies that make up the ownership steps from Suplex Technologies to Grid Rus LLC are N-Development LLC and N-Holding LLC. 100% of the shares of N-Development LLC in Suplex and 100% of the shares of N-Holding LLC in N-Development LLC are pledged to Sberbank Investments LLC. The value of the assets of N-Development is minus 178 million rubles, the loss for 2021 is over 51 million rubles.
Grid Rus LLC is owned by Victor Fominykh and Vitaly Groznov. Thus, they entered Supelex Technologies LLC with debts. Both are partners of the owner of the Gravion group, Yuri Nemazhenin, through Gravion Realty LLC, owned by the holding.
The company has signs of fictitiousness – it employs only one employee, and the authorized capital is only 10 thousand rubles. At the same time, Mr. Groznov is also an advertising tycoon – he owns Media Instinct Group, which combines three large agencies.
Apparently, they will conduct advertising campaigns for the sale of space in the Kokorevskoye Compound, and may also be related to the PR of both Nemazhenin’s Gravion projects and Dmitry Starostin’s Tekta Group.
Mr. Fominykh looks more like a figurehead in this breakdown of owners – apart from the half-empty Gravion Realty LLC and Grid Rus LLC, he has no other assets. He is also the CEO of Grid Rus.
One gets the impression that the main interest of the project is Yuri Nemazhenin, the former top manager of Dmitry Starostin’s Tekta Group, where he was responsible for GR – the holding’s relationship with the authorities. However, it is unlikely that the entry into the Kokorevskoye Compound was complete without Starostin himself.
The latter is followed by a whole train of scandals, so it would certainly be convenient for him to act by proxy. Mr. Starostin himself is called only “Sobyaninsky developer” because of the abundance of Tekta Group projects in Moscow. If Starostin has or had informal relations with the mayor of the capital, then they should have passed just through the main GR – Nemazhenin.
In 2015, Nemazhenin suddenly left the Tekta Group and founded his own development company Gravion. However, over the past seven years, the group’s website lists only one of its own projects – the elite residential complex Cult on Leninsky Prospekt, 2, in Moscow.
It looks like the box is easy to open. One of the possible former employees of Gravion shared interesting information on the website with job reviews: it turns out that earlier the company’s website was “packed” exclusively with Tekta Group projects. He called Nemazhenin’s company itself a “stillborn office” in which “everything is based on connections.”
Other potential former employees of the office noted a high turnover of staff, other problems. One gets the impression that Gravion, who worked on the “Tekta” projects, is a kind of “proxy structure”. It seems that the owner of “Tekta” Dmitry Starostin now prefers to act by proxy and not put his eggs in one basket.
with a criminal bias
This is not surprising, given the recent scandals associated with it. He received the company Tekta Group from Vladislav Mangutov and Alexei Abramov after they were both detained on suspicion of attempting to assassinate the former CEO of Merlion, Vyacheslav Simonenko.
Magnutov and Abramov, along with Oleg Karchev, were co-founders of Merlion and, according to investigators, took part in the arson and attempted murder of their ex-head of the company, Vyacheslav Simonenko.
In 2015, a former DPR soldier and his partner threw Molotov cocktails at Simonenko’s country house in the hope that he and his family would burn down, but the flames were quickly extinguished. In the fall of 2020, Abramov, Mangutov and Karchev were detained, Kommersant wrote about this.
Already after Abramov and Mangutov transferred 75% to Tekta Group LLC to Dmitry Starostin. There were suggestions that both entrepreneurs were simply trying to save the business by transferring it to the “nominal value” in the person of Starostin.
I have to say, it’s a good candidate. After all, Mr. Starostin is a man with a criminal record. He was not always just a businessman. Back in the late 90s, he worked as vice-governor of the Kostroma region under Viktor Shershunov. And in 2003, Starostin was found guilty of embezzling property on an especially large scale, committed by a group of people, and before that he was detained for malicious hooliganism. This was written by “Kommersant”.
The latter is connected with a fight in a restaurant in 1998, when he inflicted beatings and serious bodily harm on two people. A real “hello from the 90s”, where it smells of the habits of the then “brothers”. But the first is more interesting.
Prior to joining Shershunov’s administration, Dmitry Starostin headed the Galich Truck Crane Plant, owned by the Moscow company Kudesnik, for more than three years. Shortly after the election of Shershunov, it became clear that the firm that owns “Magician” has serious claims against the former managers of the plant.
According to the then general director of the Galich truck crane plant Alexei Belov, the plant signed an agreement according to which he became a guarantor for a Sberbank loan in the amount of 16 million rubles issued by the Kostroma timber industry company. The loan was not returned.
