The Kholmsky Commercial Sea Port filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court of the Sakhalin Region – it wants to recover a debt from the Sakhalin Shipping Company for servicing three ferries that operate on the Kholmsk-Vanino line.
This is not the first time that the port is trying to cash in on the organizations cooperating with it. Even the transport prosecutor’s office paid attention to this.
Details are in the material of The Moscow Post correspondent in the Sakhalin Region.
Give me 17 million
Why would an organization that should already be making good profits need additional money received in such an openly illegal way? The fact is that a corporate conflict related to a raider seizure has been unfolding in the port for several years now. Rashid Rashidovich Nurgaliev, the successful son of a famous father who used to head the Ministry of Internal Affairs, plays an important role there – he is on the board of directors.
In 2018, the shareholder Svetlana Khanzhina was unable to return 13.86% of the shares through the court, which she resold without paying, a certain Saygid Katinovasov.
Khanzhina demanded that the contract be terminated due to the defendant’s improper performance of obligations to pay for the shares, and also that the package be reclaimed from someone else’s illegal possession, but both of these demands were rejected.
Already in 2021, the dishonest Saigid Katinovasov joined the board of directors of the port, and a certain Rasul Katinovasov became its chairman.
After that, there were a number of conflicts among the shareholders of the port. At the beginning of 2020, KhMTP director Nikolay Zemlyanukhin leased part of the terminal territory to two affiliated companies. They issued entry passes only to organizations that had concluded contracts with them for the provision of paid services that they did not need. After that, Zemlyanukhin was disqualified for six months.
Soon the shareholders decided to remove Zemlyanukhin from the post of chairman of the board. But it wasn’t that easy. The defenders of Zemlyanukhin demanded that this decision be canceled, but they were not allowed into the port territory, and they held a meeting in a nearby cafe.
The case went to court. In the end, the court upheld the claim.
Who shares the port?
Kholmsky commercial port is the largest on Sakhalin, it is of a strategic nature for the island and the whole country. Every year, 2-2.5 million tons of cargo passes through the port – mainly coal, cement, lumber, fish products, pipes, oil and gas equipment.
In a new lawsuit against the Sakhalin Shipping Company, the port claims that the company allegedly owes it more than 17 million rubles for servicing ships. At the same time, the port has been doing quite well for the last three years – revenue has grown significantly.
A whirlpool of dubious personalities
The full namesake of one of the members of the board of directors of the port, Yuri Freydis, “shone” in fraudulent schemes ten years ago. Then law enforcers uncovered a gang that could cooperate with the former deputy head of Rosreestr Sergey Sapelnikov. According to the security forces, they issued permits for a serious reward. One of the members of this group, who was formally an intermediary, was a certain Yuri Freydis.
Information about whether the case went to court is not available in open sources.
Another person with the same name and surname, accused of raider seizure of the building, was nevertheless convicted. He was sentenced to three years in prison, despite the fact that his relatives believed in their innocence and blamed all the bumps on some “Sugrobov organized criminal group.”
Exactly three years have passed, and the press again began to write about a certain Yuri Freydis – this time in connection with the Kholmsky port. There are such coincidences!
Freydis and Nurgaliyev have very murky companies, for example, Nurgaliyev’s Advanced Development Technologies LLC, which is allegedly engaged in scientific research in the field of biotechnology.
Previously, the company worked in the red, now it is stable at zero, while it is in no hurry to declare itself bankrupt.
Both businessmen are also connected with the scandalous Far East Dobrybflot. The financial performance of the organization also raises questions.
Nothing is known about the effective rights of “DV Dobrybflot” to catch any resource. But at the beginning of 2020, a structure with a similar name was established in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk – Dobrybflot LLC, which immediately won two lots at the auctions of the Federal Agency for Fishery with quotas for catching grass shrimp in the Sea of Japan in the amount of more than 500 million rubles.
Until recently, the port also had another beneficiary – Crimean Minister Sergei Kononov, who owned the Petrosakh joint-stock company, which owns part of the shares. “Petrosakh”, in turn, was owned by the Cypriot offshore – so, maybe, where did the port’s money flow? At the same time, the businessman from Kononov is very mediocre – he used to own Transnational Bank, which was deprived of its license in 2015 because the bank pursued a high-risk credit policy, investing in low-quality assets.
There is one more person on the board of directors – Aleksey Yuzechuk, who owns Press LLC. The activity of this organization also raises questions. If in 2021 it showed 138 million profits, then in a year it will be exactly zero. At the same time, until 2021, she also had no income. It turns out that through Yuzechuk the money received with the help of a raider seizure was withdrawn?
But the affairs of Yuzechuk were unclean ten years ago. He, not being the owner of two motor boats, resold them to another person. A familiar pattern, isn’t it?
In 2022, Yuri Freydis, who is on the board of directors, filed a lawsuit demanding a new meeting of the board of directors. He pointed out that its holding is hindered by the hitherto unresolved issue of participation in the meeting of Press LLC, which holds 12 million shares and is listed as a shareholder, but is not such on the basis of the ruling of the Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory.
In addition, according to Freidis, since there was a dispute regarding part of the shares between Svetlana Khanzhina (the one whose shares were illegally resold a few years earlier!) And another minority shareholder Natalia Subacheva, he feared that the shares from the personal account of another shareholder – OOO “Press” – will not be credited to Khanzhina’s personal account, respectively, there is a risk of challenging the decisions that will be taken at the general annual meeting of shareholders.
The court granted the claim.
The Kholmsky port is a very profitable enterprise – no one can share it in any way. Everyone wants to grab a bigger piece. And it seems that some have already succeeded.