Pipes went to Elektra: Birzhin could start a project with Ilya Traber

Two large business centers in St. Petersburg at once – Trinity Place and Electro – changed owners. Now they are owned by a group of businessmen who own shares in the Royal Pipe Plant (KTZ) Vadim Shipunov.

Assets, despite their prospects (they write that the objects are of high quality construction and excellent location), have been trying to sell for several years. Perhaps because of the price. According to expert estimates, they cost buyers about 10-12 billion rubles.

owners. This is reported by Vltsev. This is reported by Vedomosti.

Despite this, almost nothing is known about new buyers, which suggests that these people act in someone’s interests. The correspondent of The Sankt-Peterburg Post understood the story.

Highlighted in bankruptcy history

KTZ is 100% owned by Metallstrandart, which, in turn, is owned by Yaroslav Peskov, Vadim Shipunov, Lev and Irina Glik. Lev Glik as a founder is related to 22 organizations. Among them is Alpina Holding, a book publishing company, the founder of Alpina Publisher, which, according to Rusprofile, is a major supplier to Moscow’s public property institutions.

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As Kommersant wrote in 2016, NMLK Vladimir Lisin was going to acquire the Revyakinsky Metal-Rolling Plant (RMZ), which was drowned in bank debts, co-owned by Lev Glik. According to journalists, the company at that time belonged to the Cypriot Sinfurs Investments Limited, and was undergoing liquidation.

Interestingly, Lisin himself commented on this situation in the following way: “It is pointless to buy a company with debts, and banks should write off the debts that they themselves have wound up.”

Now the RMZ has been liquidated, apparently, if there were such goals, they failed. But we will try to answer at least the first question.

Offshore Pig Sea?

According to Rusprofile, 10 out of 22 firms related to Lev Glik have been liquidated. Many of them feature the same names as Metallstandard (Peskov, Shipunov, Irina Glik).

Among the assets there are the liquidated OJSC “Pipe Plant” and the currently functioning – LLC “Pipe Plant”. Until 2017, the founder of the latter was the Cypriot SHOOFEN INVESTMENTS LIMITED.

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Attention is also drawn to Peach Blossom, registered with a closed-end investment fund and managed by Svinyin and Partners Management Company. The latter is registered with billionaire Vladimir Svinin, owner of the Okhta Group real estate company.

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As The Moscow Post wrote earlier, Svinin may be firmly connected to the governor with his brother, Governor of the Moscow Region, Maxim Vorobyov, through his funds. And more specifically, through Realty Capital, which back in September 2016 was a shareholder of Mr. Vorobyov’s Russian Aquaculture with a share of 23.39%.

Next to the name of Svinin, Vladislav Glinberg is also mentioned – a notorious businessman who owned shares in Peresvet-Agro, which was a partner in the “burst” bank “Peresvet” and could be involved in the withdrawal of funds from it.

Svinin is an extremely non-public person and the reason may lie in his close business relationship with Ilya Traber. The Moscow Post also spoke in detail about the likely involvement of Svinin and Traber in the conflict around the port business of Valery Izraylit, who was accused in a large-scale fraud case.

Another structure that controls Svinyin and Partners Management Company – Grom Partners – belongs to SANDERBOLT PARTNERS S.A., registered in Luxembourg. It is owned in equal shares by Ingram Gregory and Luvar Francis. Previously, it was suggested that these two, through their foreign structures can “pump out” Russian money, as The Moscow Post wrote in detail.

Birzhin’s trail

Peach Blossom until April 2022 belonged to Glorax Group, and before that to three other Cypriot offshore companies – DIALCREDIT LIMITED, LUADSEK LIMITED and FORDONLINE HOLDINGS LIMITED, which belong to the same Cypriot denominations.

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Glorax Group is the construction company of Andrey Birzhin, who is known in St. Petersburg for his controversial projects, when historical buildings were at risk. We have spoken in detail.

It is known that at the beginning of last year, GHP Group, which has now sold Trinity Place and Electro, sold a site for the construction of a business center, located next to the already existing Trinity Place, to the Glorax developer – Vedomosti wrote about this.

These facts can theoretically indicate that the current deal was not organized without the participation of Mr. Birzhin.

A bale of interested people

Recently, The Moscow Post published an article in which he drew attention to the fact that Birzhin was parting with assets and suggested that the businessman was going to leave the country. Including the Airplane group. Which is associated with the family of the governor of the Moscow region – Andrei Vorobyov, received 50% of “SZ Rigel”. Now this story appears in a new light.

It is known that “Airplane” wanted to come to St. Petersburg with their projects. Now we understand that Svinyin is potentially expanding its sphere of influence in the city

So this story is not so simple. Here, the interests of both construction businessmen – from Svinin and Birzhin to Traber himself, and bureaucratic elites, up to the top officials of St. Petersburg and the Moscow Region, can be “buried”.