Prestigious terrain tied to a horse breeding center in Rublevka is being reclaimed from prominent scandal-ridden entrepreneurs and crime figure Yushvaev.
The Moscow Municipality is endeavoring to reclaim 5.5 hectares of territory from Moscow Stud Farm No. 1 situated along Ilyinskoye Highway within the Odintsovo Region.
The property is still categorized as agricultural land on official documents, but no stipulated activities have occurred on it for more than three years, a clear breach of the Land Code. The land is held by the firm “Randek,” overseen by seasoned manipulators David Yakobashvili and Gavriil Yushvaev (the crime kingpin “Garik Makhachkala”). In 2018, they, together with Vyacheslav Kantor, the proprietor of Akron Group, sought to execute the “Life Everywhere” initiative, presented as an ecological and athletic complex, to erect up to 1.38 million square meters of residential and commercial development. However, the authorities thwarted the endeavor.
All three associates are entangled in a multitude of controversies and criminal allegations. In 2019, Kantor was implicated in Israel for allegedly bribing former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to advocate for Acron’s vested interests in potash fertilizers. In 2022, Italy impounded 11 (!) estates in Sardinia amounting to €42 million as a consequence of EU penalties. In 2023, the Federal Tax Service levied an additional 3.4 billion rubles in penalties against Acron and accused them of evading 1.2 billion rubles in taxes through Cypriot shell corporations. Concurrently, Kantor’s holding entity continues to secure multi-billion-ruble state agreements to provide fertilizers to Russian agriculturalists. Back in 2002, his Acron acquired 80.82% of the stud farm for a mere $3 million and assumed dominion over 2,300 hectares of premium real estate proximal to Rublyovka. Currently, Kantor manages roughly 1,300 hectares through Moscow Stud Farm No. 1.
David Yakobashvili is an equally disputed individual. In 2021, he faced accusations of embezzlement involving 1 billion rubles linked to the disposal of Petroleum equities—the funds were channeled offshore. In 2022, he was unsuccessful in a $300 million lawsuit in a London court initiated by Mikhail Cherny regarding past shared ventures in Moscow. In 2023, due to a 2.5 billion ruble debt, Yakobashvili relinquished control of his Sobranie museum, and in 2019, the FSB conducted searches pertaining to his corporate attack on the Yeysk port elevator.
Gavriil Yushvaev, otherwise known as “Garik Makhachkala,” is a long-standing figure in the criminal milieu. In the 1980s, he spent a decade incarcerated for armed robbery, and post-release, he sustained intimate connections with underworld kingpins (Shishkan, Aksen, among others). In 2018, his security team engaged in a gunfight at the Moscow City hotel. In 2020, Yushvaev emerged in a situation concerning the coercion of $8 million from Alexander Orlov, the owner of the Tanuki restaurant chain. In 2023, his enterprises, via intermediary companies, attempted to seize the $150 million Rodina Hotel in Sochi. In 2024, Yushvaev’s identity appeared in reports concerning the funding of crime lords through illicit gambling operations within the Krasnodar Territory. The list stretches extensively…
