Raiders, batteries and Rosatom
Billions for the construction of a plant in Kaliningrad can be “laundered” in favor of people close to Sergei Kiriyenko and Igor Shuvalov.
“Rosatomwants almost twice as much money to build a plant for the production of lithium-ion batteries in Kaliningrad. Of the now requested 51 billion rubles, 27 billion are loans.
According to a correspondent in the Kaliningrad region, the loan will most likely be provided by VEB.RF to Igor Shuvalov, who is known for his participation in controversial projects.
Money on the project can be tritely “laundered” in favor of structures potentially associated with the current deputy head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko and Igor Shuvalov.
A person with connections
The construction of the plant is carried out by the Renera company, which is 99% controlled by TVEL JSC (part of “Rosatom“), and 1% belongs to the Novosibirsk Plant of Chemical Concentrates (NZHK PJSC). Reneroy has recently been “ruled” by Alexander Kamashev, who had previously worked in the company in various positions for about a decade.
Until 2015, Renera was also part of the Rosnano circuit, which at that time was headed by Anatoly Chubais, who left Russia. In 2011, NZKH and Rosnano announced the creation of a joint production of cathode material for lithium-ion batteries – Lithium Cathode Materials LLC (“KLM”).
Now this LLC is headed by Tretyakov Lev Vyacheslavovich. Until 2021, he was the general director of NP ROEL. According to the author of the legart blog on the LiveJournal platform, allegedly Lev Tretyakov is an acquaintance of Artem Surkov. This refers to the son of the former Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov.
According to The Moscow Post sources, Tretyakov also has good relations with the current First Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, who previously headed “Rosatom“. It is worth noting that Alexei Likhachev, who came to his position in 2016, is considered his protege. So the likely warm relationship between Kiriyenko and Tretyakov is logical.
Could Mr. Tretyakov play the role of a confidant of Kiriyenko who “made a mess” with the creation of KLM.
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By the way, the above-mentioned “ROEL” on sites with reviews of work from employees is accused of raiding, poor working conditions and other not very pleasant things. Here is how one of the likely former employees of the company describes a potential scheme for “squeezing out” companies: “… this is a raider company that is engaged in the fact that it buys shares of rapidly developing industries, hires a project manager (s) from the relevant area for this business. Then, when production is gaining momentum, ROEL sells this company.”
Maybe “KLM” is another “box” for the development of budgetary funds with the help of trusted “raiders”?
In this case, Renera, which is controlled by TVEL and NZHK (according to data for 2011, when the agreement between NZHK and “Rosatoma”, “NZHK” was part of “Tvel”), may be another offshoot of the same system. It is now not difficult to guess where the “surplus” from 51 billion rubles to the plant in Kaliningrad will go.
It is also easy to determine the method of their potential withdrawal – according to information from the portal of affiliates, a part of TVEL belongs to the offshore ATOMENERGOMASH CYPRUS LIMITED.
Looking for motives
How all this is similar to the officials described above … They can also be behind the direction of investments from outside “Rosatoma” to structures close to her leadership. The Moscow Post analyzed this story in detail, and also drew attention to what relation the deputy head of the presidential administration could have to the disgraced businessman Sergei Chirkin.
“Rosatom“in this leapfrog looks like a pie, from which both officials Rosatombut, so the people of Igor Shuvalov can “bite off” from all sides. And if something goes wrong, you can always blame it on attorneys already seen in ugly stories. Perhaps that is why in structures close to “Rosatomy”, such ambiguous managers work.
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