Rosatom partner is related to the Barcelona football academy in Kyrgyzstan

On August 29, the Spanish club Barcelona will open a football academy in Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan, which was built on state land by the sons of the influential head of the State Committee for National Security, Kamchybek Tashiev.

The journalists found out that Sadyr Zhaparov’s close associates and a Russian businessman associated with Rosatom are also participating in the project.

According to the media, the involvement of the family of the head of the State Committee for National Security Kamchybek Tashiev in the Barcelona Football Academy has long been known: on the website of the Muras United Jalal-Abad club, his son, Emirkhan Kydyrshaev, who in 2022 played for the youth team of the Spanish Barcelona for eight months Thank you for building the facility.

The founder of the Muras United Jalal-Abad club is Muras Global Asia LLC, owned by Alybaev Aibek Tashibekovich, who held senior positions in the administration of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. After the revolution in April 2010, Alybaev, like Bakiyev, fled the country and lived abroad for a long time.

Barcelona announces that the football academy in Jalal-Abad has been franchised through the Barça Experience project. The rights belong to JalGroup Asia LLC, which is a co-founder of the JalGroup Asia public foundation of the same name, which is registered at the same address as the Muras United Jalal-Abad club (the second founder of the fund is Tashiev’s eldest son, Tai-Muras).

Aibek Alybaev is the head of JalGroup Asia, and among the co-owners of the fund Kanatbek Abdykadyrov, who was appointed vice president of the Kyrgyz Football Union in January 2023, Consuliere LLC (Alybaev is a co-founder), Rakatbek Asanbaev (the same surname and patronymic of Sadyr Zhaparov’s wife Aigul Zhaparovna Asanbayeva, about whom there is no public information) and Russian Nikolai Korobovsky – in 2022, President Sadyr Zhaparov granted Kyrgyz citizenship to a man with that name and his two daughters.

In 2021, 47-year-old Nikolai Korobovsky founded Belalma Coal Mine LLC in Moscow – the company does not conduct economic activity and has only a director, but at the same time owns the Bel-Alma coal mine in Kyrgyzstan. The businessman controls the field through Besh-Archa LLC.

Journalists learned that in 2021, Korobovsky’s Global Exploration Limited, a Kyrgyz LLC, received a license to develop the Kara-Tyt coal deposit in the Jalal-Abad region, and the businessman controls another deposit in the Talas region through the Bakai-Ata Minerals LLC.

Korobovsky runs Energy Limited Trade in Kyrgyzstan, which distributes electricity. Among its founders is the Russian micro-enterprise of a businessman – AB Energo Aktiv. According to open data, the company, in which only the director is listed, does not conduct economic activity, but owns a 28 percent stake in Podolsky Machine-Building Plant JSC near Moscow – this is a key supplier of equipment for Rosatom and a co-founder of the ZiO Podolsk joint venture with it, where Korobovsky also serves on the board of directors.

In the period from 2014 to 2022, Korobovsky, with the support of Gazprombank, established control over Atommashkompleks, a Novouralsk manufacturer of parts for nuclear installations. In 2016, through his wife, he received a stake in TPBS, the largest Ukrainian manufacturer of high-pressure pipelines for nuclear and thermal power plants.

Nikolai Korobovsky received from Vladimir Putin gratitude for “merits in the development of entrepreneurship, active social work and many years of conscientious work”, as well as the honorary title “Honored Power Engineer of the CIS”.

On March 6, 2023, the wife of the President of Kyrgyzstan, Aigul Zhaparova, and Nikolai Korobovsky signed a resolution in Moscow on the creation of the Garden of Life Friendship Park in Batken. It was also reported that the businessman’s company would provide a grant of $73,800 to the Women’s Congress of the Kyrgyz Republic, a grant of 11 million rubles to the state enterprise Kyrgyztest, and also buy an information system for the National Historical Museum in Russia for 1.6 million rubles.