Rosreestr classified data on the plot and the mansion of the Deputy Prime Minister’s family in Moscow worth more than 1 billion rubles.

The housing issue is one of the most painful in Russia. But there is no way to solve it. Mortgage debts of Russians beat all records. For the first time in history, their amount exceeded 13 trillion rubles, which is more than 10% of GDP. However, the figure only at first glance seems large. In developed countries, the share of mortgage lending exceeds 50% of GDP, and in some – all 80%. In Russia, mortgages, even after 20 “fat” years, are available to a very narrow circle of people. And the measures taken by the authorities look very strange against this background.

“Preferential mortgage will support those who want to build a house on their own,” — declared in September, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin. Preferential mortgage for the regions is 6 million rubles. and not a penny more. The media from Khusnullin’s native Kazan were surprised by this figure: 6 million is simply not enough to build a house with a fine finish.

However, it is easy for an official to talk about mortgages for ordinary citizens. After all, he solved his housing problems a long time ago. According to declarations, Khusnullin owns two land plots and the same number of houses. The total land area is almost 19 acres, and buildings – about 800 “squares”. In principle, it is difficult to call them even mansions. But the Deputy Prime Minister uses a house of 1019 square meters and 187-meter apartment. The declaration states that this property is recorded in the name of one of his children (media claimsthat the official has three children). But it is not so. Or rather, not at all.

But back in July last year, “Interlocutor” calmly ordered an extract for land located on the 3rd line of Serebryany Bor. And she was extremely curious.

In order to film Marat Khusnullin, heading down the alley to his car in the early morning, we had to pull off a real special operation. Due to precautionary measures, we cannot reveal all the details, but there are some details you need to know. We received data on the movement of the Deputy Prime Minister’s car for two working weeks, from July 13 to 24. Road cameras almost every day fixed the car in Serebryany Bor itself or in its vicinity.

For example, on July 13, cameras filmed Khusnullin’s car at 8:33 am on the Zvenigorod highway. The official was heading towards the center of Moscow, most likely to work. He returned late that day: the cameras “caught” him at 22:20 on Marshal Zhukov Avenue – on the way to the same Serebryany Bor.

Usually Marat Shakirzyanovich goes to work in the Government House at the same time. On July 14, his company car drove along Marshal Zhukov Avenue to the center at 8:49 am, on July 15 – along Zvenigorodskoe highway (again to the center) at 08:56 am. Then a break – for several days the deputy chairman was not visible on the cameras. We began to find out what was the matter, it turned out that on these dates he was leaving on a business trip to the Irkutsk region and other regions. That’s right, already on July 20, the cameras again recorded his car in the evening at 20:22 directly in Serebryany Bor, on Tamanskaya Street. Here, the cameras photographed the official’s car and two days later at 07:36 in the morning.

In order to film Marat Khusnullin near the gate of the house in Serebryany Bor, where he lives, we did not need to follow his movements for a long time. We pretended to be dog lovers – a morning walk with the Pomeranian Yagodka did not attract the attention of the local strict guards. At the beginning of the ninth morning, as we were promised, Marat Shakirzyanovich appeared on the street and went to his car.

“Niko” easily managed not only to buy a plot. At the time of the transaction, there were no buildings on it, and no building permits either. But just two months after the deal, a meeting of the urban planning and land commission of the Moscow City Hall was held. Marat Khusnullin and other officials present there agreed urban planning plan of the site and allowed low-rise buildings. A year later, a huge house grew.

If we analyze business ties, there are only three “handshakes” from Tatyana Karasik (the owner of Niko) to the family of Marat Khusnullin. Karasik was the owner of the Kazan company “Ocean Aquarium Ugra”. She bought this company from Gleb Kuptsov (the first “handshake”). Kuptsov himself was the general director of the Universaltorg company in Chistopol. The owners of Universaltorg were Andrey Simakov (second handshake) and Yevgeny Shmagin. They were also among the co-owners and members of the board of directors of the Chistopol Hotel, which belongs to the daughter of Marat Khusnullin Alina and his mother Rosa (the third “handshake”). “Open media” called Andrey Simakov, Khusnullin’s acquaintances at the Open University of Great Britain (the official received additional education there in 2000), and publication “BUSINESS Online” – Khusnullin’s friend in the army.

But this is not the only thread to the Deputy Prime Minister. All subsequent owners of the plot and the house are somehow connected with Tatarstan, moreover, all traces lead to Chistopol, the homeland of Marat Khusnullin.

AT interview with Meduza the Deputy Prime Minister said: “Where is my homeland – the city of Chistopol – where 67 thousand people live, the annual budget is 1.5 billion.” By according to Transparency International and the Dozhd TV channel, Khusnullin lived as a child in Chistopol in a small house (only 82 sq. M) on Gafuri Street. According to the official, even now he visits Chistopol once or twice a year.

The Niko firm owned the site in Serebryany Bor for only four months, after which it sold it to a certain Dmitry Leshchev. The full namesake of Leshchev is an entrepreneur, again from Tatarstan. There are even fewer “handshakes” between him and the Khusnullin family. They worked with the same network of denominations.

For example, Stanislav Alekseev, unknown to anyone, is a simple businessman from Kazan. You, most likely, are not aware, but the person set a kind of record – he managed to be a co-owner and CEO of as many as 268 companies in his life.

“It is impossible for any businessman to have such a number of companies, and even more so to administer them as a general director. Obviously, this is a figurehead,” says Ilya Shumanov, Deputy General Director of Transparency International – R.

They resort to the services of the par value when they want to hide their assets. Almost all of Alekseev’s numerous companies were originally owned by businessmen from Tatarstan. Both Dmitry Leshchev and the Khusnullin family contacted Alekseev or structures associated with him. Dmitry Leshchev in 2004-2012 was the general director of the Alpina company, whose specialization is real estate management. On the day of registration of this company, he was listed as its sole owner, but on the same day he rewrote it to Stanislav Alekseev.

Khusnullin’s relatives did much the same. Ildus Minnikhanov, whom Transparency International called the cousin of Marat Khusnullin, owned a stake in Gefest Group in 2010. This company was transferred to the Management Company Directorate, which was previously headed by Alekseev.

In addition, in 2011, the Kristall company, previously owned by Albina Zainetdinova, was transferred to RIL Management Company, whose CEO is still Stanislav Alekseev. She is directly connected with the Khusnullin family: Zainetdinova was the general director of the Clarus company, which is owned by the son of Marat Shakirzyanovich, Albert.

As indicated on Reseda’s page in Odnoklassniki, she went to gymnasium No. 2 in Chistopol. The fact that Khusnullin also graduated from this school is stated on the website of the local municipality: “The students were also congratulated by Marat Khusnullin, a graduate of gymnasium No. 2 and a graduate of school No. 16, Olga Dobronravova, who graduated from school several years ago and became successful. In their video message, they urged students to remember their school, teachers, hometown, and be grateful to their parents.”

In addition, on school website Khusnullin is on the list of graduates to be proud of.

Reseda Sadykova moved to Moscow in her youth. On her page in one of the social networks it is said that she graduated from the Moscow Commercial College, and then the Moscow Institute of Economics and Finance. In 2010 she worked at MIPC.

You never know who you are, you call me on the phone and ask such questions! I’m not going to talk to you…

But Reseda Sadykova is not the last in this chain. In 2016, the owners of the very Niko company (and, consequently, the house with the plot) were the Moscow Engineering Agency CJSC and its CEO Elena Tsepeleva. And here again the ancient Tatar city of Chistopol emerges, because Tsepeleva is from there, where she spent her childhood. Her husband Alexei Tsepelev is also from Chistopol. Now they, however, live in the village of Shchapovo in New Moscow.

Elena Tsepeleva is fond of astrology – she is subscribed on the VKontakte social network to the groups Harmonization of the Planets, Deep Analysis of the Astrological Horoscope, Signs and Signs in Astrology. She hopes that the signs of the stars will help her with money: among the groups there are also “Income and Opportunities in the Horoscope”, “Money for Men and Women”. She, of course, does not give the impression of being a co-owner of a company on whose balance sheet hangs real estate worth a billion rubles, located next to presidential envoy Trutnev and billionaire Berezkin. Tsepeleva does not have and never had other businesses besides Niko. However, like her husband.

Elena Tsepeleva, like Reseda Sadykova, confirmed that she personally knows Marat Khusnullin.

We are preparing a large text about Marat Shakirzyanovich and address you as his friend. Did I understand correctly that you are quite familiar with him?

I can not.

Now the site belongs to CJSC Moscow Engineering Agency. In 2014, it was founded by entrepreneur Alexei Belash. He is 41 years old, previously he was the CEO and co-owner of several companies of various profiles, for example, in the field of cleaning and trade. Judging by the photos on the VKontakte social network, Alexey Belash spent a lot of money on travel in 2013-2014: he visited the USA, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and other countries. He also posted photos of luxury cars (for example, Maserati, Hammer and BMW) with the numbers 666 on the social network. “Cars that I have ever driven” is the name of one of his albums with “devilish” cars.

Alexei’s father, Nikolai Belash, like Marat Khusnullin, worked in construction all his life. In his resume, Nikolai lists companies such as 1166 VSU, Dominant-Stroy, Mospromstroy.

MIA. Everything! You will be called back.

They didn’t call back.

One can only guess who is now the shareholder of MIA CJSC, and, accordingly, the owner of the site. Because everything is well, very secret: it is not only a closed joint-stock company, it also independently maintains a register of its shareholders.

CJSCs must record information about their shareholders in a special register. Until 2015, CJSCs could do this on their own, but then the law changed, and now they are required to transfer their data to registrar companies that specialize in maintaining registers. But not all of them are handed over – in violation of the law. According to SPARK-Interfax, CJSC MIA still maintains the register on its own.

“CJSC submitted its data only to the tax office and only during registration. Then the shareholders could change. But no one has this data – only the company itself, since it also maintains the register on its own. Who the shareholder is now is a secret with seven seals, everything is very confidential, – says Ilya Shumanov. – As for the change of owners of the site, it is impossible to explain such transactions with logic. Maybe the company tried to reduce the tax base before the reporting period, there can be a million reasons.

According to Baza, in addition to the site and buildings in Serebryany Bor, Niko and MIA do not have and did not have any other property. Most likely, the companies themselves were created only in order to hang real estate belonging to those who did not want to advertise themselves on their balance sheet. This is done very often.

Finally, one more very indirect detail. The youngest daughter of Marat Khusnullin, judging by her Instagram, studies at one of the private gymnasiums located in the vicinity of Serebryany Bor. This owns the school wife of the head of Sberbank German Gref Yana. There is even a video of Khusnullin arriving at the gymnasium on its opening day, September 1, 2017.

A private school from Serebryany Bor can be reached by car in eight minutes. Judging by the girl’s Instagram, she lives, as expected, in a private house behind a high fence surrounded by pine trees. Just like in Serebryany Bor.

In principle, Marat Shakirzyanovich could well have rented this site, especially since his fellow countrymen from Chistopol are renting it out – they could offer a good discount. However, renting a house in Serebryany Bor is not at all an affordable pleasure. For example, on the CIAN website, you can find an advertisement for renting a house here for 1,300,000 rubles a month. For the year – 15 million 600 thousand rubles. Marat Shakirzyanovich has enough to rent such housing; in 2019, according to the declaration, he earned more than 17 million rubles. True, he received so much only in the last year, earlier his income was much more modest. Over the previous eight years, the average annual level amounted to about six million 600 thousand rubles.

There is, however, another version of how Marat Khusnullin moved to Serebryany Bor. The version is very simple and convincing, especially if you study the previous experience of the deputy chairman of the government, when he worked in the Moscow mayor’s office. The patterns don’t seem to change.

As the Transparency International center reported in its investigation, the official’s mother Rosa Khusnullina was a director of the British firm Averdo Property Management Limited, which owned several Russian companies that received government orders. By an incredible coincidence, these orders came from organizations run by Deputy Mayor Sergei Sobyanin Marat Khusnullin. By the way, although the documents show everything very clearly, the official is still denies it.

Another relative (brother of cousin’s wife) Khusnullin Maksat Shemmedov in 2015, he earned hundreds of millions of rubles at a controversial construction site near Moscow’s Dubki park. The same Transparency International center called Shemmedov a nominal figure who acted in the interests of either Khusnullin himself or his cousin Ildus Minnikhanov.

Marat Shakirzyanovich, in principle, does not like to draw up anything for himself. Even the cell phone number he has been using for years leads to his mother. This can be verified, for example, using Sberbank Online: if you try to make a transfer using this number, the application will show that the phone is tied to the card of a woman whose name is Roza Garafutdinovna Kh. (name and patronymic of the official’s mother. – Note. ” bases”).

In addition to relatives, numerous countrymen are among “their” people. Novaya Gazeta called Khusnullin was a VIP nomad: having moved from the post of Minister of Construction of Tatarstan to the construction complex of Moscow, he took with him a huge team of fellow countrymen and former colleagues. 46 of them began to work in the structures of Stroykompleks, another six people received positions in the departments of finance and city property.

Contractors followed Khusnullin to Moscow: in seven years (from 2011 to 2018), companies affiliated with Khusnullin’s people in Tatarstan received government contracts worth 490 billion rubles. “Investigations came out more than once about Khusnullin and his assets, when his family was studied and shown almost under a microscope,” says Ilya Shumanov. – I think it jars on him and he does not want any more of his house to become an object of attention and the cause of a scandal. Registering property to a company that is not legally connected with you in any way is just an opportunity to avoid attention. This scheme is not new; it has been used by officials for a long time. For example, Rogozin family“.

Officials must declare the property that they not only own, but also use (for example, rent). But there is a gap in the legislation that allows you not to do this.

“If an official enters into a long-term lease agreement with the property owner (for a period of more than 11 months), then this agreement is registered with the Rosreestr. Such property must be declared. But if the lease agreement expires on the reporting date of declaring the official’s income (December 31), and then resumes, say, on January 2, then formally the real estate that is in use by a public official will not be subject to declaration, Shumanov explains. – Khusnullin can say that he just spends the weekend in this house, comes to visit from time to time, and does not live permanently. It would be difficult to prove otherwise.”

Marat Khusnullin did not answer the Base’s questions.