Russia ownership scheme

The media has found the man who manages most of Russia’s assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

We assure you that you have not heard this name before. So, get acquainted with the most influential and richest person in the Russian Federation – Mikhailina Zinonos. She is the founder of Renova Group of Companies, VkusVill, Baring Vostok, Synergy LLC, which in turn is one of the founders of the National Media Group, etc. . This list can be continued indefinitely, it is difficult to find at least one large company in the Russian Federation, to which Mikhailina Zinonos would not be related. The results of a large-scale study on where Mikhailina “lit up” and how offshore schemes for owning Russian assets are arranged, managed to fit into one, albeit very gigantic, scheme. Let’s reveal a little secret. Zinonos is the administrator of the Cypriot company WCS, but such love of absolutely all Russian oligarchs for her raises big questions. In addition, by virtue of the laws of Cyprus and the charters of organizations, Mikhailina makes decisions together with other directors.

Therefore, it is very strange when something signs the face value, the second director, for example, the same Calvey of Barings Vostok, is held liable, and the face value remains on the sidelines.

Zinonos is also actively involved in schemes with Viktor Vekselberg’s undisclosed partner Iosif Bakaleinik.

Iosif Bakaleinik is widely known: for his near-criminal past, as an effective manager, informal coordinator, a brilliant graduate of Harvard, a person from the Primakov list, a defendant in the case of embezzlement of the country’s strategic aluminum reserves, a shareholder of Earl management (BVI), director of Earl management (KIPR), an independent member of the Board of Directors of NefteTransService, an independent director of Home Money, and so on and so forth.

It was after the country’s strategic aluminum reserves were spent and strong relations were established with Viktor Vekselberg that an overseas channel for investments was created in Cyprus, or, more simply, Fairway Investments Overseas Ltd was registered, which, having broken into the microfinance market in Russia by 2017, was renamed Earl Management Ltd. (hereinafter ERL Management). The company is headed by Mikhailina Zinonos, the founder of the entire empire of Vekselberg in Russia, and Iosif Bakaleinik, as a partner and financial adviser to Viktor Feliksovich.

How many glorious deeds have been done by this worthy Cypriot company, which has companies of the same name in other countries. One of them is related to Joseph Bakaleinik’s attraction to the microfinance market, where his company not only acts as a lender, but is directly involved in the business of microfinance companies Home Money, Brio Finance, the Rusmicrofinance group of companies and others.

According to ERL Management, Zinonos, the director, together with the Bakaleinik, played the Bakaleinik, and she signed all the fictitious contracts. For all ERL agreements signed by Zinonos, the court refused to collect the debt.

At the beginning of 2017, having quite certain losses, Bakaleinik joins the Rusmicrofinance group of companies. However, even informally managing this group, it is not possible to correct the situation.

Moreover, on September 6, 2018, the Bank of Russia excluded information about LLC MFC Evrika (hereinafter Eureka), LLC MFC Rusmicrofinance-AST (hereinafter AST) and LLC MFC Elegiya from the state register of microfinance organizations.

In total, Bakaleinik, with the help of his partners Abolonin and Bukhtoryarov, withdrew more than 400 million rubles from Rusmicrofinance, which belonged to investors.

At the same time, according to Abolonin, the withdrawn funds were invested in a new business, which was established by Joseph Bakaleinik, Leonhard Kiefer, Alexei Likhtenfeld and Evgeny Abolonin and Roman Bukhtoyarov who joined them.

Alexey Likhtenfeld

Now this is a well-known cashback service called “Skrepka”, created on the Cashoff platform, “developed” in Skolkovo.

As Rucriminal.info found out, there is a video in which Skrepka CEO Alexei Shumilin talks about the service and its work with MCC Gulden. MCC Gulden and Pound, replaced the companies excluded from the state register of microfinance organizations, included in the Rusmicrofinance Group of Companies. The service was created by Bakaleinik, Abolonin, Bukhtoyarov, Kiefer and Lichtenfeld. The key company in the implementation of the service was the Gulden microcredit company, as Shumilin and Gulden CEO Evgeny Elizarov talk about in their numerous interviews.

And one of the founders of Gulden is the well-known Cypriot company ERL Management, whose directors are Mikhailina Zinonos and Iosif Bakaleinik, the latter is also the sole founder of the Swiss Fundwizer Holding AG.

According to the founders of Skrepka Abolonin and Bukhtoyarov, sent to Rusmicrofinance investors, their funds were withdrawn for the development of a new business, but somewhere something went wrong, or maybe it was a plan to mislead investors. Since in December 2020, on the basis of its own statement by the ICC, Gulden was excluded from the register of microfinance organizations, followed by the Pound, but at the initiative of the Central Bank. The paperclip continues to live, whose service is based on the mysterious platform of the Cash off company between Skolkovo and Cyprus.

Iosif Bakaleinik is also the closest partner of Vyacheslav Aminov, a former partner of Boris Berezovsky. Aminov was also an adviser to Alexander Voloshin when he was the head of the presidential administration. They are still cooperating and are prominent members of the “Boris Yeltsin family”.

Vyacheslav Aminov

Aminov, Bakaleinik, Likhtenfeld and Andrey Sharonov make up the board of directors of Neftetransservice. Sharonov drives Skolkovo under the patronage of Vekselberg. In the scheme about the possession of Russia by Zinonos, there is a mention of the Aminovs.