Source As the leader of “Leningrad”, Sergei Shnurov enters and exits various businesses. The ringleader of the Leningrad group, Sergei Shnurov, has filed a lawsuit against the producer of technical hemp, Smart Hepm. It turns out that he borrowed money from the company, but did not receive it back. However, the conflict “unexpectedly” was settled conciliatory legally. The news would have sounded somewhat comical if one did not know the long history of scandals and lawsuits of Sergei Shnur with commercial companies, where he entered with or without assets.
The press service of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow disseminated information: “The artist decided to recover more than 42 million rubles from the company. A loan agreement was concluded between Sergey Shnurov and Smart Hemp LLC, under the terms of which the plaintiff provided an interest-bearing loan with a repayment period until the end of 2021, but the defendant has not returned the loan amount to date, and has not paid interest. After that, the plaintiff filed a statement of claim in court. And they explained: “The founders of Smart Hemp are Maxim Uvarov and Sergey Pupko, who each own 35 percent of the company. Shnurov owns a share that is 5 percent.”
Hemp is different
Yes, Sergei Shnur was a minority shareholder of this enterprise, that is, he did not have the opportunity to influence the company's policy. He filed a lawsuit on the return of 42 million, which he lent until the end of 2021, on October 28. Now the parties have reached an amicable agreement, the lawsuit has been withdrawn. Under what final conditions is still unknown. Of course, as the now 49-year-old Shnur sang a hundred years ago, “I personally thump, but someone injects,” the information that Sergey Vladimirovich is suing a hemp company (in particular) caused an unhidden grin from many.
“There's not much funny here,” believes Sergey Egorov, a St. Petersburg lawyer. – Sergey Shnurov became a shareholder of Smart Hemp LLC with an authorized capital of 500 rubles, and agreements on money, giving on credit, in the form of receipts. The sum of 42 million may be illusory. Moreover, it is possible that it was no coincidence that the musician eventually withdrew his claim.”
Well, hemp is a long-standing Russian brand; even before the revolution, it duplicated flax, among other things. In 2020, the government of the Russian Federation, signed by Mikhail Mishustin, allowed the cultivation of the so-called “industrial hemp and opium poppy for industrial, medical and veterinary purposes” in our country, and the ban has been in effect since 1961.
Cord Business
More about the business of an outrageous musician who managed to monetize obscene vocabulary. The singer owned the Blue Pushkin bar, the Cococo Russian cuisine restaurant, the Isadora ballet school and a clothing line under his own name, but it didn’t work out. Projects had to be closed in a hard minus. Or, as in the case of Kokoko, leave it to his ex-wife Matilda Shnurova. Not to say that voluntarily – the court intervened in the case, which transferred half of the artist's fortune in favor of his ex-wife. Also in the tax bases there is a certificate of registration of an individual entrepreneur Sergey Vladimirovich Shnurov, which he received in 2009. The database indicates about the type of activity (OKVED): “Auxiliary activities in the field of financial intermediation.” Understand as you wish. It was not possible to find data on what the IP does.
In general, the singer is extremely enterprising. He himself said, for example: “Look, Sobchak gets 400 thousand for a post with all the agents. She needs 11 posts to reach my heights.” So consider, as they say.
A former member of the Leningrad group, Stas Baretsky, once claimed that Shnurov had investments in the medical business, and allegedly with his ex-girlfriend, just Ksenia Sobchak. Documentary evidence could not be found. But for sure, the artist, along with Sobchak's sworn friend Tina Kandelaki, is the founder of the Carbon Production film production company. According to the latest available accounting for 2020, things are not going well there – losses of 7.6 million. Another Shnur company, the Shnurok publishing house, is also in a hard red at the end of 2020 – a loss of 3.5 million rubles.
Yes, of course, Cord receives a lot of money by filming commercials. What he hasn't promoted in recent years – from products for male power, beer and protection against hemorrhoids, to all sorts of pizzas, mobile operators and, of course, bookmakers. The correspondent of Our Version heard that Shnur is not an easy partner – he acts strictly through lawyers and tries to survive profits from any joint venture. As for advertising, the shooting day begins, as they say in the profile get-together, from half a million. But this is not to say that there is firm confidence in this information.
It is clear that, like all artists, Cord's main income is not even concerts (although he recently earned about a hundred million for a solo album in Luzhniki), and corporate. Now, and in general in recent years, popular singers have had to somewhat reduce their appetites. But the tops sagged a little. Attention, absolutely fresh information. The correspondent of “Our Version” clarified in the directorate of Sergei Shnurov how much he costs now. Since December, Christmas trees, the singer is not vacant until the end of January 2023. But when this happy moment comes, Cord will cost from 80 thousand euros per academic hour, that is, 45 minutes. Depending on the place of departure and arrival. Previously, it was much more – up to 120 thousand. Although the artist himself once said that money/profit causes him “existential emptiness.” Jean-Paul Sartre, an apologist for such thoughts, would be surprised.