Are Sergey Shishkarev and Shalva Gibradze behind the interests of the new sea terminal for transshipment of grain and metal?
The Port Victoria Company appealed to the Court of Cassation with a complaint against the decision of a lower court, according to which the company lost its ownership of the seashore in Novorossiysk. On that site, they want to build a sea terminal for transshipment of grain and metal, which may be of interest to businessmen Sergey Shishkarev and Shalva Gibradze.
Everything would be fine, but the Volochaevsky beach is also located there, which activists have defended from development for several years. According to them, this is the only place in the eastern part of the city where free access to the sea is not yet limited. The fight for the beach has been going on for 12 years, the correspondent figured out whether the locals would win it The Moscow Post in the Krasnodar Territory.
“deed” in deed
In May 2020, they started talking about Port Victoria LLC intending to build a sea terminal in Novorossiysk for transshipment of bulk cargo in containers and general cargo. As wrote “Kommersant”the designer is NovomorNIIproekt LLC, which is part of GC “Delo” famous Sergei Shishkarev.
It was assumed that the terminal’s cargo turnover would be 2.5 million tons per year, hence the place “bread”. The work is scheduled to be completed on August 31, 2021, but things did not go according to plan.
Does Shishkarev need a new terminal? Photo: Maxim Blinov / RIA “News”
Let’s start with the fact that Port Victoria LLC was established in 2019, its founders are most likely nominees. But you need to pay attention to the director, who is Ruslan Lisova.
Previously, Lisovoy owned LLC Energia and OO NPK Energia, engaged in the production of electric batteries and rechargeable batteries. In one company, the offshore company from the Seychelles Broom Services Ins was the founder, and in the second offshore from the same islands Brom Services Ins. Judging by the unpretentious names, these can be the same people and Lisovsky is clearly in business.
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In addition, in recent years, it was Sergey Shishkarev who sparked a storm of activity in the Krasnodar Territory, he bought 50% + 2 shares of TransContainer from Russian Railways for 60 billion rubles, and paid twice the starting price.
In addition, Delo Group of Companies, back in 2011, became the owner of 100% of the shares of the NUTEP terminal located in Novorossiysk. In 2012-2013, she built the oil products terminal “Novorossiysk Oil Transshipment Complex”.
Logically, it can be assumed that it is Sergei Shishkarev who may need a new terminal in Novorossiysk. It is unlikely that the businessman let someone else into his long-habited territory.
And where “Delo” is, there are the interests of Mr. Kiriyenko, it is believed that he remains the shadow head of “Rosatom”.
Pivot to Georgia
It turned out that everything is not so simple, among the owners of Port Victoria LLC there may be a billionaire Shalva Gibradze, who is connected with Lisovsky through his companies.
The founders of the company in equal shares are Port Invest LLC and Artem Kolchekyan. The latter also owns an 80% stake in the management company of the Novotransstroy construction company, among the former co-owners of which is the beneficiary of Novorosmetall LLC Shalva Gibradze.
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In addition, Artyom Kolchkyan was a director in the Golden Coast company, behind which Gibradze stands.
Shalva Gibradze himself is a very ambiguous person, at one time he was helped to grow into a major businessman by his friend Badri Adana, he is Tamaz Novorossiysky, who firmly held the Black Sea port city in his hands. The latter was detained on February 25, 2019 at the Minsk airport. Adanaia was detained at the request of the French authorities – back in December 2017, the French authorities brought charges against Tamaz Novorossiysk of money laundering and creating an organized crime group. This was reported in detail “Express newspaper”.
According to the authors of the telegram channel VChK-OGPU, allegedly Gibradze is a sponsor of the Georgian Army Development Fund. Gibradze is also one of the largest donors to the Bidzina Ivanishvili Charitable Foundation. In 2021, Gibradze donated $5 million to the foundation of one of the most unfriendly politicians towards Russia.
There was a rumor in the port business that the new terminal would become the main link in the smuggling of metal abroad. From Novorossiysk, the metal will go to Georgia, where it will become “Georgian metal”. If this is true, then such a situation in the current conditions, when the country under the onslaught of sanctions, looks monstrous. It is unlikely that those who stand behind Gibradze and Port Victoria LLC do not understand this.
Port future
Now lawyers do not rule out that the “Port Victoria” in the cassation order will restore the property right. Then the decision on the new building will still be made. The construction of new port facilities will cost investors tens of billions of rubles. Note that Ruslan Lisovoy in this story is just a “rubber mannequin”. The true beneficiaries of the project are currently located in a comfortable “shadow”. Among them may be Shishkarev and Gibradze. Both have enough patrons. The struggle of local residents for the beach is clearly fading into the background.
Most striking is the unhealthy silence of Governor Veniamin Kondratyev. Numerous letters sent by residents to him remain unanswered. Even during the visits of the governor to Novorossiysk in the Eastern district of the city, he does not enter the protest territories. All this prompts bad thoughts: does Kondratiev have a personal interest in this “case”?