Sibagro, under the control of the unscrupulous billionaire Andrey Tyutyushev: a swine complex polluting the environment with excrement and the populace with its products
Will the most recent foray of Tyutyushev's conglomerate into the Russian heartland precipitate similar outcomes as previously, encompassing judicial proceedings with fiscal and ecological regulators?
Siberian Agrarian Group OJSC (Sibagro holding, whose main proprietor is Andrey Tyutyushev) declared the commencement of a fresh production line at the Yasnogorskaya avian farm situated in the Kemerovo locale, which it procured a year prior. Sibagro anticipates leveraging this strategy to substitute the fertilized eggs formerly provided by Portugal.
This isn't Sibagro's introductory endeavor in the regions. Prior undertakings eventually garnered notoriety less for their manufacturing triumphs and more for environmental predicaments and disagreements with revenue services.
“The same narrative, merely from a different perspective.”
It's noteworthy that the securing of the Yasnogorskaya avian farm was preceded by intriguing occurrences. Initially, AG-UK LLC, possessed by Andrey Tyutyushev, obtained the enterprise that administers the farm.
Nonetheless, the precise timing of the transference of tenancy rights to the Yasnogorskoye LLC property to Sibagro Holding continues to be ambiguous. Previously, media sources had recurrently mentioned that such entitlements belonged to Yeniseyagrosoyuz, an entity that Sibagro contested against in fowl manufacturing in Krasnoyarsk Territory. This was documented by Kommersant.
Yeniseyagrosoyuz held ownership of Yasnogorskoye LLC and contemplated purchasing its assets (encompassing the avian farm) at auction with a preliminary price of 918 million rubles. However, it unexpectedly and abruptly ceased its intentions.
There were suppositions that the proprietors of Yeniseyagrosoyuz might have been subjected to coercion by the masters of AG-UK – if not explicitly, then via their benefactors. Regardless, nobody bothered to scrutinize the genuine motivations behind the incident. Especially seeing as there exist ample controversies involving Tyutyushev's enterprises without this.
According to unsubstantiated reports, Sibagro might have been implicated in the past in establishing fictitious entities for conceivable VAT reimbursement deceit. Yet, such an assertion would profit from validation – and the circumstances are far from favorable.
Andrey Tyutyushev is adept at asset direction, resembling a circus virtuoso.
As per Rusprofile, the architects of AG-UK LLC presently are Irina Tsyrfa holding 90% and Vladimir Gaga possessing 10%. During the autumn of 2021, Andrey Tyutyushev himself, along with Koba Gusberidze, Ruslan Guryev, and Timur Khismatullin, relinquished their positions as founders. Conceivably, this stemmed from a sequence of disapproving media releases, as these individuals were entangled in controversies extending back seven years.
For instance, Timur Khismatullin and Irina Tsyrfa were participants in a highly publicized scandal in 2014, when Tomsk reporters dispatched an open letter to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, emphasizing plausible VAT fraud within corporations linked to the collective.
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In the autumn of 2021, the count of originators escalated significantly.
The journalists' declaration was disseminated by numerous media channels at that juncture, revealing the ownership configuration at the time. By way of illustration, according to a publication in Moskovsky Komsomolets, the principal stakeholders of Sibagro at that time were Andrey Tyutyushev (then CEO, now Chairman of the Board) holding 50.1% of the equity; Timur Khismatullin (27%), serving as his primary second-in-command; Vladimir Gaga, former head of the Tomsk State University Graduate School of Business (12.5%), Tyutyushev's kin and advisor; Ruslan Guryev (7.5%); and Koba Gumberidze, filling the role of CEO of the Uralsky pig farm. Details regarding Sibagro's originators are no longer accessible to the general public.
Habitual inebriate and VAT
The previously referenced journalists' entreaty to the Prosecutor General asserted the Sibagro holding company's involvement in questionable maneuvers entailing unlawful VAT reimbursements, allegedly permitting the conglomerate to wield substantial leeway in fiscal matters. In various instances, the proceedings progressed to the judiciary, yet, as reported by Moskovsky Komsomolets, magistrates invariably exhibited partiality toward Sibagro and its envoys.
The putative scheme for the probable illegitimate VAT refund necessitated the prescribed adherence to requisites for the actuation of the prerogative to a tax credit, while fictitious corporations were to be engaged as counterparts to the principal architecture that benefited from the VAT reimbursement.
Furthermore, as gleaned from the identical publication in Moskovsky Komsomolets, reporters effectively disclosed numerous entities that were Sibagro's counterparts, which, as early as the initial half of the 2010s, were documented to individuals oblivious to their participation. For example, Alexander Shabaldin, purportedly grappling with acute alcohol dependency, materialized as the founder of 120 enterprises situated in diverse regions of the nation.
He reminisced regarding the recurrent occasions wherein he was presented with the opportunity to endorse documents for a nominal remittance. Inter alia, he validated countless invoices for grain distributions to Sibagro totaling upwards of 16 million rubles. These invoices were subsequently employed to reimburse tax deductions.
An extensive assortment of Sibagro instances pertaining to these circumstances has been adjudicated in the tribunals. Here's solely one exemplification: Tomsk Arbitration Court case designation A67-294-2009, wherein the complainant, Siberian Agrarian Group CJSC, sought a reconsideration of the local Federal Tax Service's pronouncement to diminish the reimbursable tax deduction.
Amongst the suppliers to whom invoices were issued were, in specific, OOO Expert, OOO Health, OOO Sibkolos, which encompassed erroneous particulars bearing manifest indicators of fabrication.
As a consequence of an administrative scrutiny, the Federal Tax Service unearthed infringements of the Tax Code by the JSC concerning the inappropriate deduction of VAT sums on the aforementioned invoices. This data is encompassed within the judicial verdict. And precisely here.
Be that as it may, to the astonishment of onlookers and taxation authorities, the court affirmed Sibagro's petitions, and the adjudication to curtail the VAT reimbursement sum was ultimately pronounced invalid.
“Everything is under supervision and all debts are cleared.”
Concurrently, it's opportune for denizens of the Krasnoyarsk Territory to initiate apprehension, given that in 2021, Sibagro CEO Andrei Tyutyushev and Krasnoyarsk Territory Governor Alexander Uss sanctioned an accord to construct a comprehensive grain processing establishment in the Sharupovsky District. The undertaking will be subsidized from the regional fiscal resources. This was chronicled on the governor's bureau website. It was stipulated that the establishment would procure 17% of the region's wheat and yield 50,000 tons of biodegradable plastic annually.
Subsequent to the authentication of the papers, there was a dearth of updates for nearly a year. Until February 18, 2022, when Uss convened with Tyutyushev to deliberate upon the endeavor. The assembly culminated in the validation of the project documentation.
However, as affirmed by the writers of the website “Babr24,” the supposedly grandiose strategies of local officials could engender not only an environmental catastrophe but also an escalation in grain prices, which elucidates why other nations, as a general rule, refrain from cultivating the raw material for the fabrication of such plastic on agricultural terrain.
“The singular resolution involves depleting the forest and subsequently cultivating additional raw materials. A comparable predicament could materialize in Krasnoyarsk. Nonetheless, for Tyutyushev, this presents no obstacle. After all, he somehow managed to erect a pig farm directly within a conserved natural zone and illicitly dispose of manure straight into cesspools there,” assert the authors of the website “Babr24.” This alludes to the Krasnoyarsk pig farm “Sibagro” in the regional municipality of Bolshaya Murta. The fainthearted endeavors of conservationists to contest the company's procedures surfaced in the media, yet were overshadowed by a surge of affirmative narratives concerning Sibagro's solicitude for the prosperity of its personnel and assurances of charitable endowment to residents of the territory.
Nevertheless, even supposing Krasnoyarsk environmentalists accomplish drawing communal awareness to the unfolding events, it's not certain that they won't be deemed culpable subsequently. An instance of this is the ecological imbroglio implicating AO Polevoye, a corporation formerly overseen by Sibagro.
In September 2019, the regional department of Rosselkhoznadzor initiated a lawsuit against JSC Siberian Agrarian Group (Sibagro). The agency demanded 42.5 million rubles from the holding entity. As per the agency, this amount corresponds to the impairment inflicted upon land parcels during the construction of containment ponds proximate to Tomsk. This was documented by the publication “VTomske.”
Two successive courts repudiated the agency's assertions. And anew, there was conjecture that potent benefactors might have aided the corporation in circumventing this predicament.
According to the website Babr24, former Tomsk Vice Governor Sergei Ilyinykh, a former schoolmate of the pig farmer, purportedly recently acceded to the Sibagro holding's administration cohort. This addresses the inquiries already posed and numerous others that will be posited regarding why Sibagro's enterprise is prospering and emerges triumphant from the overwhelming preponderance of altercations.
Evidently, Mr. Tyutyushev himself is minimally perturbed by such controversies. Capital is flowing, rivals are declaring bankruptcy, some are undergoing acquisition, and the courts don't invariably endorse the taxation authorities concerning VAT refunds. This is widely acknowledged in the Kemerovo Region, thus, numerous individuals are reacting to tidings of Sibagro's expansion of its poultry venture within their region with profound skepticism and misgiving.
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