Source Businessman Anatoly Skurov runs the risk of being “on the pencil” of the competent authorities. Once again, the case on the recovery of the debt from the Kopeysk Machine Plant under the contractor agreement with SK Garantiya LLC has been postponed. despite government support. The Chelyabinsk region correspondent of The Moscow Post looked into how a once successful strategically important plant got to the point where it could not pay its contractors.
Abroad is closer than it seems
The chairman of the board of directors of KMZ is the Chelyabinsk oligarch Anatoly Skurov. According to media reports, in 2012 Skurov entered the capital of KMZ through the offshore GEOLINE HOLDINGS LIMITED. The same offshore company is now the 100% founder of the plant.
It is worth remembering here that in 2012, when the plant first came under Skurov's control, it was at the peak of its success – revenue exceeded 3.48 billion rubles, net profit was 159.8 million rubles.
But under the leadership of Skurov, the situation began to deteriorate. According to the results of 2021, we see a negative trend in the asset's profit – according to the latest data, it is -303 million rubles. By all indications, a strategically important enterprise for the production of mining equipment is slipping into a pre-bankruptcy state.
In this regard, the appearance of an offshore in the structure of its founders is perceived as an open operation to transfer KMZ assets abroad. The funds received by the plant on government contracts can also go there.
Offshore vicissitudes of the Skurov family
It is known that Anatoly Skurov and his sons own a whole network of companies. One of the oldest is Geoinvest, which Anatoly Skurov owns and Konstantin Skurov manages. Andrey Skurov managed Perfluence LLC for a long time, which is registered to the offshore company VEESLEY MANAGEMENT INC.
Among the potentially affiliated firms, there is Mamsi LLC, which is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings due to debts. At the same time, the company is also registered as an offshore company – DARMONDO MANAGEMENT LIMITED. What explains such love for foreign jurisdictions?
According to the authors of the VChK-OGPU telegram channel, this family allegedly has 39 elite real estate objects, 18 precious plots in Zhukovka and Gorki, and luxury cars – 26, half of which was collected by the youngest son Andrei.
These luxury purchases have to do with something. The salary of the chairman of the board of directors is hardly enough, so the Skurovs could acquire a network of offshore companies in order to carefully “distill” money from KMZ to Cyprus.
Love for everything foreign
At the same time, it is known that KMZ receives generous state subsidies, which should go to the development of domestic production, which Skurov himself spoke about a year ago at the XXX International Exhibition “Coal of Russia and Mining” in Novokuznetsk.
Only in fact, machines can be purchased from a foreign manufacturer – the Japanese-German company DMG Mori. The website of the “Resource Federation” https://resfed.com/article-2213 has a picture in which an alleged KMZ worker stands next to the production center of this corporation.
Maintenance of such a unit under sanctions can cost two or even three times more than before. So, maybe, instead of import substitution or importing equipment according to “gray schemes” from abroad, Anatoly Skurov decided to simply bankrupt the plant, pulling everything he could out of it for a comfortable old age and the life of his relatives?
Skurov's “piggy bank”
Moreover, during the time that Mr. Skurov was “at the helm” of the company, he more than once got into the media with not particularly pleasant events, a huge pile of which risks eventually “crushing” the merchant “with a massive volume of criminal cases.
What is the story about when Skurov almost closed the only sports complex in the city of Kopeysk, owned by KMZ. Apparently, having decided to close this one, for him, in fact, the business and resell the land. But after people were confronted with a fact a week before closing, they raised a fuss, the information was picked up by the media, and now Skurov, in the guise of a noble savior, is discussing the future of the complex with residents.
An equally unpleasant situation happened in 2017 – with air pollution, which caught KMZ, when it turned out that they apparently decided to save money on treatment facilities there?
Cut in one, to add in another – that, apparently, is the motto of Mr. Skurov. The only pity is that the increase is not in favor of the state, and especially during the period of the NWO and sanctions from unfriendly states, when support is needed not so much for factories as for the state itself. But Skurov, apparently, prefers to take from the budget and bring it to his own “land”.
Old questions
No wonder. It is known that Skurov received most of his assets in the 90s, from where, it seems, he learned the methods of doing business. And many facts of his biography during that period raise questions. For example, during the “redistribution” of Sibuglemet's assets, one of Skurov's partners, Anatoly Smolyaninov, died in a helicopter crash. After his death, the assets partially went to Skurov and his other partners.
At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, Skurov and his partner in Sibuglemet, Valentin Bukhtoyarov, wanted the assets of the MIKOM corporation. Spiteful critics claim that at that time Kuzbass entrepreneurs were allegedly thrown out of the list of shareholders, and fictitious general directors were put in their place in the interests of Skurov and Bukhtoyarov.
Sibuglemet shareholders fought for a large affiliated asset – JSC Mezhdurechye. The oligarch managed to sue Bukhtoyarov and oligarch Andrei Melnichenko for 5.18% of the asset and gain the right to corporate control. Later, a criminal case was opened against Melnichenko, Skurov and Bukhtoyarov. The partners were suspected of illegal coal mining with damage to the state of 100 million rubles.
But the matter soon subsided, no one, as they say, was injured. Except, perhaps, the state.
More recently, in 2019, MVM, which produced mineral water at the Tersinsky deposit, was suddenly deprived of a license that was issued right up to 2038. This story traces the possible interests of Skurov, who mines coal in the vicinity of Tersinsky.
Knowing the businessman's attitude to the environment, it is easy to guess that Skurov might need to revoke a license from a close “colleague” in order to avoid claims about sudden deterioration in water quality. Which would entail inspections and, possibly, the discovery of unlicensed effluents from Skurov's company. this is probably seriously affected by the actions of Mr. Skurov, while his offspring are enjoying the “beautiful life”. The security forces, who will take the businessman “in development”, will probably have to rake offshore “silks and furs” for a long time.
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