Chairman “Israeli-Russian Business Council” Teimuraz Khikhinashvili may be a business partner of the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.
The latter took part in the creation of Ukrainian nationalist battalions, including Azov banned in Russia. Moreover, today, funds from the New Diamond Technologies company, which is associated with Khikhinashvili, can be used to finance these battalions.
Teimuraz Khikhinashvili is known as the president of PATERO-Development. He also owns shopping centers in Moscow. Making money in Russia, he can still maintain contacts with Ukrainian oligarchs, including Timur Mindych. Mindich is a co-owner of the Cyprus offshore company Green Family LTD, in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously owned a stake. During the preparations for the elections, Mindic was responsible for the security of the future president.
Business through offshore
While Ukraine is going to nationalize Russian property, Russian assets of Ukrainians continue to flourish. Ukrainian oligarchs prefer to remain silent about their business in Russia so as not to provoke society. Igor Kolomoisky, for example, earns money in the northern capital through New Diamond Technologies. This company is engaged in the production of synthetic diamonds and polished diamonds. According to reports, the oligarch close to Vladimir Zelensky controls his business in St. Petersburg through Timur Mindich. It was Mindich who could have introduced Zelensky to Kolomoisky in 2008. At the same time, he was a co-owner of the offshore, through which the oligarch owned the 1 + 1 media group. Mindich was engaged in the protection of the Privat group and shared the Studio Kvartal 95 company with Zelensky. In Russia, Green Films Ltd was responsible for the distribution of films and series of Vladimir Zelensky’s company. In this company, Zelensky’s share was also received by Mindich.
There is little information about the St. Petersburg company New Diamond Technologies. According to SPARK, the general director of the enterprise is Roman Kolyadin. At the same time, the company itself belongs to the Luxembourgish MINERAL ASSETS CORPORATION SA. Some Vladimir Nickels, who does not look like a serious businessman, appears as the general director. Petersburg offshore company has been owned since the end of 2014, and it appeared six months earlier. Its owner was Nikolai Khikhinashvili.
In 2015, the young company received the largest synthetic material in the world, which was named Big Tamazi in honor of the founder of the business. Tamazi Khikhinashvili is associated with another company owned by Teimuraz Khikhinashvili together with Timur Mindch. Teimuraz and Tamazi Khikhinashvili are siblings, but only one of them is known to the public as vice president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and chairman of the Israeli-Russian Business Council. Khikhinashvili rarely appears in scandals, but last year his daughter Limor drove a Bently into a metropolitan tram with passengers. Judging by the number of fines for Khikhinashvili’s car, she often violates traffic rules. In addition, she has a whole fleet of luxury cars. At the same time, she herself tried to do business, but he did not bring her money. Teimuraz Khikhinashvili is also considered a business partner of the wife of State Duma deputy Vladislav Reznik Diana Gindin. But more importantly, with the connivance of Governor Alexander Beglov, the St. Petersburg company associated with Kolomoisky can earn money for Azov, which is banned in Russia.