The “night governor” of the Krasnodar Territory, which is what the fugitive billionaire Oleg Makarevich is called, is preparing to return triumphantly to Russia. Several criminal cases brought against him, according to sources, will be closed in the foreseeable future, since the businessman has reliable connections in various structures. For many years, starting from the 90s, it was “protected” by local authorities and courts. But recently, he was approached too quickly, even several people from his “tile” were sent under investigation. The press even started talking about the fact that there are no untouchable oligarchs. But everything is not as it seems at first glance. Even despite the fact that the security forces were on his trail, one of them nevertheless warned him in time about the impending detention. And he managed to retreat and hide in Austria. There he has several real estate objects, large sums in the accounts of local banks. As they say, neither he, nor even his great (in the 10th degree) grandchildren, will die of hunger, and they will not remain on the street. One detention of Makarevich nevertheless took place in 2014. He was accused of fraud. But the case, of course, fell apart, and he came out clean from the water. The businessman went on the run in the spring of 2021. He was even put on the wanted list, however, only in the federal one. For some reason, it has not yet been announced internationally. Law enforcement officers and his businesses did not touch. According to official estimates, he was the founder of about fifty companies. Half of them live and prosper, and Makarevich leads them from abroad. He, even while on Austrian soil, opened another office through his person by proxy from a foreign notary. Its main businesses are cargo transportation, funeral services and waste disposal. Over the past few years, his Memorial has tripled its revenue (to almost 400 million rubles), and its net profit 16 times (from 5 to 80 million). The approximate value of his assets is estimated at more than 4 billion rubles, and his personal share in them is about half. According to sources, now 7 criminal cases have been opened against Makarevich. We repeat, no arrest has been imposed on his property, and in fact no one is looking for him. But in the summer of 2021, the security forces contacted a group of judges who worked in conjunction with a businessman. One of the Femidovites, the chairman of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnodar, Gennady Bayrak, was arrested. In many ways, it was he who decided the issues of justice for the billionaire. The investigation into the bribe of more than 2 million rubles from Bayrak is still ongoing, and may be dragging on. But all this time he is in jail. Makarevich presented a kind of New Year’s gift to himself and his wife – he decided 11 years later to pay off the tax debts and return 350 million rubles to her. At least one gestalt is closed. There is no doubt that the rest will also be closed. Last summer, Makarevich re-registered his cargo transportation group of companies Krafter in another region. From the Krasnodar Territory, Trans-Ural, Bigcar and Neva-Logistic with all 22,000 vehicles were relocated to Tambov. Why this rather unattractive city for doing business? Everything turned out to be simple – his longtime partner and friend, who once worked in the Krasnodar tax office, and now heads the Tambov Federal Tax Service, Alexei Zhitlov, now works there. He pulled up other “assistants” of Makarevich. So problems with prompt registration at the new address of the businessman’s structures did not cause problems last summer. According to some reports, tax fraud, which took place with the participation of Zhitlov, only one “Crafter” Makarevich can pull on 2 billion rubles. Now the “night governor” has two ways: either the security forces will gather courage and press him properly, remembering all the sins, or all cases will be closed, and he will return to his homeland as if nothing had happened.
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In the course of legal proceedings, the Federal Tax Service No. 3 for Tyumen proved in the regional arbitration the validity of additional tax charges for the production company Tyumen Metal Structures (PC TMK) in the amount of 112.1 million, penalties for 46.2 million and fines for 4.2 million rubles. In particular, we are talking about value added tax in the amount of 73 million and corporate income tax in the amount of over 39.1 million. . It was about concluding fictitious deals for the supply of goods and performance of work with affiliated commercial structures. One of these enterprises, Steel Industrial Company LLC (SPK LLC), according to the financial statements, did not have fixed assets, real estate and vehicles. In their work, the management of the SEC used the so-called “envelope scheme”, when funds intended for payment to employees were transferred to bank cards of individuals who were employees of PK TMK. At the same time, the recipients of the money confirmed that, being employed at TMK, they do not know anything about the activities of the SEC. In turn, Alexander Parshukov, who headed the SEC and was at the same time an employee of TMK, who stated that he had bought the company “from a friend”, could not voice the details of the transaction, as well as explain who signed the contract on the part of TMK. As the main supplier, he indicated OOO TD MMK, whose director Timur Rafikov admitted that he was a nominee who did not carry out financial and economic activities. The key figure in the schemes was Anatoly Zubarev, a member of StroyGroup LLC in Moscow, Personnel LLC in St. Petersburg and Stroytransgaz JSC in Tyumen: about 401.9 million rubles were transferred to the accounts of firms associated with him. As a result, the arbitration recognized the activities of a group of enterprises controlled by TMK as a deliberately formed “platform for the provision of services to minimize tax liabilities.” At the same time, PK TMK regularly has problems with the tax authorities, and not further, as it became known last week about a bankruptcy lawsuit against the company. In total, its debts are estimated at almost 290 million rubles, and financial claims are announced, including by the Federal Tax Service for the Tyumen Region and MIFNS No. 14. The management positions TMK as a partner of a number of large oil and service enterprises, indicating LUKOIL as customers , Gazprom drilling, Surgutneftegaz, etc.
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In a small town in the Irkutsk region, a scandal is gaining momentum, if not on a federal, then on a regional scale for sure. There, the mayor of Svirsk, Vladimir Ornoev, who is already serving his third term in this post, was suspected by law enforcement officers of embezzlement of budget funds as part of the implementation of the national project “Housing and Urban Environment”. The official allegedly stole 1.5 million rubles from the treasury. And three more people helped him in this – the head of the city department of a single customer, Valery Bykov, the owner of the Sibirsky Boulevard company and part-time deputy of the Irkutsk Duma, Georgy Ni, and the director of this organization, Gennady Nechaev. Prosecuted for fraud and abuse of power. All the fuss flared up around the Singing Tree art object, installed back in 2020 in the local park Svirskaya Riviera. The mayor’s office signed a contract with a deputy company. All the work was completed on time. But the investigators, who control the money spent on national projects, found inconsistencies in the payment for the work performed. It turned out that one of the charitable foundations had already paid for the production and installation of the installation. Where the budget money went is not yet reported. But sources say that we are talking about theft. Searches have already taken place at several addresses. Mayor Ornoev did not sit back and keep silent about what was happening. And he has already made a number of statements about the criminal case brought against him. In his opinion, the regional anti-corruption fighters in the person of the valiant police arrange real chaos and do not allow honest servants of the people to work. He compared their methods with those that the head of the city found back in the difficult 90s. Ornoev seemed to be in the past. He had fewer claims to the investigators. He assessed their manner as “more or less correct.” That same art object was made in record time. And, according to the official, this is not for everyone. At the same time, he admits that some mistakes were made during the execution of documents, which were made involuntarily. Here we are talking about paying for the Singing Tree by a charitable foundation. The organization apparently planned to return the money in order to maintain parity. The thing is that due to the tight deadlines for the execution of work, all activities went in parallel. Then, apparently, a scheme was devised on how to do everything quickly. But at the same time, it is not within the framework of the current legislation. Such cases of forced violation of the law in Russia are ubiquitous. Due to the lack of flexibility in the legislation, officials sometimes have to resort to illegal acts in order to use budgetary funds (not appropriate them) on time. Ornoev himself does not consider himself and his colleagues guilty and hopes that the investigation will sort everything out.
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The scandal associated with the performance of Valery Meladze at a New Year’s corporate party in Dubai is gaining momentum, where the singer, emphasizing his apolitical nature, was filmed on camera at the moment of pronouncing a pro-Ukrainian slogan. As a result, Russian public figures demand to remove Meladze’s songs from the air and recognize him as a foreign agent, the Federation Council raised the issue of depriving the artist of Russian citizenship, and Andrey Lugovoi, the first deputy head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, sent an appeal to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with a request for a legal assessment the actions of the singer. The brother of the performer Konstantin Meladze has Ukrainian citizenship and a Kyiv residence permit. Valery himself lives in the luxury-class village “Millennium Park” on Novorizhskoye Highway in the Istra district of the Moscow region, in a cottage worth about 650 million rubles. Officially, the household is registered in the name of Meladze’s mother, and another mansion is being built nearby – for her brother. In fact, the singer is registered in a small-sized three-room apartment on one of the Moscow outskirts, at a price of no more than 20 million rubles. He owns a whole fleet of expensive cars: B180 microvan, AMG G63 gelendvagen (cost reaches 50 million rubles), GLS 400 SUV (20 million), E200 sedan (7 million), V250 minivan (15 million), as well as the flagship S350 ( 35 million). According to Meladze himself, he is on the board of directors of Investtorgbank, and also deals with land and real estate transactions. In particular, through Vantage LLC, he owns the shopping center of the same name in Vostochny Biryulyovo, built without permission and then legalized. The cadastral value of the object is estimated at 145 million rubles. The singer also earned money on the construction of 17 mansions in the Odintsovo village of Gorki-2, the Rublev village of Znamenskoye Pole, the Novomoskovsk village of Rumyantsevo, etc., for the sale of each of which he received tens of millions of rubles. Valery Meladze’s eldest daughter Inga develops the Apeiron jewelry brand. She owns a 130-meter apartment on the street. Orshanskaya in the Krylatsky Hills area, worth about 40 million rubles. She also posts a photo of a wooden cottage on social networks, which she calls “dacha”. The middle daughter, Sofiko, was featured as a co-founder of Azmuu, an intellectual property rental company. Her business partner is the owner of the Kyiv dairy “Azmoo”, Ukrainian business lady Elizaveta Znoba. Not so long ago, Sofiko transferred her share in Azmuu to a third party, possibly a nominal one. It was reported about her plans to open a wine bar “Omela. Family rooms” on Ostozhenka, but the room is currently empty. The trademark belongs to the recently registered company Cafe Nabokov. Sofiko’s husband is an Estonian Savva Baibakov. He works for Globaltic, a family business that supplies barbecue charcoal to Western Europe. In Russia, an individual entrepreneur in the field of real estate management is registered for him: a businessman leases about 3.3 thousand square meters in the Moscow business centers Vereiskaya Plaza III, W Plaza 2 and Victory park plaza for a total of 8 .6 million rubles per month. The spouses own a studio apartment in the Match Point business class residential complex on the street. Vasilisa Kozhina worth about 30 million rubles. In fact, they can live in another elite residential complex – Nabokov on Ostozhenka, where the price of three-room apartments is about 214 million. Valery Meladze gave his youngest daughter Arina a three-room apartment in the Rublevskoye Suburb residential complex in Krasnogorsk worth about 25 million rubles. At the same time, it is registered in another “three-ruble note” – in the residential complex “Wander Park” on Rublevka, where the average cost of an apartment is about 50 million. , worth about 65 million rubles each (one cottage was sold in 2014). The family also owns a hi-tech homeownership with an area of 385 square meters on the territory of the Rublyovka village Znamenskoye Pole, where a similar object was sold for 90 million rubles.
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In the Leningrad region, the Evrika construction holding and the authorities of the Tosnensky district cannot coexist peacefully. From time to time, disagreements arise between them, which turn into litigation. Officials recently lost one of these “fights”. This concerned a land plot of 3 hectares in the Telmanovsky rural settlement. Administration officials insisted that the area was expensive, while businessmen argued that it was private property that belonged to them by right. Initially, the courts of two instances took the side of the authorities, and it would seem that the issue will be resolved in their favor, and the land will return to municipal ownership. But the district arbitration sent the case to the regional court for review. In the end, Eureka won. The parties tried to reach a pre-trial agreement, but failed. And in the spring of 2021, the trial began. The administration tried to prove that the site was part of the road running along Zelenaya Street of the settlement. And the Evrikan company, which is part of the mentioned group of companies, arranged such excavations along it that a ravine was formed, which made it difficult for local residents to get to their dachas and garages, as well as to the memorial complex. In this regard, officials wanted to remove the site, then to begin the reconstruction of the roadway. The holding’s lawyers noted that they had owned the site for quite a long time, and until 2017, when the general plan was adopted, this territory was not part of the settlement, and even more so was not Zelenaya Street. Also, business representatives claimed that next to their land there are empty municipal plots on which a road could be built. True, according to them, local authorities do not want to deal with this issue. There was another resonant scandal with another company of Evrika Group – Evrikal. On the site where earthworks were carried out, the remains of the bodies of the soldiers of the Red Army who died during the Great Patriotic War were found. According to some reports, the company intended to simply hide this fact so as not to report to the competent authorities and stop the work. With such findings, there are certain procedures that sometimes stretch over time. The public found out about this and raised a fuss. Then the investigation committee of the Leningrad region became interested in this case. Even a criminal case was initiated against the head of “Evrikala” Yuri Matsko. The materials even reached the court at the end of 2021. Only trials are still going on. It is noted that this case in itself is unique. Previously, under the mentioned article, investigators were not initiated for damage to a military grave. In practice, there were only cases of pogroms at memorials.
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The process of changing the ownership of a number of large Saratov enterprises is increasingly reminiscent of a large-scale raider takeover with bankruptcies, initiation of criminal cases and litigation. An anonymous certificate of the acquisition of 162,000 hectares of land in the region, dated November 2020, has been circulated online. According to the “budget” indicated in the certificate, 3.5 billion rubles are provided for the redemption of the companies’ debts, the initiation of a criminal case is estimated at $2 million. At the same time, the emphasis is on Agroinvest, one of the largest agricultural enterprises in the region. On November 1 last year, the Arbitration Court of the Volga District overturned the decisions of the first and appeal instances to deprive Andrey Khokhlov of the rights to the company, sending the case for a new trial. Nevertheless, the tax department has not yet made the necessary changes to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Last December, the Saratov regional arbitration, contrary to the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Volga District, returned the share of Agroinvest to its former owner CJSC Madin. The situation can be changed by the decision of the Twelfth Court of Appeal, where the next trials should take place on February 1. Here are just the general director of Agroinvest, Dmitry Kochnev, who took office after the restoration of the ownership of CJSC Madin, initiated the liquidation of the enterprise, allegedly due to the inability to pay off debts to Rusagro, which bought the right to claim from Sberbank. And the option agreement between Rusagro and Sberbank to buy out the right to claim against Agroinvest was concluded on April 28, 2022, that is, on the day the decision of the first instance was made, depriving Khokhlov of the right to own the company. As a result, bankruptcy proceedings were introduced against the debtor, and the manager filed a lawsuit against Khokhlov for damages in excess of 5 billion rubles. In addition, representatives of Rusagro submitted an application for inclusion in the register of Agroinvest’s creditors of claims purchased from Sberbank. To pay off obligations, the assets of Agroinvest, estimated at 3 billion rubles, will go into the bankruptcy estate. This is well understood in Rusagro, demanding to provide information about the property of the enterprise, including land.
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The Granel group of companies, founded in the early 1990s by the current Prime Minister of the Republic of Bashkortostan Andrei Nazarov and Ilshat Nigmatullin, may soon become the owner of a site in New Moscow. The amount of the proposed investment may range from 3.2 to 3.6 billion rubles. The developer plans to purchase the Kyiv 22 warehouse complex, which belongs to United Europe Holding. The latter is engaged in the distribution of cosmetics, and until 2016 had a share of the Ile de Beaute brand. This complex covers an area of more than 40 thousand square meters. Granel, in the event of a successful deal, can build another warehouse on the acquired site with an area twice the size of the EEX complex. But the developer has competitors in this struggle for an attractive territory. What kind of companies they are is not disclosed. According to experts, the increased interest on the part of housing builders in purchases of this kind is associated, first of all, with the benefits provided by the authorities when changing the purpose of using the land. And in those conditions when the mayor’s office raised the fee from 2 to 8 times for the procedure for such changes, then such deals become even more attractive. Analysts believe that in the near future there will be even more. The essence of the scheme is that construction companies should build shopping centers, technology parks and other similar facilities on the received sites to create additional jobs. In return, they receive a discount on the fee for changing the type of permitted use. In addition, developers will have promising and profitable projects in the future after completion of work in additional (adjacent) territories. Last year, the authorities allowed the construction of logoparks. Complexes for the provision of logistics services during the cessation of the construction of such facilities are in great demand. According to official data, last year there were no more than three percent of free warehouses in the capital and the Moscow region. It is noted that thanks to such measures, developers will be able to close the gap in their projects for the sale of commercial real estate. Considering how intensively New Moscow is developing, it can be said with confidence that the profits from VRI projects will only grow. It should be reminded that a year ago the EEX company was going to sell its warehouse complex. For this, the investment fund Raven Russia was created in England. The organization received FAS approval for the deal. But the special operation canceled this and a number of other processes for the purchase and sale of assets.
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Assistance of an elderly non-technocrat: idiocy and pathos Programs a la “People’s budget” are being implemented in 20 regions of Russia. They give people the opportunity to participate in budget planning. Albeit on plush micro-budgets. In the Samara region, the project was tied to Azar’s PR and called the governor’s program “Support”. As a result, a good idea was turned by the Belodom’s authors of The Idiot’s Folk ABC into pathos clowning. Further:
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A real struggle has unfolded over the assets of the “banana” company F Logistic LLC, which is owned by Vadim Sayapin and the Dutch company Ayesji Participatimaatshappiy B.V. (part of the structure of the Japanese trading corporation Sumitomo). It all started after the Arbitration of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region declared F Logistic bankrupt at the end of last year. Moreover, the procedure for declaring the organization incapacitated was initiated not only by the LLC itself, but also by another office owned by Vadim Sayapin – Fifes Fruit Import in the spring of 2022. According to sources, creditors are demanding more than 4 billion rubles from the bankrupt. But to date, justifications for such intentions have been received for only 720 million rubles. In the course of the inventory, it turned out that the property of F Logistic is estimated at half a billion rubles. This census of assets also includes a warehouse built by Maersk from Denmark. Its area is more than 10 thousand square meters. And there is installed expensive equipment for storing fruit. Creditors decided and were going to dismantle it. The necessary measures have already been agreed. But representatives from Ayesji found out about this and managed to go to court to prevent such “vandalism”. During the proceedings, the Dutch partners stated that they were ready to cover all debts to creditors, and then they would conduct additional capitalization. At the same time, foreign businessmen accused the co-owners of deliberate bankruptcy of the company. This was done in order, according to sources, to get sole control over the assets due to the prevailing internal conflict. The reasons for the discord are not named. Another accusation from that side was that the partners deliberately created obstacles to closing obligations to creditors. A few words about businessman Vadim Sayapin and F Logistic. He received a share of the company from his namesake Maxim Sayapin in 2018. Judging by open data, the men are siblings. The organization itself appeared in 2013 for the storage and warehousing of fruits. She also has special equipment that ensures the ripening of bananas. The company completed 2021 with revenue of about 362 million rubles. At the same time, the net loss left about 140 million rubles. Sayapin Maxim at one time was closely associated with the odious businessman and theatergoer Vladimir Kekhman. The latter is now in charge of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, and until 2012 he owned the JFC company (declared bankrupt) and was its main beneficiary. He was also under investigation for particularly large-scale fraud. True, the case was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. So Maksim Sayapin was the executive director at Kekhman’s JFC.
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In Novosibirsk, the deadlines for the development of a sanitary protection zone and new boundaries of the Kleshchikhinsky cemetery, which the city administration is obliged to establish in pursuance of a court decision that satisfied the claim of the prosecutor’s office, have been disrupted. In addition, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case, which in October last year was taken under personal control by the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin. Today, municipal officials are talking about the fault of the contractor, who is obliged to complete the work by the end of December. The contract was signed in October with the Nizhny Novgorod appraisal company Veta, which reduced the price from 1.43 million to 519 thousand rubles. She already has unfulfilled contracts on her account, in particular, those concluded back in 2015 with PJSC Gazprom Gas Distribution Nizhny Novgorod. In courts, the interests of Veta are represented by the capital’s Delcredere Bar Association, which is associated with Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev: it is known that the oil company signed contracts with the board for 74 million rubles, and the managing partner of Delcredere is Alexandra Maidannik, whose husband Igor Maidannik is known as a legal adviser to Transneft management. Veta’s contract in Novosibirsk may be terminated, and the contractor may be charged a penalty. Meanwhile, within the new borders of the Kleshchikhinsky cemetery and the Shipyard, there may be the Khiloksky shopping center, the closure of which has been sought by residents of the nearby microdistrict for several years, complaining about the deterioration of the environmental situation and the crime situation: illegal migrants accumulate on the territory of Khiloksky, mass fights took place, dismantling of criminal groups, large quantities of drugs were imported. In the management of the shopping center, the cause of complaints is the actions of unscrupulous competitors. We are talking about the beneficiaries of the Mandarin agro-industrial distribution center recently built in Novosibirsk – the infamous owner of RATM Holding Eduard Taran and his partner Alexander Kayumov. A number of criminal histories and criminal cases are already connected with their Novosibirsk environment. Taran himself also found himself in the center of attention of the security forces, and in addition, he gained fame as the organizer of raider seizures of large enterprises with their subsequent bankruptcy.