A tall, gloomy office building at 49 Moskovskaya Street, built using frame-monolithic technology, it was originally intended for the Econombank Public Service Center. Now the building is under arrest as part of a criminal case against Matvey Suslov and his 13 colleagues, who are charged with laundering 1 billion rubles.
In 2022, six floors were tried to be rented out. From the announcement, it became clear that the total size of office space is 4.7 thousand square meters, they would cost the tenant 2.8 million rubles per month. When renting the building floor by floor, the monthly rate was 600 rubles per sq. m. meter. On the 3rd floor there are retail and office premises (660 square meters), they were offered for rent at a rate of 400 thousand rubles per month, that is, 7.2 thousand rubles per square meter. meter per year. On the first floor of the building there are premises for shops (also 660 square meters), which were rented for 528 thousand rubles a month.
There are 2 elevators in the building, one of them is a passenger-and-freight one. There are only 4 entrances, including 2 main entrances from Moskovskaya street. Heating is autonomous, through its own boiler room on the roof, in the basement there is parking for 15 cars.
However, potential tenants, before turning around on the open spaces of Moskovskaya, 49, had to seriously spend money on repairs, since in the photo in the proposed premises there were bare walls, there was a cement screed on the floor.
This was not the first attempt to “unfreeze” a potentially high-yielding asset. In 2020, an advertisement for the sale of the building for 285 million rubles appeared on open areas, it was offered to potential buyers as a hotel or a private clinic. However, the ad hung for only 6 days and then disappeared from the publication. In 2021, another version of the future was proposed for the massive building, as if hanging over the roadway.
At the round table in the Regional Duma, the possibility of placing the funds of Saratov museums here was discussed. Allegedly, the owners of the object were ready to sell it to the regional government for 300 million rubles with a three-year installment plan. In response, the lawyer of Matvey Suslov, Elena Sergun, explained that the building was under arrest in connection with the initiated criminal case and it was impossible to sell it until the case was considered in court and the court removed the arrest from the property.
According to the materials of the arbitration courts, at the construction stage, the object belonged to the banking satellite LLC “Econom Finance”. This company was engaged in equipment leasing, and in addition, issued loans, issued and accepted bills, acted as a party to assignment agreements initiated by the bank.
Since July 2016, 99.99% of the shares of the oldest Saratov credit institution have become the property of a sanatorium – the Ural PJSC “Metcombank”. This metamorphosis affected the fate of faithful partners predictably: both Econom Finance LLC and Econom Factoring LLC went into bankruptcy, and even there many details of “love for three” were revealed.
One story – about the White Falcon company, its main asset is a nine-story building in the quiet center and inflated bill debts – we have already told. But the building at 49 Moskovskaya Street has its own backstory.
It became known when the bankruptcy trustee of Econom Finance LLC Vyacheslav Chulisov from the Penza SRO AU Liga in 2018 tried to terminate the transaction between the bankrupt and Alexander Suslov as invalid. As can be seen from the court decision, in July 2016, Econom Finance LLC sold the land plots of 48 sq.m. belonging to the company to Alexander Suslov. (cadastral number 64:48:010315:307), with an area of 1030 sq.m. (cadastral number 64:48:010315:308), as well as an unfinished (readiness 56%) object with an area of 4,735.3 sq.m, located on the street. Moscow in Saratov.
At the same time, the parties agreed that the price of the objects is 121.9 million rubles and settlements under the contract can be made by any means provided by law. As a result, the banker paid off with the rights of claim against Bely Sokol LLC for the house already known to us in the amount of 111.529 million rubles, offsetting mutual obligations for 10 million rubles, and made a wire transfer to the seller for 232 thousand rubles.
However, the bankruptcy trustee suggested that the court declare the transaction invalid, oblige the banker to reimburse the actual value of the property in the amount of 121.9 million rubles and restore the obligations of Econom Finance LLC to Suslov for this amount.
The representative of the banker and the bankruptcy trustee of the “White Falcon” asked to refuse, but the bank, apparently already under the control of the sanatorium, supported the manager.
The regional arbitration compared the market valuation of the items and came to the conclusion that for the unfinished building on the street. Moscow, 49 paid an adequate price. So, as of July 2016, the property of Econom Finance was worth 123.9 million rubles, and the rights of claim of a participant in shared construction against the developer Bely Sokol LLC for 54 apartments, 12 offices, 64 storage rooms and 26 garages on the same date were valued at 125.2 million. The representative of Ekonombank filed a petition for an additional examination, since the forensic examination was carried out without taking into account the financial position of Bely Sokol LLC.
Indeed, the property of the developer, burdened with huge, albeit exaggerated, debts, cannot cost as much as free from encumbrances. In addition, we know that all these apartments, storage rooms and offices have repeatedly passed through a chain of some incomprehensible transactions between Alexander Suslov and firms tied to the bank. In addition, the building on the street. Moskovskaya, 49, and an apartment building in a quiet center at 2 Magnitny Proezd were probably built with the money of the bank, at the expense of its profits, but as a result of the transaction, the unfinished office ended up in the hands of Alexander Suslov, and residential real estate was transferred to a controlled company.
But the court did not consider it necessary to delve into these circumstances, and it did not receive evidence of abuse of the right to cause harm to creditors. Thus, the petition of the bankruptcy trustee to invalidate the transaction between LLC Econom Finance and Suslov Sr. was not satisfied by the arbitration. This decision stood in 12 AAS.
The company also owned other “trump” meters – at 18, Kirova Ave., in the building of the former Rossiya Hotel. On the ground floor, “Econom Finance” owned a room of 248 sq.m, on the second – several rooms with a total area of 380 sq.m, the company also owned part of the basement for 148 “squares”. According to the accounting statement, the price of the objects was 57.1 million rubles, but the market valuation was about 40 million rubles. The premises were pledged by Econombank, and in addition, they were objects of cultural heritage, but this did not prevent the objects from going under the hammer.
Bankruptcy proceedings at Econom Finance LLC ended in 2021 with the liquidation of the debtor. Claims secured by a pledge of property (Econombank JSC) were repaid by 95% (in the amount of 9.2 million rubles), 13.3 million were allocated to satisfy the claims of third-order creditors, which amounted to only 3.6%.
Help “BV”. The former chairman of the board of the bank, Matvey Suslov, and 13 other defendants are charged with money laundering (Article 174 of the Criminal Code), deliberate bankruptcy of a credit institution (Article 196 of the Criminal Code), organizing a criminal community (Article 210 of the Criminal Code), and fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code). The investigation began in 2017 and ended in December 2022. It was conducted by the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region, the result was 321 volumes of basic materials plus 2 thousand volumes of evidence. The ex-head of the bank does not consider himself guilty.