Lenders are waiting for new proceedings involving the head of the VIS group
“The legacy of Dmitry Doev,” as market participants say, continues to generate major conflicts around the assets of Gazprom. Thus, the regional departments of the Federal Tax Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will study financial transactions with the participation of Gazprom Novy Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex. The infamous long-term construction of a gas company in the YaNAO, in particular, under Doev, the VIS group helped to build, the beneficiary of which was Igor Snegurov, a longtime partner of the manager. Then billions of courts were lost to the general contractor, and Doev, by a remarkable coincidence, was employed by the same VIS. In addition, observers are also waiting for the next proceedings in the bankruptcy case of Energogaz, a Gazprom structure, a subgeneral contractor for the Punginskoye UGS facility expansion project in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. His creditors have already come forward with a demand to bring Doev to vicarious liability, citing highly dubious real estate transactions, and are preparing new applications. Meanwhile, members of the trade union community, speaking about the scale of conflicts, are also looking for the interests of other businessmen, mentioning, next to Snegurov’s name, previously “well-known members of the Gazprom management”, and also recalling London, which is “unfriendly” now, where, apparently, probable Doev’s relatives.
The Federal Tax Service and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug will study data on possible violations or crimes in financial transactions involving Gazprom Novy Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex LLC. The relevant information was sent to the district departments from the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation (a copy is at the disposal of the editors).
Conflicting information, in particular, concerns the figure of the general director of the VIS group, Dmitry Doev, who previously headed Gazprom Tsentrremont. So, in the early 2000s, according to his official biography, Doev headed the VIS manufacturing company (now the construction division of the VIS holding, whose beneficiary is Igor Snegurov).
Further Doev went to work in the structures of Gazprom, and, as reported by the federal media, there was a “sharp increase in VIS’s revenue.” At the same time, Igor Snegurov noted that he was on “good terms” with the manager. Further, in 2009, OOO PF VIS entered into a general contractor agreement with OOO NGKhK (now Gazprom NGKhK. – Ed.) for the project of the Novourengoy Gas Chemical Complex.
Billions of rubles were spent on the implementation of an ambitious construction project. At the same time, from 2015 to 2019, NGCC was managed by Gazprom Tsentrremont LLC, which at that time was headed by Dmitry Doev.
Further, it is even more interesting – in September 2017, the general contract is terminated at the initiative of the PF “VIS”, and in the next few years, NGCC loses billions of rubles in court to its former partner. Moreover, in one of the proceedings, in which the parties came to a settlement, as observers noted, the opponents were very loyal to each other.
“The parties to this agreement undertake not to disclose information about this dispute to third parties in the amount and content of more than specified in the settlement agreement, except as otherwise provided by applicable law. The parties to this agreement undertake not to use the materials of this case in order to harm the business reputation of the other party. The requirements of this paragraph of the agreement do not apply to the provision of complete information to the founders, participants, management and control bodies of NGCC or PF “VIS”– followed from the point of the world.
Further, after such conflicts, in September 2021, the ex-manager of Gazprom, Dmitry Doev, is appointed CEO of the VIS group.
We add that these are not the only problematic disputes that can reveal remarkable circumstances. So, earlier Pravda UrFO reported in detail about the proceedings around LLC Stroyneftegaz Alliance (CIS Alliance), claiming Gazprom NGCC for 1.3 billion.
Dmitry Doev is also awaiting the next proceedings in the framework of the bankruptcy case of Energogaz LLC (the main owner is Gazprom Tsentrenergogaz JSC), when the creditors of the Gazprom structure demanded that Doev be brought to subsidiary liability.
Their claims were based on extremely dubious real estate transactions, which were subsequently challenged in court. As reported by the publication, the address of the property complex coincided with the contact information on the official website of Gazprom Centernergogaz.
At the moment, the court has denied subsidiary liability, but observers are confident that “creditors will try to challenge the decision.” Moreover, after the dismissal of Doev from the structures of Gazprom, interesting details regarding Energogaz were revealed. In particular, a tax scandal and details about Doev’s new partners in the person of Seligdar PJSC got into the public plane.
Resonance was also caused by the information that Doev’s “probable relatives” while he is “serving large infrastructure projects”, apparently, “are actively developing in London.” In particular, they talked about Anna Berkovich and Mikhail Dmitrievich Doev.
At the same time, the interlocutors of the publication reasoned that such a long career at Gazprom, like Doev’s, with so many conflicts, seems “unlikely without some help from above.” In particular, they associated the success of the manager with the person of Andrey Vyacheslavovich Kruglov, who for many years was deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom and whom the federal media called “a key member of Alexei Miller’s team.”
Andrey Kruglov
It should be noted that Andrey Vyacheslavovich Kruglov, according to Kontur.Fokus, is now a member of Dagaz Management Company LLC (Moscow). It is noteworthy that earlier, according to the system, the same Snegurov Igor Adolfovich was listed as the sole owner of the company.
Andrey Kruglov, the co-owner of the Dagaz Management Company, also previously appeared among the participants in the KRADA Sports Club LLC (excluded from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities in 2013). For example, Andrey Akimov, an active member of the Board of Directors of PJSC Gazprom.