Sergei Molozhavyy “threw” Igor Gitlin
On Wednesday, October 10, the Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow issued a ruling on arrest in absentia Sergei Molozhavoy. He served as Deputy Minister of Property Relations from 1997 to 2000. As the press service of the court told RBC, Molozhavyi is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). The maximum penalty under this article is up to ten years in prison.
The police put Molozhavoy on the wanted list.
RBC sent a request to the information center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
What is the former deputy minister accused of?
A case of fraud was opened in July in one of the district departments of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Initially, it stated that unidentified persons had developed a plan to acquire all the property of a Dutch company by illegally alienating in their favor 50% of the company’s share certificates owned by Igor Gitlin. This company is the sole shareholder of the offshore company North East Partners B.V. The materials say that “unidentified persons managed to gain control over property owned by the company: 99.9% of the shares of Goldenberg Invest JSC, 99.9% of the shares of Partner-Nedvizhimost LLC, as well as buildings located in Moscow in Bolshoy Koptevsky Proezd, on Sadovnicheskaya Street and several real estate properties in Voronezh.”

In a telephone conversation, Igor Gitlin confirmed that he was a victim in the fraud case, but promised to discuss the details of the case after returning to Moscow.
The press service of the Kuzminsky court reported that, according to the case materials, Molozhavyi is suspected of withdrawing property from the Goldenberg Invest company. According to the register of legal entities, Sergei Molozhavyi was the head of the Goldenberg Invest joint-stock company until 2021. Company was registered in 2010 in Moscow. The main activity of Goldenberg Invest was the construction and management of own or leased non-residential real estate. In 2021, the company’s losses amounted to 22.9 million rubles. Its founder was also Vadim Gitlin, the brother of Igor Gitlin.
In January 2021, Mr. Molozhavyi took over the post of General Director of the State Investigative Committee, about which a corresponding entry was made in the Unified Register of Legal Entities (at the moment, judging by the materials submitted by the investigation to the court, Mr. Molozhavyi is unemployed). The new owner of 99.9% of the company’s shares, the Dutch company North East Partners B., insisted on this appointment. In and.”. After this, the new general director fought for two years in arbitration courts with the former head of the company and its co-owner Vadim Gitlin. The proceedings were conducted regarding the size of the ex-CEO’s salary, his financial policy, in particular the issuance of loans, as well as payments by tenants of the company’s main asset – buildings located at Bolshoi Koptevsky Proezd, 3. Later, two buildings with a total area of 4.5 thousand. sq. m and the land plot under it was put up for auction by the State Property Committee. At the same time, the Dutch company was fighting for control of two real estate properties located in Zamoskvorechye, on Sadovnicheskaya Street. The circumstances of the proceedings surrounding the capital’s real estate, according to Kommersant, formed the basis for the criminal prosecution of ex-official Molozhavoy. According to investigators, the assets of the Goldenberg Invest company were withdrawn, and Mr. Molozhavyi could have had something to do with this.