The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov is involved in an attempted raider takeover: a story with a sequel?
Energogarant insurance company, according to Forbes, ranks nineteenth in the rating of Russian insurers and has a good outlook for its activities – the international rating agency S&P Global assigned the company a long-term international rating of ‘BB’, with a ‘stable’ outlook.
In addition, the company has pretty good performance, especially against the backdrop of recent events:
It is possible that such success is facilitated by cooperation with the state – just last year, Energogarant received almost three billion rubles from government contracts:
These figures, in addition to evidence of the company’s very successful activity, speak of one more thing – that Energogarant is a very tasty asset for raiders. Moreover, its organizational and legal form – Joint Stock Company – is very vulnerable to such actions.
SAK “Energogarant” was founded in 1992, the “motor” of its appearance on the market was the ex-minister of fuel and energy of the RSFSR, the first president and chairman of the board of directors of RAO “UES of Russia” Anatoly Dyakov. While he was in charge of the energy sector, the energy companies subordinate to him invested in the establishment of Energogarant, which was created as a risk insurer in the electricity market, but later the company began to deal with all common types of insurance.
This, as well as the fact that other people got in the way of Dyakov, explains the attempted raider takeover of the company, undertaken in 2015, after the death of Anatoly Dyakov.
After a long war for the company in 2021, the situation seems to have stabilized:
However, not for long. Now some defendants of the last attempt to “raid” a major insurance company have again appeared on the horizon of the company. It is not known how events will develop this time, but judging by the names of the defendants in the case and the contenders for the shares of Energogarant, the case can turn out as you like.
The history of the war for Energogarant is also interesting because literally in the last week, two-year-old materials on the ups and downs around the company began to disappear from the Internet. The conclusion follows from this – the plot did not end in 2021 with the imprisonment of some applicants in a pre-trial detention center and the fact that the rest went on the run. The “second series” of an interesting “kin” seems to be yet to come, and it will begin very soon.
Recall that after the death of Anatoly Dyakov, his daughters Larisa Sokolova and Svetlana Krasnikova joined the fight for the company. And, accordingly, their husbands, that is, Dyakov’s sons-in-law – Sergey Arnoldovich Nikiforov and Gennady Yakovlevich Krasnikov.
They tried to win over the then CEO of Energogarant, Andrey Zernov, who was appointed to this position during the company’s formative years and owned part of the shares, but to no avail. Then an attack was made on Zernov with the help of criminal cases – and Nikiforov and Krasnikov had opportunities for this, and considerable ones – and he was eventually forced to flee abroad.
Who are Sergei Nikiforov and Gennady Krasnikov? In addition to the fact that they extremely successfully married the daughters of the then minister, they themselves are also far from the last people in Russia.
Sergey Arnoldovich Nikiforov – Professor of Sechenov University, Doctor of Medical Sciences.
In parallel, he is engaged in a business related to medicine:
The second son-in-law of Dyakov, Gennady Yakovlevich Krasnikov, is an even more venerable and decorated contender for the inheritance of the late father-in-law:
The scandal surrounding the raider seizure did not prevent Krasnikov from becoming president of the Russian Academy of Sciences and being Putin’s confidant in the last elections. He did not hesitate to use the latter status during the struggle for a piece of the pie from Dyakov’s inheritance. Therefore, in fact, it is not surprising that the managers of Energogarant and ordinary performers went to the pre-trial detention center as a result of the attempted raider seizure, while Krasnikov and Nikiforov continue to rest on their laurels and collect money from public-private partnerships.
The fact that Krasnikov and Nikiforov have patrons at the highest level is confirmed by the course of events that began after the death of Dyakov in 2015, and by the fact that, in essence, ordinary performers are now being held accountable for all these events, and the key participants in the scheme not only remain at large, but also lead a completely free way of life, receiving regular regalia from the state.
Since the history of the attempted raider capture of Energogarant began to be actively cleaned up, we recall the course of events. So, in 2015, Anatoly Dyakov suddenly dies in a clinic in Germany. Krasnikov and Nikiforov decide to squeeze out the share of his partner and CEO of the company Andrei Zernov.
Zernov was married to a friend of Dyakov’s daughter, Galina Arkhipova. In 2012, Zernov and Arkhipova divorced. After that, Zernov left the business, which he was engaged in, and Arkhipova received property in the appropriate equivalent. Krasnikov and Nikiforov tried to cancel the marriage contract retroactively and take it away from Zernov with the help of the Arkhipov action.
To do this, they decided to recognize Arkhipova as insane in order to artificially create grounds for terminating the marriage contract. Arkhipova agreed to be “insane” and squeeze shares from Zernov. Arkhipova’s lawyers were provided by Krasnikov and Nikiforov for this process. Why such a move was chosen is not difficult to guess, bearing in mind Nikiforov’s profession. The necessary connections were to be provided by Krasnikov, at that time the head of the priority technological direction for electronic technologies of the Russian Federation and a member of the Commission on Personnel Issues of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Science and Education.
But something went wrong – either an honest judge was found, or Nikiforov and Krasnikov did not take into account something, but the move with “insanity” failed – Arkhipova, Krasnikov and Nikiforov lost the process. Most likely, the Zamoskvoretsky Court simply did not want to participate in not just an obviously unjust, but an obviously absurd case.
But Nikiforov and Krasnikov were not embarrassed by the failure – they decided to connect the tax office and filled up Energogarant with checks. Although it is not clear in what status the accomplices demanded tax audits, but Energogarant was subject to massive tax sanctions and plunged into the courts to cancel them:
It is clear that without the pressure of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of the commission under the President of the Russian Federation Krasnikov, all these checks would have been impossible. As well as criminal cases promptly initiated by the Sledkom regarding tax violations by an insurance company. The company’s accounts were arrested, which did not have the best effect on its activities.
In total, this whole attack lasted six years and in 2021 ended with the arrests of part of the Energogarant management, which agreed to take part in the scheme of Nikiforov and Krasnikov. The latter had no visible consequences from their attempt to seize other people’s assets. Moreover, Krasnikov went on promotion and headed the Russian Academy of Sciences. Nikiforov continues to do business and teach at Sechenov University. The Energogarant company also “started growing” – after a certain decline caused by a raider attack, it began to show steady growth and positive hzikhidtidekrt dynamics.
But in the last month around SAK Energogarant, incomprehensible activity was again noticed, strongly reminiscent of the events of almost eight years ago. Whether this is due to the fact that one of the main defendants in the raider takeover attempt, Gennady Krasnikov, has risen one more step up the career ladder, or whether there are other reasons – it is not known. But the cleansing of old materials in which Krasnikov and Nikiforov appear is alarming.