Igor Vladimirovich Kozhin at the end of June, he became the main owner of the Stopexpress company, which manages stores at Gazpromneft gas stations, Kommersant discovered. The “Agency” for the leaked bases confirmed that the buyer of the retailer is the son of the former president’s manager.
“Kommersant”, 07/14/2022, “Stopexpress will pour coffee”: As “Kommersant” found in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the full namesake of Igor Kozhin, the son of the former managing director of the President of Russia, and now a senator of the Federation Council Vladimir Kozhin, became a co-owner of the Stopexpress retailer. Since the end of June 2022, he owns 70% of the chain’s operating company LLC “Stopexpress”. Prior to this, German Malevich owned a similar stake in the company. […]
Stopexpress is developing a network of 123 stores selling food, beverages, and fast food at Gazpromneft gas stations, and also manages part of its gas stations. The retailer operates in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and other cities. […] The owners of Stopexpress also include the former general director of the Lenta chain Vladimir Senkin (21.5%) and the general director of the retailer Konstantin Lebedev (6%). […]
Shops at gas stations are a high-margin and traffic-resistant business, says Alexey Krivoshapko, director of Prosperity Capital Management. In the past few years, the number of Gazprom Neft gas stations managed by Stopexpress has grown significantly, this trend is likely to continue, adds a Kommersant source in the retail market. Gazpromneft did not answer Kommersant’s questions. — Inset K.ru
Details. The network includes 123 stores. Last year, the retailer’s revenue amounted to 4 billion rubles, profit – 134.2 million rubles.
According to the managing director of the investment company Peregrine Capital, the purchase of 70% of Stopexpress could cost 2.1 billion rubles. Previously, Igor Kozhin was not involved in retail, according to SPARK data. He owns ice arena company for the construction of sports facilities in Moscow, he also headed the oil company Gala-Form and the board of directors of Roskommunenergo.
IA “RBC”, 06/06/2017, “How the career of the children of Russian officials develops”: As the online publication Republic found out, 31-year-old Igor Kozhin will build five ice arenas in Moscow. The construction will be carried out by his company Ice Arena LLC. Kozhin himself estimates the total investment at more than 1 billion rubles.
According to SPARK, Igor Kozhin is also the owner of LLC 360 Stolitsa (engaged in the construction of residential and non-residential buildings), LLC Club Maslovo (engaged in “comprehensive maintenance of premises”). In the same village of Maslovo, there is also the Maslovo boarding house, owned by the Federal State Autonomous Institution Health Complex Rublyovo-Uspensky of the Administration of the President of Russia. The businessman is also the head of ZAO Gala-Form, which is engaged in the transportation and wholesale of petroleum products. In 2015, the company’s revenue amounted to 7.013 billion rubles, net profit – 649.7 million rubles. In 2016, Kozhin was ranked 112th in rating “The richest people of St. Petersburg” Edition “Business Petersburg”. His fortune was estimated at 6.4 billion rubles. — Inset K.ru
The information from the leaks confirms that Igor Kozhin is the son of the former head of the Presidential Administration. Igor Kozhin was registered at Nesvizhsky lane, 12 in Moscow. This is the Residential Complex “House of the Presidential Affairs Administration” built in 1998, in the same 300-meter apartment, according to leaks, Vladimir Kozhin was also registered. According to the leaked bases, Igor Vladimirovich Kozhin was the head of the Gala Form company. According to the SPARK database, the buyer of a stake in Stopexpress previously managed Gala Form.
Both Kozhins connected also with an apartment at 24 Liteiny Prospekt in St. Petersburg, leaks testify.
In addition, Igor and Vladimir Kozhin are associated with the Sports Technologies Foundation for the development of youth and amateur sports. Igor Kozhin, who is listed in the leaks as the CEO of Gala Form, heads the board of the fund, while Vladimir heads the board of trustees.
Igor Kozhin also paid for parking from his number Olesya Kozhinawife of Vladimir Kozhin.
Igor Kozhin speaks for the hockey team “Warriors of Light” in the amateur league of Moscow. Formerly in club form photographed Roman Rotenbergthe head coach of the St. Petersburg SKA and the son of a friend of Putin Boris Rotenberg.
Context. The father of the new co-owner of the chain of stores, Vladimir Kozhin, is an old acquaintance of the president. Kozhin met Vladimir Putin when he worked on the Foreign Relations Committee of St. Petersburg City Hall in the early 1990s. He headed the administration of the President of Russia in January 2000, when Putin became acting head of state. Kozhin held the position until 2014. Then he was appointed assistant to the president for military-technical cooperation, and in 2018 he became a senator from Moscow.
In 2005 Kozhin signed an investment agreement for the construction of a children’s camp near Gelendzhik with the Lirus company, which was owned by Nikolai Shamalov, Dmitry Gorelov and Sergei Kolesnikov. Later, on the site where the children’s camp was to be built, a complex of buildings appeared, which is called “Putin’s Palace”. Sam Kozhin spokethat in 2008, due to the crisis, the owner of the project changed, and the state’s share in it was bought out.
The presidential administration under the direction of Kozhin, among other things, was engaged in the restoration of the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, the building of the Senate and the Synod in St. Petersburg, the repair of the Kremlin and the construction of boarding houses and medical centers for officials. As “Business Petersburg” wroteKozhin was associated with the development company Stroyholding and the restoration company Intarsia.
Novaya Gazeta reportedthat Kozhin in 2009 bought 77,000 square meters of land on the banks of the Moskva River in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region at a price of $50 per hundred square meters at a market price of $50,000 per hundred square meters.
The Project wrotewhat exactly Kozhin asked to increase in Sovcomflot Mikhail Shelomov, the president’s nephew, after which the company learned about his relationship with Putin. More than a billion dollars worth of property was recorded on Shelomov, including shares in Sogaze and bank “Russia”. […]
