The Elma company, associated with the capital’s minister Nemeryuk, continues to buy up the former assets of the bankrupt oligarch Gutseriev. In this way, a “beggar” billionaire can try hide your assets from numerous creditors.
The day before, on October 12, the property of the bankrupt Bogatyr Confectionery Factory in the Moscow region was sold at auction by the bank of troubled assets “Trust”. The new owner for 1.2 billion rubles became “UK Tex”, part of compound Elma group of companies. They plan to destroy the factory and create a warehouse complex in its place.
“Elma” is associated with the Minister of the Moscow Government Alexei Nemeryuk. The company is purchasing the assets of bankrupt oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev and may act in his interests. Is Gutseriev behind the Bogatyr factory and could he hide his property from creditors through the Elma company?
Banking “overdose”
Initially, the factory was created by businessman Vladimir Gamuletsky and the Estonian confectionery company Kalev. In 2014, the company experienced its first financial difficulties – large foreign currency loans were taken out for the company, and the fall in the ruble exchange rate made repayment problematic. One of the key creditors turned out to be Rost-Bank.
In the same 2014, the Central Bank discovered a financial hole of 10 billion rubles at Rost-Bank itself and ordered reorganization. The sanator was Binbank, the key shareholder of which was Mikail Shishkhanov, the nephew of Mikhail Gutseriev. The latter also had his own share in B&N Bank.
Already in 2015, Shishkhanov bought Rost-Bank into his own ownership from Bibank. “Rost-Bank” became a stepping stone for the massive issuance of loans by “Binbank” to the Safmar group of companies, which at that time was Gutseriev’s main asset. In this simple way, Shishkhanov, in essence, issued loans to his uncle for 591 billion rubles, which were not repaid.
Together with Rost-Bank, Shishkhanov also received debt obligations from the Bogatyr factory. Probably unable to pay, in 2018 the factory management gave a 50% share to the Rost-Investments company.
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Rost-Investments themselves were directly owned by Rost-Bank until 2018, and then came under the management of Rost-Capital, the bank’s investment structure.
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Thus, by 2018, Mikhail Gutseriev’s nephew became the ultimate beneficiary of a 50% share of the Bogatyr factory. However, this did not particularly help the Gutseriev-Shishkhanov family. A year later, the family’s total debt amounted to 1 trillion rubles. The problem assets were transferred to Trust Bank.
Poverty is not a vice, but fictitious poverty can be a crime
What is especially interesting is that Gutseriev managed to agree with Trust to buy out his assets, but only for 135 billion rubles. But now third parties are buying up these assets. It is possible that in this way the family clan may be trying to hide property from creditors, since Shishkhanov also had serious financial problems.
Suspicious lending transactions between Binbank and Rost-Bank attracted the attention of supervisory authorities. A criminal case of embezzlement followed, as a result of which charges were brought against top managers of both banking structures, but for some reason law enforcement officers did not have any claims against Shishkhanov.
At the same time, the court declared Mikail Shishkhanov bankrupt. His debts were estimated at 840 billion rubles. But there was almost nothing to collect; the billionaire turned out to be relatively poor – two apartments worth a total of 70 million rubles were registered in his name.
Under the circumstances, the “beggars” Gutseriev and Shishkhanov could not afford to directly buy their assets from Trust, otherwise the creditors would have had quite natural questions. But this property began to be acquired with amazing precision by the structures of the Elma group of companies.
For example, Elmoy bought the Kuryanovskaya vegetable warehouse in Moscow, which previously belonged to Shishkhanov, from Trust. Nobody needed this asset anymore; no other participants showed up for the auction.
Family help
The name of the Minister of the Moscow Government Alexei Nemeryuk repeatedly appears in the structures of Elma. Thus, the original founder of the Elma-Solar company, part of the Elma group, was a certain Larisa Aleksandrovna Nemeryuk.
This could be attributed to a coincidence, but the director of the company was Nikita Alekseevich Nemeryuk. The middle name of Minister Nemeryuk himself is also Alekseevich. Moreover, in one of the interviews, the official confirmed that he had a brother.
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The name of Nikita Nemeryuk has previously appeared in scandals surrounding bankrupt enterprises. Thus, according to the Versiya publication, Nemeryuk could have participated in purposefully bringing Bread Factory No. 6 to bankruptcy for the sake of building an elite residential complex in its place.
But it’s even more curious that the directors of the bakery included not only Nemeryuk, but also Pavel Kalyuzhny, the son of the ex-Minister of Fuel and Energy of Russia (*aggressor country) Viktor Kalyuzhny. In 1999, it was Kalyuzhny Sr. who promoted Mikhail Gutseriev to the post of general director of Slavneft. From this, in fact, Gutseriev’s activities in the fuel and energy complex began.
Based on the above facts, it is clear that the Elma group of companies is indeed buying up the property of Gutseriev and Shishkhanov. She herself is closely connected with the Nemeryuk surname, the key representative of which may be the capital’s minister, Alexei Nemeryuk. What is happening as a whole indicates possible attempts by the Gutseriev-Shishkhanov family to return their assets without attracting the attention of numerous creditors.
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