Tkachev of his happiness, or how ex-deputy Alexei Sidyukov replenishes the empire of the “boss”
With the filing of Alexei Sidyukov, the lands of Vin Lefkadia will replenish the land bank of Tkachev Agrocomplex. The family of the former deputy Tkachev Gromyko may be on the hook.
The new owner of the winery “Wines of Lefkadia” in the Krasnodar Territory was the owner of the winery “Myskhako”, ex-deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region Alexei Sidyukov. He is also a major agribusinessman and grain trader.
Alexei Sidyukov is associated with the former Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and the ex-governor of the Kuban, Alexander Tkachev, as well as with the latter’s protégé, former Deputy Minister Yevgeny Gromyko. Alexey Sidyukov may owe a significant part of his fortune to them.
The deal for the purchase of the winery included about 300 hectares suitable for vineyards. In addition, the businessman plans to receive another 2 thousand hectares for the development of production from the administration of the Krasnodar Territory.
He can count on success. Alexey Sidyukov is a former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory of the 5th and 6th convocations. In the region, he is associated with the former head of the subject, ex-Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev, who still has great influence in the region today.
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“Krasnodarzernoprodukt-Expo” Alexey Sidyukov is one of the largest exporters of Russian grain. Previously, its share in exports reached 3%. Sidyukov has owned it since 2005. And he came to agribusiness from a gambling business – and this cannot but cause surprise.
Note that since the mid-2000s, Alexander Tkachev’s son-in-law Roman Batalov has also been actively involved in the gambling business. In 2016, Domain LLC, associated with it, received permission to carry out activities for the organization and conduct of gambling in the Sochi gambling zone Krasnaya Polyana. Perhaps “legs grow” even from Sidyukov’s slot machines in Tkachev’s native village?
A couple of years after studying at the university, Sidyukov became a co-owner of the Master Games and Bonus companies, registered in the village of Vyselki. This is the native village of Alexander Tkachev. A couple of years later, Sidyukov switched to agribusiness – he created the Krasnodarzernoprodukt (KZP) group. In 2014, after two years as Sidyukov’s deputy, the group’s total revenue exceeded 22 billion rubles.
Just at that time, Alexander Tkachev was the governor of the region. As Vedomosti subsequently wrote, participants in the agricultural market were sure that Sidyukov often acts in the interests of the Agrocomplex. Tkachev – the main asset of the former Minister of Agriculture.
Alexey Sidyukov. Photo: https://kalininskaya-93.ru/city/imya-kubani/blagotvoritelnoe-imya-kubyani/
Interestingly, Tkachev and Sidyukov at one time successfully divided the assets of the bankrupt sugar factories in the region. We are talking about the enterprises of the Euroservice group and the Razgulay agricultural holding. They went bankrupt as a result of the crisis of 2008-2009, after which Agrocomplex bought Tikhoretsky Sugar Plant from Razgulay. Another asset, the Kurganinsky plant, was bought by the Pokrovsky concern of Andrey Korovaiko.
Korovaiko is a regular hero of our publications. Recall that today a whole bunch of criminal cases have been opened against him and other beneficiaries of the concern. They are suspected of seizing assets and major fraud.
It turns out that then Korovaiko and Tkachev shared someone else’s bankrupt business. True, not without conflicts. The struggle unfolded for the “Pavlovsky sugar factory”. The company was in bankruptcy proceedings. In 2014, his property was leased to the Pavlovsky Sugar Plant LLC of the same name, which was owned by the manager of Sidyukov’s companies, Igor Shtuk.
In the same 2014, Vadim Gromyko, the son of the then vice-governor Yevgeny Gromyko, bought out 100% of the company’s shares. In 2015, he resold these shares to the personnel director of Agrocomplex named after. Tkachev to Vadim Antonov, and in 2015, Trade House Kuban-2004, a subsidiary of Agrocomplex, became the owner.
In this sense, the big question is whether Aleksey Sidyukov will remain the ultimate beneficiary of Vin Lefkadia. Or will they eventually replenish the already swollen land bank of Agrocomplex?
Subsequently, we recall, Yevgeny Gromyko followed Tkachev to the Ministry of Agriculture, where he became his deputy. And then he was appointed senator of the Federation Council from the region. This is Alexander Tkachev’s man.
In addition, Vadim Gromyko and Alexei Sidyukov also had a common business: Yeisk-Port-Vista LLC, which is engaged in cargo handling. At the same time, the Netherlands offshore “AGRICHERAL EUROPIAN FAND BV” was among the owners, where the company’s funds could hypothetically go.
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In 2018, the offshore company and Vadim Gromyko withdrew from the company’s capital, today it is fully controlled by Sidyukov’s structures. It is possible that only nominally, and the Gromyko family may still remain the beneficiary of the structure. It turns out that while Tkachev and Evgeny Gromyko were engaged in state administration, Sidyukov and Gromyko Jr. “looked after” the business?
A stick in the wheel of Uzdenov
Siyudkov could help Alexander Tkachev in another situation. At one time, Agrocomplex set its sights on the agricultural company Valinor. She had a lot of debts, which in 2014 were bought out by Sidyukov’s KZP-Expo. At the same time, the Steppe holding (part of Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s AFK Sistema), led by Ali Uzdenov, was named as an interested party. One gets the impression that this asset was taken away from Uzdenov and Sistema right from under their noses.
Later, KZP-Expo bought out the remaining debts of Valinor, and then resold the rights of claim to Tkachev’s Agrocomplex. Five days later they were owned by Tkachev’s Kuban Bacon. Those. Sidyukov turned out to be, in fact, an intermediary.
Meanwhile, he has other relations with Ali Uzdenov. Apparently, the money that could be earned on the alleged friendship with Tkachev was not enough. In 2019, the Krasnodarzernoprodukt Group of Companies SEC Rodnaya Zemlya Sidyukova pledged the future wheat crop from 50,000 hectares to the Steppe agricultural holding.
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And, apparently, she simply could not pay off. Today the company belongs to “Steppe”. At the same time, all 100% of the SEC Rodnaya Zemlya turned out to be pledged to Sberbank for the old debts of Sidyukov’s former structure (about 500 million through loans). So here we can talk about the opposition of “Steppe” to “Agrocomplex”, where the third, but not superfluous, is the business of Alexei Sidyukov.
This seems to give him a sense of his own unsinkability. In 2020, its structure “Plemzavod” Druzhba “, limited the free access of citizens to the Ponura River, which caused a real scandal among local residents, referring to the permission of the Federal Fisheries Agency. As you know, this did not add popularity to the then deputy.
Not offended by the state
Alexey Sidyukov remains the beneficiary of a whole group of enterprises, the operational management of which is carried out by his brother Evgeny. At the same time, during his deputyship, Sidyukov worked on a free basis. That is, he was probably more involved in his own enrichment than in solving the problems of voters.
Interestingly, in the last year of his tenure, 2021, he earned over 140 million rubles, which is almost 90 million rubles more than a year earlier. The area of his real estate quadrupled. Is this the result of an alleged friendship with Tkachev? However, he did not own a single car.
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At the same time, while Sidyukov was finding funds to buy back debts and assets, which later turned out to be the property of Agrocomplex, he fell into a tax scandal. It was about violations of Agrofirma Solomenskaya LLC (part of the KZP), identified by the Federal Tax Service. However, in court, Sidyukov was able to cancel this decision, he did not bear any responsibility for this. Could people from the Administration of the Krasnodar Territory help him?
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Apparently, possible connections with Tkachev can bring dividends to Sidyukov even today. Its main asset, LLC KZP-Expo, acted as a supplier under government contracts worth more than 1 billion rubles. A number of other structures of the ex-deputy are also not offended by the state. Apparently, this is a considerable gesheft from the role of “intermediary” in the battles of “agrooligarchs”.