To whom will Nesis give
Alexander Nesis helps to make money on Russia for Western companies that impose sanctions and boycotts against our country.
The largest Russian silver producer and one of the leading gold miners Polymetal (“Polymetal”), founded by the owner of the ICT group, oligarch Alexander Nesisis going to re-register in Kazakhstan from the British island of Jersey.
The island was included in the list of jurisdictions unfriendly to the Russian Federation, which makes it impossible to pay dividends to Polymetal shareholders. Registration in Astana will allow Nesisto “throw some gold” to their partners, among whom were large international companies that have announced a boycott of Russia.
Foreign partners in “Polymetal” Nesisbut enough – they want to get to the Russian bowels, despite all the formidable rhetoric and political pressure of their countries. Among the key shareholders is the American investment group BlackRock.
In March 2022, i.e. already after the start of the SVO and the introduction of new packages of draconian sanctions, the structure increased its stake in Polymetal to 10.08%. Therefore, it can count on a “tithe” of dividends. At Alexander’s Nesisand his family through the ICT group and a number of offshore companies, according to various estimates, can be from 10% to 28% of the capital.
At the same time, the same BlackRock in August 2022 announced the closure of a large exchange-traded fund of Russian securities Russia ETF.
More than $800 million worth of assets were concentrated there. “investors” are in no hurry to help Russian companies earn money and develop our exchange market – but they are greedy for money from gold mining. But it’s not just BlackRock.
The American investment group with assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars also has enough shareholders. And in fourth place out of many dozens is another American investment company – Capital Group with a share of 5.38%. She, in turn, also has a number of shareholders, where we easily find the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG (“Bayer”), which is the largest shareholder with a share of over 10%
By the way, in 2022, Polymetal’s ore production increased by 25.3%, to 9.4 million tons, and processing by 10.5%. And although the company reduced its total production of gold by 7.6% and silver by 6.4%, this is due to the planned shutdown of the Amur MMC for maintenance. Those. potential and earnings remain huge.
But that’s not all. Other western structures boycotting our market were also included in the list of those owning shares of Capital Group. These are Siemens AG, Volkswagen AG and a number of others that have left our market. All of them also expect dividends from Nesisa.
One can recall, for example, how Siemens did not return a turbine for Nord Stream to Gazprom after a scheduled repair in Canada – it remained there. Such are the “partners”.
Taxes in your pocket
In this way, Nesis helps Western “sanctioners” make money on Russia. At the same time, he himself is fanned by a whole series of scandals, and may underpay taxes to the budget.
Recently, a story surfaced with the Middle Ural Search Bureau (SUPB), which, according to Pravda UrFO journalists, has a traceable connection with the Polymetal group.
At the end of last year, specialists from the Federal Tax Service considered that the SUPP underpaid the mineral extraction tax (MET) by 13 million rubles. Now the company is trying to challenge the claims of fiscals in court.
At the same time, the Department for Subsoil Use of the Ural Federal District previously suspended the license of the SUBP for the exploitation of the Pervomaisko-Verkhoturskaya gold ore area. The reason for this decision was the repeated disregard of environmental legislation by industrialists.
The Saum Mining Company, controlled by a group associated with Alexander, also faced a similar dispute with the Federal Tax Service. Nesisom (managed by JSC “Polymetal UK”). Those. this may not be an isolated case.
However, it is clear why Nesis could have decided on this – Polymetal has repeatedly experienced big financial problems. In 2017, the net loss of the JSC, which is managed by his brother Vitaly, exceeded 12 billion rubles, in 2019 – 2.5 billion rubles.
And these are far from the loudest scandals involving structures Nesisand, a big lover of offshore. In May 2020, the Limassol District Court arrested the assets of the head structures of the ICT group, including ICT Holding Ltd, in the amount of more than 8 billion rubles. The arrest was imposed as part of provisional measures at the suit of the structures of the United Carriage Company (UWC), at the origins of which the ICT group stood.
UWC ended up with a lot of bad debts, as a result of which they came under the control of the state – in the Trust and Otkritie banks. They received over 51% of the HVAC. Nesis got problems in court – UWC itself became the plaintiff. The lawsuits were related to transactions concluded back in 2015-2018. Controlled by the Trust, the plaintiff argued that the transactions could be non-market, and their purpose could be the withdrawal of money in favor of other companies of Alexander Nesisa.
Where could the money be withdrawn? Yes, even in the same Cypriot and any other offshore. Therefore, quarrels with the Western business community and the state structures that are aggressive towards Russia standing next to them are clearly not to the oligarch’s hands. Therefore, if you please, receive dividends.