In Zelenogorsk, which is administratively part of St. Petersburg, a sanatorium worth 6 billion rubles may appear. The project may receive a strategic status for the city. And the preparation of documents for this will be done by the Imhotep Development company of Vyacheslav Traktovenko, the son of the billionaire and former owner of FC Zenit David Traktovenko.
David Traktovenko is the former owner of the controversial Industrial Construction Bank (Promstroybank), around which scandals have repeatedly sounded. They enveloped the personality of Traktovenko himself, including due to the fact that at some point he preferred to invest in other countries, and not in Russia – apparently, they “feed better” there?
Details – in the material of The Sankt-Peterburg Post.
It is unlikely that such an example had a good effect on his son Vyacheslav, who had to get used to getting everything without much difficulty. So in the case of “Imhotep-Depelopment” everything looks the same. The company was created just recently, and has already acquired a whole series of large projects in St. Petersburg.
At the same time, the company plans to work in Zelenogorsk at the expense of the state, because the land belongs to the Committee for Property Relations of the Northern Capital. The cost of designing and preparing papers can cost the budget or a specialized investor 1 billion rubles, the construction itself – another 6 billion rubles.
In addition to the sanatorium in Zelenogorsk, the company of Traktovenko Jr. is preparing the territory of the Krasny Oktyabr plant for construction. At the same time, she herself is not engaged in development – this is the so-called. “fee development”, which is busy preparing documentation and a turnkey project for the developer.
Vyacheslav Traktovenko has already acted as the founder of 12 legal entities. Some of them have government contracts, while remaining unprofitable. For example, LLC “Baltengineering” has a state contract with the St. Petersburg Physics and Mathematics Lyceum. At the same time, at the end of 2021, the company suffered a loss of 21 million rubles, the value of its assets is also negative. Financial stability, solvency and efficiency are recognized as low.
It is strange that the son of a billionaire does not have the funds to run his own company. But, apparently, paying his debts is generally not particularly in his honor. At his other company OOO Entrepreneurial Initiative, where he is the sole owner, the value of assets is minus 47 million rubles. Those. The company is also clearly indebted.
At the same time, she also discovered a whole series of proceedings for the recovery of debts with the state corporation VEB.RF. As follows from court documents in case No. А56-8349/2022, recently VEB tried to recover funds from him on a loan – the amount was less than 100 thousand rubles. What already, and Traktovenko Jr. didn’t have 100 thousand?
Other court cases of the same company are related to the collection of mandatory payments and sanctions to the pension fund (didn’t you pay for your employees so that they would be left without a pension?) and failure to fulfill their other obligations. However, with such a father, he really shouldn’t worry about such “little things”.
David and banks
As for his father, David Traktovenko, he made his fortune back in the 90s, when he created the Industrial Construction Bank (Promstroybank) in St. Petersburg. Very quickly, Traktovenko acquired other assets as well. To manage them (including a credit institution), a holding structure of CJSC “Banking House” St. Petersburg “was created.
At the same time, Traktovenko Sr. was actively involved in development. He is engaged in it even now: his family owns shares in the structures of the Baltros group of companies, which was engaged in the development of the Slavyanka and Novaya Izhora regions. The Ministry of Defense has become a major buyer of housing in these projects. In addition, David Traktovenko is the owner of Zanevsky LLC, which owns more than 180 hectares in the village of Shushary.
At the same time, the bank is no longer in the assets of Traktovenko. In 2007, he entered the VTB Group and was renamed VTB North-West Bank. In March 2011, it was reorganized into the North-West Regional Center of VTB Bank.
At the beginning of the 2000s, the bank experienced a takeoff, joining a number of other financial institutions. In 2002, Promstroybank even became one of the two exclusive organizers of a 5 billion ruble bonded loan by OAO Gazprom. At that time it was the largest market ruble loan.
Some people tend to associate the success of the organization with the personality of the former deputy chairman of the board of the bank, Mikhail Oseevsky, who later became the vice-governor of St. Petersburg. At the same time, the bank’s business strategy could be considered aggressive. According to ZAKS.ru, a scandal erupted in 2002 when Oseevsky and Traktovenko were included in the supervisory board of VEB-Invest Bank. The leaders of the VIB explained their appearance by the need for the arrival of experts reputable in the financial market.
The commotion that arose in connection with rumors about the intention of Promstroybank to subdue another structure forced Oseevsky in October of the same year to ask to be removed from the board. But after that, he was expected to take off: he was appointed vice-governor of St. Petersburg under Valentin Matvienko.
Since then, the bank has been doing even better – perhaps with the help of a new city leader. And after Oseevsky became Deputy President-Chairman of the Board of VTB Bank – i.e. some time after the sale of Promstroybank to him.
True, before that there was a whole series of tragic events. In 2002, Leonid Davidenko, director of the management company OAO Industrial and Construction Bank, was killed. Sources in the bank immediately connected this murder with the purchase of shares of Kotlassky Pulp and Paper OJSC, which was carried out by OJSC, Kommersant wrote about this. Apparently, the bank’s aggressive strategy was not to the taste of all its counterparties.
And it wasn’t the first bizarre murder in the bank’s history. A year before, Nikolai Shatilo, head of the directorate for security and information protection of Promstroybank, was killed in the front door of his own house. This murder has long been talked about in the business circles of the city. After all, it turned out that he was not just the chief guard of Promstroibank, but also a participant in another banking business.
In 2000, Nikolai Shatilo joined the board of directors of OJSC Vitabank, when, following the results of the annual meeting of shareholders of the OJSC, a new composition of the board of directors consisting of seven people was approved. Among them were people from CJSC “Banking House St. Petersburg” Traktovenko. After, during the change of composition, the positions of the CJSC in Vitabak were considerably weakened. Rosbalt writes about this (recognized as a foreign agent on the territory of the Russian Federation).
Tell me who is your partner
It seems that the murder of Shatilo could also be related to mergers and acquisitions of the “Banking House”, and the functionary himself could carry out special instructions for shareholders. However, this is not necessarily connected with David Traktovenko. Indeed, in the bank, among other owners, his partner turned out to be the scandalous businessman Vladimir Kogan, although he was also very close to Traktovenko.
Previously, they tried to attribute many sins to him, up to raider seizures. And after working with Traktovenko, he rose to the rank of head of the Federal Agency for Construction and Housing (Gosstroy) and Deputy Minister of Regional Development. Surely this career rise of the former partner turned out to be handy for the developer David Traktovenko.
At the same time, after that, Mr. Kogan even managed to become a sanatorium of the collapsed Uralsib Bank, as The Moscow Post wrote earlier. At the same time, there were rumors that Vladimir Kogan was allegedly friends with Sergei Stepashin (the former head of the Accounts Chamber), and the latter’s wife, Tamara Stepashina, even worked at the St. Petersburg Banking House.
In 2011, a scandal broke out when a certain report “Power of Families-2011. Government” appeared on the Internet. It spoke about the alleged connection between Stepashin and his family with big business. It would seem that it could be the usual “stuffing”. But the immediate reaction of the Accounts Chamber, which demanded the immediate removal of the report, leads to completely different thoughts.
The possible connections between Stepashin and Kogan also explained the sharp “pumping” of the latter with tasty assets in Moscow. According to the authors of the site kompromat.wiki, a scandal allegedly occurred when the state company Mosmetrostroy passed to the structures of Mr. Kogan, who “suddenly” turned out to be the chairman of its board of directors. As if the experts were talking about the withdrawal of assets.
It is unlikely that David Traktovenko lost contact with his former partner. At that time, however, he was already a billionaire and enjoyed life. For example, he actively invested in sports. Only if earlier he was a shareholder of Zenit, then since 2005 he has been investing in foreign assets – he became the owner of the Australian football club Sydney.
The investment paid off: from 2010 to 2017, the club became the champion of Australia. But Traktovenko was no longer interested in Russian sports at all. For example, he refused to finance the Voronezh FC Fakel, which was in dire need of this, as reported by his son Vyacheslav. Those. did you earn money here and spend it overseas?
Moreover, after the start of the Western sanctions war against the Russian Federation in 2015, he even increased his capital in Sydney from 60% to 88%.
Even after the start of the SVO, when almost the entire country was under Western sanctions, Traktovenko never sold the Australian club. And for some reason, our former partners did not have any particular complaints about him, in contrast to the mass of other Russian businessmen. Apparently, he is already more “at home” there than in his homeland, which can be used by his family only as a “food base”.
