The bankruptcy of Gazprom’s asset, Energogaz, which has already provoked multibillion-dollar scandals, is acquiring new financial conflicts.
Thus, another large enterprise of the gas monopoly, Tyumen Motor Builders, was involved in the courts, from which the former sub-general contractor of the Punginskoye UGS facility expansion project in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug demands tens of millions of rubles. As observers note, this dispute is especially remarkable through the prism of other conflicts, which, one way or another, are connected with Gazprom Tsentrremont and its former head Dmitry Doev. Drawing up a picture of the proceedings, they recall both vicarious liability and statements about the likely deliberate bankruptcy of Energogaz, which look remarkable against the backdrop of Doev’s new partners. This section discusses the requirements of the Federal Tax Service for hundreds of millions of rubles after the discovery of a dubious scheme in the assets of Gazprom, and the multibillion-dollar courts of the PF VIS lost by the Novo Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex, the beneficiary of which is considered to be Doev’s “old acquaintance” Igor Snegurov, and Doev’s subsequent employment in VIS. Observers are trying to assess the array of conflicts in terms of probable budget losses, noting that the “Doev’s legacy” should also be of interest to law enforcement agencies.
Energogaz, a bankrupt sub-general contractor for the Punginskoye UGS facility expansion project in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, intends to challenge the refusal to recover 34.9 million rubles from Tyumen Motor Builders PJSC (Tyumen; it is part of the Gazprom Energoholding Industrial assets”).
As follows from the proceedings, back in 2013, Tyumen Motor Builders (developer) and Energogaz LLC (executor) entered into a contract for the provision of services for the implementation of the project for the reconstruction of test box No. 6 of workshop No. 35 with the new construction of a linear facility: overhead cable power lines 10 kV.
The performance of the work was allegedly fixed by an act of 2016 for 59.3 million rubles. However, in January 2018, Energogaz, for some reason, decides to transfer the rights of claim to Tyumen Motor Builders (TM) to another Gazprom structure – FDI OJSC Gazturboservice.
It is noteworthy that a little earlier, in August 2017, a bankruptcy lawsuit was filed against Energogaz, and a few months after the transfer of the debt, in May 2018, the first bankruptcy procedure was introduced against the company – supervision.
However, in the end, in bankruptcy, it was possible to deploy transactions, and TM’s debt to Energogaz of 34.9 million was restored, as the plaintiff pointed out. However, getting the money back proved problematic.
Firstly, it turned out that the act is unilateral, in connection with which, as the court noted, it “by itself cannot serve as proper evidence of the completion of work.” Secondly, when FDI JSC Gazturboservice was requested to provide documents on the transaction, the Gazprom asset stated that they were not provided in violation of the assignment agreement.
As a result, the courts of two instances considered that Energogaz did not provide sufficient evidence of the work being done, and refused to recover funds from TM. At the moment, a cassation appeal has already been filed.
Meanwhile, these trials look even more remarkable through the prism of other conflicts. It should be noted that according to Kontur.Fokus, for a long period, including during the years of drawing up the act and the transfer of requirements, the main owner of Tyumen Motor Builders was Gazprom Tsentrremont LLC (a subsidiary of Gazprom).
In turn, Gazprom Tsentrremont was headed by Dmitry Doev for a long time. Now they are trying to bring him and Gazprom Tsentrremont itself to subsidiary liability for the obligations of the same Energogaz, which acted as the executor of the work under the contract.
Moreover, Energogaz has become a powerful generator of resonant scandals. For example, Pravda UrFO reported in detail about the scheme identified by the Federal Tax Service in the assets of Gazprom, with the inclusion in the actual deliveries of technical, according to fiscal officials, links – OOO Stroyenergomash and OOO Stroyenergokompleks. This method, as indicated in the tax, was used “with the aim of artificially increasing the cost of supplying goods, followed by an unlawful understatement of the base for corporate income tax and the amount of VAT payable.” Moreover, as the publication said, according to the tax, in a separate case, the mark-up was 980%. As a result, the requirements of the Federal Tax Service for hundreds of millions of rubles were included in the register of Energogaz’s claims.
An equally large-scale conflict surfaced in connection with real estate transactions in Moscow. Now creditors are accusing Gazprom Tsentrremont of evading the transfer of property, previously estimated by the parties at 1.5 billion rubles.
Moreover, serious discussions were also caused by Doev’s partners, who came to light after the manager left Gazprom. As it turned out, they were previously associated with Megabuild LLC, which initiated bankruptcy proceedings against Energogaz. These details were especially noteworthy against the background of earlier statements by independent creditors “about the likely deliberate bankruptcy of Gazprom’s asset.”
But these conflicts, as observers note, do not give a complete picture – “Doev’s legacy.” Thus, according to Interfax, from 2015 to February-March 2019, Gazprom Tsentrremont managed one of the ambitious and at the same time scandalous projects of Gazprom – the Novourengoy gas chemical complex. Doev, according to the Kontur.Focus database, was the head of Gazprom Tsentrremont from 2011 to November 2019.
The general contractor for the colossal construction of Gazprom was LLC PF VIS (part of the VIS group, the ultimate beneficiary of which was the chairman of the board of directors Igor Snegurov).
It is noteworthy that Doev and Snegurov, as reported by the publication, were well acquainted even before Gazprom. Moreover, it follows from Doev’s biography that he even headed the production company VIS in the early 2000s.
But the “old acquaintances”, apparently, could not find a common language within the framework of the project, which turned into multibillion-dollar courts. As Pravda UrFO reported, for example, within the framework of these disputes, 4.6 billion were recovered from the Novourengoy Gas Chemical Complex in favor of the VIS, in addition, the courts refused to recover 3.6 billion from the general contractor for the asset of Gazprom.
Such conflicts, apparently, did not overshadow the “good relations” between Doev and Snegurov, which the VIS beneficiary himself spoke about, and after the completion of the proceedings, Dmitry Doev was appointed General Director of VIS Group JSC in the fall of last year.
“Last year there were reports that the tax payments of Gazprom, which is controlled by the state, amounted to approximately 16% of the total federal budget revenues. And now just think about it: 600 million, including penalties and other things, according to the Federal Tax Service, did not get into the budget only from Energogaz, and it is not known how much it will not get yet. The same Gazprom Tsentrremont demands that claims for 1.4 billion be included in the register of creditors. Somewhere lost 30 million associated with work for the “Tyumen engine builders”. Novy Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex, which SIBUR was allegedly interested in, lost billions in courts. But it all goes into the financial result that forms the tax base. There were major claims from the Federal Tax Service and to the NGCC itself, and the proceedings are now ongoing. This is how the “legacy of Doev” turns out, who now works safely in the VIS, ”the source of the publication argues.
The publication, for its part, sent a request to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to assess the likely violations and conflict of interest.
Source: Pravda Ural Federal District