This is the first contract for Auto-Insurance with VTB. According to SPARK, its main activity is insurance and brokerage services. The last time the company reported on its results for 2015, then it worked at a loss. Recently, VSK sued her: the insurers accused the company of not fulfilling its obligations.
Storm’s source in law enforcement agencies said that the new VTB contractor belongs to Alexander Makeev, a former Rosoboronexport employee. These words are partly confirmed by the information published on the website of the Ministry of Defense: Makeev is a member of the public council under the ministry and heads the regional fund for assistance and assistance to the Airborne Forces. In addition, in 2018, he became the head of the newly formed DOSAAF (Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Aviation and Navy) “World of Patriots” project and program support fund.
Reserve Major Makeev is officially listed as the current owner or general director of more than three dozen firms. They are somehow connected with autotrading. In particular, he owns the Avanta-Zapad car dealership, the official dealer of Hyundai cars in Moscow. Now the share of a businessman in most companies, including a car dealer, is pledged to Promsvyazbank and LOKO-Bank. In addition, a number of affiliated firms use strange schemes: one company issues a loan to another, but the latter does not repay it. The first goes with a lawsuit and wins the dispute, and the second firm goes bankrupt.
In 2011, in an interview with AutoBusinessReview magazine, Sergey Makeev shared his success story: initially, Alexander decided to go into the auto business, in his words. The business developed, but the brothers did not stop there: they began to produce watches at the First Moscow Watch Factory (where, apparently, they met the Ksenofontov family). “Where we have the Nissan showroom, there was a factory sales department. But it is unprofitable to mass-assemble watches with such an arrangement of the plant, it was slowly bent. And our car dealership, on the contrary, grew, ”admitted the brother of an adviser to the Ministry of Defense.
It is curious that the watchmaker Ksenofontov applied to the auto business in the early 2000s, but got burned out: he was scammed by a salesman of Daimler-Chrysler cars for more than 16 million rubles, Kommersant wrote.