Last week, for three days in a row, owners of franchising and employees of Wildberries’ own pick-up points went on strike across Russia. They left their workplaces and hung leaflets on closed doors: “Temporarily denying customer service. Until our requirements are met.”
– The cameras in the pickup point do not work – a fine of 100,000 rubles. Put a bad mark on your item – they will reduce the percentage of remuneration. If the buyer returns the defective item back to the point of issue, the full cost of the item will be withheld from the owner of the pickup point. If the parcel contains the wrong item, the owners of the PVZ must also pay the full price. We received fines for 100 thousand in four days. This situation has developed in many points, the owners of Wildberries order pick-up points told Life.
The editors of Life and the SHOT telegram channel actively covered the conflict in the marketplace, which eventually attracted the attention of State Duma deputies. Lawmakers held a meeting with representatives of Wildberries and handed them a note with twelve demands from the owners of the pickup point. Marketplace had to make concessions. The protesting points of issue have already been unblocked, there is a massive return of money written off as a fine. For defective or canceled goods, now they will charge not 100%, but 40%.
– This situation with Wildberries has attracted special attention to the entire field. Not only at home, but also in other companies. This is an area for legislative regulation, to which we have paid insufficient attention. Perhaps there will be a separate law. I think that, by analogy with some laws, it can be called “Bakalchuk’s law,” said MP Mikhail Delyagin.
Bakalchuk and the private club of millionaires
The owner of Wildberries, Tatyana Bakalchuk, one of the richest women not only in Russia, but also in the world (with an estimated fortune of $ 13 billion), did not react to the marketplace scandal. While her army of managers mercilessly fines employees and partners, she prefers to spend time in the company of members of the Falcon club – a closed community of “the largest non-oil businessmen”, which includes, for example, the owners of Abrau-Dyurso, Sunlight and Stolichek.
– Gatherings are not only with the boys, we have Tanya! – this text is provided with a photo report from the next meeting of the club. We are talking about Tatyana Bakalchuk. Judging by social networks, her husband Vladislav Bakalchuk joined this community back in the mid-twenties, and she only in 2019. The rich have a decent rest: a bike ride from Bari to Salerno (Italy), superyacht riding in the Aegean Sea, private jet and helicopter flights, zebra hunting in Tanzania, feasts in the most expensive and unusual restaurants in the world.
Neither the covid pandemic nor widespread lockdowns prevented Falcon Club members from traveling around the world and having a royal holiday. Shortly before the start of the NWO, millionaires began to behave more modestly, stopped posting reports from their events.
Where do Bakalchuk live?
As Life found out, Tatyana and Vladislav Bakalchuk live in the Stolnoye premium cottage settlement in Peredelkino. Houses here cost from 90 million rubles to a billion. Life took an extract from the register for the plot of the Bakalchuk house. The land of 29 acres has been owned since 2010 by Olga Ivannikova, the full namesake of the Deputy Minister of Housing Policy of the Moscow Region. Perhaps Bakalchuk rents this mansion. Houses in the village are rented for about 2 million rubles a month.
Tatyana Bakalchuk’s father Vladimir Kim and her sister Maria Kulikova occupy high-tech mansions on the territory of the Skolkovo innovation city. This ultra-modern settlement is often referred to as “The Residential Spiral” because of its odd shape. Renting a house will cost about 400 thousand rubles a month. There is no such property for sale yet.
Despite round-the-clock security and a checkpoint at the entrance, Life’s reporters were able to enter the territory and film the cottage where Bakalchuk’s father, Vladimir Kim, lives. He is known in the village – in early autumn he traditionally distributes apples to his neighbors.
In Soviet times, Tatyana Bakalchuk’s father worked for a long time as the head of the department of main gas pipelines (now it is a Gazprom facility) in the village of Gazovoprovodsk, this is the Lukhovitsky district of the Moscow region.
According to the stories of the gas pipeline workers, after perestroika, the Kim family got several plots where solid brick cottages soon grew up, as well as hectares of fertile land on the outskirts of the village. This is confirmed by extracts from Rosreestr. As Life found out, only some of Tatyana Bakalchuk’s relatives, such as nephews, remained to live in Gazoprovodsk.
“Simple hard workers, like me, were given modest houses after perestroika, almost none of us could take ownership of the land,” complained Kim’s former subordinate, instrument operator of the 5th category Lidia Zadorina.
In the 2000s, Bakalchuk’s mother Vasilisa Kim was a large farmer in Gasoprovodsk. My father worked at Centrocredit Bank. Tatyana Bakalchuk also worked there for some time, and at the same time with her parent. The future billionaire was not even thirty then. “Centrocredit” is considered one of the most closed financial institutions. It made it to the top news only twice. In 2018, the Central Bank had claims against him regarding non-compliance with the law on combating the laundering of proceeds from crime. After the start of the CBO, the chairman of the board of Centrocredit, Andrey Tarasov, moved to London.
