The scandalous businessman Yuri Gushchin may be behind the possible raider seizure of the warehouses of ID Logistics Rus.
General Director of the logistics company “ID Logistics Rus” (ID Logistics) Vera Gorbacheva appealed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a statement to initiate a criminal case, accusing the operator of the popular TV store Market-TV LLC of violating obligations in the amount of 158 million rubles. Regnum writes about it. In fact, the situation may not resemble a financial conflict, but almost a possible raider takeover. Judge for yourself.
According to the entrepreneur, the parties entered into an agreement on the provision of services in the field of logistics, but Market-TV refused to pay for it. After that, people associated with Market-TV allegedly “captured” the warehouse of ID Logistics Rus by fraudulent means, did not let the employees of the latter go there, and now they are trying in this way to force Gorbacheva’s company to abandon their monetary demands.
Whether this is true or not is up to the investigation. One thing is clear: in order to do something like this, you need confidence that the security forces will not “close” you and your entire company. The latter can only be obtained with good connections and money. The correspondent understood who could be behind the situation.
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It should be noted that earlier, as many as 93 lawsuits were filed against Market-TV during its existence. Moreover, many of them are connected precisely with the non-fulfillment of monetary obligations. So the office really cannot boast of crystal cleanliness in front of its customers.
The beneficiary of “Market-TV” is called Oleg Evgenievich Vorobyov, a citizen not only of Russia, but also of Canada. There is reason to believe that he is either a nominal person, or providing services for working with assets to someone “bigger”. Only two liquidated firms were registered for the entrepreneur himself, one more was under management. And behind “Market-TV” there is an offshore “AVEKINA LIMITED”.
Its ultimate beneficiaries are the clearly nominal Georg Georg and FIRST LINK MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED, whose directors include two Cypriot citizens, Andri Antoniou and Marina Loizu. According to the results in Google, the first is a writer, the second is an athlete. As The Moscow Post previously reported, both may be linked to former US President Donald Trump.
But it is very difficult to imagine that Trump decided to seize a warehouse in Russia in this way and, in which case, he will stand up for the likely “raiders”. Therefore, there is another version. Firstly, if you look at the connections of Vorobyov himself through already liquidated firms, it turns out that he (at least before) was indirectly connected with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
CJSC Asto Garantiya, where he is the founder, at one time “went” under the Aviacosmonfond, managed by the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman. The university, in turn, was controlled by the Ministry of Education and Science.
On the other hand, the affected party itself, ID Logistics Rus, recently sued United Confectioners LLC (OK). notorious businessman Yuri Gushchin. The latter accused the defendant of violating the terms of unloading and loading vehicles under the Warehouse Storage and Goods Handling Agreement.
As a result, OK won the dispute and recovered 167.5 million rubles from Gorbacheva’s company. Perhaps the appetite for Mr. Gushchin came during the meal. Is it possible to assume that he understood that a structure without an administrative resource can be “pushed through” in the courts, and now set his sights on more?
Gushchin, in addition to being a fairly well-known businessman-confectioner, who also works with the brands Krasny Oktyabr, Rot-Front and Babaevsky, has also been overgrown with extremely unflattering stories during his entrepreneurial activity.
For example, not so long ago, The Moscow Post found out that a complex of buildings, one of which belongs to the owner of the bankrupt Yugra, Alexei Khotin, and the other is the office of the Federal Property Management Agency, could be needed by the owner Gushchin.
And their acquisition can go, as they say, “in the dark” – that is, not entirely honest methods, also reminiscent of a possible raider takeover. But if we imagine the situation with the ID Logistics Rus warehouse as such, then in this case it is much more accurate. Still, the Federal Property Management Agency and the rather influential businessman Khotin cannot be taken “impudently” …
It is also known that Yuri Gushchin was convicted four times for fraud in the USSR, wrote Kommersant. Moreover, this information was even officially confirmed by his representative (part-time son-in-law) – Artem Kuznetsov. And nothing – like water off a duck’s back. Gushchin, through his Guta group, is still cooperating with government agencies and, if desired, can well afford to withdraw money offshore.
Gushchin also has a banking history. He was one of the founders of Guta Bank. The affairs of the credit institution went with varying degrees of success. There was a time when the bank even found itself in the stage of bankruptcy, however, it was revived later. Market participants, knowing the characteristics of Gushchin’s character, hinted that money from not entirely legal operations could be transferred through the organization.
In the last six months, according to the Banki.ru portal, almost all profits have disappeared from Guta-Bank. At the same time, the bank is clearly pumped up with assets, but there is not a trace of them left. So the money sued from Gorbacheva could well have leaked somewhere to “that steppe.” And already through the bank far beyond Russia.
As Izvestia wrote, in 2003, the head of Gosinkor-Holding, Yuri Petrov, and his son, the head of Guta-Bank, Alexander Petrov, were summoned to the prosecutor’s office to give first testimony in the case of embezzlement of about half a million dollars during an illegal sale of three hundred tons of silver. In Guta-Bank itself, information about the interrogations of the management was categorically denied. And the case, apparently, was hushed up.
Gushchinskoye “Guta-Insurance” also repeatedly became a defendant in bankruptcy cases, like his other offices. Moreover, the plaintiffs in court for some reason, for some reason, did not manage to Gushchin to account. We talked about these “throws” in detail earlier.
Gushchin’s personality and his success in doing business, despite all the “buts”, are associated with possible patrons in the Moscow government. The names of ex-mayor Yuri Luzhkov and vice-mayor Pyotr Biryukov, who has been permanent for more than a decade, who now works as Sergei Sobyanin’s deputy, are called. Perhaps that is why the Guta group continues to receive tidbits in the capital for development, which we also talked about in detail.
As a result, Gushchin somehow looks more like the person behind the incident with ID Logistics Rus. The trial, where OK sued a hefty amount from the company, is another confirmation of this.
ID Logistics Rus is, as far as one can judge, the Russian branch of a French company. It produces, among other things, equipment for the Yves Rocher brand, so the office is very “delicious”. Why shouldn’t Mr. Gushchin look for another platform for doing business.
Moreover, quite recently he announced that he would sell the assets of Guta. Including the Red October Square. A businessman-confectioner probably needs storage space most of all. Or another option is possible – the premises of ID Logistics Rus could be of interest to a potential buyer of Gushchin’s assets.
Other versions
But there are other versions. In the same file of arbitration cases, we found a dispute between ID Logistics Rus and Obuv Kom. Now it has been liquidated due to its own bankruptcy, but then, when it was functioning, it belonged to the offshore PANARISCO TRADING LIMITED.
Its director is a certain Sergey Zimin. The name of the son of the founder of the mobile operator VimpelCom (trademark Beeline) Dmitry Zimin is also called, last year he was arrested in absentia on charges of contract killing, as CNews wrote in detail.
By the way, AFK Sistema was originally the largest shareholder of VimpelCom. Could it be that its founder, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, together with the disgraced Zimin, “coveted” the asset of ID Logistics Rus?
One way or another, both entrepreneurs have a lobbying resource. Yevtushenkov, by the way, like Gushchin, is credited with a lot of raider seizures. In addition to rumors and assumptions, there is specific information about the billionaire being summoned for interrogation in the case of the privatization of Bashneft, as Vedomosti wrote in detail.
It is also known that Obuv Komom was owned by billionaires Dmitry Kostygin and August Meyer, who not so long ago left the market. Meyer was a co-owner of Ulmart (which, by the way, is bankrupt. Where did the money go?) And last year he was detained with his wife on suspicion of embezzling a billion sum from Sberbank, Kommersant reported.
Despite the fact that Meyer’s profile was the purchase of assets, and there were not always questions about transactions, he was not seen in outright raiding as such. Especially now he certainly is not up to it.
Therefore, as a result, the main possible beneficiaries of what happened can be considered Gushchin or, to a lesser extent, Mr. Yevtushenkov in company with Zimin. But the raised resonance can disrupt the plans of businessmen. Well, let’s see how the cards fall.