Yushvaev without any “Allegedly”

As the correspondent of The Moscow Post reports, a jury of the Moscow Regional Court found guilty and not deserving of leniency the defendants in the case of the kidnapping of a well-known businessman, US citizen Boris Minakhi.

The investigation believes that Batyr Bekmuradov, the former head of the executive committee of the Union of Paratroopers, who had previously been tried for extortion, became the organizer of the crime. The second defendant is David Mirzoev, who is close to the founder of the Wimm-Bill-Dann company, David Yakobashvili.

Recall that, according to Bekmuradov’s investigators, the indicated persons – Bekmuradov and Mirzoev – kidnapped Mr. Minakhi and demanded that he recognize a debt of $ 21 million to David Yakobashvili after a deal to sell an elevator in the port of Yeysk on the Sea of ​​Azov. Until 2015, it was the second largest elevator operating for the needs of the state-owned United Grain Company, a very liquid and attractive asset.

As a result, Bekmuradov and Mirzoev did not achieve anything from Minakhi, and left him alone. The businessman himself then flew to the United States, and a criminal case was opened on the fact of the incident.

It should be noted that Minakhi had previously had friendly, trusting relations with Yakobashvili – they grew up in neighboring yards, they were like water. Their fathers were also friends. Rumor has it that therefore between them there was never a formal contractual relationship in terms of loans.

Earlier, The Moscow Post voiced a version according to which the whole scandal with the elevator could be an attempt to provoke Yakobashvili by the brothers Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov, beneficiaries of the infamous Summa Group of Companies. Now they are in jail on charges of creating an organized criminal group.

By the way, the United Grain Company, which previously belonged to them, owned 46% of the elevator, which was discussed above.

The owners of Summa held an auction to sell their share in the elevator, and it was Boris Minakhi who won it. But they did not seem to have received money for the share, as the Versiya newspaper wrote about. As a result, the parties started legal proceedings, and then what happened to Minahi happened.

At the same time, if Bekmuradov and Mirzoev really tried to force Minakhi to acknowledge his debt to Yakobashvili, could they do this without his knowledge? Nevertheless, the law enforcement officers did not find any claims against the founder of Wimm-Bill-Dann in this particular case of kidnapping.

Questions to Yakobashvili appeared already at the request of Minakhi himself, when in 2019 FSB officers came to Yakobashvili’s Museum “Collection” with searches. At that moment, the entrepreneur himself was in Geneva. It turned out that the searches were carried out as part of a criminal case of fraud.

David Yakobashvili

Minakhi accused his partner of stealing funds from that same Yeysk port elevator. Vedomosti wrote about it. Nevertheless, this situation has not turned out to be anything bad for Yakobashvili. After that, he flew to Russia on his own business, and, answering a question about the criminal case, without batting an eyelid, said: “Everything is fine.” This writes “Moskovsky Komsomolets”.

Zolotov factor

And here we return to another old conspiracy version. Rumor has it that the money for the elevator could have been stolen corny. At the same time, the whole story could be connected with a possible revenge on Yakobashvili’s business partner Gavriil Yushvaev, known in certain circles under the pseudonym “Garik Makhachkala”.

The latter, back in 1980, was convicted of robbery and sentenced to 9 years in prison, information about this is on the Forbes website. And already in 1989, Yushvaev created the first business together with David Yakobashvili – the Trinity car dealership. He was also a co-founder of one of the first casinos in Russia – the Metelitsa club, popular in the early 90s. Later, Yushvaev became Yakobashvili’s business partner at Wimm-Bill-Dann.

It was rumored that an absentee “feud” began between the head of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, and Gavriil Yushvaev after the “incident” in the Oko tower (Moscow City) in 2017. Businessman Dmitry Pavlov celebrated his birthday there. Yushvaev, who owns the tower, was late to the party, and the security guards of the private security company did not let him through.

The conflict was tried to be resolved by the National Guard, employees of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Okhrana. As a result, after some time, unknown people drove up to the tower, and a shootout began. During it, several National Guardsmen were injured. In addition, one of the employees of the private security company, who came under fire, died.

It was said that after this incident, the head of the National Guard, Viktor Zolotov, became furious. And soon a strange story began with Yakobashvili’s partner, money for the elevator, the kidnapping of Minakhi and a criminal case against the founder of Wimm-Bill-Dann.

Several criminal cases were opened on the fact of the shootout in Oko, including against the investigator for especially important cases, who was initially involved in the investigation into the circumstances of the armed clash. Several suspects have been on the wanted list for four years. Among the defendants in the case was Mr. Yushvaev’s bodyguard, Eldar Khamidov, who was later found guilty. This was written by Novaya Gazeta.

However, it seems that Zolotov’s hostility towards Yushvaev, and, perhaps, towards his partner Yakobashvili, has long since passed. At least, Mr. Yakobashvili was not convicted, and Yushvaev feels great in business at all – as before.

Just recently, it became known that the administration of Odintsovo near Moscow is preparing a gift for Gavriil Yushvaev: it plans to transfer a tidbit of land in the Moscow region to a company controlled by them for building townhouses in exchange for a wasteland 70 km from the Moscow Ring Road. According to PASMI (recognized as a foreign agent on the territory of the Russian Federation), the deal may be unprofitable for the budget of the municipality – it may lose about 56 billion rubles.

Perhaps Yushvaev’s partner in the development of these territories will be the same Yakobashvili. In any case, it turns out that it was not the big bosses who were responsible for these collisions, but ordinary employees like Bekmuradov and Khamidov.

Can we assume that General Viktor Zolotov defeated the “authoritative” businessman Gavriil Yushvaev? Now his assets, which today represent 17 operating firms, working mainly in real estate, can go to the “expenditure”.

After the sale of Wimm-Bill-Dann in 2011, Yakobashvili and Yushvaev left one more common asset – Metelitsa LLC. It is possible that after the searches in the “Collection” Yakobashvili came to decide on the transfer of the asset to other persons in exchange for the return of Yushvaev to Russia, but no one undertakes to confirm this assumption.

Gavriil Yushvaev

The investigating authorities are also unlikely to have forgotten about Yushvaev for a long time. Not so long ago, many people heard a scandal about the possible extortion of shares in the Inskoy coal mine in Kuzbass by businessman Alexander Shchukin. At the same time, as the authors of the Legal website claimed, the real owner of the mine was Gavriil Yushvaev, and it was he who negotiated in Moscow for the sale of the asset to Shchukin. So the potential for pressure on Yushvaev from his ill-wishers definitely still remains.

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