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Dachas for Gazprom bosses. Gazprom: family and friends Deputy Head of OJSC Gazprom Gorokh Yuri Ivanovich

About a month ago, information appeared that few people paid attention to: Gazprom could take on 12 billion rubles in losses Stroygazconsulting company, which until recently received the most lucrative contracts from the gas monopolist. Why such generosity?

Penthouse of Alexey Miller

About this company, SGK, which was founded by a Jordanian Ziyad Manasir and among the founders of which was Olga Grigorieva, the daughter of a friend Putin FSB General Alexander Grigoriev, we already wrote. The last time - just two issues ago - when we learned that the most luxurious private palace ensemble in the Moscow region, which was built by Manasir on Istra and which nicknamed Millergof, and in fact, without any hesitation, became the property of Gazprom structures. This happened a year ago, immediately after Manasir sold the company and Gazprombank became its co-owner.

Is 12 billion really the price to pay for those palaces? Or not only for them?

Views of the White House Moscow.

Kapranov Lane, house 4. It’s about two hundred meters to another house – Bely, where the government sits. And it is still unclear which of the two houses’ inhabitants are more influential. The Presnensky children's park starts right from the door where there is a warning about video surveillance, but there are not many children there, because people live on Kapranov Lane who do business in a completely unchildlike way. Two apartments in this elite residential complex “Park House” belong to the family of Ziyad Manasir himself: him, his current wife and one of his daughters. Their total area is more than 500 square meters. meters. Immediately after Manasirov, Alexey Miller also moved here (while his wife and son remain the owners of a modest three-ruble apartment in St. Petersburg on Shpalernaya). In Park House, Sobesednik.ru found an 11-room penthouse measuring 775.4 square meters from a hired manager. meters. Considering that the cost of one meter in this residential complex is slightly less than 2 million rubles, the mansion of the head of Gazprom can be estimated at 1.5 billion. Dreams come true. Like hitting a wall Peas According to documents that were obtained by journalists, Alexey Miller purchased an apartment from the now defunct St. Petersburg company BVT, which was engaged in the “production of jewelry.”

The details of that transaction are now difficult to clarify, but the deputy settled under the same roof with Miller. Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Valery Golubev, a retired KGB officer who is well acquainted with Putin's friend Alexander Grigoriev(the same one whose daughter was the companion of Ziyad Manasir, Golubev’s neighbor on Kapranov Lane).

Miller's neighbors apartment

Yuri Gorokh also became the owner of the local property several years ago. This is the name of Miller’s friend, who at that time already held the position of deputy. Chief of Staff of the Gazprom Board of Directors. Several years ago, the families of Gorokh and Miller became neighbors in a closed Gazprom village near St. Petersburg, in a place that locals call the Peninsula of Fools. Then there were strong suspicions that the money for those cottages was paid by another Gazprom contractor - Arkady Rotenberg. But the Manasirov couple already gave up the apartment near the White House to Gorokh.

We can only hope that the luxury apartments of these Gazprom representatives (including Miller) were actually purchased by them at market prices, and not received from the Jordanian billionaire as a kickback for lucrative contracts.

There is a separate elevator for Miller

The Park House residential complex is a monolithic brick building with 20 apartments, 14 floors high, the façade of which is finished with natural stone and high-quality plaster. The spectacular exterior with elegant architectural forms, stucco moldings and French windows emphasizes the high status of the people living here. The real highlight of the residential complex are the beautiful view penthouses with private elevators. When decorating general-purpose interior spaces, only expensive and high-quality materials were used, such as marble, granite, precious wood, and mirrors.

The luxurious clubhouse is equipped with everything necessary for comfort and safety: a picturesque entrance area with green plants, paintings and sofas, a library, a luxurious swimming pool and a relaxation area with sun loungers, a guest room with a cafe-bar, a superbly equipped gym, a separate room for 24-hour security, underground three-level parking with a car wash, terraces with heated floors and landscaping. All apartments face three cardinal directions, overlooking the park and the White House (from realtor advertisements).

Where does Miller get the money for his stallions?

According to Forbes magazine, Alexey Miller earned $25 million last year. Or, at the exchange rate at that time, about a billion rubles. Two million a day.

At the same time, his salary is as a deputy. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company for 2014 amounted to only 23.5 million rubles. However, Miller also holds the post of Chairman of the Board of Gazprom. Last year, all 17 top managers of the monopoly collectively received almost 2.5 billion for their work. According to Sobesednik.ru, Miller’s profit can be approximately three times higher than the level of income of his closest subordinates. As a result, he should have about 400 million per annum.

According to Gazprom's latest data, Miller also owns 0.000958 percent of the company's shares. If we consider that, according to the same Gazprom, the monopoly issued a total of 23,673,512,900 securities, it turns out that Miller has 226,792 of them and another quarter, which is impossible in principle (shares are not divided into pieces). But let’s say that Miller has 226,792 of them with a nominal value of 5 rubles each. Their total market price today is approximately 32 million rubles. Over the past year, the manager should have received dividends of 1.6 million (7.20 per share).

But Miller’s profits don’t stop there. According to Gazprom's reporting, he is a member of the management of at least a dozen more companies, for which he also receives regular (and substantial) remuneration. So 2 million a day is not that much for him. There is enough to feed both himself and his stallions (as the chairman of the board of directors of Russian Hippodromes, he has two of them - Vesely and Fragrant, and Fragrant, winning races, brings Miller several million a year).

Gazprom's investment program amounts to hundreds of billions of rubles. Some people talk about inflated estimates. But the schemes by which this money is spent also raise questions.

An athletic, dark-haired man of about forty entered the St. Petersburg Constance Bank with heavy luggage. Vladimir Vasiliev brought 49 million rubles in cash to pay for two cottages in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. The owners of one of them were the wife and son of the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, and the other was the son of Yuri Gorokh, who works at Gazprom as deputy chief of staff of the board. Previously, Vasiliev paid 23.6 million rubles in the same way for Gazprom board member Yaroslav Golko, who is responsible for the investment program and construction projects in the state monopoly.

In total, in April - July 2009, Vasiliev brought almost 162 million rubles to the bank, as a result of which six cottages in a strictly guarded village on the Karelian Isthmus found their owners. All houses, except one, became the property of top managers of the gas monopoly or their relatives. Vasiliev says that he knows all the buyers and personally transported cash to St. Petersburg, where, according to him, it is “more convenient” to pay than in Moscow.

There are indeed more than enough reasons to get acquainted. All participants in the strange story with the cottages are in one way or another connected with the development of Gazprom’s multibillion-dollar investment program.

In 2004–2008, Gazprom underwent a reorganization. Enterprises specializing in construction were separated from the company. Now, according to an official representative of Gazprom, contractors are selected “primarily on a competitive basis, based on the best offers for price and quality of services and work.”

The investment program of the gas monopoly is growing, despite the crisis. In 2010, Gazprom plans to invest 802.4 billion rubles, with capital investments alone amounting to 663.6 billion rubles. Huge investments in the development of new fields (and this is the basis of the program) are necessary in order to compensate for the decline in production from old wells. The main reserve is the fields on the Yamal Peninsula, the proven reserves of which amount to 15 trillion cubic meters. m. In 2012, it is planned to commission the largest of them, Bovanenkovskoye, with reserves of about 5 trillion cubic meters. m of gas. (For comparison: in 2008, Gazprom produced 550 billion cubic meters of gas.) In addition to the construction of wells, this means the construction of villages, hundreds of kilometers of roads, more than 1,200 km of gas pipelines, and several compressor stations. In 2010, it is planned to invest 200 billion rubles in the development of Yamal.

The company "Petersburggazstroy" is increasingly called "St. Petersburg scammers"

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One of the key contractors of the monopoly is the holding company Stroygazmontazh, created in 2007 by Arkady Rotenberg, a childhood friend of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The main asset of Stroygazmontazh was five construction companies, which in July 2008 were acquired from Gazprom by Rotenberg’s structures for 8.4 billion rubles. The largest acquisition was a controlling stake in Lengazspetsstroy - it was this company that in 2007 acted as the customer for a cottage village on the Karelian Isthmus. The company came to its new owners not empty-handed, but with a package of large orders from Gazprom.

Rotenberg's holding regularly wins new monopoly tenders. This strikingly distinguishes it from the monopoly’s former darling, Stroytransgaz, a stake in which Gazprom sold back in 2006. According to Alexander Ryazanov, Chairman of the Board of Stroytransgaz, in 2009 Gazprom's share in the company's revenue will not exceed 5%. Back in 2006, it was 69% with revenue of 46 billion rubles.

Rotenberg's Stroygazmontazh received orders for the construction of two large gas pipelines from Gazprom. no competition. In order to meet the “short deadlines determined by the Russian government,” explains a Gazprom representative. At the same time, the monopoly’s costs for the construction of one of them, Dzhubga - Lazarevskoye - Sochi, increased from 8–10 billion to 25 billion rubles. “Per 1 km of route, the costs for the small Sochi gas pipeline turned out to be higher than for the Nord Stream project,” says Mikhail Korchemkin, executive director of East European Gas Analysis. According to his estimates, similar gas pipelines in America cost the customer at least half as much.

Huge estimates are one side of the Gazprom contract business. The second is cost savings: end contractors complain that money does not reach them.

Vladimir Belyakov, general director of Lengazspetsstroy (LGSS), has been leading this largest division of Stroygazmontazh since 2002 (he retained his post under Rotenberg). And for many years, LGSS has been working with another organization - the Petersburggazstroy company (PGS), which was founded by businessman Vasily Lushchinsky, who was previously engaged in air and sea transportation. Belyakov’s company often engaged Lushchinsky’s company to carry out work on Gazprom projects. Over time, Petersburggazstroy began to receive general contracts from the gas monopoly on its own. “We have curtailed some of the projects in which we participated as a LGSS contractor,” explains Lushchinsky. The reason, according to him, is losses on two large projects in which Lushchinsky’s company performed contract work for LGSS.

Construction of a cottage in the Gazprom village

Contractors of Petersburggazstroy itself, whose revenue last year amounted to 10 billion rubles, have it even harder.

Entrepreneur Alexander Kalinin from the city of Labytnangi, in Yamal, entered into a cargo transportation agreement in 2008 for the development of the Bovanenkovskoye field. According to him, a representative of Petersburggazstroy insisted on concluding an agreement with the Promtorg company “to reduce the tax base.” When it came to payment, it turned out that no one was going to pay. An investigation by the Department of Economic Crimes of the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg showed that the person listed as the director of Promtorg did not even suspect the existence of the company.

Kalinin was lucky. For almost a year he wrote complaints to the presidential administration, the government, the State Duma, the police, the prosecutor's office, the courts and Gazprom. After correspondence with Gazprom board member Golko, prosecutorial checks and telephone conversations with Lushchinsky, the debt to him, 10 million rubles, was repaid.

For a large construction company like Petersburggazstroy, attracting many contractors, such as Promtorg, is normal practice, Lushchinsky explains. When there are many intermediaries, problems may arise, but, according to Lushchinsky, they are “solved within the legal framework.”

The problem is that a number of Petersburggazstroy's counterparties are classic "pipe" companies - without staff, with dummy directors. Gennady Vituk, listed as the director of the Frost company, died two years ago. “Students and alcoholics become ‘directors’ like him,” says his widow. “The husband was from the second category.” The “director” of “Torgkomplekt”, but in fact a worker at one of the St. Petersburg enterprises, admits that when “they started paying salaries every once in a while,” he gave his passport for 500 rubles, and that’s all he knows about his business. According to the mother of the “director” of BaltTech, her son found out that he owned the company when he was summoned to court, the tax office and the police.

Some contractors have the same telephone numbers as Petersburggazstroy itself, and their bank documentation is handled by the accountants of this company. Despite the absence of real directors, the turnover of the “gasket” companies is measured in hundreds of millions of rubles. These firms supplied goods and services to LGSS and bought and sold bank bills.

Semyon Lychkin, the founder of the transport company NordRegionTrans, was also strongly advised to conclude an agreement through an intermediary - in his case it was called BaltLine. Having heard about the misadventures of others, he achieved a direct agreement with the ASG. This did not save either his company or dozens of its Yamal subcontractors. Today he is virtually bankrupt. Lychkin claims that Petersburggazstroy, having paid 2 million rubles, refuses to give up the rest - more than 320 million rubles. In court, ASG lawyers stated that Lushchinsky’s signature on the agreement was fake. The Kamchatka company Ener, which demands more than 41 million rubles from the ASG, is faced with a similar situation with the signature and is also suing.

According to Lushchinsky, Nord-RegionTrans actually “transported cargo for a small amount, which it received,” and Ener delivered much less fuel than it claims, because “it also wants to snatch money.” When asked why his company’s employees are running the affairs of “gasket” companies, Lushchinsky replied that he had never heard of it.

Lushchinsky did not say what relation Vladimir Vasiliev has to the ASG, who helped top managers of the gas monopoly and their relatives buy cottages on the Karelian Isthmus. The Gazprom representative, citing the fact that this had nothing to do with the monopoly’s business, advised him to question Vasiliev himself.

Vasiliev, at the request of Gazprom, actually agreed to answer Forbes’ questions. He admitted that “one and a half to two years ago” he worked in the PGS, and talked about how he paid for cottages in a village located in the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region.

What kind of village is this? It was built by order of Lengazspetsstroy. Vasilyev transferred money for the cottages to a company headed by Marina Belyakova, the wife of the general director of LGSS.

The village, consisting of only eight houses, is located in the 138th quarter of the Lembolovsky forestry of the St. Petersburg state institution “Vaskelovsky Forest Park”. “Chic cottages,” says the chief forester of the forest park, Olga Myasnikova, “only this is an unauthorized construction. It was impossible to build a forest park on land leased for recreational purposes for 49 years, in a water protection zone, it was impossible to block the passage to the lake, and there’s even security!” Myasnikova also complained to the local prosecutor's office. The prosecutor's office did not respond to the complaint.

Alexander Levinsky

Payback for Millerhof

About a month ago, information appeared that few people paid attention to: Gazprom could take on the 12 billion ruble loss of the Stroygazconsulting company, which until recently received the most lucrative contracts of the gas monopolist. Why such generosity?

Sobesednik.ru has already written about this company, SGK, which was founded by Jordanian Ziyad Manasir and among the founders of which was Olga Grigorieva, the daughter of Putin’s friend, FSB General Alexander Grigoriev. The last time - just two issues ago - was when we learned that the most luxurious private palace ensemble in the Moscow region, which was built by Manasir on Istra and which was nicknamed Millergof behind our backs, actually without any embarrassment became the property of Gazprom structures. This happened a year ago, immediately after Manasir sold the company and Gazprombank became its co-owner.

Is 12 billion really the price to pay for those palaces? Or not only for them?

Views of the White House

Moscow. Kapranov Lane, house 4. It’s about two hundred meters to another house – Bely, where the government sits. And it is still unclear which of the two houses’ inhabitants are more influential. The Presnensky children's park starts right from the door where there is a warning about video surveillance, but there are not many children there, because people live on Kapranov Lane who do business in a completely unchildlike way.

Two apartments in this elite residential complex “Park House” belong to the family of Ziyad Manasir himself: him, his current wife and one of his daughters. Their total area is more than 500 square meters. meters.

Immediately after Manasirov, Alexey Miller also moved here (while his wife and son remain the owners of a modest three-ruble apartment in St. Petersburg on Shpalernaya). In Park House, Sobesednik.ru found an 11-room penthouse measuring 775.4 square meters from a hired manager. meters. Considering that the cost of one meter in this residential complex is slightly less than 2 million rubles, the mansion of the head of Gazprom can be estimated at 1.5 billion. Dreams come true.

Like against a wall Peas

According to documents that came into the possession of Sobesednik.ru, Alexey Miller purchased an apartment from the now defunct St. Petersburg company BVT, which was engaged in the “production of jewelry.”

The details of that transaction are now difficult to clarify, but the deputy settled under the same roof with Miller. Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Valery Golubev, a retired KGB officer, well acquainted with Putin’s friend Alexander Grigoriev (the same one whose daughter was the companion of Ziyad Manasir, Golubev’s neighbor on Kapranov Lane).

Penthouse of Alexey Miller

Yuri Gorokh also became the owner of the local property several years ago. This is the name of Miller’s friend, who at that time already held the position of deputy. Chief of Staff of the Gazprom Board of Directors. Several years ago, the families of Gorokh and Miller became neighbors in a closed Gazprom village near St. Petersburg, in a place that locals call the Peninsula of Fools. Then there were strong suspicions that the money for those cottages was paid by another Gazprom contractor, Arkady Rotenberg. But the Manasirov couple already gave up the apartment near the White House to Gorokh.

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There is a separate elevator for Miller

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Alien Manasir with his own charter

Even after losing Millergof to Gazprom, Ziyad Manasir (pictured) continues to remain the main palace owner in the Moscow region. Sobesednik.ru learned that in the prestigious town of Piskovo he owns the largest private mansion in the region (and perhaps in the whole country) - with an area of 6724 square meters. meters (plus an auxiliary building of almost 2000 meters).

Not far from Manasirovsky (perhaps quite by accident and at their own expense), Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Andrei Kruglov, General Director of Gazpromtrans Vyacheslav Tyurin and his deputy Alexander Filin set up their palaces.

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Where does Miller get the money for his stallions?

According to Forbes magazine, Alexey Miller earned $25 million last year. Or, at the exchange rate at that time, about a billion rubles. Two million a day.

There really are more than enough reasons to get acquainted. All participants in the strange story with the cottages are in one way or another connected with the development of Gazprom’s multibillion-dollar investment program.

Rotenberg's Stroygazmontazh received orders for the construction of two large gas pipelines from Gazprom without a competition. In order to meet the “short deadlines determined by the Russian government,” explains a Gazprom representative. At the same time, the monopoly’s costs for the construction of one of them, Dzhubga - Lazarevskoye - Sochi, increased from 8–10 billion to 25 billion rubles. “Per 1 km of route, the costs for the small Sochi gas pipeline turned out to be higher than for the Nord Stream project,” says Mikhail Korchemkin, executive director of East European Gas Analysis. According to his estimates, similar gas pipelines in America cost the customer at least half as much.

Huge estimates are one side of the Gazprom contract business. The second is cost savings: end contractors complain that money does not reach them.

Contractors of Petersburggazstroy itself, whose revenue last year amounted to 10 billion rubles, have it even harder.

What kind of village is this? It was built by order of Lengazspetsstroy. Vasilyev transferred money for the cottages to a company headed by Marina Belyakova, the wife of the general director of LGSS.

The light jet Beechjet 400A, tail number ES-NXT, worth approximately $7 million with a blue stripe on the fuselage and tail, did not look like an outsider at the business aviation exhibition at Vnukovo-3 in the fall of 2014. It has just been modernized by the American Nextant Aerospace for an unknown owner from Russia. Light beige swivel chairs by the large windows, wide tables and a sofa in the cabin - everything for a comfortable flight for eight people with a maximum speed of 833 km per hour. This compact but comfortable aircraft was registered in Estonia and operated by the Estonian company FortAero.

Beechjet 400A aircraft interior

On its website, FortAero admits that it does everything for high-profile clients, “including heads of international companies and leading government officials, as well as their partners and family members.” And he notes how convenient and profitable it is to register aircraft in Estonia - low taxes, liberal political environment...

The liberal environment has a nuance. Data on licenses for on-board radios on business jets are publicly available in the Estonian business register. And the owners of the aircraft are mentioned there.

Novaya Gazeta found out that the license for the radio station of the Beechjet 400A aircraft, tail number ES-NXT, was valid since 2014 and was extended until the beginning of 2017. All this time, the aircraft was owned by the offshore company Firmon Overseas Holdings, registered in the British Virgin Islands.

Extract from the Estonian business register about the aviation radio installed on the Beechjet 400A aircraft, reg. ES-NXT number, which says that the plane belongs to Firmon

This company was mentioned in a report about the co-owners of Bank Russia, an acquaintance of Russian President Yuri Kovalchuk. According to the bank’s documents, Firmon Overseas was completely controlled by St. Petersburg resident Ivan Mironov, the half-brother of Gazprom board member Kirill Seleznev (Seleznev previously confirmed the relationship to the Vedomosti newspaper).

We decided to find out where the company of the brother of a Gazprom top manager got a business jet worth about $7 million? And what do other relatives and partners of Gazprom’s bosses own?

History of gas distribution

Novaya Gazeta reported on Ivan Mironov in 2014, when he, together with his friend Tatyana Svitova, received a total of 11.7% of the shares of Bank Russia from the subsidiary Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, which is headed by Seleznev. Gazprom then said that they had sold non-core assets. And Novaya and Vedomosti established a connection between Mironov’s former companies and Gazprom contractors, who received contracts worth billions of rubles.

At the same time, Mironov does not give the impression of an oligarch. He worked as deputy director of the St. Petersburg company Expoforum-International, which manages the Lenexpo exhibition complex, known mainly for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. When Vedomosti asked Mironov about his big business in 2014, he stated that he was “far from all this.”

Mironov’s acquaintance is Tatyana Svitova, the daughter of the senior vice president of Bank Russia Elena Svitova and the sister of Natalya Svitova, who also had shares in Gazprom contractors.

As Novaya Gazeta found out, recent partners of the Mironov and Svitov companies own shares in the gas distribution organizations of the Gazprom system - gorgaz and raygaz throughout Russia, which transport gas from the main gas pipeline to the end consumer, service in-house gas equipment and design regional gas supply networks ( for more details, see the diagram).

Through Firmon Overseas Holdings, Mironov controlled an offshore company - CIS Strategic Industries Investment Fund in the Cayman Islands, this was also mentioned in the report of Bank Russia. The Cayman offshore, in turn, owned the Cypriot Exlaribo. And she owns the chain of companies that leads to the Epos-Capital company. Natalya Svitova owns companies that also lead to this “Epos” and a couple of other companies - “Profkapinvest” and “Biznesprofinvest”. The latter had contracts with gas distribution enterprises of Gazprom for 47 million rubles and, until 2014, a share in another Gazprom contractor (VAG company), which over five years received contracts worth 4 billion rubles.

Not only Mironov and Svitova owned Epos Capital, Profkapinvest and Biznesprofinvest. The co-owners there were five interconnected companies - the Moscow Investment and Financial Group Management. Investments. Development (MIR Group), Financial Analytical Center, Interindustry Bill House of the Fuel and Energy Complex (VD TEK), Investment Partner and Citytrade, which received shares in more than 30 gas distribution organizations. The total revenue of the 28 organizations that they now own has exceeded 40 billion rubles over the past two years. The expert estimates the value of their shares in Gazprom Gas Distribution Nizhny Novgorod alone at 6 billion rubles (for more details, see the inset).

At Gazprom this is the area of responsibility of Kirill Seleznev. He heads Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gazprom, which sells gas in Russia: provides supplies to all categories of consumers and participates in gasification of the regions. Gas distribution organizations are part of the structure of Gazprom Gas Distribution, a subsidiary and controlled organization of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz.

Seleznev is a long-time colleague and close acquaintance of the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, for more than 15 years (he confirmed this to Vedomosti), they worked together in the port of St. Petersburg and in the Baltic Pipeline System. Seleznev came to Gazprom at the age of 27 as Miller’s assistant, deputy chief of staff of the board.

In the late 1990s, Seleznev worked in the St. Petersburg MIR Group, which had the same general director as now the Moscow group of the same name.

The Moscow-based MIR Group has a long-standing relationship with Gazprom. According to the reports of the Gazprom Gazoraspredeleniye company for 2009-2010, this group, together with the Financial Analytical Center, provided it with loans of 850 million rubles. And later, in turn, MIR Group received a loan of 1.05 billion rubles from Gazprom Gas Distribution and another 253.3 million rubles from Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Nizhny Novgorod.

Gazprom has not yet explained the economic meaning of these transactions.

It was not possible to contact Mironov. Seleznev and MIR Group did not answer Novaya’s questions.

History with patriots

Five companies that hold shares in gas distribution organizations of Gazprom (Financial Analytical Center, Ustyuggaz, Citytrade, Investment Partner and VD TEK) are connected with each other and with the Moscow Investment and Financial Group Management . Investments. Development" (“MIR Group”), which appeared in 2007.

The office of this group is located in the center of Moscow in Arkhangelsky Lane, building 3, building 1. But the roots of the MIR Group go back to St. Petersburg. There has been a group of the same name there since 1994, now liquidated. She was connected with the Moscow one by the common general director and co-owner of the management company - Interindustry Bill House of the Fuel and Energy Complex (VD TEK), which is located in the same office on Arkhangelsky Lane.

The Moscow MIR Group is now owned by entrepreneurs with extensive connections in the church community. The lion's share belongs to Sergei Rudov's VD TEK. He is on the boards of trustees of large monasteries, as well as the Moscow Theological Academy, is a member of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church and chairman of the charitable foundation “Society of Friends of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos.”

Rudov was a co-organizer of the delivery to Russia of the Belt of the Virgin Mary in 2011 and the Gifts of the Magi in 2014, which were displayed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. He is also co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Russian Federation of Practical Shooting.

The co-owners of Gazprom enterprises have other interesting intersections. The sole owner and general director of Citytrade, Alexey Puchkin, not only controls the Ust-Luga Multimodal Complex in the port, which was associated with partners and acquaintances of the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin. But he also heads companies (for example, Agrostyle) that deal with land plots. Half of Agrostyle is owned by the companies of the Rota group of former State Duma deputy Dmitry Sablin. Sablin is the first deputy chairman of the public organization “Combat Brotherhood” and co-chairman of the “Anti-Maidan” movement, created in 2015, as stated, with the aim of opposing the “fifth column” and “color revolutions” in Russia.

Rudov, VD TEK and Puchkin did not answer Novaya Gazeta’s questions.

Real estate history

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Andrei Kruglov became the owner of companies that deal with Moscow real estate and are associated with the financial and industrial corporation Garant-Invest of Alexei Panfilov.

At the beginning of 2017, Kruglov received a share (20%) in Hey. Pi. Trust Co., and in the summer - half of the Proletarsky-B company. All of them are associated with Garant-invest, which has several shopping and business centers in Moscow - TDK Tulsky on Serpukhovskaya Zastava Square, the Airport shopping gallery near the metro station of the same name, the Kolomensky, Moskvorechye, and "Moskvorechye" shopping centers. Retail Park and Prague Castle. The group also includes Garant-Invest Bank. Alexey Panfilov and his father Yuri are also co-owners of Hey. Pi. Trust Co.

Minority co-owners of the bank and Garant-invest are Irina Biryukova and Ekaterina Biryukova. The first is called the daughter of the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Housing and Communal Services, Pyotr Biryukov. Among the bank's minority shareholders is also former Moscow City Hall manager Viktor Korobchenko.

Before Kruglov received 20% in “Hey. Pi. Trust Co., this company had shares in companies that owned the Tulsky TDK, as well as the My Store retail chain and other assets of Garant-invest. Cypriot Vetturex, which together with Kruglov owns (25.9%) “Hey. Pi. Trust Co” also has a stake in the Garant-invest structure, which deals with commercial real estate. And in the Garant-Invest corporation itself, where the Biryukovs were minority owners.

The biography of Alexei Panfilov says that he was an adviser to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow Biryukov on a voluntary basis.

Biryukov’s relatives may be connected with contractors who are engaged in the reconstruction of Moscow, as RBC reported. Biryukov is responsible for the municipal services complex, which implements the plan for the improvement of Moscow streets. RBC found that Biryukov’s daughter, Irina and Ekaterina Biryukova, owners of 8.5% of the development company Garant-Invest, were also listed as co-owners of the Venta company, which leased trucks to city enterprises subordinate to Biryukov.

Novaya Gazeta found out that Irina and Ekaterina Biryukov owned (each 15%) the company Stroybusinessholding, which owned a Gazprom contractor, the Ugreshsky Pipeline Fittings Plant. Over three years, he received contracts worth 1.75 billion rubles from Gazprom structures.

The Ugreshsky plant also supplied its products to Mosgaz and Mosvodokanal, whose boards of directors included Biryukov. Since 2015, the plant has concluded contracts with them for 617.7 million rubles.

Kruglov, Garant-invest and the Moscow mayor’s office did not comment on the situation.

History of gas safety

Since April 2017, Gazprom Teplo-Energo has been headed by Artur Trinoga, the son of the head of the secretariat of the head of government, Mikhail Trinoga.

Arthur Trinoga, according to SPARK, is a co-owner (25%) of the Center for Modern Dentistry on Ostozhenka.

“We offer a wide range of services for treatment, restoration, dental prosthetics, bite correction, professional hygiene and aesthetic procedures,” the company’s website says.

Together with Trinoga, the center is owned by the head of Gazprom Energoholding Denis Fedorov (he also has 25%). And their partner is entrepreneur Andrei Yunakov. By 2010, it had 40% of the dental center, but then its share declined.

In 2010, Yunakov controlled five companies - PJSC Gazokhrana-M, OP Gazokhrana, OP Gazzashchita, PJSC Krasnodargazbezopasnost and PSC Regiongaz-bezopasnost, which subsequently began to provide services to gas distribution enterprises of Gazprom and interregiongases. Over five years, they received contracts worth 210 million rubles from Gazprom enterprises.

Arthur Trinoga did not answer Novaya’s questions.

“Well, we’ve already gone completely crazy. Sorry, there are simply no other words…” Vladimir Putin could not stand it at a meeting of the government commission for the development of the electric power industry in December 2011. Then, on his instructions, the affiliation of energy sector managers with commercial organizations that had signs of a conflict of interest was revealed. He noted that there was no violation of the law, but called for attention to the fact that some managers of the state-controlled energy complex and their relatives are associated with companies that do business in the same area and receive income from energy enterprises run by their relatives.

More than five years have passed since then, and there have been no further mentions of conflicts of interest at the highest level.

People close to Gazprom believe that there is no question of a conflict of interest in these cases. And they assure that Gazprom enterprises that transport gas from the main gas pipeline to the end consumer are, in most cases, far from the most profitable business. They also pay attention to the fact that private investors are not rushing into it. And some Gazprom enterprises, co-owned by companies associated, for example, with the MIR Group, have ceased to be unprofitable.

“Such justifications are good at a conceptual level, but not at a legal level. There may be signs of a conflict of interest here,” Ilya Shumanov, deputy general director of Transparency International Russia, shares his opinion. — Gas distribution is a separate business that can be unprofitable and profitable. Gazprom executives already have large compensation and rewards for being present on the boards of directors of numerous Gazprom subsidiaries. If their relatives also intersect with the same area, they should pay attention to this and study whether there is a personal interest of top managers there.”

Minority shareholders of Gazprom enterprises are right to be concerned about this, the expert believes, since the natural question is: does all this affect the financial performance of the gas concern?

Present past

Old Gazprom workers. Heritage

The former Gazprom leadership from the time of Rem Vyakhirev, together with relatives, directly owned shares in companies associated with Gazprom.

“There was no violation here, since the law did not restrict this at all,” says a person close to the gas concern.

Some of the connections of former top managers and their family members with Gazprom enterprises lasted for quite a long time. Thus, the former general director of the gas sales company Mezhregiongaz (currently Gazprom Mezhregiongaz) Valentin Nikishin and members of his family owned the company Quorum-N. She owned half of the Central Investment Heat and Power Company (CITEK), which had shares (from 25% to 35%) in at least 16 Mezhregiongaz companies in different Russian cities. And shares in Management Company Regiongazfinance, which had shares in seven gas distribution organizations of Gazprom, according to SPARK. Nikishin died in a car accident in 2005. TsITEK came under the control of his former deputy at Mezhregiongaz, Marina Bezrukova, and ceased to operate only in March 2017.

TsITEK also owned a share in Gazenergoprombank, which was first transferred to Gazprom structures, and in 2010 merged with Bank Russia owned by Yuri Kovalchuk.

The daughter of the former head of Gazprom, Rem Vyakhirev, Tatyana Dedikova, and the son of former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, Vitaly, were co-owners of the Promek-MG company, which until 2003 owned 24% of the Resurs-MRG company, registered at the Moscow office of Gazprom. on Nametkina Street, 16. Resurs-MRG owned shares (from 10% to 80%) in at least 37 Mezhregiongaz throughout Russia, according to SPARK. The company Agrokhimtex also had its own share in Resurs-MRG, where Nikolai Isakov, deputy general director for government relations at Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, owned a small share. And also from the company Verta-Techinvest, which was owned by members of the family of the former deputy general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Alexey Veremenko.

The decision to exclude the inactive “IWG Resource” from the register was made in July 2017.

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Courts with shareholders

In 2013, Gazprom, by decision of the government, bought out shares of gas distribution enterprises from the state-owned Rosneftegaz.

Minority shareholders of some of Gazprom's gas distribution enterprises hoped that they would be sent an offer and would be required to buy their shares, as happens in such transactions. But that did not happen.

“In 2013, we turned to the Bank of Russia, and it issued binding orders to Gazprom,” said Alexander Klimenko, head of the legal service of Myriad Rus, which represented the interests of minority shareholders of Gazprom Gas Distribution Nizhny Novgorod. — At the same time, we appealed to the Federal Property Management Agency, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Energy and the government with a demand to develop and approve a directive obliging Gazprom to fulfill the requirement of the law. But our requests only resulted in unsubscribes.”

And in the fall of 2015, the board of directors and the main shareholder of Nizhegorodoblgaz, the Gazprom group, approved an additional issue in the form of a closed subscription in favor of three companies, at that time affiliated with the MIR Group. The issue price is 51 rubles per share, three times lower than the market price, which is confirmed by an independent assessment, Klimenko believes.

“The Gazprom enterprise received, in our opinion, three times less money than it could have received. The share of minority shareholders was diluted by more than two times,” Klimenko assures. In his opinion, there were no economic grounds for the issue: Nizhegorodoblgaz is a profitable organization with free cash on deposit in the bank (2.7 billion rubles at the end of 2015-2016).

“How could it happen that thanks to such an issue, Gazprom lost control in Nizhegorodoblgaz (the share decreased from 75% to 32%) and did not receive money for it?” — Klimenko is surprised. In his opinion, this led to losses not only for Gazprom, but also for its shareholders. The result was also the cancellation of regulations obliging Gazprom to send proposals to minority shareholders to buy out their shares, since the Gazprom group’s share in the enterprise became less than 50%. “How else can this be explained if not by an administrative resource?” - asks the lawyer.

“We have not assessed the value of all the assets related to the listed companies, but the value of the shares in Nizhegorodoblgaz alone, which they received into ownership, could be about 6 billion rubles,” the expert believes.

People close to Gazprom explained the situation by saying that the gas concern did not have enough funds to pay both Rosneftegaz and minority shareholders, so a legal way was found to resolve this problem.

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Estonian wings

Estonian FortAero - operator of the Beechjet 400A (Nextant 400XTI) aircraft with registration number ES-NXT, owned by Ivan Mironov's company, has a very interesting history. In 2013, the now abolished national airline of Estonia, Estonian Air, sold its subsidiary, Estonian Air Regional, to the little-known FortAero, registered at the end of 2012. The deal surprised the Estonian market because no one understood who was behind it.

The Estonian Delovye Vedomosti then published the headline “Nominee Holders”, revealing that three people were listed as the owners of FortAero - Aaron Reichstein, Vadim Opryshko and Lyalya Mikhailova. Reichstein previously worked in Moscow, at the Kommersant publishing house, in 2003 he was the director of the Gazeta newspaper in St. Petersburg, headed the Trekhgornaya Manufactory, and in 2006 - the Kommersant Ukraine publishing house. In Estonia, his name was associated with two dozen companies; the local press reported that, according to him, he came to Tallinn by chance, having come to visit a friend.

The Estonian company responded that they had no relation to the half-brother of Gazprom board member Ivan Mironov and Gazprom board member Seleznev.

There is another interesting intersection. The Terramart Development company, which, according to the Bank of Russia report, was controlled by Mironov, had an Estonian branch (now in liquidation). The manager of this branch was Natalia Astashova, who, according to the Estonian registry, manages only two companies, including business aircraft operator Aviasole Business Aviation. This Aviasole offers customers the Falcon 900LX aircraft. Having contacted the manager of Aviasole, Novaya Gazeta found out that they knew about the Beechjet 400A aircraft with registration number ES-NXT and were redirecting it to FortAero about it.

Aviasole and Astashova did not answer questions from Novaya Gazeta.

Seleznev did not comment on the situation.