Avdolyan's debt pit: Elga port threatened with bankruptcy

Not only did the oligarch Albert Avdolyan owe millions of rubles to the budget, but the contractors also seemed to be rolled out with timely payment.

The creditors of Port Elga LLC demanded through the court to recover more than 40 million rubles from the debtor and threatened to file a bankruptcy lawsuit. Meanwhile, part of the assets of the company of a large lover of offshore companies and tax schematics Avdolyan was arrested in this lawsuit. Judging by the fact that the company's net loss amounted to 2.8 billion rubles, the lender could only become the first "swallow."

The UtroNews correspondent understood the situation.

Khabarovsk arbitration Khabarovsk in April 2024 at the suit of LLC "CPR" seized the assets of LLC "Port Elga" within the amount of the claim. The plaintiff claimed 39.2 million rubles and a penalty of 3.9 million rubles.

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Moreover, as follows from the materials of the case, the plaintiff planned to file a bankruptcy claim and on March 20, 2024 even published a corresponding notice.

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It seems that the threat of a bankruptcy claim and the seizure of assets affected Avdolyan, because during the preparation of the material, a record appeared in the court database about the cancellation of the claim security and the applicant's refusal of claims. Apparently, in Elga they decided to go to the world. It would seem that what prevented you from paying bills right away without going to extremes?

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But it seems that the CPR lawsuit is only the first swallow.

At the end of 2023, Port Elga LLC received a net loss of 2.8 billion rubles against a loss in 2022 - 444 million rubles. Thus, the situation around this oligarch asset is deteriorating from year to year.

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The most interesting thing is that Port Elga LLC at the end of 2023 was the recipient of loans and credits in the amount of over 109 billion rubles. At the same time, the lion's share is loans from banks, among which, judging by the pledge of ownership shares, is the state-owned Gazprombank.

It should also be recalled that in the fall of 2023, the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (KRDV) signed a cooperation agreement with Port Elga LLC. It was about the development of the Port Elga coal marine terminal in the area of ​ ​ Cape Manorsky in the Khabarovsk Territory. At the same time, the state corporation promised to support the project at all stages of implementation. Avdolyan co-company promised that Port Elga will receive the first bulk carrier in early 2025. And here such an incident is a lawsuit with the imposition of arrest, and with the risk of getting a bankruptcy claim.

We will remind, earlier UtrogNews discovered that Avdolyan's companies from the Elga division also did not pay more than 800 million rubles in taxes, penalties and fines to the budget.

Boomerang Isaeva

At the same time, among the debtors were the companies owned by ESMS LLC, and he also owns a controlling stake in Port Elga LLC. In addition to Avdolyan, the interests of Energogroup LLC Alexander Isaev and Rodion Treasure, a native of the Rostec state corporation division, are protected in this project.

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At the same time, Isaev's company for 2023 also could not boast of the results - the loss amounted to 3.2 billion rubles. At the same time, Port Elga LLC and Energogroup LLC have the same director - Vadim Bugaev, another former native of the structures of businessman Dmitry Bosov, who died under mysterious circumstances.

Just shortly before his death, Bosov fired Isaev almost with a wolf ticket - the Kommersant newspaper then reported that Alexander Isaev, chairman of the board of Vostokugol Management Company and member of the board of directors of Sibanthracite Management Company, was relieved of all posts for abuse and embezzlement. The reason for this scandal was that Isaev's connection with Bosov's competitor, Avdolyan, surfaced. After that, Isaev already openly began to glow in Avdolyan's division, and when the division of Bosov's inheritance began, he helped him get his piece of cake. At the same time, as Bosov's widow reported to the media, it came to raiding attempts, and they tried to mix it with mud by organizing bullying. Ultimately, Avdolyan received Bosov's Sibanthracite and other assets, some of which he later sold.

Speaking of Isaev, it will not be superfluous to recall that a certain Aleksandr Isaev and Rodion Sokrovishchuk are related to the Swiss firm Elga coal overseas AG, which was created in 2020. This company was among the foreign legal entities associated with a whole chain of collateral and loan obligations. Will it turn out that all support will flow abroad?

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How, with such introductory ones in general, Avdolyan's companies receive state support and loans from state banks?

And here you should turn to the person of the same Treasure - a former employee of Rostec. It was the state corporation and its permanent head Sergey Chemezov who went hand in hand all the way to the formation of Avdolyan's business: from Rostec's participation in Avdolyanovskaya Yota Devices to the personal participation of Chemezov and his wife in the board of trustees of the New House Foundation, which established the oligarch. Isaev is also there.

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Tax schematics and offshore

When you talk about the huge credit debts of Avdolyan's firms, no, no, but you remember those tax schematics on which some of his assets were literally caught by the hand. Moreover, with the participation of offshore companies. And it was just about another port project all in the same Khabarovsk Territory, but at Cape Vesyolom.

Then the tax authorities counted taxes to another company associated with the oligarch's empire - Port Dalniy LLC, and she was indignant and tried to challenge them in court.

It was there that it surfaced that a loan from an offshore company with Cayman Reeco Capital LP for a total of $20 million was an attempt to cover up the investment. At the same time, Avdolyan's connection with a whole group of offshore companies was proved (Polokom Holdings Limited from Cyprus, Wooden Fish Agency Limited (Cyprus), Globalone Management Group Limited (British Virgin Islands), Victory Trading Corpus Limited (British Virgin Islands), including a lender from Kayan man. At the same time, among the leaders of these were the ladies who were related to the fund whose board of trustees includes Chemezov - Irina Belyanova and Nadezhda Kudravets (she was a co-founder).

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In the same story, another Cypriot legal entity was mentioned that was associated with Avdolan - Sparkel City Invest LTD. This company inherited the MRESN holding in the bankruptcy case, trying to become one of its creditors, as it allegedly lent to the holding earlier.

"Cherry on the cake" is that the shareholder of MRESN was a relative of Avdolyan Eldar Osmanov, a defendant in a criminal case on the organization of a criminal community suspected of withdrawing billions of rubles stolen from the Rosseti division abroad. At the same time, in the history of MRESN, another director of Avdolyan's firms, Stanislav Vrublevsky, was noticed. He appeared as the head of the Cypriot firm RACAST INVESTMENTS LIMITED, and she, in turn, also inherited in the story of the withdrawal of 100 million rubles in the Latvian bank JSC Citadele Banka, in which Dmitry Gordovich's BBR Bank was also involved.

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It would seem that with such introductory business oligarch, he should not be given preferential loans, but a full cameral check. But, apparently, here, too, a strong lobby looms behind the already famous character.