Giner and Avdalyan were disgraced: the British budget is in the black, the Russian budget is in the red

Two heavyweights of the construction business Evgeny Giner and Karen Avdalyan were disgraced. One, being the beneficiary of a British firm until the end of October 2023, could indirectly finance tranches for Ukraine through taxes, while the firms of the other were mired in tax debts to Russian budgets and bankruptcy claims.

What happened in a year with two oligarchs with not the most unambiguous reputation, the UtroNews correspondent understood.

A year ago, oligarchs Giner and Avdalyan appeared in the media space because of the deal to sell the Moscow shopping center "Start": the complex moved from Giner's structures to Premium Estate LLC, behind which is the family of the owner of the development company "Best Consulting" Karen Avdalyan.

The shopping center is located not far from the CSKA sports complex, and earlier it became known that a controlling stake in the parent company CSKA is owned by the British company Bluecastle Enterprises Ltd, behind which is Giner's son Vadim.

Giner with a British accent

A year later, we decided to check how things are with the British asset Giner in the light of recent events. Indeed, in fact, being the owner of a British taxpayer company, he would pay taxes to the budget of a country that is not friendly to Russia, and it is already transferring multibillion-dollar tranches to weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from which Russian soldiers are killed. And you know what turned out?

London-based Bluecastle Enterprises Ltd was dissolved only on October 24, 2023. And its director since the end of April 2022 was just Evgeny Giner, that is, there were some gestures towards the company and it is no longer possible to call it "sleeping." Moreover, since 2019, it has been a certain Mr Evgeny Giner who is the beneficiary of the asset, and not Mr Vadim Giner, as it was before.

Photo: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

Photo: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

Photo: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

It is also interesting that other surnames, including Russian ones, appeared in the disbanded British company. For example, a certain Natalya MURAVLEVA born in 1980 from Dedovsk (Moscow). The management of the company also included Frenchwoman Virginie PERIN, Briton Jennifer Elizabeth WESTMORELAND, Briton Aman Antoinette ROONEY. That is, the ties in London have not gone anywhere with the Giners.

And the London asset was not the only one where the family of Eugene Giner appeared. As RBC reported, in 2009 Vadim Giner was elected head of the board of directors of Karvis International S.A. from Luxembourg, and other leaders were Giner Sr. and Marina Yaroslavskaya. Today, the fate of the offshore is not known, and the leaders are hidden in the registers.

Some sources called Yaroslavskaya the wife of Kharkov millionaire Alexander Yaroslavsky, and the National Bank of Ukraine mentioned her as a citizen of Germany and a shareholder of the Latvian VS Energy Latvia, which managed energy assets, including in Ukraine.

And here's a coincidence: Evgeny Giner is a native of Kharkov and the media previously associated him with VS Energy. Moreover, if Giner is associated with CSKA, then Yaroslavsky is the ex-president of FC Metalist.

As Komsomolskaya Pravda reported in July 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put on the wanted list a businessman and ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexander Yaroslavsky, and the court arrested him in absentia. The imputed article was not reported.

Also, as reported by the Ukrainian edition, Yaroslavsky is the president of the DCH (Development Construction Holding) group, which includes the Kharkov Tractor Plant, which was engaged in the repair of military equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was rumored that Yaroslavsky also cooperates with Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. How do you like such possible connections of Mr. Giner?

Returning to the possible offshore companies of the Giner family, one cannot ignore the Luxembourg Sensei International, where Vadim Giner was called the director, and the company itself acted as its main creditor in the reports of the London asset.

Giner Jr. also inherited in such Luxembourg companies as Financiere Epidus and Financiere Egine. RBC previously mentioned that in the same firms, as a member of the board of directors, there was also the Latvian V.D. Nominees, which provides the services of nominal directors or nominal founders.

In the Panama Dossier, V.D. Nominees appeared as a connecting element between NYX Management LTD of the British Virgin Islands and individuals - Mikhail Voevodin and Giner Evgeny. Amazing coincidence, isn't it?

And after all, it was Voevodina, among others, who was mentioned as a possible beneficiary of the same Latvian VS Energy with assets in Ukraine.

Voevodin is also a former CEO and ex-shareholder of VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, a manufacturer of titanium for aircraft.

Photo: offshoreleaks.icij.org

And V.D. Nominees was the link between NYX Management LTD and AED INTERNATIONAL LTD of ex-State Duma deputy Alexander Babakov, which w as also mentioned as a likely beneficiary of VS Energy.

Photo: offshoreleaks.icij.org

Thus, with Mr. Giner today there is something to ask about his ties, rooted in countries not friendly to Russia.

And, speaking of Giner, it is not superfluous to recall that even in his youth, in his native Kharkov, judging by the data of Vedomosti, a certain Yevgeny Giner was attracted for embezzlement of state property, and twice. After that, he moved to Moscow.

In Moscow, the name of a certain Giner, along with Babakov and Voevodin, appeared next to the story of the seizure of the clothing market in Luzhniki. Among the names in this story was Maxim Kurochkin ("Max Mad"), who was shot dead by a killer in Ukraine in 2007.

There were rumors that Kurochkin's visit to Ukraine was connected with some energy assets. Aren't they the ones that later went under the wing of VS Energy?

But back to the deal that took place a year ago.

Avdalyan's business: do not need to pay taxes?

The buyer of Start was the Premium Estate company, which legally belongs to George and Levon Avdalyan, the full namesakes of the sons of Karen Avdalyan, the founder of the development company BESTKON.

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It is believed that the beneficiary of the entire business is precisely the patriarch of the family, also known as a close acquaintance of Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, who oversees the construction industry. In the piggy bank of this friendship, this is the fact: in 2011, Best-Consulting Avdalyan bought the Kapstroy-Development company, which until 2015 belonged to Moskapstroy, and then to his daughter Moskapstroy-TN. The structures were bought out during the period when Khusnullin was in charge of the Moscow construction complex.

Avdalyan may also be associated with Mikhail Gutseriev through his nephew Mikail Shishkhanov, whose relative was the owner of 33% in Best Consulting. Trust Bank filed a bankruptcy lawsuit against this company, under whose encumbrance Avdalyan's share was, and Gutseriev also works with the same bank, which, according to Forbes, owed the bank more than a trillion rubles. By the way, in 2023, Trust Bank put up for sale the rights of claim against six companies of the Bestcon Group of Companies. The amount of debt on loans at that time was 3.5 billion rubles.

As we can see, the situation in the Avdalyanov division is not rosy. For example, a number of companies have large tax debts. As of May 2024, Premium Estate owed 2.2 million rubles, and Best Consulting LLC - 42 million rubles. Elite Real Estate LLC has debts - 5.1 million rubles, Kapstroy-Development LLC - 842 thousand rubles, Alfamedia LLC - 10 million rubles, Matrix LLC - 2.4 million rubles, IDK Bestkon LLC - 11 million rubles and so on.

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For some firms, the matter has already reached bankruptcy claims, and the tax authorities were the initiators. The lawsuit against IDK "Bestkon" for bankruptcy will be considered on October 28.

In the piggy bank of "trouble" and claims of bailiffs. So, according to their claim with Best Consulting, Karen Avdalyan can claim one of the sites.

That is, the division began not only to lose money, but also assets?

Against this background, the overgrowth of construction "daughters" looks very doubtful. For example, the same Premium Estate in 2023-2024 received shares in LLC SZ Mnevniki-Development, LLC Start-Aviacenter, LLC SZ LBM Engineering and LLC SZ Sokolnichesky Val 2A, which hints at global development plans. But where will they get the finances? Will they collect from equity holders? So, judging by the base of the Ministry of Construction, the group's contractors handed over all three houses with delays. Who will carry money to a company with such a reputation?

By the way, Avdalyanov's business, like Giner, could not do without intersection points with offshore companies. So Georgy Avdalyan's share in Luxinvest LLC passed to him from the Cypriot UILETLOK TRADEIG LIMITED. By the way, the latter today also owns a certain Mikos-7 LLC from the real estate sector, among the owners of which was inherited by Levon Avdalyan. That is, the offshore Avdalyan family is also very foreign. Will you later have to look for the money of the same equity holders abroad?

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As we can see, in a year two construction heavyweights somehow disgraced themselves, and, in our opinion, the situation with the business of both, taking into account their ties with foreign legal entities, needs a closer look from the relevant authorities. It hurts the picture ambiguous...