Stavropol Avdolyan syndrome: schematosis for 2.5 billion

In a story where the judges doubted the reasonable economic motives of the deal, the UtroNews correspondent understood.

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In October 2018, it became known that Avdolyan bought out related assets in the city of Lermontov, Stavropol Territory - OJSC Hydrometallurgical Plant (GMZ), CJSC Southern Energy Company (YUEK, which provided heat to citizens) and Intermix Met LLC.

By that time, the plant and LLC were suspended due to debts - more than 3 billion rubles.

After the deal over the problem enterprises, a new "cap" was created - Almaz Group, which included the GMZ plant, which became Almaz Fertilizers, Southern Energy Company - Almaz Energo and Intermix Met - Almaz Tech. Later, Cashmir Capital LLC, the Almaz Fertilizers trading house, was added there.

You will not see the name of Avdolyan among the owners of these legal entities. Exclusively proxies appear in them, some of which will appear more than once in dubious stories.

So, the Almaz Fertilizers company, created on the basis of the GMZ, at the start belonged to Andrei Zavyalov, associated with the oligarch, then Evgeny Zabelin and in 2022 - Andayana Group LLC. Among the owners of the latter were Andrei Korobov, a native of the Rostec state corporation (Director of YATEK, whose beneficiary is Avdolyan), Evgeny Zabelin, Alexander Yezhov (today - Director of Cashmere Capital, Almaz Tech LLC and Andayana Group), Alexey Bykov (connected with Avdolyan through AENP, which appears in the MRSEN case), Vyacheslav Baikalov (ex-director of Intermix Met LLC, which was owned by the former owners of GMZ - Sergey Makhov and Sergey Chuck, now - director of Almaz Fertilizers LLC) and Tatyana Merzlyakova (deputy general director of Avdolyanovsky YATEK).

Since May 2021, Almaz Fertilizers came under the control of Almaz Tech LLC, but the share is still burdened with the BBR by the Gordovich Bank, Avdolyan's longtime partner.

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Almaz Tech LLC belongs to Alexei Bykov, Andayana Group LLC and a certain Vadim Kuryanov. Until February 2024, Bykov was also the owner of Almaz Capital LLC

But the most remarkable fact of Bakov's biography was, perhaps, the ownership of the company "TsIPE named after N.A. Popov" (previously called - AENP). Today he is also its director.

LLC is known for trying to get into the bankruptcy case of MRSEN, whose shareholder was a relative of Avdolyan - Eldar Osmanov. The latter is involved in a criminal case on the theft and withdrawal of billions from the same energy holding.

The owners of AENP previously included Avdolyan's offshore Sparkel City Invest LTD, which allegedly credited MRSEN. But the courts more often refuse Sparkel to be included in the register of creditors, referring to the affiliation of Avdolyan and Osmanov, which, however, does not interfere with making more and more attempts.

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That is, legally, all these Stavropol assets were ruled not by Avdolyan himself, but by his proxies. A very convenient alignment that allows you to evade responsibility

And where did the GMZ and YUEK themselves go, you ask? Everything is quite simple here: GMZ is still in bankruptcy today, and YUEK is working under the Almaz Energo hat, remaining still unprofitable: loss in 2023 - 216 million rubles, 2022 - 142 million rubles.

The most interesting thing is that Avdolyan said in 2022 that he had sold his Stavropol assets and, they say, "the enterprise was raised from ruins and nothing threatens it." But here's the bad luck: the loss of Almaz Fertilizer for 2023 is 0.5 billion rubles and it arose in more than one year. That is, this whole picture of the blissful pulling of the GMZ from the crisis of a fairy tale?

Moreover, Almaz Fertilizers assets in the amount of 605 million rubles have still been pledged to the Bank associated with Avdolan through the shareholder Gordovich BBR. And such debt load, to put it mildly, does not look like a rise from the ruins. Rather, like a cobblestone tied to the "legs."

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BBR Bank previously appeared in the story of the withdrawal of 100 million rubles to the Latvian bank JSC Citadele Banka through offshore companies associated with Avdolyan. In addition, Gordovich himself, at the request of Avdolyan, was a member of the board of directors of Chelyabenergosbyt from the MRSEN division, representing a company associated with Osmanov. In this episode, as a result, 0.5 billion rubles sunk into obscurity under the domestic lending scheme.

Judging by the reports of Almaz Fertilizers LLC from 2023, among its lenders there was also an offshore company already known to readers of MorningNews - Sunomil Co Limited, associated with Avdolyan. He had previously appeared in a muddy tax scheme with the participation of another offshore company, with about. Cayman.

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Andrei Korobov - the director ЯТЭКа whose beneficiary besides is Avdolyan became the creditor for LLC Almaz Udobreniya also.

It seems, the oligarch also sold assets, and upon left them loaded with debt squires.

It seems as follows: from problem, but bought for kopeks, GMZ and YuEK were taken liquid assets and capacities, on their base new legal persons created, showed some revenue and profit, and then amicably merged them to new owners already for other money. Here only debts did not get to anywhere, having remained on old legal persons and to new stuck, but these are already that is called not problems of Avdolyan.

Moreover, history of bankruptcy of the ex-owner of GZM Makhov opened even more entertaining picture of manipulations of the oligarch Avdolyan.

History on 2.5 billion

The former owners of the plant gathered at the time the credits at Sberbank. On September 21, 2018 the bank conceded the right of the requirement of debts to "subsidiary" - LLC SBK Plus, and that later few months gave him to certain LLC Almaz Capital.

Then in November, 2018 concerning Makhov the procedure of bankruptcy was begun. During this business in May, 2019 that Almaz Capital demanded to include 2.5 billion rubles in the register of creditors of Makhov, basing claims on the contract of guarantee on debts of GZM and YuEK.

Courts at the first stage granted a request, but such deal did not suit other creditors and they challenged the decision.

Higher instances called into question expediency of acquisition of the rights of the requirement to the debtor and conscientiousness of it at appeal to the court.

The judge specified that acquisition of accounts payable by society to actually affiliate can be attempt to increase a controlled debt.

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In materials of court it was specified that the main borrowers according to obligations - JSC Hydrometallurgical Plant and CJSC Southern Energy Company and also the creditor of LLC Almaz Capital who imposed requirement were included into one group of persons as were controlled from the uniform center which the final beneficiary and the new shareholder of the enterprises Avdolyan A.A. was.

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Firms ceased to pay on debts in December, 2017, but debts from them began to demand some years later.

According to one of creditors Ilya Peregudov, A.A. Avdolyan, controlling the creditor - LLC Almaz Capital and debtors including acting as the borrower, the guarantor and the pledgor of CJSC Southern Energy Company selectively imposes requirements, consciously increasing the current obligations. Moreover, according to the creditor, not repayment of credit debts, but transfer of business on persons controlled by A.A. Avdolyan could be the purpose of acquisition of the rights.

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In the same place it was specified that the creditor is created in three weeks prior to the conclusion with LLC SBK Plus of contracts of assignment with minimum allowed authorized capital of 10 thousand rubles and at the same time the origin of 0.5 billion rubles paid under the contract was not established. It is known that the transaction was financed by certain LLC SERIS, and money for the transaction came from accounts of already known BBR of Bank.

E. Eksuzyan was the owner svezhesozdanny "SERISa". In - one more znakomets and the director of firms Avdolyana that at one time there was also the director "a Capital Diamond".

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Also Nadezhda Kudravets - the cofounder of Avdolyana fund "New house" which besides already shone in offshore schemes earlier was marked out in "SERISe".

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Moreover, Almaz Capital was registered in the room which owner was A.A. Avdolyan earlier, and then there was Cyprian "Viktori Trading Group Limited". Stanislav Vrublevsky - the director of a number of the companies Avdolyana was the director of representation of the last in Moscow.

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In our opinion, in the history of GMZ it was turned next схематоз with participation of authorized representatives of the oligarch. Transition under the aegis of the last plant and the power company, and on the cheap became a result of it.

Not for nothing in 2019 Chuck and Makhov's creditor - one of founders of lawyer bureau "Bartolius" Ilya Peregudov tried to challenge sale of the plant. Questions, just arose also to the transaction price. Creditors estimated the plant at 4-5 billion rubles while new owners got it for nominal 7600 rubles.

It is not the first time that questions have arisen for Avdolyan, but the powerful lobby in the person of Rostec and his permanent leader Sergei Chemezov, that the entire path of the oligarch's business is going hand in hand, takes any troubles away from him. Meanwhile, the competent authorities have long had something to ask the oligarch, overgrown with offshore and foreign money boxes.