Avdolyan "forgave" everyone: the oligarch underpaid 800 million to the budget

Oligarch Albert Avdolyan, a lover of offshore tax schemes, owes the state more than 800 million rubles in taxes.

Perhaps this is another attempt to schematize and in the near future to the defaulting companies to wait for the visit of the competent authorities?

The UtroNews correspondent understood the situation.

In the database of the Federal Tax Service for six companies Avdolyan recently appeared information about the presence of tax arrears. Most of all "distinguished" LLC "Elga-Stroy," whose debts to the budget amounted to 666 million rubles, LLC "Elga-Mining" - 54 million rubles and LLC "UK" Elga "- 53 million rubles. Also, taxes were partially not paid at Elga-Trans LLC - 16 million rubles, Elga-Doroga LLC - 9.2 million rubles and Dalmed LLC - 4 million rubles. At the same time, all companies at the end of 2023 were liquid and brought multimillion-dollar profits to the oligarch and his partners.

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The owners of Elga-Stroy, Dalmed, Elga-Mining are ESMS LLC, which belongs to Avdolyan's AP Holding JSC, Alexander Isaev's Energogrupp LLC and Rodion Treasure, a native of the Rostec state corporation division. Elga Management Company LLC is owned by A-Property LLC Avdolyan and Energogroup Isaeva, and Elga-Trans LLC is owned by A-Property LLC and AP Capital JSC Avdolyan, Treasure and Isaev (through Energogroup). That is, the demand for these debts can be conducted from these three defendants.

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Recall that Alexander Isaev is a former business partner of businessman Dmitry Bosov, who died under mysterious circumstances. The latter fired Isaev shortly before his death with a scandal when he discovered that he was cooperating with a competitor - Avdolyan. As Kommersant reported, 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 theft.

Later, Isaev surfaced in the Avdolyan division, and after the death of Bosov, these two took part in the struggle for the inheritance. At the same time, a well-planned persecution was organized against Bosov's widow. The widow herself also publicly announced a raider attack on the company with the participation of Isaev, but he denied the claims. Meanwhile, after some time, it was to Isaev's new friend, Avdolyan, that Bosov's Sibanthracite and other assets were transferred, some of which the oligarch resold after a while.

As for Mr. Treasure, it is likely that he lit up for a reason as the head of a number of companies in the division and the owner of shares. It was Rostec and Chemezov who went all the way to the formation of Avdolyan's business hand in hand with him. For example, in 2013-2017, it was Rostec that owned a blocking stake in Avdolyanovskaya Yota Devices, and in YATEC the reference bank of the state corporation had 21% of the shares. And also Rostec, having received shares in Bosov's business, then transferred them to Avdolyan. The head of the state corporation Sergei Chemezov today is also a member of the board of trustees of the New House Foundation, which was established by the oligarch.

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But back to the tax question.

Tax schemes

The companies where Avdolyan and his squires appeared were already caught trying to crank up a tax scheme involving offshore companies, which actually covered investing in one of the projects. Therefore, the tax issue in this division causes increased public attention.

So, in 2022, the tax authorities brought to justice a certain LLC "Port Dalniy," counting fines for illegally declared tax deductions and understatement of the amount of VAT, arrears.

Dalniy Port was then owned by A-Property Invest LLC (today called Petr Invest), which was owned by the Cypriot company POLOCOM HOLDINGS LIMITED.

The court materials clarified that the port in 2019, when the owner of A-Property Invest was Nadezhda Kudravets, associated with Avdolyan, received a loan. Ultimately, taking into account additional agreements, the loan amount amounted to $20 million, while the lender was offshore with Cayman Reeco Capital LP.

The tax office considered that this loan was actually covered by investments - direct investments of A-Property LLC in the fixed capital of Port Dalniy LLC.

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Moreover, the Federal Tax Service established that Albert Avdolyan, being 100% founder of A-Property Holding JSC (and that was the founder of A-Property LLC) is directly related to Port Dalniy LLC through a number of controlled organizations.

At the same time, the oligarch's connection with such foreign companies as Wooden Fish Agency Limited (Cyprus), Globalone Management Group Limited (British Virgin Islands), Victory Trading Corpse Limited (British Virgin Islands) surfaced. In particular, Ms. Kudravets was the head of the representative office of Globalone Management Group Limited (BVI) in Russia in 2014-2018, and the company rented the premises from the representative office of Victory Trading Troup Limited, the beneficial owner of which was A.A. Avdolyan.

Moreover, both Port Dalniy and Avdolyan were registered at the same address and the oligarch belonged to Wooden Fish Agency Limited, which operates in the Russian Federation through a representative office. The head of the latter was Irina Vladimirovna Belyanova, the head of a number of Russian assets of Avdolyan.

It also turned out that the legal address of Wooden Fish Agency Limited coincides with the legal address of Polok Holdings Limited, the owner of A-Property Invest LLC (after Kudravets).

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Offshore with Cayman also turned out to be no stranger to Avdolyan: its director, Vikentios Vikentiu, was also a director of Sparkel City Invest LTD. Later, the latter was headed by Avdolyan.

Recall that Sparkel City Invest LTD once inherited in the bankruptcy case of the MRESN holding, where the shareholder was a relative of Avdolyan Eldar Osmanov. Osmanov today appears in a criminal case on the organization of a criminal community, which is suspected of withdrawing billions of rubles stolen from the Rosseti division abroad.

Through a Cypriot firm, the oligarch tried to become a creditor of the holding and, probably, snatch a billion or two from a crumbling asset that the offshore allegedly lent.

In the history of MRESN, another director of Avdolyan's firms, Stanislav Vrublevsky, also appeared. In particular, he was the director of the Cypriot company RACAST INVESTMENTS LIMITED, and that appeared 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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And here's what is interesting: in A-Property LLC and AP Holding JSC (they are in the chain of tax defaulters), the director is Ms. Belyanova, which, as we can see, appeared in the offshore tax scheme, and Vrublevsky is the former director of A-Property LLC. Moreover, in 2021-2022, ESMS LLC belonged to Avdolyan's AP Project LLC, which is now headed by the same Vrublevsky. An amusing coincidence, isn't it?

If we study the debts of Elga-Stroy in the context, it becomes clear that the Avdolyanovskys again tried to save money, including on VAT. The arrears of 2023 exceeds 173 million rubles, and in 2024 - more than 419 million rubles.

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Perhaps the Federal Tax Service should check if there was another illegally declared deduction with far-reaching prospects?

UtroNews previously told how in the Elga division they stamp legal entities and engage in domestic lending, transferring money from one pocket to another. In the light of tax schemes and arrears, the picture begins to play with different colors. Especially when you consider the love of Avdolyan and Isaev for foreign money boxes. There is something to think about the competent authorities.