Offshore credit scheme for 0.5 billion: Avdolyan and the MRSEN scam

Oligarch Albert Avdolyan again surfaced in a schematic with the participation of offshore companies and Dmitry Gordovich's BBB Bank, as a result of which 0.5 billion rubles were sunk into the unknown.

The story of the collapse of the scandalous holding MRESN, among the shareholders of which Avdolyan's relative, who became a defendant in the criminal case, is becoming more and more detailed.

The UtroNews correspondent figured out where the 500 million rubles written out to the energy company went.

Recall that in 2021, the security forces opened a whole criminal community, which is suspected of withdrawing billions of rubles abroad. The money, according to the investigation, was stolen from electricity producers and grid companies of the Rosseti division. The defendants were 11 people, including the ex-heads of Arkhenergosbyt, Vologdaenergosbyt, Roskommunenergo, Khakasenergosbyt, Chelyabenergosbyt, ex-manager of Mosuralbank Nikolai Korneev. Also, according to the investigation, the group worked under the cover of Mezhregionsoyuzenergo JSC, which was headed by the shareholder and relative of the oligarch Albert Avdolyan - Eldar Osmanov, Yuri Shulgin and Bagrat Katalyants.

The scheme is quite simple: firms that were under the control of MRSEN issued loans, redeemed bills and shares, poured millions into the authorized capital of third-party legal entities, and also signed agreements on the assignment of rights of claim. In this scheme, consumer money was used, which was simply not conveyed to the final addressee, but scrolled to the benefit of itself according to various cunning schemes. The money settled outside the Russian Federation. They financed the deal through technical loans, which were formalized by Mosuralbank, the beneficiary of which was just Osmanov.

In general, over 10 billion rubles were withdrawn abroad in 2004-2019.

But not all the defendants are sitting in jail, awaiting a verdict. The same Osmanov managed to make legs. It will be appropriate to recall here that Avdolyan's daughter, whose marriage gave birth to an oligarch with Osmanov, has interests in London. In particular, the British company SIRENELONDONCOSMETICS LTD is registered for a certain Elvira AVDOLIAN.

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Mr. Avdolyan also did not ignore the story of MRSEN. It was his attempts to get into the register of creditors of the holding that revealed a whole chain of frauds associated with scrolling several billion rubles. It also lit up an offshore affiliate with Avdolyan - Sparkel City Invest LTD, "BBR Bank" Dmitry Gordovich. The latter was also covered up head over heels in the MRSEN case.

Offshore pod

Repeatedly, the "daughter" of Sparkel City Invest LTD - LLC "AENP" (now - LLC "TsIPE named after N.A. Popov") tried to become one of the creditors of MRSEN, and the fact that Sparkel belonged to Avdolyan was proved by the courts.

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At the same time, the offshore carried out loan transactions with the participation of Gordovich's BBR Bank. For example, this was the case with a loan for PJSC Arkhangelsk Sales Company. The latter was given a loan by Gordovich's bank, and the collateral was some bills, which Sparkel first bought from the bank, and then transferred as collateral. Entertaining, isn't it?

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At the same time, according to the courts, "on the date of the conclusion of the loan agreement and surety agreements, Osmanov E.H. was simultaneously formally affiliated with Sparkel City Invest LTD (lender), with the beneficiary Sparkel City Invest LTD and Smart Resolution LTD Avdolyan A.A., with the owner 30% of shares of JSC" BBR Bank "D.G. Gordovich and with the sole executive body of PJSC" Arkhangelsk Sales Company. "

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As you know from the materials of the court, in general, sales companies allegedly owed Sparkel 4.5 billion rubles in direct loans and indirect financing through loans from the Bank's BBB. That is, we can say that Avdolyan acted in conjunction with Gordovich.

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By the way, it was BBR Bank that was also involved in the scheme for the withdrawal of 100 million rubles to the Latvian bank JSC Citadele Banka. Irina Belyanova and Nadezhda Kudravets, also associated with Avdolyan, also appeared in it. This story was revealed in detail by The Moscow Post.

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Half a billion deal

But another deal is much more interesting, as a result of which 0.5 billion rubles have sunk into obscurity.

So, Gordovich, as a representative of Avdolyan and at his own request, in 2017 is a member of the board of directors of Chelyabenergosbyt from the MRSEN division.

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At the same time, he was nominated to the council from the Center for Private Law of the Electric Power Industry LLC, which owned a relative of Avdolyan - Osmanov and Shulgin. Since March 2019, Bazisenergo Trade LLC has also become a co-owner. The owners of Bazizenergo Trade were the same Osmanov, Shulgin and a certain Mikhail Yurchenko, who, according to another asset (Energopromfinance Consortium LLC), was a partner of the first wife of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin Marina Sechina.

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Seven days after joining the board of directors, Gordovich, together with a number of other persons, approves the deal to allocate 500 million rubles to Vologdaenergosbyt by Chelyabenergosbyt. At the same time, judging by the materials of the court, the money had already been transferred by the time the deal was allegedly approved, and the approval was only a technical element.

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Moreover, both companies were part of the MRSEN division, and the transaction itself, as the arbitration manager will later indicate, was, to put it mildly, unusual.

The most interesting thing is that in history, among other things, the shares of the same Mosuralbank, whose top manager became a defendant in the criminal case and whose beneficiary was Osmanov, acted as collateral for the debt.

At the same time, Chelyabenergosbyt in eight days assigns the right to claim this debt to a certain LLC RBC-Energia. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the company was controlled by Bagrat Katalyanets, another future defendant in the criminal case. Among the owners of smaller shares was the aforementioned Consortium Energopromfinance LLC, as well as Finenergoinvest JSC associated with Osmanov.

It is interesting that the grounds for bringing Gordovich to justice have not yet been found. Not guilty, they say. Although after the conclusion of the examination, the verdict is likely to be revised.

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And the "cherry" on this "cake" is that the fate of these 0.5 billion rubles is still unknown. They were never returned to PJSC Chelyabenergosbyt, and, according to the manager, there was actually a withdrawal of money from the debtor.

The case file states that "it is impossible to establish the final recipient of funds in such a situation." And the thing is that the money was very quickly scrolled inside the division, transferring it from pocket to pocket, and somewhere in the process it was "wiped."

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A number of details of this credit history were revealed by Avdolyan's claim for the protection of honor and dignity.

From the materials of the court it is known that AENP LLC applied for inclusion in the register of creditors' claims of PJSC Arkhenergosbyt, PJSC Vologdaenergosbyt, JSC Roskommunenergo, JSC FinEnergoInvest, JSC Khakasenergosbyt, PJSC Chelyabenergosbyt and LLC "NPP Invest." The courts refused the application, indicating that Sparkel City Invest LTD did not disclose the source through which it provided financing, did not prove the fact of providing money, and there was no need to involve BBR Bank (JSC). At the same time, in 2020, Avdolyan won the lawsuit, since the second party could not prove the oligarch's connection with the firms.

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From the same case, it is known that the money that was allegedly transferred to the MRSEN division is also a chain of loans from foreign firms, including Telconet Capital Limited Partnership, Vegardia Holdings Limited. It is interesting, but in the course of another case, the Telconet Capital Limited Partnership Foundation was directly connected with Avdolyan.

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Another alleged Sparkel creditor was a certain Gemcorp Fund I Limited. The latter is a rather remarkable legal entity in Bulgaria.

In 2022, the Bulgarian media reported that the Bulgarian Energy Minister signed a memorandum of cooperation with Gemcorp Capital Management and the American nuclear technology developer IP3 Corporation on energy projects and investments worth $1 billion. A few days after the signing, a scandal erupted around the memorandum.

They started talking that Gemcorp would build a battery factory in the country, including using state assets and EU funds. Rumors added fire to the scandal that Gemcorp may have money from Russian oligarchs, whom they did not name. The story with MRSEN seems to hint at the names of these oligarchs and where the money from Russian energy companies could go. After all, 0.5 billion rubles were never found.

It would seem that such a bouquet of "exploits," and instead of the attention of the competent authorities, the oligarch's division receives new measures of state support and expands its assets? In our opinion, Avdolyan's high patron, the head of the Rostec state corporation, Sergei Chemezov, is not the last word in unsinkability.

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Chemezov, together with his wife Ekaterina Ignatova, is even a member of the board of trustees of the New House Foundation, created by Avdolyan. Rostec all the way to the formation of the oligarch's business went hand in hand with him, and immigrants from Rostec, for example, Rodion Treasure, are still included in the division.

Although, perhaps, the first hole in this seemingly unsinkable "ship" appeared: foreign security officials became interested in the story of the withdrawal of 100 million rubles to the Latvian bank JSC Citadele Banka. And there, you see, the Russians will catch up.