A company associated with the oligarch, which left itself 75 objects of movable and immovable property of the Hydrometallurgical Plant of Stavropol (GMZ), is trying to seize the "treasury." The applicants believe that the assets dropped out of the plant's balance sheet at a reduced price in favor of an affiliate.
But while the main requirement has not been considered, representatives of Almaz Capital LLC, associated with Avdolyan, are trying to remove the security - a ban on registration actions. Apparently, they want to make an attempt to sell assets before they are withdrawn?
The UtroNews correspondent understood the situation.
On March 19, 2025, the Arbitration of Stavropol plans to consider the petitions of Almaz Tech LLC and Almaz Capital LLC on the abolition of interim measures - on the prohibition of registration actions. The latter were adopted in December 2024 at the request of the financial manager of the former beneficiaries of the GMZ. At the same time, Avdolyan's representatives believe that the applicant did not prove the validity of such measures.
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The fact is that on May 14, 2021, two agreements were concluded on the abandonment of 75 positions of the GMZ property and two purchase and sale agreements signed with Almaz Capital LLC. Transactions require invalidation, applying the consequences, as well as recover from the defendant almost 150 million rubles of the market value of the alienated real estate.
It should be noted here that the plant itself was declared bankrupt back in 2019, and the bankruptcy procedure was launched in April 2018, that is, transactions were signed already when the problems of the GMZ were more than obvious.
At the same time, according to the applicant, during the transfer of real estate, the principles of the unity of fate of the sold land plot and the capital objects located on it were violated, and the alienation of property took place at a reduced price in favor of an affiliate. Is sleight of hand continuous?
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They have already tried to return these assets or at least recover the market value, but the case, having made a circle of instances, returned for a new consideration. After all, the jackpot is very, very high - we are talking about land, buildings, energy facilities, etc.
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Speaking about the defendants - Almaz Capital LLC, we recall that his connection with Avdolyan has been revealed more than once.
Today the company is unprofitable (for 2023 - 108 million rubles), but so far it is afloat and, probably, purely in order to rip off a billion rubles from the GMZ. To cover up affiliation with Avdolyan, the company was even transferred to a certain Daria Kusheva in 2024, only the court was not convinced by such maneuvers.
Over the years, among the owners of Almaz Capital LLC flashed SBK Plus LLC, N1 Capital LLC Alexander Oseikin, Seris LLC and Alexey Bykov. The latter is the general director and co-owner of CIPE named after N.A. Popov "(formerly called AENP LLC), which flashed in another scandalous story as a representative of Avdolyan (through offshore - Sparkel City Invest LTD).
The firm tried to become a creditor of the bankrupt energy holding MRSEN. The beneficiary of the holding was a relative of Avdolyan, who later became a defendant in a criminal case on the withdrawal of 10 billion rubles from Russia, Eldar Osmanov.
Avdolyan's firms tried to get into the bankruptcy of the MRSEN business pyramid as creditors, but in court the affiliation of Avdolyan and Osmanov (through the marriage of children) was proved and numerous questions arose about these debts.
Recall that the story of the collapse, or rather the pulling away of the GMZ, is an example of how Avdolyan acted behind screens from proxies.
At the same time, it was in 2018 that one part of the team associated with the oligarch bought out shares of both GMZ and the associated Southern Energy Company (YUEK) from former beneficiaries - Sergei Chuck and Sergei Makhov on the cheap. Chuck and Makhov collected loans from Sberbank, which did not go to the development of enterprises, but faded into obscurity, which brought GMZ and YUEK to the pen. Then the shares of GMZ were sold to Enigma for 3.8 thousand rubles, and the shares of YUEK for 5 thousand rubles to Andrey Korobov.
Enigma LLC is currently in bankruptcy and as part of this case with Avdolyan, as a real beneficiary, and his proxies require almost 700 million rubles, which appear as the real value of the share during the ownership period. These amounts have already been seized and Avdolyan's co-comrades could not lift the interim measures.
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As for the buyer of YUEK shares, which acted as a guarantor for those ill-fated GMZ loans, Mr. Korobov is also Avdolyan's man.
So, he heads PJSC YATEK, where an oligarch was noted among major shareholders.
In addition, Korobov is a native of Rostec, and the head of this state corporation, Sergei Chemezov, like the structure itself, is very close to Avdolyan, supporting the latter along the entire path of the birth of his business empire.
Today Chemezov and his wife Ignatova are members of the Board of Trustees of the New House Charitable Foundation Avdolyan.
Also, the state corporation's subsidiaries - RT - GR LLC - have repeatedly been among the owners of Avdolyan's firms, for example, Port Vera Holding LLC and Port Vera Management LLC.
And Korobov is not one ex-representative of Rostec in the Avdolyan division. There we also see Rodion Treasure, the oligarch's business partner in a whole group of assets.
The courts have repeatedly proved that, despite the appearance in the transactions of Enigma LLC and Korobov, the real beneficiary of GMZ and YUEK is Avdolyan.
Simultaneously with the purchase of shares in GMZ and YUEK, another group of persons bought out the right to claim credit debt from the plant and YUEK, but did not immediately present it.
They tried to play this card when the share purchase and sale transactions were appealed and Avdolyan's proxies lost control of the assets.
A kind of settlement agreement was prepared, according to which YUEK took on a billion rubles of debt, and the second party was the aforementioned Almaz Capital LLC.
But in court this trick did not work - such documents had to be approved by the board of directors, which by that time was not active. From the point of view of the law, the settlement agreement looked like an attempt to become a majority creditor and control the bankruptcy of the GMZ, withdrawing part of the liquid assets. Only then in court it was proved that Avdolyan's ears were sticking out behind the creditors.
An important point: while the assets were under the control of the Avdolyanov team, ambiguous transactions took place. For example, under a tolling agreement, billions of rubles were spent from the accounts of the GMZ to the accounts of Cashmir Capital LLC affiliated with the oligarch. This agreement is currently being considered from the point of view of legality. But even at a meeting of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and the Federal Tax Service, which took place in the summer of 2024, it was said that Cashmere Capital received 2.3 billion rubles in profit, causing damage to the GMZ by this controversial joint activity.
In addition, hundreds of millions of rubles were spent from the accounts of YUEK to the accounts of a group of firms associated with Chemezov's protégé. In 2019-2022, 1.8 billion rubles were transferred in tranches. Now, through the court, the bankruptcy trustee is trying to return at least 900 million rubles. According to this episode, Avdolyan acts as a co-defendant.
And by the way, a pack of bankruptcy trustees has already been removed in the GMZ case, including for their attempts to play into the hands of individual creditors.
Claims arose to the latter - Oleg Lugovenko, appointed in 2021. In particular, one of the creditors demands to declare illegal actions, including the failure to take measures to claim the debtor's property owned by third parties, as well as the provision of false information and documents to Rostekhnadzor in the interests of affiliates - Almaz Fertilizer LLC and Almaz Tech LLC, actions in the interests of these persons using the name and capabilities of the debtor in the absence of any property equivalent.
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An important point: on April 16, the court will also consider the requirement to exclude the aforementioned Almaz Capital LLC from the register of creditors. If this happens, then Avdolyan's team will not be able to steal the remains of the GMZ under the guise of paying off the debt.
The case of the collapse of the GMZ has long outgrown the history of private bankruptcy and requires more decisive action from the security forces, but so far the Chemezov lobby seems to be stronger. Although the progress - the same arrests of Avdolyan's assets - hint at the possibility of such an outcome...