Under the guise of a reward for the management company, at the end of the chain of ownership of which he and his confidant stand, Alexander Isaev spent 4 billion rubles from the coal miner in 2022-2023. Is such management services too expensive for the company, or did it smell like a banal withdrawal of funds from somewhere?
The UtroNews correspondent understood the situation.
If you look at the report of ElgaUgol LLC for 2023, then there is a very entertaining line: remuneration for ElgaUgol Management Company LLC, which amounted to more than 2 billion rubles last year and the same in 2022. It seems at first glance that the "director" has a very excellent appetite. Especially if you look at that the profit of the coal miner for 2023 sank by 22%, to 38 billion rubles. Didn't it smell like a banal withdrawal of funds under the guise of payment for services? Let's try to figure it out.
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The ElgaUgol company is a former asset of the Mechel group, which Albert Avdolyan got with the help of the Rostec state corporation.
If you look at the list of owners, then Rostec's subsidiary, RT-Business Development LLC, was a co-owner of the asset in 2021-2022. And the state corporation and its permanent leader Sergey Chemezov, as you know, go hand in hand with Avdolyan all the way to the formation of the oligarch's business. It is not surprising that now among the owners of shares in the same "ElgaUgol" was a native of Rostec Rodion Treasure (5% share). The main beneficiaries are Alexander Isaev's Energogroup LLC, A-Property LLC and Avdolyan's AP Capital JSC (in any case, he was the last disclosed shareholder).
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Now let's return to 4 billion rubles of remuneration for managing a coal miner paid to Elgaugol Management Company LLC.
The management company is headed by the same Mr. Isaev, a former business partner of businessman Dmitry Bosov, who died under mysterious circumstances, who had previously fired him with a scandal. It turned out that Isaev was playing on the field of Avdolyan, Bosov's main competitor. Moreover, it was this duet that would later take part in the division of Bosov's inheritance, and Isaeva's widow would suspect the deceased of participating in a raider seizure. The defendant himself, of course, denied everything, but later surfaced among Avdolyan's partners, and now also as a "very expensive" director of the division.
And everything would be fine, but ElgaUgol Management Company belongs to Isaev himself (through his Energogrupp LLC) and Avdolyan - through A-Property LLC.
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At the same time, according to Rusprofayl, for the beginning of February, 2024 at UK were long on taxes of 53 million rubles. By the way, two other firms which are operated by UK, - LLC Elga-Trans and LLC Elga-Trans also debtors on taxes. Such to itself, leaves, managers.
But the most interesting as UK "ElgaUgol" scrolls money further. For the end of 2023 UK issued guarantees for performance of obligations of the same ElgaUgol for the sum of 185.7 billion rubles while all revenue of UK for 2023 - a little more than 9 billion rubles. At the same time UK have allegedly a debt on the loan (a principal debt - more than 2.705 million dollars) received in dollars in 2020 which was prolonged with payment term until the end of 2024.
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We to the similar scheme whether you know, have questions. As, leaves, actually owners of the coal miner pay themselves a multi-billion reward for management of the asset, and then this money scrolls according to various schemes. Behind a board unless Sokrovishchuk remains. If remains.
Why such expensive laying as UK "ElgaUgol" was required it is necessary only to assume and guess, but taking into account some facts in the scheme, in our opinion, it isn't bad to glance to tax specialists.
We will remind, in LLC A-Properti before in 2021 it transferred JSC AP Capital, the offshore from Cyprus - the Sanomil Co Limited company which flashed in a tax skhematoz with participation of offshore with the Cayman of Reeco Capital LP was the owner.
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Then another company associated with Avdolan - Port Dalniy LLC, which was supposed to build a coal terminal at Cape Veselom, Reeco allegedly borrowed $20 million. But the tax audit found that this was a kind of cover for investing in the project. As a result, all underpaid taxes were added to the company.
The Sanomil company in this story appeared as the owner of an account through which almost 300 million rubles were sent, which then went to A-Property LLC with the appointment of payment "loan issuance under a loan agreement from 12.10.2021 (interest) without tax (VAT)." And LLC listed them to LLC "Elgaugol." Interesting scheme, isn't it, especially taking into account the above relations of the coal miner with the Criminal Code?
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SUNOMIL CO LIMITED is not listed as liquidated today. Moreover, with another Cypriot asset associated with Avdolyan - POLOCOM HOLDINGS LIMITED (owned by A-Property Invest), the company has a common secretary - CYMANCO SERVICES LIMITED and a Cypriot director Ανδρεας Προκοπιου. Both of them are connected with Wooden Fish Agency Limited, which is also related to Avdolyan and appeared in the story of the withdrawal of 100 million rubles to the accounts of firms in the Latvian bank JSC Citadele Banka. Accounts were opened just with the participation of the management of the representative office of Wooden Fish Agency Limited (Belyanova I.V. - head of the representative office in Russia).
Belyanova today heads a number of Avdolyan's assets, including the co-owners of ElgaUgol - A-Property LLC and AP Holding JSC. She is also the director of the New House Foundation, established by Avdolyan, whose head of the board of trustees is Sergei Chemezov, the head of Rostec.
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New elements of Avdolyan's business
But the division does not stop at the existing assets, continuing to stamp more and more new legal entities.
So, in early April 2024, a certain Tunguska Coal JSC appeared in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, whose director is Alexander Isaev, but the shareholders and even the founders are hidden. A freshly baked company was registered in Moscow together with a number of companies from the Elga division (including the daughter of the coal miner, Undytkan LLC), therefore, perhaps, we are talking about another spare box.
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Much more interesting is Avdolyan's other new asset of the co-company, registered at the same address as the new joint-stock company.
At the end of April 2024, a certain construction LLC "TSK" was established. It is owned by ESMS LLC (Elga-Stroy Mining Service), which belongs to Avdolyan's AP Holding JSC, Isaev's Energogrupp and Rodion Treasure.
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TSK has a rather remarkable director - Dmitry Gorbenko, who previously headed the Kuzbass LLC Razrez Kiselevsky. The latter through a chain of legal entities belongs to Evgenia Konstantinovna Kuznetsova, the daughter of the vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region, the beneficiary of Yuzhuralzolot Konstantin Strukov.
Strukov is another long-standing hero of our publications, noted in a number of scandals, including those related to the safety of miners in his mines.
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In general, analyzing the oligarch's business, the editors of MorningNews have already discovered many schemes that could interest tax and other competent authorities. But with such a patron as Avdolyan, that of all stories comes out as dry from the water. Connections decide?