Oligarch Klyachin and his "secret" money box: hotel - Deripaska, money - to Cyprus?

Billionaire Alexander Klyachin, whose Unity Holding JSC was nationalized a year earlier, began to sell assets that were withdrawn from the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General's Office. Taking into account the hotelier's track record, will the money from controversial transactions end up in Cyprus?

At the end of June 2024, Klyachin's company sold one of its assets, Azimut Vladivostok LLC, to a company associated with oligarch Oleg Deripaska. But a year before that, the company, which included the hotels of the Azimut Hotels chain, was kind of nationalized, and then, having made a circle, mysteriously returned to its previous owner.

The Moscow Post correspondent understood the story.

On June 21, 2024, an entry appeared in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities about the new owner of Azimut Vladivostok LLC, which managed the four-star hotel of the same name in Vladivostok (the cost of a room is from 5 thousand rubles per day) and is still registered at his address. The new owner of the company with an authorized capital of 191.21 million rubles was Park Hotel Burduguz LLC. Judging by the fact that the share is pledged by Promsvyazbank, the state bank could finance this transaction.

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Park Hotel Burduguz is owned by En + Tourist Infrastructure LLC, and that is owned by IE-Active LLC, which is owned by Irkutskenergo JSC. All these firms are associated with another prominent oligarch with an ambiguous reputation Oleg Deripaska.

In general, the situation is quite entertaining: after all, Azimut Vladivostok LLC belonged to Unity Holding JSC back in 2022. The same JSC, which, according to Interfax, was seized as state revenue by a court decision on the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office against Rus-Oil and businessmen Alexei Khotin and Alexander Klyachin. In history, it was about tax evasion by the Rus-Oil company, the main beneficiary of which was Alexei Khotin.

As a result, the court decided that Khotin received illegal income without paying the mineral extraction tax, over 192 billion rubles and the Rus-Oil company were recovered from him. Moreover, Khotin has been under house arrest since 2019 and appears in the case of embezzlement of 7.5 billion rubles from Ugra Bank and embezzlement of bank funds - 23.6 billion rubles through deliberately bad loans issued to structures controlled by him.

Klyachin in this story went, as they say, "trailer," but when it smelled fried, he tried to distance himself from such a toxic connection. The Moscow Post told more about this story.

Mr. Klyachin himself has also repeatedly become the hero of media investigations, a very controversial businessman. In particular, in 2016, he appeared in a tender for the creation of the first gambling establishment in the Republic of Cyprus. Isn't he preparing an alternate airfield there?

In addition, the oligarch flashed in the scandal with IKEA land allotments, in which he tried through the court to prove that the hypermarket was illegally located on them. IKEA representatives replied that what was happening was like an attempt to seize land. The initiator of the conflict was KSHP "Khimki," which before that was the state farm "Path to Communism," and then became "Khimki-Molzhaninovo." As reported by Novye Izvestia, KSHP Khimki acted in the interests of Klyachin, and the land in 2008 was held in a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Committee against the Deputy Minister of Property Relations of the Moscow Region Government Irina Shestak and "unidentified founders and leaders of one of the major landowners of Mosoblast CJSC Nerl (previously its owner was called Klyachin) and CJSC BB horror."

At stake were 862 hectares of land of the former state farm on the banks of the Istra reservoir, which, according to the investigation, were sold 4.3 billion rubles cheaper than its market value. A little later, the security forces removed the claims against both the official and some unidentified businessmen.

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Klyachin's assets: returned, making a circle

In January 2024, the Federal Property Management Agency established a new subsidiary, JSC Management Company, which, according to the Kommersant newspaper, transferred the functions of managing the former assets of businessmen. Among them were Unity Holding JSC, which in turn owns hotel assets - Azimut Group MKOOO, Azimut Development LLC, Capital Hotels Rus LLC.

A month passes and in February 2024, part of the assets managed by Unity Holding miraculously "returns" to the same Klyachin. Among them were MKOOO "Azimut Group," LLC "Azimut Development" and LLC "Capital Hotels Rus" with an authorized capital of almost 4 billion rubles and a bunch of "daughters." Amazing, isn't it?

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LLC "Capital Hotels Rus" today owns a whole pack of legal entities, including operators of a whole group of hotels throughout the country. In which case, Klyachin has something else to breed.

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How miraculously, according to the papers, the seized assets returned to the oligarch is not known, but the fact remains. He has already begun to sell some of these assets. In particular, we are talking about Azimut Vladivostok LLC. At the same time, it was Capital Hotels Rus LLC from 22.07.2022 to 21.06.2024 that was the owner of the operator of an expensive hotel.

But noted in the biography "Azimut Vladivostok" and offshore - a certain Cypriot private joint-stock company with limited liability "E.EM. JI. VOLDWEID COMFORTABLE HOTELS LIMITED. " At the same time, the company is still operating and among the directors there was a lady with a completely Russian surname - ELENA SIDOROVA. With a high degree of probability, the company is directly related to the billionaire hotelier.

In 2008, this offshore company was mentioned as a buyer from Salyut Estate LLC 95.54% of the ordinary shares of Sovetskaya Hotel OJSC (St. Petersburg).

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The above offshore is far from the only one that glowed next to Klyachin's surname. So earlier, as The Moscow Post wrote, "KR Holding Limited," "Istiv Assets Limited," "KR Assets Limited" and VILATORRI TRADING LIMITED were also noted there.

As a result, did the money from the deal with Deripaska go to their Cypriot accounts?