Sobyaninsky turns: "Austrian" deal came out sideways... and Baysarov?

The sold asset is the developer of the residential complex "City Stories," for which there is already a failure to meet deadlines. Money equity holders should be sought in Europe, and interested officials from the capital helped in this?

The UtroNews correspondent understood how the former state asset ended up in the hands of a legal entity from a country not friendly to Russia and how the Bulgarian industrialist Ivaylo Naydenov was connected with it.

On January 21, 2025, Moscow arbitration will begin consideration of the claim of the government JSC Mosinzheproekt against SMS LLC to recover 100 million rubles under the sale and purchase agreement of 2017. Then the state asset was merged into a private company - shares of JSC "SZ TPU Rasskazovka" and, apparently, the money for it did not go to the budget.

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JSC "SZ TPU Rasskazovka" is the developer of at least one large housing project in Moscow (Vnukovskoye settlement) - the residential complex "City Stories" and a multifunctional shopping center there. At the same time, one competition is still being built and the commissioning dates have already been disrupted, so much so that equity holders are forced to go to court.

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Moreover, in 2023, JSC creditors have already published their intention to file a bankruptcy claim against the developer. At the same time, judging by the reporting, at the end of 2023, the company's accounts payable as a whole amounted to more than 14.8 billion rubles, which makes the likelihood of bankruptcy quite real.

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Where did the money of equity holders go, because at least three objects have already been commissioned? And here it is worth remembering that the ultimate beneficiary of the developer is rooted in Austria and Bulgaria. Perhaps the money of the Russians who bought apartments from the once state developer sold by the Sobyanin team sailed there?

So, the buyer of shares of JSC "SZ TPU Rasskazovka" was then LLC "SMS," which belongs to the company "Isi," which in 2023 showed a loss of 30 million rubles. The owner of Isi LLC is the Austrian company Shield Holdings SH GmbH.

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The ultimate beneficiary of the Austrian company is not disclosed, but, meanwhile, on the website of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation, a certain Naydenov Ivaylo, who does not have Russian citizenship, is indicated as the beneficiary of SMS. This is the namesake of the Bulgarian industrialist, who in 2022 appeared as the executive director of the Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers (BFIEC).

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An interesting fact: in the entire chain of legal entities, leaders were replaced literally in November 2024. Through some managers and affiliates, SMS LLC is associated with a whole pack of offshore companies, including NEWTON INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS LIMITED and SKYLINE CORPORATE HOLDINGS LIMITED registered in Belize, which own the oil producer Interoil LLC.

Note that SZ TPU Rasskazovka JSC turned out to be far from the only legal entity purchased by Isi LLC and Interstroymontazh LLC associated with it from Mosinzheproekt. At the same time, in 2017, IBT LLC (road construction) was also purchased.

Since 2019, IBT beneficiaries have been hidden behind Cypriot offshore companies - Vilen Limited and Volahan Investments Limited. The latter also owns Kapstroymontazh LLC, whose director until the end of September 2024 was a certain Nikolai Zhuravlev. He is a former director of Isi LLC and Kastroyinvest LLC.

LLC "Kastroyinvest" was a contractor of JSC "SZ TPU Rasskazovka" during the construction of a shopping center in Vnukovsky and can still maintain ties with the Austrian beneficiary company.

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The director of IBT LLC is Sergey Vorobyov, the former head of BTS Krasnoyarsk LLC, which is part of the BTS-Most division of Ruslan Baysarov, ex-son-in-law of Alla Pugacheva, husband of Kristina Orbakaite, whom the media call a friend of Ramzan Kadyrov.

So maybe Baysarov's interests are behind the Austrian company? A kind of reserve landfill in case of packing a suitcase.

In addition to Baysarov, BM-Bank also inherited in this story that it was a co-owner of IBT in the same period as Interstroymontazh LLC (owned by Austrian SHIELD HOLDINGS GMBH). According to Forbes, since 2016, BM-Bank has completely transferred to VTB Bank.

We also managed to find out a very interesting fact that hints at a possible cut of budget funds with the participation of officials.

Two of the three buildings of the residential complex "City Stories" were erected by a contractor - LLC "Kapitel," the controlling owner of which is Igor Minkin.

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Minkin and his company are also working on the project of the Cosmopolit residential complex, a building that is part of TPU Shelepikha, and their partner is SZ UEZ JSC (formerly GUP). The latter is headed by Pavel Evgenievich Dudulin, who is also the head of Mosinzheproekt JSC. So maybe the Sobyanin official was also interested in the "Austrian" construction site? How else to explain the fact that the lawsuit was filed 7 years after the transaction, when all the statute of limitations had passed?

It seems that in this situation, the affected party will remain not Sobyanin's team, but home buyers in the last building. After all, from whom should equity holders demand the fulfillment of obligations if the ultimate beneficiary is a foreign citizen sitting in Europe?