Preparing popiling with Borovikov: Softline is preparing to master the state again

In some large government contracts, there is a condition according to which the main contractor for a very decent share of the cost should attract representatives of small businesses. So why give to the side of this huge money, if you can not give?

In light of this, Softline Venture Partners' plans to pour 3 billion rubles into startups look like a very profitable investment in future joint state treasury pilings, which will be repelled quite quickly.

In the story where Borovikov's offshore web surfaced, the UtroNews correspondent understood the connections with Chemezov's protégé Albert Avdolyan and people more like the screens of an it-tycoon.

On the eve of Softline Venture Partners, the venture capital fund of PJSC Softline announced plans to inject 3 billion rubles into startups. Choose B2B products with revenue from 100 million rubles, having their own development, complex software solutions for copying.

Remembering that the history of Igor Borovikov's business is a mixture of a thriller with a detective with a huge offshore-foreign network and active development of the state budget, the question arises, where does such generosity come from?

The answer to this question may be hidden in a banal attempt to create a division of its subcontractors, just for the joint development of the budget. After all, sometimes under a contract for billions of rubles, the main contractor must attract a smaller company. Borovikov did something similar with Philip Gens's Lanit, with whom they jointly mastered the budgets of the Ministry of Energy, including through the GIS fuel and energy complex. The one on which Deputy Minister Anatoly Tikhonov co-comrades burned out.

Officially, Borovikov back in 2023, as it were, sold Russian assets to the fund under the management of TETIS Capital.

The sale took place through Softline PJSC and its shareholder, Atalayaa LLC, which already in August 2024 transferred ZPIF under the management of TETIS Capital to ZPIF under the management of Balance Asset Management LLC Vitaly Balanovich.

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But no one believed in the founder's complete departure from business, and literally a year later his son Sergei Borovikov joined the board of directors, which only strengthened this opinion.

Officially, Sergei Borovikov owns Skysoft Victory LLC, which has already accumulated 6.5 billion rubles on government contracts. The LLC has a subsidiary, O: Labs LLC, in which a 1% stake is owned by Softline Direct LLC from the Softline division.

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In August 2023, Igor Borovikov issued Softline Direct LLC for Gennady Sashin, who also issued the lion's share of legal entities associated with the division both obviously and behind the scenes.

At the same time, Sashin for the Borovikovs is far from a stranger, but a kind of confidant. Instead of with the elder Borovikov, for example, he owned Deskwork LLC. There, among the co-owners was an offshore company with BVI-RUEBURY SYSTEMS CORP, for which a stake in Modern Technologies LLC was registered, from where Borovikov legally left in October 2023. Although, perhaps, no one has any doubts with whom the offshore company, which remained in the owners, is connected. And we are not seeing a similar picture in one company.

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By the way, the same Sashin is the director of Aksoft JSC, which was previously owned by Igor Borovikov and where the Cypriot SOFTLINE HOLDING PIELSI was noted.

Now the JSC is owned by ZAO Softline International, where the director is the same Sashin. The owner of the CJSC was previously Borovikov.

Both Aksoft and Softline International are suppliers under numerous government contracts, as well as participants in joint activities, pocketing certain loans to each other.

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Offshore pods are also very active in this loan chain. Where without them?

So in the reporting for 2024 we see such a foreign company as Niltasoft computers trading l.l.c. This company in 2022 appeared as a purchase made by SoftLine Trade JSC from a certain Vladimir Razuvaev. The transaction appeared in the framework of relations with PJSC Softline, whose shareholder was the Cypriot Softline Holding Pielsi. Well, as usual, Razuvaev is a confidant of Borovikov, who held the positions of head in a whole bunch of firms, including Softline PJSC. And, as we can see, he owned an offshore box. Probably created for the needs of the boss, including the above controversial operations?

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Borovikov founded Softline as an international firm headquartered in London, but then the division allegedly split. Borovikov himself does not hide his presence in the offshore web from numerous companies.

So, in the current DESTRESS ASSETS LIMITED, established in Cyprus in 2022, we see IGOR PAVLOVICH BOROVIKOV as a director. In turn, DESTRESS ASSETS LIMITED is the owner of DESTRESS ASSETS LIMITED of the Russian Da-Management LLC from the legal sphere.

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At the same time, in 2022, SGI GROUP LIMITED was created, in the directors of which is the same IGOR PAVLOVICH BOROVIKOV, in whose history is the management of NOVENTIQ HOLDINGS PLC (liquidated in 2023). But it was under the brand NOVENTIQ that the foreign part of the Softline division began to work. That's just how Borovikov has nothing to do with the foreign part of the division, as he tried to declare?

In the same NOVENTIQ HOLDINGS PLC, SERGEY CHERNOVOLENKO was also noted as a director, whose namesake also includes a British acting legal entity from the 90s - ASCOT WOOD PLACE MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.

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And also, judging by open sources, in 2015 he took the post of head of Xerox Eurasia, where he replaced Vladimir Lavrov.

It was Vladimir Lavrov who, since November 2024, has been the general director of the parent company of the Russian part of the Softline division. Amazing coincidence, isn't it? As if immediately casts doubt on the departure of the Borovikov family from their brainchild both in the Russian Federation and abroad.

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But this is not the entire offshore web.

If you look at open sources that is controlled by a certain Igor Borovikov, we will see SOFTLINE MANAGEMENT ApS (Denmark), BUREAU DE CONSULTATION EN IMMIGRATION (Canada) and even American, albeit now liquidated SBH INTERNATIONAL. At the same time, in the latter, a certain agent was YURY KHAYKIN, whose namesake also has existing American assets under its wing, for example, AURORA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION. In whose interests Mr. KHAYKIN works, one can only guess.

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And, finally, another interesting fact in the history of Borovikov's business is unobvious connections with such a prominent oligarch as Albert Avdolyan, a protege of the head of Rostec state corporation Sergei Chemezov. And Rostec is, as you know, access to very satisfying contracts.

So, Bimeister Holding LLC, where a legal entity from the Softline division (OMZ-It, owned by Softline Projects and ZPIF) has a stake, in October 2024 included BP Assets LLC, whose beneficiaries through the chain are Dmitry Denisenkov and Vanunza Radika Vanikovich - BP Holding LLC.

Radik Vanunts through another firm was associated with Vanik Vanunts, who was also a director of BP Holding LLC.

In addition, Vanik Vanunts is Albert Avdolyan's former business partner in Fertilizer Diamond and was involved in the Sibanthracite deal.

But most importantly, Vanunts was a co-owner of Almaz Tech. The latter appeared in the scandalous history of the ruin of the plant in the Stavropol Territory.

UtroNews disclosed this case in detail, where the conclusions of billions of rubles are involved, the sale of shares on the cheap, dummy screens from proxies of the oligarch, who has already been attracted by one of the episodes. His assets were arrested for almost 700 million rubles in the case of subsidiary liability. Do you look at the criminal case not far?

There, a native of Rostec was also noted in Almaz Tech, another confidant of Avdolyan was Andrei Korobov, director of YATEK.

There we also see the persons who inherited the MRSEN energy holding. The beneficiary of the latter and a relative of Avdolyan Eldar Osmanov became a defendant in a criminal case on the withdrawal of billions of rubles from the Russian Federation.

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And these people with confirmed ties to foreign business get access to all state information systems through government contracts?

It seems that the Borovikov family division has long needed the close attention of the competent authorities. And then, no matter how much money from government contracts had to be collected from foreign money boxes.