The total wealth of people included in the so-called “personal circle” of Russian President Vladimir Putin is $24 billion. This is stated in a new investigation published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Vladimir Putin likes to boast about his own modesty - “you can’t put billions in a coffin,” he once said, commenting on rumors about his fabulous fortune. According to the authors of the investigation from OCCRP, this is disingenuous: the Russian president simply prefers to record his assets on “nominees” - people who sometimes themselves do not know what wealth the companies registered in their name have. Two of these “nominalists”, who are often called “Putin’s wallets”, are a cellist Sergey Roldugin
and childhood friend of Putin Petr Kolbin– are well known to the authors of numerous investigations into the assets of the Russian president and his inner circle. In the new investigation, a separate role is assigned to another such person - Mikhail Shelomov, son of Putin's cousin -Shelomova Lyubov Shelomova. The authors of the OCCRP report also included in the Russian leader’s “personal circle” his other relatives and major businessmen, who were repeatedly called “Putin’s friends” in the media. The list, in particular, included Nikolai and Yuri Shamalov,
Shamalov Kirill Nikolaevich - son-in-law of Vladimir Putin,younger son
Nikolai Shamalov, the youngest billionaire in the ranking
, Igor, Roman and Mikhail Putin, as well as Boris and Arkady Rotenberg. The investigation emphasizes that the most successful businesses of entrepreneurs from their “personal circle” are associated with large state-owned enterprises, including oil and gas companies.
One of its authors, a Novaya Gazeta journalist and regional director of OCCRP, talks about the work on the investigation in an interview with Radio Liberty Roman Shleinov. – How long did it take to work on this investigation? Does it contain any new facts about the assets of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle or is it some kind of summing up and putting together previously found information?– This is what we have found since the beginning of the year, but there are also some new points. The first is that Mr. Shelomov, a distant relative of Putin, has significantly increased his assets. Novaya Gazeta has been engaged in this investigation since the beginning of the year, and a publication has already been published there. Now we have translated it so that our foreign readers understand what we are talking about, and we have made a detailed diagram of this Putin circle.
“Putin’s Wallets” – illustration from the OCCRP investigation (click on the photo to view the interactive diagram)
In addition, additional information appeared there about some people from Putin’s circle. What new has become known about a distant relative of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Mikhail Shelomov, and why did we actually pay attention to him? Since the beginning of the year, a large race track has been under construction near St. Petersburg, which can be improved to the level of Formula 1. It was designed by a famous German architect. This route is not cheap; it is expected to cost about 11 billion rubles. We found out that, apparently, this route is being developed by the Russian company Igora Drive. They began to look at who it belonged to, and it turned out that half of this project belonged to the company of Mikhail Shelomov, a relative of Putin. The co-owners there are famous people. One of the largest contractors is Russian Railways, whose construction company is now turning up this field, preparing it for the race track. It is headed by Vladimir Vasiliev, who receives contracts worth billions of dollars from Russian Railways. In the past, he was a hunting partner of Mr. Yakunin, a friend of Putin and the former head of Russian Railways. Another co-owner of the project is a company associated with Mr. Kovalchuk, this is also a close person from Putin’s entourage, a co-owner of Rossiya Bank.
Another half of this project belongs to Mr. Shelomov. Mr. Shelomov, and we have known about this for a very long time, was until recently only the chief specialist in the St. Petersburg office of Sovcomflot, a subsidiary of the state company Sovcomflot, Sovcomflot-Arctic. I reached him on his office phone; he doesn't have a secretary. He is a polite person, answers questions well, and is somewhat shy to talk to journalists, since he is not a public figure. And, in fact, from the conversation I realized that he does not know everything about the projects in which his company is involved. Which is surprising, because if a person owns a company, is engaged in business, he should probably know what his company invests in, what it owns, what it does? And from the conversation I realized that, apparently, Mr. Shelomov is not entirely aware of what is happening. To begin with, he generally asked me: “Why are you calling me?” And I had to explain to him: “Your company apparently owns half of such a project...” He said: “Yes, yes, yes! But I know no more about this than you. I heard about it, but nothing more.” If he could explain something, I would understand that he is doing it, but he cannot explain it. Apparently, these are not exactly the projects that actually belong to him. However, we saw that there were quite a lot of assets on him, on this person and on his companies. We counted assets there worth more than half a billion dollars: this is a share in the insurer Gazprom, the Sogaz company, a share in Rossiya, the Bank of Putin’s Friends, a share in the Sogaz-Real Estate company, there is also a company that he received from the Rotenbergs, she has large contracts with Gazprom. This company went to Shelomov with assets of more than $300 million. We, of course, have a question: what is it? Why is a person given such wonderful opportunities, how does it all end up in his hands? He cannot answer these questions; he prefers not to comment on all this. To our inquiries, Rossiya Bank, the Rotenberg bank, also does not want to answer anything about this. We asked Sogaz, they didn’t answer us anything either. However, the situation needs some clarification, because if a person works as a chief specialist, he is not an oligarch, he leads a modest lifestyle, who owns all these amounts, who actually owns all these assets? https://www.svoboda.org/a/28815713.html
Since February 2007, according to SPARK, 3.93% of Rossiya belongs to Accept LLC (in April 2004, Accept had 4.53%). "Acceptance", according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, was registered in St. Petersburg in June 2002, the main activity is investment in securities.
Since February 2007, according to SPARK, 3.93% of Rossiya belongs to Accept LLC (in April 2004, Accept had 4.53%). "Acceptance", according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, was registered in St. Petersburg in June 2002, the main activity is investment in securities.
Accept LLC is not affiliated with the bank, and it is not entirely correct to comment on its beneficiaries, said Dmitry Lebedev, Chairman of the Board of Rossiya.
“Acceptance” is 99.99% owned by Mikhail Shelomov (0.01% by Dmitry Mansurov), says the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. The website of the President of Russia published the book “In the First Person. Conversations with Vladimir Putin” (2000), which reports that Putin’s mother’s maiden name is Shelomova. The newspaper Trud, in the article “Presidential Villages” (September 15, 2005), talks about the Shelomovs - Putin’s relatives originating from the Tver region, including Putin’s cousin Lyubov Ivanovna Shelomova and her son Mikhail. Mikhail Shelomov is indeed a distant relative of Vladimir Putin, the son of his cousin, confirmed the Prime Minister’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
According to the reporting of the Sogaz insurance company, Accept appeared among its shareholders at the end of 2004 with a share of 13.5% (Q1 2008 - 12.47%). In 2005, control over Sogaz passed from Gazprom to the structures of Rossiya Bank. In August 2006, Sogaz bought 75% plus 1 share of Leader CJSC, which manages the funds of the Gazprom pension fund - Gazfond. Gazfond owns 50% plus 1 share of Gazprombank and 25% plus 1 share of Sibur Holding.
In May 2008, Sogaz bought a 50.2% stake in the Izvestia newspaper from Gazprom Media. In 2007, the volume of premiums collected by Sogaz amounted to 36.6 billion rubles. (second place among Russian insurers), payments - 16.5 billion rubles. Sogaz does not have information about the owners of Accept LLC, according to the insurance company’s report. Sogaz is not interested in the beneficiaries of Acceptance, explained Sogaz representative Alexey Smertin. At the Acceptance office, the secretary refused to connect Vedomosti with Mikhail Shelomov, but said that this was the first time she had heard about his family ties with Putin.
Vladimir Putin did not and does not have anything to do with the business of Rossiya Bank and the assets acquired by Shelomov, Peskov assured.
Familiar faces
Yuri Kovalchuk was a member of the St. Petersburg interdepartmental commission on enterprises with foreign investment, headed by Vladimir Putin, in 1995. Nikolai Shamalov and Yuri Kovalchuk in November 1996, like Putin, became the founders of the Ozero cooperative. One of the co-owners of Transoil CIS is Gennady Timchenko, his representative confirmed. The board of directors of Rossiya Bank includes Putin’s longtime acquaintance, Nord Stream Managing Director Matthias Warnig.
Commercial Bank "Russia"
Registered in 1990. Owns 51% of Sogaz (and through it 38.25% of CJSC Leader), 54.96% of the National Media Group (Ren TV, TRC Petersburg, National Telecommunications and etc.). Assets (Interfax-CEA, as of April 1, 2008) - 69.98 billion rubles. (36th place among Russian banks). Own capital - 5.7 billion rubles. (59th place). Shareholders: Yuri Kovalchuk - 30.4% of voting shares, Dmitry Gorelov and Nikolay Shamalov - 12.6% each, Transoil CIS LLC - 9.6%, Severstal Group - 7.2%, Surgutneftegaz - 6.6%, subsidiary of Abros Bank - 5.99%.
How Putin's relative Mikhail Shelomov ended up with assets worth 20 billion rubles. Among the people close to the Russian president there are those who are not involved in politics or big business. They do not hold prominent government positions, are not members of the management of state corporations, do not receive lucrative contracts, and lead a modest lifestyle.
But formally they are listed as owners of companies through which billions pass, but they do not give the impression of billionaires. Apparently, real entrepreneurs can use them to further secure their own wealth. And make sure that any attempt on their personal business is perceived as an attack on the relatives of the president himself. About this in the material of Roman Shleinov.
The German Hermann Tilke is called the “court architect of Formula 1”, and the race tracks he developed are called “tilkedromes”. Squat fireballs fly along them at speeds of up to 300 km per hour, demonstrating what space materials and technologies are capable of. He created these “tilkedromes” in three dozen countries - from the USA to China. And at the end of 2016, he designed another track in Russia - not far from St. Petersburg in the area of the Igora ski resort and can now become a real “court architect”.
Hermann Tilke
As Novaya Gazeta found out, the banker’s firms want to invest in tilkedrom Yuri Kovalchuk, businessman Vladimir Vasiliev and a distant relative of Russian President Mikhail Shelomov. Shelomov is the son of the cousin of the country’s president, which was previously confirmed to the Vedomosti newspaper by the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov. Construction was planned to begin this year and be completed in 2018. The chosen location is also noteworthy - the Igora resort is known for the fact that funds for its development at 1% per annum were provided by an offshore company indirectly associated with the cellist Sergei Roldugin.
“It’s a very interesting track, very smooth,” Tilke told Motosport last November, noting that it could later be upgraded to Formula 1 level if desired by building a permanent main grandstand and expanding the infrastructure. According to him, construction of the highway near Igora should have started after the snow melted.
Autodrome is not a cheap hobby. Its approximate cost is 11 billion rubles (according to Business FM estimates). It is known where Kovalchuk and Vasiliev got their money. Kovalchuk is the main owner of the St. Petersburg "Bank Russia" and enters Forbes list with a fortune of $1 billion. Vasiliev is a major contractor for Russian Railways and the former hunting partner of their retired leader Vladimir Yakunin. Over the past four years, R-Industry Corporation, owned by Vasiliev, has signed contracts worth 17 billion rubles with the railway (according to SPARK).
But Vasiliev and Kovalchuk’s structure each have a quarter of the St. Petersburg company Igora Drive, registered in November last year to operate the race track. And half is from Shelomov’s company “Accept”. Shelomov has been working since the 2000s and still works in a modest position as the chief specialist of one of the state-owned companies in St. Petersburg. Nevertheless, he has assets worth 20 billion rubles.
"Only on paper"
“Why are you calling me, turning to me?” - Mikhail Shelomov is perplexed about Novaya Gazeta’s questions about the race track and Igor Drive. Having heard that his company “Accept” owns half of “Igora Drive” and that we are interested in whether the autodrome project is connected with it, Shelomov hastily adds: “I know, yes.” “I heard, of course. I heard, but no more,” he says.
Shelomov explains that he is not aware of all the subtleties and knows only what we know. “There’s still an empty field<…>. Everything is still only on paper,” he assures.
Mikhail Shelomov is 48 years old. Since the 2000s, he has worked as a chief specialist in the St. Petersburg office of the state-owned Sovcomflot, which deals with the maritime transportation of oil and petroleum products. He is modest, polite, answers the phone himself and does not in any way resemble a billionaire.
The company does not disclose the income of ordinary employees. According to the portal Trud.ru, in St. Petersburg and the region, people in such positions receive an average of 40.5-42 thousand rubles per month. You can't build a race track with this.
But, as you know, Shelomov has other sources. For example, the companies “Accept” and “Platinum”, which own a small stake (in the amount of 8.4%) of the St. Petersburg “Bank Russia” Yuri Kovalchuk, according to the bank’s report. Among its shareholders are entrepreneurs Nikolay Shamalov, Gennady Timchenko and musician Roldugin.
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Experts find it difficult to estimate the value of this bank's shares. Very approximately, if the stake (3.22%) owned by the musician Roldugin was valued by RBC at 550 million rubles, it can be calculated that Shelomov’s stake is worth about 1.43 billion rubles.
Since 2004, Accept has also owned 12.47% of SOGAZ, Gazprom’s insurer. At that time, the gas concern sold 49.98% of its shares for 1.69 billion rubles, then another 25.99% for 879.3 million rubles, and SOGAZ found itself under the control of structures associated with Bank Russia.
Considering the price for which Gazprom sold, the stake that Shelomov then received could initially cost 421.61 million rubles. Several years have passed. In 2013, Gazprombank valued SOGAZ at 49.5 billion rubles (according to Business FM). This means that Shelomov’s package could increase in price to 6.17 billion rubles.
In addition, since 2009, Accept has fully controlled the former subsidiary of the Gazprom insurer SOGAZ-real estate. Its assets in 2011 amounted to 1.07 billion rubles. SOGAZ did not answer the questions.
“These are not our companies”
As Novaya Gazeta found out, structures associated with the SMP bank of the brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg could increase the assets belonging to Shelomov’s company. In November 2009, Shelomov’s Acceptance became the sole owner of the Platinum company with assets worth 11 billion rubles. What connected this company with the Rotenbergs and where did it get its billions?
Before leaving Shelomov, she was part of the circle of companies associated with SMP Bank for many years. These companies formed a kind of ring - they owned each other (for more details, see the diagram), had a common founder who belonged to the bank, a common telephone number, a general director, and were located on Sadovnicheskaya, 71, in a building next to the central Moscow office of the Rotenberg bank.
The general director of Platinum and the companies of the circle was Nikolai Tsed, the scientific adviser of Arkady Rotenberg at the time when he defended his Ph.D. at the St. Petersburg Academy of Physical Education. Rotenberg’s topic was: “Adaptation of combat sports in the physical training system of pre-university educational institutions.” He successfully defended himself in 2002. The career of Tsed, who worked as a coach of the St. Petersburg hand-to-hand combat team, was very successful. He moved to Moscow, where he first headed the enterprise of the presidential administration, and then became deputy director of Rosspirtprom. Now Tsed is the head of the administration of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg. He did not comment on the situation.
The scope of activity of the circle firms was very diverse. One of them in October 2009 received 2 thousand square meters of Moscow stores from the bankrupt Samokhval group, which was financed by the Rotenberg bank. Another subsequently owned the Putinka vodka brand, which was valued at $540 million, as RBC reported.
And Platinum in 2008 was among the largest creditors of Rossiya Bank: according to the report, the bank owed the company 4.08 billion rubles. By 2009, the debt was repaid. At the same time, Platinum received a small stake (2.27%) in Bank Russia.
Shelomov did not speak on the topic of “Platinum”. A representative of Bank Russia did not explain how the company became its major creditor and then a shareholder. SMP Bank strongly denies any connection with these firms.
Attempts to talk to the current general director of Platinum and Acceptance, Tatyana Salova, by her direct phone number were unsuccessful.
"Why do you need to know this?"
In a conversation with Novaya Gazeta, Shelomov was perplexed why we were interested in him. Having heard that people who own assets worth 20 billion rubles do not often work as humble chief specialists of branches, he only said that “the reasons may be different,” without disclosing details.
When asked whether all this is really his property, Shelomov answers with the question: “Are you very interested in knowing this?”
Having heard that there are people who do not know about their companies, because they are simply covering for their owners, he sighs: “Well, those are your thoughts.”
When Novaya Gazeta got through to Shelomov in 2009, who was then working as a chief specialist in the St. Petersburg office of Sovcomflot, he replied that “Acceptance,” “one might say,” was his personal project. And that top officials have nothing to do with his business, as well as its promotion.
Race track architect Hermann Tilke declined to comment.
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Sergei Roldugin. While working on Panama Papers, obtained thanks to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Novaya Gazeta journalists asked musician and friend of the Russian President Sergei Roldugin a direct question about the offshore companies through which $2 billion passed. According to the documents, Roldugin was listed as the owner of some of them, some were owned by people close to him. The musician could not remember the names of the companies. And I didn’t understand why they were contacting him about them.
Petr Kolbin. An old acquaintance of entrepreneur Gennady Timchenko, Petr Kolbin, was listed as a minority co-owner (about 10%) of the large oil trader Gunvor, through which approximately a third of Russian oil passed. And in 2010 it turned out that Kolbin owner of 25.1% shares of Yamal LNG, which has a license for the South Tambey gas field (these shares were sold by Gazprombank in 2009 for 2.6 billion rubles). In 2011, Kolbin sold this stake to Novatek for $526 million and is now on the Russian Forbes list with a fortune of $550 million. When Vedomosti asked Kolbin about his big business in 2012, he replied: “I’m not that big.” . And not a businessman. You were a little misled." Friends said that Kolbin always led a rather modest lifestyle, and in the past he worked as a butcher. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov denied information from the Dozhd TV channel (September 2016) that Kolbin was allegedly a childhood friend of the Russian president, saying that he had not met Kolbin’s name among the head of state’s acquaintances.
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The companies “Platinum”, “Real-invest” and “Stik” were created on the same day in 2004, each of them owned each of them. Their common founder was JSC YUSB, which was a quarter owned by SMP Bank and was located at its Moscow office. Another co-owner and general director of YUSB is Alexey Tikhomirov, a car racing enthusiast and partner of Boris Rotenberg. Together they founded the non-profit partnership “SMP Motorsport and Racing”.
Shares in Platinum, Real-invest and Stick belonged to the Cypriot Ermira Consultants, which was controlled first by the chairman of the board and co-owner of SMP Bank Dmitry Kalantyrsky, and then by cellist Roldugin’s partner Vladislav Kopylov (together with Roldugin they created the non-profit partnership “Support” children's sports").
The circle's firms had extensive and varied assets. In October 2009, Stik acquired ownership of four premises of the Samokhval retail chain in Moscow with a total area of 2.3 thousand square meters, namely at Zagoryevsky Proezd, 3, building 5 (there is now a Pyaterochka supermarket there), on Bulatnikovskaya, 9 (there is now a grocery supermarket "Magnit"), and part of the building at Akademika Volgin, 25, building 1 (there is now a store "Perekrestok"). This is stated in the decisions of arbitration courts; Stik was suing over the removal of restrictions on this property. The Samokhval group went bankrupt in the summer of 2009. SMP Bank was one of the group's creditors.
Real-invest subsequently owned the Putinka vodka brand, which was valued at $540 million. And the Cypriot Ermira owned shares in the operating company of the REN TV channel, which also holds the license for the channel’s website, and a share in the Petersburg Television and Radio Company, which owns Channel Five and Radio Petersburg (as reported by RBC).
SMP Bank denies any connection with the companies Stik, Real-invest, Platinum and Ermira. “We have nothing to tell about the activities of these organizations,” said the bank’s press service. How “Platinum” with assets of 11 billion rubles in 2009 fell out of the circle of companies “Stik”, “Real-invest” and Ermira and went to Shelomov, SMP Bank does not answer.
“Among the people close to the Russian president there are those who are not involved in politics or big business.” This phrase begins with a statement published today by Novaya Gazeta. Not everything is so simple - although these people themselves “do not lead a luxurious lifestyle,” formally they can be considered the owners of large companies.
One of these people is Mikhail Shelomov, the son of Vladimir Putin’s cousin (this fact, in contrast to the personalities of the president’s daughters, was confirmed by Dmitry Peskov). Novaya Gazeta examines his business connections with Putin's friends and major entrepreneurs - Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg family.
Novaya Gazeta claims that Shelomov has worked since the 2000s “in the modest position of chief specialist of one of the state-owned companies (we are talking about Sovcomflot.” The press service of the company reported to Radio Liberty that Shelomov is currently not an employee of Sovcomflot "- RS) in St. Petersburg. Nevertheless, he has assets worth 20 billion rubles." In particular, a company registered to a relative of Putin owns 50 percent of the Igora Drive company, which is involved in the construction of a race track in the Leningrad region. The remaining shares in the company belong to Kovalchuk and major businessman Vladimir Vasiliev.
It is alleged that Shelomov’s official salary at Sovcomflot was about 40 thousand rubles. It is all the more surprising that he also owns other companies or shares in them, including a large stake in Rossiya Bank (one of its co-owners is the famous cellist Roldugin, and the chairman of the board of directors is the aforementioned Yuri Kovalchuk). “As Novaya Gazeta found out, structures associated with the SMP bank of the brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg could increase the assets belonging to Shelomov’s company.” Thus, it turns out that Shelomov is connected with both the Kovalchuks and the Rotenbergs - both influential families included in the circle of those close to the Russian president.
Novaya Gazeta managed to talk to Shelomov himself, but he was sincerely surprised by the interest in his person: as Shleinov writes, “he was perplexed why we were interested in him.” “When asked whether all this is really his property, Shelomov answers with the question: “Are you very interested in knowing this?”
A completely different type of investigation is published Investigation Command Center(Open Russia project by Mikhail Khodorkovsky). It is about an alleged conflict between the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Federation and the FSB, which resulted, in particular, in the sensational “Humpty Dumpty” case. It begins with the leaking of GRU agents in 2014, allegedly organized by the FSB. The TsUR also confirms the information about the use of “Humpty Dumpty” in the game against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (to whom the GRU reports) and the fact that it was on Shoigu’s orders that an active search for members of the hacker group began).
“Military intelligence established that the author of the letter to Defense Minister Shoigu and the FSB DVKR was one of the founders of Shaltai-Boltai, Vladimir Anikeev (Lewis).<...>The grushniks were surprised when they discovered that Anikeev-Lewis had been recruited by the FSB, and his immediate supervisor was the head of one of the divisions of the FSB CIB, Colonel Sergei Mikhailov, who was fighting against sites that had distributed the list of GRU stations. In addition, military intelligence established that Mikhailov had secret contacts with American intelligence services."
And so on. The ending of the story is known - Anikeev and Mikhailov were detained, some of the alleged participants in "Humpty" disappeared. The TsUR announces a long interview with a certain hacker nicknamed Aurora, who talks about the cooperation of “Humpty” with the FSB, and also quotes an anonymous GRU employee who claims that “the FSB is nightmareing military intelligence,” inspiring the country’s leadership that “the GRU is preparing a military coup.” It reads like a spy novel, but no one would probably be surprised if the ideas outlined in the SDG investigation suddenly turn out to be true.
"Biography"
Born on January 7, 1968 in Leningrad.
The son of Lyubov Ivanovna Shelomova, Putin’s cousin on his mother’s side. Bears his mother's surname.
Putin's mother, Maria Ivanovna Putina, nee Shelomova, had an older brother, Ivan Ivanovich Shelomov (1904-1973), a naval officer, before the war, the head of the 7th department of the 1st directorate of the GUPT NKVD of the USSR, and even earlier - chief of staff 62nd Vladivostok naval border detachment of the NKVD troops of the USSR). At the beginning of the Leningrad blockade, I. Shelomov, who at that time served at the headquarters of the Leningrad military flotilla, helped his sister move from Peterhof to Leningrad. I.I. Shelomov is the grandfather of M. Shelomov.
In the Trud newspaper, in the article “Presidential Villages” (September 15, 2005), information is provided about the Shelomovs, Putin’s relatives originating from the Tver region, including Putin’s cousin Lyubov Ivanovna Shelomova and her son Mikhail. Mikhail Shelomov is indeed a distant relative of Vladimir Putin, the son of his cousin, the Prime Minister’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed (Vedomosti, June 16, 2008).
Activity
In June 2002, together with Astrakhan resident Isaeva Larisa Valerievna, he founded the Accept LLC company in St. Petersburg (the main activity is investment in securities). The head of Accept LLC was initially L. Isaeva, then M. Shelomov.
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"News"
Rossiya Bank has reduced deposit rates.
“Spring mood” (from 3 thousand rubles for a period from a month to a year) opens at 3.1-6.7% (previously at 3.4-7%). Interest is paid at the end of the term. Offer valid until May 31st.
“Classic” (from 3 thousand rubles for one, two, three, four and five years) can be issued at 4.45-6.25% (previously at 4.5-6.4%). Interest is paid monthly or quarterly or capitalized.
Millions were found from Putin's relative. What is known about him?
Companies owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin's cousin Mikhail Shelomov received 2.04 billion rubles in net profit for 2016.
The Dozhd TV channel drew attention to this, calculating that Shelomov’s average income in proportion to his share of ownership amounted to over 5.5 million rubles per day.
A relative of Putin owns at least three companies that invest in securities and manage real estate, according to the publication of Dozhd. What is known about Shelomov himself?
Rossiya Bank opened a new office in Neftekamsk
Currently, the former chairman of the board of directors of AB Rossiya and one of the largest Russian businessmen (co-owner of Sogaz SG, Tele2 Russia, National Media Group, STS Media) Yuri Kovalchuk directly, as well as through ADB CJSC Management" and the share of his wife Tatyana Kovalchuk controls 42.28% of the bank's shares. A well-known businessman, member of the Forbes list (top 10 Russian billionaires of 2015) and citizen of Finland Gennady Timchenko owns 10.421% of the shares. Nikolay Shamalov, through ADB Management CJSC, controls 10.247%. Mikhail Shelomov, through Accept LLC and Platinum LLC, controls a total of 8.404% of the shares, Ivan Mironov, through Oberon Estate LLC, controls 6.001%. The main owner of the metallurgical corporation Severstal, Alexey Mordashov, controls 5.825% through Severgroup LLC. Tatyana Svitova owns 5.358% of the shares indirectly through Overpass-Invest LLC. Sergey Roldugin - 3.223%, Relax LLC (beneficiary - Svetlana Krivonogikh) - 2.950%. Gazprom Investgazification LLC - 2.207%, Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Belgorod LLC - 1.144% of shares. The remaining shares of 1.940% are distributed among minority shareholders.
Gennady Timchenko increased his stake in Rossiya Bank
Gennady Timchenko increased his stake in Rossiya Bank from 9 to 10.2%. Shareholder Mikhail Shelomov also increased his stake in the bank - from 4.4 to 6.1%. The sellers could be the structures of Finservice co-owners Ivan Mironov and Tatyana Svitova.
Gennady Timchenko's Transoil CIS company increased its share in the capital of Rossiya Bank from 9 to 10.2%, according to materials from the credit institution.
The share of Mikhail Shelomov’s Accept company in the capital of the bank has also increased: it now stands at 6.1% versus 4.4% as of August of this year. Taking into account the businessman’s other company, Platinum, his total share in the bank is now 8.4%.
It is unknown who the seller of the shares is. According to Vasily Sapozhnikov, an RMG analyst, the structures of the co-owners of Finservice Bank Ivan Mironov and Tatyana Svitova could sell part of their stakes: previously, their Overpass-Invest and Oberon Estate together owned 14.2% of the voting shares of Rossiya Bank. , and now they have about 11.4%.
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Putin's relatives in Sogaz
Sogaz is part of the empire of Rossiya Bank, which is controlled by longtime acquaintances of Vladimir Putin - Yuri Kovalchuk and his partners. Vadim Yanov, before heading Sogaz in November 2006, worked for 13 years as the general director of the St. Petersburg insurance company Alma. According to SPARK, as of March 31, 2008, 10.79% of Alma belongs to Uspeh LLC, the only founder of which (according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities) is Putin’s longtime acquaintance Gennady Timchenko. And the beneficiary of 12.47% of Sogaz shares through the St. Petersburg company Accept is the son of the prime minister’s cousin, Mikhail Shelomov. Although Shelomov is a distant relative of Putin, the Prime Minister himself did not and does not have anything to do with the assets acquired by Shelomov, Peskov previously assured.
The owner of "Russia"
“Acceptance” is 99.99% owned by Mikhail Shelomov (0.01% by Dmitry Mansurov), says the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. The website of the President of Russia published the book “In the First Person. Conversations with Vladimir Putin” (2000), which reports that Putin’s mother’s maiden name is Shelomova. The newspaper Trud, in the article “Presidential Villages” (September 15, 2005), talks about the Shelomovs - Putin’s relatives originating from the Tver region, including Putin’s cousin Lyubov Ivanovna Shelomova and her son Mikhail. Mikhail Shelomov is indeed a distant relative of Vladimir Putin, the son of his cousin, confirmed the Prime Minister’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
"Putin's clan" recognized as the richest in the world
During his time in power, Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin created an “empire” with a capital of $130 billion. According to Western media, the so-called “Putin clan” is in first place in the ranking of the richest families in the world. His fortune is $56 billion higher than that of the official leader of the Forbes magazine ranking, Carlos Slim Helu. The prime minister’s “family business” includes his nephews Mikhail Putin and Mikhail Shelomov, Vladimir Putin’s wife Lyudmila, as well as his brother Igor - each of them is directly related to large financial structures.
The court rejected Navalny's claim for the sale of a state stake in Rossiya Bank, won by a relative of Putin
The court rejected Alexei Navalny's claim to cancel the results of the auction for the sale of a state stake in Rossiya Bank, which was won by the company of Vladimir Putin's distant relative Mikhail Shelomov, writes Gazeta.Ru.
Banking
The Kuibyshevsky court of St. Petersburg rejected the claim of blogger Alexei Navalny to cancel the results of the auction for the sale of the state stake in Rossiya Bank, which was won by the company of Vladimir Putin’s distant relative, Mikhail Shelomov. This was reported on February 13 by Gazeta.Ru.
Navalny lost the case against Rossiya Bank
The Rossiya shares eventually went to the Accept company, which is associated with Mikhail Shelomov, who is called in the press a distant relative of Vladimir Putin. Shelomov paid 1.2 million rubles for the package, that is, three times the initial auction price.
Navalny challenged the auction for the state stake in Rossiya Bank, won by a distant relative of Putin
Well-known opposition blogger Alexei Navalny challenged the results of the auction for the sale of a state-owned stake in Rossiya Bank, won by the company of Mikhail Shelomov, a distant relative of Vladimir Putin, Interfax reports. The lawsuit to cancel the auction results was filed with the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, said Navalny’s representative Lyubov Sobol.
Rossiya Bank is negotiating the purchase of a stake in St. Petersburg Bank
The main shareholder of Rossiya Bank is Yuri Kovalchuk, he owns 30.3% of the bank, Interfax recalls. OJSC Gazprom Gazoraspredelenie has 12.27%, this package was obtained as a result of the merger of Rossiya with Gazenergoprombank in 2010. Transoil CIS Gennady Timchenko owns 7.97% of the shares of the credit institution, Dmitry Gorelov and Nikolai Shamalov each own 10.52% of the shares, Alexey Mordashov controls 5.98%. A block of preferred shares of the bank is owned by Surgutneftegaz.
The famous cellist, People's Artist of the Russian Federation and godfather of Vladimir Putin's eldest daughter Sergei Roldugin owns 3.3% of the bank's shares. Acceptance LLC and Relax LLC own 3.2% and 3.03% of the bank’s shares, their beneficiaries are Mikhail Shelomov and Svetlana Krivonogikh, respectively. TransStroy LLC, owned by Natalya Svitova, owns 1.7% of the bank's shares. Rossiya shares are not traded on the market.
Putin's friend, who controls 40% of Russia's oil, took first place in the ranking of rich people
Against the background of these business monsters, the successes achieved in the field of finance by direct relatives of GDP are somewhat lost. Thus, Mikhail Shelomov, the cousin of the head of government, owns 4% of the shares of Rossiya Bank and 12.5% of the shares of Sogaz. Another successful businessman with the last name Putin is Igor Putin, the cousin of the Russian leader. He is on the boards of directors of many companies, in particular Volgaburmash, AvtoVAZbank, Samara Reservoir Plant, MTL production and commercial association and others.
Russian businessmen arrested in Spain had indirect connections with Putin
The interests of Gennady Petrov's son, Anton Petrov, and his partners intersected with the largest investment and construction group in Russia - the Baltic Construction Company (BSK). Bank Rossiya was among the shareholders of the BSK St. Petersburg branch until February 2005, and Putin’s cousin Mikhail Shelomov was listed as the founder of BSK-65 from May to December 2007.