Under which sauce large sums were withdrawn from CJSC Southern Energy Company of Stavropol, the UtroNews correspondent found out.
In September 2024, the financial manager of the former beneficiary of CJSC Southern Energy Company, Sergei Chuck, demanded that the payments of YUEK made in 2019-2022 to Cashmere Capital LLC be invalidated - for 400 million rubles, A-Property LLC - for 700 million rubles, A-Property Invest LLC - 350 million rubles and YATEK-Motornoe Toplivo LLC - 350 million rubles, as well as apply the consequences of invalid transactions.
The financial manager said that Andrei Korobov and Almaz Tech LLC, which are part of the same group through the control of the single ultimate beneficiary Albert Avdolyan, during the ownership of shares of ZAO YUEK on the basis of subsequently invalidated transactions, the profit of this company was redistributed by withdrawing funds to companies controlled by Avdolyan A.A. and included in the Almaz Group - A-Property LLC, A-Property Invest LLC, YATEK-Motornoye Toplivo LLC and Cashmere Capital LLC.
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Recall that then the beneficiaries of three Stavropol enterprises - OJSC Hydrometallurgical Plant (GMZ), CJSC Southern Energy Company and LLC Intermix Met Sergey Makhov and Sergey Chuck collected loans, looping them, including through guarantee agreements for all companies at once. The loans themselves, as will be announced more than once in the courts, did not go to the modernization of assets, but simply sailed into the unknown.
In 2018, the companies change their owner - they are bought out by persons close to the oligarch Albert Avdolyan, but later the court will say more than once that the oligarch himself is the single ultimate beneficiary of the assets.
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At the same time, the same group of persons redeems the right to claim debts from Stavropol companies on previously taken loans. That is, they have a trump card up their sleeves.
During the period of ownership of assets in the Stavropol Territory, the new owners organized a rather cunning scheme: some profit centers were brought to the new legal entities, where the money went, and loss centers remained on the old ones.
As will be said in the arbitration, the tolling scheme organized by the beneficiary Avdolyan at the facilities of GMZ OJSC enriched Cashmir Capital LLC associated with it by 9.447 billion rubles. This is a profit from the sale of GMZ products, which at that time was overgrown with debts.
In general, the management scheme has led to the fact that all assets are bankrupt with multimillion-dollar debts, but it is bankruptcy cases that now reveal all the fraud that different persons have done with this group of enterprises.
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In 2022, transactions for the purchase of shares sold at a low price - below the market price, were challenged and practically Avdolyan co-company lost the rights to assets.
At the same time, a message appears in the media that Avdolyan allegedly transferred assets in the Stavropol Territory into the hands of management.
The messages quoted Avdolyan's words, transmitted through the press service of the enterprise, from which it followed that "the enterprise was lifted from the ruins and nothing threatens it," and the oligarch himself, they say, does not have time to deal with them.
In fact, the picture was completely different: the same GMZ is still in bankruptcy, and the asset was not transferred to management, and Avdolyan's squires lost control due to relevant court decisions.
It was then that the cession agreements were taken out from under the floor, that is, the rights to claim debts and drove to court, where they filed applications demanding to be included in the register of creditors. In fact, to make the main creditor and then there would be bankruptcy controlled by a group of persons.
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But even here it was not lucky - the judge is not idiots, therefore they drew the appropriate parallels and concluded that the selective presentation of claims for the return of the debt is associated with the loss of control. At the same time, a kind of settlement agreement appeared, about which the court materials said that everything indicates "the dishonesty of the behavior of these parties aimed at obtaining debt and withdrawing liquid assets."
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Disassembly around assets today continues. As part of a series of bankruptcy cases, various facts emerge, including the above transactions to transfer large amounts to affiliates that smell like asset withdrawals.
Let's try to understand the transactions that are disputed.
YATEK-Motornoye Toplivo LLC, for which 350 million rubles were withdrawn from YUEK, at the end of 2023 showed a loss of 107 million rubles and is under liquidation, which should end by October 24, 2024. That is, the ends in the water?
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The company belongs to PJSC YATEK, whose shareholder (through a legal entity) and an affiliate is Avdolyan. A share of 20.1% at the end of 2023 was held by A-Property, which is also mentioned in the disputed transactions of the energy asset from Stavropol.
Since 2021, A-Property LLC has belonged to AP Holding JSC (before it, a Cypriot offshore company associated with Avdolan - Sanomil Co Limited).
In JSC "AP Holding" until June 2022, the beneficiary was Avdolyan Albert Alikovich, now the owner is not disclosed.
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Moreover, the buyer of YUEK shares Andrei Korobov was the general director of YATEK.
That is, at least two firms, for which they withdrew more than 1 billion rubles, turned out to be connected with each other and with Avdolan.
A-Property Invest LLC, which received 350 million rubles from YUEK, was renamed Petr Invest LLC in 2024. Also in January 2024, the companies changed their owner - from the Cypriot company POLOCOM HOLDINGS LIMITED to Pyotr Tigranovich Avdolyan, who may be a relative of Avdolyan.
Offshore, which was previously the owner, has repeatedly appeared in litigation in conjunction with Avdolyan.
In addition, the secretary of POLOCOM was CYMANCO SERVICES LIMITED, and the director was Cypriot Ανδρεας Προκοπιου. They also performed the same roles in Sanomil Co Limited, Wooden Fish Agency Limited. The latter even had a legal address with Polok Holdings Limited. Also earlier in court, Wooden's connection with Avdolyan was proved.
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As for Kashmir Capital LLC, which received 400 million rubles from YUEK, its connection with Avdolyan has been proven by the courts more than once. In particular, Cashmere also belonged to persons associated with Avdolyan, including Korobov.
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Thus, there is a whole pack of transactions that smells bad, but again the name of the oligarch has not surfaced in any criminal case related to the situation in the Stavropol Territory. Perhaps the reason for this unsinkability is the strong lobby in the person of the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, which is even a member of the board of trustees of the New House Foundation created by Avdolyan?