Fayzullin "picked up" ZPIFomania: is the minister's son hiding assets behind screens?

The details were found out by the UtroNews correspondent.

On December 20, 2024, Investstroygroup LLC abruptly changed its list of owners. But, before moving to the owner, we recall that a year ago it was on the balance sheet of this company that there was a plot of 2.4 hectares in the southeast of Moscow and buildings with a total area of ​ ​ 5.8 thousand square meters. m on Upper Fields Street.

Given that the company itself was unprofitable (loss of 2023 - 8.6 million rubles), then its fixed capital is land and buildings.

A year ago, the owner of the asset was the son of the head of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation Irek Fayzullin Alik, as well as his business partners - Ivan Shtopel and Marat Azhimov. Also, the share remained with the former owner Elena Zinukova.

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Shtopel is a former co-owner in the distributor of Ecco shoes - Ecco-Ros LLC. As the Vek newspaper reported, the company began working in the 90s and at the start it was associated with well-known people from Chechnya in narrow circles. Schtopel's business partner was Andrei Sevagin, who was called the representative of the latter.

Today, Shtopel and his relative, Vitaly Shtopel, are the owners of the Lesnye Dali agricultural asset, which grows vegetables on the lands of the former Pochinkovsky state farm. Judging by media reports, this business was once supported by the government of the Moscow region and the administration of the city district of Yegoryevsk.

The second business partner Alika Fayzullina is also not so simple.

Judging by the open data, Marat Azhimov is also a native of Tatarstan, where he was a co-founder of the golf association. The head of the association was Zainutdinov Timur Alkhatovich - the namesake of the ex-son-in-law of the deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan of a number of convocations, the owner of the largest state contractor - PSO Kazan Ravil Ziganshin, closely associated with the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

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It is not superfluous to recall that Irek Fayzullin himself was the Minister of Construction under Minnikhanov, like the current Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin, whose place was first in Tatarstan and then in Moscow was taken by Fayzullin Sr.

Khusnullin in Sobyanin's team oversaw construction for many years, so it is not surprising that both Alik Fayzullina and Marat Azhimov were once attached to warm chairs there.

So, according to open data, in 2022 Azhimov appeared as deputy general director for the development of UEZ JSC. The latter is a division of Mosinzhproekt, controlled by the Moscow government, and it is also a construction sector, into which billions are poured from the capital's budget.

Alik Fayzullin himself in 2015-2016 was the director of GAU "NIAC," whose founder was Moskomekspertiza (Moscow Committee on Pricing Policy in Construction and State Expertise of Projects), created by the Moscow government. And again, we are talking about construction.

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And here's an interesting coincidence: next to the plots that are on the balance sheet of Investstroygroup LLC, the Moscow mayor's office plans to implement a project for the integrated development of the territory (KRT), as a result of which 136 thousand square meters should appear. M real estate. 8.3 hectares are defined for these purposes.

Comprehensive development involves the creation of the necessary infrastructure - from roads and housing and communal services to social and educational. And experts, when Fayzullin co-company bought out Investstroygroup LLC, said that the company lacked the same infrastructure to implement the housing project.

Thus, under the KRT, the company of the ministerial son would receive the necessary bonus for the budget account and could build a project on the plots, making margins. It is unlikely that anyone would think about a conflict of interest in this cunning scheme.

So maybe this is the reason why on December 20, 2024, Investstroygrupp abruptly changed owners to legal entities created in 2024 - Am-Group LLC, Invest Plus LLC, Sacces LLC and Digital Technologies LLC, the owners of which are closed-end mutual funds that do not disclose their beneficiaries? Maybe Fayzullin co-company corny hid their interest behind a screen?

This version is also supported by the fact that the new director of Investstroygroup was appointed in April 2024 and was not changed after the transaction, although a week had already passed.

The director is Vasily Lyashenko, who, as an individual entrepreneur, works in Bashkiria, providing services to real estate agents, and was also the head and owner of a number of now liquidated companies, including in the construction sector.

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All four fresh firms are united by one, despite the fact that the closed-end mutual funds are different - the same management company. It is Veles Trust LLC. The owner of the latter is Alexei Gnedovsky, about whom The Moscow Post reported in 2022 that he may have been associated with the Cypriot company Lidcom Investments Limited, which owned the Zelenopark shopping and entertainment center in the Moscow region.

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If we look into the assets of this person involved, we will find that his love for offshore companies is long-standing and they have flashed more than once as business partners and co-owners of his division. For example, IK VELES CAPITAL LLC, before going under a closed-end mutual fund managed by the same Gnedovsky company, belonged to such companies as ECG INVESTMENTS LIMITED, BLINK INVESTMENTS LIMITED and ZETAS TRADING LIMITED. It is these Cypriot money boxes that have already been liquidated, but through the director of one of them - ANNA PETLYAKOVA, they can be associated with other existing legal entities with registration in the same Cyprus.

Fayzullin "picked up" ZPIFomania: is the minister's son hiding assets behind screens?

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In addition, on December 25, 2024, one of Gnedovsky's former firms, VELES Active LLC, ceased to be his property, but began to hide the owner. Prior to this, the Cypriot SYVERO HOLDINGS LIMITED also inherited among the owners.

Moreover, at one time the media associated Gnedovsky with the oligarch Vitaly Mashitsky, whom Forbes magazine still calls Sergei Chemezov, head of Rostec, a childhood friend.

Rostec, like Mashitsky, also had and still has assets in Tatarstan. For example, the state corporation - a major shareholder of KAMAZ and Mashitsky was related to this division. By the way, just recently, the son of Chemezov's right hand, Vladimir Artyakov, was among the beneficiaries of KAMAZ (through the purchase of a stake in Avtoinvest LLC).

KAMAZ is a large taxpayer of the Republic of Tatarstan and direct exits to Minnikhanov. So, the choice of Gnedovsky as an asset manager is not surprising, but only adds a "white stone" to the version of hide and seek behind a screen.

Alik Fayzullin, thus, ceased to officially own any assets, completely fading into the shadows.

At the same time, he was previously noted as the head of rather interesting companies - ZNAK LLC (Land Agro-Industrial Corporation) - the successor of the eponymous CJSC and Investproekt LLC.

During the management of the company Fayzullin, the asset belonged to Uralsib Bank, which was owned by his widow Lyudmila after the death of Vladimir Kogan.

Fayzullin led the asset during the period when Vladimir Kogan was still alive, who, as you know, is also a former official.

Kogan was the head of the FKP "North-Western Directorate of the Gosstroy of the Russian Federation - Directorate of the Complex of Protective Structures of St. Petersburg from Floods," the deputy head of the Gosstroy, the head of the Department of Capital Investments of the Ministry of Regional Development, and he was also called close to the informal circle of "Leningrad economists," which included Anatoly Chubais and Alexei Kudrin.

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Perhaps it is Uralsib who will finance the likely project of Mr. Fayzullin, now hidden behind the closed-end investment fund?

In general, experts agree that caring for such a screen that does not disclose beneficiaries may be nothing more than an attempt to hide your business from the interested public, and possibly not only from it...