Should layoffs at Rostec begin with Chemezov? Rostec: from weapons to civilian products Chemezov's Favorite Bank

The first was a well-known international offshore scandal that directly affected the son of the head of Rostec - Stanislav Chemezov and the ambitious project of the Eureka backbone network created for him by the pope with an estimated budget of half a billion dollars.

Officially, Eureka was to be managed by joint-stock company Svyazdorinvest, 25% of whose shares belonged to Rostec, the same investment fund FGN Capital Billionaire Alexandra Chaldea, and 50% - presumably to the Cypriot offshore Xfors Ltd. But the real picture was different. In fact, 74% of Eureka's shares were registered with another Cypriot offshore company, Paragolis Overseas, owned by Caryn Properties and Bale Holding, registered in the Virgin Islands. Caryn Properties, according to the Versiya newspaper, is controlled by a representative Arkady Rotenberg Dmitry Protsenko. In turn, Bale Holding owns another Virginia offshore Erliglow Ltd - its shareholders are the son of the head of Rostec, Stanislav Sergeevich Chemezov, and the daughter of the first deputy general director of Rostec Alexey Alyoshin- Olga Aleshina.

In Rostec, the participation of Chemezov Jr. in the project confirmed, but emphasized that the concern itself had left it (since Eureka never took place). But the clan still has many offshore companies, the whole picture is known only in the special services of Russia's main geopolitical enemy. For example, Stanislav Chemezov, at the request of his father, was hired by the Itera company, which for some time was the second largest producer and supplier of Russian gas after Gazprom. At the same time, the Belize offshore Elsamex Enterprises Ltd, owned by Ekaterina Ignatova, began to control a large block of shares"Itera".

Subsequently, Itera was sold to Rosneft, and Stanislav Chemezov, again under the supervision of a loving father, went into the insurance business. Its Interbiznesgroup LLC is a co-owner of the insurer of the largest enterprises of the military-industrial complex LLC Independent Insurance Group, 1% of the company belongs Stanislav Chemezov officially, and 99% are registered on the offshore Uberaba Holding SA, all registered in the same Belize.

Perhaps the most interesting investment Interbusinessgroup LLC was purchase 25.01% stake in CJSC Russian Industrial Nanotechnologies. Because the other 74.99% belong personal friend of his father, pseudoscientist and criminal Viktor Petrik. As you know, Petrik for the first time was convicted in 1984 for 11 years for giving a bribe (art. 147, part 3 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR), fraud with causing significant damage to the victim (art. 183), theft of property (art. 196 part 1), forcing witnesses to give false testimony (Art. 218, Part 2), trade in ammunition (Art. 228) and pornography (Art. 154, Part 3), as well as speculation on an especially large scale (Art. 154, Part 3 of the Criminal Code). In the future, Viktor Petrik became close to the leaders of the Russian criminal world, who in the first half of the 1990s smuggled cocaine, rare earth metals and other remarkable things across the Russian-Finnish border. It was on the "transport" soil in those years that the former convict met Sergei Chemezov.

Since Petrik has nothing to do with science, the benefits of introducing nanotechnologies from his office with Chemezov are even less than from the recognized devourer of state funds "Rosnanotech" Anatoly Chubais. However, if only a drink is observed here, then harm from another authoritative partner - a guest from Lithuania Yuri Borisov - may threaten Russia's state security. Mr. Borisov, according to a number of publications, has a long history of close ties with the leaders of the "Solntsevskaya" organized criminal group Vyacheslav Ivankov (Jap) and Anzori Aksentiev-Kikalishvili. When Sergey Chemezov hired Mr. Borisov as deputy service director for the Rostec-controlled Russian Helicopters company, the Lithuanian Department of State Security caught Aviabaltika supplying parts for helicopters to Islamic fundamentalists in Sudan, where Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda was based. . The reputation of Russia turned out to be pretty tarnished, and the Prime Minister of Lithuania, who sympathized with the eastern neighbor, Rolandas Paksas, in the election of which at least $ 400 thousand was invested through a friend of the "Solntsevsky" Borisov, resigned with a scandal.

Even more unpleasant was the offshore episode around the modernization by Rostec structures of Mi-17V helicopters ordered by the US Department of Defense for military operations in Afghanistan. The Americans received 49 aircraft not directly from the Ulan-Ude Aviation and Kazan Helicopter Plants, where work was carried out, but through the offshore Airfreigt Aviation Ltd, registered with the United United Arab Emirates. The intermediary mastered the rollback and, moreover, as it turned out, turned out to be owner all technical documentation under the contract, which opened up the widest opportunities for industrial espionage in the interests of everyone: from NATO countries to the same Al-Qaeda.

In this regard, it can be assumed that the search at the IFC bank was carried out not only to expose the possible offshore schemes of Ignatova and Prokhorov, but also to investigate other issues. From leaking defense secrets abroad to financing the unprofitable Prokhorov media holding RBC, whose journalists do not hide their sympathy for the anti-Putin opposition. In the near future we will return to the topic of the offshore network of the head of Rostec and his relatives (Sergey Chemezov Sr., Sergey Sergeevich Chemezov, Stanislav Chemezov, Ekaterina Ignatova and others) to find out whether these operations are ordinary tax evasion. Or economic sanctions, imposed on Russia after the annexation of Crimea, seemed to one of the fathers of the military-industrial complex so burdensome that this citizen seriously thought about the prospects for a change of power in the country?

The development strategy of the Armaments cluster of the Rostec state corporation until 2025 provides for an increase in annual revenue to 700 billion rubles with an annual growth of just over 12%. Net profit in 2025 should amount to 50 million rubles.

Such indicators will be achieved through an aggressive export policy and conversion. According to the industrial director of the cluster Sergey Abramov, for sustainable development the corporation needs to maintain a consistently high level of cluster revenue against the backdrop of a decrease in state defense orders.

“We are planning a significant increase in revenue from MTC (military-technical cooperation), an increase in the share of civilian products in total revenue, an increase in operational efficiency, attraction of investments and the formation of an intra-cluster center of competence,” said Sergey Abramov. This was Rostec's response to the order of the President of Russia, announced at the end of 2016.

In order to increase revenue, in the next eight years, Rostec intends to increase the share of civilian products in the Armaments cluster from the current 15% to 30%. This strategy has worked well in China, where over 20 years military factories have increased the share of civilian products to 60-90%. The cluster plans to produce equipment for aviation, shipbuilding, space industry, fuel and energy complex, medical organizations, as well as industrial explosives and composite materials. The enterprises included in the "Armament", including the holding "High-precision complexes", the concern "Kalashnikov" and the Central Research Institute (TsNII) "Tochmash" - different potential for the transition to the production of civilian products. So, according to Rostec, in 2025 civilian products will bring 80% of revenue to RT-Chemcomposite, while now this figure is about half of the total revenue. The High-Precision Complexes Holding, in the implementation of all the goals set in the strategy, will be able to reach a share of 7% of civilian products by 2025. At the same time, civil weapon or boats produced by Kalashnikov are already in guaranteed demand today.

Private capital should contribute to this in Russia: Rostec announced its intention to cooperate with business and create a joint venture.

“Private investors are quite willing to participate in projects together with the state, but in the current situation, the popularity of this format may be low,” said AMarkets Lead Analyst. Artem Deev. – The fact is that now the investor is not ready to invest in the real sector due to rather high risks. If Rostec creates conditions that outweigh all the risks, the program will be successful, given that the Russian military-industrial complex is a rather interesting industry for investment.”

In Rostec itself, “smart” capital is expected to be attracted in those areas in which cluster divisions have great competencies - refrigeration equipment, industrial explosives, road construction equipment, and more. According to experts, there is potential in the production of equipment for oil and gas production.

Meanwhile, the question of the competitiveness of these products remains open. Thus, civilian equipment leaving the UVZ conveyor is much inferior in price to Chinese counterparts, and in quality to European and American designs. According to the head of the Department of Industrial Economics of the University. G.V. Plekhanov Andrey Bystrov, this is due to the fact that Rostec enterprises exist outside the free market, and their working conditions are specific - the order is paid in advance and the buyer is known, which in most cases is the state or its organizations.

“The manufacturer of such specific products lacks the skills to survive in the market, fight for the consumer, and effectively optimize production costs,” Andrey Bystrov told Invest-Foresight. – For the successful implementation of the industrial diversification program in Russia, it is necessary to implement a number of institutional, economic, production and technological conditions.”

The state corporation Rostec is preparing large-scale reductions in management personnel. 40,000 executives could lose their jobs soon different levels working in the structures of Rostec. Meanwhile, according to experts, the head of the state corporation Sergei Chemezov himself should also be laid off. This was reported to The Moscow Post correspondent by representatives of the military-industrial complex (DIC).

A wave of cuts is coming

One of the largest Russian state corporations, Rostec, which is run by the infamous top manager Sergei Chemezov, is preparing for large-scale reductions in the management team.

As it became known to the press, the Rostec state corporation, which unites about 700 companies mainly in the field of mechanical engineering and the defense industry, wants to cut about 40,000 managers in the next two years.

In total, now in Rostec (including sub-holdings) there are about 85,000 people related to administrative and managerial personnel. The state corporation told reporters that now the share of managers in total strength employees (about 475 thousand people) is 18% against the global norm of 5-10%.

The optimization program in March 2015 was already approved by the Supervisory Board of Rostec, which is headed by the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov.

The central office will not count employees

The staff optimization itself will begin with the central office. Until September 1, 2015, half of the 620 employees will be laid off.

The Supervisory Board will agree on a further plan to optimize the staff from among the managers of other organizations of the state corporation in September-October.

At the same time, according to experts, dismissals in the central office of Rostec, most likely, will not affect the inner circle of Sergei Chemezov. So neither the head of Rostec himself, nor his first deputy Vladimir Artyakov, nor another deputy head of Rostec, Igor Zavyalov, will lose their positions.

Meanwhile, these scandalous top managers, according to experts, should be in the forefront of those fired from Rostec. After all, all of them were previously suspected of withdrawing assets.

"Machination" Zavyalova?

One of the most scandalous top managers of the state corporation is Igor Zavyalov, Deputy General Director of Rostec, whom opposition leader Alexei Navalny caught participating in corruption scandals, even when Zavyalov was still working at VTB.

Recall that initially the "rescuers" of the "Wings of the Soviets" in the person of Chemezov and Artyakov promised subsidies to the football club from Samara, but that was not the case. After all, instead of the promised sponsorship, the Wings of the Soviets were given a loan through AKB Novikombank, controlled by Chemezov, at an inflated interest rate (16-19% per annum), while the average rates for legal entities in Russia then they ranged from 8.7 to 13.8%.

Moreover, it seems that both the head of Rostec and the then regional head, and now the first deputy of Chemezov, were able to “fuck” quite well from this “salvation”. After all, Novikombank's top manager for working with corporate clients is the brother of the now former governor Samara region Yuri Artyakov, which means that the bank has "all its own".

Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec

As a result, Chemezov and Artyakov, instead of saving, drove the Wings of the Soviets into even greater debts. By the way, what about the guide? football clubs“confused” gratuitous subsidies with an expensive loan? Obviously, this question should be asked to the deputy head of Rostec, Zavyalov, who was then the president of Wings of the Soviets.

However, this scandal did not end there, because during this dubious "rescue operation" those 200 million rubles that were allocated for the needs of the FC from the regional budget "disappeared" somewhere. According to rumors, they went to pay interest to Novikombank.

Chemezov's favorite bank?

By the way, then Rostec became the owner of 20% authorized capital"Novikombank", and Chemezov began to drag the accounts of such large subsidiaries of "Rostec" as the "Radioelectronic Technologies Concern", etc. to this bank.

After the financial crisis broke out in Russia in 2015, Chemezov did not leave his "favorite bank" without state support. On January 27, 2015, it became known about the increase in the capital of JSCB Novikombank by 1.5 billion rubles by attracting a subordinated loan from JSC Rosoboronexport.

According to official information, on January 20, 2015, the capital reached 31.66 billion rubles. As of January 2015, Novikombank is 57.68% controlled by the state corporation Rostec, which owns Rosoboronexport.

Ilya Gubin, President and Member of the Board of Directors of Novikombank

By the way, another high-profile scandal related to Novikombank recently occurred. On February 25, 2015, it became known that Novikombank, controlled by Rostec, would take over the management of Fondservicebank together with the temporary administration (represented by the Deposit Insurance Agency).

The fact that Chemezovsky Novikombank will be engaged in the “recovery” of Fundservisbank, through which Roscosmos projects were financed, was compared by experts with a raider takeover.

In the best traditions of Rostec, Ms. Ignatova became a shareholder of Itera Group (the parent company of the holding) through her Belize company Elsamex Enterprises Ltd back in 2006.

Sergey Chemezov, CEO State Corporation "Rostec"

Thus, it is possible that the leadership of Novikombank and Rostec has a “related interest”.

It turns out that one way or another, the entire management of Rostec is connected with Novikombank. Of course, none of those involved in this “banking scheme” will also be fired from Rostec due to the massive reduction in management personnel.

friendly neighbors

However, the general interests of the Rostec leadership are clearly not limited to the “ardent love” for Novikombank alone. The thing is that the top managers of this state corporation even have dachas in the neighborhood - in the elite cottage village of Akulinino, located in the Domodedovo district of the Moscow region.

For example, in this village, the general director of the state corporation "Rostec" Sergey Chemezov has 6.2 hectares.

Sergei Chemezov's dacha (photo taken from Takhir Baibekov's blog)

Artyakov neighbors Chemezov. But its plot is smaller - about 5 hectares. Across the river from Chemezov and Artyakov are the possessions of Zavyalov, who owns 9 hectares.

It is interesting how these land properties were bought with, if, for example, in 2013 the maximum cost of land on the prestigious Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway reached $307,000 (10.1 million rubles at the rate of 08.08.2013) per hundred square meters. ? But the salaries of Chemezov, Zavyalov and Artyakov are clearly not enough to legally buy all these hectares.

Family bonds

In addition to the “land issue” and “banking”, the head of Rostec Chemezov has another area of ​​interest that is directly related to the state corporation he heads.

In August, the state corporation Rostec and Marathon Group announced their intention to merge their assets. The deal should be completed before the end of the year. It is known that from Rostec the joint company will include the enterprises of the vaccine supplier Nacimbio, from Marathon - the fifth largest Russian pharmaceutical distributor SIA Group and shares in several factories. At the same time, it was agreed that the pharmacy retailer Mega Pharm, owned by Marathon (brands A-Mega, Yes, Zdorov! and Azbuka Life), would not be the subject of the merger.

And already in early October, it was announced that Anastasia Ignatova, whom Transparency International calls the stepdaughter of the head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov, became a co-owner of the Mega Pharm pharmacy chain, which is part of the Marathon Group holding. Some sources note that Ignatieva already had experience in the medical business, which, apparently, without special success completed in 2014.

The cost of the transaction for the purchase of Ignatova's 25.01% stake in Mega Pharm was not disclosed, but, according to RNC Pharma Development Director Nikolai Bespalov, with a total cost of Mega Pharm of 4-6 billion rubles, Ignatova's share could cost up to 1.5 billion rubles. Where did the teacher of the department political theory MGIMO such money is, apparently, a rhetorical question, if her stepfather is the head of the largest state corporation.

By the way, the Marathon Group holding itself was created by Alexander Vinokurov only in the spring of this year, when the son-in-law of the Minister of Foreign Affairs left the A1 company (an investment division of Alfa Group). One of the holding's key assets is the SIA Group company, acquired by Vinokurov, according to the media, in accordance with all the rules of a raider takeover.

After the death of the owner of SIA Group, Igor Rudinsky, his heirs also faced the problems of bankruptcy of Nota-Bank, which belonged to him. When, under aggressive informational pressure and the threat of prosecution, Rudinsky's relatives ceded the company to Vinokurov, it became obvious who was the beneficiary of all their troubles.

Now corruption fighters believe that Chemezov and Vinokurov are diluting state property.

“In August 2017, the merger of the assets of Nacimbio and the private company Marathon Group was announced. The deal will close before the end of the year; technically, this will be formalized as a buyout by Marathon of an additional issue of Nacimbio shares, i.e. a private company will receive a significant share in the state monopoly. In fact, the monopoly, created with state money and with the support of the Russian government, is partially privatized. And not by anyone: the owner of Marathon, Alexander Vinokurov, is still a young businessman, but already a long-term partner of Rostec, as well as the son-in-law of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, ”Transparency International says.

And, according to market experts, Vinokurov can get a very solid piece of the state pie under his control. Deputy General Director of Stada CIS Ivan Glushkov believes that as a result of the merger of assets, Marathon Group can receive up to 35–40% in Nacimbio.

However, according to anti-corruption fighters, Nacimbio could already cause damage to the state in the amount of more than 1 billion rubles. If in 2015, when cooperation between Nacimbio and the Ministry of Health was just beginning, the corporation worked without a margin, now a 5-10% mark-up is assigned to all drugs and vaccines. Thus, Nacimbio's monopoly intermediary services have already cost Russian Ministry health care is 805 million rubles more expensive than if the Ministry of Health worked directly with manufacturers.

The state could have lost almost 650 billion rubles more due to the preferences of the management of the Nacimbio state corporation in favor of a separate private supplier. It's about about an overpayment to the Fort company for the supply of influenza vaccines, from which vaccines were purchased at 75% more expensive than similar vaccines from another manufacturer. “These funds could have been withdrawn from a fully state-owned corporation to a private company,” Transparency International concludes, noting that Fort belongs to the same Vinokurov.

The organization emphasizes that at one time the Fort company was created by a native of Rostec to receive state contracts and 25.01% of the company belonged to Nacimbio. Fort, according to Transparency International, was controlled by Rostec until Vinokurov, the owner of the pharmaceutical company Marathon Group, bought out 74.99% of the company's shares in May of this year. In August, against the background of the announcement of the merger of the assets of Rostec and Marathon Group, the general director of Natsimbio, Mariam Khubieva, left her position and went to work for Vinokurov at Marathon. And the former co-owner of Fort, Anton Katlinsky, became an adviser to the general director of Nacimbio.

The Fort deal seems to confirm the reproaches against Nacimbio by Transparency International, where they believe that the state corporation is just an intermediary involved in paperwork. As soon as it appeared in its assets manufacturing enterprise, and secured by long-term government orders, it was immediately resold to a private trader. At the same time, providing Fort with an overpayment, according to Transparency, only because the controlling stake in the company was bought out by Vinokurov.

According to Transparency International, such transactions "form a conflict of interest for Mr. Chemezov." His personal interest, in their opinion, is connected with the fact that Anastasia Ignatova became a co-owner of Alexander Vinokurov's Marathon Group, and her company Farmapt is registered at the same address as SIA International, one of Vinokurov's leading assets.

“In addition, Chemezov is a housemate of Vinokurov's father-in-law Sergei Lavrov. Two apartments in a house built by the Presidential Administration in the Swedish Dead End in the center of Moscow are registered to the family members of the head of the state corporation,” the Transparency report says. Moreover, in some media it is noted that the interests of the Chemezov and Vinokurov families have long coincided.

In the companies themselves, the reproaches of social activists are considered unfounded. “These are the speculations of the authors of the study and distortion of facts in its purest form ... Anastasia Ignatova is collaborating with Marathon Group on a project to develop a pharmacy network, and this project has nothing to do with Rostec,” the state-owned companies said in a statement. The difference in payments to Fort and other companies for the same vaccine is explained by the difference in the form of release (ampoule and syringe) of drugs.

However, the government, the Accounts Chamber and the presidential administration will now have to deal with the validity of accusations of a conflict of interest. And from law enforcement Transparency International demands to check the Nacimbio contracts, which show signs of embezzlement, including those with Fort.

Director General of the Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov decided to support the holding of the Demino Ski Marathon. The Acting Governor spoke about this at a meeting with employees of NPO Saturn Yaroslavl region Dmitry Mironov.

– The Demino marathon is the first and only Russian ski race that has fulfilled one of the main formal criteria for entering the Worldloppet series of the most famous ski marathons in the world. Athletes from different countries. In the first year, only 70 people participated in it, last year - more than two thousand. In the new year, we expect thousands of participants. I am sure that the marathon will be held on the very high level- said Dmitry Mironov.

The head of the region stressed that the competition will be held with the participation of the Rostec company, to which the regional government has addressed with a proposal for cooperation. The industrial director of the electronic cluster, a member of the board of the corporation, Sergey Kulikov, confirmed the intention of the organization to support the marathon.