It became known that Mister Creed wanted in Kazakhstan. The singer took the fee, but did not come to the performance. Previously in Russia, the traffic police, the Federal Tax Service and the FSSP had complaints against the artist. Accounts are frozen, the apartment is under encumbrance, rights are confiscated. How is the idol of the 90s surviving now?
The SHOT Telegram channel reported that the company organizing the retro festival in Kazakhstan, which took place this summer, filed a police report against the Russian musician Alexandra Makhoninaknown as Mister Creed. Previously, Suarg Astana filed a lawsuit against the artist. According to company representatives, the singer took the fee, but did not come to his performance and did not return the money.
The festival organizers told SHOT that they had agreed with Makhonin in advance about his participation in the event on July 14th. The artist was paid a fee, and all his “numerous conditions for the rider” were fulfilled.
The performer of the hits “Wonderful Valley” and “Medlyak” received 5.4 million rubles, but did not appear at the concert. Moreover, it turned out that he did not even appear in Kazakhstan. Mr. Credo allegedly was unable to fly from Moscow due to debts to the tax office. The musician’s assistants explained to the Kazakh partners that, having learned about this, they tried to send him to Astana via Minsk, but it turned out that Makhonin’s passport had expired.
According to SHOT, the tax musician owed about 300 thousand rubles. However, now, it seems, the debt has already been repaid – the artist’s TIN has disappeared from the list of defaulters.
However, to this day, in relation to Mr. Credo, the Federal Bailiff Service is conducting 37 enforcement proceedings at once at two addresses of his stay: in Moscow and his native Yekaterinburg.
Judging by the FSSP data, in the capital the artist collected 40 thousand rubles in the form of traffic police fines, and in the Ural capital they are trying to collect “taxes and fees, including penalties” from him.
How Mister Creed lives now
It seems that the frenzied popular fame that fell in the 90s on a strange artist who sang in an Arabian keffiyeh and glasses should have ensured a comfortable old age not only for him, but also for his children. Mister Credo’s songs have not been out of rotation on music radio stations throughout the post-Soviet space for years. Hundreds of sold-out shows, promising business acquaintances and listener support. All this had to be transformed into success, business and money. But something went wrong.
Now, at least from the outside, things are going so-so for 52-year-old Alexander Makhonin. His production center, opened on the wave of success – in 2005, closed in 2016 with the wording “inactive legal entity.” After that, at least officially, the musician was no longer involved in business – he was not registered as an individual entrepreneur and was not listed as self-employed.
Not much is known about the singer’s official income: Life.ru found out that he (at least recently) received a small income from royalties from the Russian Copyright Society and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Moreover, we can talk about small amounts – no more than a couple of hundred thousand rubles per year.
After the closure of his company, Makhonin actively sold studio musical equipment on one of the free classifieds sites. For expensive (and sometimes rare) pieces of hardware, the artist received a total of about one and a half million rubles.
Why doesn’t Mister Creed appear in public?
Mr. Credo is almost inactive on social networks. Despite everyone’s adoration and requests in the comments not to disappear, he abandoned his YouTube channel with 600 thousand subscribers in 2020. The last video was the composition “Quentin Quarantino”, dedicated to the covid pandemic. Pages on other sites banned in Russia have also been closed.
You can only find the artist on VK – here only 7.3 thousand people subscribe to Makhonin. But the musician’s posts suggest that he can now earn money by writing music for stocks. In addition, Mr. Credo is actively fighting the spread of pirated versions of his content on large streaming platforms.
And in 2022, he was going to sue one of the Russian TV channels and the showman Mikhail Galustyan for 30 million rubles for the use of his music. Judging by the website of the Ostankino District Court, the claim actually appeared in court in October of the same year, but already in December the application was returned to the plaintiff without satisfaction.
What does a musician own?
Alexander Makhonin lives (at least de jure) without luxury. In recent years, it can be found near one of the usual high-rise buildings in the capital’s Konkovo district. Here, on Ostrovityanova Street, Mister Credo occupies an apartment with an area of just over 76 square meters. Similar ones in this house can be purchased for around 25 million rubles. Judging by the Unified State Register of Real Estate, the living space may now be under encumbrance.
There is another apartment in Yekaterinburg – it is located in the Chkalovsky district of the city on Rodonitovaya Street. In an ordinary panel high-rise building there is a two-room apartment with an area of 53.5 square meters. meters – perhaps this is the parents’ home. However, it seems that the artist comes here quite often – the latest enforcement proceedings initiated by the FSSP of Yekaterinburg date back to 2024.
It is also known that recently the musician drove a BMW X5 crossover, on which he racked up 40 thousand rubles in fines, and before him the artist drove a prestigious full-size American Chrysler 300C sedan.
However, perhaps now the musician is completely horseless. In August 2022, for large delays in paying traffic fines (at that time, the FSSP was conducting 55 enforcement proceedings against Credo), the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow decided to deprive him of his driver’s license. The judge took this forced measure after it turned out that the musician’s seized accounts were empty and he had nothing to pay him with.
How does Mr. Creed’s son live?
Alexander Manokhin has a son, Arseny, who is registered in his father’s Moscow apartment. The 29-year-old guy is seriously involved in sports, judging by sports sites, he played football, and officially worked in the field of procurement in large manufacturing companies. In the spring of 2019, he unexpectedly decided to try his hand at business.
Then he became a co-founder of the company Stroykompleksinvest, which was engaged in the construction of residential and non-residential buildings. The company existed for only two years and was liquidated by the Federal Tax Service due to the presence of false information in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. However, in the incomplete first year of operation, 40 million rubles managed to pass through the company’s accounts.
After this, Arseny Makhonin was not officially involved in business.
Interestingly, with the liquidation of the company, the guy’s social networks also went silent; the last update occurred in the summer of that year.
