The beneficiary of the VIS group and its companions lose assets while on the verge of a criminal case?
The bankruptcy trustee of the former re-operator for the management of the Ecology-Novosibirsk, which is in the process of bankruptcy, intends to achieve bankruptcy of the VIS Stroymash company in court in court. The basis was the court decision that has entered into force, which recognized two transactions concluded between legal entities, as a result of which the VISA Stroymash should pay Ecology-Novosibirsk more than 46.2 million rubles. The founder of the VIS Stroymash LLC is the production company LLC ” VIS ”, which is part of the“ VIS ”group, whose beneficiary is billionaire Igor Snegurov, And the ex-gender is the scandalously known former top manager of Gazprom structures Dmitry Dev. The Ecology-Novosibirsk itself was declared bankrupt, and against its former general director Larisa Anisimova, a criminal case of billions of embezzlement has been instituted. The defendant of the other case was the ex-Minister of Housing and communal services of the region Denis Arkhipov: he is charged with a rejection of the requirement of mandatory payment by a bank guarantee by the re-operator and, as a result, the loss of 220 million rubles by the regional budget. In addition, in 2022, the Novosibirsk Governor Andrei Travnikov achieved the termination of the concession agreement signed with Ecology-Novosibirsk to build two garbage plants with a total value of 6.5 billion rubles. In parallel, manager Vladislav Baryaev seeks the return of funds to the bankruptcy estate of a bankrupt enterprise. In particular, he made a ban for the VIS Civil Code for transactions with a share in the authorized capital of the VIS PF, through which the former re -operator was monitored. The court also arrested funds in bank accounts of a number of individuals, including Igor Snegurov and Dmitry Duev, the manager insists on the debts of the “Ecology-Novosibirsk debts”. That’s just given the receipt by the structures of “VIS” billion contracts and their connection with offshores, on the foreign accounts of Snegurov and his business partners could settle much larger amounts than they appear in criminal cases and are voiced during the trial.
“Ecology-Novosibirsk” will go over the structure of “VIS”?
Representative of the bankruptcy trustee of the former re -operator for municipal waste in the process of bankruptcy LLC “Ecology-Novosibirsk” Vladislav Baryaev Published on the portal “Fedresurs” an official message about his intention to file a claim for bankruptcy of the affiliated with the ex-operator LLC “VIS Stroymash”.
The basis was the recognition by the Arbitration Court of the Novosibirsk Region invalid two transactions concluded between enterprises, as a result of which the Vis Stroymash should pay more Ecology-Novosibirsk 46.2 million rubles. The report on Fedresurs emphasizes that the court ruling has entered into legal force.
The construction company “VIS Stroymash” is registered in Gatchina. According to the results of 2023, she declared revenue in the amount 2.8 billion rubles and profit in 23.3 million. True, its financial situation is not stable: a year earlier with revenue in 1.8 billion The company reported on losses in 52 million rubles.
The only founder “VIS Buildmash” is the scandalously known Production company “VIS”(LLC “PF” VIS “), in turn, included in the structure VIS groupswhose beneficiary is a billionaire Igor Snegurovand the ex-get director is the odious former top manager of structures Gazprom Dmitry DevLeft from the post in February 2024.
Novosibirsk projects of the VIS group
Here it is worth briefly reminded the story of the Ecology-Novosibirsk itself. She received the status of a re-operator on the treatment of MSW in the Novosibirsk Region for a 10-year period in July 2018, under the current governor Andrei Travnikovaccording to the result of a competition held by regional Minzhkkh. And two years earlier, in May 2016, under the previous head of the region Vladimir Gorodetskwith the Ecology-Novosibirsk signed a concession agreement for the construction of two garbage plants with an annual capacity of 400 thousand tons each and with a total value 6.5 billion rubles.
It would seem that cooperation promises to be promising, especially since back in September 2017 “Siberian concession company” (LLC “SKK”), controlled by the group through the aforementioned VIS production company, became the winner of the competition for the signing of the concession agreement on the construction of the fourth bridge across the Ob in Novosibirsk with a total cost40.5 billion rublesof which 10.4 billion I had to invest a concessionaire.
Looking ahead not to be distracted from the main topic, we note that the company had to begin construction work in early 2018, but the preparation of the territory for the construction of the facility began only in 2019. It was originally planned to complete the work until the end of 2022, but then the deadline was postponed to September 2023, then for 2024. As a result of the readiness of the first of two tunnels of the bridge by 90%and its opening to pass special equipment, the VIS press service reported only last week.
It is noteworthy that in December the SCC in court tried to achieve a change in the deadlines for the execution of the Agreement and transfer the deadline for putting the facility into operation at the end of 2025, but the Novosibirsk Regional Arbitration rejected the concessionaire’s claim to the regional government.
As they say, Shatko, but Walkko, the work is going on. With other VIS projects, everything is much worse. Thus, the concession on the construction of garbage plants with Ecology-Novosibirsk Minezhkkh of the region terminated in May 2022. An interesting commentary to the local media about this was given by Governor Andrei Travnikov:
At the same time, the governor emphasized that a new competition is being prepared “On fundamentally new conditions”and with the Ecology-Novosibirsk cooperation will continue exclusively as with the re-operator. As a result, the agreements for the construction of factories were signed in October and November 2023 from MUP “Special Authority”. But by this time, the garbage operator was already not even in a state of crisis: he passed the bankruptcy procedure.
The re -operator “made” for the article
With a lawsuit of self-banking, the leadership of Ecology-Novosibirsk appealed to the arbitration in December 2021, indicating as a reason the presence of debt obligations in the amount of more 1.8 billion rubles. In October 2022, the company introduced external management, and the register of creditors included requirements for the amount from above 860 million. In February 2023, the company was deprived of the status of the re-operator, its duties were temporarily assigned to the MUP “Spetsavtzavortiyeiya”.
In addition, in January 2023, it became known that the Novosibirsk prosecutor’s office achieved initiation against the top management of the company of criminal case of particularly large fraud. It was about those who were unpaid to one of the carriers 30 million And more embezzlement 1 billion rublescollected by the re-operator as a fee from the population and legal entities in 2020-2021. and transferred to an affiliated commercial structure.
As a result, the charges of billions of billion fraud were brought by the ex-director of Ecology-Novosibirsk Larisa Anisimovawhich is currently under consideration in the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Novosibirsk. By the way, the former Minister of Housing and Public Utilities of the region was a defendant in another case Denis Arkhipovaccused of abuse of authority and abuse of them. According to the investigation, he abandoned the requirement of the mandatory payment by a bank guarantee by the re -operator, as a result of which the regional budget was not received 220 million rubles.
Also in the ex-official case there is an episode about the illegal provision 10 millionth subsidies to the company “Eco -operator”who participated in the competition for the status of the “trash” of the re -operator, but the loser. After the detention in March 2024, Arkhipov was in custody, but last week the media reported to change his preventive measure and transfer under house arrest.
Offshore “pockets” Igor Snegurov
As we can verify, illegal activity in Ecology-Novosibirsk was conducted on a grand scale. In the meantime, the investigation and the prosecutor’s office unravel the ball of financial fraud, the bankruptcy trustee Vladislav Baryaev makes maximum efforts to return the money of a bankrupt enterprise.
Here, his attention was focused on the structures of the VIS group and its beneficiary – billionaire Igor Snegurov. Last year, Baryaev in court received a ban for the VIS Group of Writing to the alienation or encumbrance of the share in the authorized capital of the VIS PF, through which the re -operator was monitored. Recall that we are talking about the company – the official founder of the VIS Building Mash, which was mentioned at the very beginning.
In addition, last March, the Novosibirsk arbitration granted the statement of one of the creditors of Ecology-Novosibirsk-the company “Ecoservice” – arresting funds within 874.1 million rublesIn the bank accounts of a number of individuals, including Igor Snegurov and Dmitry Duev, on the bringing of which the manager insists to subsidiary liability for the debts of the former re -operator. Similar claims are made by PF “VIS” and the group itself.
An interesting circumstance: in February 2024, disputing the introduction of interim measures, representatives of the group pointed out the lack of funds from VIS, including the continuation of the implementation of the project for the construction of the fourth bridge in Novosibirsk. We want to add about how the construction was mentioned above: when the conversation comes about the absence of finances for the “VIS” structures, we should not forget about its affiliation with offshores.
An example is the company “Vis Development”liquidated no further, as in the last August, belonging to Snegurov himself and his LLC “Leninskoye”who is in the process of liquidation at present. Until the beginning of 2022, the founders of the VISTELOPRAM was a Cyprus offshore was included “RIZ SIBERIA LIMITED”. At the same time, the company managed to earn more on state contracts 8.8 billion rubles. Could some of these funds “dissolve” in foreign accounts?
And here is another example. Until August 2018, Snegurov served as a general director “Yamal oil and and chemical company” (LLC “Yangk”), liquidated in December 2019. Yangk founders were two Swedish offshore at once “Raiz Capital Ab” And “Raiz Capital Prostect Ab”.
In such layouts, is it surprised that at the end of 2017, the Pravda URFO publication wrote about the checks of the prosecutor’s office of the Yamalo -Nenets Autonomous Okrug, held by the Government of the region as part of an agreement with the aforementioned VISELOPRAME company? Among other things, the publication spoke of the acquisition of several kindergartens and schools for 9.3 billion rublesas well as equipment for kindergarten in the hills worth 95.78 million. Also, according to the publication, the head of the Yamalo -Nenets Autonomous Office Dmitry Kobylkin (at present – the State Duma deputy) actively lobbied for the program “VIS” of the construction of part of the railway line and related infrastructure as part of the creation of the northern latitudinal move.
In the context of what was said, the story of billions with billions in Ecology-Novosibirsk may be a “drop in the sea” of financial fraud, for years carried out by VIS structures. Against this background, the arrest of the benefits of the beneficiaries of the former re -operator and the requirements for the Vis Stroymash are just the first step to returning that it was settled in the bottomless pockets of Snegurov and his companions.
