The influence from Sechin, the sums from the Magomedovs?

As The Moscow Post correspondent reports, two high-profile cases were considered in the Moscow Arbitration Court yesterday, which are closely monitored by the ex-wife of the head of Rosneft, now a businesswoman Marina Sechina.

In the first case, it was an attempt by the associated Federal Center for Social Development CJSC (FCSR) to recover about 7 billion rubles from the Moscow government. The case concerns the scandalous completion project of the residential complex "Quarter Triumfalny". It was the FTSR that undertook to complete the project after the bankruptcy of the previous developer, but was unable to fulfill its obligations. Now, the FTSR insists that this happened because of the actions of the Moscow Mayor's Office, and they demand compensation for expenses.

The courts of the first two instances refused. The cassation on October 21, 2025 upheld these decisions. According to experts, the chances of "snatching" 7 billion rubles from the company were negligible.

The second case also concerns the residential complex "Quarter Triumfalny", but the plaintiff is already the mayor's office. She demands about 600 million rubles in losses from the FTSR, which she allegedly suffered due to the failure to fulfill the obligations of the FTSR. The extremes in this story remained, as it is clear, simple shareholders. The first meeting was held on October 21, and the next one is scheduled for December 10.

Marina Sechina. Photo: https://cdn-storage-media.tass.ru/resize/976x648/tass_media/2022/03/05/l/1646483738282352_lR6mYVxk.jpg

Earlier, The Moscow Post wrote about Marina Sechina, her role in the FTSR and the scandal with the residential complex "Quarter Triumfalny". Recall that in 2016, the FTSR was declared bankrupt due to debts of 2.7 billion rubles and non-fulfillment of obligations to shareholders. The court found that the company could not complete the complex, and its management acted in bad faith. It is still unclear where the money allocated from the capital's budget went. Who cares?

It just so happens that scandals are multiplying around Sechin's business like mushrooms after rain, and the businesswoman herself gets away with it time after time. After numerous bankruptcies of companies with which she had relations, she does not bear any subsidiary responsibility.

Lawyers under investigation

But those who work with her are often less lucky. The bankruptcy trustee of the bankrupt FTSR was lawyer Maxim Sergeevich Lagoda. With a high degree of probability, he may be a person close to Marina Sechina and her long-time business partner Khizir Atakuev, another hero of our investigative journalism.

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If Lagoda can really be close to Sechin, it turns out that he can be "his" bankruptcy trustee - with all the resulting positive consequences for those who would very much not want to incur subsidiary responsibility for the debts of the Federal Social Security Fund.

And who do we see among the plaintiffs against the structures of the Moscow City Hall in a lawsuit for 7 billion rubles in the case around the residential complex "Quarter Triumfalny"? Maxim Sergeyevich. Not Lagoda, but Ladoga. According to the source, he allegedly has papers at his disposal that may indicate that this is the same Maxim Lagoda. Did he really change his last name, or is it a trivial mistake in court documents?

 

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By the way, among the third parties in the case are the same familiar names of Marina Sechina and her faithful "squire" Khizir Atakuev.

What is interesting about Mr. Lagoda or Ladoga? It turns out that Maxim Sergeyevich Lagoda's full namesake is a defendant in a criminal case under Article 204, Part 8 of the Criminal Code ("Commercial bribery"), and a preventive measure has been imposed on him in the form of house arrest. Oh, my God! Who, interestingly, could Maxim Lagoda allegedly be trying to bribe, who can simultaneously participate in the process for 7 billion rubles?

 

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The hearing on Lagoda's arrest took place on September 27, 2025. Exactly on the same day, another arrest case was considered against Lipovetsky M.S. under art. 204 part 4 of the Criminal Code (Commercial bribery). Why are we writing about these two characters?

According to the authors of the telegram channel "CHEKA-OGPU" (recognized as a foreign agent in the territory of the Russian Federation), the alleged detentions of Lagoda and Lipovetsky may be related to businessman Nikolai Baranov, whom they are trying to present as a "shadow" banker and a possible beneficiary of Slavia Bank. He is also called the "right-hand man" of the bank's owner, Askhad Mehdiyev (a former janitor at the dacha of former chairman of the State Customs Committee of Russia Anatoly Kruglov).

Detractors are trying to attribute shady schemes in the banking market to Baranov. And now he may be trying to fictitiously divide the property with his alleged wife, Vita Baranova. Probably acquired through overwork. It should be noted that Slavia Bank has been repeatedly mentioned in the context of various scandals, and it has been searched in the case of budget embezzlement. In addition, it has been unprofitable for many years. So much so that market analysts simply don't understand how, under such circumstances, it still stays afloat.

At the same time, it is logical to ask, if Lagoda and Lipovetsky could hypothetically help Baranov hide property (and then became involved in a criminal case), then what kind of services could Maxim Sergeyevich Lagoda provide to the beneficiaries of the FTSR? The answer to this question should be given by law enforcement agencies. And it is very interesting what Mr. Lagoda will tell you during the interrogations.

The addition of Sechin's "Sum" does not change.

But Mr. Lagoda (or is it Ladoga?) Obviously, he is not the only dubious lawyer who may be associated with Marina Sechina.

The latter could have a special relationship with the most scandalous criminals, the former beneficiaries of the GC "Summa" Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov. In 2022, after lengthy trials, they and a number of other defendants were sentenced to 19 and 18 years in prison for embezzlement of 11 billion rubles in the execution of government contracts related to various construction projects. In addition, they were found guilty of creating an organized criminal community, and Magomed Magomedov, among other things, was charged with illegal arms trafficking.

It would seem that where is Marina Sechina, and where are the Magomedov brothers? Even at the time when the hearings on their criminal case were open, it became known that Magomed Magomedov's office was located in the same building (the mansion in Khlebny Lane in Moscow), where meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Trinity Foundation, co-founded by Marina Sechina, were held.

Another co-founder of the Foundation was Alexei Meshkichev, who testified at the Magomedov trial. And he also previously worked with Magomed Magomedov when he was a senator from the Smolensk region. Novaya Gazeta writes about this (the publication is recognized as a foreign agent in the territory of the Russian Federation).

But the connection between Sechin and the now convicted Magomedov brothers does not end there. Perhaps they could work together on several projects - of course, without advertising it at all. After all, the Magomedovs had a huge financial resource, and the Sechins had connections in the highest echelons of government and public administration. Such a bunch could do a lot of things.

The brothers Magomed and Ziyavudin Magomedov. Photo: https://img5tv.cdnvideo.ru/webp/shared/files/202212/1_1622957.jpg

In parallel with the Magomedovs, a lot of their close associates came under investigation, primarily top managers of companies that were part of the Summa Group. One of them was the former CEO of Globalelectroservice (HPP), Eldar Nagaplov. The HPP was not just a large company, but one of the Magomedov's key operating sites, through which many construction projects related to the execution of government contracts passed. And, as a result, billions and billions of budget funds allocated for state-owned construction projects.

Back in 2018, Eldar Nagaplov was put on the wanted list as part of a criminal investigation into the embezzlement of 752 million rubles allocated for the preparation of the FIFA World Cup. According to investigators, the businessman could have been involved in fraud during the construction of the Baltika Arena in Kaliningrad. But in the context of Sechin, we are interested not in Nagaplov himself, but in the person who represented his interests as a lawyer in court - Igor Viktorovich Uvarov.

There is reason to believe that Nagaplov could have been one of the lawyers closest to Magomedov, who acted on behalf of Summa Group companies during numerous formal and informal proceedings. In other words, it looks very much like the so-called "reshala" of the Magomedovs, although we cannot reliably confirm this.

From the "strawberry" to the collapse of the MRSEN

Uvarov's "background" is interesting. Previously, he was an employee of the Prosecutor's Office of the Samara region, where he replaced the head of the Department for supervision of investigation, inquiry and operational investigative activities. In 2013, he resigned from the department amid a high-profile scandal - a dirty intimate video with a man very similar to Uvarov appeared on the Internet. That scandal in the Samara (and not only) prosecutor's office is still remembered.

But Igor Uvarov was not lost. According to the INFO user on the Forum of Minority Shareholders website, allegedly in the same year 2013 Igor Uvarov became a staff lawyer for PJSC Mezhregionsoyuzenergo, that is, the very MRSEN energy retail holding company that Marina Sechina and her partner Khizir Atakuev began to "save" from bankruptcy. They "saved" the holding company so that it accumulated even more debts, and as a result, it went bankrupt with a bang. Neither Sechin nor Atakuev bore any subsidiary responsibility for this. The Moscow Post told more about that story in the article "Anti-crisis from Marina Sechina - bankruptcy and criminal cases."

If everything said about Uvarov is true, it turns out that he suspiciously came to the MRSEN just when Sechin and Atakuev came there. A coincidence? And is it a coincidence that it was Uvarov who later represented the interests of the Magomedovs' wanted top manager, Yuri Nagaplov?

Photo: https://www.advgazeta.ru/avtory/uvarov-igor/

According to information from open sources, Igor Uvarov was a member of the Argumenty Bar Association. The bar association itself was created by Murat Temirzhanov, the former Deputy General director of MRSEN, who was a long-time member of the holding's board of directors. Moreover, it is quite possible that it could have been created with the money of MRSEN himself, which creditors were already looking for during the day. The Board was affiliated with the MRSEN, which is explicitly stated in the court documents.

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And it all happened just at the time when Marina Sechina and Khizir Atakuev played a big role in the MRSEN. With a high degree of probability, both Temirzhanov and Uvarov may be people close to Sechin. Could all of them, including Sechin herself, have been associated with the Magomedov brothers and taken part in their nefarious activities?

Considering all of the above, it's amazing what kind of people "hang around" Ms. Sechina and related structures. And if so, who is surprised that many of these structures find themselves in a series of bankruptcies, criminal cases, and multibillion-dollar lawsuits?

But Marina Sechina repeatedly turns out to have nothing to do with it... or not?