Severilov offshore pipeline: ex-son-in-law of Mishustin sold energy assets

Former son-in-law of Mikhail Mishustin, Alexander Udodov, "leaked" his energy assets to a freshly baked company and went into microcredit.

Author: Anastasia Stepanova, 28 March 2024 07:42

Фото: RIA Novosti

Former son-in-law of Mikhail Mishustin, Alexander Udodov, "leaked" his energy assets to a freshly baked company and went into microcredit.

Along the chain of ownership, Udodov lost such assets as Interregional Grid Company, Sevastopolenergo, which, through the sale of a stake in Aphorra Engineering LLC, went to an unknown Digital Investments JSC, where, under the guise of a beneficiary, most likely a nominal owner.

At the same time, traces of this JSC led UtroNews to the Rostec state corporation and a certain offshore company POPUS MANAGEMENT LIMITED, among whose directors ARMANDO ROGEL VILA CABRERA, close to oligarch Andrei Severilov, was noted.

Also, the interests of a company from the Rosatom division and the state bank RNKB may be involved in the transaction, which included the shares of subsidiaries just during the transaction.

Udodov himself confirmed that he was married to the sister of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Natalia Stenina in an interview with Izvestia in 2020. And less than a year later, there were reports that the native of Ukraine Udodov and Stenina divorced. At the same time, Stenina left the assets shared with Udodov.

In January 2024, Mr. Udodov shook up his business pot, selling a stake in one company and buying Pegasus Microcredit Company LLC.

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A 50% stake in Aphorra Engineering LLC was sold, which owns shares in three subsidiaries: Aphorra Management LLC, Krasnoyarsk Vash Service LLC (sports activities) and Interregional Grid Company (electricity production, share - 25%).

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Interregional Grid Company, in turn, is the owner of five "subsidiary" assets, including Sevastopolenergo LLC and S-Plus. In the last partner of MSK, JSC Concern Rosenergoatom is from the division of the state corporation Rosatom, which owns the share of MSK.

"S-Plus" is also a large transit of budget tranches: as a supplier, 17 state contracts for 1.5 billion rubles passed through it, and as a customer - almost 600 for a total of almost 9 billion rubles. Sevastopolenergo LLC was also a supplier (195 state contracts worth 1.2 billion rubles) and a customer (4.2 thousand state contracts worth 11.4 billion rubles). In addition, S-Plus has a stake in the certification LLC NIC Promtest.

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Thus, the sale of the inconspicuous Aphorra Engineering pulled the entire chain of ownership and the sale of large energy assets.

It's interesting: since February 2024, the share of MSK in Sevastopolenergo has also been pledged to the state bank RNKB. Perhaps in the initial deal there was their interest?

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At the same time, Dmitry Milovantsev remained 50% of the share in Aphorra Engineering, with whom Udodov is associated with other assets, for example, LLC SGL-Holding.

Milovantsev is a former head of the Federal Communications Agency, ex-Deputy Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation (associate of Leonid Reiman), in 2017 appointed adviser to the state-owned company Rostelecom.

Dark Horse: Who bought the assets?

Udodov's share in Aphorra Engineering went to a "dark horse" - a certain JSC Digital Investments, established in September 2023 in Moscow by the unknown Inna Nekrasova, who has no other assets (TIN received in the Voronezh region).

Everything suggests that the lady, who is also the director of the company, may be someone's face value. This also confirms that the company cannot boast of any assets: the authorized capital is 100 thousand rubles, its cost is 57 thousand rubles. And the deal with Udodov was clearly for a tidy amount. Who is behind the JSC?

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Meanwhile, together with Digital Investments, a certain Solar LLC, which works in the field of law, is spelled out in one office. It is headed by Ekaterina Kalashnikova, who is also a co-owner of the IT company - Fortes PRO LLC. And the share in it was sold to her by RT-Invest Finance LLC, which was related to the division of the Rostec state corporation and Andrei Shipelov, close to the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov.

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Shipelov is called the "garbage king" and son-in-law of the Nizhny Novgorod deputy Vadim Agafonov (they, by the way, were connected by at least one company - Tsaritsyn Capital LLC).

In addition, Shipelov was a top manager of the state venture capital fund - Russian Venture Company OJSC, is one of the shareholders of RT-Invest Transport Systems LLC, which is implementing the Platon project. Shipelov was also called the beneficiary of the scandalous project for the construction of incinerators for the Moscow region and Kazan, which caused mass protests of the population.

But let's return directly to Kalashnikova and Solar.

Traces lead to Severilov and his offshore companies

Solar belongs to the Cypriot offshore company POPUS MANAGEMENT LIMITED, which also owns Jarvis LLC, which is led by the same lady. In addition, she is also the director of Invest Engineering LLC, which is owned by the Cypriot MIRSOMUS TRADING LIMITED.

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And now the most interesting thing. ARMANDO ROGEL VILA CABRERA is listed as a director in both POPUS MANAGEMENT LIMITED and MIRSOMUS TRADING LIMITED, and companies such as PARALLEL NOMINEES CYPRUS LIMITED, STEVONA MANAGEMENT have inherited in their biographies LTD.

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ARMANDO ROGEL VILA CABRERA in one of the litigation in the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean Islands stated that he, they say, is a companion of the Russian oligarch and head of the board of directors of the FESCO group Andrei Severilov. The case, which was heard in a foreign court, concerned the ex-minister of the "Open Government" Mikhail Abyzov, who was sentenced to 12 years for creating a criminal community using his official position, fraud, illegal entrepreneurship and laundering of criminally acquired money and property. Investigators estimated the scam involving a group of offshore companies at 4 billion rubles. In their opinion, this is how much was stolen from Sibeko and Regional Electric Networks and taken abroad through an offshore chain.

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In all, Mr Cabrera is also said to have more than 160 companies in different countries, according to reports, including those featuring, along with Cabrera, a Russian writer living in Cyprus, Sergei Tyulenev. For example, the London TWIST SERVICE LLP.

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Tyulenev repeatedly reported, including in a statement to law enforcement agencies, that he had not established any firms and was not their director, and took advantage of his credulity. He also stated that he handed over his passport to a friend - Andrei Severilov, and later found out that he had become the founder of almost hundreds of offshore firms through which dubious transactions were carried out.

Moreover, STEVONA MANAGEMENT LTD and PARALLEL NOMINEES, which were noted in conjunction with offshore companies led by Kalashnikova, also appear in the chain of affiliates of Loko-Bank, where Andrei Severilov had a share, and PARALLEL NOMINEES LTD belonged to Ms. Ishchuk, making up one group of persons with him.

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PARALLEL NOMINEES employees were also involved in the nationalization of FESCO shares transferred from the convicted Magomedov brothers to the state. Then the court materials directly stated that Severilov was only a nominal shareholder acting in the interests of the brothers, and his connection with offshore companies was revealed.

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In favor of the version that it is Severilov who may be behind the sale of energy assets, Udodova also says that Mr. Milovantsev, who remained the owner of a 50% stake in Aphorra Engineering LLC, also crossed paths through Zheldorconsulting LLC with offshore companies close to Severilov. So in the biography of the company inherited VOLTARO TRADING LIMITED, ZINAGORI LIMITED, the director of which was the same Cabrera and the PARALLEL group.

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But, if energy assets have gone under the control of offshore companies, in the light of the campaign for deoffshorization and nationalization, such a step is very rash. The transaction itself, or rather buyers, would not be superfluous to check the Sledky.