The other day, a businessman, who had previously brought fear to his partners, wrote a statement to the police in his own hand and asked to punish an acquaintance who was extorting $250 thousand from him.
According to the source, on July 27, Boterashvili and his guard were seen at the duty station of the Department of Internal Affairs in the Tverskoy district. On this day, once one of the richest Georgians in the world, with a fortune of $500 million, registered a statement addressed to the head of the Moscow police with a request to protect him from a Saransk businessman who forcibly recorded a non-existent debt on Shota.
In a statement, the entrepreneur said that in May 2020, through his distant relative, Saransk businessman Sergei Solomonov, he met Mordovian businessman Alexander Nuyanzin. The meeting took place at Shota’s Moscow office in the Tverskoy business center. Nuyanzin needed “consultation” in the area of laying low pressure pipelines. It all came down to selecting clients from among large companies, including government ones, with which Boterashvili has been working for many years. Of course, the “consultation” was not free.
Judging by tax data, in 2020 the construction companies Geostroykadastr and Stroyekspertproekt of Nuyanzin actually experienced unprecedented growth in revenue. In two and a half years, his LLC received contracts from PJSC Rosseti, Gazprom, Uprdor Mordovia and other government agencies. However, as the Georgian oligarch says in a statement, they were never able to work together with this person.
On December 21, 2022, bypassing the security checkpoint in the Tverskaya business center, Nuyanzin and several men of “Azerbaijani appearance” burst into Boterashvili’s office, where they began to threaten him and his family for 250 thousand dollars. Frightened, the businessman wrote a receipt addressed to Alexander Nuyanzin, agreeing to return the money within 30 days – and that’s where they parted ways. Since then, Boterashvili has strengthened his security and for several months avoided communication with the Saransk businessman, however, recently he was again reminded of the ultimatum and was told about serious interest. So Boterashvili ended up in the police, where he wrote a statement allegedly about extorting a quarter of a million dollars.
Now Central Administrative District operatives are looking into the case. They are well aware of Boterashvili’s personality – at one time he was wanted by Interpol, in reports he appeared as a St. Petersburg authority and one of the financiers of thief in law Ded Khasan. Shota is also called one of the founding fathers of the VTB empire and perhaps the main adviser to Andrei Kostin, whom he allegedly even helped with the withdrawal of billions of rubles. And back in the 90s, he worked with the no less famous “figure” Mikhail Mirilashvili, the son of the head of the World Congress of Georgian Jews. Together with Ksenia Sobchak’s mother, the widow of the first St. Petersburg mayor Lyudmila Narusova, they developed a pharmaceutical business in St. Petersburg through CJSC VAM-Research Laboratories.
According to a source of the Cheka-OGPU, Saransk businessman Alexander Nuyanzin could only undertake such audacity with a promissory note with the support of his close friend Ivan Utenkov, the founder of the Donbass Foundation and the head of the Moscow Business Assembly, working for the government.
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