For some reason, the owners of the ABC of Taste Maxim Koshcheenko and Oleg Lytkin created an illusion in the media that their business supposedly left offshores, in fact he drowned in them.
The Northgroup company Alexei Mordashova is a serious interest in buying a Reteler of the ABC Taste. Previously, this structure has acquired the Lenta and Kopeyka retail chains, and now he wants to strengthen the business brand from the so-called premium segment.
The correspondent of The Moscow Post understood the history.
The head legal entity of the business is the ABC Taste LLC with the general director of Koshcheenko, who was mysteriously disappeared from the founders (for some reason, his departure is not reflected in the examination), after which the Cyprus Offshore Sanimon Corporation Limited (Sanymon Corporation Limited). This structure is located Under control Koshcheenko and Lytkina.
Also, Demanor Investments Limited, which became a defendant in scandals, was recorded on Lytkin in Cyprus jurisdiction. The media called this structure the owner of the business “ABC of taste” in the Russian Federationbecause her own was a key to the retail chain of the city supermarket LLC (it was recorded on it).
Pseudo -deophoshorization
In April 2024, the President of the ABC of Taste, Denis Sologub filed a lawsuit in order to suspend the rights of ownership at Demanor Investments Limited, as a foreign owner of an economically significant organizations. However, for the next attempt by managers to squeeze out the business with the owners, it was not like it. Sologub, apparently, at that time had normal relations with Koshcheenko and Lytkin.
Alexey Mordashov. Photo: https://cdn.forbes.ru/files/c/1216×680/55078.jpg__161156076__78775.jpg
It is important that the judicial actions of Sologub occurred immediately after the Ministry of Industry and Trade filed a lawsuit with the court to suspend the corporate rights of the Netherlands company X5 Retail Group NV in relation to the TV network of the same name. It seems that Koshcheenko and Lytkin were afraid to lose control of the business and initiated this statement by Sologub, which is their person. Previously, Sologub was the general director of Fruct – Import LLC, which is of which Vladimir Tsyplenkov is listed, he is also the former head of the Vinny Bar LLC. In the “ABC of taste” Sologub also He is a minority shareholder.
The court supported Sologub’s lawsuit after which the city supermarket LLC was re -registered at the ABC TAS LLC, which Koshcheenko and Lytkin were also owned through offshore. In October 2024, the ABC Taste LLC allegedly left the capital of the city supermarket LLC, but after that, there is no information about the founders of this structure.
Really forgery?
Obviously, the beneficiaries of the ABC of Taste went here for a forgery and did not fulfill the requirements of the court – at least from May to October, the City Supermarket LLC was under the control of the company whose final beneficiary is the Cyprus Offshore. At the same time, the company conducted a powerful information company, from which it turned out that the ABC of Taste at the beginning of June 2024 was supposedly Russified.
Now we see that this is not so. Whether the court must decide all this by a criminal offense, and the prosecutors of the prosecutor’s office should qualify, but we have before us suspicious legal actions that may be imaginary. After all, in addition to the media were introduced into ignorance and state bodies in the person The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
And this is not the only muddy lawsuit of the ABC of Taste. You can still give a dispute on intellectual property with Kew Lab LLC, which has ended his rejection of his claims.
Going abroad?
Why do this? It seems that Lytkin and Kocheenko do not connect their life with Russia and prepare a business for sale, which is why the “Seversiro” Severstal “Severstal” Aleksey Mordashov appeared here, who, in addition to the “tape” and “pennies”, bought a rainbow smile recently.
Maxim Koshcheenko. Photo: https://img03.rl0.ru/afisha/1500x-/daily.afisha.ru/uPloads/images/bd/bdca38aa4173829d5766785444EB9.jpg
Despite the fact that Lytkin through Demanor Investments Limited was the actual beneficiary of the business, in August of Taste, according to our source, he held the position of consultant. He prescribed it in 2017 in a statement to the police after theft of his car.
Where Lytkin is now unknown, but Koshcheenko, as our source notes, takes place in the Russian database as a resident of Kazakhstan, where, apparently, he left after the events of 2022. Also, a man in 1999 was convicted of non -payment of an income tax on a serious amount of almost 5.4 million rubles at that time under Part 1 of Art. 198 Criminal Code.
Yakubovsky and Vdovin
The company “ABC of Taste” was founded in 1992 by Maxim Kocheenko, Oleg Lytkin, Sergey Vereshchagin and Oleg Trykin. Vereshchagin, apparently, was a relative of Lytkin along the line of his wife. This four men appears in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities as the founders of Vinnaya Bar LLC and LLC Amaltya Investments. These structures were closed in the past decade, after which the business went to Koshcheenko and Lytkin. Even the partners in the beginning of the zero years had Ernan CJSC, where Koshcheenko was a director, and Lytkin was an employee.
In addition to an ambiguous political position, Lytkin and Koshcheenko have other motivations in order to part with the “ABC of Taste”. In 2023, the case of Kirill Yakubovsky began, who is still called the co -owner of the ABC of Taste, although he left business in 2014.
Two years ago, Yakubovsky was attracted under Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for the theft of 83.5 million rubles, which he received from a number of entrepreneurs for financing the activities of Vi Eim Uay Holding Limited, where Yakubovsky was 25%.
Andrey Vdovin. Photo: https://cdn.forbes.ru/files/c/1824×1146/story_images/snimok-ekrana-2018-05-16-v-16.01.jpg__1526476244__6969.jpg
In the fall of 2016, payments on these loans ceased, after which the victims were recognized as entrepreneur Mikhail Vishnyakov and four companies. In addition to Yakubovsky, his former partner Andrei Vdovin was arrested in absentia. This character is also included in the Contour of the ABC of Taste as a companion of Yakubovsky, but unlike him a man disappeared abroad.
Coins seller
Vdovin is a colorful personality and a clever businessman. According to rumors, it was to him that the ABC of Taste owes his current positions in the form of hundreds of stores and the market value of a business of 40 billion rubles. Vdovin used a variety of methods for personal enrichment, he even sold ancient coins with a margin of his ATB bank.
In ATB, he actively worked with offshores, that is, with such companies through which Lytkin, along with Koshcheenko, possess the “ABC of taste”. One of the episodes that charges Widow are two atb loans from offshore companies, where the entrepreneur acted as a guarantor. It was about $ 13 million. Naturally, the money to the creditor did not return.
According to the same scheme, Vdovin occupied $ 11 million from Finprombank, but then evaporated, even if the ASV for these tricks began the case of his bankruptcy. In the case of Finprombank, by the way, Musa Bazhaev, who was the beneficiary of this credit institution, indirectly helped him. Finprombank then issued Vdovin money before the recall of the Central Bank license. The plot with M2M Privat Bank is also associated with it, from where the money was withdrawn in favor of the beneficiaries and a hole of 10 billion rubles was created.
In the middle of the tenths, Dovin’s relationship with Yakubovsky deteriorated, after which he bought his share in a joint business due to a loan from Alexander Abramov and Roman Abramovich. For this reason, when the media talk about the “ABC of Taste”, they also recall these top-oligarchs.
“ABC” on a pencil?
Now the bodies again remembered the widow and began to check everything that was connected with him. This could aggravate the panic moods of Lytkin and Koshcheenko that they first re -register their business in a strange way, and then began to negotiate Mordashov.
This happens simultaneously with a bureaucratic roll-yesterday the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin entered one of the St. Petersburg stores of the ABC of Taste and was shocked by prices, saying that “they are lying to the president and country.” At the same time, Albin Surely I did not know about those spent The beneficiaries of legal manipulations.