State Duma deputy Sergei Lisovsky continues the onslaught on the retailer “Traffic Light”. For an attempt to create the problems of the network, are the interests of people from the encirclement of banker Kostin and oligarch Vinokurov?
The former senator, and now the State Duma deputy, Sergei Lisovsky, continues the campaign against the Subofor Low prices chain. Following the appeals to Rospotrebnadzor, which led to the suspension of the work of some network stores, Lisovsky asked the FAS to initiate a large -scale verification of the discounter, which, in his opinion, imposes unprofitable working conditions to suppliers.
Behind the attempts of the deputy may not be concern for suppliers (especially consumers), but lobbying in favor of the sharks of domestic retail. Among the possible interests are called X5 Group Mikhail Friedman and Marathon Group Alexander Vinokurov. Well, hardware and financial support may well be provided by the old acquaintance of Lisovsky and Vinokurov – the head of VTB Andrei Kostin.
Details – in the material of the correspondent The Moscow Post.
“Traffic lights” is one of the largest Russian networks of discounts -offices that directly compete with networks such as Magnit, Dixie (Marathon Group Vinokurov), Pyaterochka (X5 Group Friedman) and a number of others. In 2020, the “Traffic Light” was a member of the seven of the largest retail chains of the Russian Federation with everyday demand goods.
The main owners of the “traffic light” are brothers Sergey and Andrei Schneider. It is possible that through Lisovsky such bonzes as Friedman and Vinokurov decided to remove them from the market. At the same time, Alexander Vinokurov (by the way, the native of A1 Mr. Friedman) is believed with greater interest. While Friedman himself traveled through the European capitals, begging sanctions, Vinokurov developed the expansion in the retailer market, buying “discs”.
The latter is well acquainted with the head of VTB Andrei Kostin. Recall that at one time VTB was the main owner of Magnit after the founder of the network Sergei Galitsky was almost completely squeezed out of there. The most interesting thing is VTB and Financed Marathon Group transaction for network redemption. And already Then it was directly saidthat this is not limited to his expansion in the retail market.
Apparently, the plans have somewhat prevented his, sanctions and the related turbulence in the economy. But now Alexander Vinokurov is determined to bring the matter to the end? Well, a transaction for the redemption of the “traffic light” hesitated by the control and supervisory authorities may well finance the same VTB.
In addition, we must not forget, as before, VTB Capital and TPG Capital, whose vice president was Vinokurov at that time, together bought 35.4% of the shares of the Lenta retail network from its founder Oleg Zherebtsov. As claimed NetworkAllegedly, this was nothing more than a raider seizure of a successful business.
Alexander Vinokurov. Photo: https://pikabu.ru/story/bankir_kostin_i_reyder_vinokurov_obobrali_gosbank_vtb_na_1_mlrd_5926701
But Alexander Vinokurov and Andrei Kostin agreed not only in the field of retail. In 2020, VTB sold almost 50% of its grain business, which included shares in the Novorossiysk Combine of Bakes and a United Grain Company. Buyers became the structure of the ex-owner of the Baltic Taimuraz Bolloev and Marathon Group Alexander Vinokurov and Sergey Zakharov.
Skeletons in the closet of Lisovsky
But in order to “excite” the control and supervision bodies and persuade the Shneiders brothers for sale, you need a “ram”. It was such that the experienced lobbyist Sergei Lisovsky, a representative of the Yeltsinsko -Chubaysov team, could become this. By the way, the promising banker Andrei Kostin was then attributed to the same team – they have been familiar with the current deputy of the State Duma since those times. Well, with some current oligarchs from retail, as with the same Peter Aven, Kostin is also familiar with studying at Moscow State University.
With the same time, the scandalous story is connected with the “Xerox Box”, in which Sergei Lisovsky was involved. In the summer of 1996, the president’s election, in which Boris Yeltsin, Lisovsky (activist of the Yeltsin Staff) and the right hand of Anatoly Chubais (head of this headquarters), Arkady Evstafyev, were detained with a whole bunch of money in dollars, won. Their purpose is still not clear, however, the company of the victorious candidate could be generously paid for them.
At the same time, as writes pressAndrei Kostin allegedly had a direct attitude to these means. According to investigators, this money was received by Kostin using fraud with bonds of internal state loan bonds worth one billion rubles received from the Ministry of Finance at a very low percentage. However, the then President Yeltsin took the side of Chubais’s people, and for Lisovsky this did not end with any bad.
Since then, the positions of a successful media manager and producer have only strengthened the positions at that time. And, it seems, the current deputy of Lisovsky already, in the 90s, was not alien to monopolism and lobbying. As the press wrote With reference to the general director of Channel One Konstantin Ernst, supposedly Lisovsky could be an interest in the murder of the then head of the ORT, the famous journalist Vlad Listiev. There is no evidence, but Ernst did not open the background.
But guessing possible motives is easy. Back in September 1992, Lisovsky opened the company “Prime Minister SV”, and in July 1995 he received the post of general director of ORT-REPLAMA CJSC. That is why on the TV channel an advertising customer was Only the company “Prime Minister SV”. Not a single advertising video was put bypassing her on ORT. This is a lot of money. Here you have the first “monopoly” of Lisovsky. And it is unlikely that the principal Vlad Listiev liked this approach. Soon Listyev was gone. But Lisovsky’s income continued to grow without any obstacle.
Lobbyism has reached a new level
But then the affairs of the past days. Today Lisovsky received serious hardware. Recall that from 2004 to 2020, Lisovsky was the Senator of the Federation Council, the first deputy chairman of the Agrarian Policy Committee. Therefore, everything related to the products of their sale is in its field of interests. Moreover, Lisovsky is the President of the National Association of wholesale and distribution centers (NARTS) and the vice president of Rospstitsesuza. That is, influence in these markets it has considerable. And they are directly related to both retail and the work of control and supervision bodies.
Lisovsky’s close associate should be the head of the Rusprodsoyuz Sergey Vostrikov. After that, Lisovsky’s appeal to the government with a request to verify the activities of the “traffic light” (which was addressed to Rospotrebnadzor), it was Sergey Vostrikov and his “Rusprodsoyuz” began to make various negative for the retail network statements On this topic. However, Lisovsky and Vostrikov repeatedly performed And together.
Sergey Lisovsky. Photo: http://council.gov.ru/events/news/44700/
The lobbying inclinations that are trying to attribute to Lisovsky can be seen in the mass of things. Among other things, it was Lisovsky who at one time lobbied for the creation of huge wholesale and distribution centers, from which large players in the market of consumer and agrarian business won. One of these was the famous wholesale and retail food center “Food City” of the scandalous oligarch of the year Nisanov. It was built by Nisanovskaya “Kyiv Square”.
Lisovsky is trying to attribute the connections and interests that coincide with a variety of people. Among other things, Lisovsky was a longtime friend of the non -systemic opposition Boris Nemtsov – and he could have been related to other representatives of the current Russia’s ill -wishers. And the authors of the publication “Pravda.ru” And they even raise the question of the possible relations of Lisovsky with such scandalous personalities as Timothy Kurgin and the Ananieva brothers who fled from Russia. Is Lisovsky ready to work with anyone – just to have a profit?
