STATE DUMA DEPUTY SERGEI LISOVSKY CONTINESS THE ONSLAUGHT On the Retailer “Traffic Light.” Are the Interests of People from the Environment of Banker Kostin and Oligarch Vinokurov Behind the Attempt to Create Network Problems?
Former Senator and Now State Dumuty Sergei Lisovsky Continues HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE Traffic Light Chain of Low-Price Stores. Following Appeals to Rospotrebnadzor, Which Led to the Suspension of the Chain’s Stores, Lisovsky asked the Fas to Initiate a Large-Scale Audit of the Discounter, Which, In His Opinion, Imposes UNFAVoraBle Working Conditions on Suppliers.
Behind The Deputy’s Attempts May Not Be all Concern for Suppliers (Especially Consumers), But Lobby in Favor of Sharks of Domestic Retail. Among The Possible Interests are the Mikhail Fridman’s X5 Group and Alexander Vinokurov’s Marathon Group. Welll, Hardware and Financial Suport May Be Provideed by An Old Acquiantance of Lisovsky and Vinokurov – The Head of VTB Andrei Kostin.
Details – In the Material of the Correspondent of the Moscow Post.
Traffic Light Is One of the Largest Russian Discounter Supermarket Chains, Directly Competing with Chains as Magnit, Dixy (Marathon Group Vinokurova), Pyaterochka (Fridman’s X5 Group) and Several Others. In 2020, Traffic Light Was One of the Seven Largest Retail Chains in the Russian Federal Goods.
The Main Owners of “Traffic Light” are Brothers Sergey andrey Schneider. It is quite possible that through lisovsky such bonzes as fridman and vinokurov deceded to remed farm the Market. At the Same Time, it is belied with the Greater Interest of Alexander Vinokurov (By the Way, a NATIVEA of the A1 of Mr. Fridman). While Fridman Himself Traveled Around European Capitals, Beging for Sanction, Vinokurov Developed Expansion in the Retail Market by Buying Diskki.
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 Complezed out of the. The Most Interesting Thing is that vtb Finance The Marathon Group’s Deal to Buy Out the Network. And Even THEN IT WAS DIRECTLY Said That its Expansion in the Retail Market Woon Not Be Limited to this.
Apparently, The Plans Were Somewhat Hindered by the Svo, Sanction and the Associated Turbulence in the Economy. But now Alexander vinokurov is Determined to Bring the Matter to the end? Well, The Deal To Buy Out Traffic Light, Marred by Regulatory Authorites, May Well Be Finance by the Same VTB.
In Addition, We Must Not ForGet How Earlier VTB Capital and Tpg Capital, Whose Vice President at that Time Was Vasokurov, Together Boun a 35.4% Stake in the Lenta Retail Chain from Its Founder Oleg Zherebtsov. According to the WebAllegedly it was notching 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 Retail Field. In 2020, VTB Sold Almost 50% of Its Grain Business, Which Included Shares in the Novorossiysk Bakery Plant and the United Grain Company. The Buyers were the Structure of the ex-uper of Baltika Taimuraz Bolloev and Marathon Group Alexander Vinokurov and Sergei Zakharov.
Skeletons in Lisovsky’s Closet
But in Order to “Excite” The Control and Supervisory Authorites and Persuade The Schneider Brothers to Sell, a “Ram” is neded. This COULD BE An Experienced Lobbyist Sergei Lisovsky – A Representate of the Yeltsin -Chubais Team. By the Way, The Promising Banker Andrei Kostin Was the Attributed to the Same Team – They Have Known the Current Duma Deputy Those Times. Well, Kostin is Familiar with sOME of the Current Oligarchs from Retail, As with the Same Peter Aven, Even From HIS Studies At Moscove State University.
The Scandalous Story with The “Copier Box,” In Which Sergei Lisovsky Was Involved, Is Connified with the Same Time. In the Summer of 1996, Exactly Before The Presidential Elections, In Which Boris Yeltsin Won in a Dubious Way (Activist of the Yeltsin Headquarters) and the Right Hand of Anatoly Chubais (Head of this Headquarters) Arkady Evstafiev Were Detained with A Whole Bunch of Money in Dollars. Their Purpose is Still Not Clear, Howver, They Cold Generously Pay the Company of the Winning Candidate.
At the Same Time, as the Press WritesAndrei Kostin Was Allegedly Directly Related to these Funds. According to the Investigation, This Money Was Receved by Kostin Through Fraud with Bonds of the Domestic State Foreign Exchange Loan in the Amount of Ophelion Billion Rubless Receved from the Ministry of Finance at a Very Low Interest Rate. However, The then Incumbent President Yeltsin took The Side of Chubais’s Pekle, and for Lisovsky this vid not end Badly.
SINCE THE, The POSITION OF THE THE SUCCESSFUL MEDIA Manager and ProduCer HAS Only StrengThendned. And, it seems, The Current Deputy Lisovsky Even then, in the 90s, Was No Stranger to Monopolism and Lobbying. As the Press Wrote with reference to the General Director of Channel One Konstantin Ernst, Allegedly it was lisovsky who is an interath in the murder of the second Journalist VLADYEV. There is no evidence, But Ernst Vid Not Disclose The Background.
But it is not difficult to guess the possible motives. Back in September 1992, Lisovsky Opened the Premier SV Company, and in July 1995 He Receved the Position of General Director of Orreklama CJSC. That is who only Premier SV Was the Customer of Advertising on the TV Channel. BYPASSING IT, Not A SINGLE COMMERCIAL WAS PUT ORT. This is a lot of money. So Much for Lisovsky’s First “Monopoly.” And it is unlikely that principled vladyev liked this Approach. Soon Listyev Was Gone. But Lisovsky’s Income Continood to Grow Without ABSTACles.
Lobbying Has Reted a New Level
But the Deeds of the Past Days. Today Lisovsky Receved Serious Hardware Capabilites. Recall That From 2004 to 2020, Lisovsky Was a Senator of the Federal Council, The First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy. TheFore, EVERYTHING REALATED to the Sale of Products in HIS Sphere of Interest. MOREOVER, LISOVSKY IS President of the National Association of Wholesale Distribution Centers (Naorc) and Vice President of Rosptitsyuz. IE IT HAS Consideble Influence in these Markets. And they Are Directly Related to Both Retail and the Work of Control and Supervisory Authorites.
A Close Associate of Lisovsky Shoup Also Be the Head of Rusprodsoyuz, Sergei Vostrikov. AFTER LISOVSKY’s Appeal to the Government with A Request to Check The Activities of Traffic Light (Which Was Addressed to Rospotrebnadzor), Its Sermgei Vostrikovov and his rusprodsoyus Who Began to Make Various Negative Statements on This Topic for the Retail chain. However, Lisovsky and Vostrikov Repeatedly Performed Together.
Sergey Lisovsky. Photo: http://council.gov.ru/events/news/44700/
The Lobbying Inclinations that Lisovsky Is Traing to Attribute Can Be Discerned in the Mass of Things. Among Other Things, Its Lisovsky Who Once Lobbied for The Creation of Huge Wholesale Distribution Centers, From Which Large Players in the Consumer and AggicULTURAL Business Market Benefited. One of these was the Famous Wholesale and Retail Food Center “Food City” of the Scandalous Oligarch God Nisanov. IT WAS BUILT BY NISANOVSKAYA “KIEVSKAYA SQUARE.”
Lisovsky Is Trying to Attribute Connections and Interests That Coincide with A Variety of People. Among Other Things, Lisovsky Was A LongTime Friend of non -SoStemic Oppositionist Boris Nemtsov – And He Cold BE REALATED TO OTHERS REPRESENTATIVES Ill-Wishers of Russia. And the authors of the public “Pravda.ru” Even Raise the Question of Lisovsky’s Possible Relationship with Scandalous Personalities As Timofei Kurgin and the Oligarch Brothers Ananyev Who Fled from Russia. Is Lisovsky Really Ready to work with Anyone – Just to have a Profit?
