Moscow again becomes an arena for dubious transactions, in the center of which is the ex-Silovik Maxim Kagansky convicted of fraud.
This person, whose name has long been associated with shadow schemes, now turned out to be a co -owner of a company that will finish the elite complex at Maly Levshinsky Lane. Surprisingly, the object previously belonged to the PSN group of fugitive oligarchs of the Ananiev brothers. Coincidence? Do not laugh.
So far, ordinary Russians are fighting for a mortgage, Kagansky, along with partners – Renat Aigistov, Andrei Eliseev (native of the PSN group) and businessman Andrei Shoshnev, calmly intercepts the varnish pieces of metropolitan real estate. Moreover, as it turned out, the structure of ownership of Real Invest LLC is pushing for quite logical questions: who actually controls the assets?
Offshore traces lead to Ananiev?
Officially, Real Invest belongs to the Kagansky and Cyprus offshore Lari Investments Limited, already familiar to the structure that appeared in the chain of offshore fraud around the Ananievs. This company flashed as part of the founders of Polyanka/44 LLC, through which schemes with the participation of the same anonymous offshores – Kelrot Limited and Lireidge Limited. Moreover, the last two companies managed to visit the trials with Promsvyazbank, from where the Ananievs withdrew fabulous amounts abroad.
But the most interesting thing is that many companies, affiliated with the Ananievs, are still not formally eliminated, but continue to exist in limbo. LLC PSN PM with zero revenue, but the Cyprus owner represented by Lireidge Limited is one of these ghosts. It would seem, why maintain unprofitable companies? Unless for a convenient transfer of assets into the right hands.
And here is the answer – the asset passes into the hands of Kagansky, a person with a criminal past and dubious reputation. It looks that he is just a dummy person acting in the interests of bankers hiding abroad.
Where did the money for the construction come from?
Kagansky and his team are involved in another suspicious structure – SZ LLC Stroykandcent, which supposedly should be engaged in the implementation of the project on Levshinsky Lane. Only here is a catch: the Building concept has zero revenue in recent years. From what kind of money they are going to build housing?
The answer suggests itself: Kagansky does not have their own funds, but the Ananievs have plenty of them. It turns out that the fugitive oligarchs, despite the loud scandals, continue to hold their hand on the pulse of the Russian development?
And the most piquant: Kagansky and its partners began to create firms with “geographical” names-LLC “Vostok-59”, LLC “Sever-48”, LLC “South-69”. For what? Indeed, at the time of their registration, the project has not yet passed into their hands. So everything was decided in advance? It turns out that the Kagansky simply executes a pre -agreed scheme.
The only question is in one thing – why did this still have not interested anyone?
Dmitry Ananyev. Photo: https://s0.rbk.ru/v6_top_pics/media/img/4/89/755616323831894.jpeg
The scheme became extremely obvious: as soon as the ANANEV brothers group began the self-destruction procedure, and the progress-n LLC-its main legal entity-submitted a bankruptcy application, immediately, as if by signal, Maxim Kagansky enters the stage. Coincidence? Believe in fairy tales.
It was during this period that Kagansky and his “colleagues” suddenly have new companies. At the same time, the Stroybusiness of the Ananievs seems to be crumbling, but for some reason structures are growing on his wreckage, affiliated with a person who does not have a dime for such projects. That is, we are talking either about a pre -planned maneuver, or that Kagansky is simply a convenient “screen” for real assets owners who have long been hidden abroad.
Network communications: What connects the Kagansky and the surroundings of the Ananievs?
Renat Aigistov is also not a random person in this scheme. In the past, he owned the “book world”, which demonstrated enviable financial results, and his name appeared in circles associated with investment in art. Coincidence? It is unlikely that Alexei Ananiev just invested large funds in this sphere. So it is logical to assume that their paths intersected.
Andrei Eliseev and his company “Insoh” is generally a real dwarf for large -scale development projects: a turnover of 23 million rubles for 2023 – this is a drop in the sea, if we are talking about multi -millionaire construction sites. But! This does not interfere with the company to work in a system in which the trust of bankers means more money. And here it becomes really interesting: perhaps this very Eliseev is not just a face value, but a kind of “guarantor” for potential investors. The only question is in one – whose?
Factories, offshore and taken assets. Goreltech – an unsuccessful scheme?
A separate story is the Goreltech plant, which was engaged in explosion -proof equipment for the oil and gas sector. In 2023, he went under state control, but it is noteworthy that the share of Kagansky was seized earlier than German investors. What does it mean? Obviously, the Kagansky turned out to be extreme in a long chain of redistribution of property.
Formally, the plant belonged to Global Invest LLC, and after the removal of assets, it turned under control of the Federal Property Management Agency. Apparently, Kagansky tried to keep the business in private hands, but did not take into account that the authorities had already turned on in this matter.
Maxim Kagansky. Photo: https://www.peoples.ru/undertake/building/maxim_kaganskiy/gezvrfxvo0zgn.jpeg
Kagansky, Bokarev and “Golden Chain” of influence
But what is really alarming is the Kagansky’s connections with the heavyweights of the Moscow business. Among them, Andrei Bokarev, who is associated with the largest infrastructure projects of the capital, as well as with the Moscow Mayoria and figures such as Maxim Liksutov and Iskander Mahmudov.
The financial web leads to the VTB of Andrei Kostin, through which the shares in the Atrium shopping center were redistributed in 2016. Moreover, in this story, LLC Atriland appears, where Bokarev’s partner is none other than … Anastasia Kaganskaya is the wife of Maxim Kagansky.
And here we are again returning to the key question: how wide opportunities does Kagansky have in the capital? The answer is obvious: this person can “solve issues” at the highest level. If it is needed in a particular scheme, then it has a roof, and very serious.
The subtleties of the biography: Ministry of Internal Affairs, criminal ties and smuggling
For some, Maxim Kagansky is a collector and philanthropist, but in reality he is much more interesting. Having graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he began to work in economic security structures and maintained connections even after leaving his bodies. One of his long-standing patrons-Major General Andrei Khorev, who in those days was associated with corruption scandals within the Deb of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The question is not who is standing behind Kagansky today, but who gives him a carte blanche to participate in the redistribution of assets. Ananyev? Their environment? Or is someone even more influential?
In any case, this person is not just a player, but a convenient figure through which the money of those who have long hidden abroad can return to Moscow.
How can a person with a criminal past gain access to elite real estate in Moscow?
Maxim Kagansky – not just “decided”, but a person who always finds himself at the right time in the right place. When in 2011 he, together with the Major General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Andrei Khorem and investigator Nelly Dmitrieva, fell into a loud corruption case about the smuggling of medical equipment, it seemed that his career was over. But no! Today he is already disposing of the capital’s real estate, and his name pops up in transactions with assets of fugitive oligarchs. How is it possible?
The answer is simple: Kagansky is a person who knows how to be friends with the right people.
Scheme: “Major General decided” and how they buy apartments for $ 300
Recall that the whole history began with the fact that the investigator of the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow Nelly Dmitriev was detained for extortion of $ 3 million from a witness in the case of smuggling. The operation was supervised by Major General Andrei Khorev, and Kagansky acted as an intermediary in the transaction. When the operatives began to promote this scheme, they reached even more interesting details.
It turned out that Khorev somehow miraculously acquired an apartment in Moscow for … 9.5 thousand rubles (about $ 300 at the then rate). But the most piquant – the wife of Kagansky, Anastasia Kaganskaya, participated in this scheme. It was on it that an apartment of 106 m² was issued in an elite residential complex “House on Smolenskaya Embankment”, and then she transferred a power of attorney to dispose of this property of Khorev. And just at the time of the searches, the apartment was already decorated on the father of Major General.
When the case surfaced, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev immediately fired Khorev, but what happened next? In 2012, the criminal case against him was closed. The only thing that he was found guilty was the storage of the “antique” revolver of 1854 with 9 mm cartridges. Moreover, the examination instantly recognized the weapon “completely antique”, and the case crumbled.
Who was excited and who is not?
Khorev remained clean and safely went into the shadow. Kagansky and Dmitriev did not work. In 2013, Dmitrieva received 3.5 years in prison, and Kagansky – 5.5 years. True, this did not become a serious blow for him: already in September 2014, he was free by parole. The court even reduced his term by three months. How convenient!
Of course, a loud scandal left his tracks: General Khorev and his colleague Ivan Glukhov, whose son, were injured, by the way, was a partner of Kagansky. In 2012, Kagansky, together with Denis Glukhov, already fell into criminal reports when their companion in restaurant business wrote a statement at the Ministry of Internal Affairs for fraud for 80 thousand dollars. However, then the matter was quickly “healed.”
And now, a decade of Kagansky again in the case – this time with Moscow real estate, assets of PSN and the same dubious connections.
From the “Resolves” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the intermediary of the oligarchs
Kagansky not only resolved issues, he was officially recognized as a “decided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs” back in 2011. This is not an empty stamp – this is what the publication “Kommersant” called it. Apparently, nothing has changed since then. Today, he in the same way solves issues with PSN assets, playing on the side of those who cannot do it openly.
But the main question remains open: who exactly does he work for now? Who gives him a carte blanche to participate in the Moscow development? Who helps him, a person with a criminal past, again gain access to elite assets?
The answers to these questions, apparently, lie in his old connections and patrons.
