Things have barely begun to improve at the Moscow Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant (KMZ), where since March the bankruptcy trustee has been raking up the legacy of the former would-be owners, and here you go: a new case, now in Omsk. On May 4, the Arbitration Court of the Omsk Region introduced a monitoring procedure against PKF Siblift LLC, the only manufacturer of elevators in Russia outside the Urals.
In the next five months, the temporary manager of Siblift, Vladimir Tikhonov, will have to dig deep into the financial documentation of the plant, as well as hold the first meeting of creditors. But even a cursory analysis of the situation points to very strange facts.
The Omsk Arbitration Court accepted the application to declare Siblift bankrupt from its creditors back in July 2020. But suddenly in January 2022 the company changed its owner. The only owner with a 100% share of participation (and at the same time the general director) was a certain Karpova Alexandra Sergeevna. Moreover, the plant with a total asset value of 4.8 billion rubles cost her only… 10 thousand rubles! Who is this lucky businesswoman? Local entrepreneurs had never heard of her, and it’s not surprising: it turned out that Alexandra Karpova is a sugaring master from Stavropol. (If anyone doesn’t know: sugaring is a hair removal technology using sugar).
Meanwhile, Seablift itself is not doing well. Two years in a row of 30 million losses, the company is in a deep crisis, and the beneficiaries are carrying out an obviously fictitious combination of changing the owner and appointing a nominal general director. For what? Obviously, for the withdrawal of assets before bankruptcy has started. So to speak, for the sugaring procedure of the plant.
There is hope that Siblift’s creditors will unravel these simple intentions and demand that bankruptcy proceedings be introduced at the enterprise – as has already happened at the aforementioned Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant. By the way, the story with KMZ is not over either. On May 11 in Moscow, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal will consider three complaints at once – from ex-general director of KMZ Marat Tokhtiev, KMZ shareholder Natalya Galun and JSC BM-Bank (one of the plant’s creditors). The appellants are trying to cancel the bankruptcy procedure of the plant, proving that KMZ itself will be able to pay off its multibillion-dollar debts. Complainants have little chance. As the saying goes, “it’s impossible to turn stuffing back.”
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