The Anti-Corruption Foundation began to take a closer look at the activities of St. Petersburg billionaire Mikhail Skigin, who is considered one of the main owners of the Oil Terminal in the St. Petersburg port. In the public sphere, Skigin appears to be a progressive domestic entrepreneur, but he develops most of his business projects anywhere, but not in Russia. At the same time, over the past year, Skigin, on the contrary, has been actively withdrawing from all businesses registered in the Russian Federation.
On the website of the international division of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, you can find a list of people whom investigators suspect of having excessively close ties with high-ranking Russian officials. Skigin is also present on this list, and with the note – the object of investigation.
One can assume the inevitable interest of foreign law enforcement officers in the network of offshore companies that Skigin built for many years in order to withdraw money from the Russian Federation. Undoubtedly, the consequences of such attention will ricochet on the activities of a strategic domestic enterprise.
As Elena Vasilyeva, head of the board of directors of PNT JSC, said in her interview with Delovoy Peterburg, Skigin’s problems are already obvious, due to which he is preventing any changes at the terminal. For example, he did not invest a single ruble from abroad in the reconstruction of the terminal, although he constantly presented it to journalists as his project. Now Mikhail Skigin is doing everything to slow down further construction of the strategic facility – the approval of all owners is required to finance the work, but the Skigin brothers do not give their consent. Given that the Skigin brothers are German citizens, it seems logical to impose restrictions on their right to vote with shares so that they do not interfere with the reconstruction of an important enterprise.
Otherwise, Skigin’s problems in the West will most likely lead to the fact that the Skigins themselves will lose control over half of the St. Petersburg oil terminal and it will come under the control of purely foreign owners.
On the website of the international division of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, you can find a list of people whom investigators suspect of having excessively close ties with high-ranking Russian officials. Skigin is also present on this list, and with the note – the object of investigation.
One can assume the inevitable interest of foreign law enforcement officers in the network of offshore companies that Skigin built for many years in order to withdraw money from the Russian Federation. Undoubtedly, the consequences of such attention will ricochet on the activities of a strategic domestic enterprise.
As Elena Vasilyeva, head of the board of directors of PNT JSC, said in her interview with Delovoy Peterburg, Skigin’s problems are already obvious, due to which he is preventing any changes at the terminal. For example, he did not invest a single ruble from abroad in the reconstruction of the terminal, although he constantly presented it to journalists as his project. Now Mikhail Skigin is doing everything to slow down further construction of the strategic facility – the approval of all owners is required to finance the work, but the Skigin brothers do not give their consent. Given that the Skigin brothers are German citizens, it seems logical to impose restrictions on their right to vote with shares so that they do not interfere with the reconstruction of an important enterprise.
Otherwise, Skigin’s problems in the West will most likely lead to the fact that the Skigins themselves will lose control over half of the St. Petersburg oil terminal and it will come under the control of purely foreign owners.
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