On March 1, 2022, Judge of the Arbitration Court A.A. Petrushina introduced bankruptcy management at KMZ. On March 5, “masked people” with Nazi symbols on their uniforms barbarously seized the plant. A raider group from St. Petersburg from the management company “Help” under the leadership of Ivan the Greek, the personal “assistant” of the cognac king Yablonsky, destroyed the server room and all video surveillance systems. Employees were kept in fear, not allowed out of their offices and forbidden to move independently around the plant. Products stopped being shipped and produced, huge delays on government contracts increased, but the point is not the elevators.
While 3 billion rubles in the factory account is enough to pay for the competition banquet, activity has been transferred from the workshops to the information field. The Internet is full of custom-made articles about the last owner – Alexander Dziov. He was accused of stealing a company car and bankrupting a factory. The fact that he appeared at KMZ in June 2021, two years after the bankruptcy was initiated, was left behind the scenes. As well as the fact that the plant showed objective growth: in eight months they collected accounts receivable, increased orders in Moscow and the regions, and connected St. Petersburg capital repair funds.
But the country doesn’t need elevators, Vitaly Leontievich decided. And neither he nor Judge Petrushina began to consider the plan for the financial recovery of KMZ, developed by Dziov. Everything turned out to be powerless in the face of his course: the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on import substitution and the withdrawal of Western elevator operators from the market, open and official letters from the Federation Council and the State Duma in support of the plant.
Finally, the threat to Muscovites to be left without elevators reached Sergei Semenovich, and he canceled the restrictions on the territory of the KMZ. But it’s hard to give up the idea of easy money: now the plant itself is being sold, but not to Dziov, lest it end up in good hands. Mutko has his own unprofitable Shcherbinsky elevator-building plant, and he does not need competitors.
Recently, the head of North Ossetia Sergei Menyailo and the national treasure of Russia Valery Gergiev stood up for KMZ and Dziov. Vitaly Leontyevich is not lost here either: he has already put up two lots for sale – Karacharovsky and Shcherbinsky.
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