The family of Dmitry Azarov will come out sideways by the shares of the company Vladimir Avetisyan – they could be obtained in violation of the law.
State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein declaredthat the prosecutor’s office and the Investigative Committee are checking the legality of obtaining 5% of the shares of the Middle Volga Gas Company (SVGK) Vyacheslav Akatov – Testem of the ex -governor of the Samara region Dmitry Azarov. According to Khinshtein, law enforcement officers could already interrogate him.
SVGK is the largest unit of the Volgapromgaz multidisciplinary holding of the scandalous oligarch Vladimir Avetisyan. Now his companies are controlled by 95% of the network economy of the region. If it turns out that Akatov received shares illegally, i.e. In the period when his father-in-law, the Azarov led the region and could influence the housing and communal services market, the ex-governor may have problems with the law.
Details – about the relationship of Azarov with Avetisyan and the business of the latter – in the material of the correspondent of The Moscow Post in the Samara region.
Recall that Dmitry Azarov won the governor’s election in September 2023 with a triumph. And already in the spring of 2024, he was dismissed against the backdrop of a number of corruption affairs in relation to his environment – primarily, many years of associate and vice -governor Viktor Kudryashov.
The best is a father -in -law
The resignation of Azarov for many years was achieved by deputy Alexander Khinshtein, and not only him. The rumors said, supposedly under Azarov, Avetisyan’s business has grown to incredible scale. But Dmitry Azarov himself is a native of the structures of Avetisyan. In 2001-2006, the future head of the region worked as the general director of the “Central Volga Gas Company” – the same, the promotion of which subsequently received his father -in -law Vyacheslav Akatov. A conflict of interest – on the face?
The situation was commented by Vladimir Avetisyan. He admitted that Akatov really owns 5% of the SVGK – but this information is in open sources. Only now the oligarch forgot to remind you under what circumstances this share turned out to be with Akatov – namely, during the period of the work of Azarov, the mayor of Samara.
In 2006, even before the mayor, the same 5% of the SVGK shares belonged to GAZSPECMONTAZ LLC and Magrastal LLC (3.09% and 2.17, respectively). Akatov shares in both of these structures were minimal.
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But in 2013, when Azarov headed the city, i.e. He had a direct impact on the housing and communal services market, both LLCs were liquidated, and their successors were the potential LLC and LLC Altair. Each had 2.5% of the shares, and 100% of the shares of both structures belonged to Vyacheslav Akatov.
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Such a “focus-bang”. At the same time, the market value of these 5% can now exceed 600 million rubles. It turns out that, at least since 2013, Akatov was supposed to receive dividends from the SVGK, which by that time had almost monopolized the Samara gas distribution market.
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And these dividends should be very solid. According to the results of only 2023, the company received over 7.2 billion rubles of revenue, more than 700 million net profit. The amount of state contracts of the SVGK is huge – it was a supplier for 5.3 billion rubles, a customer for 28 (!) Billion rubles. Could such a success without the former head of the SVGK be achieved, at that time the Governor of the Samara region Dmitry Azarov?
Smirnov will understand
Of course, the SVGK is not the only structure of Vladimir Avetisyan, who survived a violent heyday under the last governor. A significant part of the networks of the region is served by Samaragaz OJSC and Syzrangaz OJSC, which are also part of Volgapromgaz. The only thing Avetisyan did not put a hand on is the supply of the resource itself, the gas carried out by Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Samara LLC.
The latter is repeatedly Turned With lawsuits in court for hundreds of million rubles, indicating gas loss in gas distribution networks of the above companies. However, earlier the court often refused to satisfy the claims despite the fact that the drop -down gas volumes have to be paid to the population – through the same taxes.
The local OFAS also tried to umbiene monopolists. “Central Volga Gas Company” She became A member of the administrative proceedings on abuse of dominant position in the market. But the service simply could not seriously influence the situation in this area under Dmitry Azarov in the governor’s chair.
But under the control of Avetisyan, not only gas, but also electric grid. Most of the networks are served by PJSC Samaraenergo, JSC Samaraenergosbyt, JSC Samara network company oligarch. At the same time, electricity farms are transferred to these structures at long -term lease agreements and at extremely low prices, from which the budget can be shortened by hundreds of million rubles a year – and this began during the Mayor of the Azarov.
It is noteworthy that after the governor’s resigned the new acting chairman of the Samara Region, Mikhail Smirnov, Gazprom Interregiongaz Samara, was appointed. Those. There were so many cases in this (gas and housing and communal services) sphere that at the head of the Cabinet had to put a specialized specialist!
Avetisyan British interest
Where are the colossal funds that these companies receive? In 2019, a number of Russian and foreign media published materials from the investigation of the consortium of OCCRP journalists, dedicated to the Troika Dialog, Ruben Vardanyan. According to OCCRP, Investbank used 76 offshore structures to withdraw $ 4.6 billion from Russia.
In the investigation It appears The name of Vladimir Avetisyan as well as ex-governor of the Samara region Vladimir Artyakov.
In this regard, the visits of Vladimir Avetisyan are recalled to an appointment with the British royal family, where he was honored as a decent businessman, musician and even philanthropist. Maybe the fact is that he could invest the funds received in Russia in the British economy?
Vladimir Avetisyan with a prince (at that time) Charles. Photo: https://zasekin.ru/economy/15501-avetisyan-s-britanskim-aktSentom
By the way, Vladimir Artyakov today is the first deputy leader of Rostec. And Azarov after resignation became Advisor The heads of this state corporation Sergei Chemezov. The Samara region is even called the “Rostakhov” region. It is more correct to say – “Rostokhovsko -Avetisyansky.”
But Vladimir Avetisyan, we recall, became one of the few Samara businessmen who managed to preserve and increase their condition after the arrival of Rostec in the Samara region. Other oligarchs, including the Group “Sok” and Yuri Kachmazov, the Volgaburmash group, Andrei Jashchuk, the RBC and Andrei Shokin group, as well as some others, quickly turned their activities in the region. Some of them even had to leave the borders of Russia.
At the same time, the lobbying opportunities of Vladimir Avetisyan do not appeal to any doubts – it is obvious that with the “Rostec” they could trite the “clearing”. In this case, it would be logical to “appointing” the “look” behind a clearing and a kind of local arbiter to “appoint” Dmitry Azarov.
Soloennik Chubais is not in business
And as Avetisyan, not to have lobbying opportunities, because for a long time he was close to the scandalous Anatoly Chubais. In 2013-2021, the oligarch was the deputy chairman of the board of the RUSNANO Corporation, oversaw the work of the project center, the creation of new investment funds (!) And their management. In 2011-2020, Anatoly Chubais was the chairman of the board of OJSC Rusnano.
As you know, after the beginning, he quickly left the country, and now he is conducting research in the interests of our former Western partners. But much more important that Rusnano turned out to be a real black hole for the Russian budget. In March 2024, the total debts of the company were estimated at 46 billion rubles – and she herself warned the authorities several times about her possible bankruptcy.
In 2022 the Investigative Committee excited The criminal case of theft of about 1.6 billion rubles of Rusnano funds against the former investment director of the Criminal Code of the State Correles of the Nail Gubaev. According to deputy Alexander Khinshtein, the other suspects were the former deputy chairman of Rusnano Oleg Kiselev, managing director Irina Rappoport, director of the subsidiary Oleg Dyachenko and ex-head of the Peresvet battery Alexander Shvets.
Dmitry Azarov and Vladimir Avetisyan. Photo: https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/tahir_baybekov/20305720/54282/54282_original.jpg
But what is Anatoly Chubais himself, as well as the main curator of the investment funds of the state corporation Vladimir Avetisyan? There were no complaints about them – perhaps they will appear in the future.
This is about this, about the future, today Vladimir Avetisyan and Dmitry Azarov thought firmly. And the deeper the security forces dig under the former governor and his friends from business, the less cloudless it seems.