The purchase of the Finnish share in the Pearl Plaza shopping center company Central Properties showed that their connections in Moscow, Gazprom and Tatneft were much stronger than the capabilities of the Yekaterinburg developer Petrov.
The Sankt-Peterburg Post He talks about the features of this transaction.
Natives of the Tatarstan “Zenith”
The Finnish construction company SRV Group sells the last asset in Russia-50% of the share of the Petersburg shopping and entertainment center “Pearl Plaza”, which is located on the Petershof highway. The buyer was the investment company Central Properties, which belongs to entrepreneurs Denis Stepanov and Sergey Egorov.
The characters are colorful: in the nineties, Stepanov worked as deputy chairman of the board of Zenit Bank, the largest package of which belonged to Tatneft, and the second shareholder was the Baltic financial and industrial group (BFPG), where Yegorov worked, which controlled the construction of gas stations. Stepanov first suggested that Egorov go to Zenit, and in 2022 they opened the partnership business.
Stepanov, working in Zenit, helped to “attract money and launch large projects”, the acquired skills helped him in independent work. The main business of partners was the construction of office buildings under the application of large companies, and they engaged not only in construction, but also owned the object, leasing it for rent.
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This scheme is called Built-to-Suit and resembles leasing, because the agreement involves the supply of finished services and has a long-term lease. Naturally, this needs a lot of money, but Egorov and Stepanov left Zenit, behind which there is Tatneft and the financial circles of Tatarstan, which include the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin.
Relations with Zenit confirm the original name of the company Stepanov and Egorov – “M. O. R.E. – Moscow Real Estate.” In the zero years, the company “M.O. R.E. – Plaza”, which was part of the Moscow construction ten, operated on the real estate market.
Today, this company is no longer there and only dissatisfied equity holders remember it, but this organization received such a name in 2003 when Dmitry Andreeenkov became a partner of its creator Mikhail Hesin. In 2004, he will become the first vice president of Zenit Bank. Apparently, Andreeenkov attracted Stepanov and Egorov to this profitable business.
Coseruki, Sobyanin and Rotenberg
In 2008, Stepanov and Egorov parted with Hesin and renamed M.O. R. E. – Moscow Real Estate in Central Properties, having begun to cooperate with new and much more influential partners. The main one was Vadim Cossral, familiar with Stepanov and Egorov through the Zenit bank. Vadim Cozeruk’s father, Anatoly Cossral, was a partner of Roman Timokhin in Mr Group, and this developer works with Zenit, where all these entrepreneurs and Introduction.
MR Group through MDI Group belongs to Viktor Labuzko, and this person is the founder of about 10 organizations that mainly engage in construction and real estate. Among them is the company “Troll ASP”, and in it the founder is Vadim Cossral, but this is only the top of the iceberg, which is visible through official documents.
Anatoly Cozeruk is a former adviser to the general director of Gazprom by Gazprom Invest South Andrei Goncharenko. During their cooperation, this organization received large contracts in the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Tyumen region. Cazeruk’s affairs went very well, and by a strange coincidence, this happened when the current mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin was first the speaker of the Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and then the governor of the Tyumen region. However, this is not all: the chairman of the board of directors of the GVSU “Center”, which is headed by Cozeruk Sr. is Boris Rotenberg.
Beat Petrova and not only
In September 2023, the Finns wanted to sell their share in the Pearl Plaza shopping center to Developer from Yekaterinburg Alexander Petrov, who is the founder and beneficiary of LLC Prospekt Group, a major player in the Russian real estate market. The parties had already made a number of transactions before, including in the site in the Krasnogvardeisky district, but in this case our friends from the Central Properties suddenly arose, now Petrov is going to defend his interests in court.
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The asset is really valuable-the second share in the capital of the Pearl Plaza is owned by the Chinese from SIIC, and the shopping center itself is an anchor point for the entire St. Petersburg southwest, there is always a huge flow of buyers from the Krasnoselsky district and nearby suburbs. It is not surprising that the Central Group and their partners laid their eyes on this object and made the Finns a proposal, which cannot be abandoned, pushing Petrov aside.
Buying of foreign assets
The purchase of SRV Group assets also became not the first absorption of the assets of the departed foreign companies for the Central Group – in April 2023 they purchased Leroy Merlin warehouses, and in the spring of 2024 they were able to win the fight for assets Belgian developer Ghelamco.
The opponents in the Ghelamco deal were serious-in addition to the structures of Suleiman Kerimov, it was a native of Gazprom Alexei Mityushov, who represents the interests of the top manager of PJSC Kirill Selezneva. However, Mityushov has a business relationship with Cossurs, which means he could agree with Central Group under the terms of cooperation.
So the exits to Moscow and Tatneft’s money and, perhaps, ties with Khusnullin allow these businessmen to chop capital in the field of sanctions events.
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The first violin of Cossurs
The first violin in a conjunction with Central Group seems to be played by Cossurs who have been buying assets for a long time through Stepanov and Egorov’s company and, apparently, withdraw money to offshores.
Particular attention here needs to pay attention to JSC “Business Park-Shili”, where Egorov has been the leader since 2021. Now the property structure has changed, in the zero years the founder was a company from the Virgin Islands. The profit of this organization, besides 2018, was either zero or so, but, despite this, It has existed since 2006.
The scheme works, and is gaining momentum, and people acquire means and assets. We believe that all these citizens are glad that they once met at the Zenit bank.