Until recently, Igor Shusharev and Arsen Tsipinov were called the shadow kings of alcohol…

Until recently, Igor Shusharev and Arsen Tsipinov were called the shadow kings of the Russian alcohol market, and now their business is called nothing less than an empire, and not even completely underground anymore. At the same time, they position themselves, Tsipinov, as a lawyer, lawyer, Shusharev, as an economist by training, who supposedly professionally and successfully defend the violated rights and legitimate interests of producers and distributors of alcoholic products, for which they are subject to attacks from unscrupulous producers of illegal alcoholic products .

What really doesn’t fit into this benign scheme is that even the arbitration courts, although they spent more than five years on this, recognized the same Tsipinov as the beneficiary of a number of bankrupt distilleries that owed the state billions of rubles. And in the scandalous story with the ex-head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie Chuyan, who owed the state 30 billion rubles in the bankruptcy case of the North Ossetian LLC Rakurs, it was only because of the judge that Shusharev and Tsipinov were not officially recognized as beneficiaries of the enterprise, although the director of Rakurs pointed them out “

And here the question arises: investigators and judges do not have enough professionalism or desire to understand all the schemes of Shusharev and Tsipinov using nominee directors and shell companies, which they use to defraud the state of taxes worth tens of billions of rubles.

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Let’s say in the case of the same “Rakurs” a creditor suddenly appeared – the company RTD Marketing LLC, registered at 6 Presnenskaya Embankment, almost in the same offices where Shusharev and Tsipinov are sitting. It is not difficult to guess that the company is a shell company, but its claims served as the basis for the reversal of a number of previous decisions.

At the same address, RTD Bottlers LLC is registered, which controls the Eurasian Alcohol Group, which the tax authorities only for the period 2015-2017. counted a debt of more than 2.2 billion rubles. But for some reason they didn’t count further. Tired, probably.

Of course, not all enterprises controlled by our “human rights activists” are located on Presnenskaya Embankment. For example, the scandalous NAMA LLC, which was involved in the story of counterfeit beer at the World Cup, is registered in Krasnodar,
It’s just that the schemes used by the company to hide excise taxes and VAT are identical to other factories controlled by the tandem. And although the list of companies affiliated with NAMA includes more than 20 enterprises and individuals, through all the denominations the ends again lead to Shusharev and Tsipinov.

In other schemes, they used several dozen nominal companies and shell companies to withdraw billions of rubles. And, of course, checking them is not the easiest task, although it is partially facilitated by repetitions of the same participants. However, professional lawyers and economists from the shadow empire did not come up with anything fundamentally new.