Medvedev's fortune for a year Forbes. Is Vladimir Putin the richest or most powerful person in the world? For abuse of power
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos are put to shame - the three richest businessmen will be able to "catch up" with Putin only by clubbing. What can we say about the 45th President of the United States, with his $ 3 billion. He's just pathetic. No wonder he tried so hard to please the President of the Russian Federation.
Bill Gates, the richest businessman in the world, whose colossal net worth further increased to $86 billion in 2017, not least because Microsoft (MSFT) shares gained +0.40%, has been at the top of the list of the most richest people in the world compiled by Forbes magazine. However, apparently, the business publication is mistaken, as it does not take into account the "world leaders" and dictators who acquire their wealth solely as a result of their position on the power Olympus.
If Forbes included these people in its ranking, then there would be a new "king of the hill" on this list, since, according to the latest data, the net worth of Vladimir Putin is at least $ 200 billion, writes MarketWatch. The publication cites an article in the International Business Times that sparked another round of speculation about the extent of Putin's wealth. One of the sources of the publication said, in particular, that his fortune is “only” about $ 40 billion, while another source estimates him at $ 70 billion.
While Bill Browder, a former investment fund manager in Russia, is convinced that these estimates are fundamentally wrong:
"I think [Putin is worth] $200 billion," he told CNN, adding that he owns a whopping "amount of money that could be spent on schools, roads and hospitals" hidden in Swiss bank accounts, stocks , hedge - funds that are managed in the interests of Putin and his henchmen.
Renowned comedian John Oliver devoted much of his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, to Putin's fortunes over the weekend.
The Konstantinovsky Palace on the shores of the Gulf of Finland is one of Putin's modest "dachas"
“Despite the fact that he stubbornly denies it, no one believes him anyway,” Oliver said, listing a list of luxuries that are clearly impossible to acquire, earning Putin a $100,000 salary. For example, previous reports suggest that Putin owns 58 planes and helicopters, as well as 20 palaces and country houses, including a colossal, billion-dollar Black Sea estate.
Black Sea residence of Putin in Gelendzhik
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is one of the creators of the largest corruption schemes, according to the Navalny Foundation. “We found all the residences in Russia and abroad, found all the vineyards and damn elusive yachts and established where and who swam on them,” the authors of a new FBK investigation published on March 2 say. And they conclude: "He is not Dimon for you. He is a serious corrupt uncle."
What cases are of interest to justice
The investigations of the Anti-Corruption Foundation could worsen the statistics of crimes in Russia. The fbk.info website allegedly published fraudulent schemes of embezzlement from the treasury, documents on the illegal acquisition of plots of land, on the construction of summer cottages in protected areas and expensive purchases of high officials. But Russian justice is busy trying cases against Navalny himself.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
For abuse of power
In just 11 months of 2016, 28.4 thousand corruption-related crimes were detected in Russia, according to the Prosecutor General's Office. Of these, more than 10 thousand - receiving and giving bribes. The sums of extortions and abuses are sometimes measured in millions of dollars. 15,000 corruption cases were brought to court over the entire past year, which is almost 3,000 more than in 2013.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
Case for 2 million
The head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Alexei Ulyukaev, was caught red-handed on the night of November 15, 2016. He was accused of extortion and taking a $2 million bribe from representatives of Rosneft. According to the Investigative Committee, the minister demanded money for assisting Rosneft in buying a state-owned stake in Bashneft (50.8%). Ulyukaev does not admit his guilt.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
General with a billion
The general of the Federal Security Service in the Caucasus, Gennady Lopyrev, was detained in November 2016 on charges of accepting bribes on an especially large scale. The media reported that Lopyrev's arrest was connected with fraudulent public procurement, with the distribution of sites for the construction of Olympic facilities, and that 1 billion rubles were found in Lopyrev's apartment. Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov is a witness in the case.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
real colonel
Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, deputy head of department "T" of the anti-corruption head office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, turned out to be the owner of the currency for a total of 8.5 billion rubles. In September 2016, another 300 million euros were discovered in his family's foreign accounts. At the same time, Zakharchenko's official income over the past few years has not exceeded 3 million rubles. The origin of the colonel's large sums of money is being investigated by the investigation.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
Case of the watch collector
On Sakhalin, there is a trial in the case of ex-governor Alexander Khoroshavin, accused of taking bribes for 500 million rubles and creating a criminal group that extorted money from entrepreneurs. In Khoroshavin's home collection, investigators found 190 watches worth 600 million rubles, jewelry and 700 million rubles. 6 cars, 4 apartments, a residential building and land plots of the ex-governor were arrested.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
Need more steal?
In August 2015, ex-official of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Yevgenia Vasilyeva, sentenced to 5 years, was released from the colony. Three months earlier, the court found her guilty of fraud with the agency's assets. Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov lost his post, but his case was closed. And in October 2016, he joined the board of Rostec. It is not for nothing that they say in Russia, "in order not to sit, you need to steal more."
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
What did the Panama Papers say?
People close to Vladimir Putin were among the clients of the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, which registers offshore companies. These are financier Yuri Kovalchuk, who is called the personal banker of the president, a friend of the president, cellist Sergei Roldugin, and dozens of officials - owners of foreign firms. The "Panama Papers" showed the scale of the shadow activities of politicians from 50 countries.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
The situation with corruption does not change
At the end of 2016, Russia was next to Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Nepal - in 131st out of 176 places in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) rating prepared by Transparency International. The Russian Federation, as in 2015, received 29 points out of 100. 1st place and the lowest level of corruption - in Denmark and New Zealand, Germany - in 10th place. At the end of the list are South Sudan and Somalia.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
"Dash Hunt"
Transparency International calls the fight against corruption in the Russian Federation a hunt that only looks like a real one: "This is shooting from a prepared gun at pre-placed targets." Suspicions are caused by criminal cases that resemble the elimination of competitors. For example, the case of Minister Ulyukaev or the former head of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, who was detained in June 2016 while transferring 400 thousand dollars to him.
Corruption in Russia - the most high-profile cases
Rampant embezzlement is not forgiven
Opinion polls show that many Russians consider high-profile cases to be demonstration actions rather than a real fight against corruption. 26% of those polled by the Levada Center blamed Vladimir Putin "in full measure" for corruption, 33% - "to a large extent." So the high rating of the Russian president does not mean that citizens forgive him rampant bribery and embezzlement.
They say that power and money are identical concepts. Vladimir Putin has been in power for 18 years - so how much money does he have? Both domestic economists and world-class financiers who make up the Forbes list are trying to answer this question.
Official income statement
During the election campaign, all candidates for the presidency published income declarations. Vladimir Putin's modest declaration attracted the most attention. According to the data released by the CEC, the president earned 38,528,817 rubles over 6 years. As sources of income are indicated: the salary of the head of state, interest from bank accounts, military pension. 13.8 million rubles are kept on 13 official presidential accounts.
Presidential real estate is represented by two apartments (in St. Petersburg and Moscow) and a garage. Moreover, the capital's apartment was transferred to Vladimir Putin for indefinite use by the Moscow authorities.
Also included in the declaration were two rare Volga cars, a Niva car, and a Skif trailer.
Many Russian political scientists and economists believe that this declaration does not reflect the real financial situation of Putin.
Assessment by Stanislav Belkovsky
When evaluating the personal finances of the President of Russia, the opinion of Stanislav Belkovsky, a former Kremlin adviser, is most often cited. In 2007, he gave an interview to the English edition of The Guardian, in which he estimated Putin's fortune at $ 40 billion. He substantiated his conclusions with the information he had about the president's shares in large companies in the oil industry. According to Belkovsky, the president owns a 37% stake in Surgutneftegaz, he owns a 4.5% stake in Gazprom and a large stake in the international commodity trader Gunvor.
The US Treasury conducted its own investigation, and also noted Putin's connection to Gunvor: he invested in the company, and may have access to its funds. However, representatives of the Gunvor group deny the information that the President of Russia is their shareholder.
Belkovsky called the announced amount the minimum, emphasizing that no one knows the maximum and suggested that the president has a shadow business, which the expert is not aware of.
A few years later, in 2012, Stanislav Belkovsky gave a new assessment of the state of Vladimir Putin. This time the figure was 70 billion dollars. He came to this conclusion based on information from confidential sources close to the president.
Opinion of William Browder
A major international financier of American origin, William Browder headed the investment company Hermitage Capital. This fund has been one of the leading participants in the Russian investment market for about 10 years. He was closely involved in the securities of Surgutneftegaz, Sberbank, Gazprom, RAO UES.
Browder is familiar with corruption and fraud in the Russian government. For attempting to expose him, he was expelled from the country. In an interview with the International Business Times, William Browder estimates Vladimir Putin's fortune for 2018 at $200 billion and calls him the richest man in the world.
Browder believes that these funds are placed in Swiss banks, offshore companies, hedge funds. These assets are managed by trusted people of the president.
Why is Putin not included in the Forbes rating?
Forbes magazine compiles a list of billionaires every year, but Vladimir Putin has never been included in this prestigious list. Even with the most "modest" of the announced amounts of $ 40 billion, he could enter the TOP 10 billionaires. And if we focus on the figure of $ 200 billion, then I would head the list by a wide margin. Jeff Bezos, who currently heads the Forbes rating, has a fortune of $ 105 billion.
The fact is that the compilers of the rating exclude from the list members of royal families and politicians who received a fortune as a result of being in power. Representatives of the magazine were unable to obtain reliable confirmation that Vladimir Putin is the owner of personal assets in excess of $1 billion. Russian government attorneys declined to answer a question whether expensive gifts such as the Olympia yacht were the property of the president or the state.
Sources of wealth for the Russian President
Russian businessman Sergei Kolesnikov, in an interview with the BBC, spoke about the current scheme. A group of Russia's leading oligarchs has created a special fund designed to bribe top government officials, including the president. Under this scheme, Putin has access not only to Russian corporate finances, but also to the personal fortunes of the country's richest people.
Thus, capital was formed, placed through nominees in offshore companies. Cellist and Putin's best friend Sergei Roldugin is considered one of these "custodians" of the presidential fortune. His name comes up in the "Panama Papers" of Mossack Fonseca, an offshore management firm. Rodlugin, being a professional musician, manages billions in assets, owns shares in many Russian companies. At the same time, he emphasizes that he is not a businessman.
The income of the President of Russia Vladimir for 2016 amounted to 8 million 858 thousand 432 rubles. This is the data of the declaration published on April 14 on the Kremlin website. This is 33 thousand rubles less than last year. The declaration of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry, in turn, claims that he also lost money.
According to the declaration, the President of Russia owns a land plot (with an area of 1,500 sq. m), an apartment (77 sq. m) and a garage (18 sq. m). The objects in use are another apartment (with an area of 155 sq. m.), as well as a garage place (18 sq. m.). All real estate, according to the document, is located on the territory of Russia.
Putin also declared three cars: two GAZ M21s and one Niva, as well as a Skif trailer.
These clauses of the declaration have not changed since last year. The only thing that has changed is the overall income. The document from 2016 indicated that it was 33 thousand rubles more, that is, it amounted to 8 million 891 thousand 777 rubles. Now the income has amounted to 8 million 858 thousand 432 rubles.
It also reported on its financial position. According to a declaration published on his website, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also lost income.
During the reporting period, Medvedev received 8 million 586 thousand 974 rubles and 69 kopecks. According to documents from the previous year, the prime minister's income was just over 8.767 million rubles. Thus, Medvedev lost 180 thousand income.
The prime minister also declared an apartment (367.8 sq. m.) in ownership and a land plot (4,700 sq. m.) in use, as well as two cars (GAZ-20 and GAZ-21) - without a trailer.
It should be noted that the phenomenal profitability, following the results of the declaration campaign, was shown by the Minister for the North Caucasus. Its income has grown more than 10 times, from 47.8 million rubles according to the report for 2015 to 528.1 million rubles for 2016.
The minister's fleet includes Mercedes A 200, BMW M5 and 599 GTB. Judging by the declaration, the minister did not sell any of his real estate in 2016. As in 2015, last year he owned ten land plots in Russia, a land plot, a residential building and four garages in France. Compared to last year's declaration, the Minister parted ways with the planing boat Sealine T47. There is no data on this vehicle in the last declaration.
The other leader of the government's income list is the Minister without Portfolio, who is in charge of the Open Government in the White House. The growth rate of its annual income amounted to more than 14%. They increased from 455.6 million rubles in 2015 to 520.9 million rubles in 2016. He still owns Robinson 44 Clipper II helicopter, Mercedes S500 4MATIC MAYBACH, Mercedes AMG G63. He also kept three of his motorcycles.
In the circle of vice-premiers, the state of income is multidirectional and volatile. Incomes, and in 2016 compared to 2015 fell. Moreover, the fall in the incomes of husbands was accompanied by a reduction in the incomes of their wives.
Thus, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov's income for 2016 decreased by 19.9 million rubles from 97.2 million rubles in 2015 to 72.8 million rubles this year. His wife also declared in the declaration that her income had decreased from 92.5 million rubles in 2015 to 61.1 million rubles in 2016. The total cumulative drop in the income of the Shuvalov family according to official declarations is estimated at 51.3 million rubles.
The income of Arkady Dvorkovich's family decreased more strongly. The family lost 125.9 million rubles in a year. The vice-premier himself in 2016 received an income of 45 million rubles less than in 2015. In 2016, his official income amounted to only 24.6 million rubles. (69.6 million in 2015). The reduction in the income of the wife of Arkady Dvorkovich is estimated at 80.9 million rubles.
Social Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets's income also decreased by 7.6 million rubles to 15.6 million rubles in 2016.
Among those who showed negative growth was the family of the Deputy Prime Minister. Together with his wife, the income of the Deputy Prime Minister decreased by 70.2 million rubles. In the declaration of Dmitry Kozak, his income for 2016 is indicated in the amount of 21.6 million rubles against 66.7 in 2015. His wife, instead of 29.7 million rubles in 2015, received only 4.6 million rubles in 2016.
Among the vice-premiers, except for Yuri Trutnev, only Dmitry Rogozin's income grew, but moderately. received in 2016 more than the previous year by 8.8 million rubles. Over the past year, he indicated an income of 81.5 million rubles. And the income of Alexander Khloponin increased by 38.7 million rubles to 99.4 million rubles in 2016.
The Minister of Finance earned 95.4 million rubles against 34.3 million rubles in 2015, while, as noted in the declaration, he acquired real estate “at the expense of funds received from the sale of previously acquired property, as well as from personal savings.” We are talking about the purchase of a land plot with an area of 22,964 sq. m, apartments with an area of almost 254 sq. m and four garages - 14.9 sq. m, 15.4 sq. m, 16.1 sq. m and 16.6 sq. m respectively. The minister's collection of three cars (GAZ-69, VAZ-21011 and BMW X6 XDRIVE 30D) and two motorcycles (Harley-Davidson FLSTC 103 ANV and BMW K 1600GTL) remained unchanged.
New personalities have also appeared on the list. Thus, the Minister of Education earned 6.04 million rubles last year. She owns one land plot of 600 sq. m, as well as an apartment of 54.7 sq. m (participation) and cottage (74.3 sq. m). In addition, she owns a Mitsubishi Pajero Sport car. Neither she nor her husband has foreign real estate.
In turn, the new Minister of Economic Development earned 16.5 million rubles in 2016. He owns only an apartment of 58.7 sq. m. Only his wife has a car (Land Rover Range Rover).
Also among the leaders of the list is the vice-premier and presidential envoy. Its income increased from 153.8 million rubles in 2015 to 356.9 million rubles in 2016. Ownership of real estate has not changed - together with his wife, he still owns shares in a land plot with a total area of 3.7 thousand square meters. m.
In addition, the declaration recorded shared ownership of two residential buildings: one with a total area of 345.6 sq. m and another - 170.8 sq. m. The vice-premier's fleet consists of BMW X6 M50D, Porshe Cayenne Turbo, Mercedes ML 350 4 Matic and Nissan Patrol. He also uses an ATV Polaris ATV and a Bombardier snowmobile.
The President of Russia and his circle. Dmitry Medvedev, his closest friends and classmates, as well as employees of the Presidential Administration.
The main focus is on the study of corruption issues, business relationships between people, that is, the processes of transformation of power into money and money into power.
Medvedev Dmitry Anatolievich
Place of work: President of the Russian Federation
Positions: In 1990-96. assistant to the mayor of St. Petersburg and expert of the city committee for foreign economic relations. Since 1999 - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. In 1999-2000 - Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation. In 2003-05 - Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. In 2005-08 - First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Since 2008 - President of Russia.
Participation in business
In December 1990, the state small enterprise "Uranus" was registered in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg with an authorized fund of 100 rubles. The form of ownership of the company was designated as state ownership, however, three individuals acted as founders - former classmates at the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University (LGU): Dmitry Medvedev, Ilya Eliseev (future deputy chairman of the board of JSC Gazprombank) and Anton Ivanov (future chairman Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation). The share of each of the founders was 33%. The main activity of Uranus was the production of consumer goods, Piotr Kolinich became the head of the company.
In 1993, Dmitry Medvedev was one of the founders of CJSC Finzell. He owned 50% of CJSC, Zakhar Smushkin and Boris Zingarevich - 21.25% each, Mikhail Zingarevich - 7.5%. Information about this is contained, in particular, on page 3 of the Report of the Accounts Chamber “On the results of the verification of the legality of the sale by the Russian Federal Property Fund in 1994 of a block of shares of the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill to Ilim Pulp Enterprise CJSC and the implementation of the investment program by the said company.” The audit was carried out in October-November 1999 and revealed serious violations in the process of privatization of the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill.
The joint venture Ilim Pulp Enterprise (JV Ilim Pulp Enterprise LLP, IPE) was registered by the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office on April 30, 1992 (registry No. AOL-1546) with an authorized capital of 1 million rubles. The founders were: Technoferm LLP - 50% of the authorized capital, INTERTSEZ S.A. (Switzerland) - 40%, pulp mill TPO "Ust-Ilimsky LPK" - 10%. Later, JSC Finzell became one of the founders, having a share of 40%. Since Medvedev's equity stake in Finzell was 50%, then, accordingly, as of 1994, he personally owned at least 20% of Ilim Pulp Enterprise.
"Ilim Pulp Enterprise" became one of the founders of the joint-stock insurance company "Rus", where Dmitry Medvedev worked for some time. Information was repeatedly published that this structure accumulated significant financial resources seized from the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU in 1991. The beneficiary of a 66.8% stake in the insurance company is Vladislav Reznik, now a State Duma deputy. Among the co-owners are Garant JSC, Arkady Krutikhin, the former manager of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU (the founder of Rossiya Bank), as well as a number of individuals. Rus Insurance Company acted as one of the founders of the Vyborg Energy Company (VENKO). This network of gas stations was also owned by Sergei and Spartak Rubinovichi, Alexander Petrov and Ilya Traber, who were designated as crime bosses in the archives of the St. Petersburg Regional Department of Organized Crime. In the future, the struggle for control over VENKO between these individuals led to a number of especially serious crimes, including several contract killings.
In November 1992, Ilim Pulp Enterprise also became one of the founders of CJSC Aquarius Ltd. Other founders also included the Intek company, Boris Zingarevich, Alexander Musil, Efim Goldenberg, Evgeny Davidan. The latter is named by the Federal Investigation Agency as a member of a criminal group of a certain Alexander Kuptsov (nicknames “Merchant”, “Prapor”). According to the archive of the St. Petersburg RUOP, this is probably about Aleksey Sergeevich Kuptsov, who controlled a number of commercial structures in St. Petersburg. Davidan has long-standing commercial ties with both the Zingarevich brothers and Zakhar Smushkin.
Later, in April 1996, JV IPE LLP was transformed into CJSC Ilim Pulp Enterprise / Ilim Pulp Enterprise (IPE). In November 1998 CJSC IPE became one of the founders of Security Company Ilim LLC.
Medvedev combined business with public service - for 5 years, from June 1991 to June 1996, he was an adviser to the mayor Anatoly Sobchak and a legal expert of the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office, which was then headed by Vladimir Putin. At KVS, Dmitry Medvedev was involved in the development and execution of transactions, contracts and various investment projects. According to the St. Petersburg Courier newspaper, “it was he who was one of the first in St. Petersburg, if not in all of Russia, to figure out how the authorities can “enter” a joint-stock company without violating existing laws - not with land, but with rent for earth." According to one version, expert Medvedev, together with the head of the legal department of the St. Petersburg City Council, Dmitry Kozak, was also involved in resolving the conflict between the FAC and the City Council commission, created in connection with the allegedly illegal issuance of licenses for the mass export of non-ferrous metals.
Former investigator for especially important cases Andrey Zykov, talking about the criminal case initiated in connection with the embezzlement of budgetary funds through the structures of the Twentieth Trust construction company (the director is the current deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Sergey Nikeshin), also mentioned Dmitry Medvedev. According to him, together with Professor Anatoly Sobchak, the future president of Russia at Leningrad State University was Vladimir Putin's informant through the KGB, thanks to which he was invited to work in the FAC. Close acquaintance with Putin explains Zykov and Medvedev's millionth fortune at that time.
Earlier, The New Times magazine wrote that Medvedev carried out instructions “on the transfer of funds for various construction projects. The money left through the mediation of the already mentioned "Twentieth Trust". As the publication points out: “in those days he<Путин>, allegedly, could easily call the future president<Медведеву>and inform about the need to transfer the amount of several million dollars for the restoration of an Orthodox church in Greece. Medvedev controlled this transfer. Nothing is known about the fate of this money. The money went through the famous Rossiya bank of the Kovalchuk brothers.
November 1993 to November 1994 Dmitry Medvedev worked as director of legal affairs at Ilim Pulp Enterprise. A significant part of the violations that were discovered when the Accounts Chamber checked the sale of a stake in the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill CJSC Ilim Pulp Enterprise dates back to the period before November 1994, when Medvedev was in charge of all legal issues in this organization.
In particular, the Accounts Chamber noted that the documents submitted by CJSC IPE for participation in the competition directly violated the Regulations on the Investment Competition and were incorrectly registered. The agreement concluded on October 20, 1994 as a result of an investment competition also violated a number of points of this provision. The Accounts Chamber also noted violations of fulfillment of obligations under the investment program by CJSC IPE. The auditors recorded the ways in which IPE manipulated the funds for the investment program - they were returned to the investor in various ways, in some cases the very next day after the transfer.
In 1998, Medvedev was elected a member of the board of directors of OAO Bratsk Timber Industry Complex in the Irkutsk region from CJSC Ilim Pulp Enterprise. He also became a member of the board of directors of Pulp and Cardboard Plant OJSC, a subsidiary of Bratskcomplexlesholding.
In December 1993, Dmitry Medvedev, together with Zakhar Smushkin and the Zingarevich brothers, established Sibtrast CJSC, in which he owned 67% of the authorized capital. In 1995, all the original founders left Sibtrast, which became the property of the Moscow-based Russkiy Mir CJSC.
In January 1994, together with Anton Ivanov and Ilya Eliseev, the future President of the Russian Federation established Balfort Consulting Firm OJSC, since 1997 the company was transformed into Balfort Consulting Firm CJSC.
In December 1994, Medvedev was appointed director of Ilim Pulp's subsidiary, Ying Jure LLP, which was established by JV Ilim Pulp Enterprise LLP and Geneva-based VALMET S.A.
Since 1996, he has been cooperating with Vladimir Kogan's Promstroybank in St. Petersburg on financing investment programs in the forestry industry.
On October 14, 1997, Dmitry Medvedev left the founders of CJSC Finzell together with Zakhar Smushkin and the Zingarevich brothers. Instead, Intertsez S.A., registered in Geneva in 1991, became the sole founder of CJSC Finzell. In the fall of 1999, Medvedev left the leadership of Ilim Pulp Enterprise, as well as from among the official founders of all other commercial enterprises. To whom and how Medvedev's shares were transferred was not officially reported.
Information about the reasons for Medvedva's departure from IPE differs. According to one of the versions cited by Forbes (2004, No. 2), Zakhar Smushkin allegedly had a serious quarrel with Medvedev in 1999 and put him out of business. According to the Profil magazine, the departure was related to the abuses identified by the Accounts Chamber: “... Medvedev's business partners were not distinguished by special cleanliness in doing business. In the autumn of 1999, realizing that the case was heading steadily towards an unpleasant trial, Medvedev hastily left the ranks of the Ilim leadership and left the founders of Finzell. Just at the moment when the state began checking the legality of a number of Ilim's privatization projects.
In 2008, Nikolai Kolomeytsev, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party faction, asked for a protocol order to be submitted to the Duma committees on constitutional legislation and state building and on security. Kolomeitsev demanded to request information from the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation and the Federal Tax Service on how reliable the data contained in the declaration on the financial situation of presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev was, and whether the information provided in various media regarding his income in private business was verified. The State Duma did not support this proposal.
On June 30, 2000, Dmitry Medvedev began working as Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom. He held this position until 2008, with a break in 2001-2002, when the post was transferred to the dismissed chairman of the board of Gazprom, Rem Vyakhirev. Medvedev was his deputy and at the same time led a working group created at the direction of Vladimir Putin to liberalize the Gazprom share market, working closely with Alexei Miller.
Dmitry Medvedev, on behalf of Gazprom, negotiated with the head of the Soros Foundation, George Soros, the founder of CNN, Ted Turner, and other investors who offered to buy shares in the Media Most group, Vladimir Gusinsky, who owed Gazprom and later emigrated from Russia. Their initiatives were not accepted. In 2002, Gusinsky was forced to sell Gazprom-Media Holding, owned by Gazprombank, a 30% stake in NTV Television Company OJSC, 14.5 percent of Ekho Moskvy CJSC shares, 25 percent minus one share in Seven Days Publishing House CJSC ”, shares of CJSC NTV-Plus, TNT-Teleset, NTV-Profit and other media companies.
After that, a significant part of the employees left the NTV channel and other media outlets of Media Most. These mass media either became loyal to the Russian leadership, like NTV, or ceased to exist, like the Segodnya newspaper. At the same time, Ekho Moskvy radio maintained the relative independence of its editorial policy.
In 2005, Dmitry Medvedev successfully completed Vladimir Putin's task of concentrating a controlling stake in Gazprom in the hands of the state. To this end, OJSC Rosneftegaz, the manager of state assets in the oil and gas industry, acquired 10.74% of the shares from Gazprom's subsidiaries using a $7.6 billion loan from foreign banks.
At the same time, in 2004, Yury Kovalchuk's bank Rossiya was sold a controlling stake in OAO Insurance Group Gas Industry Insurance Company (SOGAZ). Affiliated with Rossiya OOO Investment Company Abros, OOO Akcept and OAO Lirus received 51%, 12.5% and 12.5% of the shares, respectively, while Gazprombank retained 19.04%.
The Russian-controlled company Leader began to manage the reserves of the non-state pension fund Gazfond, which since 2007 owns a 49.9% stake in Gazprombank. According to the compilers of the report “Putin. Results”, the transfer of SOGAZ, Gazprombank and Gazprom-Media Holding OJSC, affiliated with the latter, to the control of Rossiya Bank is a major scam. The authors of the report note that in 2005 Gazprom-Media and NTV and TNT television companies were acquired by Gazprombank for $166 million, and in 2007 Dmitry Medvedev personally estimated the value of their assets at $7.5 billion. The cost of Gazprombank itself, according to MDM Bank analyst Alexander Kantarovich, could then reach up to $10 billion, while Gazfond acquired a controlling stake in the bank for only $1.3 billion.
The takeover project of OAO NK Rosneft, lobbied by the management of Gazprom, was not successful due to the opposition of the chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, who until 2008 held the position of deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation. In addition, Rosneft, and not Gazprom, got the property of OOO RN-Yuganskneftegaz and OAO Udmurtneft.
During Dmitry Medvedev's tenure as Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom, there was a multiple increase in the income of the company's management.
In 2005, at the initiative of a minority shareholder of Gazprom, Alexei Navalny, a criminal case was initiated on embezzlement from the manager of Gazprom's regional gas and energy sales companies, LLC Mezhregiongaz. According to Navalny, Mezhregiongaz bought gas from Leonid Mikhelson's Novatek OJSC through an intermediary, Trastinvestgaz LLC, which, without actually performing any gas transportation work, resold it for 70% more. The criminal case was not developed.
Started in 2007, under Medvedev, the construction project in St. Petersburg of the Gazprom City business district, which includes the 400-meter Okhta Center, met with such massive public protests that by that time he had already become the head of state Medvedev distanced himself from this idea. In 2010 he stated: « this is a very big question, a very big question. Offhand, I can suggest a dozen places that this tower would decorate. And you can create something around it.” After this speech, the work begun on Okhta was curtailed, and the project was transferred to Lakhta. The height of the central building, according to the project, increased to 500 m, which caused new protests from the residents of the city.
Impact on business
Dmitry Medvedev played a certain role in resolving the conflict between IPE and firms affiliated with Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element group and Vladimir Kogan's Bank St.
The former managing director of Ilim Pulp, Mikhail Moshiashvili, noted that a compromise was reached, since "some people from the presidential administration and the government would like a speedy end to this conflict."
According to Sergey Bespalov, the former deputy general director of the Bratsk timber industry plant, Medvedev was unable to provide real help to Ilim Pulp. And the loss of the plant was prevented only thanks to an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin by the Western shareholders of the company. After that, "Medvedev's reputation as an official capable of protecting the business close to him was undermined."
On February 3, 2003, the Kemerovo District Court annulled its decision of April 25, 2002, according to which, at the suit of a minority shareholder of the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill, 61% of the shares of the plant were seized from Ilim Pulp. The interests of IPE were defended by the law firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners. It was managed by a classmate of Vladimir Putin at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, Professor of the Department of Civil Law of this university Nikolai Egorov. Medvedev's classmate Ilya Eliseev worked as a senior lawyer for the company.
According to the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin dated October 21, 2005, a council was formed under the President of the Russian Federation for the implementation of priority national projects. The president himself became its chairman, Dmitry Medvedev became the first deputy and the person responsible for the current leadership. In 2008, after Medvedev was elected president of Russia, he and Putin switched places. In fact, it was under Medvedev's leadership that the 370 billion rubles allocated in 2006-07 were distributed. to finance national projects.
Funding has been successfully disbursed, but a number of public administration stakeholders have expressed doubt that this has led to any visible results. In particular, in 2009 the Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation Viktor Basargin admitted that during the period of the national project "Affordable Housing" "the availability of housing has practically not increased."
During the implementation of the Health program supervised by Medvedev, the Accounts Chamber found that “ violations of budget legislation and financial discipline, non-compliance with the requirements for the placement of government orders for the supply of goods, performance of work, provision of services and other violations are often due to the lack of proper control on the part of management.” In the opinion of the auditors, this led to deliberately inappropriate and inefficient use of funds. A number of programs were disrupted. Thus, a significant part of the federal centers of high medical technologies under construction during the implementation of the national project "Health", contrary to the plan, was never put into operation by the general contractor - FSUE "Tekhnointorg". Overestimation of estimates for the construction of centers in some regions reached 224%.
Similar phenomena were noted in the course of work within the framework of the national project "Education". Costing 13 million 950 thousand rubles. "School Portal - Unified Start Page", which opened at http://www.portalschool.ru/, according to experts, really cost no more than 100 thousand rubles. The quality of this network resource turned out to be extremely low, while the portal had access to pornographic sites. Already three days after the solemn opening of the site by the Minister of Education and Science Andrey Fursenko on December 21, 2007, the portal was closed, then opened and closed again, at the moment it does not function.
The resource was developed by IMA Group LLC. The president of this structure, the former owner of the AIDS-Info newspaper, the head of the Ima-consulting PR agency, Andrey Gnatyuk, is one of the leading political technologists of the United Russia party. Following the election of Dmitry Medvedev as President of Russia, Gnatyuk was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, I degree.
In 2006, Dmitry Medvedev headed the international board of trustees of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, located in the village of the same name in the Moscow Region. Among its founders are Roman Abramovich, former owner of OAO Sibneft and head of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Ruben Vardanyan, chairman of the board of directors of Troika Dialog investment company, Leonid Mikhelson, owner of Novatek corporation, Aleksey Mordashov, general director of OAO Severstal, owner of the group of companies MMD "East and West" Mikhail Kusnirovich, Igor Makarov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Itera oil and gas company, Andrei Rappoport, Chairman of the Board of JSC Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System, and Valentin Zavadnikov, Chairman of the Interim Commission of the Federation Council on Technical Regulation. The latter two previously worked respectively as deputy chairman of the board and head of the property department at United Energy Systems under the leadership of Anatoly Chubais. Each of the founders contributed $5 million, and Roman Abramovich, in addition, 25.6 hectares of land.
In 2009, the school, having provided this land as a pledge, received a loan of $ 245 million from Sberbank (headed by German Gref).
In 2010, at the initiative of Dmitry Medvedev, the creation of an innovation complex was started in Skolkovo, managed by the Development Fund of the Skolkovo center for the development and commercialization of new technologies. Viktor Vekselberg, head of the Renova group of companies, was appointed President of the Foundation, and Zhores Alferov, Nobel laureate and State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, became the scientific adviser. Dmitry Medvedev himself headed the Board of Trustees of the Development Fund of the Skolkovo Center for the Development and Commercialization of New Technologies. The Council includes Executive Director of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia Ivan Bortnik, Aide to the President of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman of the State Corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs" Vladimir Dmitriev, Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the first Vladislav Surkov, Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration, and Andrei Fursenko, Minister of Education and Science.
According to the plans, the companies participating in the work of the innovation center will be exempt from income taxes for 10 years, and until the return on investment is achieved, from taxes on value added and property used in research activities. In addition, it is assumed that the tax rate of contributions to mandatory pension, medical and social insurance will be reduced to 14%.
The project to create an innovation center in Skolkovo and its main lobbyists appear in several serious conflicts. A group of academicians of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences sent a letter to Dmitry Medvedev protesting against the alienation in favor of the land center of the Nemchinovka Research Institute of Agriculture. In their opinion, the consequence of such a decision should have been the destruction of the unique material and technical base for scientific research that had been created over the years and the loss of the institute's powerful personnel potential. The total sown area under varieties of grain crops, which were bred by the Institute's breeders, reached 8.5 million hectares. This is about 20% of the total area of grain crops in the country.
Planned for the position of international coordinator of the Center, a member of the board of directors of the investment bank Goldman Sachs, Rajat Kumar Gupta, is currently suspected of passing insider information to the founder of the Galleon hedge fund, Raj Rajaratnam, who was arrested in the United States. After US law enforcement agencies made public their suspicions against Gupta, he was removed from the board of directors of Sberbank, but remains a member of the board of trustees of the Skolkovo school.
President of the Skolkovo Foundation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova group of companies Viktor Vekselberg is suspected by the media of participating in a transaction of Hungarian and Russian officials to sell the building of the Hungarian Trade Representation in Moscow, which has signs of a crime. Located at 3 Krasnaya Presnya Street, the property was purchased in 2008 for $21.3 million by the Luxembourg offshore Diamond Air, established by another Luxembourg offshore, Renova Air Transport. Then, acting on behalf of Diamond Air, Innovative Technologies Renova LLC (a branch of Viktor Vekselberg's group), resold the building to the Russian government for 3.5 billion rubles. (more than $120 million). From the Hungarian side, the former Hungarian Ambassador to Moscow Arpad Szekely, the former Hungarian Foreign Ministry Secretary Feksi Horvath and the former secretary of the State Property Administration Miklos Tatray participated in the deal. All of them were arrested in their homeland following the sale of the mansion on Krasnaya Presnya. Russian law enforcement agencies have no claims against Viktor Vekselberg, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov and Minister of Regional Development (now Deputy Prime Minister) Dmitry Kozak, who appeared in the course of the operations to cede the building from the Russian side.
In 2008, Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree transferring the state corporation Russian Technologies, headed by Sergei Chemezov, 246 joint-stock companies and 180 federal state unitary enterprises, mainly defense ones. A former classmate of the President, Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court Anton Ivanov, spoke about unjustified benefits to state corporations. The president himself constantly criticized state corporations, arguing that he considers such structures unpromising. At the same time, in 2009, Medvedev granted Chemezov the right to participate in government meetings and directly make proposals to both the cabinet of ministers and the president, transferred Vladivostok Avia, Dalavia and Sakhalin Airways to Russian Technologies.
In November 2011, the Vedomosti newspaper published an interview with Andrei Borodin, the former head of the Bank of Moscow, in which he spoke in detail about the role of Dmitry Medvedev in the situation around the bank. According to Borodin, the former special representative of the president, Igor Yusufov, who bought the bank's shares from him, acted "in the interests and on behalf of President Dmitry Medvedev, who decided that the state would gain control over the Bank of Moscow." Borodin emphasizes in an interview that Yusufov's mandate from Medvedev was also confirmed by third parties, in particular, the chairman of the board of VTB Bank Andrei Kostin, and Igor Yusufov himself claimed that "he and the president share profits and assets and that he is one of the persons authorized to hold assets within Medvedev's sphere of interests.
In February 2011, VTB acquired from the Moscow government a 46.48% stake in the Bank of Moscow and 25% plus one share of the Capital Insurance Group, which owns 17.32% of the bank's shares. Further, VTB announced its intention to consolidate 100% of the shares of the Bank of Moscow. However, Andrei Borodin, who controlled about 20% of the bank's shares, refused to sell them. Then, Vitaly Yusufov, the son of Igor Yusufov, approached the ex-head of the Bank of Moscow with a proposal to buy a stake in the bank for $1.1 billion. Yusufov took the money to buy a stake in the bank from the bank itself through the Europroject Investments company controlled by him, owned by the shipbuilding company Nordic Yards. The deal was completed in April 2011. And in September 2011, Vitaly Yusufov sold his 19.91% stake in the Bank of Moscow to the VTB group. Back in the summer, the reorganization of the Bank of Moscow was launched: the Central Bank and the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) joined in its rescue. It was decided that the DIA would provide the Bank of Moscow with a loan from the Central Bank in the amount of 295 billion rubles for 10 years at 0.51% per annum.
In his interview, Andrey Borodin also points out that in negotiations with him, Igor Yusufov claimed that he "represents the interests of Medvedev in Osnova Telekom, which owns a license for mobile broadcasting in the 4G band."
In May 2010, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov sent a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev asking Osnova Telecom to allocate 2.3-2.4 GHz frequencies suitable for LTE, the fourth generation (4G) mobile communication standard, out of competition. The minister asked to hold a closed meeting of the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) especially for this purpose. Medvedev imposed a resolution: "Make all necessary decisions together with the Ministry of Communications in the prescribed manner." At that time, Osnova Telecom did not yet exist: it was officially registered only at the beginning of June 2010. The company is owned by Aykominvest LLC Vitaly Yusufov (74.9%) and subordinated to the Ministry of Defense OJSC Voentelekom (25.1% of shares) . The main goal of the company is to create an LTE network that will provide mobile Internet speeds up to 100 Mbps. The general director of Osnova Telecom and Voentelekom is the appointee of Minister Serdyukov, Nikolai Tamodin, who is also the director of St. Petersburg ZAO Nienschanz.
The "Big Three" cellular operators responded to Serdyukov's request with indignant letters addressed to Prime Minister, President and Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Igor Shchegolev, demanding that the frequencies be put up for tender. The main shareholders of MTS Vladimir Yevtushenkov and Vimpelcom Mikhail Fridman personally settled this issue with Vladimir Putin. As a result, the SCRF meeting was postponed. In September 2011, the SCRF allowed Osnova Telecom to build its network in the 2.3-2.4 GHz range, excluding those bands that Rostelecom had already received at competitions. In fact, Osnova got those frequencies that were prudently reserved by the military.
Also, according to Borodin, Igor Yusufov claimed that he represented the interests of Dmitry Medvedev in Uralkali and other projects: “Through the mediation of Yusufov, Medvedev instructed VTB to issue a loan to Suleiman Kerimov for $ 5 billion to buy Uralkali. And for this, Yusufov received an option for 8-10% of the shares of Uralkali at the same price for which Kerimov bought this package from Rybolovlev. According to Borodin's calculations, Yusufov's possible profit from the exercise of this option could be $500 million.
Borodin testifies that Yusufov in every possible way emphasized his closeness to President Medvedev, arguing: "We are creating for a" young man "<имеется в виду Дмитрий Медведев>"pension fund" or "future financial empire". Regarding the purchase of shares in the Bank of Moscow, Yusufov, according to Borodin, argued that in a few years the stake would be sold to VTB, and the profit would be divided between him, Medvedev and Kostin.
Commenting on Borodin's claims, presidential spokeswoman Natalia Timakova said that "Dmitry Medvedev has never participated in any commercial negotiations or given instructions on any commercial projects." Igor Yusufov also refuted Borodin's words and said that in relations with him he always acted solely on his own initiative, and in the deal with the Bank of Moscow he acted in the interests of his son Vitaly.
Income
In 2005, Dmitry Medvedev's income amounted to 2 million 219 thousand rubles, in 2006 - 2 million 235 thousand rubles. He owned an apartment with an area of 364.5 sq. m. on Minskaya Street in Moscow, in the elite residential complex "Golden Keys-1". Medvedev also rented a land plot in the Moscow region with an area of 4,700 sq. m.
In 2008, according to an extract from the Unified Register of Homeowners cited by Novaya Gazeta, Medvedev was listed as co-owner of another 174.4 sq. m. on Tikhvinskaya street. This property was not included in Medvedev's declaration filed at the beginning of the same year. The declaration indicated 8 bank accounts with a total balance of 2 million 740 thousand 6 rubles. 50 kop. Wife Svetlana Medvedeva owned two parking spaces and a Volkswagen Golf car, as well as one bank account with a balance of 380.2 rubles.
According to the following declaration of income, following the results of 2008, Medvedev received 4 million 139 thousand 726 rubles as a salary. Also, the declaration contained information that the President owns the apartment on Tikhvinskaya Street together with his wife. In 2008, the head of the Russian Federation had 9 bank accounts for a total of 2 million 818 thousand 780 rubles. 80 kop. Svetlana Medvedeva in 2008 used an account opened with a bank in the amount of 135 thousand 144 rubles. 50 kop.
In November 2008, a photo of Svetlana Medvedeva was published on the cover of the Style advertising supplement to the Kommersant newspaper, where she was sitting on a sofa waiting for the start of a reception in honor of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. On the hand of the President's wife is a Breguet watch from the Reine De Naples collection. This watch model uses 18-carat yellow gold, 128 diamonds, sapphire glass, natural mother-of-pearl, silver, one of the interchangeable straps is made of crocodile skin. The approximate cost of such watches is about $30,000. Where Medvedeva got this item from was not reported.
For 2009, Medvedev declared an income of 3 million 335 thousand 281 rubles. In the same year, he got a new car - a rare GAZ-20 "Victory" 1948 release. According to the results of 2009, there were 12 accounts, the total amount of the deposit amounted to 3 million 574 thousand 747 rubles. 34 kop. Svetlana Medvedeva declared 582 rubles. The balance on her bank account is 7,503 rubles.
According to the declaration for 2010, Dmitry Medvedev's income amounted to 3 million 378 thousand 673 rubles. 63 kop. The head of the country used 14 bank accounts for a total of 4 million 961 thousand 528 rubles. 98 rub. At the end of 2010, Medvedev's wife had 3 zero accounts and no income. Still owns two parking spaces and a Volkswagen Golf.
Family
Father, Anatoly Afanasyevich Medvedev, scientist. He worked as a teacher, taught drawing and physics in the Krasnodar Territory. Graduated from the Krasnodar Food Institute. He was a professor at the Leningrad Technological Institute (LTI) named after the Leningrad City Council. Died 2004
Mother, Yulia Veniaminovna Medvedeva (Shaposhnikova), pensioner. Graduated from the philological faculty of Voronezh State University. After graduating from the university, she left for Leningrad, married Anatoly Medvedev. She taught Russian language and literature at the Pedagogical Institute. Herzen.
Wife, Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva (Linnik), philanthropist. In 1993, Dmitry Medvedev married Svetlana Linnik, with whom he studied at the same school. Medvedeva graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics (now St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance).
Svetlana Medvedeva is religious. She often attends forums and congresses dedicated to the revival of Orthodox values, meets with the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church and supports charitable projects of the Russian Orthodox Church. RIA-Novosti estimated in March 2011 that of more than 130 official events in which the first lady participated, according to the president's website, half were church-related.
Since April 2007, Medvedeva has been the chairman of the board of trustees of the target complex program "Spiritual and moral culture of the younger generation in Russia." The main goal of the program is the revival of the spirituality of the population, primarily of children and youth. As stated on the website of the program, "this can be achieved through the creation of a state-public mechanism for introducing the younger generation to domestic cultural, historical, spiritual and moral traditions." The Board of Trustees includes a number of officials, deputies, scientists and cultural figures. Business in the council is represented by Valery Lvovich Volodin, a member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Investment Company Eurofinance. Volodin's name in the media was associated with the scandal surrounding the criminal case against the owners of the Arbat Prestige company, Semyon Mogilevich and Vladimir Nekrasov. Experts noted that the profit from the closure of Arbat Prestige will be received by its direct competitors - the Il de Bote network, which is part of the United Europe holding affiliated with Eurofinance.
The spiritual council of the program includes, in particular, Archpriest Vladimir Volgin, rector of the Church of Sophia the Wisdom of God on Sofiyskaya Embankment opposite the Kremlin, who is considered the confessor of Dmitry and Svetlana Medvedev.
The legal entity acting on behalf of the program is the Non-Governmental Educational Institution "Institute for the Expertise of Educational Programs and State-Confessional Relations", registered in 2002 by two individuals: Maria Nikolaevna Lazutova and Olga Vasilievna Litovchenko. Lazutova is a former party and Komsomol worker, former secretary of state - Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for CIS Affairs, former Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation. Olga Litovchenko is the chief specialist of the control department of the Moscow City Service for Licensing, Certification of Educational Institutions, Teaching Staff and Students, a member of the Expert Council under the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Development of Competition in Education and Science.
Now, according to SPARK-Interfax, the founders of the NGOU "Institute for the Expertise of Educational Programs and State-Confessional Relations" are Vladimir Alekseevich Yashchenko and the religious organization "Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church". Yashchenko is the founder of the charitable foundation for the support of the younger generation "Pokrov", as well as a co-founder of the Moscow charitable public organization "Brotherhood in the name of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir".
One of the projects of the program "Spiritual and moral culture of the younger generation of Russia" is the annual international film festival "Radiant Angel". The festival is held under the patronage of Svetlana Medvedeva, supervised by her own spiritual expert council. The latter carries out a spiritual and expert evaluation of the films of the competitive and out-of-competition programs in terms of their compliance with the criteria of spirituality and morality.
Svetlana Medvedeva is the chairman of the public board of trustees of the Kronstadt Naval Cathedral. The consecration of the cathedral is scheduled for March 2012. The non-profit organization "International Charitable Foundation "Kronstadt Naval Cathedral in the Name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker", established in 2009, is engaged in the restoration of the temple. Its founders are Alexander Goroshko, head of the administration of the Kronstadt district of St. Archpriest Svyatoslav Melnik, General Director of the Konstantinovsky International Charitable Foundation Gennady Yavnik, State Duma Deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party Leonid Slutsky, Director of the St. Petersburg Regional ITAR-TASS Center, former head of the ideological department of the Leningrad city committee of the CPSU Boris Petrov. Among the benefactors of the Kronstadt Naval Cathedral in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker are the North-Western Bank of Sberbank of the Russian Federation, the Konstantinovsky International Charitable Foundation, Don-Stroy CJSC (Maxim Blazhko and Dmitry Zelenov), Construction Management No. 155 CJSC ( Mikhail Balakin), KT "DSK - 1 and Co" (Vladimir Kopelev), CJSC "Mosstroymekhanizatsiya-5" (Obid and Parviz Yasinov), JSC "Transaero Aviation Company" (Alexander and Olga Pleshakov) and other structures. Among individual philanthropists is, in particular, the head of Russian Railways JSC Vladimir Yakunin.
The Konstantinovsky Charitable Foundation is one of the key legal entities that accumulate funds for the reconstruction and construction of state and representative facilities. The fund was established in 2001. Its founders, according to SPARK, are People's Artist of the USSR, the late Kirill Lavrov, director of the fund Gennady Yavnik, director of the state reserve "Peterhof" Vadim Znamenov, deputy director of affairs of the President of Russia Ivan Malyushin. The Board of the Fund is headed by Vladimir Kozhin, Presidential Affairs Manager. The Foundation was engaged in the restoration of the Konstantinovsky Palace, collecting money from large businesses, building an oceanarium in Vladivostok and a business center in the Kaliningrad region, restoring churches in Jerusalem and Tver. "Konstantinovsky" helps to restore the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the cathedral in Belgrade and the old castle in the French town of Monceau. The largest sponsors of Konstantinovsky are Transneft, VTB, Sberbank, International Bank of St. Petersburg, Rosneft, RAO UES, Eurofinance, Alfa-Bank, Surgutneftegaz.
Some of the facilities for which the fund collects money from corporations are being restored by Intarsia LLC. The owner of this restoration holding is the head and founder of Konstantinovsky, Gennady Yavnik. The second founder of Intarsia is Viktor Smirnov, who is considered close to Vladimir Kozhin, the president's affairs manager. Publications about the company's significant excess of cost estimates during the restoration of the Konstantinovsky Palace had no legal consequences. Intarsia continues to receive profitable government contracts. She is engaged in the reconstruction of the Eastern Wing of the General Headquarters of the State Hermitage Museum, the restoration of the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt, the reconstruction of the historical appearance of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery in Istra, the reconstruction and restoration of the Lobanov-Rostovsky house to accommodate the five-star Four Seasons Hotel (the hotel belongs to the sons of the head of OAO "Russian Railways" by Vladimir Yakunin - to Andrey and Viktor) and a number of other projects. The Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Accounting Office and a competitor have repeatedly tried to challenge Intarsia's contracts, but without much success.
Svetlana Medvedeva is President of the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives. The foundation was founded in December 2008. The foundation's activities are aimed at supporting children, as well as at developing cultural projects. The main projects are the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, initiated by Svetlana Medvedeva, dedicated to the memory of Saints Peter and Fevronia (celebrated annually on July 8) and the Give Me Life campaign.
The founders of the fund are four individuals: Olga Zotova, Alla Lvova, Dmitry Solovyov and Olga Travina. According to SPARK, Travina works as the General Director of the Dar Fund Management Company LLC, as well as the director of the North-Western Branch of the Dar Fund. "UK Fund "Dar"" previously had the same legal address and phone number, which is now recorded at the Fund for Social and Cultural Initiatives Medvedeva. The founder of "Dar" is LLC "Levit", its owners are Leonid Mikhelson and Leonid Simanovsky. Mikhelson controls a significant stake in the Novatek gas company and is one of the founders of the business school in Skolkovo.
The Fund for Regional Non-Commercial Projects "Dar" is listed as the official owner of the Milovka Estate, located on the banks of the Volga in the city of Plyos, Ivanovo Region. This object is considered the future personal residence of Dmitry Medvedev. The President has already visited Plyos twice with his wife. According to published documents, it is also known that the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation is directly involved in the construction of Milovka. The UDP itself refutes this fact.
Dmitry Medvedev's close friends are closely connected with the Dar Foundation. Ilya Eliseev headed the Supervisory Board of the Foundation, and Philip Polyansky, a graduate of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University and a student of Eliseev, from 2006 to 2008. was the CEO of Dar. After leaving Dar, Polyansky became the founder and CEO of Zertum-invest LLC, which in 2010 acquired for 740 million rubles. an architectural monument of the 18th century - the palace of Count Kushelev-Bezborodko (Small Marble Palace) in St. Petersburg. "Certum-Invest" is also the owner of 99.34% of the shares of OJSC "Blagoveshchensky Valve Plant". Polyansky is the chairman of the supervisory board of the Blagoveshchensky Valve Plant, where Ilya Eliseev is also a member.
In March 2011, the Dar Fund Management Company LLC established another legal entity, the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Foundation LLC. It was this company that in May 2011 held an event with the appropriate name in St. Petersburg at the Mikhailovsky (Engineering) Castle. The forum was attended by President Medvedev.
In 2008, the Dar Foundation received a 49-year lease on a land plot on the Black Sea coast in the Anapa region with an area of 119.8 hectares in the 72nd and 79th quarters of the Anapa district forestry of the Novorossiysk forestry. This site covers the territory adjacent to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Utrish lagoons, that is, the most valuable part of the Bolshoi Utrish nature reserve, with unique relict landscapes covered with juniper-pistachio forests. Officially, the land was obtained for recreational activities. The rent, according to the agreement, is more than 14 million rubles. in year.
The Fund stated that "point construction of recreational and health complex facilities will be carried out on the territory, and only a small part of it will be used for capital buildings." However, the public organization "Environmental Watch in the North Caucasus" found out that according to the existing plan, a "sports and recreation complex" will be built, which is an elite residence, probably for the country's top leadership. It should include: a two-story main house, a building of a sports and recreation center with outdoor sports grounds, a five-story hotel for security and personnel, a guest house, a three-story VIP hotel, a checkpoint and an inspection platform, two helipads, a command post, a utility block, a boiler room, a gas station and a warehouse for fuel and lubricants, a garage, a stage, a Russian bathhouse and a summer kitchen, a marina, a yacht club, a port station, a rotunda, two breakwaters and an esplanade.
Based on the fact that Dar received the land for rent, and the Office of the President of the Russian Federation was again involved in the approval of the residence project, local environmentalists conclude that the residence is being built for Dmitry Mededev. According to Novaya Gazeta, since June 1, 2011, the regime of a specially protected zone has been operating in Bolshoi Utrish. On the territory of the reserve, you can not only stay, but also swim closer to it than three kilometers.
One of the projects of the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives is the White Rose charity event initiated by Svetlana Medvedeva. As part of this action, concerts are held in the residence of the President of Russia in support of charitable diagnostic centers for the protection of women's health. So, on December 13, 2010, the concert “Stars in the Kremlin” was held in the Alexander Hall of the Kremlin in support of the “Charitable Medical Diagnostic Center for Women's Health” at the address: St. Petersburg, Moskovsky Prospekt, 104, lit. A. In the brochure posted on the website of the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives and dedicated to the White Rose campaign, on page 5 it is indicated that “the construction of the Center will be carried out within the framework of the special program of the Charitable Foundation “Step Toward”. A charitable foundation for helping citizens who find themselves in difficult life situations, Step Toward, was established by Tatyana Mikhailovna Zingarevich, the wife of President Medvedev's partner in private business, co-owner of Ilim, Boris Zingarevich. Tatyana Zingarevich is also the president of this foundation.
It is known that the concert "Stars in the Kremlin", in addition to federal and regional officials, was attended by Dmitry Medvedev's old friends - the brothers Boris and Mikhail Zingarevich, as well as Nikita Leonov, a member of the board of directors of the Ilim Timber Industry woodworking holding, businessman Yevgeny Davidan, senior partner of the legal Pen & Paper Konstantin Dobrynin.
Cousin, Andrei Vasilyevich Medvedev, businessman. He is the head of the 4P Group.
In the early 1990s worked as the director of the capital's boutique, which sold furs, jewelry and expensive clothes. Collaborated with Adventa. He was the CEO of the BTL agency Penny Lane marketing.
Andrey Medvedev was listed as the founder of 4P Group Neva LLC and the director of 4P GROUP LLC. Together with Anton Aleksandrovich Ryapolov, he remains a shareholder of ZAO 4P Group. These organizations are engaged in advertising services and BTL marketing. The 4P Group was created in early 2005 through a reorganization of Penny Lane marketing, a merger with MindSpring, Pepper Innovations, National Merchandising and the acquisition of Somerset Hart.
Andrey Medvedev worked in the Russian Real Estate Internet holding, established in 2000, within which the Russian Real Estate websites were opened: www.RussianRealty.ru, First Credit: http://www.1credit.ru/, "Miss realtor": http://www.missrealtor.ru/.
At the beginning of the 2008 crisis, Medvedev withdrew from the Russian Real Estate project. At the same time, he became one of the founders of MAKS Internet Projects LLC and Internet for Everyone LLC, which planned to launch the MneDa.ru real estate portal, the OKcent information and advertising newspaper, and the Kobo studio on the network. Today, all programs are suspended, and on the Internet you can find extremely negative feedback about the leaders of MAKS Internet Projects. In particular, Internet users express a claim to Medvedev's business about the payment of wages "in the black", and sometimes - non-payment of money at all.
Uncle, Elena (Serafima) Veniaminovna Shaposhnikova, writer. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Voronezh State University. She worked as the head of the department of the literary part in the Voronezh Youth Theater. She was the editor of the literary and dramatic editorial office on television in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. Author of fantasy novels for children. In 2004, her book "The Secret of Time or the Message of the Crystal Terafim" was published.
Cousin, Artyom Shaposhnikov, programmer. Son of Elena (Seraphim) Shaposhnikova, Dmitry Medvedev's aunt. Graduated from the Faculty of Physics of the Voronezh State University, specialized in the Department of Theoretical Physics. He became the winner of the World Computer Olympiad in the Netherlands, received an invitation to work for Microsoft, and in 1988, after graduating from university, he moved to the United States. Lives in Florida. He has American citizenship and a number of scientific publications.
great uncle, Sergey Viktorovich Konov, producer. In his youth he was the heavyweight boxing champion of the Voronezh region. He emigrated to the USA, started his first business in America. Then he returned to Russia, was engaged in various projects - in particular, he built a plant for the production of Pepsi-Cola, promoted the Iron Brew drink to the Russian market.
Founder and CEO of the Russian-American Film Company (RAMCO), founded in 2002. RAMCO's priority activity is the production of films for the Russian and foreign markets on the basis of the Mosfilm film concern.
Founder of Resurrection Film Company LLC, RAM TV Company LLC, RAM TV LLC.
Produced the films "Abduction" (USA, 2007), "Film Festival" (2006), "Shadow Partner" (2005, played one of the roles), "Abduction" (Russia, 1996). Since 2008, he has been married to actress Ekaterina Valerievna Rednikova.
In March 2011, Igor Desyatnikov, investor in the Russian-American film Finding T.a.t.u. (in the Russian box office "You and I"), presented financial claims to Sergei Konov. Initially, the cost of shooting was to be $7.6 million. Then it took $17.6 million to invest, and Desyatnikov stopped financing the project. In addition to the funds invested in the film, Konov asked Desyatnikov to give him an interest-free loan for the production of the film. The amount received - about $ 600 thousand, Dmitry Medvedev's uncle promised to return immediately after the shooting, but the creditor did not receive his money even two years after they ended. In 2011, Desyatnikov filed a lawsuit with the Presnensky District Court of Moscow demanding the return of the seized funds. The film cost investors $20 million. The box office in Russia amounted to $909,410.
Sergey Konov is considered an influential person who is able to lobby for appointments in federal authorities. Russian Newsweek magazine suggested that Vladimir Kolokoltsev, nominated under President Dmitry Medvedev to the post of head of the Moscow police department, owed the position to his friendship with Konov, which began in the 1990s. Konov himself refutes the fact of lobbying Kolokoltsev's police career.
closest friends
Dmitry Medvedev maintains friendly relations with Boris and Mikhail Zingarevich, with whom he established Finzell and Ilim Pulp CJSC. Now the official owners of Ilim are the Swiss company Ilim Holding, whose equal shares are owned, on the one hand, by the American International Paper and, on the other, by Russian shareholders (including the chairman of the board of directors of the group Zakhar Smushkin, a member of the board of directors Leonid Erukhimovich and brothers Zingarevichi).
In 2010, at a charity auction at the Christmas Fair in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Zingarevich bought for 51 million rubles. photograph of the Tobolsk Kremlin taken by Dmitry Medvedev.
In St. Petersburg, the Zingarevich brothers are engaged in development projects. Their interests include the reconstruction of objects on Vosstaniya Square and Konyushennaya Square. In 2010, firms controlled by businessmen received a number of historical buildings from the city - on the Field of Mars, 1, letter A; Konyushennaya Square, 1, letter A; on Nevsky prospect, 7-9; embankment of the Moika River, 26 - for the construction of hotels. In 2011, the Federal Antimonopoly Service issued complaints against some of these buildings accusing the administration of St. Petersburg of violating competition law.
Boris Zingarevich opened the Ener1 company in the USA, which produces batteries for electric vehicles. In the summer of 2011, American shareholders filed a lawsuit against this structure, accusing it of fraudulent reporting and concealing losses.
Many friends of the President of the Russian Federation, who graduated with him in 1987 from the Faculty of Law of the Leningrad State University, following the development of Dmitry Medvedev's career, received responsible positions in government and business.
In addition to Ilya Eliseev, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprombank Board of Directors, and Anton Ivanov, Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court, Konstantin Chuichenko, Head of the Control Department of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, who previously worked in the KGB and headed the legal department of Gazprom, occupied a high position. Chuichenko played a big role in organizing the takeover by the corporation of CJSC Media-Most and other assets, as well as in gas conflicts in Ukraine.
The current work of other classmates of the president is connected with Gazprom: the former subordinate Chuichenko - the first deputy head of the legal department of Gazprom Vladimir Alisov and the general director of the main supplier of oil and gas equipment of the concern - Gazpromkomplektatsiya LLC Igor Fedorov. In 2009, Fedorov was approved by United Russia as one of the candidates for the post of head of administration of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO), but the following year, the district was headed by Dmitry Kobylkin, head of the Purovsky district of the YNAO.
Of the rest of the 1987 law school graduation of Leningrad State University, the most successful was Vadim Semenov, general director of OAO Svyazinvest (the main state telecommunications company in Russia), who also worked in a subsidiary of Gazprom, OAO Elektrogaz. His appointment was preceded by a major conflict within the management of Svyazinvest, during which Semyonov's predecessor as CEO of the company, Evgeny Yurchenko, resigned. At the same time, a member of the board of directors of the company, former Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation Leonid Reiman left the post of adviser to the President of the Russian Federation.
Reiman said that the reorganization of the corporation was not carried out in the interests of the main shareholder - "the state will either lose control or be forced to spend about $4 billion to maintain it." In turn, Yurchenko noted that he categorically protests against the transfer of management of Svyazinvest to the Marshall Capital Partners investment fund, and called the fund's managing partner Konstantin Malafeev "the great raider of Russia." In turn, State Duma deputy Viktor Ilyukhin, in letters to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, said that the Marshall Capital Partners fund had carried out the actual privatization of the main industry facilities of Svyazinvest OJSC and Rostelecom OJSC, after which it was engaged exclusively in making a profit from these assets. The demarches of Ilyukhin, Reiman and Yurchenko were not successful. Ilyukhin died suddenly, and businessman Malafeev remained in charge of Svyazinvest under the control of Semenov.
Former deputy prosecutor of St. Petersburg and head of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) Nikolai Vinnichenko became the President's representative in the Urals, and then in the North-Western federal districts. After Vinnichenko left for the plenipotentiary, his common classmate with Medvedev, the former prosecutor of Petrozavodsk Artur Parfenchikov, also became the head of the FSSP. Another fellow student, Dmitry Sergeev, headed the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Nikolay Vinnichenko and Valery Kozhokar, former investigator of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Kalininsky District of St. Petersburg, who studied together with the head of state (under President Medvedev, became deputy minister of internal affairs and head of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) are known for their active participation in the criminal case of deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Yuri Shutov.
Shutov was an assistant to the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak, then broke with him, began to publish incriminating information about Sobchak and his entourage, including Vladimir Putin. In 1999, Shutov was arrested on charges of organizing several contract killings, until 2006 he was held in custody without a court sentence, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.
Valeria Adamova, chairman of the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District, who studied with Medvedev, before that, on the recommendation of Konstantin Chuichenko, worked as vice president for legal support of OAO Siberian-Ural Oil and Gas Chemical Company (OAO Sibur) owned by Gazprom.
Valeria Adamova's husband, Oleg Adamov, is still associated with Gazprom, works as deputy general director of the NTV television channel owned by Gazprom-Media. Adamova was appointed to her current position under the patronage of the Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court Anton Ivanov. Before the approval, Judge Adamova had questions about the presence of 7.8 million rubles in her accounts, but Medvedev's classmate explained that these were savings accumulated after working at Sibur.
Presidential classmate Tatyana Gerasimova replaced Putin's classmate Alexei Anichin as first deputy head of the investigative department (formerly the committee) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Another graduate of the law faculty of Leningrad State University in 1987, Elena Leonenko, rose to the rank of deputy chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Komsomol organizer of the Medvedev course Alexander Gutsan became the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, his wife and classmate Natalya Gutsan heads the Statutory Court of St. Petersburg. The president's classmates Nikolai Yegorov and Sergei Esipov are also working in the prosecutor's office - respectively, the first deputy prosecutor and deputy prosecutor of the Leningrad Region.
The former party organizer of the course, Vitaly Shevchuk, has been the chairman of the Leningrad Region Court since 2011, and in 2008-2011. served as head of the regional department of the judicial department at the Supreme Court. When he was appointed to this post, his candidacy was rejected by the council of judges and the former chairman of the regional court, Irina Lodyzhenskaya, who stated that “the candidate violated the deadlines for considering cases, the low quality of procedural decisions, as well as the prosecutor’s office data on cases of falsification of the text of sentences,” which Vitaly Shevchuk himself explained by “virus infection” computer" and "technical error." The prosecutor's office confirmed the annulment of sentences and Shevchuk's repeated violations of the Code of Criminal Procedure, but the head of the federal judicial department, Alexander Gusev, who appointed the former party organizer, ignored all these materials.
Other law school graduates in 1987 have not yet made a career in government or commercial structures, but are successful lawyers. One of them, a member of the St. Petersburg City Bar Association, Vladimir Vladimirovich Poludnyakov (son of the former chairman of the city court of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Ivanovich Poludnyakov), is simultaneously listed as the first deputy chairman of the trade union association SOTSPROF. Having emerged during the years of Perestroika as an alternative to the Soviet trade unions, SOTSPROF subsequently invariably supported Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, but did not enjoy the favor of the authorities. After Dmitry Medvedev was elected president, the situation changed. Sergey Vostretsov, the younger brother of the former head of the press service of the FSB department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Alexei Vostretsov, became the chairman of SOTSPROF. The President met with the new trade union leader and promised him assistance, and Vladimir Poludnyakov became the second person in SOTSPROF.
Of those who studied together with Dmitry Medvedev in the graduate school of the Faculty of Law, the most prominent figure is the former chairman of the election commission of the Primorsky Territory, Konstantin Aranovsky, who was appointed in 2010 as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
Dmitry Medvedev worked at the Faculty of Law together with Mikhail Krotov. According to Sobesednik, in 1992 Krotov was the head of the ROSH-Petersburg company, founded by the Luxembourg firm of the Israeli businessman Mark Klabin. This structure, according to the Sobesednik, appeared at the Royal casino in Moscow and the St. Petersburg club-casino Taleon, owned by the previously repeatedly convicted Alexander Ebralidze. In 1995, Roche consolidated a stake in Baltic Shipping Company OJSC. The new shareholders tried to oblige the shipping company to issue a multimillion-dollar loan secured by ships. The chairman of the board of directors of the Baltic Sea Shipping Company, Ivan Lushchinsky, was an opponent of this decision. In the same 1995, Lushchinsky was shot dead, and Mikhail Krotov took his place on the board of directors. The loan was approved, the company was declared bankrupt. “The shipping company has only 9 ships left out of almost two hundred, and Lushchinsky resisted this deliberate bankruptcy,” a close friend of the murdered man told Sobesednik. “His killers were never found.”