Rashid sardarov family. Regional newspaper "Companion and Co". "Going the right way"
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Rashid Sardarov is the general director of the South Ural Industrial Company. Born June 27, 1955 in Makhachkala. Co-chairman of the presidium of the independent association "Goazdan Society", holder of the golden badge of honor "Public Recognition", member of the Moscow English Club. Mentioned in the Russian version of Forbes magazine as one of the most influential Russian billionaires.
What do you think connects the famous Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov with the Kimry District, in particular, with the Central Rural Settlement? Probably, for many, this question will seem, if not absurd, then at least strange. Indeed, as a rule, the name of the general director of the South Ural Industrial Company is mentioned in the press in connection with the calculation of his fortune or the story of his mansion in the Austrian Alps. However, few people know that Sardarov has an estate in the Central rural settlement of the Kimr district. It is located near the village of Abramovo. It was not by chance that the billionaire acquired it. The point is not at all about the beautiful Volga banks and the purest country air. It's just that Rashid Sardarov has Kimrian roots - his mother comes from the Kimrian land. So the appearance of the largest Russian businessman here can be safely called a return home.
"GOING THE RIGHT WAY"
Before we continue our story, let's make a small digression. The name Rashid in translation from Arabic means "reasonable", "walking the right way." What is the life path of Rashid Sardarov? He graduated from Dagestan state University in the specialty "geophysics". In the 80s, he worked as the head of the geochemical test site of the Southern branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Geophysics in Baku, the head of the physics and geophysics party of the All-Russian Research Institute of Geophysics, director general Society "Intersoyuz". Finally, from 1991 to the present day, he is the head of the largest holding company, South Ural Industrial Company. This is really the right way. He brought Rashid Sardarov a good fortune and fame.
All these are the fruits of a long and fruitful work to create a business. Moreover, Rashid Selimovich does not stop at what he has achieved, he has no time to rest. We need to move on, he believes, reaching new goals, conquering new heights. Movement and improvement for the better, helping one's neighbor - this is his vector. Diligence, business acumen, persistence and perseverance amaze many people who know him closely.
Rashid Seli-movich's professionalism, the broadest erudition in various fields of human knowledge, inquisitiveness of mind and ability to learn allow him to achieve what he has planned.
Despite his inherent rigidity and firmness in business, Sardarov in real life - a simple person, a hospitable host who knows how to treat people with sincerity and kindness. He will not leave in trouble and will not refuse help.
"GOOD DEEDS ARE DONE QUIETLY"
Rashid Sardarov has one more advantage. He is incredibly humble. Therefore, he tries not to advertise his philanthropic affairs (and there are, believe me, a lot of them). His life credo is: "Good deeds are done quietly." For example, almost no one knew that it was Sardarov who faked the road to the village of Abramovo and bought the House of Culture of the Gorky Factory for the Kimrsky District. And Sardarov said and did it. Then he will do in the village. Abramovo street lighting, will allocate money for gasification of the Kayurovo village, will help with the improvement of the territory of the Central settlement and with the purchase of premises for the office of a general practitioner and the location of the district police officer in the Central settlement. According to the head of the settlement Irina Karenina and the head of the administration of the Central Rural Settlement, Yuri Kharevich, these problems were already raised under the previous leadership, and Rashid Selimovich even transferred funds, however, due to difficulties with the documentation, it was not possible to implement the plan then. The money was returned to the patron. And now new project... Rashid Sardarov came to the rescue again - he promised to find money. “I want,” he said in an interview with the head of the settlement administration, “for the local population to live well. I will help as much as I can ”.
"ISLAND OF AGRICULTURE"
An important point. Sardarov acquired land in the Central Rural Settlement not just for recreation, but also for the development of agriculture. He repaired the farm, brought in cows, sheep, geese, chickens.
He grows oats, barley, vegetables, potatoes on the available farmland. Rashid Selimovich recently acquired two more land plots near the villages of Shevelevo and Bronnitsy. In the future, he also plans to sow and raise livestock here. In the meantime, he intends to put the former agricultural years in order - to mow, free from overgrown bushes and young growth of trees. Such plans cannot but inspire respect. After all, it's not a secret for anyone that not everything is all right with agriculture in our Tver region.
"ABRAMOVSKY BOR"
The fact that the former children's camp "Zvezdochka" at one time became the property of R.S. Sardarov, and the Abramov forest was leased to him, caused an ambiguous reaction among the Kimryaks. But let's be honest: the camp was actually abandoned in the 90s. Over the years of lease, Rashid Selimovich managed to put the forest in order - to clear it of garbage, weeds and other trash. Now it, clean, is almost always open to mushroom and berry lovers. The exception is the days of sanitary cleaning of the forest, several days a year. The passage to the forest is closed only for cars. And, surely, this is correct. You have to walk through the forest, not drive.
"A FAMILY"
Rashid Selimovich is an excellent family man. He met his wife Marianne while still at the university. Now we can say that it was love for life. The Sardarovs raised three wonderful children. Marianna Sardarova is also not the last person in business. She is the director of the Russian art fund, gallery owner and producer. Thanks to work
Marianne, many Russian artists gained fame not only within their own country, but also abroad.
"THANKS AGAIN!"
In Russia, charity has always been appreciated. The motives for charity can be different, but the only one remains the conviction that doing good is natural and necessary. The main thing is to feel your involvement in a meaningful and beneficial cause for everyone.
There is more good in the surrounding world than evil, and you, Rashid Selimovich, prove this truth. If everyone asks himself the question: “Who but me?” I will do a good and an act like this | do you, then the day will sparkle with new I colors from the realization that life I has become brighter and more joyful.
Miracles happen! Philanthropy is not charity, it is, first of all, the support of hope, goodness, the opportunity given to someone to survive temporary difficulties, to gain the strength to live.
ANNIVERSARIES
Very soon, Rashid Sardarov celebrates his 60th anniversary. It's time to look back a little, summarize some results and, of course, outline plans.
I'd like to believe that in these very plans there will be a place for the Central Settlement. It was not for nothing that this return happened ...
Dear Rashid Selimovich!
Taking this opportunity, with all my heart and with all my heart, we congratulate you on your birthday! On behalf of the Council of Deputies and the administration of the Central Rural Settlement, we consider it an honor to express our gratitude for your kind and sensitive heart, which is not indifferent to the problems of people.
We sincerely believe that your kindness and generosity will return to you a hundredfold.
Few are accustomed to giving
And it is not proper to share what you have acquired,
And you began to help people,
And this has become your goal in life!
We are grateful for your kind participation,
That you are helping us at a difficult hour.
We wish you joy and happiness in your life!
We will pray to the Lord for you!
Irina Karenina, Head of the Central Rural Settlement
Yuri Kharevich, Head of Administration of the Central Rural Settlement
Why does Gazprom not enter into a direct agreement with the consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V. and its European clients
While investigating the murder of Boris Nemtsov, reporters from the Investigation Department of Novaya Gazeta came across a number of other crimes allegedly committed by the same group of Chechen security officials. At the same time, the victim in one of the stories (de facto, but not de jure) turned out to be the hero of an investigation that we conducted in parallel and which, it would seem, was not connected with crime, but with complex financial schemes and the work of state monopolies. But two stories converged on one point - on the runway of the Vnukovo-3 business aviation airport. And, as we now understand, it is not so accidental.
Debt!
A tactical group of Chechen security officials, stationed in Moscow, left for Vnukovo, barely receiving information that a man who, as one might assume, went to the airport, looked like Kirill Seleznev, a member of the board of PJSC Gazprom, General Director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz.
The group, according to our information received from representatives of the security forces, probably included Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, who is now suspected of murdering Boris Nemtsov. And the group could presumably be the deputy commander of the battalion of the Interior Ministry's Interior Ministry "North" Ruslan Geremeev (he has not yet been charged).
The group was clearly late for the "date". In addition, a traffic jam has formed on the Minsk highway.
We do not know who Ruslan Geremeyev turned to, but our sources in the customs service claim that on that day they were allegedly given an order “from above” to detain a business jet, on which a man similar to Seleznev intended to fly out of Moscow. The VIP passenger was already on the plane, and, according to our sources, customs officers had to drag out for time under the pretext of checking baggage clearance.
Arriving at Vnukovo, the Geremeyev Brigade, as can be assumed, freely drove to the plane's parking area and boarded the airliner. They did not stay in the cabin for long, left there, apparently, with a man similar to Seleznev, and promptly left the airport.
According to our information, law enforcement agencies have records from CCTV cameras installed in Vnukovo. They recorded the incident. However, the potential victim did not file a crime statement. Moreover, literally a few days later, money was transferred to the accounts indicated by “representatives of the security community of Chechnya”. Presumably, from an account opened in the Geneva branch of ING Belgium Brussels (details are at the disposal of the editorial office). And the money is not small. We are talking about the amount of 1,000,000,000 (one billion) dollars. Three independent sources told Novaya Gazeta about this. True, all three expressed three different versions of how the passenger, who interested a group of Chechen security officials, “had a debt” (“Novaya” continues its investigation and will refrain from voicing these versions for now).
We assume that in order to “pay off the debt” the debtor could have turned to Rashid Sardarov, the owner of South Ural Industrial Company (SUUPK) CJSC and the actual beneficiary of Industrial Investments & Participations SA, who is involved in the rating “500 richest people in Russia”, the compilers underestimated the fortune of Sardarov, having counted him "only" 100 million dollars.
Kazakhstan transit
I became aware of the incident at Vnukovo when I had been engaged in journalistic investigation of the relationship for several months. russian PJSC Gazprom with the Kazakh consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V. (KPO).
Back in July last year, Novaya had several contracts and additional agreements concluded between ZAO South Ural Industrial Company (SUUPK) and Gazprom's subsidiary Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg (GDO). The documents dealt with the processing of unstable gas condensate at gas processing plants of GDO. At the same time, SUPK provided GDO condensate produced in Kazakhstan by the KPO consortium and supplied to Orenburg via a condensate pipeline owned by OJSC Gazprom neftekhim Salavat ( 100% of the company's shares are also owned by Gazprom, for details of the consolidation of the company's shares, see No. 21 Novaya dated February 29, 2016).
REFERENCE "NEW"
Unstable gas condensate is a viscous, usually colorless, compressible liquid, similar to oil, but free from resins and asphaltenes. Gas condensate is sometimes referred to as "white oil".
At gas processing plants, unstable gas condensate is stabilized by extracting methane-ethane and propane-butane fractions from the feedstock.
Stable gas condensate is a feedstock for the fuel and petrochemical industries. In the process of further processing, for example, high quality gasoline, jet fuel, diesel and boiler fuel are obtained from it ...
During a business trip to Kazakhstan, I managed to meet with the managers of the KPO consortium. From them, I was surprised to learn that SUPK also does not have a direct contract for the purchase of gas condensate produced at the Karachaganak gas field. But Industrial Investments & Participations SA (IIP) has such an agreement, which, judging by the details, is considered a Canadian enterprise.
My Kazakh interlocutors argued that all negotiations with the KPO consortium on behalf of IIP were conducted by Rashid Sardarov. Moreover, KPO managers have repeatedly flown to Moscow to agree on the details of contracts and sign additional agreements. And quite often the negotiations were held in a mansion located in Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky lane in Moscow. The same historical building, which once belonged to the famous patron Morozov, now houses the head office of SUPK.
Judging by the contracts, Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. supplies unstable gas condensate to Industrial Investments & Participations SA, which, in turn, according to the documents, transfers raw materials to the South Ural Industrial Company, and already YuUPK provides condensate to the plants of LLC Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg.
After processing, the finished products, according to the documents, are returned to UUPK, which, in turn, transfers the goods to IIP. In fact, all these transfers and returns are only happening on paper. In fact, unstable gas condensate comes from a gas field in Kazakhstan through a condensate pipeline to a gas processing plant in Russia, and the processed product is loaded into railway tanks and delivered to Murmansk, where it is poured into tankers at the local port and delivered to European consumers.
The question involuntarily arises: why can't Gazprom directly conclude an agreement with the consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V.? If it is Gazprom that is the owner of all the links in the technological chain, then why can't it sell finished products to Europe itself?
Until 2003, OOO Gazprom dobycha Orenburg directly received unstable gas condensate from the Karachaganak gas field, processed and dispatched finished products to Murmansk.
The peak of interaction of Kazakhstani partners with OOO Gazporm Dobycha Orenburg fell in 2002. Then GDO processed 4.5 million tons of raw materials.
On March 20, 2003, 29-year-old Kirill Seleznev was appointed General Director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz. It is possible that this is an accidental coincidence, but it was in 2003 that South Ural Industrial Company CJSC began expanding into the unstable gas condensate processing market with a simultaneous decrease in the processing volumes of Kazakh condensate at GDO facilities.
In 2003, SUPK supplied 852 thousand tons of gas condensate from Kazakhstan to GDO as tolling raw materials. In subsequent years, the following volumes of raw materials were supplied (in million tons):
2004 - 1,154
2005 - 1,085
2006 - 1,228
2007 - 1,310
2008 - 1,399
2009 - 1,094
2010 - 1,206
2011 - 0,819
2012 - 0,838
2013 - 0,857
2014 - 0,718
Thus, in the period from 2003 to 2014, GDO processed about 13 million tonsunstable gas condensate produced in Kazakhstan and brought to Russia as raw materials supplied by the company SUUPK. At the same time, the share of condensate purchased directly from mining in Kazakhstan decreased from year to year, and in 2011 amounted to only 393 thousand tons.
The secret of the pipeline
The management of the Kazakh consortium KPO has repeatedly approached Gazprom Mezhregiongaz with proposals both for direct supplies of gas condensate to GDOs and with requests to provide the opportunity to process raw materials to other enterprises. However, an answer was invariably received that one of the pipelines of the GPP 16-GPP was leased by OJSC Gazprom neftekhim Salavat and that GDO was unable to transport raw materials to the enterprise.
A spicy detail. Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V. monthly informed Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg about the volumes of gas condensate supplies to Industrial Investments & Participations SA “in the Orenburg direction”. That is, both in Kazakhstan, and in Orenburg, and the management of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC could not help but understand that the Canadian company was included in the scheme as an “operator,” as we assume, only by documents. But when, according to the documents, the export of Kazakhstani gas condensate to Europe is carried out by a Canadian company, this allows de jure to exclude from the chain production-transportation-processing-transportation of finished products companies registered in the Russian jurisdiction. And this makes it possible to avoid taxation in Russia, saving on contributions to budgets of various levels $ 150-200 million per year.
In addition, Gazprom could directly buy gas condensate from Kazakh producers and deliver it via a condensate pipeline controlled by Gazprom neftekhim Salavat, a subsidiary of Gazprom, to the processing facilities of Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg.
Experts have calculated that with an average European cost of stable gas condensate of about $ 700 per ton, all costs of Industrial Investments & Participations SA were no more than $ 300 per ton. For example, under work contract No. 1830-70 dated December 23, 2010, SUPK for processing each ton of condensate transferred 611 rubles 40 kopecks (about $ 20) to the settlement account of GDO. In 2013, the cost of processing increased to 1100 rubles (about $ 35).
And the total losses of PJSC Gazprom for 11 years of operation of the "Canadian" scheme, according to experts, may amount to at least $ 4 billion.
Canadian phantom
An attempt to find Industrial Investments & Participations SA in the Canadian registries was unsuccessful. But we found a company with the exact same name, registered on April 11, 2002 in Luxembourg. The registration number of the company is 886662. However, no signs of the operation of the enterprise were found. Apparently, the company was soon closed in Luxembourg and "reopened" in the jurisdiction of another country. And apparently not in Canada. Although all contracts signed with Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. indicated a Quebec address: 5300, Boulevard des Galeries 210 Quebec, G2K 2A2 Canada.
At our request, our Canadian colleagues visited this address in Quebec and found something completely different. entity... It can be assumed that this is not the address of an enterprise with multimillion-dollar turnover, but the place of mass registration of offices.
The experts interviewed by us suggested that the office in Canada could be opened for "tax optimization". Translated into everyday language, this means the ability to either not pay taxes at all, or pay as little as possible.
Having an office in Canada allows IIP to operate worldwide. And the company took advantage of this opportunity by opening a current account in the Geneva branch of ING Belgium Brussels. According to our information, it was this account that received funds from the sale of processed gas condensate.
DFN oil, registered in Copenhagen (Denmark), was directly involved in the sale of raw materials to European consumers. Interestingly, 100% of the authorized capital of DFN oil belongs to another company with a consonant name, which was founded by three immigrants from Russia. From the Danish registers we managed to find out that the entire staff of the company is four people. But at the same time, she has solid turnovers. For example, in 2012, $ 483 million passed through the firm's accounts.
Back in December last year, we sent a request to DFN oil and received confirmation that the request had been received and passed on to the management. After that, we repeatedly called the office of the firm. But a pleasant female voice invariably answered that the management of DFN oil was not there.
Uncle, give me a billion
Rashid Sardarov also did not respond to the written request. He preferred a personal meeting and invited me to the head office of the UUPK located in Trekhsvyatitelsky lane in Moscow.
Sardarov said right off the bat that he was “practically unfamiliar” with Kirill Seleznyov, Director General of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz:
I have no partisan relationship with anyone from Gazprom. I have never been to the head office, I have never taken part in Gazprom parties, ”Sardarov said. - There are exclusively industrial relations. For example, I am using the Gazprom pipeline. It doesn't belong to us. But I pay regularly for pumping gas condensate.
Sardarov said that the South Ural Industrial Company has been operating since 1994. And that today he is the only founder of the company.
According to Sardarov, over 21 years of operation, the company has built 32 workshops for processing gas condensate. My question, what was the point, given the availability of our own facilities, to conclude contracts for the processing of condensate with OOO Gazprom dobycha Orenburg, remained unanswered.
When asked why Gazprom does not directly buy gas condensate from the consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V., Sardarov replied that the Kazakhs do not sell raw materials to anyone:
They provide condensate for processing in the form of tolling raw materials. We recycle, they take. And they sell themselves.
True, immediately during the conversation, Sardarov said that over the past 20 years he had not sold a single gram of goods that he had not processed himself.
So he did sell? I have not heard the answer to the question.
And Sardarov also considered it necessary to emphasize that since the registration of SUPK, the company has never taken loans:
We don't even have a credit history, - said my interlocutor.
Why aren't you on the Forbes list? - I asked at the end of the conversation.
We are not on the Forbes list, but we are on the list of those organizations that are respected by professionals, ”Sardarov answered philosophically.
We have no and cannot have any claims against Rashid Sardarov. He, like any businessman in his place, only took advantage of the situation.
Questions can only be raised to the management of Gazprom and specifically to Gazprom Mezhregiongaz. Because it is very strange that Kirill Seleznev, "practically unfamiliar" to Sardarov, created for the companies he controls, as can be judged, a maximum favored nation regime. And this allowed Sardarov since 2003 (when Seleznev took over the leadership of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz), supposedly to earn more than $ 4 billion.
And therefore there is nothing surprising in the version that it was to Rashid Sardarov that the “victim” of the “incident” at Vnukovo airport could have turned to pay off the “debt” (the origin of which is still unknown to us) in the amount of one billion dollars.
We sent an editorial request to Seleznev, in which we asked questions about the incident at Vnukovo and about our relationship with Sardarov. But they did not receive answers to their questions.
Where does the money that Gazprom companies lose, and who bought it off from the Chechen security officials
The group, according to our information received from representatives of the security forces, probably included Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, who is now suspected of murdering Boris Nemtsov. And the group could presumably be the deputy commander of the battalion of the Interior Ministry's Interior Ministry "North" Ruslan Geremeev (he has not yet been charged).
The group was clearly late for the "date". In addition, a traffic jam has formed on the Minsk highway.
We do not know who Ruslan Geremeyev turned to, but our sources in the customs service claim that on that day they were allegedly given an order “from above” to detain a business jet, on which a man similar to Seleznev intended to fly out of Moscow. The VIP passenger was already on the plane, and, according to our sources, customs officers had to drag out for time under the pretext of checking baggage clearance.
Arriving at Vnukovo, the Geremeyev Brigade, as can be assumed, freely drove to the plane's parking area and boarded the airliner. They did not stay in the cabin for long, left there, apparently, with a man similar to Seleznev, and promptly left the airport.
According to our information, law enforcement agencies have records from CCTV cameras installed in Vnukovo. They recorded the incident. However, the potential victim did not file a crime statement. Moreover, literally a few days later, money was transferred to the accounts indicated by “representatives of the security community of Chechnya”. Presumably, from an account opened in the Geneva branch of ING Belgium Brussels (the details are at the disposal of the editorial office).
And the money is not small. We are talking about the amount of 1,000,000,000 (one billion) dollars. Three independent sources told Novaya Gazeta about this.
True, all three expressed three different versions of how the passenger, who interested a group of Chechen security officials, “had a debt” (“Novaya” continues its investigation and will refrain from voicing these versions for now).
We assume that in order to “pay off the debt” the debtor could have turned to Rashid Sardarov, the owner of South Ural Industrial Company (SUUPK) CJSC and the actual beneficiary of Industrial Investments & Participations SA, who is involved in the rating “500 richest people in Russia”, the compilers underestimated the fortune of Sardarov, having counted him "only" 100 million dollars.
Kazakhstan transit
I became aware of the incident at Vnukovo when I had been engaged in journalistic investigation of the relationship between the Russian PJSC Gazprom and the Kazakh consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V. (KPO) for several months.
Back in July last year, Novaya had several contracts and additional agreements concluded between ZAO South Ural Industrial Company (SUUPK) and Gazprom's subsidiary Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg (GDO). The documents dealt with the processing of unstable gas condensate at gas processing plants of GDO. At the same time, SUPK provided GDO condensate produced in Kazakhstan by the KPO consortium and supplied to Orenburg via a condensate pipeline owned by OJSC Gazprom neftekhim Salavat ( 100% of the company's shares are also owned by Gazprom, for details of the consolidation of the company's shares, see).
During a business trip to Kazakhstan, I managed to meet with the managers of the KPO consortium. From them, I was surprised to learn that SUPK also does not have a direct contract for the purchase of gas condensate produced at the Karachaganak gas field. But Industrial Investments & Participations SA (IIP) has such an agreement, which, judging by the details, is considered a Canadian enterprise.
My Kazakh interlocutors argued that all negotiations with the KPO consortium on behalf of IIP were conducted by Rashid Sardarov. Moreover, KPO managers have repeatedly flown to Moscow to agree on the details of contracts and sign additional agreements. And quite often the negotiations were held in a mansion located in Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky lane in Moscow. The same historical building, which once belonged to the famous patron Morozov, now houses the head office of SUPK.
Judging by the contracts, Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. supplies unstable gas condensate to Industrial Investments & Participations SA, which, in turn, according to the documents, transfers raw materials to the South Ural Industrial Company, and already YuUPK provides condensate to the plants of LLC Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg.
After processing, the finished products, according to the documents, are returned to UUPK, which, in turn, transfers the goods to IIP. In fact, all these transfers and returns are only happening on paper. In fact, unstable gas condensate comes from a gas field in Kazakhstan through a condensate pipeline to a gas processing plant in Russia, and the processed product is loaded into railway tanks and delivered to Murmansk, where it is poured into tankers at the local port and delivered to European consumers.
According to the documents, it is in one of the rooms of this building in Quebec that the gas giant IIP lives.
The question involuntarily arises: why can't Gazprom directly conclude an agreement with the consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V.? If it is Gazprom that is the owner of all the links in the technological chain, then why can't it sell finished products to Europe itself?
Until 2003, OOO Gazprom dobycha Orenburg directly received unstable gas condensate from the Karachaganak gas field, processed and dispatched finished products to Murmansk.
The peak of interaction of Kazakhstani partners with OOO Gazporm Dobycha Orenburg fell in 2002. Then GDO processed 4.5 million tons of raw materials.
On March 20, 2003, 29-year-old Kirill Seleznev was appointed General Director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz. It is possible that this is an accidental coincidence, but it was in 2003 that South Ural Industrial Company CJSC began expanding into the unstable gas condensate processing market with a simultaneous decrease in the processing volumes of Kazakh condensate at GDO facilities.
In 2003, SUPK supplied 852 thousand tons of gas condensate from Kazakhstan to GDO as tolling raw materials. In subsequent years, the following volumes of raw materials were supplied (in million tons):
2004 — 1,154
2005 — 1,085
2006 — 1,228
2007 — 1,310
2008 — 1,399
2009 — 1,094
2010 — 1,206
2011 — 0,819
2012 — 0,838
2013 — 0,857
2014 — 0,718
Thus, in the period from 2003 to 2014, GDO processed about 13 million tonsunstable gas condensate produced in Kazakhstan and brought to Russia as raw materials supplied by the company SUUPK. At the same time, the share of condensate purchased directly from mining in Kazakhstan decreased from year to year, and in 2011 amounted to only 393 thousand tons.
The secret of the pipeline
The management of the Kazakh consortium KPO has repeatedly approached Gazprom Mezhregiongaz with proposals both for direct supplies of gas condensate to GDOs and with requests to provide the opportunity to process raw materials to other enterprises. However, an answer was invariably received that one of the pipelines of the GPP 16-GPP was leased by OJSC Gazprom neftekhim Salavat and that GDO was unable to transport raw materials to the enterprise.
A spicy detail. Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V. monthly informed Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg about the volumes of gas condensate supplies to Industrial Investments & Participations SA “in the Orenburg direction”. That is, both in Kazakhstan, and in Orenburg, and the management of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC could not help but understand that the Canadian company was included in the scheme as an “operator,” as we assume, only by documents. But when, according to the documents, the export of Kazakhstani gas condensate to Europe is carried out by a Canadian company, this allows de jure to exclude from the chain production — transportation — processing — transportation of finished products companies registered in the Russian jurisdiction. This makes it possible to avoid taxation in Russia, saving $ 150-200 million a year on contributions to budgets of various levels.
In addition, Gazprom could directly buy gas condensate from Kazakh producers and deliver it via a condensate pipeline controlled by Gazprom neftekhim Salavat, a subsidiary of Gazprom, to the processing facilities of Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg.
Experts estimate that with the average European cost of stable gas condensate of about $ 700 per ton, all costs of Industrial Investments & Participations SA were no more than $ 300 per ton. For example, under work contract No. 1830—70 dated December 23, 2010, SUPK for processing each ton of condensate transferred 611 rubles 40 kopecks (about $ 20) to the settlement account of GDO. In 2013, the cost of processing increased to 1100 rubles (about $ 35).
And the total losses of PJSC Gazprom for 11 years of operation of the "Canadian" scheme, according to experts, may amount to at least $ 4 billion.
Canadian phantom
An attempt to find Industrial Investments & Participations SA in the Canadian registries was unsuccessful. But we found a company with the exact same name, registered on April 11, 2002 in Luxembourg. The registration number of the company is 886662. However, no signs of the operation of the enterprise were found. Apparently, the company was soon closed in Luxembourg and "reopened" in the jurisdiction of another country. And apparently not in Canada. Although all contracts signed with Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. indicated a Quebec address: 5300, Boulevard des Galeries 210 Quebec, G2K 2A2 Canada.
At our request, our Canadian colleagues visited this address in Quebec and found a completely different legal entity there. It can be assumed that this is not the address of an enterprise with multimillion-dollar turnover, but the place of mass registration of offices.
The experts interviewed by us suggested that the office in Canada could be opened for "tax optimization". Translated into everyday language, this means the ability to either not pay taxes at all, or pay as little as possible.
Having an office in Canada allows IIP to operate worldwide. And the company took advantage of this opportunity by opening a current account in the Geneva branch of ING Belgium Brussels. According to our information, it was this account that received funds from the sale of processed gas condensate.
DFN oil, registered in Copenhagen (Denmark), was directly involved in the sale of raw materials to European consumers. Interestingly, 100% of the authorized capital of DFN oil belongs to another company with a consonant name, which was founded by three immigrants from Russia. From the Danish registers we managed to find out that the entire staff of the company is four people. But at the same time, she has a solid turnover. For example, in 2012, $ 483 million passed through the firm's accounts.
Back in December last year, we sent a request to DFN oil and received confirmation that the request had been received and passed on to the management. After that, we repeatedly called the office of the firm. But a pleasant female voice invariably answered that the management of DFN oil was not there.
Uncle, give me a billion
Rashid Sardarov also did not respond to the written request. He preferred a personal meeting and invited me to the head office of the UUPK located in Trekhsvyatitelsky lane in Moscow.
Sardarov said right off the bat that he was “practically unfamiliar” with Kirill Seleznyov, Director General of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz:
- I have no partisan relationship with anyone from Gazprom. I have never been to the head office, I have never participated in Gazprom parties, ”Sardarov said. - There are exclusively industrial relations. For example, I am using the Gazprom pipeline. It doesn't belong to us. But I pay regularly for pumping gas condensate.
Sardarov said that the South Ural Industrial Company has been operating since 1994. And that today he is the only founder of the company.
According to Sardarov, over 21 years of operation, the company has built 32 workshops for processing gas condensate. My question, what was the point, given the availability of our own facilities, to conclude contracts for the processing of condensate with OOO Gazprom dobycha Orenburg, remained unanswered.
When asked why Gazprom does not directly buy gas condensate from the consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V., Sardarov replied that the Kazakhs do not sell raw materials to anyone:
- They provide condensate for processing in the form of tolling raw materials. We recycle, they take. And they sell themselves.
True, immediately during the conversation, Sardarov said that over the past 20 years he had not sold a single gram of goods that he had not processed himself.
So he did sell? I have not heard the answer to the question.
And Sardarov also considered it necessary to emphasize that since the registration of SUPK, the company has never taken loans:
“We don’t even have a credit history,” said my interlocutor.
- Why aren't you on the Forbes list? - I asked at the end of the conversation.
“We are not on the Forbes list, but we are on the list of those organizations that are respected by professionals,” Sardarov answered philosophically.
We have no and cannot have any claims against Rashid Sardarov. He, like any businessman in his place, only took advantage of the situation.
Questions can only be raised to the management of Gazprom and specifically to Gazprom Mezhregiongaz. Because
it is very strange that Kirill Seleznev, "practically unfamiliar" to Sardarov, created for the companies he controls, as can be judged, a maximum favored nation regime. And this allowed Sardarov since 2003 (when Seleznev took over Gazprom Mezhregiongaz), supposedly, to earn more than four billion dollars.
And therefore there is nothing surprising in the version that it was to Rashid Sardarov that the “victim” of the “incident” at Vnukovo airport could have turned to pay off the “debt” (the origin of which is still unknown to us) in the amount of one billion dollars.
We sent an editorial request to Seleznev, in which we asked questions about the incident at Vnukovo and about our relationship with Sardarov. But they did not receive answers to their questions.
18.08.2016 18:32:04
THE DAUGHTER OF THE DAGESTAN OLIGARCH WAS MARRIED FOR A VISIBAL
Special dress code, huge castle in Prague and guest singer Robbie Williams - Russian oil tycoon with Dagestan roots, Rashid Sardarov gave his daughter Victoria in marriage.
Love story Victoria Sardarova and Anton Antonov rather resembles the tale of Cinderella, just the opposite. Sardarova is the heiress of her father's multimillion-dollar fortune, he is a bouncer in one of the nightclubs in Moscow. The young people met for two years, after which they decided to tie the knot, which Victoria's parents did not interfere with.
The wedding was played for two days - August 14 and 15. For this, one of the most luxurious castles in Prague was rented. The dress code was clearly spelled out in the invitation -Total black , therefore, the wedding was more reminiscent of "Satan's Ball" from "The Master and Margarita" than a refined wedding celebration. All the guests were greeted by girls with fake fangs, doused with fake paint imitating blood.
Of the 500 invited guests, they are all celebrities. Pianist Denis Matsuev, conductor Vladimir Spivakov with his wife, an actress Sati Spivakova, company modelVictoria's Secret Sara Sampaio, Opera singer Khibla Gerzmava, designer of Dagestan origin Izet Hajiyeva,a family Anton Tabakov(son of the legendary Oleg Tabakov. - Approx. "MI") other.
While the guests ate meat, seafood and washed it down with the famous champagneDon perignon , world famous British singer Robby Williams performed his hits and did not refuse to take pictures with him.
It is noteworthy that those present at the celebration were allowed to take pictures and videos of the wedding with only one condition - the bride and groom should not be in the frame.
Name Rashida Sardarova known to few Dagestanis. Lezgin by nationality, born in Makhachkala, was able to amass his fortune on oil. Today he is one of the 500 richest people according to the magazine.Forbes , and his capital is $ 100 million (according to unofficial data, Sardarov's fortune is estimated at $ 1 billion. - Approx. "MI").
The Sardarovs own the Gut Brunntal mountain estate in the southern part of Lower Austria with an area of \u200b\u200b500 hectares and a value of 25 million euros.
The highlight of the estate is the golden initialsR. S ., embossed on the gate, large natural pond and a separate guest house.
Sardarov does not skimp on expensive gifts. So, in 2009 on the birthday of his wife Marianne, an art gallery ownerRu - arts , he invited sir Elton John, who sang for the birthday girl for $ 1.5 million, and the guests were entertained by circus artists du Soleil.
By the way, the wife of a businessman with Dagestan roots is also from Makhachkala. Marianna Sardarovawas born in 1959, and met her husband while studying in Moscow. The spouses have three children - Timur, Ratmir and Victoria... Her gallery contains a rich collection of contemporary art - paintings, graphics, installations.
In 2014, Sardarova tried herself as a co-producer of the film "Leviathan" directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, which has been awarded numerous awards both in Russia and abroad. Just like her spouse, Marianne is distinguished by generosity in gifts. For example, to his close friend, once a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Nikolay Tsiskaridze, she presented a fully furnished apartment in the center of Moscow.
Shuana MAGOMEDOVA
Russian oligarch Rashid Sardarov, who owns the South Ural Industrial Company, did not spare $ 10 million (250 million CZK) for his daughter Victoria's wedding in Prague. At the wedding, guests were entertained by Robbie Williams.
Russian oligarch Rashid Sardarov arranged a lavish wedding for his 25-year-old daughter Victoria in the center of Prague. It took place in the Zofin Palace, where several hundred guests from Moscow arrived. Among them were conductor Vladimir Spivakov, pianist Denis Matsuev, opera singer Khibla Gerzmava, Anton Tabakov's family, designer Izeta Hajiyeva, one of the Victoria's Secret “angels”, Portuguese model Sara Sampaio and many others. From the stage, the newlyweds were entertained by British singer Robbie Williams and the popular Norwegian band Madcon.
According to the iDNES portal, the wedding differed from the usual celebrations not only in the luxury of dresses, decorations and the endless abundance of delicacies on the tables. Guests were greeted and entertained by burlesque dancers from Europe's largest fetish club, Torture Garden. This club has a very scandalous reputation. Its artists often stage performances with orgies and sacrifices.
Guests of the party, held on Streletsky Island on the Vltava, at the request of the organizers, did not share pictures with the bride on social networks. It is known that she chose 34-year-old Anton Antonov, a former guard of the Moscow club Gipsy, with whom she met for two years. According to Blesk, the celebration cost 250 million kroons. At the same time, Robbie Williams' fee alone amounted to 50 million crowns. The wedding ended with colorful fireworks on the banks of the river.
Rashid Sardarov is included in the "500 richest people in Russia" rating. His family owns the Gut Brunntal mountain estate in southern Lower Austria with an area of \u200b\u200b500 hectares and a value of 25 million euros. Since 1991, Sardarov has been the head of the South Ural Industrial Company.
Victoria Sardarova and her husband Anton Antonov.
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