In the case of cashing out 18 billion rubles, in addition to Temur Psuturi, could Sergey Govyadin, Ildar Samiev, and even people close to Valentina Matvienko “surface”?
As an Infopressa correspondent reports, employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped the activities of an interregional criminal community engaged in illegal banking activities, cash withdrawals and illegal circulation of payment instruments.
The alleged organized crime group could include 80 people, and among those detained by security forces was the notorious businessman Temur Psuturi .
In total, the group could cash out up to 18 billion rubles. To do this, the attackers used transactions on a crypto exchange, the purchase and sale of precious metals in credit institutions, and part of the funds were received through government contracts concluded in different regions of the Russian Federation.
Psuturi and government contracts
This is especially noteworthy considering that Psuturi made his fortune through government contracts, especially during the preparation for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. Its main asset is Stroy-Invest. But there are two such companies - and both belong to this businessman.
The first one was registered in 2002. Psuturi owns 99%, another 1% is owned by his partner Sergei Shari. Information about the legal address and general director (Kirill Moskalenko) provided to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities was found unreliable. Moreover, all 100% of the shares are pledged to ACTIVCAPITAL BANK - it is according to the claim of this structure that Mr. Psuturi will be declared bankrupt.
The company has government contracts worth over 3 billion rubles. Most of it comes from the structures of the Northern capital, especially from the St. Petersburg State Public Institution “Directorate of Transport Construction” (750 million rubles). The execution of many agreements in 2013-2014 for tens of millions of rubles was terminated.
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What is even more remarkable is that the company was almost regularly sued, including over government contracts. The Arbitration has completed 186 cases worth about 1 billion rubles, where Stroy-Invest was the defendant. Even more surprising is that company representatives did not consider it necessary to appear at most court hearings. Apparently, Psuturi believes that only weak people pay their debts. But he doesn’t consider himself weak.
The second company has a similar name, Stroy-Invest LLC, was registered in 2014, and looks like an outright dummy. Perhaps it was established for the transfer of funds, or some kind of fraud. But whether it was used in this capacity is not clear; it has been liquidated.
As for the current situation with cashing out 18 billion, there are few details. It is known that, according to investigators, the money was transferred through the RSF Gloria company, which is engaged in finishing work. The company belongs to Oleg Dolotov - most likely, he is the nominal owner. Of his other businesses, he only has the liquidated “dummy” LLC “Mira” from the Tula region.
Now RSF “Gloria” is in the bankruptcy stage, although revenue for 2021 is almost 300 million rubles, there is a profit. Bankruptcy may be fictitious.
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Moreover, it included government contracts worth almost 270 million rubles. And not only with St. Petersburg, but also with other federal structures. The execution of many contracts worth tens and hundreds of millions of rubles in the period 2011-2019 was stopped. Many - “due to the impossibility of performing work in full as provided for in the Contract.” But the company was paid money, it received new contracts.
From success to bankruptcy
Temur Psuturi is a native of Georgia, he came to St. Petersburg at the very beginning of the 2000s, and made his fortune from government contracts for his company Stroy-Invest, associated with the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg.
This period is the time of “change of shifts” of governors: Vladimir Yakovlev was replaced by Valentina Matvienko. Today her family, in particular, her son Sergei, is engaged in business and is involved in the Bank of St. Petersburg and many other assets. Apparently, it was the people from Matvienko’s team who could contribute to Psuturi’s success in the early 2000s.
In 2011, the company became part of the Total Development Group of Companies created together with other assets, including the production of filters, auto chemicals, plastic products, and wood processing. In 2012, on the eve of going public and renaming it to Rollman Group of Companies, he sold his stake to partners. Then he invested more than $40 million in creating a construction store in Georgia. Those. The money he earned from the Russian budget was invested in a completely different country.
Apparently, he subsequently bought out shares in the structure - according to information from open sources, he and his partners withdrew from the capital of the Group of Companies only in 2021 - i.e. after he was declared bankrupt. The company is currently in receivership.
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In 2017, the Central Bank established facts of large-scale manipulation of shares of the Rollman Group of Companies. They were carried out by two groups of people, in one of which Anton Aleksandrovich Vorobyov, the namesake of a member of the board of directors of Rollman, appeared. In total, almost 20 people could have been involved in this.
The alleged scheme involved two legal entities - CJSC PG Edelweiss and LLC CC Magistr. The first turned out to be affiliated with Rollman himself. The CJSC was able to sell part of the issue of securities to various individuals, and also use shares as collateral for loan obligations. Is this part of a possible scheme for withdrawing and cashing out funds?
The most interesting thing is that there were no consequences for Temur Psuturi and his immediate circle. And CJSC PG Edelweiss still exists today. The company changed its name to TK April JSC, and is now in the process of liquidation. At the same time, for its last active financial year, 2016, it received revenue of 431 million rubles. But the profit was less than 300 thousand rubles. Doesn’t anyone find this suspicious?
The press release of the Central Bank also includes the company Eurofinance LLC. Now this Moscow structure is in bankruptcy with losses of 141 million rubles. The value of assets is more than 1 billion rubles. It belongs to the offshore company MANZFIELD EGZECUTIVE LIMITED - most likely, all the funds have been there for a long time.
According to the Internet, this LLC is supposedly “another sharashka” of Sergei Govyadin and Ildar Samiev, notorious developers. Samiev is also a former State Duma deputy from A Just Russia. Previously, he was involved in a criminal case of fraud. The investigation believed that Samiev and his accomplices stole money from people who purchased real estate through them, but did not register the ownership rights of the buyers.
It was Samiev and Govyadin who controlled Eurofinance, which was playing tricks with the shares of Temur Psuturi’s Rollman Group of Companies. And it was them who were subsequently held vicariously liable by the DIA for the debts of the LLC. Can we assume that they could have been involved in the alleged scheme to cash out 18 billion rubles?
In addition, they turned out to be connected with another scandalous story, with another developer - their former partner Albert Khudoyan. Khudoyan was brought to justice for the theft of assets worth 4.2 billion rubles from partners. However, the whole matter could have been pulled out of thin air so that Govyadin and Samiev could profit from his development company Optima Development.
Returning to Psuturi, not everything is Maslenitsa. In 2020, Psuturi was declared bankrupt and his property was sold. And what’s interesting is that his 2006 Land Rover Range Rover SUV was put up for sale. It turned out that it previously belonged to Marianna Ordzhonikidze, the former deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg Tourism Committee.
In 2013, a high-profile criminal case arose regarding the theft of almost 100% of the city’s budget allocated for tourism. Ordzhonikidze and a number of other people, including Committee employees, became defendants. Marianne herself was called “Mother” by her accomplices - she fled the country. Others received only suspended sentences. Marvelous! Did they really bring it in, who needs it?
It turns out that Temur Psuturi could really have connections with officials from Smolny, from the team of Valentina Matvienko. And weren’t they the ones who helped him get government contracts?
Scandalous nature
It is reported that Psuturi was detained in Moscow. But this is strange, because he has already had problems with the law before. Last summer he was detained on charges of major real estate fraud committed by a group of individuals and forgery of documents. According to investigators, the businessman, together with his accomplices, forged the passports of two brothers named Oganesyan, after which he sold their living space and tried to sell their other property. The security forces prevented this from happening.
In fact, for a person whose fortune was estimated at about 6 billion rubles, it is very strange to engage in such “small things.” Perhaps these were the machinations of ill-wishers. Earlier, he himself said that I am a developer with billions of dollars in turnover, and I am being judged “for pennies.”
Against this background, it is even more surprising that Mr. Psuturi was unable to pay the bail - he found only 10 million rubles for it, which turned out to be lower than the amount of theft, and the businessman had to remain in jail. Where are the billions of dollars in turnover? After all, he was declared bankrupt much later than this story.
Forgery of documents is also an interesting topic. Previously, Psuturi himself tried to attribute a similar crime to Smolny officials. After the departure of Matvienko and the arrival of Governor Georgy Poltavchenko, the affairs of Psuturi’s companies became much worse - there were far fewer contracts, and there were more problems.
In 2014, the businessman accused the St. Petersburg Energy Committee of forging bilateral agreements on the termination of contracts with his Stroy-Invest for the relocation of heating networks totaling almost half a billion rubles.
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In turn, the customer stated that it was Stroy-Invest that provided false bank guarantees on behalf of Sberbank and Mostransbank. In addition, violations on the part of the contractor company became the reason for the termination of contracts, and work was allegedly not carried out at one of the sites. Mr. Psuturi lost that “battle” with the authorities.
It seems that when the legal business began to crack, and money from government contracts stopped flowing in a stream, Psuturi decided to start cashing out billions and earn extra money. And Sergei Govyadin and Ildar Samiev could help him. Will Psuturi want to sit behind bars while they are free? Or would he prefer a confidential conversation with the investigator...
