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The dashing 90s, a whole era, films about crime bosses, about entrepreneurs who solved their problems with the help of a pistol on an “arrow”. Unfortunately, the echoes of that time still overtake us in 2017; lately, businessmen have increasingly begun to turn to the underworld for help.

Our editors managed to find out that one of these assistants for businessmen is the criminal authority Ibragim Suleymanov. His first appearance in the media was in 1990, when Mr. Suleymanov was a suspect in extortion Money from one of the advisers to USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. Later, the enterprising Ibrahim Suleymanov was able to take possession the most important organization in Russian aviation.

By the way, in the criminal world Ibragim Suleymanov is known as Ibrashka. The crime boss prefers to work in tandem and the beginning of his career was continuously associated with Tatevos Surinov. Mr. Surinov taught his young colleague a lot, for example, in 1993, he sponsored Yegor Stroev’s campaign in the elections for governor of the Oryol region in exchange for the monopoly position of his company Orel-Avia in the air transportation market. True, this story never received a happy ending, since the public learned about Tatevos Surinov’s connections with North Caucasian organized crime groups.

However, in 1995, President Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin orders the creation of OJSC FIG Rosaviaconsortium. And Mr. Surinov undertook to organize and manage this enterprise, and Ibragim Suleymanov, naturally, was his right hand. So, in the period 1998 - 2004. Ibragim Suleymanov, under the patronage of Tatevos Surinov, actively participated in the acquisition of various assets. He joined the Board of Directors of CJSC Transport Clearing House and CJSC United Air Transport Agency (UABC), over which Mr. Surinov received control.

But the music did not play for long; in 2004, Ibragim Suleymanov was accused of attempting a raider takeover of Mostransagentstvo OJSC. During the investigation of our colleagues, it turned out that Tatevos Surinov was the head of the North Caucasian organized crime group, and Ibrashka turned out to be one of the leaders of the group. In October 2004, Tatevos Surinov and Ibragim Suleymanov were detained on charges in the case of the illegal sale of a navigation system at Kazan Airport. During the investigation, a lot of new episodes and circumstances emerged.

Then the alleged leaders of the North Caucasian organized crime group were sentenced to ten and a half years and ten years and four months, respectively, in a maximum security colony. In 2008, by decision of the Zamoskvoretsky Court, criminals were given several more years.

Only in 2015, Ibrashka and his “teacher” were free, but Tatevos Surinov was never able to continue his activities, as he died the same year from illness. And Ibragim Suleymanov needed to move on and look for a new partner.

Rudnikov Vyacheslav

Ibrashka’s new friend turned out to be Vyacheslav Rudnikov, a famous businessman who at one time tried to buy a seat in the State Duma for 120 million rubles, and also applied for the position of governor of the Bryansk region.

It is impossible to say that Vyacheslav Rudnikov is a successful businessman; at the moment he is mired in legal proceedings with former business partners in Russia, Britain and Cyprus.

Vyacheslav Rudnikov conducts business in the same way as he tried to get into politics, like his new comrade Ibrashka, he is trying to actively use the bringing of companies to bankruptcy in his interests. Mr. Rudnikov tried in every possible way to bankrupt Fetikora LLC, of ​​which he was a co-founder, so as not to pay debts to his business partners.

Since Ibragim Suleymanov appeared on his list of friends, Vyacheslav Rudnikov receives some concessions from high-ranking officials, for example, his project of the national search engine Sputnik, announced at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, turned out to be a complete farce and profanation, and Mr. Rudnikov himself is now trying to quietly sell share in a failed business.

But Vyacheslav Rudnikov is a prominent representative of the radical movement. The once staunch nationalist Rudnikov, the founder of the radical party Cause of the Nation, the nationalist Russian Foundation and the author of the Russian Map, has shown amazing flexibility of beliefs and now, in dialogues with former partners, flaunts his close relationships with prominent representatives of North Caucasian organized crime.

It has long been clear to everyone that Vyacheslav Rudnikov specially met Ibragim Suleymanov, because he needed powerful support from crime. In turn, Ibrashka needed the nimble Rudnikov, who had experience in obtaining state support for projects, in bankruptcy cases, and in running for election to the State Duma for money.

Apparently, Ibragim Suleymanov was not enough for Vyacheslav Rudnikov, and he had already managed to get acquainted with thief in law Valery Khashba. Moreover, Mr. Rudnikov himself talks about his connection with such famous personalities from the criminal world.

I wonder if any of the representatives of the organized crime group have already thought that such friendship will only come to them through a meeting with law enforcement agencies? If not, then it’s time, because at any moment FSB officers can react to Vyacheslav Rudnikov’s loud stories.

Last Friday, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced Tatevos Surinov, as well as his deputy for the Russian Aviation Consortium, to long prison terms, as well as his deputy for the financial and industrial group Ibragim Suleymanov. The court found them guilty, among other things, of fraud and money laundering.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Tatevos Surinov in the fall of 2004, when he was the general director of the Russian Football Premier League. But he and his business partner Ibragim Suleymanov were arrested and charged with matters unrelated to football. In 2002, they purchased GPA Komplekt CJSC for $4.5 million using a shell company. automated system air traffic control system from the French company Thomson, installed at the Kazan international airport. The nominal owner of the equipment, the Suvar company, owed $4.5 million for customs clearance of the equipment, and the government of Tatarstan decided to sell it at auction. One of the conditions of the sale was that the buyer should not increase the cost of operating the system. Messrs. Surinov and Suleymanov circumvented this condition, as the investigation established, by first legalizing the property by purchasing it on behalf of Rosaviaconsortium from CJSC GPA Komplekt for false promissory notes, and then demanding that the RSE Tataeronavigatsia, which operated the equipment, transfer money to Rosaviaconsortium. .

Already during the investigation of the episode with airport equipment, investigators found out that in July 2002, Rosaviaconsortium, headed by Messrs. Surinov and Suleymanov, illegally terminated the sublease agreement with the Rodeo-Auto car dealership, which leased space at the airport terminal in Moscow from Rosaviaconsortium. The owner of the car dealership, Andrei Arzyaev, refused to leave the premises, and then the leaders of Rosaviaconsortium, as the investigation established, sent their people to him, who threatened him to terminate the contract. The investigation also found out that Mr. Suleymanov illegally owned a Stechkin pistol. Last summer, the case of Messrs. Surinov and Suleymanov was brought to court.

The announcement of the verdict began last Monday and continued intermittently for four days. For most of this time, defendants Surinov and Suleymanov talked carefree to each other, not paying much attention to what was happening. The state prosecutor demanded twelve and twelve and a half years in prison for them, and Judge Vera Pilganova, having begun announcing the verdict, immediately announced that she would find the defendants guilty on almost all counts. The court found the deal with navigation equipment at Kazan airport initially illegal, since “the links unified system air traffic control cannot be transferred to private hands." The episode related to the termination of the lease agreement was qualified by the court as arbitrariness. And Mr. Suleymanov was also charged with illegal possession of weapons.

Judge Vera Pilganova found the head of Rosaviaconsortium Tatevos Surinov guilty of all charges and sentenced him to ten years and six months in a maximum security colony. His accomplice Ibragim Suleymanov will also serve his sentence in a maximum security colony, but for two months longer. The defendants and their defense attorneys listened to the verdict in deathly silence. As we approached the operative part, the chairwoman, Vera Pilganova, completely lost her voice, and she was forced to switch to a whisper. The relatives of the defendants present at the trial leaned forward to hear the judge and formed a semicircle at the pulpit. When the convicts were taken out into the corridor, Tatevos Surinov shouted: “Thank you for not giving me 20 years!” “And they didn’t shoot!” - added Ibragim Suleymanov. Lawyers for the convicted said they would definitely appeal the verdict.

Alexey Kommersant-Sokovnin

Last name: Kerimov First name: Suleiman Patronymic: Abusaidovich Position: Owner of Nafta-Moscow

Biography:

Born on March 12, 1966 in Derbent, Republic of Dagestan. Father is a lawyer, worked in the criminal investigation department; mother was an accountant in the Sberbank of the Russian Federation system. In 1983, Kerimov entered the construction department of the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute; in 1984, after completing his first year, he was drafted into the army and completed military service in the Missile Forces strategic purpose Armed forces of the USSR. After being transferred to the reserve, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Economics of the Dagestan state university(DSU) named after. V.I. Lenin, who graduated in 1989 with a degree in Accounting and Analysis of Economic Activities.

In 1989-1995, he worked in positions from economist to assistant general director for economic issues at the Eltav plant of the Ministry of Electronic Industry.

Since 1995 - CEO Soyuz-finance company (Moscow).

Since April 1997, he has been engaged in scientific activities.

In February-December 1999 he was deputy director of the autonomous non-profit organization « International Institute corporations."

Since December 1999, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the third convocation on the federal list of the Zhirinovsky Bloc electoral bloc, and was a member of the Security Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

On December 7, 2003, he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation on the federal list of the LDPR electoral association. In the State Duma he became a member of the LDPR faction, is deputy chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on physical culture and sports.

In April 2007, he left the LDPR faction and became an independent deputy.

Heads the Board of Trustees of the Russian Wrestling Federation. In his youth, he was fond of judo and kettlebell lifting, and was a multiple champion of various championships. International Federation United Styles of Wrestling (FILA) awarded him the “Golden Order” - one of the most prestigious awards.

He is the owner of the yacht Ice, built at the Lurssen shipyard in Bremen, Germany. This is a four-deck ship, the length of which is 90 meters. The total cost of the yacht is about 170 million dollars. Karimov has a personal Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 737-700, its cost reaches $50 million.

Suleiman Kerimov is married and has three children. Source: www.regnum.ru

Dossier:

In the mid-90s, the name of Suleiman Kerimov was mentioned in the light of an ugly story about the theft of budget funds by Kerimov’s business partner Magomedtagir Abdulbasirov. In 1993, when Kerimov headed the Eltava company, the Federal Industrial Bank (Fedprombank) was created - for the convenience of conducting mutual settlements between disparate enterprises, the plant and its allies in Ukraine and Belarus. Suleiman Kerimov began to represent the interests of Eltava in Fedprombank. In 1994, Magomedtagir Abdulbasirov headed the Federal Food Corporation under the Russian Ministry of Agriculture; in 1994-1996, the corporation received about $500 million from the budget for government food purchases, and Kerimov, as a representative of Fedprombank, participated in the distribution of this money. He did business with Abdulbasirov and gradually the electronic factories left the capital of Fedprombank - Kerimov bought out their shares, and by the end of 1996 he collected a controlling stake. Soon after this, Abdulbasirov was accused of embezzling budget funds; Kerimov’s name was not mentioned in connection with the thefts.

In 1996, they talked about Kerimov’s acquaintance with the owner of the Orel-Avia airline, Sergei Isakov (who, in turn, introduced him to Vladimir Zhirinovsky). Soon, structures controlled by Kerimov acquired controlling stakes in Vnukovo Airlines, Murmansk Airlines and the Transport Clearing House. Legal entity Kerimov's aviation business became the Rosaviaconsortium financial and industrial group, the major shareholder of which was Fedprombank. Kerimov immediately had a conflict with the Accounts Chamber, according to which investment obligations during the privatization of Vnukovo Airlines were imitated by concluding contracts for the supply of Tu-204 aircraft and paying with illiquid bills. Kerimov was accused of not fulfilling a $150 million investment program and leading Vnukovo Airlines to the loss of the main part of its fleet, complete financial insolvency and a planned takeover by Siberia Airlines. The trade union leader of Vnukovo Airlines, Gennady Borisov, who tried to fight abuses in the company and Kerimov’s policies, was killed in the entrance of his house in January 1999. Kerimov’s partners in Rosaviaconsortium were Ibragim Suleymanov and Tatevos Surinov (subsequently, criminal cases were opened against both of them for the illegal sale of navigation equipment at Kazan Airport in 2002). Kerimov, back in 1998, withdrew from the capital of Vnukovo Airlines and Fedprombank. Source: Russian Forbes, June 2006

When in November 1998, due to accumulated debts, the Nafta Moscow company (an oil marketing company) was put up for sale, Kerimov purchased it for $50 million. Then Transneft President Dmitry Savelyev helped Kerimov. In 1999, Kerimov bought about 20% preferred shares Transneft for $100 million, and a year and a half later resold them for more than $400 million. Subsequently, Kerimov bought out a stake in Surgutneftegaz in Nafta Moskva, and a year and a half later he increased his stake in Nafta to 100%, diluting the shares of small shareholders through the issue additional shares. Vladimir Zhirinovsky helped Kerimov make several major Nafta transactions, for example, transactions with Iraqi oil under the oil-for-food program. Source: www.lpl.org.ua

In December 1999, Kerimov began purchasing assets. During that period he developed business relationship with Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska, known for their reputation as raiders. In June 2000, Nafta-Moscow bought the company Varyeganneftegaz, a subsidiary of SIDANCO, in respect of which bankruptcy proceedings were initiated. By that time, Kerimov had gained control of 70% of the shares of Varyeganneft OJSC. The Bazhaev brothers (Alliance group) disputed Nafta's 38.9% stake in Varyeganneft, accusing Kerimov of forcefully seizing their business. But the company nevertheless came under the influence of Kerimov and in the spring of 2001, Slavneft, under the leadership of Mikhail Gutseriev, bought Varyeganneft for $200 million, becoming a “bona fide buyer.” Source: www.lenta.ru

One of the most scandalous transactions of Suleiman Kerimov was called his acquisition of the business of former OBKhSS employee Andrei Andreev. Andreev himself accused Suleiman Kerimov, as well as Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska, of raiding his enterprises. Andreev controlled Autobank, insurance company Ingosstrakh, the insurance company Ingosstrakh-Russia, the Orsko-Khalilovsky Iron and Steel Works, the Ingosstrakh-Soyuz bank, animal farms in the Moscow region and a number of other enterprises. In the fall of 2001, all these companies were re-registered as enterprises controlled by Kerimov, Deripaska and Abramovich. The deals on behalf of Andreev were signed by the leader of the Krasnoyarsk criminal group, Radik Gamzaev, and the chairman of the board of Avtobank, Natalya Raevskaya - for this purpose, Kerimov, Deripaska and Abramovich exerted physical and moral pressure on the latter. Subsequently, the companies owned by Andreev were sold by Kerimov individually: Avtobank - NIKoil, Ingosstrakh and Nosta - to the structures of Oleg Deripaska, animal farms - to the BIN group...Shortly after this story, Kerimov broke up with his partner Dzhabrail Shikhaliev, who signed everything documents on these transactions on behalf of Nafta Moskva and brought closer Alexander Mosionzhik, a specialist in acquisitions and investments, who became the general director of Nafta Moskva. Source: Vedomosti No. 223 (1750) dated November 27, 2006

The investigative bodies of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation were at one time interested in the topic of the acquisition of large real estate by the head of the Russian government apparatus, Igor Shuvalov. Shortly before the liquidation, GOSINKOR transferred ownership of the Zarechye-4 country residence, located in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, to a company controlled by Shuvalov. Market price the residence was valued at $10 million. The sponsor of the deal was Suleiman Kerimov, who was close to Shuvalov. These funds were actually paid to the former management of GOSINKOR, but they did not reach the corporation’s cash desk. Source: "APN" from 04/11/2003

In mid-2004, Suleiman Kerimov began buying shares of Gazprom and Sberbank on credit. Kerimov from Nafta Moscow took out loans from Sberbank, bought Gazprom papers, and then used them as collateral for a new loan. Later he began to buy shares of Sberbank itself. Pledged shares cannot be sold, but if they rise in price, some of the shares can be released from pledge and a new loan can be taken out against them. This is approximately what Kerimov did. The loans were first issued to Nafta Moskva, and then to another company of Kerimov - CJSC New project" As a result, he managed to acquire a 4.5% stake in Gazprom and a 6% stake in Sberbank. Kerimov acquired most of his stake from two other private shareholders of Sberbank - the owner of the Eurocement Group cement holding, Filaret Galchev, and the owner of the Rusagro agro-industrial group, Vadim Moshkovich. How legal it was to use Sberbank funds to purchase its own shares - the Central Bank expressed its comments on this matter, but the first deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank, Alla Aleshkina, had arguments in support of Suleiman Kerimov and Sberbank’s credit policy in general. Aleshina is considered Kerimov’s main benefactor. Source: www.smoney.ru from 08/23/2008

A loud scandal associated with Suleiman Kerimov occurred in 2005. SEC "Razvitie", the largest enterprise in the Moscow construction market, changed its owner, not voluntarily, but through a forceful takeover. Some media reported that Suleiman Kerimov was behind the seizure. He was interested in the assets of the SEC, including Glavmosstroy, Mosstroyeconombank, Mospromstroymaterialy and Mosmontazhspetsstroy. In April 2005, Kerimov’s company Nafta became a co-owner of Mosstroyekonombank, a couple of months later Nafta gained control of the Razvitie SEC, and in July it became the owner of a 17% stake in the Mospromstroy holding. Subsequently, Kerimov sold the business in parts - SEC "Razvitie" bought Oleg Deripaska's "Basic Element" (Kerimov earned about $200 million from the deal), and "Mospromstroy" and Mosstroyeconombank were acquired by the "BIN" group, headed by Sait Gutseriev (brother of Mikhail Gutseriev) . Source: “New News” from 03/02/2005

Suleiman Kerimov hit the media pages in connection with the conflict situation around Mosstroyeconombank. After the meeting of shareholders, Kazibek Tagirbekov, who replaced Kazibek Tagirbekov, was approved as chairman of the board. former top manager Alexey Guskov, a sister bank to Nafta, BIN Bank. At the same time, one of the serious Moscow construction companies Inteko, headed by the wife of the mayor of Moscow Elena Baturina, refused to cooperate with the bank after Kerimov took possession of it. For Suleiman Kerimov it was an unpleasant moment: with former leadership Inteko Bank planned to act as a co-investor in the construction of the second stage of Smolensky Passage, the total investment was estimated at $150 million. Baturina refused to work with Alexei Guskov. There were people who accused Kerimov of assisting in the fabrication of a criminal case against the former president of the bank, Kazibek Tagirbekov, who was released from prison only when the bank’s assets came completely under the control of Kerimov.

Dear Suleiman Abusaidovich! Sorry to contact you. .. I read in the newspaper that the singer Shakira received $1 million for performing at your party... Could you provide our family with financial assistance...” Letters of this kind arrive in batches to the reception office of the richest deputy of the State Duma, Suleiman Kerimov.

Kerimov became a deputy from the LDPR at the end of 1999, shortly after he acquired the oil trading company Nafta Moscow. This is his seventh year as a deputy - this is his only official position. But this does not prevent Kerimov’s business from developing successfully. Nafta Moscow curtailed oil trading and became a master of hostile takeovers, participating in many episodes of property redistribution, and then turned from a formidable predator into a peaceful private equity fund. At least, this is how people close to Kerimov now present Nafta to the public.

Forty-year-old Kerimov, whose fortune is estimated at $7.5 billion, appears on Okhotny Ryad a couple of times a month, not more often. He spends most of his time in his own office - a spacious pink mansion on Ordynka. Kerimov arrives here at noon and often stays late. What is he doing? It cannot be said that Kerimov directly manages any specific business or determines the development strategy of the enterprises he owns. According to people who know Kerimov (he himself doesn’t talk to journalists on principle), he mostly just communicates with people he knows and doesn’t know. “You can visit him for half an hour to talk about business, but end up staying half the night and talking about literally everything - from geopolitics to fiction“says Kerimov’s partner at BIN Bank Mikhail Shishkhanov. Thanks to such communication and building relationships with the right people, new business opportunities open up. Kerimov's social events - parties with pop stars, riding on his own yacht Ice, located off the coast of Spain (in size and cost it is only slightly inferior to the yachts Le Grand Blue and Pelorus of Roman Abramovich), sponsoring cultural and sporting events - all this is part of such communication.

And the right people are, for example, the wife of the Moscow mayor, Elena Baturina, thanks to whom Kerimov took part in the redistribution of the Moscow construction market, earning several hundred million dollars. Participants in the capital's real estate market, on condition of anonymity, claim that Kerimov's arrival in the Moscow construction complex would not have happened without the support of Baturina and First Deputy Mayor Vladimir Resin.

Or the influential deputy chairman of the board of Sberbank, Alla Aleshkina - without her approval, Nafta Moscow would hardly have received an unprecedentedly large and cheap loan to purchase Gazprom shares worth several billion dollars. As a rule, issuing loans against shares is considered high-risk, and borrowers are denied this.

Other useful contacts: the owner of Rusal Oleg Deripaska and the creator of Russneft Mikhail Gutseriev. Since the late 1990s, they have acted as “bona fide purchasers” of assets over which Kerimov managed to gain control. In short, this entrepreneur is not used to running companies - he makes money by taking advantage of the opportunities and people who come his way.

Suleiman (friends call him Sulik) Kerimov was born and raised in Derbent, an industrial city in southern Dagestan. As a teenager, he was both smart and strong - a rare combination. In the eighth grade, I easily solved problems in mathematics and physics for the tenth grade. At the institute, Suleiman Kerimov became a candidate for master of sports in judo.

While still a student, Suleiman married fellow student Firuza. His father-in-law, a major party functionary, helped him get a job Good work- economist at the electronic plant "Eltav", one of largest enterprises Dagestan, which produced transistors for the defense industry and televisions "Horizon" and "Record". The transistors were adapted to the customer's requirements, and the young specialist calculated how much it would cost, compared the cost with competitors... Soon, the talented economist, who had an influential father-in-law, became an assistant to the general director.

With the collapse of the USSR, consumers of Eltava products found themselves in different countries. In order to conduct mutual settlements between disparate enterprises, the plant and its affiliates - silicon suppliers from Ukraine, semiconductor factories near Moscow and the Belarusian NPO "Horizon" - established the Federal Industrial Bank. The bank was registered in Moscow in 1993. Suleiman Kerimov began to represent the interests of Eltava in Fedprombank, first shuttled between Dagestan and Moscow, and then rented an apartment and finally settled in the Russian capital.

The banking business in the era of hyperinflation was one of the most profitable, and, naturally, Fedprom Bank was engaged not only in payments to TV assemblers. Kerimov's fellow countryman Magomedtagir Abdulbasirov (formerly secretary of the Dagestan regional committee of the CPSU) in 1994 headed the Federal Food Corporation under the Russian Ministry of Agriculture. In 1994-1996, the corporation received about $500 million from the budget for government food purchases. Fedprombank participated in the distribution of this money, but what part is unknown. “Kerimov did business with Abdulbasirov,” former Eltava general director Saadu Magomedov tells Forbes. “Gradually, electronic factories left the capital of Fedprom Bank. Suleiman bought out their shares. By the end of 1996, he had collected a controlling stake." Subsequently, Abdulbasirov was accused of embezzlement of budget funds and removed from his post. Kerimov found others the right people. One of them was Sergei Isakov, the then owner of the Orel-Avia airline (he refused to talk to Forbes about Kerimov). “[Isakov] was an LDPR activist, he also wanted to become governor instead of Yegor Stroev, but it didn’t work out,” LDPR Chairman Vladimir Zhirinovsky says in an interview with Forbes. - Kerimov worked with him in the mid-1990s, and I met him through Isakov. They later went into aviation together.”

By 1997, structures friendly to Kerimov acquired controlling stakes in Vnukovo Airlines (at that time the second largest airline in Russia), the Murmansk Airlines and the Transport Clearing House (a company for the sale and reservation of tickets). The legal entity of Kerimov's aviation business was the Rosaviaconsortium financial industrial group, whose major shareholder was Fedprombank. Kerimov's acquaintances say that the commission from the sale of air tickets brought him at least $10 million a year. Air transportation turned out to be more difficult. According to the Accounts Chamber, “investment obligations during the privatization of Vnukovo Airlines were imitated by concluding contracts for the supply of Tu-204 aircraft and paying with illiquid bills.” As noted in the chamber's newsletter, Rosaviaconsortium not only failed to fulfill the $150 million investment program, but also led Vnukovo Airlines to the loss of the main part of its aircraft fleet, complete financial insolvency and a planned takeover by Siberia Airlines. The trade union leader of Vnukovo Airlines, Gennady Borisov, who tried to fight abuses in the company, was stabbed to death in the entrance of his house in January 1999. Kerimov’s partners in Rosaviaconsortium were Ibragim Suleymanov and Tatevos Surinov. Now both of them have been arrested and are under investigation on charges of illegally selling navigation equipment at Kazan Airport in 2002.

Kerimov was not affected by the Vnukovo story. At the end of 1998, he withdrew from the capital of Vnukovo Airlines and Fedprombank, dissociating himself from his previous partners. The oil trading company Nafta Moscow became a new stage in his biography.

Nafta Moscow is the heir to Soyuznefteexport, an oil trading monopolist that exported 200 million tons of oil and petroleum products annually during Soviet times. Soyuznefteexport had representative offices abroad, a network of gas stations in Finland and a port terminal in Belgium. But by the end of the 1990s, Nafta Moscow gradually lost its position - most oil companies acquired their own sales structures. Nafta's only major client remained Surgutneftegaz, and only thanks to the minimum commission: for oil it was 0.5%, for oil products - up to 1%. Nafta's trade turnover was about $2 billion, but its net revenue did not exceed several tens of millions of dollars. After the August crisis of 1998, Nafta Moskva’s money was stuck in several collapsed banks, and the company owed about $120 million to Surgutneftegaz alone. Management headed by former Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry Anatoly Kolotilin had to put the company up for sale. Surgutneftegaz, which already owned about 14% of Nafta, refused to increase its share. LUKOIL, Russia's largest oil company, has taken a wait-and-see approach. Other oil workers were not interested in Nafta Moscow at all.

Only Kerimov quickly agreed to the deal, one of the former Nafta Moskva employees tells Forbes. For about $50 million, he bought out the shares of management and private shareholders (about 55% of the shares), plus he promised to quickly pay off the debt to Surgutneftegaz. It is believed that Transneft management helped Kerimov carry out the deal: as an operator of export pipelines, he participated in the negotiations on the deal. The then president of Transneft Dmitry Savelyev He was even forced to justify himself at one of the press conferences: they say that his company did not acquire Nafta shares.

Subsequently, Kerimov bought a stake in Surgutneftegaz in Nafta Moskva, and a year and a half later he increased his stake in Nafta to 100%, diluting the shares of small shareholders by issuing additional shares. Soon after the purchase of Nafta, in December 1999, Kerimov became a State Duma deputy from the LDPR, a party known for a significant proportion of “commercial” candidates on its lists. Thanks to the connections of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Nafta Moscow conducted several successful transactions with Iraqi oil under the Oil for Food program. But in general, the oil trading business was declining: commissions were falling, competition was growing. Surgutneftegaz began selling its export volumes through tenders. At first, Nafta Moscow thought to strengthen its position in trading through its own production: the company owned small oil companies Nafta-Ulyanovsk and Obneftegazgeologiya, but in 2001-2002 Kerimov chose to sell them to Mikhail Gutseriev. He first headed the state-owned Slavneft, and then created private company RussNeft, which quickly bought up about 30 small oil companies throughout Russia. Then Nafta got rid of its foreign assets. The most high-profile deal was the sale of the Teboil gas station network in Finland (more than 300 gas stations, about a quarter of the country's market) to LUKOIL at the beginning of 2005. The transaction amount, according to LUKOIL’s reporting, amounted to $160 million. In general, according to market participants, Kerimov spent about $50 million on buying Nafta Moskva shares, and gained at least $300 million through the sale of its assets.

Such profit margins are not uncommon for Kerimov’s operations, as well as for other companies specializing in the aggressive purchase and resale of industrial property. As the Vedomosti newspaper wrote, the Alfa-Eco group, owned by Mikhail Fridman and partners, in its reporting for 2002 indicated incredible profitability figures for the projects it implemented. Alpha's income from the acquisition and sale of the Achinsk Alumina Refinery amounted to 680%. At the Volgograd metallurgical plant “Red October” the company managed to earn 253% in 2001; resale of shares and accounts payable of the Korshunovsky GOK provided a profitability of 161%.

An example from the history of Nafta Moskva: informed sources say that in 1999 it bought about 20% of Transneft preferred shares for $100 million, and a year and a half later resold them for more than $400 million. Kerimov himself did not confirm this information.

The businessman’s most scandalous deal took place five years ago. Former OBKhSS employee Andrey Andreev at that time he controlled Avtobank, the insurance company Ingosstrakh, the Orsko-Khalilovsky Iron and Steel Works (NOSTA, Orenburg region), animal farms in the Moscow region and a number of other enterprises. In the fall of 2001, Andreev lost all this. “My business was illegally re-registered as a number of companies that were directly controlled by Nafta Moscow, Rusal and [Roman Abramovich’s company] Millhouse. The deal with them was signed by the leader of the Krasnoyarsk criminal group, Radik Gamzaev, and the chairman of the board of Avtobank, Natalya Raevskaya, who was subjected to physical and moral pressure and threats with weapons, says Andreev in an interview with Forbes. “I didn’t sell anything to anyone and didn’t receive a penny from this deal.” According to Andreev, the buyers transferred $60 million to the accounts indicated by Gamzaev, while the real value of the assets exceeded $700 million. Soon the enterprises were sold individually to “bona fide purchasers”: Avtobank-NIKoil, Ingosstrakh and NOSTA - structures of Oleg Deripaska (“Rusal”), animal farms - BIN group.

At Nafta Moscow this story is told differently. “They didn’t take away Andreev’s business, but paid money for it,” says a source close to Kerimov. - The price turned out to be low because the deal took place after a default: a large “hole” was discovered in the balance sheet of Avtobank, NOSTA was under external control, other enterprises included in the package of this transaction were also in the red.”

The only thing Andreev managed to achieve in more than two years of litigation was the signing of an agreement to settle relations with the end buyers of his business. In 2004 he received a minor monetary compensation in exchange for the termination of legal proceedings. It should be added to this story that since the mid-1990s, Kerimov and Andreev were on friendly terms and communicated often. “Until the end of 2001, I could never imagine that Suleiman could participate in such a deal,” says Andreev.

Soon after this story, Kerimov broke up with his partner Dzhabrail Shikhaliev, who signed all the documents on the deal on behalf of Nafta Moskva (after Kerimov’s election to the State Duma, Shikhaliev was the right hand of the deputy businessman) and brought Alexander Mosionzhik, a native of Alfa, closer to him. Eco". A specialist in acquisitions and investments, Mosionzhik became the general director of Nafta Moskvy. This reflected the final change in Nafta's specialization.

A situation similar to the story with Avtobank was repeated in 2005 with the construction and industrial corporation (SPK) Razvitie, which includes Glavmosstroy and other companies, which together provide 25% of volumes housing construction in Moscow. The general director of the SPK, Vladimir Kuznetsov, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station: “On May 16, they came to us with a search, presented a resolution to initiate a criminal case, and seized documents. And on June 20, I was informed that the company had new owner- Deputy Suleiman Kerimov. He invited me and said that he owns companies that hold a controlling stake in the Razvitie SEC (51%). The three organizations that collectively owned a controlling stake [had] meetings with a very simple agenda - change of director, registration new seal and approval major deal for the sale of a block of shares to offshore companies.”

The story of how 150 young people with baseball bats and rebar stormed the building of the Razvitie agricultural enterprise last summer shocked Moscow: it seemed that such violent seizures remained in the 1990s. The attack was repulsed, but controversial situation with property rights, the resolution of which promised months of litigation in the courts, forced the owner of the Razvitie SEC Alexandra Voronina, a former official of the Moscow construction complex, to sell the business. According to market participants, Kerimov paid about $100 million for the Razvitie SEC, and a few months later resold it to Oleg Deripaska’s structures for $300 million.

In the spring of 2005, Kerimov got the huge Smolensky Passage business center inexpensively - for about $50 million. The deal was preceded by the initiation of a criminal case against the former owner, Chairman of the Board of Mosstroyekonombank Kazibek Tagirbekov. Kerimov is estimated to have received 200% of the profit by transferring Smolensky Passage to the BIN group of the Gutseriev brothers.

The buyers have always claimed that they were purchasing assets from Kerimov’s structures, and the past of these enterprises was none of their business. But it is obvious that such high-profile transactions would hardly have gone smoothly if the deputy had not secured support at the political level. “Kerimov is one of those who are ready to take actions coordinated with the authorities and will never build any options against the authorities,” explains Vladimir Zhirinovsky. - This is an intelligent Caucasus. There is the Caucasus, the mafia, but with Kerimov everything is cultured and educated: he carefully builds his business - financial structures, commercial... He is a quiet, modest, attentive person, he did not show himself off anywhere for a long time, tried himself in various areas of business, did not get involved in major battles for property, and then, when all sorts of Berezovsky and Smolensky collapsed, free space was formed and Kerimov has gone uphill.”

Kerimov is very careful about his reputation. It is not known whether he took into account the words of Minister German Gref that “greenmailers who became billionaires through illegal seizure of property should be in places not so remote, and not top the Forbes list,” but from the general director of the SEC “Razvitie” Vladimir Kuznetsov, a millionaire deputy, recently achieved a refutation.

In an interview " Rossiyskaya newspaper“Kuznetsov stated: “Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov is a well-known businessman and respected person... His involvement in the events in Granatny Lane [the storming of the office of the SEC “Razvitie”] is speculation, not confirmed by facts.” Kuznetsov categorically refused to talk to Forbes, citing the fact that his position was set out in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Many businessmen who dealt with Kerimov are afraid to talk about him, limiting themselves to diplomatic characteristics that he is “a charming person with a mathematical mind,” “quite tough, but open,” “with a good nose for business, able to make quick decisions,” and etc.

Kerimov’s business is gradually evolving. If he attaches enterprises acquired with scandals to either Deripaska or Gutseriev, then he keeps those purchased without declaring war for himself. There are already quite a few of these, and everything seems to be a selection.

Firstly, this is the Polymetal company - a large gold and silver miner, formerly part of the St. Petersburg ICT group. Last fall, Kerimov bought Polymetal for $930 million, hoping that when it entered world markets the company would be worth more than $4 billion. His hopes are not unfounded: the capitalization of the Russian-British company Peter Hambro Mining (it produces less gold than Polymetal, but is listed on the London Stock Exchange) is about $2.4 billion.

Secondly, cable television. Last year, Nafta Moscow acquired the companies Mosteleset (Moscow) and National Cable Networks (St. Petersburg and branches throughout the country). A merger procedure has now begun, which will result in the formation of a national cable television operator with 5.5 million subscribers. According to Nafta Moskva, the capitalization of the combined company already exceeds $450 million and will continue to grow. This business is considered very promising: the demand for digital TV channels is increasing, and cable television is a cheaper method of signal delivery than, for example, satellite dishes. In addition, in addition to the TV signal, cable networks can transmit any data: telephone, Internet traffic, etc. Many are confident that Internet television will even supplant conventional broadcasting over time.

Thirdly, this is a project of a “private city” on Novorizhskoye Highway in the Moscow region. Here Kerimov bought and reserved 430 hectares of land - an area comparable to two Monaco. The project involves the construction of 2.7 million square meters. m of expensive private houses. The volume of investments over the next six years will amount to more than $3 billion. And although, according to rumors, this project, like Kerimov’s other real estate assets, will be resold to Oleg Deripaska, Nafta Moscow assured Forbes that they will build the city on their own. “As far as we know, Kerimov has reserved a house in this city for himself and apartments for his children. Many of his acquaintances lined up to settle there,” they say at Nafta Moscow.

Another sign of change was the invitation to the post of chairman of the board of directors of Nafta Moskva of an investment banker with an international reputation - Allen Wine from Merrill Lynch. According to Nafta Moskva, this appointment “reflects the strategy... to develop the group into a leading private equity fund, an active participant in global financial markets.”

Was it easy for Allen Wine to agree to work with Suleiman Kerimov? “This decision was based on a number of factors that emerged in the process of working with him as a client of Merrill Lynch,” explains Vain. “Kerimov was studied carefully. According to the basic principles of his work, Kerimov is close to such investors as Warren Buffett. An opportunity has arisen to work with an active, cautious investor who wants to create a fund in Russia that competes in strength with the leading players in the world.”

This “power” lies primarily in the shares of Gazprom and Sberbank. In 2004, Nafta Moekva began buying shares in Gazprom and, using these shares as collateral, took out loans from Sberbank, which in turn were used to purchase new shares in Gazprom and Sberbank itself. Gazprom's quotes, against the backdrop of the promised liberalization of the gas monopoly's stock market, were continuously growing, and the opportunity arose to release some of the shares from collateral and take out a new loan against them.

Kerimov eventually collected 4% of the shares of Gazprom and 6% of the shares of Sberbank. Why did he decide to buy shares of state monopolies in such volumes? “I believed in the president’s statements about the liberalization of Gazprom shares, invested the money and was not mistaken,” explains a source close to Kerimov. - The logic is this: when petrodollars enter the country, they end up in banks, so investing in the largest bank in the country is absolutely the right move. Gazprom is the most capitalized fuel company in the country, one of the main centers of the fuel boom. By investing in Sberbank and Gazprom, Kerimov caught the situation from both ends.”

The value of shares of Gazprom and Sberbank has tripled over the past two years. Now Kerimov’s share in these companies is estimated at more than $9.5 billion, while the loans raised for their purchase amount to only $3.2 billion.

Moreover, $3.2 billion is more than 5% of all loans that Sberbank issued to non-state commercial organizations. By lending money to Nafta Moscow, Sberbank exceeded the lending standards for one company, so in order to continue taking loans, Kerimov had to register a backup company - CJSC New Project. Many see a political motive in the fact that Sberbank agreed to participate in the unwinding of the credit spiral that made Kerimov rich.

“It is possible that he manages not only his own, but also other people’s money,” says one of Forbes’ interlocutors, and his opinion is shared by other sources. “Look who goes to his parties: Boris Yeltsin Jr., Tatyana Dyachenko, Valentin Yumashev.” Does the “Russian Warren Buffett” manage not only his own money, but also the funds of other influential people? There is no reliable information on this matter. The official position of Nafta Moskvy: everything that the company owns is the property of Kerimov.

But it is reliably known that Kerimov became cramped in Russia. As they say in Nafta, the investor-deputy spends more and more time in negotiations on the acquisition of assets abroad. A banker from Merrill Lynch who believes in the reputation of his new client is a good help in foreign expansion. It is unlikely that he will be able to provide Kerimov with hundreds of percent per annum. But is this so important if this businessman has already earned the main fortune?

Ilya Khrennikov

In the skies and on the sea

The Ice yacht, owned by Suleiman Kerimov, was built at the Lurssen shipyard in Bremen, Germany. The length of this four-deck vessel is 90 meters. (The length of Roman Abramovich’s largest yacht Pelorus is 115 meters). The sinks and all seven baths in the owner's and guest cabins (the yacht sleeps 16 people in total) are made from solid pieces of limestone, and the interiors are finished in oak. The owner's bedroom extends from one side of the yacht to the other. On board there is a swimming pool and a helipad. The cruising range is more than 11,000 km. According to some reports, the interior decor alone, including painting, cost $25 million, and the total cost of the yacht could be about $170 million. As a personal airliner, Kerimov uses not an ordinary small business aircraft, but a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 737-700 - a luxurious one a finished medium-haul passenger liner. In a standard commercial configuration, the Boeing 737 carries more than 100 passengers, but in the BBJ modification it takes only 16 people on board, and the owner has an office, a shower room and a bedroom on board. The cost of such an aircraft with interior “stuffing” reaches $50 million, which is almost twice as expensive as the Bombardier Challenger, the most popular among Russian capitalists. The BBJ can fly to America: its non-stop flight range is up to 12,000 km.

Ilya Khrennikov

"Golden" faction

Suleiman Kerimov is not the only multimillionaire in the Russian Federal Assembly. In addition to him, the Russian Forbes “Golden Hundred” (this year included people with a fortune of $450 million or more) included 13 State Duma deputies and senators

On Thursday, November 24, a BMW car fell from a bridge in Switzerland, in which there were two people - a 19-year-old girl and a 23-year-old man, both of whom died.

The tragedy occurred in the Lugano area at about 4 am. For unknown reasons, the driver lost control and the car crashed into Lake Lugansk. Locals call this section of the road “the devil’s bridge.”

As the media first reported, one of the victims of this accident was Diana Lebedeva, the granddaughter of Platon Lebedev, former leader“Menatep” and a person involved in the “YUKOS case”. Later this information was confirmed by the Russian Embassy in Switzerland.

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