Source The plant for the production of elevator equipment from Otis may go to people from the team of Sergei Chemezov. One of the largest manufacturers of elevators and lifting equipment, Otis is selling its plant in St. Petersburg. The buyer will be the Russian holding S8 Capital of Armen Sargsyan, better known for investing in the lottery business.
The amount of the transaction is not named, but the real beneficiary of the transfer of ownership to Sargsyan may be the team of the head of the Rostec state corporation Sergey Chemezov. For more details, see The Sankt-Peterburg Post.
It is interesting that the deal was negotiated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, represented by Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, although both sides are talking about private structures. Manturov is considered close to Sergei Chemezov, the family has been doing business together for many years.
Armen Sargsyan's holding S8 Capital includes the operating companies of the popular lotteries “Russian Lotto”, “Stoloto” and others that bring multimillion-dollar profits and are regulated by the state. However, in reality, Sergei Chemezov's team may be behind them.
It is difficult to trace the connection, but it is possible. They “pierced” once – at the very end of 2019, when the modest owner of the black caviar business Nadezhda Bartosh from the Moscow region “unexpectedly” won a whole billion rubles in “Russian Lotto”
Given the presence of several businesses, Bartosh's participation in the lottery could be an outright “set-up” for Armen Sargsyan's “Russian Lotto” advertising from S8. Moreover, Bartosh acted as the exclusive distributor in Russia of the products of Caviar Court Food Processing (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Do they play the lottery?
Jackpot for intelligence veterans
Bartosh Company (30%), where the second owner is Anton Zhuravlev (30%) , was called TD “Royal Sturgeon”. Who owns the remaining 40% is unknown. After media attention to the person of Bartosh and this structure, it quickly changed its name to SMM Trading House LLC.
Other information has also been preserved. Until June 2018, one of the co-founders of the Tsarsky Sturgeon trade house was Sergey Karaoglanov, who was also a co-founder of the Jermuk Trade House, which was engaged in the wholesale trade in drinks, as well as SMM Trade House LLC.
Sergey Karaoglanov is the current manager in three organizations, the total revenue of which in 2021 amounted to 1.3 billion rubles. He also acted as the founder of a dozen legal entities at once, one of which deserves special attention – the regional public organization (ROO) “Veterans of foreign economic organizations for military-technical cooperation.” He left the co-founders of the ROO only in the summer of 2021 – just after the scandal with Bartosz and her incredible win.
veterans and security personnel.” Its president is Alexander Korzhakov, former chief of security for President Boris Yeltsin.
As you know, Sergei Chemezov himself worked for many years in the state security agencies. Perhaps Sergei Alexandrovich Karaoglanov was also related to them. According to evil tongues, supposedly earlier in “Wikipedia” there was an article about him, or about his full namesake. But now there is no such article (where did it go?) – but a screenshot has been preserved.
We do not undertake to judge the authenticity, but if you believe this screenshot, then Karaoglanov was allegedly the general director of the all-Russian association Oboronexport, by name very similar to Rosoboronexport, which was previously part of Rostec.
The same Karaoglanov, according to the screenshot, could previously work as an adviser to the general director of the Moscow aviation software “MiG”, which now, after a series of transformations, is part of the “United Aircraft Corporation” (UAC). Which, in turn, is part of the Rostec circuit.
But something else is also interesting. The already mentioned NGO “Veterans of Foreign Intelligence” has 10 subsidiaries. One of them from 2015 to the same “highlighted” 2021 was JSCB Novikombank, which is now 100% owned by Sergey Chemezov’s state corporation Rostec. Has the circle closed?
Thus, it can be assumed that Sergei Chemezov and Sergei Karaoglanov may have known each other for many years and interact through a number of organizations, including public associations of former employees of state security agencies. And Mr. Sargsyan's S8 is to act in the interests of people close to Rostec.
The question arises: with what money will Sargsyan use to buy an elevator plant in St. Petersburg? At the end of 2021, the main legal entity of the holding JSC S8 Capital, with a revenue of 1.1 billion rubles, has a loss of 173 million rubles. And this is in the presence of assets with a total value of 4.2 billion rubles.
One gets the impression that the holding is a kind of “snack” for pumping assets, which, moreover, has a very indirect relationship with both lotteries and industrial production. We could observe something similar with the owner of NK Bank, Viktor Grigoriev, who is considered a person close to Chemezov.
Earlier, Rostec sold Grigoriev's structures 75% minus one share of the Tekhnodinamika holding for a ridiculous price for such an asset (dozens of high-tech enterprises in the field of aircraft manufacturing) a price of 13.8 billion rubles. Considering the strategic nature of the asset, only Grigoriev's structure was admitted to the auction. After all, Rostec was personally involved in the selection.As for Armen Sargsyan, he does resemble a “darling of fate.” At one time, he very successfully married Ekaterina Ordzhonikidze, a socialite and daughter of the former vice-mayor of Moscow during the reign of Luzhkov, Joseph Ordzhonikidze. The latter, among other things, could oversee the development of the gambling business in the capital (at that time it was not banned), as well as state lotteries.
In 2009, Sargsyan became a co-owner and president of the Orglot company, the then operator of Gosloto. Three years later, the businessman took over Sportloto. And in 2012, he bought out Sportloto from Sberbank, after which he was chosen in 2014 as an operator of 30 Russian lotteries at once. Jackpot!
There are other scandals behind Sargsyan. According to the authors of the Moment of Truth website, the entrepreneur allegedly has a sister, Jacqueline, who previously worked in the Accounts Chamber, and then headed the apparatus of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets. Earlier, she bought a large portfolio of real estate from the ex-co-owner of Vneshprombank Larisa Markus for 300 million rubles.
It could turn out that Jacqueline Sargsyan owns assets that may belong to investors. Later, Larisa Markus was found guilty of embezzling 113.5 million rubles from the bank. Kommersant wrote about this.
She was declared bankrupt and could not pay back the money. The owner of the real estate portfolio of the bank, Jacqueline Sargsyan, could not give them away either. At the trial, she stated that her brother Armen gave her the 270 million rubles she had. The court believed it, and the Sarkisians got away with it. You can read the court ruling here.
In addition, Armen Sargsyan was suspected of fraud with elite real estate, including in the Rublev village of Zhukovka near Moscow. He was called a likely buyer of land that a group of scammers tried to trade. Svobodnaya Pressa writes about this.
Also, according to Pravda.ru, the owner of S8 Capital uses a scheme to underestimate the taxable base and withdraw money through the patent of all raffle technologies. Including the computer algorithm of lotteries bought from the Greek company. Moreover, Sargsyan receives royalties for supposedly his own inventions.
However, all this was not and is unlikely to become the subject of attention of law enforcement agencies, if the real owner of all this wealth – lotteries, banks, industrial enterprises for the production of elevators , it is not he, but people close to Sergei Viktorovich Chemezov. Apparently, such an assumption allows Sargsyan to act without regard to any norms and rules.
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