Raider seizure

How the state selects a private "energy sector"

The owner of Energomash allegedly hiding from the investigation, Alexander Stepanov was detained in the Moscow office of Sberbank

“This is a raider seizure,” said Alexander Stepanov, one of the bankers who credited the Energomash holding holding. For a month and a half, a businessman, who was included in the list of dollar millionaires yesterday, was sitting in the Moscow pre -trial detention center No. 5, a criminal case was opened on him under the standard for entrepreneurs Article 159 - “Fraud”. What is the struggle for - the New Times sorted out

Alexander Stepanov began to build his holding in the mid-90s. A native of the first cooperators (since 1988 he headed the Professional Computers cooperative in Degtyarsk of the Sverdlovsk region), after the collapse of the USSR, he began to collect energy engineering enterprises into a single structure. In one of the few interviews given by Forbes in 2005, Stepanov said that the first capital was put on the supply of equipment to China, where the West blocked his supplies after the shooting of students on Tiananmen Square. By the end of the 1990s, the turnover of the Energomashkorporation created by him was approaching a billion dollars, but in the default of the 98th he lost his three largest plants ** “Elektrosol”, the Leningrad metal and factory of turbine shoulder blades retired Vladimir Potanin's power machines. Then life improved again. In politics, Stepanov did not shine, did not hang out with the stars, did not give out interviews, did not buy football clubs, he didn’t buy football clubs, since energy is not gas and not oil. The peak of his success-in 2008, Stepanov put Stepanov on 151th place in the list of Russian billionaires, estimating his capital at $ 0.7 billion. A year later, Stepanov sank in this rating to a hundred positions-as well as most of the machine-builders, you will hit the crisis on it. I had to get into debt: according to the results of 2010, he no longer entered the TOP-500. And in early February 2011, Stepanov was taken by investigators of the IC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - at the moment when he arrived at the Central Office of Sberbank of Russia on Vavilov Street in Moscow for the next round of negotiations on restructuring credit debt.
Brigade
On March 20, the investigator of the IC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Pavel Zotov must decide on the appropriateness of the further maintenance of Alexander Stepanov in custody. The court will consider the issue of extending the arrest in early April. However, few of The New Times doubts that the decision will depend primarily not on Zotov, but on his leader, who has already become the celebrity of Colonel of the UK Natalia Vinogradova. Glory came to her along with the membership in the list of Senator Cardin, which contains the perpetrators in the death of the lawyer of the Hermitage Foundation Sergei Magnitsky. As already said The New Times, in the track record of Vinogradova it was far from the first and far from the last politically or economically motivated business - from the pursuit of the head of the Internyus Foundation Manana Aslamazyan to the direct extortion of the bribe by journalist Olga Romanova, whose work was also in the development of the subordinate vine of vine of vine of the UK MVD *** more. Times No. 17 of May 24, 2010. One of them-the case against the co-owner of the “Moscow Wine-Konyachny Plant Kin” Armen Eganan-had the opportunity to lead to the investigator Pavel Zotov. Now this group of investigators reached Energomash. Moreover, the matter is doubly curious, since the legal and PR-overtification of Stepanov’s arrest is provided by the ORSI group (open market investment market.-The New Times), whose co-owner has been, and according to the interlocutors of The New Times, and the Northern Sea Route Bank Arkady Rotenberg-the coach according to Dzuudo Vladimir Putin.
Case
From the letter of the Chairman of the Board of Sberbank German Gref, the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika: “The company of the Energomash industrial group are debtors of Sberbank of Russia for a total of more than 15 billion rubles. / .../ according to our information, Stepanov A.Yu. Together with the management, he is trying to withdraw the assets of the Energomash group to various organizations controlled by him and other persons in order to avoid paying the available debt / ... / group for the production, operation of equipment and materials in the fuel and energy sphere only due to the newly attracted borrowed funds, which is a sign of a financial pyramid. / .../ In connection with the foregoing, I ask you in order to prevent illegal actions by Stepanov A.Yu. organize the conduct of the corresponding audit for the establishment of signs of the corpus delicti in its actions. ”
From the letter of the assistant to the Prosecutor General A.S. Sologubov in OJSC Energomashkorport: “On August 18, 2010, SU (investigative part of the investigative department. - The New Times) under the Internal Affairs Directorate for the South -Western Administrative District of Moscow on the appeal of the Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia Gref G.O. On the unlawful actions of the leadership of the companies of the Energomash group, aimed at evasion of loan repayment, criminal case No. 276078 under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ".
This story began in 2004. Energomash took up a large -scale project that promised it a considerable profit: the production of 120 blocks for gas turbine thermal power plants - such small power plants that could, instead of outdated boiler houses, have energy and small cities and industrial enterprises. These gas power plants work, but consume it much less (one and a half times, Stepanov claimed in one of the interviews) than ordinary ones, and therefore, energy would cost consumers cheaper. Stepanov was going to make good money on this project. In the calculation of future profits, he agreed with the Sberbank on a loan in the amount of 30 billion rubles. In the next two years, he received 17 billion. Until the crisis, the company Credit gradually returned: according to representatives of Energomash, about 6 billion rubles. But in 2009, Sberbank decided to revise the loan terms, and in parallel with the Ministry of Atomic Industry, the Group of Energy Mechanical Engineering (GAM), where he demanded from Stepanov, was created by the part of its assets - in terms of the unpaid debt in the amount of 7 billion rubles.
Stepanov got into the scam and began to look for where to be hidden. Found. A number of banks, including the Petro -Kommerz, Pitersky BTA, the Swiss Swiss Credit Bank, were ready to give him money under the project. With this, according to the deputy head of Energomash, Alexander Tryshkin, Stepanov came to Sberbank. But the country's main bank said no. Sberbank wanted assets and began the bankruptcy procedure of one of the Energomash units - the Belgorod TPP. Burned off. Entered. But what is one thermal power plant without the rest of the Energomash? “Holding is not only factories and already operating stations, it is a design bureau in St. Petersburg and the head office in Moscow, which registered a number of unique industries, and the head offshore Energomash UK Limited, registered in the UK. The state set the task - to pick up the enterprise. Sberbank, having issued a loan of 17 billion rubles, tried to pick up the entire holding, only whose assets are at least 27 billion at the balance sheet, ”Tyryshkin told The New Times.

Built by Energomash TPP in the city of Sasovo (Ryazan region)
Sberbank initiated a trial in the arbitration court, but the court ruled that, firstly, the revision of the loan conditions unilaterally is an unlawful case, and secondly, if Sberbank wants to return the debt to immediately, then Energomash’s assets for this amount, but not the whole holding. The New Times contacted the Sberbank corporate lending department: they reported that they were “not authorized to comment”, they redirected the press service, where the editors sent an official request. Press Secretary Vladimir Gubarev promised to “find a speaker, get answers and provide them” The New Times. At the time of signing the number in print, we never received answers.
The editorial office contacted the banks, which were either going to perform the guarantors of Energomash, or lended Stepanov Holding. They answered only from the MDM bank: “We have no complaints about Stepanov. Payments always went carefully and on time, ”a source in the bank said. Neither in the MDM bank, nor in most other organizations where The New Times turned about the arrest of Alexander Stepanov and the initiation of criminal proceedings against him, oddly enough, was not known. The financial ombudsman, a member of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, Pavel Medvedev (United Russia), did not know, the task of which seems to be peacefully resolving conflicts between creditors and debtor enterprises. When asked what could be behind the arrest of Stepanov, a number of interlocutors from bank and industrial circles were unequivocally answered: “The team has passed”. By “top” they did not even mean the head of Sberbank German Gref: “Higher, much higher,” there was an answer. As one of the investigators said: "We are holding a White House line."
The current Executive Director of Energomash, Alexander Tryshkin, also says about the same thing: “When the holding failed to pick up the holding in a legal way (after the proceedings in the arbitration court.
Raider in the authority
The ORSI group (“Open Building Investment Market”) was created in October 2008 by the structures (SIC!) Of the magazine “Man and the Law” - with the aim of restructuring and the subsequent sale of developers that were bankrupt in the crisis. In March 2009, Arkady Rotenberg, which was explained by “the bank’s natural desire to expand its presence on the market for debt obligations and get additional profits,” the bank said in a press release of the bank. Another 27.5% of the ORSI group belonged to businessman Mikhail Cherkasov, Rotenberg’s partner in the construction business. But already at the end of July 2010, the Rotenberg bank announced the sale of its shares. "

If the Rotenbergs joined the process, then the team is given to take away

“This happened after a loud scandal in the beginning of 2010: Orsy received the bankrupt development company Riggroup, owned by US citizen Jeanne Bullock, and she, in turn, was the wife of the ex-Minister of Finance of the Moscow Region Alexei Kuznetsov, who is accused of the theft of 27 billion rubles of budget money: he is put on the wanted list and is now hiding in the USA. The media informed the media that her company fell victim to Orsy and Arkady Rotenberg.
And it was necessary to happen this, but it was the lawyers of Orsy Sberbank of Russia that entrusted to represent their interests in arbitration courts in claims against the Energomash holding Alexander Stepanov. The relevant power of attorney was signed by the director of the Office for Work with the problem assets of Sberbank Svetlana Sagaidak. “Orsy has good ties in the FSB, and for the Rotenberg brothers is the name of Putin himself. The FSB Office has full control over Vinogradova and the courts, ”the interlocutor in the SK Ministry of Internal Affairs explained to The New Times. One of the bankers who worked with Stepanov made a diagnosis: “If the Rotenbergs joined the process, then the team is given to take away.” Formal reason - a loan of Sberbank of Russia. Real, the interlocutors of The New Times, is a long -standing desire of Minatoma to take “Energomash” under his control. And it is clear why: Stepanova Energomash is the only manufacturer of equipment for small thermal power plants in Russia, and small power plants are a direction, according to experts, very promising and profitable. By the way, back in early 2009, a blowjat in the person of his head Sergei Kiriyenko announced the desire to purchase a holding, company, but Alexander Stepanov did not want to sell his brainchild.
On the fourth attempt
The investigation now claims that Stepanov tried to kidnap all the money received from Sberbank and brought them to foreign accounts. On February 3, speaking in court, the prosecution representative argued the need to arrest Stepanov by the fact that the entrepreneur allegedly disappeared after he was charged. The court was not surprised at the fact that the “hidden businessman” was not detained on Canaries - in the lobby of the Moscow office of Sberbank, where he arrived at the next stage of negotiations on the restructuring of the debt.
The current thing has already become the fourth for Stepanov over the past three years. In August 2008, everyone was already initiated by the same 159th article of the Criminal Code, then, in October of the same year, an accusation of the 199th article was added to him-“tax evasion”. In June 2009, article 201 - “Abuse of authority” was added. Stepanov, of course, was looking for protection. Rashid Nurgaliev, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was then reported by the president (now the former) of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Evgeny Primakov, the head of the Commission for Interaction with the Accounts Chamber of the Federation Council Sergey Ivanov addressed the head of the IC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In November 2009, the chairman of the Human Rights Council Ella Pamfilova presented to President Dmitry Medvedev a report, which spoke about the raider seizure of one of the Energomash factories in Barnaul. Medvedev sent a report to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with the resolution “I ASSOUT LIVE”. The entrepreneur was left alone for a while. As now obviously, there was a regrouping of forces - they prepared a new criminal case.
Almost a month after the arrest of Stepanov, February 22, 2011, from the Government of the Russian Federation to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Energy, the Federal Tax Service, Sberbank and Energomash, paper with the vulture “for official use” signed the deputy director of the Department of Industry and Infrastructure of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexei Tsydenov: “Materials regarding the resolution of the debt / / / / / / / / / / /On ... / / / / / / / / / / / / reported to the deputy chairman of the government I.I. Sechin. It was noted that the process of resolving the dispute should be carried out within the framework of the current arbitration legislation and bankruptcy legislation / ... /
By this time, Stepanov should decide: to give the holding or sit for many years.