The shadow partner of the Magomedovs, "Lesha" Kudrin and the rage of Shuvalov: what new told Forbes in the disappeared article?

Ziyavudin Magomedov

The editors of the Russian Forbes on Thursday filed a statement to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office. This happened after the editorial office received from the printing house the August number without the article “Family affairs” by journalists Sergei Titov and Elena Berezanskaya about the business of the Ziyavudin brothers and Magomed Magomedovs. The article was rabbed and handed over to the room, it was approved by the acting main editor of Forbes Nikolai Mazurin. The ACMG press service issued a comment that reported that the material was finalized and its publication was postponed from the August number of Forbes magazine due to the threat of numerous claims. However, on Thursday in the afternoon the article was published on the magazine website.

Details

• Under the material about the Magomedov brothers, 12 lanes were given. However, in a printed number in the printing house, there is the text of another journalist of the publication and advertising instead. The mention of the article about the Magomedov brothers disappeared from the cover of the August number. According to the interlocutor The Bell in the magazine, the owner of the Forbes brand is in the know, but officially has not yet responded to history.
• According to Mazurin and the editorial office, who turned to the prosecutor's office and the publisher of Forbes, such actions violate the media law, in particular, Article 19, according to which no one has the right to intervene in the activities of the editorial office, including its founder. At the meeting of the editorial office, Mazurin showed colleagues the statement and stamp on the adoption of the document by the prosecutor's office.
• The editors do not know who gave the order to withdraw the article and how exactly this happened, the sources of Vedomosti say. In the statement, journalists are asked to establish who it was.
• The ACMG press service told The Bell that lawyers have repeatedly informed the chief editor that the material needed to be finalized. According to another source of The Bell in the magazine, the lawyers of the publishing house saw risks in the links found in the material to anonymous sources.
• Forbes journalists have already accused Alexander Fedotov’s president of ACMG several times of interfering in the editorial policy of the publication. For the first time, the conflict of the editorial office and Fedotov became published after Forbes issued the rating of the salaries of top managers in 2016 without evaluating the reward of the chairman of the VTB Board Andrei Kostin.

What new about the business of the Magomedovs told Forbes?

• About the shadow partner of the Magomedovs David Kaplan. According to Forbes, the personality of Kaplan, who is now 55 years old, is shrouded in a veil of secrets. He became known in 2010 when, after the victory of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Moscow representative office headed her Moscow International Chess Federation (FIDE). One of Forbes's interlocutors says that Magomedov connected him when “problems arose”. Kaplan, whom the media was associated with the Vilnius Brigade organized crime group, always had several mobile phones with him and moved around Moscow on armored vehicles with security, the magazine writes. One of the interlocutors of the magazine calls Kaplan “main financier and strategist” of the construction business “sum”. He also owned 12% of the Lithuanian bank Snoras, the counterparty of which was the Bank "Diamant" of the Magomedov brothers.
• According to Forbes, Kaplan brought brothers with the ex-head of Transneft Semen Weinstok, and in the early 2000s Magomedovs and Kaplan began to cooperate with Transneft. Kaplan also managed the restoration of the Bolshoi Theater, which Ziyavudin Magomedov took upon himself at the request of Dmitry Medvedev, writes Forbes. He still owns “significant shares” in the construction assets “Sum”, the representative of the group said. According to a source close to the “sum”, the share of Kaplan is about 10%.
• Quote: The article provides a quote that Kaplan gave in an interview with Prime Traveller magazine in June 2010. Then he did not explain the origin of his capital, but noted that the main quality of the entrepreneur is unprincipled: "Principal people in business are dead, so you will never achieve any result."
• About Alexei Kudrin. The publication tells the story of 2005 about how the negotiators from Yakutia came to the Moscow office of Ziyavudin Magomedov to invite him to participate in the additional mining company Yakutgazprom. For 75% of the company with supplies of $ 300 million, it was required to pay only $ 25 million. But the additional ministry was eroded by the state of the state "Alrosa", which was oversaw the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin. “We will agree with Lesha,” Ziyavudin retells one of those visitors, Kudrin was allegedly his neighbor in Rublevka. As a result, this deal took place.
• About the rage of Shuvalov. In recent years, the “sum” has been outlined in a business in business related to the implementation of the state. The “sum” tore the terms of six of the seven roads of Rosavtodor, and poorly prepared the site, which is why billionaire Araz Agalarov could not start building the stadium in Kaliningrad. First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov was furious, Forbes writes. At this moment, Ziyavudin demanded that Magomed and Kaplan to receive a capital business business for 6 billion rubles, says a source close to the “sum”.
• Brothers quarrel. At the court sessions, the brothers said that the last few years almost did not communicate with each other. According to Forbes, back in January 2017, Ziyavudin sent a letter to partners with a proposal to get out of business. Kaplan, who since 2013 allegedly tried to arrange a divorce from partners, quickly agreed. The brothers were more difficult: they needed to divide the shares in the NMTP.
• About the sale of the NMTP package. Transneft wanted to divide the jointly jointly with the “sum” in 2013, then Tokarev even accused the “sum” of ignoring his position. Again, the partners returned to this topic in 2017. According to Forbes, Shuvalov decided to help Transneft and Sum as help. After listening to the parties, the First Deputy Prime Minister allegedly decided to support the position of the “sum”. According to Forbes sources, the sum of the “sum” was estimated at $ 1.2 billion, although it cost about 38 billion rubles, or $ 660 million on the Moscow Exchange. Prime Minister and President agreed on the transaction, Forbes sources say.
• "Black Tag." A few days before the arrest of Magomed, a telegram from the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) came to exclude the organization from the board of trustees. The RGO Council is headed by Vladimir Putin. As Forbes writes, the Magomedov’s entourage took it as a signal.

The arrest of the Magomedov brothers in March this year is one of the main business lives of this year. And the publication of Forbes talks about previously unknown details of the brothers business.

Vladimir Motorin, Egor Sonin