The bridge over the Lena was turned into white gold

Rostec lobbies the interests of Snegurov and Doev in major projects



The owners of the gold miner are connected with the “visovites” Igor Snegurov and Dmitry Doev, who are covered by Sergei Chemezov. As Rucriminal.info found out, Snegurov was considered a beneficiary of the VIS group for a long time and was its general director until 23018. Dmitry Doev took this post in 2021, when the company’s subsidiary Ecology Novosibirsk LLC began to have serious problems. Now this structure is in the process of bankruptcy. The total amount of claims against the company is 3.1 billion rubles.

Until February, Ecology Novosibirsk LLC was a regional waste management operator in the Novosibirsk region. It received this status in 2019 and problems immediately began. The company's debts to contractors were constantly growing, and the garbage was not removed. The issue of changing the operator has been repeatedly raised at the regional government level.



The situation was aggravated by the fact that back in 2016, the VIS group entered into a concession agreement for the construction of waste processing plants, built the 4th bridge across the Ob and 7 clinics in Novosibirsk.

Now, against the backdrop of the bankruptcy of Ecology Novosibirsk, the VIS group is trying to put a good face on a bad game. The other day, it reported on the repurchase of its bonds in the amount of 1.3 billion rubles, announced the completion of the equipment for clinic No. 2 and the launch of traffic along the four exit ramps of the transport interchange, which are being built as part of the construction of the bridge.

There are 25 conventions in total, so there’s nothing much to boast about yet. The bridge should be put into operation at the end of the year. If this does not happen, then the VIS group will face a new major scandal.

The facility is being built by Siberian Concession Company LLC, owned by National Transport Concessions LLC (NTK), which is owned by VIS Group (JSC) and Igor Snegurov. Since 2020, NTK’s share has been pledged to Gazprombank, so the VIS group does not spend its money. From 2015 to 2019, Dmitry Doev worked at Gazprom Tsentrremont LLC, a strange structure of Gazprom that exists without profit. The company could be a “pipe” through which money was withdrawn.



At the end of last year it became known that the construction of the bridge had increased by 7 billion rubles. up to 44.7 billion rubles. And this is still nonsense compared to another VIS project - the bridge across the Lena, in which Rostec was supposed to take part.

In 2020, construction of the facility was estimated at RUB 83.4 billion. and then there was talk of reducing the price to 68.5 billion rubles. And suddenly in 2022 it grew to 176 billion rubles. In June, RT-Business Development LLC (a Rostec structure) left the project.

The VIS Group (JSC) remained the sole shareholder of National Infrastructure Company (NIK) LLC, whose share in Forty-First Concession Company LLC is under the encumbrance of Sberbank. This company’s share in Eighth Concession Company LLC, which is going to build the bridge, is also pledged to Sberbank. This is a multi-stage financing scheme in which the VIS group does not lose anything and can wait as long as necessary; the story of the bridge construction has been going on since 2019.

In May, the court, as part of the bankruptcy of Ecology Novosibirsk LLC, arrested the property of 4 companies of the VIS group for 880 million rubles. And this is only the beginning of a process that may result in the bankruptcy of the parent company. It has more than four dozen “subsidiary” structures. If you dig into them, you can find a lot of interesting things.

In June, the contract with PF VIS LLC was terminated for 1.3 billion rubles. – for the construction and commissioning of the facility: “Psychiatric department for 27 beds in the city of Tarko-Sale, Purovsky district, including the costs of design and survey work.” The customer was the State Public Institution “Directorate of Capital Construction and Investments of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug”.

Most of the subsidiaries of PF VIS LLC, in order to cover up their tracks, were transferred to other structures of the parent company, whose shares are pledged to Gazprombank. The owners of VIS use public financial resources very skillfully.

To date, claims have been filed against PF VIS LLC for 5.4 billion rubles. Numerous “numbered” concession companies of the VIS group are ordinary “dummy” companies that do not carry out any activities. Most likely, they are intended to be pledged to state banks when money is needed for a new project.

Having disgraced themselves in the VIS group, Igor Snegurov and Dmitry Doev ended up in the structures of the gold miner PJSC Seligdar. Snegurov owns 49% in the Twenty-third Concession Company; until 2021, this share was owned by the VIS Group (JSC). Doev has a 49% stake in Golden Asset Management LLC, which manages Twenty-Third Concession Company LLC. That is, both “viso” businessmen act hand in hand in “Seligdar”.

Golden Asset Management LLC is a co-founder of White Gold LLC, from whose capital RT-Business Development LLC emerged in 2022. In 2021, White Gold LLC became the owner of a large gold deposit in Yakutia, paying 7.7 billion rubles. with a starting price of 2.2 billion rubles.

The situation is very It resembles a bridge across the Lena. It turns out that Rostec lobbies for the interests of Igor Snegurov and Dmitry Doev in large projects, being a powerful cover for them, and then washes its hands. It is not clear why Sergei Chemezov needs this. It is possible that a “calculation” then takes place between him and the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller.

The owners of Seligdar PJSC are its management represented by Konstantin Beirit and Sergei Tatarinov, as well as the Russian Funds company, owned by Sergei Vasiliev. This company and Konstantin Beirit were connected with the technical firms Megabuild and Antares, which participated in the bankruptcy of the Gazprom-related structures Energogaz and Yugorskremstroygaz. Dmitry Doev was closely associated with them.

Most of the companies of Seligdar PJSC were in the red at the end of 2022, so the gold miner has every chance of catching up with VIS in terms of scandalous reputation. The owners of both companies are tarred with the same world.



Evgeniy Tomin

Source: www.rucriminal.info