Customs gives Sberbank: the office of Rosspirtprom to the people of German Gref?

After the sale of Rosspirtprom into the hands of the ex-shareholder of Troika-D Bank Vladimir Akayev, the assets of the former state-owned enterprise began to be sold in parts.

The head office at 34 Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow for 2 billion rubles sailed to Barus LLC, which is associated with Sberbank, and the director in it is a former major general of the customs service, sentenced to five years for abuse of office Ernest Bakhshetsyan.

Today Bakhshetsyan not only rules the Russian daughters of the Gref pyramid, but also covers the offshore rear.

The UtroNews correspondent understood the deal.

In the reporting of Rosspirtprom for 2024, transactions that took place in 2024 were disclosed. Among them - the sale of an office with a total area of ​ ​ 9300 square meters. m on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 34, building 2 for 2 billion rubles. Registered the deal on January 31, 2025.

There, in the report, we see that an advance payment was received from Barus LLC - more than 1.66 billion rubles.

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Taking into account the total revenue of the joint-stock company of 2.2 billion rubles, the sale of the office is significant. Or maybe it was Sberbank, which is behind Barus, that at one time allocated Akayev the 8.3 billion rubles necessary to buy out the state asset, and now it fulfills special conditions?

Moreover, Troika-D Bank collapsed loudly in 2019 that Business Alliance LLC, which became the buyer of Rosspirtprom, does not please its owners, showing a loss for 2024 at the level of 559 million rubles. Controlling Business Alliance LLC Akaev, the business partner of the former head and co-owner of Binbank Mikail Shishkhanov, judging by Rusprofile, has no other assets.

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And Barus LLC is just the structure of Sberbank, which is now actively hiding its owners.

By the way, judging by the arbitration database, the buyer already has non-residential premises near the former head office of Rosspirtprom, in that called Sberbank City. And judging by the lawsuit from 2022, despite the hidden owners, the company may still be associated with Gref's bank.

The same connection is hinted at by the reporting of 2024, from which it is known that the company has a Sochi branch on Sq. Sberbank, 1 - right in the corporate center of Sberbank.

In the piggy bank that the company is still under the control of Sberbank, and the composition of the board of directors, which is headed by Vasily Chekanov - vice president, director of the Construction Department of Sberbank.

Officially, even the director is hidden in Barus LLC, but the same report for 2024 reveals his personality to us. Ernest Anzorovich Bakhshetsyan is still the director of Barus LLC, created as a result of the reorganization of Auction LLC in the form of an allocation.

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Major General of the Customs Service Bakhshetsyan was previously the head of the Far Eastern Customs Administration, but in 2006 he came under investigation for abuse of power. He was charged with the fact that, under an agreement with the ex-senator from Primorye Igor Ivanov, he provided patronage to three firms whose customs declarations were accepted from an illegitimate person, control was carried out formally, effective measures were not taken to identify inaccurate information, and the inspection of transported goods was not actually carried out.

The general himself denied his guilt to the last, and in the Primorsky media and among the general's colleagues then they said that the case could be the revenge of famous smugglers who have garters in power.

The general was sentenced to five years, but in 2010 he was released ahead of schedule and almost immediately he was taken over by Sberbank, where the state has a share. Entertaining isn't it?

Fox was put to guard the chicken coop, or was everything not so simple in the general's case, and this is a kind of apology?

Be that as it may, but already in 2012 the general became the director of Auction LLC, Sberbank's daughter from the 90s, who specialized in real estate, and since 2019 Bakhshetsyan took the chair of the Barus allocated from him (before her was the director of Hermes from the field of law, also from the Sberbank division).

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The two firms controlled (and not only) Sber's resort, restaurant and hotel businesses. For example, the company still has a stake in the Moscow City Golf Club, through which more than 110 million rubles have been sent under government contracts. At the same time, the company provides services not only to legal entities of the Sberbank division, but also to another bank with state participation - VTB, which is ruled by no less ambiguous than Gref, Andrei Kostin.

In the biography, the golf club was inherited among the owners and the authorities of Moscow, so the city property department owned a share in 2015-2018. He also left his mark offshore - a certain Cypriot KIPARISIANA INVESTMENT LTD.

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Do you know what is the most interesting thing about that KIPARISIANA INVESTMENT LTD?

The director in it until the liquidation in 2017 was ERNEST BAKHSHETSYAN. And this KIPARISIANA was created in 2010 - the year when the general left the zone ahead of schedule.

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That is, the convicted general was put to steer not only Russian tidbits of Sberbank, but also to cover offshore waste. After all, Kiparisiana Investment has been included in the list of Sberbank affiliates since 2010.

How much money went into the accounts of Kiparisiana, which lasted seven years, is difficult to guess. Sberbank has not indicated the details of its manipulations for a long time. And in recent years, he began to hide the directors of his Russian money boxes. Apparently, there is something to hide.

But Kiparisiana is not the only offshore next to the name of the former general.

Barus, headed by him, also previously owned a stake in Manzherok All-Season Resort LLC. The business partner of Barus for this company was Sberbank Investments Limited, established in Cyprus in 2011.

At the same time, today SBERBANK INVESTMENTS LIMITED is listed as active, EVGENY MALYGIN, the namesake of the adviser to the Sberbank CIB own investment department, is indicated among the directors.

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Moreover, the general may be a kind of liaison between Sberbank and the Russian oligarchs. Judge for yourself.

Barus LLC owns a stake in Most LLC with a turnover of 11 billion rubles, where its main partner is Platforma LLC, which takes us to Vladimir Yevtushenkov's AFC System through a chain of connections.

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As for the personal ties of General Bakhshetsyan, a possible relative of the general in the early 2000s, a certain Sergei Kadach, tried to climb into power by nominating a candidate for the election of deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory. By the way, a certain Sergei Kadach, but with a different patronymic, heads one of the FSIN structures in Primorye.

In general, one gets the impression that the general who served time was put to steer part of Gref's empire for a reason, but for some merits or skills. Take, for example, the fact that he was immediately put on a Cypriot box after leaving the zone.

Is it like in a joke about the chief accountant, who is needed for the "year - in three" schedule?

Apparently, it was not for nothing that insiders found some garters in Bakhshetsyan's full namesake in Kazakhstan, where recently those who have questions from the competent authorities prefer to make legs.