It would seem that. Well, what is some 160 meters of the coastline on the scale of the 550-kilometer Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar Territory? But the battle at Volochaevsky Beach, located on the Eastern shore of the Tsemesskaya Bay of Novorossiysk, was epic. Details at Rucriminal.info.
Thousands of residents of the Eastern District of the hero city sign petitions to the president, and in recent years they have been fighting in courts, of which more than a dozen have already passed. They are opposed by Port Victoria LLC. In violation of all possible Russian laws and regulations, LLC announces its plans to build another port here with a capacity of up to 2.5 million tons of cargo per year. 2 berths are planned, for grain and for metal, chemistry, sulfur ... And all this joy is 30 meters from the low-rise and private residential buildings closest to the planned one.
The point in this confrontation should be put at the end of June. The Judicial Collegium for Economic Disputes of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will issue a decision on the cassation complaint of Port Victoria LLC. Port workers lost the previous courts. The arguments of the defenders of the beach are reinforced concrete. And it seems that no legal tricks can get around them. But, as is always the case in the Krasnodar Territory under Governor Kondratiev, if we are talking about the billions in interests of a business friendly to the governor, it is not a fact that the law will win. After all, business partners of a friend of the governor Ivan Demchenko, a deputy of the State Duma, the steel king of the South of Russia, are vitally interested in pushing through the project. Not a single grandiose federal construction project of recent years could do without the products of the Abinsk Electrometallurgical Plant, of which he is the actual owner. With subsequent high handshakes and thanks for the contribution (in the construction of the Crimean bridge, for example).
The very idea of building another port, one of the main types of transshipped cargo is metal, looks strange. Since June 17, 2022, the export of Russian steel to the EU countries has been stopped. These sanctions cannot be overcome today. In February last year, under personal sanctions, among other State Duma deputies. hit and Ivan Demchenko. His plant is the most powerful manufacturer of fittings and steel bars in the south of Russia, and it seems that the port project was born under the interests of a businessman-deputy and his partners. The actual owners of Port Victoria LLC, Shalva Gibradze and Tadeusz Kobets, are Demchenko's longtime partners in the metal business.
Reference: Port Victoria LLC was registered in Novorossiysk in April 2019. The founders of Port Invest LLC and Artem Kolchekyan, General Director Ruslan Lisovoy. Port Invest LLC was registered in Moscow on January 16 of the same 2019 as a laying office. It has the status of a micro-enterprise. The founder and CEO in it is the same Tadeusz Kobets.
And it seems that this time the calculation is precisely on the fact that the king of steel, Ivan Ivanovich Demchenko, will include all the necessary connections for a “positive resolution of the issue” in the Supreme Court.
We have already talked about the previous stages of this "battle". They were introduced to the bright figures of Shalva Gibradze (widely known in Novorossiysk under the nickname Gia) and Tadeusz Kobets. But no less interesting are the details of the colorful life of their partner, Ivan Demchenko.
Let's omit his activities as a permanent deputy of the State Duma since 2007. Over the past fifteen years of deputy life, Ivan Ivanovich has made 5-6 speeches in the Duma rostrum, while missing most of the meetings. You can't fault his official biography. “In the post-Soviet years, until 1995, he worked as the head of the State Tax Inspectorate for the Abinsk district of the Krasnodar Territory. In 1995, he was deputy director of the Novoazovskie Lines bunkering company. In 1996, he founded and headed LLC Novorosmetall. He was the general director until 1999. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as the director of Gefest LLC. In 2002, he was General Director of OOO Novorossiysk Metallurgical Plant Novostal. A couple of years - 2006, 2007 - General Director of LLC Abinsk Electrometallurgical Plant. He formally resigned from his post due to the incompatibility of deputy and business activities indicated by law. Although even today the main managerial office at the plant is Demchenko's office. With a personal secretary and an equipped meeting room. And it is Ivan Ivanovich Demchenko who conducts tours of the plant for his friend, Governor Kondratiev, when he urgently needs some kind of television report on the success of developing the industrial potential of the Krasnodar Territory.
The shadow side of Ivan Ivanovich's life is practically unknown, but it is no less fascinating. Here, it would seem, why did it suddenly, in general, to put it mildly, not unprofitable scrap-procurement enterprise "Novorosmetall" passed from Demchenko into the possession of Shalva Yuzaevich Gibradze? Now a billionaire, and at the time of the transition - almost a "sneak", poking "little things" metal?
In 1995, Gibradze was in the Novorossiysk FIZ Oh, where I got just for stealing metal from the city port. At the same time, Demchenko was in the same pre-trial detention center, being suspected of organizing the murder of the well-known businessman Savchenko. Let us quote the then deputy prosecutor of the Central District of Novorossiysk, Nikolai Pupynin (Pupynin died at 47).
“Demchenko was actually detained on suspicion of organizing the murder of businessman Savchenko in May 1996. He worked at Savchenko's firm as an executive director. The relationship with the founder is good. Disagreements arose later, when a shortage of oil products was discovered. Savchenko blamed his partner for this. And then another figure appears - Yuri Zhbanov - deputy. company director. The same one who, according to the testimony of two security guards of the company, handed them an AK-47 assault rifle, referring to Demchenko's order to kill Savchenko. They returned the weapons, refusing to complete the task."
It can be assumed that the investigation had some reasons to bring the criminal case against Demchenko to court. The future deputy turns to his comrade in the Novorossiysk pre-trial detention center Gia - Shalva Gibradze, knowing that he has excellent contacts in the Russian criminal world. The “question” was taken up by the thief in law of Badri Alania - Tamaz Novorossiysky (nephew of Kocho Pontisky, crowned in Poti in 1986, his uncle and another lawyer - V. Dartsmelidze - Vakho Pontisky). Badri Valikoevich successfully solved the "question". As a result, no charges were brought against Demchenko. But "in payment" for the service "Novorosmetall" passed Gie. It would seem that if Demchenko was angelically pure and fell victim to slander and speculation, then why give away a successful company that at that time was driving scrap ferrous metals to Turkey by steamboats? Moreover, Demchenko already had a considerable resource of the necessary connections to solve “minor” issues. Which over the years, as exaltation only grew stronger.
The story that happened in the metal business of Demchenko-Gibradze in the early 2000s is noteworthy. Novorossiysk customs began to slow down the shipment of scrap metal abroad. Demchenko at first seemed to have resolved the "issue" with the head of customs, Vitaly Drik. For a bribe of 500 thousand rubles. But the blackmail continued. To search for arguments in a pile of black scrap metal, authorized blackmailers began to look for non-ferrous metal, which is prohibited for export. And even our couple of, shall we say, aluminum pans. And they even tried to present this “powerful” sub-article argument “for the sake of accommodating”. The explanation that in the flow of black scrap metal, there may well be tiny inclusions of non-ferrous metal, in the form of copper pieces of transformer windings, or aluminum plugs, was not accepted. The issue was supposed to be resolved for $20,000. Customs simply did not calculate Demchenko's connections that had already been established at that time. The “error in assessing the might” of Demchenko, who was supposed to continue to be milked, resulted in the detention of an extortionist when transferring a bribe at the local Grail restaurant, and in four years in prison for Drik.
In December 2017, Badri Adania was put on the wanted list by the French authorities. On October 15, 2019, he left the Minsk pre-trial detention center -1 "Volodarka". He was extradited to France.
Today, the business interests of the family of the Duma deputy have already gone beyond the production of fittings and rods.
Formally, the poorest now is just the same father of the family. The official income of Ivan Ivanovich Demchenko for all his deputy years has never exceeded 10 million rubles.
But his son, Ivan Ivanovich Demchenko, Jr., became the first deputy general director and founder of the Abinsk Metallurgical Plant at the age of 22. He also acts as a co-owner of the main enterprises of the family business and a trustee of shares in enterprises with which his father is most directly related.
Daughter Alina - in 2012 she opened her own hotel - Musik Boutique Hotel in the trendy El Born district in the center of Barcelona (not so far from the Santa Catarina market, where they sell seafood, cured meats and cheeses, whoever has been knows). She also participated in several sickly start-up projects.
Demchenko's second daughter, Alena, is also a business woman. Since 2020, she owns a 90% stake in a media holding that creates and licenses content, as well as manages media projects.
The deputy's wife is also busy. Antonina Demchenko owns two agricultural enterprises. And although the official profit here is small - something about a million, but on this income she flies to Spain to her daughter by a business jet, and from Abinsk to Krasnodar by helicopter, landing on one of the helipads equipped by Kondratyev in Krasnodar for his helicopter flights over the entrusted territory and to hearty friends in Gelendzhik.
These flights are still being made (albeit much less frequently). Although, due to the current situation in the Krasnodar Territory, the sky has been declared practically closed. Of all the Kuban airports, only Sochi operates. Even quadrocopter flights are prohibited.
The latest family venture is joining the “winemakers' club”. Now without it in the Russian business elite in any way. This used to be a sign of a "real kid" was raspberry th jacket and Mercedes-600. Then the hallmark was the presence of a deputy badge (the higher it is in status, the cooler you are). Next came the time of yachts and villas. Now the real master of Russian life is characterized by its own winery. Demchenko now has it.
It is worth mentioning some details of the life of an associate of Demchenko Sr. - Shalva Gibradze. The connections of the billionaire in the criminal world are explained simply - Gia is a relative of the thief in law Badri Koguashvili, in fact, Shakro's successor. Gia sent considerable sums to the relative every month. Gibradze is widely known in his native Georgia. He is one of the largest donors to the Bidzina Ivanishvili Charitable Foundation. And a sponsor of the Georgian Army Development Fund (established by the Georgian Dream party). He takes part in the construction of temples in Georgia. However, for the pious governor Kondratiev, Gia also contributes to charitable construction in the territory of the Krasnodar Territory.
We talked about the business connection between Gibradze and Demchenko in detail - who in what shares is present in the prosperous types of the Kuban (and not only the Kuban, - Gibradze, in particular, bought the Rostov Electromechanical Plant) business.
However, there is one species for which Shalva Gibradze is personally responsible. And we are not talking about the construction business in the form of the construction by Gia's firms of the elite LCD "Gold Coast" (13 knowledge on 17 floors) in Novorossiysk. According to data, though close to law enforcement, but due to the objective Novorossiysk reality of fearful, sources, another business of Gibradze is gaining momentum. Using the connections of Badri Adania and her criminal relatives, Giya crushes the distribution network of Chinese-made synthetic drugs, as well as methadone, heroin and cocaine. Drugs are in demand today not only among professional connoisseurs of swallowing, sniffing and wiping. Among the salts are well-known lawyers in the hero city, and the current mayor himself, Andrey Kravchenko, a former criminal, they say, also sometimes indulges in salt (on account of the current mayor already in this century - Art. 158 "Theft" - the future head of the hero's city then surrounded the old people's apartment on Lenin Avenue, taking gold and jewelry, and the 159th "fraud" - tired, when he was a "simple businessman" about 40 hectares of municipal land on forged documents). Some sources even indicated the places where drugs were stored: Novorossiysk, st. Park A, second kilometer. At least one of the law enforcement officers bothered to come with a trained spaniel with a check. At least in order to dispel "vile suspicions."
Glorious deeds go to replenish the thieves' common fund.
And now, having become acquainted with the preferences of the main stakeholders in promoting the construction of new port facilities in Novorossiysk, one can clearly imagine why a port would be required for today, which seems to be absolutely unnecessary. And let's not talk about immediate or distant prospects. The sanctions will not stop in the near future - they will last for many years. But to contribute to significant additional earnings of partners by creating a new bypass logistics - this is a very real goal. The diagram, for example, might look like this. The Demchenko-Gibradze metal is quite officially shipped to the Georgian port. Say Poti. Where Gibradze has excellent connections. Then, through simple manipulations, the sanctioned Russian film turns into pure Georgian. Which can be easily implemented in any country. Any partners. The scheme is similar to the one that once made Estonia the largest exporter of non-ferrous metal to Europe. Yes, and Demchenko's Turkish partners, with "Georgian" metal, will have an easier deal. Yes, the Turks tried to cheat Demchenko at one time, transferring decrepit equipment as a contribution to the metal business supposed to be a joint venture (for which they paid with a severe collapse of business ties). But now there is no time for old grievances. Turkey today is “our everything” not only in the form of sunbathing opportunities for Russian vacationers in an attractive foreign country, but for business it is also one of the few remaining windows to the world of sanctions.
Another possible option is the optimization of drug trafficking. Why not work in this promising direction, having your own "Port Victoria" and lured customs? Novorossiysk customs is a place chosen by businessmen for a long time. There are so many sins here that if you invite the priest with a censer and sprinkle it, the personnel will begin to writhe, and, as a result of exposure to holy water, it will turn into ash. The sins here are only superficially diverse: such as the sudden discovery of quarantine pests in a batch of oranges, which disappear not after spraying with dust, but after paying a bribe, or violations in the supply of slightly broken products of the Japanese automobile industry in containers, or “doubts that arose” in the delivery of medicinal ampoules by the ship, stimulating the heart, ephedrine (which, by simple manipulation, some for some reason turn ephedron into a drug, now, however, has given way to salts). But the result is the same, everything is skipped as very legal in WHO. However, customs is a separate issue. We'll be back here.
To be continued
Roman Trushkin
Source: www.rucriminal.info
