The war for the Chubais Palace. Continuation of a story. Chubais complained about blackmail of a former employee

The beginning of the public part of this story dates back to September 2016, when the media carefully wrote that Ilya Suchkov, manager of the “family office” of Anatoly Chubais, took over his real estate in the famous village of Peredelkino, worth about $40 million. Six months later, it became known that the chairman of the board of Rusnano decided to file a criminal complaint with the police for extortion and slander.

...And a group of Chechen comrades

As stated on the Facebook page Anatoly Chubais, - he asks to initiate a case against his former manager Ilya Suchkov, and “groups of comrades of Chechen nationality working for him”. The report also mentions a famous investigative journalist Oleg Lurie and TV presenter Vladimir Soloviev, who allegedly act in concert with Suchkov and his “Caucasian partners.”

Oleg Lurie’s LiveJournal recently published a publication entitled “How to quickly become a billionaire. Instructions from Anatoly Chubais." Apparently, it was she who became the catalyst for the subsequent violent reaction. In the material, Lurie talks in detail about a number of operations with land plots, to which Anatoly Chubais is allegedly related, and, to summarize, promises to transfer the documents he has “directly to the prosecutor’s office.” Lurie’s assumptions that Anatoly Chubais had been laundering funds through real estate transactions for a certain period were also reposted on Twitter by Vladimir Solovyov, who announced a television broadcast dedicated to this topic. But what relation the mysterious Chechens have to what is happening is still difficult to say.

“At first they demanded that I buy a house at an inadequate price,” said the head of Rusnano, “and when I categorically refused, they began to send me secretly recorded recordings of business negotiations, with the threat of their publication.”

Friendship is friendship, but tobacco is apart
Ilya Suchkov, who is mentioned in Anatoly Chubais’ message as the main culprit of almost all the troubles, is indeed his former confidant. As a matter of fact, the representative of a whole group of trusted persons: he is a brother Igor Suchkov, who was an adviser to Anatoly Chubais for 17 years, and son Vasily Suchkova, who worked with Chubais at the State Property Committee. Ilya Suchkov himself in the past managed the company SFO Concept AG, which was owned by Chubais, working in the “two days in Switzerland, three in Moscow” mode.
In 2011, Suchkov became the owner of the company. A few years later, the relationship between the business partners changed radically. Anatoly Chubais stated that he had become an object of blackmail.
“Today is an amazing day – the day of the blackmailer”,” Anatoly Chubais noted in his entry regarding the altercations with Suchkov. It is dated March 13th.
Peredelkinsky house disappeared
The stumbling block is indeed that very real estate in Peredelkino. Mansion located right next door to the museum Boris Pasternak, was built for the head of Rusnano and his wife, a film screenwriter Avdotya Smirnova. The construction of the mansion on a plot of 1.56 hectares began shortly after the wedding; CFO Concept was involved in the project. The company was acquired from Anatoly Chubais with a “encumbrance” in the form of loans for $20 million received from the entrepreneur’s structures Boris Mints, Vedomosti clarifies. Construction was carried out with this money. Upon completion of the work, Chubais was going to buy the house for about the same amount. But CFO Concept finally assessed the site and the house built on it with an area of 2,657 sq. m. m much higher, at least 50 million dollars. It is this point that Chubais mentions in a post on Facebook, speaking about the “inadequate price.”
The refusal to buy the mansion and land allegedly became the reason for further blackmail on the part of the former manager. “It is unlikely that it will be possible to scare or even “upset” me with blackmail, extortion or another audit, since my income has been checked many times, and for many years it has been public”, writes Chubais.
So don’t get it from you... No one?
Usually a medal has two sides, but this “medal for the capture of Peredelkino” shines with many facets.
SFO Concept, as a Forbes source said in a September publication, for a long time was the so-called family office of Anatoly Chubais, that is, the company that managed his assets. After changes were made to Russian legislation prohibiting officials from owning assets abroad, SFO Concept was sold Ilya Suchkova.
“The company received loans from the structures of Boris Mints, because Chubais simply needed money to build a house, continues Forbes’ interlocutor, close to one of the creditors. – And Suchkov at some point realized that he was the happy owner and general director of a company that owned land and an almost completed house, and decided to play on it.”.
Ilya Suchkov has a different view of what happened. “The house... was originally an investment project by SFO Concept, he said at the beginning of autumn. – It was financed 50% from the company's own funds. Anatoly Borisovich was going to buy it, but then, apparently, he changed his mind. And Boris Iosifovich (Mints) liked the house so much that he wanted it for himself and because of this he initiated all this prosecution.”.
“Plan of the palace and its surroundings” - this is how Oleg Lurie signed this photo. Photo: http://oleglurie-new.livejournal.com/315135.html
Meanwhile, Mints himself stated that his company, O1 Trust Services, does not lay claim to the house in Peredelkino - it just wants its money back. The eldest son of Boris Mints, Dmitry (head and chairman of the board of directors of O1 Properties), described the situation as “banal” in an interview with Forbes. According to him, “the owner of SFO Concept does not return the money”, and home “I decided to dispose of it at my own discretion”.
As I told you Dmitry Mints, SFO Concept delayed payments on a promissory note for $0.9 million, which should have been repaid in 2013. And in December 2015, O1 Properties allegedly learned that “Suchkov wanted to re-register all SFO Concept real estate to himself as individual, without paying loans". The information was regarded as a signal that Ilya Suchkov “not only cannot fulfill his obligations, but is not even going to try to pay us off.”
There is another interested party. This is the company Crizna Holdings ltd, which sought from CFO Concept the return of $7.5 million transferred for general corporate purposes. In the summer of 2016, the Arbitration Court Bryansk region According to her claim, he arrested the property of the CFO Concept company, including the notorious house and land in the Moscow region. According to unconfirmed reports, the company is affiliated with the business of Boris Mints. In making its decision, the court took into account the fact that advertisements for the sale of a plot with buildings on it (at a price of 920-950 rubles) had already appeared on Internet sites. The seller was not identified in the advertisements, and there was a possibility that the property would be sold without the knowledge of creditors.

Oleg Lurie, mentioned at the beginning, reduces this entire tangled web to a fairly simple layout. “Why, you ask, was the situation so difficult to turn around?, writes Lurie, In 2012, Chubais borrowed $22 million on preferential terms from Boris Mints for the construction of a palace in the Moscow region, and then, in 2015, played an adventure with the same Mints with the Tver land (also described in Lurie’s publication - ed.), allegedly also lends him all his profits, equivalent to 23 million dollars?”. And he himself answers: “Firstly, Anatoly Chubais decided not to show off his tens of millions of dollars and to further legalize a certain large amount, for example, with the help of Mints’ subsequent forgiveness of his debt. And secondly, Chubais and Mints, again, in my opinion, decided to try to pin the return of 22 million on some, I beg your pardon, scapegoat.”.
Popcorn urgently needed
“No one imagined that we would have to sort things out with Suchkov in court. At one time, Chubais helped Ilya a lot as a human being.”, one of Anatoly Chubais’ acquaintances reasoned in the fall. Apparently, no one expected the subsequent transfer of the case to such a scandalous level (with accusations of blackmail and mention of “Chechen comrades”).
“They decided to deceive Chubais. Either he has grown old, or they have forgotten who they are dealing with,” writes one of the commentators under the Facebook post of the head of Rusnano. “The text is about nothing! Only emotions! Where are the facts? Go to Solovyov, prove to the whole country that you are honest and decent! What is the problem?" - asks another.

In parallel with the protracted legal proceedings, a high-profile reality show is planned. Or a master class on eating former business partners. We'll see what happens.

Ilya Suchkov

Colors of a distant island

INSTEAD OF A FOREWORD

At first I wanted to call this book “Colors pearl island" But then I remembered that pearls had not been mined on the island of Sri Lanka for a long time, and changed the name. Once upon a time the island really was a pearl island, because in ancient times the Sri Lankans obtained the best pearls in the East from the bottom of the sea. They wrote about this at one time (Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta. Even in the literature of the last century, rich pearl industries in Sri Lanka are mentioned. But now, alas, there are no traces left of them. And yet the island can be called pearl. Many of its travelers so they called it - “pearl of the East”, “pearl Indian Ocean“, because the island in a necklace of white reefs looks like a pearl on the blue velvet of the Indian Ocean.

Colors of a distant island! Now, after a number of years, Sri Lanka seems even more colorful and exotic. "This is one of the the most beautiful places in the world... The island has everything the heart desires,” the Azerbaijani geographer G.Z. Shirvani wrote in his diary after long journey for the countries of the East.

The bright colors of Sri Lanka, said sculptor Marianna Yaroslavskaya, who has visited the country several times, in a conversation with journalists, “struck my imagination so much that at first I felt something like confusion. I wanted to convey this multicolor at all costs, but I still didn’t know how to do it. I didn’t know, but I already understood that from now on I could no longer limit myself to monochromatic sculpture.

I wouldn’t want to mix these bright colors like on an artist’s palette. It seems to me that we just need to talk about meetings with the islanders, about their life problems, customs, traditions, beliefs and give the reader the opportunity to try to imagine all the charm of the distant island.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE WORLD MAP...

On school map this Ceylon looked like a drop under the udder of the great land.

Chingiz Aitmatov. "Early Cranes"

The Daily News newspaper, published in Colombo, published a letter from a Sri Lankan citizen. During a trip to the United States, he wrote, I discovered that Americans have a very vague idea of beautiful island in the Indian Ocean, and many of them don’t even know where it is. How often in in public places, at various events and receptions I had to take part in something like this conversation:

Are you from India?

No, I'm from Sri Lanka.

Is this in India?

Where?

And here the poor Sri Lankan once again had to explain that Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, is a small independent state where tea grows; the well-known American film “The Bridge on the River Kwai” was filmed on the island, etc.

Ordinary Americans have little interest in Asian issues. They heard about India, which “gave more than one American president a headache,” about the Indian “saint” Hari Krishna. They know about the existence of Vietnam, where they were never able to win. But Sri Lanka?

One might not attach much importance to these lines, full of bitterness. But somehow, having become acquainted with the multi-volume work of the Sri Lankan historian N.E. Weerasuriya, I discovered statements about the unseemly role of the West in this region.

In the preface, N. E. Weerasuriya writes: “The history of Ceylon is little known, even less understood. During the period of British rule, Ceylon was considered “Lipton’s Tea Garden” somewhere in India. Lipton (Sir Thomas) was an English capitalist who went from being an errand boy to becoming a merchant and millionaire. He made a business out of planting tea trees, although his hobby was yachts. Later Ceylon ceased to exist as a country."

IN sad story colonial conquests, there are cases when not only states such as Sri Lanka lost their name and ceased to exist. More have suffered a similar fate large countries and entire continents.

For many decades, the inhabitants of the island fully tasted the bitter fruits of colonialism. All the wealth of the country, whose economy was based on the “three pillars” - tea, rubber and coconuts - floated overseas.

While living in Sri Lanka, I traveled a lot to tea plantations and saw with my own eyes the hard work of plantation workers who spend whole days under the hot tropical sun. I also had the opportunity to meet planters, these heirs of Kipling’s heroes, whose lives are covered in legends. I was especially struck by the story of one English planter who spent most of the day in his pool, where he rested and “worked.” There was a clock mechanism installed on the side of the pool that rotated a paper tape. Above it is fixed a magnifying glass, similar to those that can be seen with our boys. The sun's ray, focused through this glass, left a black stripe on the moving paper tape. So, if the sun is in the sky, there is a black stripe on the ribbon. Clouds roll in or it's cloudy - the paper strip remains white. The tape, fixed with hour markers, gave a clear idea of how many hours per day, per week, per month were sunny and how many were cloudy. The tape was then carefully packaged and sent to London. And since the best varieties of tea are produced from tender green leaves collected in sunny weather, the owners of the company in Piccadilly easily determined how much tea leaves the workers had to collect on the plantation. “Reporting” is simplified, management staffs are small, tea factories are also not modernized, and income from the exploitation of the island’s wealth and cheap labor is expressed in tidy sums in London banks.

Only in 1972 was the British Dominion able to finally break the chains of the European “partner” that entangled it. Then a new constitution was adopted: the country was proclaimed the independent sovereign Republic of Sri Lanka (translated as “beautiful land”). Those who have had the opportunity to visit this fabulous land attach a special meaning to it.

Over the years of independent development, much has already been done: agrarian reform has begun, the public sector in the economy has been significantly expanded, large tea and rubber plantations owned by foreign and local capital have been nationalized. The Republic of Sri Lanka no longer wanted to put up with the colonial robbery that lasted four and a half centuries.

COLOMBO, COLOMBO

Sometimes I begin to doubt whether I am doing Ceylon a disservice by describing its charms. Huge jet monsters are already landing one after another at Colombo airport, photo and film cameras are clicking and chirping everywhere... But there are still hundreds of miles left seashore, which have not seen a single tourist, and virgin reefs, near which so many curious fish fearlessly swim towards a person that you have to push them away from you in order to take pictures.

Arthur Clarke. "The Reefs of Taprobane"

Kindness and hospitality - character traits inhabitants of a tropical island. Over the years of living in the country, I have not heard any of my Soviet comrades complain about the dishonesty of the Sri Lankans, their unfriendliness or snobbery. Even during periods of changing political climate, the majority of our acquaintances were always ready to help us in one way or another or advise us in case of any difficulties. This greatly brightened up our life in a foreign country. Even among those who did not share our views, I did not meet people who were ready to cause us any harm. Apparently, Sri Lankans have long learned that regardless of views, likes and dislikes, people must coexist peacefully, otherwise it is impossible to live.

But that doesn't mean there aren't difficult situations or tough discussions. I remember meetings and conversations with the owner of the Davasa-San newspaper concern, Mr. Gunasena, which often took place in this spirit:

Good morning! Sit down. What will you drink? Tea or Schwebs? You probably prefer “Schwebs”, because it’s red!? I do not like him.

We, the TASS correspondent and I, agree on “Schwebs”.

Tell me, gentlemen, is it true that in the Soviet Union children are taken away from their parents from birth and the relevant government agencies are involved in their upbringing?

Mr. Gunasena, where are you getting this false information from? You can’t take at face value everything that your newspapers reprint from Western sources. You can go to the USSR yourself and see that this is a lie.

OK then. But tell me, why are your ships in the Indian Ocean? So I think sometimes, you wake up one fine morning, and Colombo is already in red. And Gunasena will remain goalless as a falcon! A?

Mr. Gunasena, first of all, you are doing the Americans a small favor - at their request, you are publishing materials from American agents in your newspapers, without caring about their content. Then you become a victim of this writing and begin to believe what your newspapers publish, including the “red” or Soviet threat. You mentioned the sailing of Soviet ships in the Indian Ocean. Why not? After all, Russian ships sailed here a hundred years ago, sailing from Sevastopol across the Indian Ocean to the ports of Dalniy and Port Arthur. Participants of the first Russian round the world expedition 1803–1806, led by Krusenstern and Lisyansky, was already carried out in the Indian Ocean oceanographic research. Why now, in the age of colossal development of technology and broad interethnic economic ties, should ships of the first country of socialism limit their navigation to the waters of the Black Sea or the port of Nakhodka? But our ships have never appeared in the Indian Ocean or in the ports of coastal countries with the aim of seizing foreign lands or creating military bases. These are the facts of history...

Photo: RIA Novosti/Alexander Natruskin

The head of Rusnano Management Company Anatoly Chubais announced his intention to file a statement with the police to initiate a criminal case against financier Ilya Suchkov and “a group of comrades of Chechen nationality” on charges of extortion and slander. Chubais about this posted on Facebook.

A Rusnano representative confirmed to RNS the authenticity of Chubais’ message on the social network.

“I hate legal squabbles, but in the end I decided to file a statement with the police to initiate a criminal case against Ilya Suchkov and a group of comrades of Chechen nationality working for him - for extortion and slander. Ilya was once a hired manager of my company, but then I sold it to him. Lately I have been regularly becoming the target of blackmail from this wonderful company. At first, they demanded that I buy a house at an inadequate price, and when I categorically refused, they began to send me secretly recorded recordings of business negotiations, with the threat of their publication.

Now a certain Oleg Lurie, who, by the way, at one time received and served four years for extortion and fraud, is publishing another “exposure” against me - also with the history of this ill-fated house and a big prelude in which many facts from open sources, obviously supplemented by materials from Ilya Suchkov. Some of them took place, some are complete nonsense, but some may find this mixture convincing. It is unlikely that it will be possible to scare or even “upset” me with blackmail, extortion or another check, since my income has been checked many times, and for many years it has been public,” Chubais wrote.

Earlier, Chubais announced that there was no obligation to buy the house on Rublyovka from the Concept company, which was sold in 2013 to its CEO Ilya Suchkov, Chubais’s representative Alexey Firsov told RNS.

As a representative of Chubais explained, in 2010, three years before the sale of Concept AG, the company raised a loan for the construction of a private house from the structures of Boris Mints. Chubais planned to repay the loan later through transactions on the securities market and the growth in the value of the assets of the Prospective Companies fund, jointly with Mintz.

“By the time construction of the house was completed, Suchkov presented for repayment an amount that significantly exceeded the earlier agreements and the loan amount. He motivated this by the fact that he had to attract additional funds, but this issue was not agreed upon with Chubais. Under these conditions, Chubais refused to purchase the house. He has no legal obligation to Concept AG to buy it out. It does not affect Concept AG’s relationship with its creditors,” Firsov said.

Then Firsov noted that Chubais “does not rule out buying out the house if a fair price is returned.”

According to Chubais' representative, investments in the Prospective Companies fund were made in foreign currency. In 2015, after a significant increase in the dollar exchange rate, the mutual fund was closed, Chubais received a significant income, allowing him, in principle, to purchase expensive real estate.

The mansion of the head of Rusnano was taken over by the Zits-chairman

The rich have their own quirks. Roman Abramovich, for example, tirelessly builds yachts. So much so that each new one is longer and more luxurious than the previous one. Vladimin Potanin loves truffles worth $95 thousand per mushroom, and when asked if a lot of money is spent on a simple party, he dismissively replies: “The gnomes will still dig it up!” . The gnomes here are hard workers of MMC Norilsk Nickel.

Hedonist Anatoly Chubais has his own “trick”. He costs himself palaces. At the same time, using Abramovich’s principle - each new one is “more than the old one.” Only, unlike the owner of Chelsea, Mr. Chubais is not comfortable showing his income openly. Just like real estate.

However, according to the media today, Anatoly Chubais owns luxury real estate with a total value of more than three billion rubles.

In particular, in the Tver region, near the village of Byltsevo, in a couple of years a luxurious estate will appear, the owner of which, judging by the documents obtained by the portal newvz.ru, will be the chairman of the board of Rusnano OJSC.

As follows from the same documents, in these same years it was built provocatively luxurious palace in the village of Peredelki Odintsovo district Moscow region (this publication is dedicated to him). Its estimated cost is about 50 million US dollars. The construction of the above-mentioned estate in the Tver region has an estimated cost of about 1.5 million dollars. That is, the total amount of these expenses for construction quirks is 51.5 million US dollars, which at the average exchange rate of the Central Bank is more than 3 billion rubles.

Considering that the actual expenses for the palaces are twice the declared income of Mr. Chubais, it is not surprising that all of the above-mentioned luxury, according to the official version, is not listed as owned by the head of Rusnano and is registered in the name of the “zits-chairmen.” But such games are always associated with the risk that the official “zits-chairman” may refuse the imposed prefix “zits-”. It seems that this is exactly where Anatoly Chubais got burned.

According to Russian Forbes, across the road from the famous dacha of Boris Pasternak in the village of writers Peredelkino there was a field along which the poet loved to walk. This “Pasternak” field is now built up with spacious country residences (see map). As it turned out, the estate on the site closest to the Pasternak Museum in the village of Peredelki was built for the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais and his wife, screenwriter and director Avdotya Smirnova. Construction began shortly after the wedding.

The huge house is completely finished, but empty. It, the site and other buildings have been seized. The owner of the property is the Swiss company SFO Concept AG, headed by young financier Ilya Suchkov. According to Mr. Suchkov, the main house with an area of 2656.8 square meters. m, two guest houses and other buildings, his company invested $50 million. In June and July, creditors of SFO Concept, who lent the company $36 million, filed several claims for the return of money, one of them was accepted for consideration in court. The largest creditor is the company O1 Trust Services ltd of billionaire and friend of Chubais Boris Mints, which at the beginning of 2012 issued loans to SFO Concept in the amount of $22.9 million.

What is SFO Concept? “For a long time this was Chubais’s family office, the company that managed his assets,” says a source close to one of the creditors. – After the law [prohibiting officials from owning foreign assets] was passed, Mr. Chubais sold the company to Ilya Suchkov. The company received loans from the structures of Boris Mints, because Chubais simply needed money to build a house. And Suchkov at some point realized that he was the happy owner and general director of a company that owned land and an almost completed house, and decided to play on this.”

The young financier Ilya Suchkov has a different version. “The house in the village of Peredelki was originally an investment project by SFO Concept,” he says. - It was financed 50% from the company's own funds. Anatoly Borisovich was going to buy it, but then, apparently, he changed his mind. And Boris Iosifovich [Mints] liked the house so much that he wanted it for himself and because of this he initiated all this prosecution.”

“This is complete nonsense! - a source close to Chubais is indignant. “The house was immediately built by order of Chubais to suit the needs of his family.” According to him, in addition to loans for building a house, Chubais’s own funds were spent, first through the sale of property owned by him from the balance sheet of SFO Concept, and after the sale of the company, he also reported personal funds. Overall, this is significantly less than $50 million, the source insists. If creditors seize the house, Chubais can buy it, the source says, but at present, given the current situation, he considers its acquisition inappropriate.

Zits Chairman is from a respected family

The area of the house with all the buildings turned out to be one and a half times larger than Chubais’s previous country estate in Zhavoronki near Moscow (according to the tax return for 2010, it was registered in the name of his ex-wife Marina Vishnevskaya). However, Mintz's representatives say that O1 Trust Services is trying to return the money and does not intend to take possession of the house. “The situation is trivial - the owner of SFO Concept does not return the money he took for the construction of the house, and decided to use it at his own discretion,” says Mints’ eldest son Dmitry, head and chairman of the board of directors of O1 Properties.

Ilya Suchkov comes from a family well known to Chubais. His father Vasily Suchkov worked together with the current head of Rusnano back in the State Property Committee, Ilya’s older brother Igor was an adviser to Chubais for 17 years. An acquaintance of Chubais says that Igor had many ideas: from investments in a network of dental clinics to construction cottage village on the shore of the Ikshinsky reservoir. He invited his brother Ilya to manage real estate projects, who in 2010 headed SFO Concept.

According to Ilya Suchkov, the company quickly ceased to be just a family office and diversified its business: it began providing consulting services and, for a commission, helped companies that worked with securities attract clients. Suchkov recalls that he spent two days a week in Switzerland, three in Moscow, and discussed matters with Chubais once a year.

In 2013, Russian officials were banned from owning property abroad. Anatoly Chubais sold SFO Concept to Ilya Suchkov. The deal was real, not fictitious, its participants say. However, from the purchase and sale documents submitted by Suchkov it follows that Chubais did not immediately give up control of the company.

According to the terms of the agreement, Suchkov had to pay a large sum of $28 million for SFO Concept with a deferred payment, approximately the same amount the company at that time used to finance a house in the village of Peredelki. As an interim measure, Suchkov signed an agreement to terminate the purchase and sale agreement without specifying a date, which Chubais could use at almost any time. A year later, the parties entered into a new agreement to waive interim measures and complete settlements on new price$152,000, as determined in the appraiser's report (slightly less than the authorized capital of 200,000 Swiss francs). Suchkov says that he took some of the money from his parents, borrowed some and added his savings.

A source close to Chubais insists that the deadline for settlements for SFO Concept has not yet arrived, while the transaction price is significantly higher than the authorized capital and Suchkov has not yet paid this money. “The SFO Concept company belonged to me for some time,” confirmed Anatoly Chubais. - In 2013, I sold it to another person so that he could organize the construction of a house and raise financing. In the future, the house was to become my property. As far as I know, the company violated a number of commercial agreements regarding attracted financing and, apparently, this served as a reason for filing claims against it from creditors.”

Friendship - friendship

According to Dmitry Mints, SFO Concept was late in payments on a bill of exchange for $0.9 million, which matured in 2013, but serious questions to Suchkov arose only in December 2015. “We learned that Suchkov wanted to re-register all SFO Concept real estate to himself as an individual, without paying off loans,” Mints is indignant. “This means for us that he not only cannot fulfill his obligations, but is not even going to try to pay us off.”

Suchkov lays out stacks of documents in front of him in his office - loan agreements in two languages, appraisal reports. He admits that Boris Mints’ structures lent to SFO Concept. But it is clear from the agreement that the largest unsecured loan from O1 Trust Services ltd for $15.5 million is repayable only in April 2022, in addition, it was issued not for the construction of a house, but for replenishing working capital of SFO Concept AG. Another creditor, Crizna Holdings ltd, lent $7.5 million for general corporate purposes in June 2015 and is now also seeking the return of money in court. According to Suchkov, Crizna is affiliated with Mintz, although representatives of the latter deny this.

It was understood, creditors say, that all loans would be used to build a house, which Chubais would buy, and after that the company would pay off the debts. However, they understand that selling real estate on the market will not allow Suchkov to pay off his debts: the current value of SFO Concept’s assets is lower than the value of loans, and, according to their estimates, already at the beginning of 2015 the company had no equity capital.

Creditors do not rule out concluding a settlement agreement with Suchkov, but so far the parties have not reached an understanding. Suchkov offers to buy the house from him at a price of $36.5 million, based on the report of an English appraisal company, the name of which he does not specify. Lenders believe that the current market value of the house with all the buildings and land is only $12.55 million, which is how much Knight Frank estimated it.

“Representatives of Boris Mints are forcing us to sell real estate in Peredelki at a reduced price - first they gave $7 million, then $12 million, which puts the company in danger of bankruptcy and criminal prosecution of the management of SFO Concept,” says Suchkov. “If Mints then cedes the property at this price to Chubais, this will mean assistance in legalizing income, because his official income does not allow him to purchase a property from SFO Concept at market value.” He also believes that Mints’ issuance of unsecured loans for ten years may simply be a transfer of those belonging to Chubais Money to legalize part of the income, and to check this, sent a request to the law enforcement authorities of Cyprus.

According to calculations, Chubais’s official income in 2010-2015 exceeded 2 billion rubles. He planned to pay for the house in the village of Peredelki by selling the property of the Perspective Companies closed mutual fund, established together with Mints (see inset).

“Lenders, I must admit, are stupid[...]. The degree of trust in Suchkov was high, and the credit relationship was not formalized brilliantly,” says one of the financiers involved in lending to the construction site. “We could have a stronger position in court when collecting debt if we were involved in lending to construction as a commercial, strict transaction,” says Dmitry Mints. “No one imagined that we would have to sort things out with Suchkov in court. At one time, Chubais helped Ilya a lot as a human being,” says an acquaintance of Chubais. Suchkov believes that he does not owe Chubais anything.

In the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, Suchkov won: the court refused to consider O1 Trust’s claim against SFO and the petition to seize assets, because it considered that the lender had not proven the connection between the real estate and the credit relationship. However, the Bryansk arbitration court, which the second creditor, the Crizna company, applied to, nevertheless arrested the disputed property at the end of July. The court took into account that it could be sold without the knowledge of creditors: the plot, along with buildings, is being sold on Internet sites at prices in the region of 920-950 million rubles, although it is unknown who initiated these advertisements.

The judge also referred to an additional agreement to the loan agreement, in which the former trustee of its real estate in Russia, SFO Concept Consulting LLC, vouched for SFO Concept. The agreement was signed by the company's general director Sergei Krychenko, a former security guard of Chubais who worked as his assistant at RAO UES. It says that the guarantor is jointly and severally liable for the loan taken by SFO Concept for the construction of a house in the village of Peredelki. A separate clause provides for proceedings controversial issues not in the London International Court of Arbitration, but in the Arbitration Court of the Bryansk Region.

“Additional agreement to the loan agreement - clean water falsification,” Suchkov is indignant and shows a copy of the document. It follows from it that the purpose of the loan has changed, the choice of Bryansk arbitration is not motivated by anything, and no one even notified the borrower about the appearance of the guarantor. For Suchkov, such a turn came as a complete surprise, because, according to him, he was on friendly terms with Krychenko, although they terminated the agreement on trust management real estate at the end of 2015.

In the appeal, Suchkov argues that his company has no arrears on the Crizna loan, so the lender has no grounds for collecting the debt. According to his version, a month before the loan expired at the end of October 2015, Crizna assigned the debt to a certain Denian Limited (BVI), also affiliated with Mintz, and she, in turn, signed a document forgiving the debt. “We initially agreed with Mints that this debt would be forgiven; we had friendly relations,” explains Suchkov.

Why did Mintz give several million dollars? former company Chubais and whether this actually happened, other participants in the case do not say. Rusnano emphasizes that this situation is no longer directly related to Chubais, since he has withdrawn from all projects with Suchkov’s participation. “The asset ownership structure of Anatoly Chubais complies with the requirements of Russian legislation, and all income is declared,” says Andrey Trapeznikov, Deputy Chairman of the Board for External Communications of Rusnano.

Chubais recently admitted that he has a small family office, but he is not rich enough to be on the Forbes list. Like Pasternak, who was modest in everyday life, he could have complained about life’s difficulties in the words of the great writer about his house in Peredelkino: “We had to decide whether to take it [the dacha], go to monitor its completion, dodge, get money...”

The rich have their own quirks. Roman Abramovich, for example, tirelessly builds yachts. So much so that each new one is longer and more luxurious than the previous one. Vladimin Potanin loves truffles at a cost $95 thousand for a mushroom, and when asked whether a lot of money is spent on a simple party, replies dismissively: “The gnomes will still dig!”. The gnomes here are hard workers of MMC Norilsk Nickel.

Hedonist Anatoly Chubais has his own “trick”. He costs himself palaces. At the same time, using Abramovich’s principle - each new one is “more old"Only, unlike the owner of Chelsea, Mr. Chubais is not willing to openly show off his income. Just like real estate.

However, according to the media today, Anatoly Chubais owns luxury real estate with a total value of more than three billion rubles.

As follows from the same documents, in these same years a defiantly luxurious palace was built in the village of Peredelki, Odintsovo district, Moscow region (this publication is dedicated to him). Its estimated cost is about 50 million US dollars. The construction of the above-mentioned estate in the Tver region has an estimated cost of about 1.5 million dollars. That is, the total amount of these expenses for construction quirks is 51.5 million US dollars, which at the average exchange rate of the Central Bank is more than 3 billion rubles.

Considering that the actual expenses for the palaces are twice the declared income of Mr. Chubais, it is not surprising that all the above-mentioned luxury, according to the official version, is not listed as owned by the head of Rusnano and is registered in the name of " sic-chairmen"But such games are always associated with the risk that the official "zits-chairman" may refuse the imposed prefix "zits-". It seems that this is where he got burned Anatoly Chubais .

According to Russian Forbes, across the road from the famous dacha of Boris Pasternak in the village of writers Peredelkino there was a field along which the poet loved to walk. This “Pasternak” field is now built up with spacious country residences (see map). As it turned out, the estate on the site closest to the Pasternak Museum in the village of Peredelki was built for the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais and his wife - a screenwriter and director Avdotya Smirnova. Construction began shortly after the wedding.

The huge house is completely finished, but empty. It, the site and other buildings have been seized. The owner of the property is the Swiss company SFO Concept AG, headed by young financier Ilya Suchkov. According to Mr. Suchkov, the main house with an area of 2656.8 square meters. m, two guest houses and other buildings, his company invested $50 million. In June and July, creditors of SFO Concept, who lent the company $36 million, filed several claims for the return of money, one of them was accepted for consideration in court. The largest creditor is the company O1 Trust Services ltd of the billionaire and friend of Chubais Boris Mints, which issued $22.9 million in loans to SFO Concept in early 2012.

Zits Chairman is from a respected family

The area of the house with all the buildings turned out to be one and a half times larger than the previous suburban one Chubais estate in Zhavoronki near Moscow(according to the tax return for 2010, registered to his ex-wife Marina Vishnevskaya). However, Mintz's representatives say that O1 Trust Services is trying to return the money and does not intend to take possession of the house. “The situation is trivial - the owner of SFO Concept does not return the money he took for the construction of the house, and decided to use it at his own discretion,” says Mints’ eldest son Dmitry, head and chairman of the board of directors of O1 Properties.

Ilya Suchkov comes from a family well known to Chubais. His father Vasily Suchkov worked together with the current head "Rusnano" still at the State Property Committee, Ilya’s older brother Igor was an adviser to Chubais for 17 years. An acquaintance of Chubais says that Igor had many ideas: from investments in a network of dental clinics to the construction of a cottage village on the banks of the Ikshinsky reservoir. He invited his brother Ilya to manage real estate projects, who in 2010 headed SFO Concept.

According to the terms of the agreement, Suchkov had to pay a large sum of $28 million for SFO Concept with a deferred payment, approximately the same amount the company at that time used to finance a house in the village of Peredelki. As an interim measure, Suchkov signed an agreement to terminate the purchase and sale agreement without specifying a date, which Chubais could use at almost any time. A year later, the parties entered into a new agreement to waive interim measures and complete settlements at a new price of $152,000, determined in the appraiser's report (slightly less than the authorized capital of 200,000 Swiss francs). Suchkov says that he took some of the money from his parents, borrowed some and added his savings.

Friendship - friendship

According to Dmitry Mints, SFO Concept was behind on payments on a promissory note for $0.9 million, which matured in 2013, but serious questions to Suchkov arose only in December 2015. “We learned that Suchkov wanted to re-register all SFO Concept real estate to himself as an individual, without paying off loans,” Mints is indignant. “This means for us that he not only cannot fulfill his obligations, but is not even going to try to pay us off.”

“Representatives of Boris Mints are forcing us to sell real estate in Peredelki at a reduced price - first they gave $7 million, then $12 million, which puts the company in danger of bankruptcy and criminal prosecution of the management of SFO Concept,” says Suchkov. “If Mints then cedes the property at this price to Chubais, this will mean assistance in legalizing income, because his official income does not allow him to purchase a property from SFO Concept at market value.” He also believes that Mints’ issuance of unsecured loans for ten years may simply be a transfer of funds belonging to Chubais to legalize part of the income, and to check this, he sent a request to the law enforcement authorities of Cyprus.

The judge also referred to an additional agreement to the loan agreement, in which the former trustee of its real estate in Russia, SFO Concept Consulting LLC, vouched for SFO Concept. The agreement was signed by the company's general director Sergei Krychenko, a former security guard of Chubais who worked as his assistant at RAO UES. It says that the guarantor is jointly and severally liable for the loan taken by SFO Concept for the construction of a house in the village of Peredelki. A separate clause provides for the consideration of controversial issues not in the London International Court of Arbitration, but in the Arbitration Court of the Bryansk Region.

“The additional agreement to the loan agreement is pure falsification,” Suchkov is indignant and shows a copy of the document. It follows from it that the purpose of the loan has changed, the choice of Bryansk arbitration is not motivated by anything, and no one even notified the borrower about the appearance of the guarantor. For Suchkov, such a turn came as a complete surprise, because, according to him, he was on friendly terms with Krychenko, although they terminated the agreement on trust management of real estate at the end of 2015.

Why Mints donated several million dollars to Chubais’s former company and whether this actually happened, other participants in the case do not say. Rusnano emphasizes that this situation is no longer directly related to Chubais, since he has withdrawn from all projects with Suchkov’s participation. “The asset ownership structure of Anatoly Chubais complies with the requirements of Russian legislation, and all income is declared,” says Andrey Trapeznikov, Deputy Chairman of the Board for External Communications of Rusnano.

Chubais recently admitted that he has a small family office, but he is not rich enough to get into Forbes list. Like Pasternak, who was modest in everyday life, he could have complained about life’s difficulties in the words of the great writer about his house in Peredelkino: “We had to decide whether to take it [the dacha], go to monitor its completion, dodge, get money...”