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The state company Rosspirtprom closed a deal to buy eight large distilleries from businessman Valery Yakovlev, becoming the largest alcohol producer in the Russian Federation. Perhaps this is the first step towards a state monopoly on alcohol
Two years to prepare
The state company Rosspirtprom closed a deal to buy eight distilleries, the company said on Monday.
The fact that Rosspirtprom agreed to purchase factories from the structures of entrepreneur Valery Yakovlev became known in July 2014. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) then approved a total of 19 applications for transactions involving alcohol producing companies. As follows from these notices, United Spirit Plants (owned by Rosspirtprom) was supposed to act as the buyer, and the Cypriot Ilmaren Trading Ltd. as the main seller.
Representatives of Rosspirtprom and Yakovlev confirmed the transfer of ownership to RBC, calling the businessman the main beneficiary of Ilmaren. At that time, the transaction amount was estimated at 8-11 billion rubles.
The operational management of Yakovlev's distilleries was already transferred to Rosspirtprom: the state company's sales managers provided the distilleries with a steady flow of alcohol buyers, receiving a commission for this. The amount that Rosspirtprom took for the services was not disclosed. However, Khadis Abazekhov, the owner of the Rial distillery in Kabardino-Balkaria, which was previously under the control of Rosspirtprom, told RBC in the fall of 2015 that for every liter of alcohol sold, the selling price of which is 43 rubles, Rosspirtprom took 6–8.5 rubles Rosspirtprom notes that the terms of the agency agreement with Rial correspond to the terms of similar agreements with other enterprises. Based on the volume of alcohol production at the Yakovlev plants, in 2015, the state-owned company could earn about 1–1.5 billion rubles from commission payments from these plants alone.
The closing of the deal with Yakovlev was repeatedly postponed - the managers of Rosspirtprom referred to problems with attracting credit funds. In December 2014, the board of directors of Rosspirtprom approved the transfer of the property of the acquired distilleries as a pledge to Sberbank for a credit line in the amount of 4.5 billion rubles. for 11 years at 19% per annum. The pledged assets were estimated at 6.5 billion rubles. "But loan agreement was never concluded, negotiations with banks are ongoing,” a source in the state-owned company said earlier. Sberbank did not comment on RBC's requests on this topic.
As follows from the information on the public procurement website, on January 14, 2016, Rosspirtprom still managed to find the necessary funds: the state-owned company entered into an agreement to open a credit line at Mosoblbank for 4.5 billion rubles. for a period of 8 years. The loan rate is defined in the agreement as "the key rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation plus 3%."
As Anastasia Lavrentyeva, a representative of Rosspirtprom, told RBC, this loan will go for the purchase of eight distilleries. The transaction will be partially paid for by the state-owned company's own funds. The exact amount of the transaction in "Rosspirtprom" was not named, specifying only that the loan funds account for the bulk of the required amount.
Close to Rotenberg
In May 2015, the Central Bank announced the reorganization of Mosoblbank in connection with the identification of a scheme for withdrawing funds from individual depositors for 60 billion rubles off the balance sheet. Arkady and Boris Rotenberg's SMP-Bank was declared a sanatorium of Mosoblbank. The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) provided SMP-Bank with a loan in the amount of 96.8 billion rubles for this purpose. According to the agreement concluded by Rosspirtprom with Mosoblbank, the loan is secured by the property of the acquired distilleries.
As an investigation by RBC in November 2014 showed, representatives of Arkady Rotenberg’s structures are on the board of directors of a number of large vodka companies, including the Moscow Kristall plant, co-owned (with a 38.05% share) by Valery Yakovlev’s companies Zernostroy and "Fork". Also, structures associated with the Rotenbergs own the Putinka vodka brand.
According to SPARK, eight distilleries have already changed ownership: Rosspirtprom has been designated as the main owner since January 25, 2016. The ownership of "Rosspirtprom" passed packages of companies "Absolut", "Etalon", "Zernoprodukt" (all in the Tula region), "DDD" and "Prestige" (both - North Ossetia), "Premium" (Kabardino-Balkaria), "KurskProduct" (Kursk region) and "Erofeev" (Novosibirsk region). At the moment, the share of Rosspirtprom in all eight enterprises exceeds 95%.
In addition, as part of the deal, Rosspirtprom gained control over three service companies: Zernoresurs, KC RICH, and transport OTK Magistral, which carries out licensed transportation ethyl alcohol and having a fleet of modern alcohol carriers.
“The transaction is carried out within the framework of the approved development strategy of JSC Rosspirtprom, which provides for an increase in the share of RSP [Rosspirtprom] in the alcohol market. As a result of the transaction, the total ethyl alcohol production capacity of enterprises owned by OJSC will amount to more than 24 million decalitres per year, which will increase the company's share in the ethyl alcohol market by more than 60%," Rosspirtprom's press release published in Monday.
A representative of Parity Capital confirmed that the businessman decided to leave the alcohol business and engage in "other projects."
Who is Valery Yakovlev
Little is known about businessman Valery Yakovlev, who sold his factories to Rosspirtprom - the entrepreneur is a non-public person, he never gave interviews and broadcasts answers to journalists' requests through his representatives. Nevertheless, Yakovlev is well known in the market: since the mid-2000s, his company Direct Holding from Voronezh has been the largest intermediary in the alcohol market - between vodka producers in need of raw materials and large distilleries.
In 2008, Yakovlev began to buy distressed alcohol assets: some of the factories - in the Tula, Kursk and Novosibirsk regions - were in bankruptcy proceedings, factories in North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria faced the problem of reissuing licenses, Vedomosti pointed out in November 2014 .
On the way to state monopoly
According to Rosstat, in 2015, eight Yakovlev plants produced a total of 17.18 million decalitres of alcohol. Another 1.15 million was produced by the OSB Beslan, a distillery owned by Rosspirtprom. Based on the total volume of alcohol production in Russia (42.38 million decaliters), the total share of nine plants now owned by the state-owned company was 43.3% in 2015.
Several more distilleries, including those that are part of Tatspirtprom and Bashspirt, belong to the regional authorities. As a result, the production of more than half of domestic alcohol is actually under state control.
As follows from the text of the reporting of "Rosspirtprom" for 2014, there is a government-approved program long term development companies: it provides for an increase in the share in the production of edible ethyl alcohol in Russia to 35% by 2020. Consolidation of domestic alcohol assets is the company's key task, the report emphasized.
Of the remaining privately owned distilleries, the largest are Khadis Abazekhov's Rial (his deal with Rosspirtprom fell through at the end of 2014), the Talvis distillery in the Tambov region (owned by Yury Shefler's SPI Group) and the Buinsky distillery in Tatarstan (controlled by Roust Rustam Tariko).
In October 2015, answering a question from RBC about the advisability of a state monopoly in the alcohol market, Igor Chuyan, head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie, stated that “implementation of the monopoly mechanism will require significant financial resources", and "the result is not at all obvious." “The issue has been repeatedly studied in relation to different market segments, we looked at the experience of other countries in this matter. The general opinion is that the introduction of a state monopoly is inexpedient. And then, a monopoly is not market mechanism", - said Chuyan.
However, already at the end of December 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, who also oversees the alcohol industry, noted that the introduction of a state monopoly on the production of alcohol is a priority for the state. “A monopoly on the sale of alcohol, it seems to me, is very important problem which the state should deal with next year and put it under control,” Khloponin said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel (quoted by RIA Novosti). Khloponin did not describe the mechanism for introducing a state monopoly on the alcohol market.
Tags Valery Yakovlev, alcohol, deal closing, Rosspirtprom
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The former head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosspirtprom" Sergei Zivenko became a defendant in a criminal case. Investigators suspect Zivenko of exceeding his powers and withdrawing valuable assets from the alcohol holding. However, the entrepreneur's lawyer considers the criminal case a consequence of competition.
Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosspirtprom" was established in 2000, it received state-owned shares in Russian enterprises alcohol industry. By July last year, when the head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Sergey Zivenko was replaced by a native of tax authorities Petr Myasoedov, Federal State Unitary Enterprise received state-owned stakes in more than 80 distilleries and distilleries, and another 18 state-owned alcohol enterprises were transformed into its branches. As a result, Rosspirtprom became Russia's largest alcohol producer - the enterprises controlled by it accounted for 40% of alcoholic beverages produced in the country and 60% of alcohol.
In July last year, Zivenko left Rosspirtprom, and by the end of the year, the Accounting Board published the results of an audit of the alcohol department. According to Accounts Chamber, under the old head of Rosspirtprom, he transferred about 17 million rubles of dividends from the work of the holding's enterprises not in the state budget, but to the accounts of Rosspirtprom itself. Most of the money was then spent mainly on the upkeep of the company's apparatus. In addition, allegedly 75% of the shares of FSUE CJSC " Trading house Rosspirtprom, which was considered the main distributor of the state vodka holding and sold Kristall vodka, were sold for a symbolic 7,500 rubles. third party structures.
Yesterday, the Accounts Chamber reported that the Prosecutor General's Office had informed it that the Main Investigation Department of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow had opened a criminal case against the former head of Rosspirtprom. The head of the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office, Leonid Troshin, refused to say what the essence of the claims against Zivenko were. Auditor of the Accounting Board Vladislav Ignatov turned out to be more outspoken. He said that the criminal case against Zivenko was initiated on March 13 on the grounds of a crime qualified as abuse of power (Article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to three years. Zivenko has not yet been charged, he is being treated as a suspect in the case.
According to Ignatov, the case against the ex-head of Rosspirtprom was based on the report of the Accounts Chamber. "In the actions of Zivenko and his team, deliberate mistakes could have been made that could lead to the withdrawal of assets from the state alcohol holding," Ignatov argues.
However, Zivenko's lawyer Yakov Mastinsky denies all accusations. He told Vedomosti that the criminal case against the defendant was "an attempt at unfair competition." After leaving Rosspirtprom, Zivenko did not leave the alcohol business, but created and headed the OJSC Commercial and Industrial Group Kristall, which included the distribution company Grad. According to Mastinsky, about two weeks ago, the structures of TPG Kristall acquired a controlling stake a distillery of the same name in the Kaluga region, which Mastinsky calls one of the strongest in the industry, Rosspirtprom's press service declined to comment yesterday.
The act of the Accounts Chamber, Mastinsky is sure, does not provide grounds for initiating a criminal case, but only proposes to apply "prosecutory response" measures to violators. Lawyer Zivenko says that two weeks ago, his client gave explanations on the report of the Accounts Chamber to employees in the fight against economic crimes in Moscow. According to Mastinsky, the police accepted all the explanations and did not see any crime in Zivenko's actions. "Otherwise, they would have initiated a criminal case themselves," the lawyer says, adding that he has filed a petition with the Prosecutor General's Office for an unfounded initiation of a case.
From the Federal Investigation Agency dossier:
The new vodka king of Russia
Unknown facts from the biography of the head of Rosspirtprom
Recently, the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation issued a verdict depriving CJSC Soyuzplodimport of the right to use well-known vodka brands (in particular, Stolichnaya, Moskovskaya and Russkaya) and returning them to state property. Another result of the protracted war for the redistribution of the alcohol market was the birth of another oligarch. Now, at his own discretion, the director general of Rosspirtprom, Sergei Zivenko, will change the course of vodka rivers - a non-public person whose health is drunk by unknown people.
The fire water market is comparable to the oil market. The cost of a liter of "Russian" is one and a half dollars, the retail price in the stores of the prosperous West reaches twenty-five "bucks". A ten-year income from forty Russian hyped vodka brands is about five billion dollars. In this "green" sea there are several recent years the company of Boris Berezovsky's friends splashed and frolicked undividedly.
For example, at the annual meeting of shareholders of Soyuzplodimport, held on April 24, 1997, Yuri Shefler and Badri Patarkatsishvili, who is now on the federal wanted list, voted in solidarity. And Shefler, Badri and Boris Abramovich are eternal partners. Badri never took a step in his life without being blessed by BAB.
The following statement, prepared in January 1999 by the GUBEP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which we quote verbatim, speaks eloquently of how this trinity was engaged in the vodka business.
"In relation to the head of CJSC Soyuzprodimport (SPI) Oliynik A.V.
A criminal case was initiated against Oliynik under Art. 171 - illegal business.
The Prosecutor General's Office was recommended to check the legality of the trademark ownership of Russian vodkas, as part of the criminal case. In the course of operational and investigative measures, it was established that the actual owners of CJSC-VZAO "SPI" are Yury Viktorovich Shefler and Evgeny Alexandrovich Terletsky and Levan Shalvovich Khakhanashvili. According to information received from the OPU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Shefler Yu.V. and Terletsky E.A. are the owners and co-founders of an extensive commercial network, which includes: AOZT "Vorobyevo", LLC CHOP "KORTEzh-S", AOZT Company "GOODVIL", LLC "VIL Trading House", CJSC "Alfa Spirits Group", LLC "Shefler and Co, LLC WORLD SPIRITS. Under the influence and control of Shefler and Terletsky are OOO "ROSTVESTALKO" in Kaliningrad, AOO "Rodnik" in Samara, the firm "SIMEX" Germany, etc.
Avoiding execution financial obligations available from the acquired VZAO "SPI" to the state and foreign countries, October 27, 1997, a new closed joint-stock company with a consonant former name - "Soyuzplodimport" is registered in the Moscow Registration Chamber, thereby retaining the well-known abbreviation "SPI", recognized abroad as a designation of goods (alcoholic beverages) produced in Russia . Since then, the Shefler group has been taking measures to transfer fixed assets from VZAO to ZAO. December 26, 1997 VZAO Soyuzplodoimport and ZAO Soyuzplodimport sign an assignment agreement, according to which, for 1,700,000 rubles, VZAO Soyuzplodoimport cedes 43 trademarks and 10 applications for trademarks to ZAO Soyuzplodoimport, which it owned on the basis of a link in Charters "SPI" on the succession.
Approximately. Abroad, the value of the Moskovskaya vodka trademark is estimated at 600 million US dollars.
During the operational support of the criminal case, title documents indicating the legality of the succession of the VZAO, including the ownership of trademarks, were not provided, which gives grounds to believe that fraudulent actions were taken.
Currently, Shefler and members of his group, with the active participation of the former head of Rospatent, are negotiating with interested parties in Germany and the United States on the sale of trademarks of Russian vodkas that they own based on the reference in the SPI Charters on succession. By their actions, the owners of CJSC "SPI" undermine the prestige of Russia, limiting the access of Russian producers of alcoholic beverages to the foreign market, creating a real threat economic security states. By continuing the sale and assignment of trademarks to foreign manufacturers, they deprive Russia of the historical right to own well-known and popular trademarks, exclude the right of the state to receive foreign currency funds to the budget, the press service of the GUBEP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reports.
From now on, all vodka brands have been returned to the state and actually ended up at the disposal of the head of the unitary enterprise "Rosspirtprom" Zivenko. What we have learned about the new vodka king of the country may cause some mental confusion and the question: "And this is the face of our modern business?" But as the FLB found out, this vodka-labelled lad isn't all that simple.
So, Sergei Viktorovich Zivenko was born on January 26, 1968 in Nevinomyssk, Stavropol Territory. He studied at the city school number 12, graduated from the Nevinomyssk Energy College. From an early age he responded to the nickname "General". Seriously engaged in boxing, has the title of candidate master of sports. Obviously, he was prevented from achieving more in sports by perestroika, and with it the then legalized private entrepreneurship.
In 1986, as a 4th year student, Zivenko participated in the creation of a certain commercial structure that was engaged in sewing jeans and other fashionable clothes, in which he was responsible for relations with law enforcement agencies. Ironically, that same year, the country launched the infamous anti-alcohol campaign.
In 1986, he received a head injury and was granted a deferment from military service. Six months later he was commissioned under Article 9 "b". This stroke in Zivenko's biography will later become a favorite subject for various speculations for his enemies: from stories about his suicidal tendencies to accusations of links with the criminal world. (They say he got a head injury in a fight with a Georgian thief in law).
In the late 80s, fate brings Zivenko together with the legendary athlete - three-time world champion in acrobatics Vasily Machuga, who was chairman of the Krasnodar Sports Committee in those years. Despite the significant difference in age and social status, they became friends and created the Optimist association under the regional committee of the Komsomol, which was engaged in the supply of various sports accessories.
In mid-1991, Vasily Machuga became the first head of the state sports service in the new democratic Russia.
Following Machuga, Zivenko went to the capital. They create a large enterprise for the production of sportswear and footwear.
But banal furry was by no means the most profitable among their business projects. Zivenko would never have been able to rise from the sports committee to the alcohol industry, had he not had entrepreneurial talent. The 23-year-old guy invents and, most importantly, implements a seemingly elementary scheme that has become classic during the period of accumulation of start-up capital. The name of this scheme is BARTER. Thanks to informal relations with Silaev, Machuga and Zivenko are trying to obtain from the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR the right to conclude an agreement with KangaRus (Zivenko's American partner) on a $5.5 million barter deal - sporting goods in exchange for oil.
Two months later, Silaev signed a government decree on the conclusion of the next barter contract with the KangaRus company for the purchase of a factory for the production of sports shoes. The cost of the deal - $15 million - was paid by the Rosnefteprodukt concern.
Machuga was in the chair of the chairman of the State Sports Committee for less than a year. Silaev also ruled the country's economy for a short time. But in 1992-93, the so-called "Krasnodar team" was formed and came into force in the Kremlin, the most influential representatives of which were considered to be Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko, Minister for Nationalities Nikolai Yegorov, and Minister of Security Viktor Barannikov who joined them. This trinity practically “adopted” Sergei Zivenko, at least Yegorov saw him as a future son-in-law, since at that time a love affair between his daughter and a young businessman was booming. And Zivenko becomes the full-fledged "father of Russian barter."
Then Zivenko and Barannikov come up with yet another know-how that showered a whole generation of new Russians like a golden rain - duty-free deliveries of imported goods. Yeltsin signs a decree on duty-free importation of goods into the country. In January 1993, Shumeiko issued a government decree on the duty-free import into the country of "equipment and fabrics under contract No. 24-1 / 5-21", the recipient of which is called JSC "Sportinterprom". Machuga was the chairman of the Board of Directors of this company, and its founders were Sports Trade Association and Kuban commercial center"created by Zivenko.
But, for real, the president's personal trainer Shamil Tarpishchev and the head of the presidential guard Alexander Korzhakov took advantage of the fruits of this know-how. Under the pretext of caring for the health of the nation, controlled by them National Foundation sports concluded hundreds of contracts for the supply of batches of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages to the country total cost over three billion dollars. (Now, by the way, Korzhakov is the president of the Rat association of law enforcement agencies, connected by thin threads with Rosspirtprom.)
But one way or another, Zivenko with his barter should probably be put on a par with such well-known domestic inventors as the Cherepanov brothers with their locomotive "scooter" or Yablochkin with his "electric candle".
Further, if anyone remembers, miracles began to happen in the alcohol market. The affairs of domestic distilleries fell into decay, but megatons of cheap Turkish alcohol fell on the heads of the "Russians". It was Tarpishchev and Korzhakov who methodically destroyed their worst competitors - Russian producers of inexpensive vodka. Alla Vdovenko, the head of the State Inspectorate for Alcohol Monopoly under the Government of the Russian Federation, helped them in this. Each of them knew his business poorly: Tarpishchev bought and imported alcohol, Vdovenko ruined Russian distilleries in order to clear the market for imported alcohol, and Korzhakov "protected".
In 1995, Zivenko negotiated behind the scenes with Yegorov, who by that time had become the head of the presidential administration, to remove Vdovenko and appoint Konstantin Zazirnigo, head of the Krasnodar Alcohol Inspectorate, to take her place.
Removed Vdovenko competently, in the best traditions of hardware intrigues. Fortunately, by that time the powerful patrons of the vodka queen had sunk into political oblivion. On December 26, 1996, the Temporary Extraordinary Commission for Strengthening Tax and Budgetary Discipline under the President of the Russian Federation meets on the issue "On restoring order in the production and sale of alcoholic products." Noting "extremely unsatisfactory condition state control for the production and sale of alcoholic products", the commission decides to dismiss Vdoveno from his post. Vdovenko "leave", but Zivenko did not have time to appoint Zazirnigo, and from that moment on, a struggle unfolded between the groups of Berezovsky and Zivenko, at first behind the scenes, but with the advent Vladimir Putin to power - open.
During these several years of the alcohol war, Zivenko was engaged in the oil business. His firm worked closely with the Khabarovsk Oil Refinery. And in this area, life-threatening excesses could not be avoided. In particular, once there was a conflict with a Chechen businessman (now deceased) Ziya Bazhaev. But one way or another, there is no need to complain about the fate of Zivenko: according to some reports, he managed to accumulate an impressive capital, amounting to more than 50 million dollars.
Luck favored Zivenko once again when Putin was elected president of the country. It turns out they have a long-standing business relationship. In 1994, Zivenko, engaged in the supply of alcohol through the St. Petersburg customs, first met Sobchak, and then with his deputy for foreign economic relations, Putin. They say that they already fully appreciated each other. According to another version, Arkady Rotenberg, who was Putin's judo coach, introduced the president to Zivenko. However, it is known that Rotenberg never went into business and still runs the judo club "Yavara-Neva" in St. Petersburg.
May 6, 2000 Russian government By its Decree No. 390, it established the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosspirtprom", and transformed the federal state enterprises of the alcohol and alcoholic beverage industry that existed before into branches of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosspirtprom". By the same decree, Zivenko was appointed general director of Rosspirtprom.
None of the government documents mentioned how this organization would be created. The approval of the FSUE charter lasted six months, the premises were provided only by the beginning of 2001. And the transfer of branches and state blocks of shares, which could become a source of financing, took place only in January. Where, who and with what funds was engaged in the formation of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise - one can only guess. True, they say that Zivenko settled down with his own money (that's why he is an oligarch).
Having headed Rosspirtprom, Zivenko assembled a very diverse team. He appointed his sister, Galina Viktorovna Matsneva, as his deputy for commerce. For 23 years of work, she managed to work as an operator of the Azot association, chairman of the trade union committee of Gorpromtorg Nevinomyssk, deputy general director of JSC Resource Invest.
Another Zivenko deputy in charge of taxes, Aleksey Shilov, 32, has no higher education. But in this case, claims must be made to the Minister of Taxes and Duties, who accepted a half-educated student two years ago for the position of adviser to his apparatus. However, it is possible that Shilov has some virtues hidden from the masses, which suit his boss quite well.
Another deputy general director, Yevgeny Shashenkov, has a funny inscription in his work book. With his 34-year-old seniority in the column "profession" a word of three letters - "no" is displayed. According to available information, this former high-ranking official of the Ministry of Agriculture turned out to be somehow involved in fraud with the supply of dairy products.
The most famous figure among Zivenko's deputies is Petr Anatolyevich Karpov, a former high-ranking official who knew all the delights of prison life. He began his career in 1964 as an English teacher in Riga. He worked as a janitor for two years. From 1985 to 1990 - director of the subsidiary farm of the Chaikovsky district of the Perm region.
In 1990 he was elected a People's Deputy of the RSFSR for Tchaikovsky Territory. env. N589 (Perm region). He was a member of the Commission of the Council of the Republic of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation on the budget, plans, taxes and prices.
Since 1993 - Deputy Director federal government on cases of insolvency (bankruptcy) (FUDN). Since 1996 - Chairman of the Central Balance Commission of the FUDN, which was engaged in finding funds from enterprises to pay off their debts to the state.
The prison odyssey began on July 25, 1996, when Karpov was summoned to Petrovka-38, where he was detained by N. Pafnutov, senior investigator of the investigative department of the Saratov Department of Internal Affairs, on suspicion of taking a bribe. During a search of the official's apartment, $154,000 was found. Karpov was transferred to Saratov.
On October 29, 1996, Petr Karpov was released from custody under a written undertaking not to leave the country. A pledge of 100 million rubles was made for him. The charges against him were not dropped, and at the end of November 1996 he was charged with accepting a bribe. Nevertheless, Karpov was almost immediately included in the Operational Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation to improve the system of payments and settlements.
On April 28, 1997, Karpov was again taken into custody (the sanction for the arrest was given by the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, where the Gen's case was transferred by the prosecutor's office). He was again charged with taking a large bribe - more than 5 million rubles. Former deputy named as bribe giver CEO JSC "SEPO" (Saratov Electric Unit Production Association) Sergey Podoprigora.
On June 3, 1997, the Preobrazhensky Municipal Court of Moscow changed Karpov's measure of restraint, releasing him from custody on a written undertaking not to leave. In August, he was appointed acting. Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Insolvency and Financial Recovery.
In July 1998, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation M.B. Katyshev signed the Decree to terminate the case against Karpov under an amnesty on December 24, 1997 due to the fact that he has an award - the medal "For the development of virgin lands."
For exactly a year, starting in August 2000, Karpov was listed as unemployed until he was accepted into Rosspirtprom.
Karpov was a member of the team of young reformers (Chubais-Gaidar and Co.) and enjoyed its support. In some ways, his fate is similar to the vicissitudes of life of other well-known disgraced democrats - Stankevich and Sobchak. All their misfortune (or happiness?) consisted, apparently, in a pathological inability to receive bribes.
The only puncture in Zivenko's personnel practice can be called the appointment of Arkady Pinchevsky, who was accused by journalists of having close ties with the Solntsevo organized criminal group, to the post of general director of Rosspirtprom Trading House JSC.
At the beginning of 1994, Pinchevsky created the Khabarovsk-agropromintorg company. Having amassed start-up capital on dubious operations, Pinchevsky decided to enter the oil business. In 1997, Pinchevsky, together with his brother Alexander, his wife Elena and a number of other persons, created a joint-stock company " Investment company for the protection of APIKO assets. By the beginning of 1999, CJSC APIKO owned 7.6% of the shares of the Khabarovsk Oil Refinery, and Pinchevsky himself was a member of the Board of Directors of the plant. The largest shareholder of the plant was then the Sidanco company (38% of the shares). At the beginning of 2000, Sidanco OJSC sold its stake in the Khabarovsk Oil Refinery to the "Chechen" group "Alliance" under the leadership of the Bazhaev brothers. During this period of time, unfavorable changes took place for Pinchevsky and his structures: the share of shares in the APIKO company decreased, Pinchevsky himself hardly retained his seat on the Board of Directors of the plant, but his ability to control "oil" money was significantly reduced - the "Chechen" group "Alliance "significantly pressed all other shareholders of the enterprise and began to conduct its own economic policy at the factory.
In 1995 in the Department of Internal Affairs Khabarovsk Territory confidential information came through Interpol channels that a large amount was transferred to the YOX company (YOX ITALIANA SPA, Milan, Italy, Via Vittor Pissant, 14). According to the Italian secret services, one of the co-owners of this company was Pinchevsky Arkady Ilyich, born in 1955. In this regard, from the end of 1995 to the middle of 1996. Pinchevsky became interested in the RUOP and the UEP of the Khabarovsk Territory, which even began operational measures against him, but thanks to A. Pinchevsky's connections in the administration of the Khabarovsk Territory, all cases were closed.
Meticulous journalists quickly unearthed compromising evidence on Pinchevsky and a wave of publications swept the newspaper pages. And two months after his appointment, Pinchevsky was "cleaned" from Rosspirtprom.
But everyone succeeded in the deputy general director of "Rosspirtprom" for security Sergei Kontsevenko, a staff member of state security. From 1980 to 1988, he served in Uzbekistan, having gone from a junior detective to the head of the operational department of the KGB of the Uzbek SSR. Together with Telman Gdlyan, an investigator for especially important cases of the Prosecutor General's Office, he participated in the disclosure of the infamous "cotton case". His last position in the state field was the post of head of the Main Directorate for Security and Military Cooperation of the Union of Russia and Belarus.
To be honest, it's hard to imagine how Zivenko manages this "Noah's Ark". But, as they say, many are called, but few are chosen.
Arkady Uglov, specially for FLB
It was not possible to get a comment from Direct Holding and Sberbank. A source close to Federal Service on the regulation of the alcohol market (Rosalkogolregulirovanie).
Lavrentiev emphasizes that in the preliminary agreement with Yakovlev did not specify the terms for completing the transaction” - the purchase can still take place.
Kabardian partner
In "Rial" "Rosspirtprom" intended to get 50%: to as the owner of the Kabardian plant Khadis told RBC Abazekhov , September 11, 2014 with the state-owned company was signedpreliminary agreement on the transaction for a period up to March 30, 2015. An agency agreement was also signed, according to which “ Rosspirtprom ” ensures the sale of Rial products, receiving an agency commission for this. AT " Rosspirtprom » RBC confirmed the existence of such conditions.
At the end of September last year, after the approval of the transaction by the FAS,"R osspirtprom ” announced in a press release that the purchase will be completed before the end of 2014, but even until then, managers state companies will take part in the management of the plant.
According to Abazekhov, the terms of the agency agreement were not very favorable for Rial - for each liter of alcohol sold, the selling price of which is 43 rubles, Rosspirtprom took 6-8.5 rubles. In "Rosspirtprom" ” note that the terms of the agency agreement with Rial correspond to the terms of similar agreements with other enterprises.
But the arrival of managers from the sales department of Rosspirtprom to the Kabardian plant led to a surge in orders, both sides confirm: in less than three months of the fourth quarter of 2014, Rial produced and shipped 2.6 million decalitres of alcohol. However, Abazekhov claims that buyers transferred money for alcohol " Rosspirtprom ", And he was in no hurry to pay off the manufacturer, which is why the "Rial" by the end of 2014 formed accounts receivable debt of 520 million rubles. - The debt has now been repaid.
The deal began to “crumble” just before the New Year: on December 30, 2014, the CEO of the state-owned company, Igor Muravitsky, in a letter to Abazekhov, said that Rial had not fulfilled part of the terms of the preliminary agreement (RBC has a copy of the letter). “The fact of your failure to fulfill these obligations makes it impossible to conclude a contract for the sale of a share in the amount of 50%,” the letter says. The owners of "Rial" were offered to eliminate the identified violations by January 19, 2015 preliminary contract, otherwise Rosspirtprom promised to "reconsider its approach to acquiring a share": the state-owned company demanded an increase in its share in the plant from 50 to 76%.
As the RBC source clarifies, during the audit, Rosspirtprom found that the capacity of Rial is less than what it expected (about 12 million decalitres of alcohol per year instead of 20 million gave), in addition, part of the acquired property is pledged. Rosspirtprom conducted a due diligence, which revealed that the property complex was not actually formed - the equipment involved in the production process is owned by different companies. legal entities, the same with objects real estate. In addition, the share offered for acquisition is pledged,” Lavrentieva confirms. According to her, the audit found that total debt plant exceeds 5 billion rubles.
According to the SPARK database, until November 1, 2016, part of the property of Rial is pledged to Promsvyazbank . The bank could not be reached for comment.
Various forms of continued cooperation were discussed, Lavrentyeva emphasizes, but in the end the contract expired and the deal did not take place. Abazekhov calls the claims of Rosspirtprom far-fetched, and the transfer of a 76% share to the state company is unacceptable.
No deal - no license
The broken deal cost Rial dearly, Abazekhov claims. Firstly, the plant was left, in fact, without customers: managers were supposed to be in charge of product sales state companies , all preliminary applications for the supply of alcohol to vodka factories were canceled, and new ones were not accepted. “We had to cut about half of the staff,” says Abazekhov . “Out of a thousand people, about 500 remained. For such a small city as Prokhladny, this is a big figure.” He estimates his losses from downtime at 50 million rubles.
Second, after unscheduled inspection Rosalkogolregulirovanie has suspended the license of "Rial" - from April 20, 2015. The audit took place on the penultimate day of the agreement with Rosspirtprom, it was revealed that the volume of alcohol shipment to the branch of the state company in Petrozavodsk and the corresponding notification to the EGAIS (Unified State Automated Information system), said the vice-president of "Rial" Valery Urusmambetov: it was about 6 thousand and 6.8 thousand decalitres, respectively.
“The license was suspended for two months until the violation was eliminated,” the press service of Rosalkogolregulirovanie confirmed. “However, it was not fixed within the stipulated time. As a result, on September 2, it was decided to send an application to the court to cancel the license.” Urusmambetov emphasizes that the discrepancy between volumes is a “technical issue” that should not be punished by the revocation of licenses.
At the same time, the Rial vodka business was also paralyzed: three of its distilleries (one in Kabardino-Balkaria, two in the Moscow region) Rosalkogolregulirovanie does not issue excise stamps, claims Urusmambetov, and one of these enterprises - in the Noginsk region - in September 2015, the license was also suspended. The representative of the regulator explained that in the issuancestamps were refused due to"non-fixation of data in the Unified State Automated Information System and the submission of false information in declarations."
“When we worked with Rosspirtprom at the end of 2014 under an agency agreement, no one had any claims against us,” Abazekhov complains. According to him, "Rial" is preparing a letter to the President of Russia and the prosecutor's office. A representative of Rosspirtprom declined to comment on Abazekhov's accusations.
JSC "Rosspirtprom"
was established in December 2007 through the reorganization of FSUE Rosspirtprom. Shares of enterprises in the alcohol industry, which were in federal ownership, were transferred to a joint-stock company with 100% state participation. As follows from the reporting of Rosspirtprom for 2014, it controls the activities of five distilleries and 13 distilleries.
According to planprivatization of state property for 2014-2016, approved by the Prime MinisterDmitry MedvedevJuly 1, 2013,provides for the exit of the state from the capital of "Rosspirtprom"until the end of 2016.
Rosspirtprom's revenue in 2014 almost doubled compared to 2013, to RUB 4.4 billion, net profit decreased by about 5%, to 101.3 million rubles.
The reform of "Rosspirtprom", in which the state once gathered its alcohol enterprises, is being completed. Surviving companies passed to new owners - businessman Vasily Anisimov and the state JSC "Rosspirtprom". But most of these companies lost their assets along the way.
For many years in a row, Russian officials promised that a supercompany would be created from state-owned alcohol enterprises, which would take almost half of Russian market and start supply vodka and other Russian drinks in Europe and the USA. And so the reform is completed.
The companies that lived up to it, once assembled in the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosspirtprom" (see inset), finally found zealous owners. Judging by the reports of the companies themselves, these owners were the state-owned OJSC Rosspirtprom and the state-owned VTB Bank. Vedomosti's investigation showed that, in fact, in many cases they got only small change or shell companies.
Anisimov's plans
Most of the plants in the lists of affiliates indicated that the VTB stake was transferred to the nominal holding of DCC. Only Smolensk "Bachus" disclosed that instead of VTB, PLF-systems, Dialog and Komed became the owners of the controlling stake (17% each). Anisimov confirmed to Vedomosti that these were his companies and that they became the owners of controlling stakes in all the plants he had acquired from VTB. The bank does not comment on this topic.
The deal is nearing completion, Anisimov says, but he does not name a price; his friend claims that the businessman paid VTB the same 5 billion rubles.
According to him, Anisimov has serious plans for the factories: he wants to create a full-cycle alcohol holding - from production to distribution; the holding will be managed by OAO Rosspirtprom. The distribution VEDK established by Anisimov's structures has already become the exclusive seller of Dymka and Double White vodka, which is bottled at the factories that Anisimov inherited.
But it will be difficult for a businessman to implement his plans: the reporting of his new companies shows that he does not yet control the best of them.
The elusive "Crystal"
Moscow's Kristall can cost up to $60 million, says Sergey Zivenko, former general director of Rosspirtprom and beneficiary of Kaluga's Kristall.
One land plot in 7 hectares on Samokatnaya Street will pull on $ 7-10 million, Vyacheslav Limonov, general director of the New Quality company, told Vedomosti. Kairat Zhangozin, deputy general director of the Russian Alcohol group, appreciates Kristall lower: one vodka bottling line costs a maximum of $2 million, while Kristall has 11 of them, which makes $22 million.
But on production capacity accounts for only 20% of the value of the alcohol business, the remaining 80% are brands, Zivenko believes. Zhangozin generally agrees: the two largest Russian Alcohol plants cost up to $100 million, while the Poles bought Russian Alcohol for $1 billion, he recalls; the difference is in the brands.
Kristall bottles good brands - Putinka (35.7% of wholesale sales in 2008), Old Moscow (17.2%), Etalon and Medal (13.8% in total), "Festive" (9.1%), "Zavalinka" (4.3%). But these brands are either not his, or he does not control them.
"Putinka" belongs to Vinexim, Etalon and Medal companies - to the distributor and minority shareholder of the Kristall-Lefortovo plant. Kristall-Lefortovo also manages Kristall's own brands - Old Moscow, Prazdnichnaya and Zavalinka. In 2006, Kristall granted this company exclusive licenses for these trademarks for five years, and Kristall-Lefortovo, in turn, in 2007 issued sublicenses to the plant to use these trademarks until June 2011, follows from Rospatent materials. Kristall-Lefortov declined to comment on this deal.
Vinexim and Kristall-Lefortovo are the largest buyers of Kristal vodka, according to Kristall's reports. They equally own 98% of the produced vodka, one of the minority shareholders of Kristall clarifies.
It's funny that, being the main customers of "Crystal", "Vinexim" and "Crystal-Lefortovo", judging by the reports of the plant, they are also its largest debtors. The receivables of Kristall for the nine months of 2009 amounted to 2.35 billion rubles, of which 1.1 billion rubles. - overdue. Vinexim and Kristall-Lefortovo accounted for 1.76 billion rubles. debt, overdue 907.75 million rubles. (for comparison: Kristall's revenue for this period is 2.86 billion rubles). Due to the growth of receivables, in 2009, for the first time in four years, Kristall pledged goods in circulation for loans worth 200 million rubles. IBRD and equipment for 300 million rubles. Bank "Trust".
Kristall is actually controlled by its three minority shareholders: Kristall-Lefortovo, Griada-elite and Advice, which together own 25.25%, says a co-owner of one of the Russian vodka companies.
["Vedomosti", 09/11/2009, "Judoka in "Crystal": Arkady Rotenberg, who practiced judo in St. Petersburg with Vladimir Putin, not only looks after the assets of the state-owned Rosspirtprom, but also owns a 5.38% stake in the Moscow vodka plant Kristall. About the share of Arkady Rotenberg, Vedomosti learned from the list of affiliates of the International Bank for Trade Cooperation (29% each from Arkady and Boris Rotenberg). The document says that Arkady Rotenberg owns more than 50% of Olpon Investments Limited, which, in turn, owns more than 50% of the shares of CJSC Russian Holding Company (RHC). In the statements of Kristall, RHC is also mentioned among the shareholders with a share of 5.38% of the shares that are nominally owned by the Northern Sea Route Bank (SMP, owned by the Rotenbergs). […]
Vadim Kasyanov, deputy general director of Rosspirtprom, which manages state-owned stakes in vodka and distilleries, including a 51% stake in Kristall, said he learned about Rotenberg's stake from Vedomosti. […]
51% of the shares of "Crystal" "MOK-Center" by order of the Federal Property Management Agency estimated in 2008 at 2.529 billion rubles. That is, the Rotenberg package before the crisis could cost about 253 million rubles.
SMP Bank Rotenberg also owns a 25.16% stake in Bryanskspirtprom, the largest supplier of alcohol to Kristall (according to the company, 61% in the II quarter of 2009). The Bryansk distillery is now in a state of bankruptcy. - Inset K.ru]
Kristall-Lefortovo LLC was registered in Khimki near Moscow in April 2002 with an authorized capital of 15 million rubles. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities as of December 2003, the sole owner of LLC is CJSC Dias, the founders of which are Alexey Lepishev and Alexander Shishkarev. According to Kristall, in 2006 the sole owner of Kristall-Lefortov was Klim Bogdan, a member of the board of directors of the plant.
The following fact could theoretically indicate who really controls the distributor: recently, Kristall-Lefotovo took over the function of training promising young people for the Yavara-Neva club, which is run by famous athlete-businessman Arkady Rotenberg(the honorary president of the club, by the way, is Vladimir Putin). Rotenberg's representative did not respond to Vedomosti's request. As explained on the website of the Northwestern Judo Federation federal district, last spring between "Yawara" and "Kristall-Lefortovo" an agreement was signed on joint activities, according to which "Kristall-Lefortovo" takes under the care of gifted athletes, providing them with material and educational support, and also creates a club of young judoists "Kristall-Lefortovo " in the capital. The leadership of the Moscow club included the president (as indicated on the federation website. - Vedomosti) Kristall-Lefortov Klim Bogdan.
A detailed analysis of Kristall's current contracts and activities will be carried out after completion legal registration deals, Anisimov promises. And the main brand of Kristall is Kristall itself, he is sure.
Anisimov says that "the participation of Kristall-Lefortov in the capital of Kristall is not envisaged, and an agreement has been reached with the remaining minority shareholders to buy out [their shares]." There have not yet been substantive negotiations with Anisimov: the parties are still getting to know each other, says the minority shareholder of Kristall. According to him, three parties will discuss the future of the company: Anisimov, Kristall-Lefortovo and Rotenberg's SMP Bank. At the same time, Anisimov does not rule out that Kristall-Lefortovo will remain a strategic distributor of Kristall.
Representatives Rotenberg structures are on the board of directors of Kristall and other large companies, inherited by Anisimov. But Anisimov is not embarrassed by this: boards of directors will change as necessary, he promises.
However, with other companies he may be even less lucky.
Four pacifiers
And the largest creditor of Bryanskspirtprom OJSC is Kapital Trading LLC, to which at the end of 2008 the rights of claim for 490 million rubles were assigned. Rotenberg-controlled SMP Bank, the Russian Holding Company and the International Bank for Trade Cooperation (SMP Bank owns a 25% stake in Bryanskspirtprom), follows from the materials of court cases. "Capital Trading" is registered in Moscow at the same address as the IG "Capital", is listed in SPARK.
The assets of Mordovspirt (third place in the assessment) came under the control of the government of Mordovia: the company went bankrupt last year, and all property was at competitive bidding for 790 million rubles. acquired JSC "Mordovspirt" (that's right, with Kommersant at the end), registered by the regional authorities in August 2009.
During the bankruptcy, the property of two more companies acquired by Anisimov was put up for auction - Penzaspirtprom and Lux (fifth, sixth and eleventh places).
Anisimov acknowledges that the acquired assets are heterogeneous and says this has been taken into account. We must not forget that VTB sold the companies not in parts, but in a single package, he points out.
Wealthy bankrupts
Thus, the largest of the Alcoholic Combines in the list is going bankrupt. Kemerovo region. In December 2008, the plant itself filed a bankruptcy claim, and external management was introduced until July 2010. The minority shareholder of the company with a share of 29.24% is SDS-Agro, a subsidiary of the Kemerovo holding Siberian Business Union "(HK SDS) Mikhail Fedyaev and Vladimir Gridin; Now SDS is just building its own alcohol holding. Among the creditors of the Spirit Plant there are also SDS-alco and HK SDS.
Belgorod Peschanskoye has also been under surveillance since December 29, 2009. The company itself also filed for bankruptcy, citing the inability to pay off debts of 52 million rubles.
At the expense of the bankrupt Krasnoyarsk Kansk Distillery, Baikalfarm increased its capacity, acquiring in May 2009 for 30 million rubles. plant property at competitive bidding. The design capacity of the distillery is 1.8 million decaliters of products per year. Baikalfarm's report says that it plans to increase output by 50% in 2010 using new assets.
In general, it may turn out that the most valuable alcoholic asset transferred by OJSC Rosspirtprom will be the building of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, estimated for transfer at 1.5 billion rubles. The total annual revenues of the four living companies inherited by OJSC (see table) are almost three times less than this amount.
Mastery Secrets
In the materials of the Arbitration Court Krasnoyarsk Territory described in detail how it happened. In 2006, Yarich, secured by property, received a loan from the Yenisei Bank for 10 million rubles. Then the rights of claim on it were bought by the Kemerovo Alcohol Plant (it was discussed above), which sold the debts of Yarich to the Siberian Vodka Company (SVK, part of the HC SDS). SVK entered into a new loan obligation with Yarich with a maturity date of March 31, 2009 and payment of 18% per annum. The right to claim part of the interest on this debt for 305,810 rubles. On April 1, 2009, he bought SDS-Alco Trading House from SVK. The new creditor immediately filed a lawsuit with the Arktur Arbitration Court, won, and after Yarich could not repay the debt, filed a bankruptcy lawsuit against Yarich. Representatives of "Yaric" in court said they did not object to the introduction of the surveillance procedure.
At the end of January 2010, the head of the Yenisei Alcohol Association, adviser to the governor of the region, Valery Anokhin, told Interfax that work had begun on the basis of Yarich new company- OOO Krasnoyarsk Vodka Plant, which will produce 250,000 decalitres of vodka by the end of the year. Instead of FSUE Rosspirtprom, the Kemerovo HK SDS became the owner of the plant, Anokhin explained.
Alcohol future
“I had no illusions about what the assets transferred to Rosspirtprom OJSC were,” he admits. about. Director General of Rosspirtprom Vladimir Ivanov. “We did not consider them as a source of growth for the state alcohol holding.” The surviving four factories produce a very small volume, and they are also uninteresting for development.”
Ivanov hopes that the holding will develop on the basis of FSUE branches, of which one has been handed over and is still operating - Petrovsky in Petrozavodsk with a capacity of 200,000 decalitres per month. “But by and large, branches also differ little from OJSCs, they are just 15 plots of land with old buildings and equipment that is 90% worn out,” he admits.
He also hopes for the state: it could contribute to the authorized capital of OJSC cash, which will go to the modernization of factories. Or state-owned banks could transfer non-core alcohol assets they inherited during the crisis to OJSCs. Then, Ivanov argues, it would be possible to create a large state-owned alcohol company that would bottle not only its own brands Dymka and Double White, but also become one of the largest bottlers.
How Rosspirtprom evaporated
At the time of its creation, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise received packages from 87 companies - 18 by that time were already bankrupt or were taken away by the regional authorities.
In December 2007, the government decided to corporatize the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, transferring 58 plants and 16 branches to the newly created OJSC with 100% state capital. And another 11 plants - to give for the debts of VTB.
A year later, in December 2008, the Federal Property Management Agency issued an order to establish OAO Rosspirtprom and transfer 49 stakes to it.
At the end of 2009, OJSC Rosspirtprom disclosed information that it had received 27 stakes from the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (three of them were liquidated during the year).
Of the remaining 24 companies, only 10 are not currently in bankruptcy. Of these, Rosspirtprom has controlling stakes in 4 (shown in the table).
Putin about vodka
The history of FSUE "Rosspirtprom" has come to an end. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a government decree on the liquidation of this enterprise. By April, all the assets of the state-owned company will be transferred to OJSC Rosspirtprom.
Federal State Unitary Enterprise was established in 2000 by combining stakes in more than 80 enterprises engaged in the production of alcohol. As time passed, the organizational and legal form of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise showed its inefficiency, so at the beginning of 2008 it was decided to transfer almost all the assets of the enterprise to the balance sheet of OJSC Rosspirtprom, which was formed in the same year. True, they did not include a dozen enterprises that the company was forced to transfer bank VTB on account of debt. After they were bought out by businessman Vasily Anisimov.
The process of transferring assets to the balance sheet joint-stock company been going for the past few years. At the same time, the company was drowning in debt, and also held the answer in court. So, in July last year, the manufacturer of glass containers KSE LLC tried to bankrupt the Federal State Unitary Enterprise. Earlier, in March of the same year, the plant achieved through Court of Arbitration The Moscow region recovered from the state-owned company 12 million rubles of debt for the delivered products, but did not receive these funds, after which he filed a lawsuit to declare Rosspirtprom bankrupt. The claim was ultimately not satisfied.
The liquidation of FSUE "Rosspirtprom" became a natural step, towards which the enterprise went for several years.
“This organization as such has not been working for a long time. There were absolutely non-operating assets left there, - says Vadim Drobiz, director of the TSIFRRA industry agency. - All more or less decent assets are on the balance sheet of OAO Rosspirtprom. The old organization was effectively bankrupt. She was in huge debt. There is so much negativity happening on the market associated with the old organization that it just had to be buried and forgotten about: the Federal State Unitary Enterprise bankrupted about a hundred factories, brought state-owned enterprises to the peninsula.”
We also recall that at the end of last year, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) approved the petition of "Rosspirtprom" and the Finnish Saimaa Beverages to create "United Spirit Plants" (OSZ).
Rosspirtprom plans to merge its alcohol assets with Saimaa. The state-owned company will contribute its shares in the Peschanskoye, Arzamasspirt, Ethanol (51% each) and Chugunovsky (27.6%) distilleries. Saimaa will also contribute shares in its distilleries and take over the financing. As a result, the state holding should receive 51%, and the Finns - 49%. OSZ will be able to take about 5-6% of the alcohol market in the country.
