The son of the First Deputy Prime Minister, Yevgeny Manturov, is married to Varvara Skoch, the daughter of State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch, one of the richest women in Russia. In 2020, she received a 15% stake in oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s USM Holding company worth $2.5 billion.
Rumors about the wedding of the sons of Denis Manturov and Andrei Skoch appeared back in 2022, but now they have documentary evidence. Varvara Andreevna Manturova owns LLC “Recreation Center “Gornaya Rechka”, registered in Sochi. Until 2023, this asset was owned by Vladimir Skoch, the father of a State Duma deputy. Previously, the company belonged to the Cyprus offshore companies Western Trade Limited and G.I. Si. Galway Holdings Limited.
Andrei Skoch and his daughter Varvara are under sanctions, but this does not prevent the owner of a billion-dollar fortune from skiing in Switzerland and lounging on the beaches of the Seychelles with her chosen one. Compared to his wife, Evgeny Manturov is a silver-less person and owns Altima LLC, which develops computer software. Over the two years of its operation, the company has not earned a penny and can be used by Manturov Jr.’s partners to withdraw money. One of them, Dmitry Zubakha, owns Atmosphere LLC, which also develops computer software. In 2023, the company’s profit amounted to 1.1 billion rubles, an increase of 18,670% over the year. And such miracles don’t happen in business when your partner is the son of the first deputy prime minister. So it was not without reason that Andrei Skoch’s daughter married the son of a major official. Now the entire business of the Skoch family and his accomplices is under the “roof” of Denis Manturov.
Rucriminal.info wrote that socialite Elena Likhach, the ex-wife of Andrei Skoch, and the niece of his partner oligarch Alisher Usmanov Gulnoz Kocharova owned Server LLC, whose activities were classified by the Federal Tax Service. The company, through its former founder, Kocharova’s husband, is closely connected with USM Holding, whose shares are owned by Varvara Manturova. Vakhtang Kocharov is now enjoying a comfortable life in Switzerland, and from 2019 to 2023 he was a top manager at Metalloinvest, owned by Usmanov, and was involved in export supplies. Perhaps the oligarch deliberately removed Kocharov from official positions so that he would run Metalloinvest’s gray schemes from Europe, bypassing sanctions. It is difficult to find another explanation for the departure of a relative from a “grain” position.
Gulnoz Kocharova is the daughter of Alisher Usmanov’s sister Gulbahar and Zunnur Ismailov, who is the beneficiary of the Open Estates Limited offshore company in the British Virgin Islands. Ismailov’s company leased 140 acres of forest in the Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway area. The Ismailovs are registered in the elite residential complex “Golden Keys” on the banks of the Ramenka River, where, according to anti-corruption officials, Dmitry Medvedev’s apartment was also located.
The close ties of the Skoch family with Alisher Usmanov are evidenced by a lawsuit filed by the oligarch last summer against minority foreign companies. In addition to Usmanov, the plaintiffs were co-owners of the USM holding Vladimir Skoch and Varvara Skoch, as well as a member of the company’s board of directors and its former general director Ivan (Vladimir) Streshinsky. In April 2023, after falling under sanctions, he resigned from all positions in the assets of Alisher Usmanov. At the same time, Vakhtang Kocharov, who now feels great in Switzerland, was also included in the sanctions list.
The collaboration between Skoch and Usmanov began in the distant 90s and has its roots in the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, with whose members Andrei Skoch and his army friend, first business partner Lev Kvetnoy, are captured in the photograph. The scandalous photo, according to the deputy, was allegedly taken after the purchase of several assets of Vnukovo Airport from Sergei Mikhailov and Viktor Averin. Lev Kvetnoy has long been an independent member of the board of directors of JSC Vnukovo International Airport, the main owners of which are now Vladimir Skoch and Vitaly Vantsev, who holds the position of chairman of the board of directors. Vnukovo has the status of a joint airport with the FSB and FSO.
JSC Vnukovo International Airport was the contractor in government contracts worth 739.1 million rubles, and the customer for 46.5 billion rubles. The company does not disclose its suppliers - in July alone, unknown contractors entered into contracts worth almost 800 million rubles. This money could have gone to companies accomplices of Andrei Skoch. However, the contracts of Vnukovo International Airport JSC could have been classified, like the Server LLC company, which Rucriminal.info wrote about.
At one time, Lev Kvetnoy was considered Vantsev’s senior partner. Now the main assets of Kvetnoy are cement assets and the National Standard Bank. Until 2022, Alisher Usmanov and Vladimir Skoch were also the owners of Round Bank through Round East Holdings Ltd. and USM Investments Ltd. Since 2023, the founder of the bank is Dibies Technologies LLC, which develops computer software. From him traces lead to Ev genius Nekrasov, owner of several IT assets. Since 2023, the chairman of the board of directors of the bank is Andrey Andrusov, who is also the co-founder of Dibies Technologies LLC. Previously, Andrusov was the general director of Nexus LLC, which operates in the field of law, owned by the Cypriot offshore companies Multburn Limited and Lapistar Company Limited. If there are Skoch and Usmanov’s ears behind them, they are hidden deep.
According to some sources, Andrei Skoch and Lev Kvetnoy gave money for promotion to the future oligarch Alisher Usmanov; these funds could have been taken from the Solntsevskaya organized crime group. It is not surprising that Andrei Skoch often comes up in Alisher Usmanov’s scandals and vice versa. A few days ago, a worker died as a result of a collision between traction units at the Lebedinsky GOK, part of Metalloinvest. In October 2023, two fatalities occurred at the mining and processing plant within a week. The company is registered in the Belgorod region, whose interests are represented in the State Duma by Andrey Skoch. However, the death of people does not in any way affect either the people’s representative or the oligarch Usmanov.
In August 2022, American authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of an Airbus A319-100 belonging to Andrei Skoch. During the search for the asset, it turned out that the State Duma deputy also owns a superyacht, a Eurocopter Dauphin helicopter and a Four Seasons resort complex in the Seychelles. Varvara and Denis Manturov rest there. Daddy prepared a cozy sea nest for them.
Now, in the scandals of Skoch and Usmanov, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, who is a long-time partner of Rostec head Sergei Chemezov, a close friend of Vladimir Putin, will certainly be mentioned. This entire company is fully worthy of going down in Russian history as a striking example of the criminal fusion of crime and government.
Arseny Dronov
To be continued
Source: www.rucriminal.info