The Server company, previously owned by relatives of billionaire Alisher Usmanov and State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch, with the help of the Federal Tax Service hid a business related to the defense industry. Details from Rucriminal.info and the Cheka-OGPU.
As Sobesednik found out, Gulnoz Kocharova, the niece of Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, until the beginning of June was a co-owner of Server LLC, which is engaged in warehousing and storage activities. The second co-owner is Elena Likhach, formally the ex-wife of State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch, who was more than once associated with the Solntsevskaya organized crime group and international criminal Semyon Mogilevich.
According to Rucriminal.info, Server LLC was created in 2010; since 2013, Elena Shilova has been the general director of the company. In 2023, the company received revenue of 217 million rubles. and profit of 86 million rubles. Its only subsidiary, Cargo Fer-Trans LLC, earned even more, which is engaged in auxiliary activities related to railway transport, whose revenue in 2023 amounted to 8.3 billion rubles, and profit - 2.3 billion rubles. This company was created in 2021, it is headed by Sergei Kulakov, who denies affiliation with Alisher Usmanov, despite the fact that Cargo Fer-Trans LLC is registered at the same address with the structures of the Russian billionaire - Yuesem Gold LLC, Yuesem Gold LLC, Cement". Until 2022, Yuesam Urban Mining LLC was located at the same address until June 2022.
Gulnara Kocharova’s husband, Vakhtang Ernstovich Kocharov, was a co-founder of Server LLC until September 2021. Until 2023, Kocharov was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Metalloinvest Trading AG, which exports products from the Russian Metalloinvest owned by Alisher Usmanov. Back in 2019, Vakhtang Kocharov became deputy chairman of the Board of Directors and executive director of the entire Metalloinvest. Since 2023, the businessman has resigned from all positions and lives in Switzerland, fleeing sanctions.
In 2019, at the instigation of Vakhtang Kocharov, Metalloinvest donated 250 million rubles. to the Resurrection charitable foundation, which was responsible for the construction of the main temple of the Russian Armed Forces, being built in the Patriot Park near Moscow. He was in the custody of the ex-deputy arrested at the end of April. Minister of Defense Timur Ivanov. The VChK-OGPU telegram channel previously wrote about thefts during the construction of the facility. FGAU “TsVVPKiO RF Armed Forces “Patriot” has not indicated its contractors since 2018, although it has contracts with suppliers worth 4.5 billion rubles. This money could have gone to companies lured by Ivanov.
After Vakhtang Kocharov, the founders of Server LLC, before Gulnoz Kocharova and Elena Likhach, were Konstantin Selemizidi and Karen Gasparyan. Both now own real estate companies. The co-founder of Karen Gasparyan in Restart LLC is Artush Gasparyan, who owns Fermetorg LLC, which is engaged in the wholesale trade of metals and metal ores. A company with 2 employees can be used to drain money from Metalloinvest.
In the 1st half. 2022 Cargo Fer-Trans LLC became the largest buyer of new gondola cars - 2000 units, ahead of other large companies. According to Sobesednik, gondola cars can transport ore for the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), from which armor plates are made for Russian military equipment.
It was not for nothing that the Federal Tax Service classified the contracts of Server LLC and its subsidiary Cargo Fer-Trans LLC. The connection of these companies through Vakhtang Kocharov, who lives in Switzerland, with Metalloinvest, billionaire Alisher Usmanov and State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch is obvious. And these people definitely don’t need a close connection with the Ministry of Defense.
Arseny Dronov
To be continued
Source: www.rucriminal.info