In 2007, the Ukrainian grain magnate Zhiltsov G.A., having concluded a lease agreement with the Massandra village council of Crimea and NIVIV Magarach, having taken a loan from the Odessa UKRSOCBANK, decided to build an apartment complex in Crimea near the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, developed a marketing concept, called the apartment complex "Nikitsky Palace" (Yalta, Otradnoye, Drazhinsky Highway 24) ...
As Rucriminal.info found out, he took Kirill Aleksandrovich Dmitriev as a partner, who was then still involved in investments of the Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk. Then Dmitriev, thanks to a successful marriage to Natalia Popova, a close friend of Putin's youngest daughter Ekaterina Tikhonova, became the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
In 2009, construction came to a standstill due to the global financial crisis, but the approval of a new bank credit line and the pressure of the founders did not let the project stall - they got it off the ground and continued large-scale construction, and the fact that the land was somewhat illegally taken from the agricultural lands of the Research Institute of Grape and Winemaking "MAGARACH" and the most valuable vineyards were cut down.
At the beginning of 2011, Kirill Dmitriev, at Putin's personal invitation to the Russian Direct Investment Fund, leaves the founders, who own a 50 percent share in Yuzhny Bereg LLC through offshore companies, and disowns everything connected with Crimea. The apartments are gradually being sold and construction is proceeding as usual. The real estate is being bought mainly by wealthy citizens of the Russian Federation (Gazprom top managers and others), and citizens of Ukraine: Kyiv, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk...
In 2012, when the time comes to repay the loans, they attract financing from Sergei Alekseevich Taruta, an oligarch at that time, and previously the governor of the Donetsk region, in the amount of several million dollars.
In 2013, a corporate raid occurs, the legal address of Yuzhny Bereg LLC is transferred from Nikolaev to Kiev, while the founders are trying to figure it out, criminal cases are initiated - the true beneficiary emerges - the eldest son of the President of Ukraine - Alexander Viktorovich Yanukovych.
Having met with him before, the founders discussed the concept of the development of the Montodor Park (one of the parts of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, founded in the second half of the 20th century, which is located: Drazhinsky Highway, Nikita village, Yalta, Crimea. The name of the park was given by Cape Montodor (on the pre-revolutionary map there is also the name "Cape Mentodor"). The park is arranged in a landscape style. More than 10,000 specimens of trees belonging to 350 taxa grow on the territory. The collections of the genera Pine, Cedar, Cypress, Cotoneaster, Oak, Ash, Walnut are more fully represented in the park.) developed by the architects were offered to the investor, however, the owners of Ukraine at that time were not going to share with anyone ...
Then events unfold rapidly: The Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea demands that the agreement with the Research Institute of VIV "Magarach" and the Massandra village council be recognized as illegal, and in the Crimean Commercial Court and then the Crimean Court of Appeal satisfied the claim... (running ahead: in 2015, this dispute in the Central District Arbitration Court was overturned on formal grounds; the statute of limitations for consideration of cassation proceedings and judicial acts on the return of land plots to the ownership of the Republic of Crimea, were never implemented..)
In fact, by September 2013, the structures of Alexander Viktorovich Yanukovych take over the entire apartment complex "Nikitsky Palace" ...
Then the events of 2014 occur - for several years, Yanukovych's structures and all the assets of Ukrainian oligarchs in Crimea are in limbo, Taruta's property is nationalized, but no one mentions the "Nikitsky Palace" ... In 2016-2017, after holding negotiations in Moscow, Yanukovych received the green light and the return of the Makeyevka oligarchs "to the color" of Crimea ...
Vladimir Germanovich Novokshonov (former chairman of the Makeyevka Metallurgical Plant) heads, supervises and is the "overseer" of all Yanukovych's real estate in Crimea and Moscow, in 2016 creates ORBIS LLC (OGRN 1167746515530) makes a property contribution to YUZHNY BEREG LLC, transfers the entire apartment complex to a new legal entity, contributing it to the authorized capital and “forgets” about all those real estate buyers who regularly paid in foreign currency at 3-4 thousand US dollars per meter from 2008 to 2013...
Some of the buyers hope to negotiate with the eldest son of Yanukovych’s “dentist”, meetings in Crimea with defrauded shareholders are held regularly, they promise that they will finish building everything and transfer it to people, but then they forget about the citizens of Ukraine, and then they announce to the citizens of Russia that the new owners have no obligations and ask not to bother them anymore...
While investors initiate lawsuits, Orbis LLC miraculously changes the designation of the land plot in 2019, transferring it to land for construction multi-storey buildings (namely, the site that was illegally taken out den from Magarach), at the same time depriving investors of the opportunity to lay claim to the premises, and then, under the noise, the apartment complex itself from non-residential - overnight with the help of the State Committee for Registration of Crimea (in Crimea, the powers of Rosreestr - this committee for registration of real estate objects still remains) becomes residential and with a completely different cadastral number ...
All investors are offered to go to court to protect their interests, to the court - the chairman of the court is Smal Alexander Alexandrovich, husband of the permanent head of the State Committee for Registration Smal Inna Vyacheslavovna, who arrived in 2010-2011 with the "Makeyevka landing" to power in Crimea and managed the land resources of Simferopol under the "Macedonians" ....
The court, of course, makes all decisions in favor of ORBIS LLC, the State Committee for Registration of Crimea is always a third party ... Despite dozens of appeals to the law enforcement agencies of Crimea, no violations are found. The same structures, having taken over the Montedor Park, continue to build the next residential complex after the Nikitsky Palace, the Kedrovy residential complex – having united everything into the OTRADNOE ESTATE, the Montedor Park becomes private property and is being built up with apartments by a new legal entity, the Specialized Developer Chernomorskaya Construction Company LLC (OGRN 1239100010302), a new enterprise instead of ORBIS LLC, created at the end of 2013, in order to continue to deceive the next buyers.
The usual raider schemes and bribery of officials in Crimea, as well as selective nationalization – remain widespread in the territory of Crimea.
Arseniy Dronov
Source: www.rucriminal.info