Sberbank translates Russia's defense in foreign offshore?
Stories with raider attacks in Russia in recent years, they began to appear on the information fields of various regions with enviable consistency. At the same time, the overwhelming majority of Russian citizens see the term raiding as a picture, when armed men in camouflage and masks make a sort of Mongol-Tatar raid on an enterprise, remove the old leadership and put new people in its place, who have since become the masters factory. However, the Voronezh region has managed to debunk this stereotype about the “black-masked” raiding ... The company, which turned out to be in the epicenter of the raider events, turned out to be Pavlovskgranit OJSC, which is the largest granite crushed stone producer in Europe. The publication “Military Review” became interested in the situation at Pavlovskgranite due to the fact that this enterprise has been directly related to the interests of maintaining the country's defense capability over the past few years. The fact is that the Pavlovsk plant includes its own factory cluster, which specializes in the production of special emulsion explosives. These substances can be used in the production of crushed granite, as well as for military purposes. EVW is superior to TNT in several characteristics at once, and therefore it is an object of keen interest on the part of experts in explosive engineering issues from different countries of the world.
Today, the work of this large enterprise is almost completely paralyzed. The fact is, on Pavlovskgranit, in fact, there is no master. No, those who want to declare their full-fledged business at the plant, in fact, today are more than enough, but the situation remains more than tense.
Referring to recent history, which is associated with Pavlovsky GOK. In 2008, the deputy of the Voronezh Oblast Duma Sergey Poimanov, who at that time possessed a controlling stake in the company, decided to get 100% control over Pavlovskgranit by buying out a share from his partner Sergei Mamedov. To do this, he decided to take a loan in the amount of 5,1 billion rubles in Sberbank. At the same time, Sberbank issued a loan to Poymanov on the security of about 36,4% of the company's shares, which the regional official already owned by that time, as well as on the security of the deputy’s personal property. For one and a half years, Poymanov used the received funds to develop production at Pavlovskgranite, trying to bring the Voronezh enterprise to the path of extracting solid profits. However, as is known, at that time Russia, like the whole world, was experiencing not the best economic times, and it was extremely difficult to reach full-fledged profitability. The financial situation at the enterprise continued to deteriorate, and Poymanov, as the main shareholder of Pavlovskgranit, did not have the means to repay the loan in relation to Sberbank by 2010. At the same time, Sergey Poymanov himself argues that as soon as the fact of insolvency manifested itself, he personally asked the board of Sberbank for debt restructuring, and there were more than two dozen appeals to the bank.
Instead of obtaining consent for debt restructuring, Poymanov received a proposal from the Sberbank board to buy out 51% of the shares of an unexpectedly unprofitable production for 1 million rubles. For comparison, 1 million rubles worth well-furnished studio apartment in the city of Pavlovsk ... This price in Sberbank, apparently due to the fact that there is a crisis in the country, which means that the owner and this should be happy. The real price of the controlling stake in the company at that time was about 13 billion rubles. In other words, Sberbank offered the owner a “deliverance” from the enterprise at a cost that is 13 thousand times less than the real production cost!
Obviously, such a proposal from one of the largest Russian banks looked at least strange. As a result, the transaction, for obvious reasons, did not take place, and the board of Sberbank, apparently deciding to revenge in a peculiar way to the intractable Poymanov, suggested that he should pay for his loan obligations ahead of time, which the owner of the company could not do physically.
Then the fun began. Sberbank, taking advantage of the fact that Sergey Poymanov, pawned more than 36% of his shares, this package simply takes its hands, to which, in principle, it has every right. But the point is not that Sberbank “takes its own”, but that, strangely, the shares later end up in the hands of the owners of companies registered in offshore zones: in Cyprus and in the British Virgin Islands. Sberbank simply sold the shares to its own structure, Sberbank Capital, which, in turn, resold the debt package to some Atlantic LLC, and this structure went even further in selling the shares. In addition, at the end of 2011, about a further 25% of the shares of Pavlovskgranit, which were already personally owned by Sergey Poimanov, were sold. The initiator of the auction was the State Property Agency. In other words, a strategically important enterprise that is directly related to the country's defense, is in the hands of people directly related to foreign countries and foreign private companies.
After that, people arrived on the territory of Pavlovskgranit, whom Poymanov himself calls ordinary raiders, but whom the opinion seems to be of little interest to this person. Yury Zhukov, who heads the National Non-Metallic Company, who himself announced to the GOK employees that the former owner, Mr. Poymanov, can position himself an “armed seizure” of the production, is positioning himself as the new head of the company. Capture, however, did not take place, because the new leadership decided to turn the GOK into an impregnable fortress, cutting off all possible entrances for Poymanov and his people. As a result, Sergey Poymanov himself was exposed as a raider. At the same time, it remains unclear how Mr. Zhukov has become a new protagonist in this story. But there is an answer to this question too: it turns out that the owner of the National Non-Metallic Company is very close to the management of Sberbank, who, apparently, Pavlovskgranit liked very much ...
Sergei Poymanov says that he, on behalf of the company, was forced to go to court today, and before the decision of Sberbank to sell Pavlovskgranit shares to offshore companies, also to write a letter personally to Vladimir Putin. Putin, who at the time of receiving the letter, was the head of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers, ordered the head of the Department of Economics, and now the Minister of Economic Development, Andrei Belousov, to deal with the situation. However, the trial of Belousov ended up with the fact that Vladimir Putin was simply informed that the situation was in safe hands, and since the shares were going to Sberbank, then they would definitely manage them in the right way.
As a result, Sberbank, as we already know, really ordered the shares, but one thing is completely incomprehensible: does the ordinary (even if large) financial institution of the country have the authority to resell the shares of enterprises directly related to the defense industry to firms registered in foreign countries . It turns out that a financial transaction that was conducted a couple of years ago by Sberbank, to put it mildly, needs additional study and evaluation. And it also turns out that someone purposefully concealed from Vladimir Putin what the story of selling Pavlovskgranit shares to new owners through Sberbank might end.
In such a situation, there is no need to try to talk about an illegal decision in relation to the deputy Poymanov, because he took the loan himself, which means he had to believe that if it is impossible to pay it off, the bank has the right to dispose of its collateral. Yes, and to engage in business in our time, to put it mildly, is not recommended ...
However, the question is not even Poymanov, but what actions did Sberbank take with the very collateral shares themselves. It turns out that if an enterprise that works to increase the country's defense, but for one reason or another, is partially or fully in private hands and cannot pay off creditor banks, then the property of these enterprises can be sent to where the board Bank considers it necessary and profitable. If so, then Pavlovskgranit and its new leadership, which is associated with foreign offshore companies, can only become the first sign of “innovative” corporate raiding. At this rate, it comes to selling directly over the hill, or into the hands of those who have interests behind this "hill", and other defense enterprises of the country. The calculation is clearly done on the fact that the problem will be launched on the brakes and the public will not know about it.
This could put an end, or rather a bold question mark, but ... New applicants for the possession of Pavlovskgranit decided to justify themselves with the help of the court. According to their version, Poymanov himself, being the owner of the GOK, was engaged in illegal cases and abused powers. Today, the Investigation Committee is conducting an investigation into where and how, Sergey Poymanov, brought about 1 billion rubles in profits from Pavlovskgranit at the time when he himself announced his insolvency.
In general, in a dispute over such a gigantic enterprise as Pavlovskgranit, as they say, all means are good. It is extremely difficult to figure out who is right and who is already guilty ... But in this whole situation, it is alarming that the further this will go, excuse me, the fuss of shareholders, the further the enterprise will move away from the needs of the Russian economy and defense ...
Materials used:
http://moment-istini.ru/program_archiv/archive2012/
http://izvestia.ru/news/532123
http://pda.arbitr.ru/press-centr/press_arb_sud/54083.html
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