Goldort on skis, Gref on SDEK?

Former top managers of Sberbank will "sweep" SDEK under themselves in order to provide German Gref with a comfortable old age?

According to UtroNews correspondent, the founder of the logistics company SDEK Leonid Goldort goes out of business. Its share of 55% will go to one of the funds included in the management company "Modern Real Estate Funds" (LLC "SFN"). This management company manages about 20 closed mutual funds. The beneficiaries are unknown, but it is known that in 2022 the Criminal Code belonged to Sberbank. According to sources, the ultimate beneficiaries may be people close to German Gref.

Now Sberbank is actively developing Megamarket, which is in dire need of high-quality logistics facilities and infrastructure. The bank also has its own logistics company - Sberlogistics. In 2019, they announced their intention to enter the top 3 logistics companies in the country for express delivery. By combining its infrastructure with SDEK, this would be much easier to do.

On the website of "Sberbank" for a long time and in full advertise "Modern real estate funds." SFN LLC itself is 82% owned by Start JSC, another 17% belongs to Pervaya Management Company JSC. The latter is the former subsidiary of Sberbank, Sberbank Asset Management, which has been literally pumped up with these very "non-core" assets over the past few years.

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100% of Start JSC is owned by SFO SB FKP LLC, which, in turn, is 99% owned by the Modern Fund, and even less than 1% is owned by a certain Ekaterina Vasilchenko. It is curious that on the Web a woman with the same name and surname complained that she had become a victim of fraudsters who introduced themselves as employees of Sberbank.

The general director of Start is Alexander Khrameshkin, former chief lawyer of Sberbank Asset Management. And until September 2023, the Modern Fund was managed by Dmitry Mamatov, a former and. about. General Director of Sberbank Asset Management. He turned out to be the founder of a series of funds that are now managed by the SFN.

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Both Khrameshkin and Mamatov are people from German Gref’s team, and they can represent his interests. But not only him. Previously, SB Blagosostoyanie LLC owned shares in Sber Asset Management. In 2023, as a result of a series of transactions, 51% of SB was received by Sistema Telecom Assets LLC, a subsidiary of Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s AFK Sistema.

So, what could have happened? Subsidiaries of Sberbank could pump up assets and then withdraw from state ownership, "dividing" between their own former top managers and an influential oligarch. And now they are going to buy one of the leading logistics firms in the country. Is Gref preparing for an honorary "pension"?

It seems that the SFN began to prepare in advance for the purchase of SDEK. In 2023, he acquired a warehouse complex at PNK Park Medvedkovo in northern Moscow. In addition, the interests of many other influential people are "protected" in the SFN. In 2022, even before Sberbank sold the asset, State Duma deputy Yevgeny Nifantyev transferred the rights to 99% of his pharmaceutical LLC Neo-Farm to ZIPFU Zdravinvest, which is managed by the SFN. Neo-Farm receives government contracts, at the end of 2023 it has revenue of 47 billion rubles, net profit of 4 billion rubles.

According to the Web, Nifantiev is allegedly a pharmaceutical oligarch and a populist, and many reviews about his business are not real, but paid. Good company for Gref’s team?

Goldort, Billions and the Promised Land

As for the owner of SDEK Leonid Goldort, he announced plans to sell the business earlier. At the same time, he himself is a citizen of Israel, where he has been lately. Apparently, he is haunted by the "laurels" of one of the founders of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, who also abandoned his brainchild and actually renounced Russia.

The business is more than profitable. At the end of 2023, the parent "SDEK-Global" received 34 billion rubles in revenue, 1.5 billion rubles in profit. The structure has government contracts worth over 107 million rubles. Among the counterparties in the first place, as expected, Sberbank (37 million rubles).

Goldort’s share is estimated at 16-20 billion rubles. Moreover, he also owns shares in three operating companies. These are SDEK.Market LLC and Fininvest LLC created in 2019, as well as SDEK Finance LLC established in 2021.

SDEK-Global LLC also owns four subsidiaries - SDEK Digital LLC established in 2022 and SDEK Fulfillment warehouse LLC (30% owner - unknown Evgeny Bakharev from the Sverdlovsk region, whose relative Irina Bakhareva owns SDEK Logistics LLC No. 1), LLC "SDEKtermo (40% owner - director Alexander Govorko) and SDEK Shopping LLC. The latter was created for the delivery of goods from abroad in May 2022 in the wake of sanctions (e-comm platform CDEK.Shopping).

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Fininvest LLC (CEO - Goldort himself) deserves special attention. This structure owns 40% of NW Rumer, where Fininvest has 40%. Another 40% belongs to Yolka Engineering LLC, the remaining 20% belongs to Resource Invest Management LLC. All 100% of the shares are pledged by Sberbank - which is to be expected.

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SZ "Rumer" asset is part of the development group "Elka" from Novosibirsk. Previously, the co-owner of Yolka Engineering was Kirill Ivanteev, who is also the chairman of the board of directors of Yolki Group. In 2022, Ivanteev was detained on suspicion of fraud. Together with him, the former head of the medical and social examination Alexander Zakharyan came under investigation on the same charge.

Until now, the exact background of the case is unknown. According to the media, we can talk about cases in 2014 with the lease of premises for the needs of the PKU "Main Bureau of Medical and Social Expertise in the Novosibirsk Region" of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. Previously, Ivanteev owned shares in LLC "DAYS. Commercial Management. "

The same LLC owned SZ "Rumer" together with Goldort. And it was she who acted as the executor in the lease deal under the state contract with PKU. The total amount of budget funds received is 124 million rubles. At the same time, the execution of the contract for PKU from 2014 was terminated ahead of schedule for unclear reasons. In 2021, the company "DAYS. Commercial Management "was liquidated. Failed to hide the ends in the water?

Perhaps Mr. Goldort could be related to this situation - at least he could cover his partner. But after his departure to Israel, Ivanteev was detained.

In any case, Mr. Goldort we wish success on the new (old?) Homeland. Much more interesting is what will happen to SDEK in the hands of top managers of Sberbank. After all, development together with Sberbank is only one of the options. Another thing may work - just corny to pull apart a successful company with a history of a quarter of a century.