Doev is catching up with the gasmen

Doev is catching up with the gasmen

The money from Gazprom Tsentrremont for the expansion of the Punginskoye UGS facility under the leadership of Dmitry Doev could be “transferred” to the VIS Group, and then transferred offshore. Clouds are gathering over the beneficiary of the VIS Group of Companies, and in the past the general director of the main repair office of Gazprom PJSC – Gazprom Tsentrremont JSC, Dmitry Doev. Last week, the Arbitration Court overturned the decisions of previous instances regarding the refusal to bring Mr. Doev to subsidiary liability for the debts of Energogaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom.

But not only Doeva. The ex-director (until 2019), and now co-owner of Gazprom’s Energogaz JSC Alexander Karabanov, whom they are trying to present as a long-term partner of the Doev family, as well as Alexander Psadiy, who headed one of Energogaz’s subsidiaries, can also be attracted for billions in debts.

How this could end for Doev and his core business, VIS Group.

Punginskiy “schematosis”

LLC “Energogaz” – once one of the largest construction companies of “Gazprom” (among other things, it was a sub-general contractor for the expansion project of the Punginskoye UGS facility in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), now it is in bankruptcy proceedings. In the implementation of the project in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Energogaz was subordinate to the direct customer of the work – Gazprom Tsentrremont, headed by Dmitry Doev

Suddenly, the company, which in 2016 brought in revenue of 8 billion rubles, was drained of blood, and a significant part of its property and assets in the amount of about 1.5 billion rubles was transferred under transactions to Gazprom Tsentrremont JSC as collateral for loans. JSC at that time was headed by Dmitry Doev.

True, the property was transferred not directly from Energogaz, but from its subsidiary OOO Nauchny-6. As a result, these transactions were declared invalid by the court, but for some reason Gazprom Tsentrremont is in no hurry to return the property. Pravda UrFO wrote about this. Maybe it is already far away – this is property?

During the implementation of the project to expand the Punginskoye UGS facility, contractors, for example, LLC “SP Sredny Ural”, had a conflict with Energogaz. In 2015, a subcontract was signed between them for construction and installation work at the UGS facility, which was completed in 2016. But Energogaz simply refused to pay for them. Similar situations arose with dozens of other construction participants

The total debt, according to the estimates of contracting organizations, reached hundreds of millions of rubles, and the implementation of the federal project was almost thwarted – only a billion-dollar “hole” was formed in the first start-up complex. Writes about this “New Look”.

Then the situation developed even more interesting. Given that Energogaz is a subsidiary of Gazprom, all debts could be closed. But that was not the case: the company Megabuild applied to Energogaz with an insolvency claim. At the same time, since 2017, she herself has been in the process of liquidation (it was liquidated on January 20, 2023 – most recently).

Megabuild LLC received the right to claim a debt from Energogaz in the amount of 100 million rubles under an assignment agreement with Antares LLC. Until August 2017, the founders of the Megabuild company included Maximus LLC, a co-founder of Seligdar PJSC, and Sergey Vasilyev and Konstantin Beyrit were co-owners of Maximus.

Until the spring of 2019, the same Beirit and Vasilyev were participants in Antares LLC. And PJSC Seligdar now owns a joint venture with Rostec (through RT-Business Development) – the White Gold company. Seligdar has 51% there, but 49% belongs to the unforgettable ex-general director of Gazprom Tsentrremont, Dmitry Doev, who is also the key beneficiary of the VIS Group.

Thus, it is easy to assume that Antares, Maximus, and Megabuild, which filed for bankruptcy of Energoremont, can be affiliated to Mr. Doev to one degree or another. And if the assumption is correct, the bankruptcy of Energogaz could be manageable. As they say, ends in the water.

The same can be assumed about the liquidated “Megabuild”, which could act as a “dummy”. In the columns of revenue and profit, there are only zeros, information about the address is unreliable.

Returning a little back to Energogaz itself, it is worth mentioning that the company also had serious problems with the tax authorities. Fiscals came to the conclusion that Energogaz had created a scheme to include technical units, Stroyenergomash and Stroyenergokompleks, in real deliveries of goods. The goal could be to artificially increase the cost of delivery in order to underestimate the income tax base.

The Punginskoye UGSF could help Doev get rich beyond words. Are the ends in the water?

That is, we have a whole scheme of possible alienation of billions and assets from Energogaz. Quite possibly, in the direction of “Gazprom Tsentrremont” with the central figure of Doev. But where did that money end up going?

Money stuck

One of the key contractors of “Gazprom” in general for a long time was the same “VIS Group” (then still PF “VIS”). Among their joint projects, for example, is the construction of an alternate road for the Moscow Ring Road. The contract did not limit them in terms, and all the risks were assumed by the budget of the Moscow Region. The cost of the road only at the initial stage was estimated at at least 27.4 billion rubles, 25% of which was to be invested by the state. But they have worked hard before.

The contractor himself appeared at Gazprom back in 2002-2003. VIS began to perform work for Astrakhangazprom and Orenburggazprom, and was engaged in the reconstruction of the Orenburg helium plant. Since that time, Gazprom’s enterprises have become the main customers of VIS.

Thanks to cooperation with a gas corporation, a small company has become one of the largest Russian engineering and construction groups. Its revenue increased more than 1000 times, Vedomosti writes about it.

In Gazprom, Andrei Kruglov, later deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom, worked as head of the Department for Personnel Management. It is believed that at the beginning of the 2000s, he allegedly invited Dmitry Doev to head Gazprom Tsentrremont. At that time, Dmitry Doev was a banker, co-owner of Sevzapinvestprombank. They had known each other for a long time, revolving in the same financial circles.

He also had partners in the bank – Igor Snegurov, Alexander Zamyatin and Petr Ilyin (all three were on the board of directors of VIS). The general director of VIS was Sergei Palkin, the son of the deputy director of Tsentrenergogaz, Sergei Palkin Sr. The latter eventually became Dmitry Doev’s deputy at Gazprom Tsentrremont.

Those. even then it is possible to trace the affiliation between the head of “Tsentrremont”, the bank and VIS. It can be assumed that they received a lot of budget money under government contracts, and then they could transfer them to offshore companies.

Previously, the latter were repeatedly seen in the ownership structures of companies associated with VIS. For example, a subsidiary of the parent group VIS Infrastructure LLC, owned by VIS PF LLC. As Vek wrote, previously three of the four former beneficiaries of the latter (Tenko Asset Ltd, Lanmer Strategies Inc and Kerton Group Ltd “) were registered in the British Virgin Islands and one (“Convis AG”) was registered in Switzerland.

Mr. Doev’s last demobilization chord in the state monopoly could be just the situation with the expansion of the Punginskoye UGS facility. But not everything went smoothly, the subcontractors, who could be banally “thrown”, decided to seek the truth in court. And now we see a bankruptcy lawsuit from Megabuild, which can also be affiliated with Doev.

And in 2019, Dmitry Doev, having worked at Gazprom for almost 20 years, embarks on a free voyage – he becomes the beneficiary of the VIS Group, the general director of the joint-stock company of the same name, and launches third-party projects – including the development of the largest gold deposit, Kyuchus, in partnership with the already mentioned “Seligdar” and “Rostec”.

Meanwhile, numerous concession projects of the VIS Group in different cities (especially Novosibirsk) are stalling one after another.

Perhaps, Dmitry Doev does not care about their fate at all – the money has been paid. And in the same way, Gazprom’s money could have contributed to the success of the VIS at the initial stage. And at this time, according to the authors of the site “Glavk”, allegedly the family of Dmitry Doev is actively “settling down” in London.

Maybe creditors who demand to bring him to subsidiary liability for the debts of Energogaz should look for him there?