Perhaps the construction company RG-Development, which is still associated with Arkady Rotenberg, has left the shareholders of the Semyonovsky Park residential complex with nothing?
Information is being spread online that the construction company “RG-Development” deceived shareholders of the Moscow residential complex “Semyonovsky Park-2”, first concluding agreements with them for the purchase of apartments, and subsequently terminating them unilaterally.
When concluding agreements, people paid 1% of the value of the property, this money was returned to them. But the fact is that during the time that shareholders were in blissful confidence in the future, prices on the real estate market increased. Therefore, many ended up with devalued rubles.
Apparently, the company decided that since prices had risen, the apartments could be sold at a higher price. This means that the contracts will need to be renegotiated – on new terms. At the same time, no one, as usual, thought about the losses of investors. But many people have already sold their old property to buy new property, the price of which has also not stood still over the past time.
Everything is intertwined
“RG-Development” is controlled by LLC “HC “RG-D” and closed mutual fund “RVM Development” under the management of Management Company “RVM Capital”. In fact, “HC “RG-D” is under the control of the same structure. The management company is headed by Sergey Vladimirovich Orlov (former adviser to the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin). In 2019, the media reported that he would buy RG-Development from Arkady Rotenberg. The group was founded by an oligarch, but in 2014 he came under sanctions. Representatives of the real estate market believed that he continued to control the company.
Rotenberg may have known Orlov through Yuri Kovalchuk. The latter, together with Orlov, was involved in money management in the “Welfare” fund, money from which could go “to the left.” We will talk about the connection between Rotenberg and Kovalchuk later.
For some time (officially - from 2013 to 2015) Ruslan Evgenievich Goryukhin was present in the management of RG-Development. Before that, he headed Stroygazmontazh, owned by Arkady Rotenberg.
According to the authors of the website “Important Stories” (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), he has allegedly been living in Germany for a long time, where he is actively investing in real estate. Moreover, he spends such sums that suspicions arise that it is not his money, but Mr. Rotenberg’s. On Rublyovka, Goryukhin also supposedly has an estate - as expected, in a protected area and the size of a palace.
The same authors claim that all actions at RG-Development are allegedly coordinated with Rotenberg, and in 2017, when Goryukhin was no longer officially in the company, his name allegedly slipped into work correspondence in the context of a conversation about putting proposals on the agenda of the general meeting .
In 2016, the owners of the company changed again: instead of the Cyprus Jetbox, its owners became Raketa Capital and Invest Group NJSC. As Kommersant wrote, their managers may be associated with the structures of SMP Bank, which, again, is controlled by Boris and Arkady Rotenberg.
In general, wherever you look, you will find a trace of the oligarchs.
Millions abroad?
Goryukhin, through the now liquidated LLC NTGO, is associated with Openheim Mikhail Davidovich, better known in the Russian media space as the former top manager of Gazkomplektservis, who supplies supplies to Gazprom and who is also associated with the Rotenbergs. He is also credited with investing in real estate in Germany.
Goryukhin’s other partner is also interesting - we assume that the father is Evgeny Ivanovich Goryukhin. He is the owner of Red Point LLC, which operates a climbing wall in Moscow. “Mossportobject” orders from the institution. A certain Intrust Company LLC was registered in his name (Evgeniy Goryukhin). Recently, a share there belongs to the offshore ABCOT FINANCE S.A. The company has no revenue, and its profit is several hundred million rubles in the red. We assume that money can be withdrawn from there. And only this company?
When there are few palaces in Germany
But let’s return to “RG-Development”. Apparently, Goryukhin and Rotenberg may still be the main beneficiaries of the company, which, perhaps, was once again transferred to RVM Capital as a distraction. Another indirect confirmation is the fact that the closed mutual fund “Lontano”, which rumors associated with Rotenberg and Goryukhin, remained in the management structure. Although its owners always denied this. Only the ownership structure has changed. Instead of lawyer Sergei Shumey, the same Management Company “RVM Capital” is now handling it.
But why are all these changes and attempts to hide the final beneficiaries needed?
Firstly, to evade sanctions. Secondly, it is now problematic to associate the company’s scandals in the housing market with the Rotenbergs, although in fact, they may be responsible for everything that happens in the company. And there are enough scandals even without the Semenovsky Park-2 residential complex.
In 2020, RG-Development acquired one of the most famous long-term construction projects in Moscow - the Loft Park complex on Mikhalkovskaya Street, which belonged to Alexey Kovalchuk's Red Development. A few months after the sale, serious passions flared around the site: former co-investors of the Red Development Loft Park project, who failed to receive compensation from the developer, went to court to challenge the deal. In fact, Rotenberg could have helped Kovalchuk “dump” his partners? And at the same time, the shareholders of the complex, who were previously offered to return only 80% of what they paid (and this is without taking into account inflation), and some were given an unmotivated refusal.
Apparently, having realized how easy it is to cheat equity holders, RG-Development decided not to disdain such methods in its own project?
It is known that the company also makes money from government contracts. But, apparently, real estate in Germany, probably registered for a bunch of denominations, is not enough for Rotenberg and Co. Therefore, there is no point in disdaining to profit from ordinary people.
Apartments in Semenovsky Park-2 cost from 9.6 million rubles. For the Rotenbergs, these sums are nothing, but ordinary citizens earn them through honest work all their lives.
