Sergey Mamedov - member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation: biography, business and politics, personal life. Anastasia Myskina's husband Sergei Mamedov Federation Council
So, 2008. The enterprise is operating, production and shipment are ongoing. There are orders. After modernization, production costs dropped significantly. In particular, just launching its own explosives production plant (granite is mined by blasting) reduced production costs by a quarter. Salaries to employees are paid, tax deductions to the budgets too, there are no complaints against Pavlovskgranit.
Everything is fine. But, in the spring, Sergei Mamedov suddenly, without obvious reasons, announced the sale of his stake.
Why suddenly? Read above. Would anyone, in their right mind, begin to get rid of a stable source of more than good income? Despite the fact that this income is obtained practically without labor costs. In the previous entry, I noted that Sergey Mamedov did not participate in the activities of the enterprise. There was also no deterioration in relations between the owners; if something had arisen, rumors would have spread, but no, silence...
Here we need to take a closer look at Comrade Mamedov. Let's turn to the Internet.
Sergey Valerievich Mamedov
Born on July 15, 1972 in the village of Gubkino (Moscow region). He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers (where he met and became friends with Sergei Poimanov). From 1994 to 2008 he worked in senior positions in commercial structures. In 2008-2010, he headed the Samara company VBM-Group (OJSC Volgaburmash). Currently he holds the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of SM Finance LLC. Since December 4, 2011 - deputy of the assembly of representatives of the rural settlement of Dva Klyucha, Isaklinsky district.
And he is also the husband of Anastasia Myskina, and is no longer a deputy of some Mukhosransk, but a senator of the Federation Council from the Samara region, with the end of his powers in 2016. Interestingly, not a word about Pavlovsk granite. And in a number of similar “biographies” it is generally written that he led the VBM Group since 2007.
As always, in particularly interesting cases, the Internet is extremely stingy. We'll have to work hard again. So. Why is Comrade Mamedov interesting to us? By my father, of course. Father, or rather stepfather of Mamedov, Georgy Enverovich Mamedov. A very interesting person. I will not pay much attention to his personality, again, google and may happiness be with you, I will only say that the secrets of this world are known only to a select few. Georgy Enverovich is one of them. Now he is in Canada, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, and he left there from his post in the Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on Defense Security, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, in 2003. A knowledgeable person who takes care of his family in a Caucasian way. This is important, why - read below.
What prompted Sergei Valerievich to get rid of his share of Pavlovsk granite? What did we have there in 2008? Exactly! A crisis. The same crisis that rolled and rolled throughout America and Europe, and by the end of August 2008, contrary to the assurances of Their Tandem Majesties, finally reached Russia. And how fortunate, literally fabulously successful, Sergei Mamedov got rid of such unprofitable property during this crisis. I can only draw one conclusion. Since I’m an adult boy, I’ve forgotten how to believe in fairy tales, my dad, caring for his son’s well-being, leaked information to Sergei Mamedov about the coming upheavals. And the fact that such information exists is repeatedly confirmed to us by the structure of Comrade Julian Assange. In this light, from the words of Mamedov in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta dated December 23, 2011, that the second wave of the crisis cannot be avoided, the hairs on the back of my neck begin to rise. Because this person’s awareness is at the highest level. In every way.
Well, as for his cleanliness. I'm not his judge here. The fact that Poymanov did not know what Mamedov knows is a fact. Otherwise, on the eve of the crisis, and especially in his industry, he would not have gotten into such debt. Poymanov can be anything, but he is not an idiot. And the talk about the fact that the loan was taken out for the purpose of simply stealing it, to put it mildly, is without foundation. Such amounts are not stolen from Sberbank. Very fraught with consequences. Moreover, under such bail conditions.
However, we digress. Sergey Mamedov announced the sale of his stake. If I'm not mistaken, at first the price did not reach five billion. Moreover, he sold to any buyer.
What started here? So many people suddenly decided to start granite mining! Let's leave famous names aside; they are interesting, but useless to us. Mrs. Baturina and, lo and behold, Mr. Zhukov, the same one who now claims that the Pavlovsky Mining and Processing Plant is not interested in him, showed particular interest. Later we will refute the words of Mr. Zhukov, but now we will continue the excavations. Sergei Poimanov, most likely, took his head in hand. And this is understandable, those citizens who decided to exchange their five billion for shares of Comrade Mamedov, do not put a finger in their mouth, they will use both the finger and its owner.
Mamedov did not agree to pay in installments. For very obvious reasons. But he gave Poymanov time. A little time.
Five billion is not a small amount, no matter how you look at it. Mr. Poymanov turned to the banks. Including Sberbank, which has practically become family. Why relatives? Yes, because the entire modernization of the plant was carried out with loans issued by Sberbank. More precisely, the lion's share of them was issued by Sberbank. And successfully repaid.
While other banks were scratching their heads, Sberbank, smiling broadly, approved the loan. True, at a floating rate of 15 to 17 percent, but he approved it. In addition, there was an agreement with the top officials of the bank that after a year of successful repayment, the restructuring rate would be reduced to 10 percent. Time is running out, gentlemen Bundy... I'm sorry, buyers are crowding at the entrance, in general, Poymanov agreed.
The loan was given, Sergey Mamedov went down in history.
But there were those who really wanted to take his place. And if Elena Baturina, who began to put a spoke in the wheels, first because of her problems, and then “due to loss of trust” in her husband, abandoned this idea, then Mr. Zhukov turned out to be more persistent.
In the sequel, we will consider in detail the terms of the loan and those who participated in its approval. Well, if you have the strength, then something else. The story is as deep as the sinking of the Titanic. One day will not turn around.
The head of the Duma committee for monitoring the income of deputies, Nikolai Kovalev, strongly denied reports that he allegedly agreed with American Senator Ben Cardin to create a joint commission to combat corruption. The search for property and accounts of Russian officials abroad has been going on for a long time, but the only success of the Duma anti-corruption fighters so far can only be called the departure of United RussiaVladimir Pekhtin , who was found to have property in Miami. Meanwhile, direct violations of Russian legislation occurring nearby, literally under the nose of the same Kovalev, are of practically no interest to anyone.
Thus, Kovalev’s former assistant and friend, and now a member of the Federation Council from the Samara region, Sergei Mamedov, has long and with impunity owned everything that Mr. Kovalev is going to look for in company with his American colleagues. But neither connections with criminals, nor the presence of foreign assets, nor even the presence of a Russian senator with a residence permit in Estonia created absolutely no problems for him. Even the all-knowing opposition blogosphere ignores the antics of the prominent “United Russia”, without raising a fuss, as was the case with "Czech spy" Bastrykin or with Israeli citizen Senator Vitaly Malkin .
Meanwhile, according to the declaration of Sergei Mamedov, in Estonia he owns an apartment with an area of 88.9 square meters. m. According to the Estonian land register, this is a two-story apartment on Town Hall Square, in the very center of Tallinn, in the so-called Egorov’s house. In addition to real estate, Mamedov was also found to have an Estonian personal code in his register. This was discovered by journalists from the Tallinn publication Eesti Ekspress, who, unlike their Russian colleagues, suspected a corruption component in the senator’s story.
Police Department spokeswoman Helin Vaher confirmed the discovery of journalists: “Sergei Mamedov has a residence permit in Estonia.” But she diplomatically does not go into details, since the recent scandal with residence permits that broke out in the republic forces the police to treat this topic very carefully. Therefore, it has not yet been possible to find out from official police sources when Mamedov arrived in Estonia, what he did here, and on what basis he received a residence permit.
However, Eesti Ekspress journalists conducted their own investigation and fully confirmed the information according to which the senator from the Samara province in the Federation Council of the State Assembly of the Russian Federation and former assistant to the State Duma deputy Nikolai Kovalev, 40-year-old Sergey Mamedov, has real estate in Estonia, an enterprise, a yacht and a long-term view of residence.
It turned out that the senator has been associated with Estonia since 2005, when he... By the way, it is to this company that the 22.6 m long Fidelity yacht belonging to Mamedov, which belongs to the luxury class, is registered. Despite her Estonian registration, the yacht is hanging out off the coast of France. Judging by the business register, Mamedov received his Estonian personal code and residence permit in 2008.
Most of the issues related to Mamedov’s Estonian real estate are resolved by his wife, a famous former Russian tennis player Anastasia Myskina , in relation to whom and similar Russians are now being investigated by the Department of Citizenship and Migration of Estonia regarding the circumstances of obtaining residence permits after the so-called “Stelmakh scandal”.
As previously reported by the media, in 2009-2011, the Estonian companies Advisory Partners and Integer Invest offered paid services to wealthy Russians for obtaining a residence permit in Estonia and, accordingly, permission to obtain a Schengen visa. The companies were led by Estonian parliament member Indrek Raudne and Tallinn City Council member Nikolai Stelmakh. Both belonged to the union of right-wing parties "Fatherland - Republic" IRL, which, together with the Reform Party, is part of the Estonian government. A representative of this particular party heads the Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which issues residence permits.
It is alleged that with the help of such a service, about 147 citizens of Russia and CIS countries received permanent Schengen visas from Estonia, including Mamedov’s wife Anastasia Myskina and her mother, as well as a number of thieving bankers and crime bosses. The list of these persons was previously published in Estonian and Russian media.
After the scandal became known to the media, Estonian authorities announced that, most likely, all 147 residence permits would be revoked. But there is no official data on the implementation of these threats yet. As for the Estonian politicians involved in the scandal, criminal prosecution against them was dropped at the end of last year.
In any case, Russian Senator Mamedov is not threatened with possible sanctions from the Estonian authorities. He received his residence permit long before the scandal and is not included in the “list of 147”. Meanwhile, against the background of the scandal with Estonian residence permits, the FSB of Russia in the Pskov region previously issued a statement that “The presence of real estate and business in Estonia is one of the ways for foreign intelligence services to put pressure on Russians in order to obtain the necessary information or recruitment from them. More and more such cases have been recorded in recent years.”. Obviously, recruiting not just an entrepreneur, but also a senator is a real godsend for foreign intelligence services, but Russian counterintelligence officers, like Mr. Kovalev, strangely “do not notice” Mamedov.
Meanwhile, Sergei Mamedov is also seen in close ties with the criminal world. His friendship with the crime boss Alexander Kharkovsky (criminal nickname - Rower) is not a secret behind seven seals. In the 90s, Grebet was close to the crime boss Baul, after whose death he moved to the group of his heir Karp, which was at war with the breakaway group "Vinnie the Poohs". Then, in the 90s, the Rower killed two small children: after getting drunk, he rushed somewhere on a jet ski - and even flew out of the saddle. A motorcycle without a rider rushed towards the beach and crashed at full speed into a cabin where children were changing clothes. The children died on the spot. Kharkovsky reached the shore and tried to escape, but he was caught and taken to the police. However, he “excused himself” by feigning madness.
It is interesting that Kharkovsky, declared insane, in 2001 became an adviser to the governor of the Primorsky Territory Sergei Darkin (known among local bandits under the influence of Darych and Seryoga Shepelyavy). In addition to “political” activities, Grebets was also involved in “business” - in particular, he laundered money through Baltic banks, including, as the media previously suggested, in the interests of Mamedov’s business. It is possible that it was he who helped Mamedov obtain a residence permit.
Rower was later “accepted” entering the United States with someone else’s passport. Since no extradition treaty has been signed between the United States and Russia, and the crime for which Grebets was detained was committed on US territory.
Taking all this into account, the initiatives of Russian deputies to search for traces of Russian corrupt officials abroad are more reminiscent of “market research”, in which there is always the opportunity to travel around the world, ask the price, study the experience of the most successful bribe-takers and even be happy for them.
Perhaps this is why deputies are not eager to look for corruption at home and, even when directly confronted with it, they still continue to look somewhere into the distance, overseas...
Valentin Anisimov
"Biography"
Education
1994 — Moscow State Transport University (civil engineer)
2014 — Russian State University for the Humanities (Master)
Activity
Recently, Facebook has become an interesting platform for the expert community to discuss various pressing issues. For example, who will become the new governor of the Samara region. The new convocation of the Duma was left without a working group to analyze Ukrainian laws, RBC found out. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin is in no hurry to revive it. The Federation Council Committee for Assistance to the South-East of Ukraine began to meet less frequently. Thus, Kovalev’s former assistant and friend, and now a member of the Federation Council from the Samara region, Sergei Mamedov, has long and with impunity owned everything that Mr. Kovalev is going to look for in company with his American colleagues. But neither connections with criminals, nor the presence of foreign assets, nor even the presence of a Russian senator with a residence permit in Estonia created absolutely no problems for him. Even the all-knowing opposition blogosphere ignores the tricks of the prominent United Russia member, without raising a fuss, as was the case with the “Czech spy” Bastrykin or with Israeli citizen Senator Vitaly Malkin. Meanwhile, according to Sergei Mamedov’s declaration, in Estonia he owns an apartment with an area of 88.9 square meters. m. According to the Estonian land register, this is a two-story apartment on Town Hall Square, in the very center of Tallinn, in the so-called Egorov’s house. In addition to real estate, Mamedov was also found to have an Estonian personal code in his register. This was discovered by journalists from the Tallinn publication Eesti Ekspress, who, unlike their Russian colleagues, suspected a corruption component in the senator’s story. Today, the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia can approve the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SM Finance, Sergei Mamedov, as the party’s candidate for the post of representative of the Samara Gubernia Duma in the Federation Council. The parliamentary corps may be asked to vote on this issue as early as December 23. All opposition factions in the regional parliament will most likely speak out against Sergei Mamedov. On Friday, December 23, a plenary meeting of the Samara Provincial Duma was held. The main issue on the agenda was the election of a new member of the Federation Council. The candidate for this post, Sergei Mamedov, was introduced to the people's representatives by the speaker of the Gubernia Duma, Viktor Sazonov. The deputies asked the candidate for a seat in the Federation Council several questions. Sergei Mamedov is a new figure in Samara politics. On December 23, he was elected senator from the provincial Duma. His candidacy was supported by the United Russia faction, while representatives of the opposition parties unanimously voted “against”. How this will affect the senator’s relationship with parliament, and what plans he intends to implement in the Federation Council, Sergei Mamedov said in an interview with VK. On December 4, repeat elections of deputies of the second convocation of the meeting of representatives of the village took place. n. Two Keys m. Isaklinsky. It is noteworthy that only one registered candidate took part in the campaign. He became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SM Finance LLC Sergei MAMEDOV. It is this enterprise that controls Volgaburmash OJSC. Mamedov himself is called a person close to the VBM group and its beneficiary Andrey ISCHUK. In the elections in a rural settlement, Mamedov received more than 90% of the votes. Now he is ready to be elected to the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from the Samara Provincial Duma (SRS). It was for this purpose that he went to the polls in one of the Isaklin villages. — If we talk about the meeting of representatives, then our candidates, the candidates of United Russia, won. In particular, Sergey Mamedov (Chairman of the Board of Directors of SM Finance - ed.). He was recommended by the presidium of the political council of the party to work as a member of the Federation Council, and I believe that the Provincial Duma will approve him (at the time of publication of the interview, Sergei Mamedov was elected as a member of the Federation Council from the Samara Provincial Duma - ed.). Chairman of the Board of Directors of VBM-Group OJSC Sergei Mamedov is leaving the group’s business, Samara Review writes. New owners have been named - structures close to Baltinvestbank Vadim Egiazarov and Alexander Shvidak. Impala Trade&Invest and Ltd Kowloon ltd, which each owned 23.1% of the shares of the Samara holding, left the owners of OJSC VBM Group. Both offshore companies represented the interests of the chairman of the board of directors of SM-Finance, Sergei Mamedov, in the capital of VBM Group. Well-known Samara businessman, co-owner of VBM Group Andrey Ishchuk is selling the holding’s enterprises to Moscow entrepreneur Sergei Mamedov. Although the deal will be completed in two weeks, yesterday the new owner already visited Samara enterprises. Experts call the coincidence of the timing of the deal with the financial crisis an accident. However, in their opinion, taking into account the crisis and the company's debts, its value could be reduced by almost half. 25% of the shares of VBM-Group OJSC, controlled by Moscow businessman Sergei Mamedov, were transferred to a Cypriot company to pay off the holding’s debts. The company remained with Andrey Ishchuk after the sale of the main part of the Volgaburmash holding to Sergei Mamedov, but the court ordered the latter to pay the debts of the latter - as a representative of the guarantor for the loan. Last week, Gazprombank decided to hurry them up - it filed a lawsuit for bankruptcy of VBM. “VBM-group products meet international quality standards. But its main parameter for us is the extent to which our bits allow us to solve all the problems facing drillers,” says Sergei Valeryevich Mamedov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of VBM Group OJSC. “Therefore, our company works on an individual basis with customers, taking into account the drilling method, the features of the bits, and the available technical park when designing and manufacturing bits.” The former beneficiary Andrey Ishchuk sold the VBM-Group factories on the eve of the crisis. How does their new owner assess the condition of the factories? Have the issues regarding the repayment of the SRZ-Finance debt been resolved? When and how did new shareholders appear among the shareholders of Volgaburmash OJSC and Uralburmash OJSC? Chairman of the Board of Directors of VBM-Group OJSC Sergey Mamedov answered these and other questions from the CO. On December 30, a representative from the executive body of state power of the Republic of Ingushetia, Nikita Ivanov, takes up his powers, on December 31, a representative from the legislative body of state power of the Republic of Chuvashia, Leonid Lebedev, on January 1, 2012, a representative from the legislative body of state power of the Samara Region, Sergey Mamedov, on January 2, representatives from the legislative body of state power of the Murmansk region Vladimir Chub and the legislative body of state power of the Novgorod region Dmitry Krivitsky. “And even in this case, I am absolutely sure that no one would have canceled the election results.” And besides, among the “systemic” opposition it is still necessary to achieve consensus, which does not exist. This is clearly visible even in the example of the Samara Provincial Duma. At least when voting on the candidacy of Sergei Mamedov to the Federation Council."News"
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Education
In 1994, Sergey Mamedov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers (MIIT).
Professional activity
Sergei Mamedov’s father went from attaché to the USSR Embassy in the USA to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Since 2003 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Canada. Mother worked at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. Grandfather was one of the founders of the radio and television industry in the USSR, and led the foreign broadcasting system. My maternal grandfather was a professor at the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute.
From 1994 to 1997 he worked at the Russian Credit Commercial Bank.
Since 1997, he established and managed a number of commercial structures engaged in investment activities. The core areas were: mining industry, road construction organizations, railway transport, mechanical engineering.
From 2003 to 2011 he was an assistant to the deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Army General N.D. Kovalev.
In 2011, he was elected as a deputy of the Assembly of Representatives of the rural settlement of Dva Klyucha, Isaklinsky municipal district, Samara region.
On December 23, 2011, by the Resolution of the Samara Provincial Duma of the fifth convocation, he was elected a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Samara Provincial Duma.
Two weeks ago, 36-year-old Anastasia Myskina announced her separation from her common-law husband, politician and businessman Sergei Mamedov. The couple separated after 11 years of marriage. Fans of the couple were quite surprised by their decision. It was rumored that Mamedov had another woman.
Recently, details of Myskina’s separation from her husband appeared in the media. It is argued that the man is truly happy in his new relationship. According to journalists, Mamedov’s chosen one was businesswoman Suzanna Karpova, who is a co-owner of a fashionable chain of premium beauty salons. Women's establishments are visited not only by show business stars - Elka, Alsou, Elena Temnikova, but also by many society ladies.
Karpov’s alleged chosen one refrains from interviews with journalists, and the businessman himself does not comment on his personal life. He made an exception only in mid-December, when he submitted an official statement about his separation from Anastasia Myskina. The couple wrote that they had been coming to this decision for several years, trying to maintain the relationship. But all the couple's attempts were in vain.
“Our life priorities and principles diverged more and more in different directions. In the end, we both came to the conclusion that breaking up would be the best way out of this situation - an open and honest action for both of us. We remain close people to each other, parents of three wonderful sons, which, of course, will allow us to continue to maintain good relations and continue to raise our children together,” said the address from Myskina and Mamedov.
// Photo: Vladimir Trefilov / RIA Novosti
The famous tennis player has been with the businessman and politician since the mid-2000s. Anastasia and Sergei have several children together - 9-year-old Evgeniy, 7-year-old Georgy and 5-year-old Pavel. The couple never registered their relationship, although, according to journalists, the sports star waited a long time for a proposal from her chosen one. Mamedov and Myskina lived in a luxurious house in the village of Zhukovka near Moscow. According to Express Newspaper, the entrepreneur has long had a new passion.
Before starting an affair with Mamedov, the sports star dated hockey players. At different times, Anastasia had relationships with Alexander Stepanov and Konstantin Korneev. According to rumors, the latter even planned to propose to Myskina and bought her a platinum ring with three diamonds. Konstantin and the tennis player were seen together in a jewelry store, but the man denied speculation about the upcoming wedding.
