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Round dance of money. How the family of the owner of VIM-Avia dumped assets before the collapse

Consulting firm Rashida Mursekaeva a month before the collapse of the airline business, his acquaintance went bankrupt Sergey Galan, and Mursekaev’s daughter sold her fuel company to Galan. Investigators in the VIM-Avia case are finding out how the co-owners brought the airline to collapse and where they could have hidden assets and money. It is possible that Rashid Mursekaev guessed about the imminent collapse of the airline business and withdrew assets ahead of time, including through relatives and proxies. According to one version, the money went to Luxembourg - there Mursekaev’s son-in-law (or his full namesake) discovered an offshore. And Mursekaev’s daughter sold her billion-dollar fuel company a few weeks before the collapse of VIM-Avia. A month earlier, the company that was created to manage the carrier’s finances went bankrupt. Both stories involved the Mursekaevs’ long-time business partner Sergei Galan.

Strong family business ties

Most of Rashid Mursekaev's companies are family-based. Even in VIM-Avia the main owner is not he, but his wife Svetlana. His two sisters, for example, owned real estate companies.

Rashid Mursekaev

And in 2014, the businessman’s daughter also went into business. Anna Ambrosova(Mursekaeva) founded the fuel company FT International while still in her fourth year at MGIMO. Just two years after its creation, FT International was earning 2.5 billion a year. The second co-owner was Anna’s husband, a 25-year-old graduate High school economy Nikolay Ambrosov. He is the son of Mursekaev’s long-time business partner, Evgenia Ambrosova. Together, at the beginning of the 2000s, they managed a large maritime hub in Russia - the Far Eastern Shipping Company. Presumably, the daughter’s fuel company also made money from the sale of kerosene at the Bratsk airport in Irkutsk region. This airport has long been owned by the Mursekaev family - first through the Invest Holding office, and now through VIM-Avia.

Bratsk is a small but important hub that is used transatlantic flights for refueling, and the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations - for extinguishing fires in the taiga and for observation flights. VIM-Avia needed it as a transfer point for refueling and maintenance of its Chinese flights: they started their business with charter flights to China. And this airfield is halfway from Moscow to China. Experts say you can make money from it by selling fuel.

“The main income there is from refueling helicopters and planes,” says the head of the consulting company Infomost. Boris Rybak.

Despite good financial performance, in August this year Anna Ambrosova My husband and I unexpectedly decided to sell FT International. It’s interesting that by that time my father’s airline was just beginning to have problems with debts for aviation kerosene. If we assume that the Mursekaevs guessed about the imminent collapse and were preparing to flee abroad, then this step looks like getting rid of Russian assets. Especially considering the buyer's personality. It was a Moscow businessman Sergey Galan- an old family friend. The offices of his companies are even located in the same business center as the Mursekaevs.

It is interesting that a month before the buyout of FT International, Galan, through Technopolis, which he controlled, bankrupted the very Mursekaev company that originally owned the Bratsk airport. We are talking about "Invest Holding". The Mursekaevs created it 10 years ago to manage assets and securities, in a word, for management and operational support of VIM-avia. According to the Kartoteka.ru database, last year Invest Holding showed a net profit of 9 million rubles. However, for some reason, he did not have enough million to pay off some obligations to Technopolis in time. The court materials do not say what exactly Invest Holding owes for.

Offshore latitudes

The family's foreign assets may also be of interest to investigators. At one time, the airline was 20% owned by a company from Liechtenstein called Hercules Partners Fund. This may indicate at least that the Mursekaevs have connections there, and at the maximum, that part of the profits were withdrawn there.

And now, thanks to the Mossack Foneska database, it was possible to find out that a person with the same name and surname as Mursekaev's son-in-law is associated with an offshore company in Luxembourg. This is a company called Aloma S.A. Nikolay Ambrosov- its beneficiary. And the owner of the shares is a certain structure called The Bearer. It is noteworthy that one of the meanings of this word is "aircraft engine support". The investigation will have to find out whether the company is really controlled by Mursekaev's son-in-law or just his namesake. To do this, a request can be sent to Luxembourg through Interpol.

Aloma has chosen the largest French Credit Agricole as its correspondent bank. "Correspondent bank" means that all settlements were carried out through it, and, most likely, the company's funds are stored in it. It is located in the same building that occupies the Luxembourg branch of the bank.

Experts are divided

Some experts say that all this path of bankruptcies, changes of ownership and offshores could serve to withdraw assets. The Mursekaevs understood that the airline could soon be closed, and prepared the ground for withdrawal. Thus, the chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee Kirill Kabanov I am sure that the owners of VIM-Avia did not plan to save the airline.

– The owners of VIM-avia acted according to the well-known fraudulent scheme. They got loans secured by property (liners) in four banks (according to preliminary data from the investigation, these are Sberbank, Absolut Bank, VTB and Zenit), Kirill Kabanov told Life. According to the chairman of NAC, most likely, the Mursekaevs took most of the bank funds abroad. And this process began not now, but three years ago, when the owners began to obtain loans from large Russian banks, Kabanov believes.

“There are questions for the supervisory authorities who poorly controlled the movement of funds from the airline’s bank accounts,” notes the head of NAC.

However, other experts believe that the Mursekaevs did not plan to leave the country hastily. According to the expert, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Air Transport Review" Alexey Sinitsky Most likely, the reason for the collapse of VIM-Avia was a lack of working capital due to the desire to earn the maximum during the high season.

– The owners did not calculate their financial capabilities. The money that the airline received for tickets sold during the autumn-winter season was not enough to pay off creditors, Sinitsky suggests. “There could have been a cash gap, and then everything just fell apart.”

Sinitsky is sure: the Mursekaevs hoped that banks would support them with loans, and Domodedovo Airport would continue to be serviced on credit.

“Autumn is always a financially difficult time of year, and the owners of VIM-Avia could not find a way out of this situation,” the interlocutor sums up. “But it seems that they fought until the last for the survival of the company and did not plan in advance to leave Russia.

Flew away, but did not promise to return

Whether the Mursekaevs planned to leave the country or not, they did it. According to the Investigative Committee, the family flew out of Russia early last week. Presumably they flew to Turkey immediately after the pre-investigation check of the Investigative Committee was publicly announced. Türkiye usually cooperates quite willingly with Russian security forces. Therefore, Life, in a previous article about VIM-Avia, suggested that the family could move from Turkey to the UAE, Great Britain or Uzbekistan.

They still have some real estate assets in Russia. Thus, Svetlana Mursekaeva is registered in an apartment two steps from Arbat. Mursekaev's son Rashid and daughter Anna own shares in this apartment. The apartment building in Skatertny Lane was built at the beginning of the last century, and in the 2000s it was restored and turned into a club. Now there are only 12 apartments in it, each with an average of 200 square meters and a price of no less than 200 million. From Arbat, through Moscow traffic jams, the Mursekaev children traveled to their place of study. Both entered MGIMO. Moreover, Rashid was recommended for enrollment with only 65 points for the Unified State Exam in Russian.

Mursekaev Jr., unlike his sister, has not yet completed his studies. On his way to university, he sometimes breaks traffic rules. He drives recklessly, drives in oncoming traffic and shows disrespect for other drivers. At the beginning of 2017, he did not give way to a car with special signals. This is stated in the materials of the capital's courts. True, it does not say who exactly Rashid did not give way to - the ambulance or the police. Based on the judicial database, Life counted four fines against him in the amount of 18 thousand. He did not pay them on time, which doubled the fine and left the guy with a debt burden.

In this sense, Mursekaev Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps. Mursekaev Sr.’s problems also began because of debts. This led to the collapse of his business, criminal cases, and thousands of our compatriots could not return home on time. The first wave of claims hit his company in May: the carrier delayed dozens of charter flights across the country. Then the company justified itself by the fact that allegedly not all planes managed to return from scheduled maintenance.

The second wave turned out to be the last for the company. Fuel suppliers and airports said that VIM-Avia owes them more than half a billion and they do not intend to borrow more fuel. And in August-September all departments began to make claims against VIM-avia: Rostransnadzor, Rosaviation, Rostrud, Prosecutor General's Office, Investigative Committee. Rostransnadzor blamed the company for violating the terms and conditions of aircraft maintenance. The Prosecutor General's Office and Rostrud discovered cosmic - more than 200 million - salary debts.

And the Investigative Committee actually opened a criminal case for fraud against the accountant and the general director. The investigation believes that the airline knew about the lack of funds for fuel for flights, but still sold tickets to passengers. Because of this, property damage was caused to at least 2,997 passengers. In total, at resorts abroad and in the Russian Federation due to the collapse More than 40 thousand passengers were stuck. Even when the Investigative Committee’s claims were at the pre-investigation stage, the Mursekaev family fled abroad.

On Friday, President Vladimir Putin told the deputy prime minister in charge of transport Arkady Dvorkovich that he is not coping with the situation. And to the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov generally applied disciplinary measures - signed a decree on incomplete official compliance. The President criticized the approach of the Ministry of Transport to developing criteria by which the agency evaluates the work of the carrier.

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The problematic airline VIM-Avia, due to fraudulent actions of its management, about 38 thousand passengers were stuck at foreign resorts, and accounts payable exceeded 7 billion rubles, lost its management and owners.

General Director of VIM-Avia Alexander Kochnev and chief accountant Ekaterina Panteleeva were detained as part of a case of major fraud, according to a message on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. In the near future, both defendants will be charged, after which the investigation plans to petition the court to impose a preventive measure against them.

And the co-owners of VIM-Avia, Rashid and Svetlana Mursekaev, “hastily left the country, and, according to the information available to the investigation, are abroad,” the Investigative Committee noted. In this regard, measures are being taken to establish their whereabouts. "Currently ongoing investigative actions aimed at identifying all persons involved in the theft of funds and the circumstances of the crime,” the press service said in a statement.

The Mursekaevs will be put on the wanted list in a criminal case of fraud, law enforcement agencies told TASS. “Their whereabouts have not yet been established. They will be put on the federal wanted list first, and then, possibly, on the international wanted list,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, Rashid Mursekaev was supposed to appear for questioning by the investigator on Thursday; the day before, he was sent a summons.

As part of compensation for damages to victims of this fraud, a security lien will be imposed on the property of the co-owners and management of the company. Soon they may be charged in absentia and issued a warrant for arrest in absentia.

The day before, TASS was reported by law enforcement agencies that investigators interrogated Alexander Kochnev as a witness in the case, and then he was summoned again for questioning. The source clarified on Thursday that the general director was detained following interrogation by the Investigative Committee. “This was a repeated interrogation, the day before he was interrogated as a witness, he appeared before the investigators himself,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

After massive delays and cancellations of VIM-Avia airline flights, a criminal case was opened under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud on an especially large scale”). The official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Svetlana Petrenko, said that on behalf of the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, the case was transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee.

According to the investigation, from September 22, airline officials, knowing that there were not enough funds to purchase fuel, including at Domodedovo Airport, without having contracts with other suppliers and, thus, not having the ability to transport passengers, continued to sell tickets for flights. As a result, management received more than 1 million rubles.

VIM-Avia admitted this week that it does not have the funds to continue operating after massive flight delays due to fuel debts of approximately 500 million rubles. The airline asked the Ministry of Transport to “consider the possibility of urgently providing state guarantees” for 800-840 million rubles to pay for fuel and organize the removal of passengers from abroad. The owner of the company, Rashid Mursekaev, published a video message in which he apologized to passengers for flight delays due to lack of funds.

VIM-Avia planes were detained at airports for debts in Russia and abroad - in particular, in Spain, Belgium, Turkey and France. Only four out of 29 aircraft flew to Vnukovo from Domodedovo. During Tuesday-Wednesday, VIM-Avia performed only about 10 flights.

Russian citizens who turned out to be "defectors", who are mainly in resorts in Turkey and Greece, are now only hoping for help from other airlines.

Greek EllinAir will return 245 VIM-Avia passengers from Heraklion to Moscow, TASS reports. In addition, it is planned to involve Yamal and Sibir airlines in the removal of passengers.

To transport tourists from Antalya on September 28, three VIM-Avia aircraft will be used, which were released the day before from Domodedovo Airport with refueling at Vnukovo. They will make two return flights to deliver about 1.5 thousand passengers from Turkey.

Rosaviatsia reports that Russian airlines, which will transport passengers on regular VIM-Avia flights, about 200 million rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for 2018. However, it is only about domestic flights"VIM-Avia".

VIM-Avia itself, for which the Ministry of Transport restored passenger air transportation for half a month under its guarantees, will also receive half a billion rubles in air transportation subsidies from the state. However, experts are confident that such injections will not save the company and this is just a delay in its inevitable end of existence.

Currently, VIM-Avia, which closes the top 10 airlines in the Russian Federation in terms of volume passenger transportation, there are six creditor banks, and its debt is approximately 7 billion rubles.

On Thursday night it was announced that VIM-Avia aircraft would operate flights until mid-October. Passengers with scheduled flight dates from October 16 and later are recommended to return their tickets at the place of purchase for a refund.

On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with members of the government, announced to the head of the Ministry of Transport Maxim Sokolov about incomplete official compliance due to the situation with VIM-Avia, and accused Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, who oversees transport issues, of insufficient attention to the industry.

The owners of VIM-Avia are Svetlana and Rashid Mursekaev. According to the SPARK-Interfax system, the company's revenue in 2016 amounted to 17.17 billion rubles, while the company reported a small profit in its reporting under RAS - 89 million rubles. According to SPARK, Svetlana Mursekaeva recently pledged part of her share of VIM-Avia Airlines LLC - 5% of the authorized capital - in Zenit Bank.

Moscow, news September 27, 2017. Rashid Mursekaev offered to sell the airline for 1 ruble. The owner of the VIM-Avia airline was invited to a meeting on the situation around the air carrier on the morning of September 27, but did not attend the meeting and probably left Russia. The head stated this Federal agency air transport(Rosaviation) Alexander Neradko, speaking in the State Duma.

He emphasized that Rashid Mursekaev offered to sell the airline for 1 ruble. On September 25, the Vim-Avia company announced the cessation of operating activities and that it could not carry passengers due to debts. According to the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, at that meeting Mursekaev said that he was “tired of working in aviation, and he is ready to sell his business for a ruble.”

Neradko said that Mursekaev was repeatedly called to the Federal Air Transport Agency, where he reported that the financial and economic condition of the airline was stable, and the cessation of operating activities was not predicted.

“However, last week the owner of the airline turned to the Federal Air Transport Agency with a request to assist in negotiations with creditors on the allocation of additional borrowed funds to support operating activities,” Neradko noted.

He emphasized that his department tried to provide such support, but on September 25, Mursekov announced the cessation of operations and the inability to carry out flights in Russia and abroad due to the company’s financial debts to suppliers.

According to Neradko, at a meeting of VIM-Avia owners and creditors, Mursekaev said that he was tired of working in aviation, he was ready to sell his business for a ruble and part ways.

“I assume that he is no longer on the territory Russian Federation. I guess,” Neradko said.

Law enforcement agencies cannot contact the co-owner of the VIM-Avia company, Rashid Mursekaev. According to some reports, he flew from Vnukovo airport to Turkey, presumably to Istanbul.

Rashid Mursekaev and his wife Svetlana Mursekaeva are the owners of 100% shares of VIM-Avia airline.

Airplanes of VIM-Avia, which has now ceased charter flights, were arrested at airports in Turkey and Belgium, said the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko, speaking in the State Duma.

“It is now clear that the airline will not be able to fly out charter passengers on its own. For debts, her planes were arrested at the airport of Antalya and Dalaman of the Turkish Republic, as well as at the airport of Liege (Belgium - editor's note),” Neradko said.

At the moment, according to two major tourism operators alone, over 4 thousand tourists from Moscow and St. Petersburg are waiting for their flight in Turkey, who were supposed to fly home on flights of VIM-Avia, which has ceased all its charter programs. VIM-Avia airline to six banks.

There are still no free capacities on the aviation market for these tourists and operators, in accordance with their obligations, cannot currently guarantee them a flight to their place of permanent residence in the coming days. Tour operators are now making every effort to find at least some acceptable options, but so far there are no available planes.

Moreover, every day of waiting adds new non-flying tourists to the indicated number - the next group ends their vacation,” the Association said in a statement.

According to Sergei Tolchin, Deputy General Director of the tour operator NTK Intourist, as cited by ATOR, the situation clearly requires emergency government intervention to resolve the issue.

Earlier it was reported that due to problems with the company, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced to the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov about incomplete official compliance.

Investigators in the VIM-Avia case are finding out how the co-owners brought the airline to collapse and where they could have hidden assets and money. It is possible that Rashid Mursekaev guessed about the imminent collapse of the airline business and withdrew assets ahead of time, including through relatives and proxies. According to one version, the money went to Luxembourg - there Mursekaev’s son-in-law (or his full namesake) discovered an offshore. And Mursekaev’s daughter sold her billion-dollar fuel company a few weeks before the collapse of VIM-Avia. A month earlier, the company that was created to manage the carrier’s finances went bankrupt. Both stories involved the Mursekaevs’ long-time business partner Sergei Galan.

Strong family business ties

Most of Rashid Mursekaev's companies are family-based. Even in VIM-Avia the main owner is not he, but his wife Svetlana. His two sisters, for example, owned real estate companies.

Rashid Mursekaev

And in 2014, the businessman’s daughter also went into business. Anna Ambrosova (Mursekaeva) founded the fuel company FT International while still in her fourth year at MGIMO. Just two years after its creation, FT International was earning 2.5 billion a year. The second co-owner was Anna’s husband, 25-year-old graduate of the Higher School of Economics Nikolai Ambrosov. He is the son of Mursekaev's long-time business partner, Evgeny Ambrosov. Together, at the beginning of the 2000s, they managed a large maritime hub in Russia - the Far Eastern Shipping Company.

Presumably, the daughter’s fuel company also made money from selling kerosene at the Bratsk airport in the Irkutsk region. This airport has long been owned by the Mursekaev family - first through the Invest Holding office, and now through VIM-Avia.

Bratsk is a small but important hub, used by transatlantic flights for refueling, and by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for extinguishing fires in the taiga and for observation flights. VIM-Avia needed it as a transfer point for refueling and maintenance of its Chinese flights: they started their business with charter flights to China. And this airfield is halfway from Moscow to China. Experts say you can make money from it by selling fuel.

The main income there is from refueling helicopters and planes, says Boris Rybak, head of the consulting company Infomost.

Despite good financial performance, in August of this year Anna Ambrosova and her husband unexpectedly decided to sell FT International. It’s interesting that by that time my father’s airline was just beginning to have problems with debts for aviation kerosene. If we assume that the Mursekaevs guessed about the imminent collapse and were preparing to flee abroad, then this step looks like getting rid of Russian assets. Especially considering the buyer's personality. It was Moscow businessman Sergei Galan, an old acquaintance of the family. The offices of his companies are even located in the same business center as the Mursekaevs.

Offshore latitudes

The family's foreign assets may also be of interest to investigators. At one time, the airline was 20% owned by a Liechtenstein firm called Hercules Partners Fund. This may indicate, at a minimum, that the Mursekaevs have connections there, and at maximum, that part of the profit was transferred there.

And now, thanks to the Mossack Foneska database, it was possible to find out that a person with the same name and surname as Mursekaev's son-in-law is associated with an offshore company in Luxembourg. This is a company called Aloma S.A. Nikolai Ambrosov is its beneficiary. The investigation will have to find out whether the company is really controlled by Mursekaev's son-in-law or just his namesake. To do this, a request can be sent to Luxembourg through Interpol.

Estimated place of registration of the offshore:

Experts are divided

Some experts say that all this path of bankruptcies, changes of ownership and offshores could serve to withdraw assets. The Mursekaevs understood that the airline could soon be closed, and prepared the ground for withdrawal. Thus, the chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, Kirill Kabanov, is confident that the owners of VIM-Avia did not plan to save the airline.

The owners of VIM-avia acted according to a well-known fraudulent scheme. We obtained loans against guarantees of property (liners) in four banks (according to preliminary data from the investigation, these are Sberbank, Absolut Bank, VTB and Zenit), Kirill Kabanov told Life.

According to the chairman of NAC, most likely, the Mursekaevs took most of the bank funds abroad. And this process began not now, but three years ago, when the owners began to obtain loans from large Russian banks, Kabanov believes.

There are questions for the supervisory authorities who poorly controlled the movement of funds from the airline’s bank accounts, notes the head of NAC.

However, other experts believe that the Mursekaevs did not plan to leave the country hastily. According to the expert, editor-in-chief of the Aviatransport Review magazine Alexei Sinitsky, most likely the reason for the collapse of VIM-Avia was a lack of working capital due to the desire to earn the maximum during the high season.

The owners did not calculate their financial capabilities. The money that the airline received for tickets sold during the autumn-winter season was not enough to pay off creditors, Sinitsky suggests. “There could have been a cash gap, and then everything just fell apart.”

Sinitsky is sure: the Mursekaevs hoped that banks would support them with loans, and Domodedovo Airport would continue to be serviced on credit.

Autumn is always a financially difficult time of year, and the owners of VIM-avia could not find a way out of this situation, the interlocutor sums up. - But it seems that they fought until the last for the survival of the company and did not plan to leave Russia in advance.

Flew away, but did not promise to return

Whether the Mursekaevs planned to leave the country or not, they did it. According to the Investigative Committee, the family flew out of Russia early last week. Presumably, they flew to Turkey immediately after they publicly announced the pre-investigation check of the Investigative Committee.

Türkiye usually cooperates quite willingly with Russian security forces. That’s why Life, in its previous article about VIM-Avia, said that a family can move from Turkey to the UAE, Great Britain or Uzbekistan.

Apartment of the Mursekaevs in Skatertny Lane:

From the Arbat, through Moscow traffic jams, the children of the Mursekaevs got to their place of study. Both entered MGIMO. Moreover, Rashid was recommended for enrollment with only 65 points for the Unified State Exam in Russian.

Based on the judicial database, Life counted four fines against him in the amount of 18 thousand. He did not pay them on time, which doubled the fine and left the guy with a debt burden.

The first wave of claims hit his company in May: the carrier delayed dozens of charter flights across the country. Then the company justified itself by the fact that allegedly not all planes managed to return from scheduled maintenance.

- But excuse me, how did he serve?
in cleaning? - I didn’t appoint him there.
Mr. Shvonder gave him a recommendation.
If I'm not mistaken.
- It is he? - He is.
Only, the bastard, he grew bigger again.

Great company
Founded in 2002, acquired the first 4 aircraft in 2003.
And then it started - in 2004, the company acquired 12 Boeings and became Russia's leading charter carrier on the most popular routes - Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia. Then 4 more Boeings - and already flights to Western and Eastern Europe.
In 2007, VIM-avia became the number one company in the charter transportation market.
In 2008, they began flying under the auspices of the UN. And in 2011, they became the first among companies to fly for the UN.
In 2013, the company transported one and a half million passengers and operated almost 9,000 flights.
In 2015, it already transported 1,600,000 passengers and performed more than 11,000 flights, of which 10,500 were not charter, but regular.
And in 2016 there were already more than two million passengers.
And all this time they bought, bought, bought planes.
17 Boeings and 6 Airbuses. Of which 4 are owned and the rest are leased...
And suddenly, with such successes, everything suddenly ended...
The company is bankrupt.

Yes Yes. There is such a company. A small LLC owned by husband and wife Svetlana and Rashid Mursekaev. The authorized capital of the company is 50,000 rubles (fifty thousand rubles). Do not laugh. This is true. 50,000 rubles, of which Svetlana owns 99% (49,500 rubles) and Rashid - 1%, having invested 500 (five hundred) rubles in his own enterprise. It is with these funds that the founders are liable for all the company’s debts.
And nothing else. Well, still the property of the company. Yes, only it is not theirs, but in leasing. More precisely, all aircraft purchased on lease formally belong to VIM-Avia, but the procedure is such that if they are not paid for, the aircraft are taken back.
So, if anything, Rashid will give as much as 500 rubles. True, his conscience awoke for a second, and he wanted to pay 50,000,000 rubles for the sins of the office from his own funds, but he came to his senses in time and went on the run. But according to the law, he owes 500 rubles. Because the director and chief accountant are responsible for all the affairs of the company. But they are not to blame either. Because they say they didn't steal
So here it is.
The company is registered in the urban village of Bogatye Saby, Sabinsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan, on Stroiteley Street 1a. On the diagram this street is marked with a red square. By the way, on the Yandex map of house No. 1a on Stroiteley Street there is no sign. House No. 1 is there, but 1a is not.

Judging by the registration data, the company expected to take off big.
Well, the fall should have been pretty bad.

And already at this stage questions arise.
How did it happen that SUCH a tiny company located, how can I put it mildly, so as not to offend Rich Saba, in a distant region of Tatarstan, was entrusted with loans, leasing schemes, and licenses, in the end?

Here is the shortest path to success for a company founder:

Mursekaev Rashid Maviyaevich (born in 1965, Barnaul, Altai region, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian businessman, owner of the aviation company VIM-Avia.

It didn’t work out with the shipping company, so I went into the airline business. Professional.
So, the matter is not just dark, but the darkest.

By the way, VIM is Viktor Ivanovich Merkulov, the same founder of the company who sold the company to Rashid. He died in 2006 at the age of 70. This man is really connected with aviation - he was an honored pilot of Russia and the founder of various airlines.

And here are the financial statements of the VIM-Avia company with an authorized capital of 50,000 rubles for 2014 and 2015. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find it for 2016:

What do we see? And we see a lot of beautiful things.
For example, the company's fixed assets amount to 2 billion 455 million rubles.

And the debts are 8 billion. Of these, borrowed funds amount to 5 billion rubles and debts to creditors amount to almost 3.
Tell me, please, do you need to be an auditor or at least an accountant to be surprised by such a disproportion?

At the same time, there are accounts receivable in the amount of 3 billion rubles. Who should VIM-avia?
Leasing companies whose 19 aircraft are not on the company’s balance sheet for some reason? Or did Mursekaev himself so cunningly persuade the accountant to spend these funds in this way? Most likely, both. The balance sheet won't tell you about it - someone owes the company, and that's it. For some reason, it seems to me that VIM-Avia is owed by some offshore companies. Who just can’t pay off their debts! But this is so, unfounded suspicions.

In general, leased property should be accounted for in the fixed assets account. So, everything is complicated. You can't just tell from the balance sheet. So, yes. It's a dark matter.

Can you imagine? All the planes on the company's balance sheet are worth 2.5 billion, and yet someone owes her 3 billion. For what? Who? The version that these are all "insolvent travel agencies" or "airports", or even passengers, can be safely dismissed. Why did the whole country suddenly owe the company such a huge amount? Still offshore. Maybe.

Moreover, the profit from the sale of the company in 2015 amounted to only one and a half billion rubles. Net profit in 2015 turned out to be only 626 million, and in 2014 there was a loss in general. This data can be seen in the income statement

And the company borrows everything and borrows money. And someone gives her everything and gives them ... In 2015, however, they partially paid off debts, but also borrowed again.
For what?
Unclear.
Obviously not for planes. Because they did not increase on the balance sheet, unlike debts, and fixed assets even decreased by 500 million ..

Apparently, they were still frolicking with borrowed funds. Here and there...
As a result, debts of 8 billion rubles accumulated already in 2015, which it was no longer possible to pay back.
And what happened there in 2016-2017 is still unknown.
Probably something terrible.
As a result, the founder had the same "extra" 50 million rubles, which he wanted to give to save the company, which he himself had driven into debt, and apparently not the only ones. And the company has another 2 billion rubles in loans.

Does anyone really think that a hired director and, moreover, an accountant were involved in all this?

Today, they write, the company has a debt of 10 billion rubles, which they owe to credit institutions, lessors, airports, fuel filling complexes. And even if all the company’s assets are sold, it will be impossible to cover these debts.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Mursekaev is now sunbathing on his island.

I wonder if the auditors saw these glaring imbalances in 2014? What about the tax authorities? And the creditors weren’t interested in the state of affairs in the company where they generously poured money? Did the banks that issued the loans not care? What about leasing companies?

How is it that no one noticed that the company had accumulated debts equal to its annual sales revenue?
And the funny thing is that our founders are not responsible for anything. They are not to blame.
And then it turns out that the director and accountant do too. They paid the budget and salaries regularly.
Everything else seems to be an internal matter of the LLC.
It is even impossible to open a criminal case.
Whats up? Fraud? Theft?
Who deceived whom? Who was robbed? Well, except for passengers stuck on their routes
Creditors? So they themselves are to blame. These are their “risks”.
Prove it.
I'm afraid they can't. And the city of Londongrad will acquire new residents with million-dollar accounts in foreign banks