09/21/2006, Photo: AP
Yuri Luzhkov is happy with any gift
Nikolay Mikhalev
Muscovites celebrated the second, unofficial city day on September 21. Today is the 70th birthday of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. [...] The mayor's office of dp.ru stated that “there are so many people who want to congratulate Yuri Mikhailovich that since early morning the phones have been hot and refuse to work.” [...] An impressive queue of representative Mercedes, Boomers and jeeps lined up at the entrance of the mayor's residence on Tverskaya, 13. [...] Presents from big business turned out to be so significant that their donors were embarrassed to reveal the contents of the packages to journalists and boxes.
The main builders and realtors of Moscow - Mirax Group, companies DSK-1, DON-Stroy, PIK and MIAN - flatly refused to tell dp.ru what they gave Yuri Mikhailovich for his anniversary.
The president of Mirax Group, Sergei Polonsky, ordered that “information about gifts to the mayor be classified and not disclosed.” Polonsky decided to get rid of the annoying journalists with a toast in honor of the mayor: “Let all the houses built during the reign of Yuri Mikhailovich be called “Luzhkovki.” The memory of them will remain for centuries, because the buildings that are being built now in Moscow are not being erected even in Europe!”
The First Mortgage Company said that the holiday gift to Luzhkov is of such an “intimate and personal nature” that it is simply indecent to talk about it to other people.
Even the closest circle of the management of House-Building Plant No. 1 was not privy to the secret of the mayor’s gift. The assistant to the general director of DSK-1 said that one day he “went to Kopelev with questions, after which I didn’t bother.” [...]
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© “Your Day”, 09/23/2006, Yuri Mikhailovich was literally inundated with gifts
Yuri Luzhkov was given a rare car for 500,000 euros
Irina Ivanova
The head of the capital's construction company DSK-1, Vladimir Kopelev, presented the mayor with an antique car - an Alfa Romeo produced in 1949.
On the day of Yuri Mikhailovich’s 70th birthday, he was literally inundated with gifts - all day long they were brought both personally and by messengers directly to the mayor’s office. And in the evening - to the Central Manege, where the celebration took place.
The gifts had to be transported in minibuses. There was also a misunderstanding - 5 boxes of vodka were broken at the banquet. But not by guests, but by movers, who were generously forgiven in honor of their birthday.
Later than the others, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu and head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Yevgeny Primakov stayed late. The guests finally left only around midnight - immediately after the birthday boy left the Manege.
Those who left earlier did not see the highlight of the program: Alla Pugacheva in a stunning pink dress, who spent the first half of the evening at the same table with Maxim Galkin, nevertheless sang “A Million Scarlet Roses” for Yuri Mikhailovich. And after the prima donna honored the capital’s mayor dance.
Present
Of course, everyone present was concerned about the issue of gifts for the hero of the day. And if the officials mainly chose objects of art - paintings, ancient cups made of bronze and silver - then the businessmen turned out to be much more original. As TD learned, the most luxurious gift was presented to the mayor by builder Vladimir Kopelev, who once assembled the first panel high-rise building in Moscow and built up more than one district of the capital.
The general director of House-Building Plant No. 1, who received the “Honorary Citizen of Moscow” sign from the hands of the mayor of Moscow about a year ago, chose a rare car.
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Vladimir Kopelev spent about two months choosing the gift. As a source at DSK-1 told us, a black 1949 Alfa Romeo was found at one of the European auctions. They bought it without haggling - for almost 500 thousand euros.
“This is a luxury model,” our source admires. “And we didn’t even have to replace anything in the car—neither the engine nor the interior. She is in excellent condition!
But even such a car faced the eternal problem of customs clearance - it stood at the border for about three weeks, until it was finally brought to Moscow on September 17.
Folder
Vladimir Efimovich did not dare to bring the rarity directly to the celebration. He ordered a dark blue folder from the printing house with the DSK-1 logo and included a piece of paper with congratulations on one page and a photo of the car on the other. The folder itself has a notch for a key.
– Kopelev is a cautious person. This was also done so that Yuri Mikhailovich had the opportunity to refuse, allegedly taking it as a joke.
That the famous metropolitan developer FSK Leader is going to acquire the no less famous metropolitan developer DSK-1 (a house-building plant dating back to Soviet times). This is not news for people initiated into the situation, but for the time being they did not speak out loud about such a prospect. Now that the cards are open, it’s time to figure out what such a takeover will lead to.
DSK-1’s interest in finding a partner is understandable - the company has accumulated 12.8 billion rubles in credit debt and simply does not see any other way to solve its problems: the crisis in the housing sales market is obvious. In March, such iconic figures from the management as A. V. Konstantinov (general director), V. S. Dvoretsky, A. A. Pankovsky and others left it - most of them gave at least 20 years of their lives to DSK-1, they have invaluable knowledge about all aspects of production processes and organizational relations, but feel unnecessary to the new owners.
It becomes interesting for what purpose “Leader” plans to acquire such a toxic asset, without having any guarantees of market revival. And what’s more, the management is accelerating, having no experience in working with the production of building materials, which is an important part of DSK-1’s business (three reinforced concrete plants, one reinforced concrete plant, etc.)?
To answer this question, certain documents need to be brought up. And the longer you delve into them, the more interesting the picture emerges and the more sympathy you feel for the DSK employees. It turns out that FSK Leader has already tried exactly the same scheme of working with a struggling developer - with, it must be said, an excellent result for itself, but not for the acquired property and its clients.
Their universities
The Voronin family, who now own Leader, has long lived in the construction industry - a labor dynasty, as they said in the old days. However, for the time being, this name did not sound in the public space, although back in the 1990s, market participants knew very well how difficult it was to reach the head of the capital’s construction complex, Vladimir Resin, if his inconspicuous assistant, “right hand” - Alexander Voronin - did not want it.
In 2002, Voronin, however, unexpectedly (for the uninitiated) resigned from the Moscow government and found himself the head of the Construction and Industrial Corporation "Razvitie", which in previous years had taken over the legacy of the capital's developers of the Soviet era, primarily the Glavmosstroy trust. This quiet privatization took place thanks to the “purchase of shares from labor collectives,” and the person behind the SEC “Razvitie,” according to the participants in those events, was none other than Mikhail Khodorkovsky (let’s remember this sonorous name) with his bank “Menatep.” To hide the real owners of the business, Voronin built a chain: “Development” belonged to three closed joint-stock companies (“Antibes”, “Guerin” and “Quentin”, the director of all three is Larisa Voronina), and they, in turn, belonged to two companies from the Isle of Man (remember and this love for Britain, the final stop for most fugitive thieves and political emigrants).
When the oligarch patron was taken into custody, Alexander Voronin felt like a full-fledged owner of Development, especially since his son Vladimir had by that time become the first vice-president of Glavmosstroy, responsible for the financial operations of the trust. But it quickly became clear that, unlike the cunning businessmen from Menatep Bank, the ex-official was not able to independently navigate the stormy sea of Moscow real estate. The company ran up debts, had to forget about operating profits, and the protection of property turned out to be very poorly constructed. The Voronins’ business was protected by the now famous businessman Vladimir Palikhata with his Sfera Group of Companies. The reputation of this man, to put it mildly, is ambiguous - for example, in 2010, investigator Grivtsov was found guilty of extorting as much as 15 million dollars from Palikhata for not involving this gentleman in cases of raider takeovers. Isn't this the smoke that doesn't exist without fire?
The Sfera Group of Companies did not help: the end of the Voronin era at Glavmosstroy came on the night of June 24, 2005, with a special operation of hundreds of impolite people with bats who, in the style of the 1990s, seized the company’s mansion in the center of Moscow. The Development holding passed into other hands (now its fragments are controlled by Oleg Deripaska’s structures), and the Voronins received good compensation, an excellent lesson and a thirst for revenge. From now on, only they themselves will seize enterprises.
Balashikha - the city of dreams
Immediately after leaving the Razvitie SEC, 30-year-old Vladimir Aleksandrovich Voronin, his father’s son, created an enterprise with his former colleagues from Glavmosstroy under the loud name “Leader Financial and Construction Corporation”. The new organization, however, had almost no finances, much less a material base, so future leadership was not visible. However, thanks to the connections of Voronin Sr., who, by the way, with his pride in hand, remained in the structures of Glavmosstroy to help the new owners, FSK Leader slowly began to enter construction projects, first as a junior, and then as an equal partner. But the Voronins, who remembered the golden times of “Development”, dreamed of more. And then the future irreconcilable enemy, the MIEL Group of Companies, accidentally came to their aid.
In 2007, due to financial difficulties, the MIEL Group withdrew from the Solntsegrad project - under this name new neighborhoods were built in Balashikha. The operator of the project was a specially created Balashikha-City LLC, owned by three partners - B. O. Bukatov, D. V. Semykin and E. A. Kolmykov. The partners, for whom this was the first major project, began an urgent search for a new investor, and then the kind Vladimir Voronin and his “Leader” appeared on their way.
Then the detective story begins - fortunately for the readers, it is abundantly documented (I have copies of a number of agreements at my disposal). Voronin Jr. graciously agreed to participate in the project. The parties agreed that they would provide FSK Leader with a 51% stake in Balashikha-City LLC at a nominal price (RUB 5,100) in exchange for full financing of the facility. A plot of 15 hectares that belonged to the unlucky developers also became the property of Voronin. The acquirer of this entire share was a company with a simple Russian name, Amland Holdings Limited. 25% remained with Kolmykov (through Concept Trading Corporation), 24% with Semykin and Bukatov (Solntsegrad Limited). The deal was finalized in 2009.
To speed up the sales of apartments in the complex, Voronin insisted on changing the name of the project: “Solntsegrad” suddenly began to appear on the market as “New Izmailovo”. Here, of course, a question for the antimonopoly officers who are in charge of our advertising: if I understand everything correctly, we are faced with a blatant misleading of the consumer, the Moscow region is actually presented as a Moscow region (Izmailovo is an area in the east of Moscow).
Having received operational control over Balashikha-City LLC, Vladimir Voronin, according to his trusting partners, deprived them of access to accounts and reporting for the project, and also installed a new “pocket” general director - M. O. Orlova. But this was not enough for Voronin - Voronin did not want to give away 49% of the profits from a very tasty, albeit essentially alien, project. And then an elegant scheme was born, worthy of being included in textbooks.
At the beginning of 2011, Vladimir Voronin stated that there was no money left to complete the project, but there was a friendly bank that would help with a loan on preferential terms. CB Stroykredit turned out to be so friendly that Voronin occupied a chair on the board of directors there, and recommended the real head of the bank, Mikhail Levitsky, to his partners as his old friend.
In exchange for a short-term loan in the amount of 500 million rubles, the first investors of New Izmailov were asked for very little - to draw up a purchase and sale agreement for their shares in Balashikha-City LLC at nominal value in favor of a certain "Intravest Holding Limited" proposed by Levitsky, registered in Belize, but also strongly associated with Cyprus. Almost the former owners did not pay attention to the interesting fact that the registration numbers of “Amland Holdings” (with whom Voronin, let me remind you, entered the project) and “Intravest Holding” go one after another, the date and place of registration coincide. Moreover, when concluding the deal, the same representative, V.V. Petrova, acted on behalf of Voronin and Levitsky.
The preliminary sale agreement assumes that Concept Trading and Solntsegrad Limited will return their shares (repurchase) in Balashikha City LLC after the end of loan payments. This is evidenced in the agreement signed on May 17, 2011 between D. Semykin and M. Levitsky’s representative V. Petrova, registered by Moscow notary A. E. Savelyev in the register No. 6-2436 (similar agreements were concluded with Concept Trading and Amland Holdings "). Belizean and Cypriot legal entities constantly appear in this amusing document - it is sad and funny that the Moscow region is de jure being developed by anyone, but not the Russians.
And the loan agreement itself was concluded a little earlier - on March 31, 2011 (No. 1954/KU). According to this document, the borrower, Balashikha-City LLC, received a credit line of 500 million rubles. with the obligation to repay it in three tranches: 150, 150 and 200 million plus interest. The first part of the debt had to be repaid by March 31, 2012.
Thus, Balashikha-City LLC, controlled by Voronin Jr., became the sole recipient and manager of the loan funds. E. Kolmykov, D. Semykin and B. Bukatov were simply waiting for the work to be completed, the apartments to be sold, and the loan to be returned - then the shares in their own LLC, which had been given as debt security, would return to them. In addition, Kolmykov and Semykin acted as guarantors under the agreement - in the amount of 120 million rubles each (guarantee agreement No. 195Ch/KU-02 dated March 31, 2011).
Shortly before the deadline for the first tranche, its deadline was moved to July 15, 2012 - it’s surprising that the bank made such a concession, although you wouldn’t do anything for the sake of a member of the board of directors. Voronin cheerfully assured the co-investors that there would be no problems with payment. But on July 25, both guarantors received telegrams demanding that they immediately repay the existing debt “due to the failure of Balashikha-City LLC to fulfill the terms of the loan agreement.”
It was completely by chance that the guarantors did not have an extra 120 million lying around at that moment, and they were not in the mood to pay for a loan that they did not take out. And CB Stroykredit generally seemed to give up on the situation - the rights of claim were more than promptly (just two weeks after the tranche deadline) transferred to the collection office of IDG Group LLC. It’s funny that the legal address of this Group was not found - all its employees were sitting in the same building with... Stroykredit Bank. Coincidence? I don’t think so, but the investigation decided that way when it decided not to initiate a criminal case. Even the fact that IDG paid Stroykredit Bank for the rights of claim... with promissory notes from Stroykredit itself did not bother the law enforcement agencies.
Due to default on its debt, CB Stroykredit became the full owner of 100% of Balashikha-City LLC - and immediately sold the ill-fated developer to another Belizean phantom, Swordfish Global Holdings Inc. (the smaller the aphid, the louder the name). V. Voronin was indignant at the actions of the bank, and even sued M. Levitsky together with his former co-owners, but soon declared that they “agreed on everything.” It’s not hard to guess what exactly it’s about - after all, although Balashikha-City LLC has legally changed several offshore owners since then, apartments in this complex are still being sold by FSK Leader. And BC “Stroykredit” soon fell asleep - in March 2014, it became one of the first victims of the new policy of the Central Bank: its license was revoked for “high-risk lending policy.” Apparently, 500 million rubles flowed into Balashikha-City LLC. were one of the parts of such a “high-risk”, but in fact fraudulent policy. Shortly before the license was revoked, Mikhail Levitsky withdrew about 10 billion rubles from the bank. I was unable to find out where the former banker is now.
Thus, the shares from the previous owners were almost legally squeezed out for V. Voronin’s failure to fulfill obligations on the loan, which was received and managed by a company completely controlled by him. How adults, respectable, successful people signed up for such enslaving conditions is a complex question.
All their attempts to initiate a criminal case were met with replies. The most detailed was the monstrously illiterate Resolution on the refusal to initiate a criminal case, signed by Lieutenant Colonel of Justice T.V. Lupandina on May 22, 2013. Confusing the names of organizations, the investigator quite sensibly sets out the history of events, listing all the obvious signs of affiliation of the structures of V. Voronin and M. Levitsky in the acquisition of Balashikha-City LLC, but “the investigation has no reason to believe that the transactions were concluded under the influence of deception available." Appeals to the prosecutor's office also did not yield any results. At the moment, the initiators and first investors of New Izmailov seem to have already come to terms with the loss of business.
Judging by the current state of the facility, the grandiose fuss of the “Leaders” did not benefit it
Meanwhile, builders worked in Balashikha - slowly and reluctantly. The deadlines for delivery of objects were constantly missed. 11 years have passed since the start of construction, but despite all the money raised from investors and CB Stroykredit, it has not been completed: the last buildings are still bare floors made of concrete and reinforcement, in some places they rise above the ground even without external walls on... three or four floors of bare concrete and reinforcement. The surrounding area, of course, also doesn’t look too unpresentable.
The dubious splendor and undoubted poverty of “New Izmailov”
DSK-1, the path to greatness
Now this elegant multi-pass (something similar was created with the Kaluga SK Monolit) threatens to be repeated in DSK-1, but on a completely different scale. Instead of one complex near Moscow in a not-so-cozy area of the Moscow region, FSK Leader has set its sights on several very tasty projects in the capital. The change of ownership of DSK-1 should take place in July, at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders: judging by the early departure of the old management, he does not want to watch this circus.
Together with Vladimir Voronin, who generally denies interest in acquiring the company, but only “wants to help” it, Ivan Borisov gathered there - the same one who, as the head of Afina LLC, contracted to build the Scientific Center for Neurology, and built the Zodiac residential complex. . With such friends you don’t need enemies, but 12.8 billion rubles of debt leaves no choice. Debt and difficulties in completing current projects are forcing the plant to look for funds from the outside, with an increase in the credit line.
At the same time, as far as we know, FSK Leader is not going to risk its own money - we are talking about on-lending at Rosselkhozbank (JSC Rosselkhozbank is 100% owned by the Russian Federation through the Federal Property Management Agency). If we superimpose on this situation a tracing of the fate of Balashikha-City LLC with minor changes in the form of the absence of a pocket credit institution, we can predict the next course of events.
- In exchange for financing the completion of the current facilities of DSK-1, FSK Leader receives control over the company (51%) through another offshore company.
- Under the joint responsibility of the owners, a loan is taken out from Rosselkhozbank for DSK-1 or the company managing it.
- The DSK-1 sites, according to various schemes, are transferred to structures affiliated with FSK Leader.
- When the loan payment comes due, the house-building plant suddenly faces financial problems.
- Since it is unlikely that it will be possible to reach an agreement with the bank (I hope Levitsky is not there), the plant will have to go bankrupt. 8 thousand people are losing their jobs.
- The case of deliberate bankruptcy causing damage to the state on an especially large scale is either not initiated at all, or is directed against the specially appointed “chairman of the Pound.”
This is indirectly confirmed by the fact that the Voronins’ activity clearly increased after the return of their former boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky to the business world. The love of the “leaders” for British offshores, returning after the Cypriot-Belizean infatuation, is in harmony with the English projects of the oligarch seeking revenge - who, by the way, has every reason to believe that Voronin Sr. squandered the holding entrusted to him by Menatep. And the style of work of the Family, described in detail above, is very reminiscent of the times of the formation and power of YUKOS. It is possible that behind the backs of trusted, albeit once guilty persons, Big Mikhail is returning to Russian business.
DSK-1, one of the largest construction companies in Moscow, has changed its general director: the successor to Vladimir Kopelev, who held this post since 1982, was the director of construction, Anatoly Konstantinov. Mr. Kopelev, who is considered a co-owner of the company, will take the position of chairman of the newly created supervisory board of DSK-1. According to developers, the reshuffle may be part of the pre-sale preparation of DSK-1.
Several Moscow officials told Kommersant about the personnel changes at DSK-1. One of them clarified that at the Saturday bypass, Vladimir Resin (member of the board of directors of DSK-1.— "Ъ") congratulated the new CEO Anatoly Konstantinov on his appointment. Mr. Konstantinov has been working at DSK-1 for about 30 years, in recent years as a construction director. First Deputy General Director of DSK-1 Andrey Pankovsky confirmed this information. According to him, on April 4, the board of directors of DSK-1 amended the company’s charter to create a supervisory board, of which Mr. Kopelev became the chairman. “Vladimir Kopelev remains in the company, will continue to be involved in management, but is partially moving away from operational work,” explained Mr. Pankovsky.
“As a rule, the founding fathers of companies, even if they are co-owners, at some point move away from operational management, especially if the business is already established. This shift can also be explained by Mr. Kopelev’s advanced age,” comments Dmitry Shmelev, commercial director of the Snegiri company.
Vladimir Kopelev was born in 1935. He has been working at DSK-1 since 1965, and has been the company’s general director since 1985.
DSK-1 is one of the oldest enterprises in the Moscow construction complex. Founded in 1961, it was initially part of the Glavmosstroy system, and in 1994 it was corporatized. Now - JSC. According to SPARK-Interfax, DSK-1 is owned by five LLCs (owners are offshore companies registered in the Seychelles) and many individuals. Mr. Kopelev is not on this list, but market participants consider him to be the owner of a large stake in DSK-1 - “up to a controlling stake.” More than half of the construction work portfolio of DSK-1 is carried out by order of the city. Thus, in 2007, the volume of city orders amounted to about 700 thousand square meters. m, and the total construction capacity of DSK-1 is designed for 1.2 million sq. m.
In the last three years, the largest enterprises of the capital's construction complex began to be acquired by federal shareholders: in 2005, Glavmosstroy was purchased by Oleg Deripaska's Bazel, and in 2006, Mikhail Gutseriev's structures consolidated more than 60% of Mospromstroy. In February, investment company A1, part of Alfa Group, announced its desire to buy Mosinzhstroy. “Personnel changes are not necessarily related to the sale, but DSK-1 is certainly an interesting asset for purchase; there are many willing to buy it, including large landowners, such as the Absolut group,” notes Galaxy Group commercial director Artem Tsogoev.
According to the head of a large development company, DSK-1 is already in the process of negotiations with potential buyers. According to a source in the capital's construction complex, among the interested parties is the Gazpromipoteka fund, which last September won the right to reconstruct three blocks in the Fili-Davydkovo area (47 hectares, about 330 thousand sq. m of new construction), but does not have its own construction capacity. Deputy General Director for Marketing and Commercial Affairs of the Gazpromipoteka Fund Andrey Valaev declined to comment on Saturday. Mr. Pankovsky noted that “there are partnerships with Gazprom” structures and “joint large-scale programs are being considered, where Gazprom will act as a co-investor,” but he does not know about the sale of the plant. According to Artem Tsogoev, the production capacity of DSK-1 alone (excluding land plots acquired by it) could cost about $300 million.
Olga Kommersant-Sichkar, Khalil Kommersant-Aminov
MOSCOW, November 7 - RIA Novosti. The alleged scam of 15 billion rubles, the victim of which could have been the former head of the board of directors of the large construction company DSK-1 Vladimir Kopelev, has all the signs of a classic fraud, lawyer, senior lecturer at the RUDN Law Institute, Candidate of Legal Sciences Igor Noskov told RIA Novosti.
According to a RIA Novosti source, unknown scammers, using fictitious documents, first bought out the shares of the company-owner of OJSC DSK-1 for $21 million, and then, having terminated the contract, through the court they ordered Kopelev to pay 241 million Swiss francs (at that time more than 15 billion rubles).
The final payment itself, apparently, was not made due to circumstances beyond the control of the scammers. A criminal case has been opened; however, there are no suspects yet.
“The accessible description of the above actions has signs of classic fraudulent schemes. People from the victim’s circle may possibly be involved in the crime: it is unlikely that a person on the street would have sheets of paper with the signature of the head of one of the largest construction companies,” Noskov said, making a reservation: that it is premature to draw conclusions based on media information.
If the attackers really managed to get blank sheets of paper with Kopelev’s signature, then it is no longer possible for him to challenge this agreement with the reference to the fact that he did not sign it, the expert noted. Although examination in some cases - but not always - can determine whether the moment of signing a sheet of paper and the moment of writing the text differ in time.
At the same time, the lawyer raises questions about the episode of the alleged fraud, when unknown people bought shares of the company that owns DSK-1 for $21 million, with the aim of further terminating the deal.
“With such a scheme, in order for the victim to have an obligation to return the funds, he would first have to receive them. It is unlikely that a bank transfer was used in this situation, otherwise the receipt of $21 million would not have gone unnoticed by him,” the interlocutor noted.
Therefore, it is likely that the “transfer of funds” could be made in cash and issued with a receipt, “which is nonsense given such a large transaction amount,” Noskov noted.
“Initiating litigation in an arbitration court, as a rule, is an element of a fraudulent scheme for the reason that it is easier to achieve the desired goal through an arbitration court than through a state court. Moreover, proceedings of this magnitude in a state court would attract increased attention.” , said the interlocutor.
The lawyer recalled that it was the dubiousness of most decisions made by arbitration courts that led to the reform of the arbitration court system. As a result, from November 1, 2017, the number of arbitration courts operating in Russia decreased from 1.5 thousand to four. The main condition for the functioning of the arbitration court was the availability of a special permit from the government of the Russian Federation.
“Given the size of the fraud, it should be taken into account that such actions could only be carried out by a group of people who have special knowledge in various fields and high professionalism,” the expert concluded.
The DSK-1 company is one of the largest and oldest house-building plants in Russia. In the summer of 2016, 97% of the company was acquired by the Leader financial and construction corporation through a no-cash transaction. The total portfolio of projects of FSK Leader is 2.5 million square meters of real estate.
DSK-1
Date of creation: 1997 - in its modern form. Historically exists since 1961.
Type: limited partnership (limited partnership).
Leaders: since 2012 general director Anatoly Konstantinov. Since August 2015, documents have been signed by interim director Alexey Ermakov.
Position on the real estate market: One of the largest construction organizations in the Moscow region. In 2013, it built 1.17 million square meters. m of housing. Company representatives say they are completing 80 apartments every day. The system of systemically important enterprises of Russia is included in the list.
Financial indicators: In 2014, revenue amounted to 38.8 billion rubles (Forbes data) or $690 million (RBC data).
General information: The main feature of DSK-1, as its name suggests, is the presence of its own house-building plant. The company produces components and builds houses of the P-44T series and its modifications: P-44K, P-44T-1-6, P44-TM-25, D-25N1 (DOMKON) - allows you to build a 25-story building in a few months. And finally, the latest series is DomRIK, designed together with the Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill. This series includes apartments from 31 sq. m up to 60.5 sq. m.
Previously, DSK-1 panels were also purchased by other developers, including Morton, until they launched their own house-building plant.
It has a reputation as a reliable company, although it sells apartments using opaque bill of exchange schemes or under a preliminary sales agreement.
DSK-1 includes three reinforced concrete plants - Krasnopresnensky, Rostokinsky and Tushinsky, Khoroshevsky reinforced concrete plant, three departments - design and technological, preparation of construction production and investment and production and technological equipment, specialized department number 213, as well as Fram Windows LLC DSK-1", CJSC "Monolitfundamentstroy" and LLC "BRAAS DSK-1".
Geography: Moscow and Moscow region.
Strange form of legal entity
"DSK-1 and Co" is registered in a very rare legal form for Russia - it is a "limited partnership (limited partnership)." It's no secret that developers always register many subsidiaries. It has become common to add the phrase “group of companies” before the name. But here is something different.
Residential complex Friday
What is a “limited partnership”? This is a legal entity that can attract funds from investors (limited partners). Limited partners bear the risk of losses associated with the activities of the partnership, but do not take part in the partnership’s business activities.
This form of ownership makes it possible to legally flawlessly attract funds from citizens. That is why apartments in this company are still sold according to “gray” schemes.
In the press, DSK-1 is called nothing other than a “monster” or a “whale”. Even the authoritative publication RBC recently called DSK-1 a “state company.”
Microdistrict Katyushki-2
In fact, the guarantor of the obligations of CT “DSK-1 and K” is OJSC “DSK-1”, which, oddly enough, is not state-owned at all. Until recently (the latest data has not yet been made publicly available), more than two-thirds of the shares of OJSC DSK-1 belonged to three companies registered in London.
There is no information about the owners of these companies, but in 2012 the media wrote that most of the shares belong to Vladimir Kopelev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC DSK-1. By the way, he headed the First House-Building Plant since 1982.
DSK-1 as an urban developer
DSK-1 has traditionally been the main developer of the capital. These still Soviet traditions continued for many years in the “new” Russia. For a long time, more than half of the construction work portfolio of DSK-1 was carried out by order of the city.
Thus, in 2007, the volume of city orders amounted to about 700 thousand square meters. m. But when in 2011-2012, with the arrival of a new mayor, investment contracts were revised, the volume of construction of DSK-1 dropped significantly. However, the company's reputation is still high.
Residential complex Putilkovo
This is what Stanislav Korotkov, head of the residential real estate department of the Moscow City Real Estate Service, says: “DSK-1 and its limited partnership have a good reputation. This is the “flagship” of panel housing construction, always closely associated with the Moscow authorities. Several reasons save this company from major problems:
- absence of “gigantomania” - the company always takes on projects that are within its capabilities;
- in-house production and installation of panels, all production processes and construction capacities are established;
- good personnel and corporate traditions.
DSK-1 almost always sells apartments according to a scheme with a preliminary purchase and sale agreement (under this scheme, the property is registered as the property of DSK-1 and Co., and only then sold to an investor), the deadlines are sometimes not met, but in general, buyers do not There are big claims against this developer, since some violation of obligations was initially included in the expectations of buyers. In recent years, there have been complaints about the quality of the panels - sometimes balconies leak and freeze, and defects occur, although not often.”
Customer complaints about DSK-1
Like any large developer, KT "DSK-1 and K" forces buyers to purchase apartments on its terms. But despite this, there are quite a few dissatisfied people, given the volume of construction. Among the main complaints is the “traditional” imposition of its own management company.
There are reports that some employees extorted bribes to speed up the re-registration of documents (when purchasing under a preliminary sales agreement). But here’s what potential and actual buyers of DSK-1 apartments need to keep in mind.
Very often there are reports that DSK-1 is handing over certain buildings to the state commission ahead of schedule. But buyers say the process of renting out a home does nothing to speed up getting the keys. It is suggested that the data from the “state commission” are used solely as a basis for raising prices.
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Sometimes the issuance of keys is delayed for more than six months (which is not typical for other companies).
New buildings of KT "DSK-1 and Co"
"Old" Moscow
- Residential complex "Kvartaly 21/19", on Ryazansky Avenue
Moscow outside the Moscow Ring Road and Moscow region
- Residential complex "Friday", Solnechnogorsk district, Brekhovo village (from 68 thousand rubles)
- Residential complex "Nekrasovka" (from 100 thousand rubles)
- Balashikha, st. Green (from 82 thousand rubles)
- Balashikha, st. Soviet (from 74 thousand rubles)