Chubais complained about the blackmail of a former employee. Talented financier Ilya Suchkov stole the house of Chubais and the debts of Minets

At first I wanted to call this book Colors of the Pearl Island. But then he remembered that pearls had not been mined on the island of Sri Lanka for a long time, and changed the name. Once upon a time, the island was really pearl, because in ancient times the Sri Lankans got the best pearls in the East from the bottom of the sea. They wrote about this at one time (Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta. Even in the literature of the last century, rich pearl crafts in Sri Lanka are mentioned. But now, alas, there are no traces of them. Nevertheless, the island can be called pearl. Many travelers so they called it - “the pearl of the East”, “the pearl of the Indian Ocean”, because the island in a necklace of white reefs looks like a pearl on the blue velvet of the Indian Ocean.

Colors of a distant island! Now, after a number of years, Sri Lanka seems even more colorful and exotic. “This is one of the most beautiful places in the world… The island has everything that the heart desires,” Azerbaijani geographer G. Z. Shirvani wrote in his diary after a long journey through the countries of the East.

The bright colors of Sri Lanka, - said sculptor Marianna Yaroslavskaya, who has visited the country several times, in an interview with reporters, - so impressed my imagination that at first I felt something like confusion. I wanted to convey this multicolor by all means, but I still did not know how to do it. I did not know, but I already understood that from now on I would no longer be able to limit myself to one-color sculpture.

I would not want to mix these bright colors like on an artist's palette. It seems to me that we just need to talk about meetings with the islanders, about their life problems, customs, traditions, beliefs and give the reader the opportunity to try to imagine all the charm of a distant island.

On the school map, this Ceylon looked like a drop under the udder of the mainland.

Chingiz Aitmatov. "Early Cranes"

The Daily News, published in Colombo, published a letter from a Sri Lankan citizen. During a tour of the United States, he wrote, I discovered that Americans had a very vague idea of ​​the beautiful island in the Indian Ocean, and many of them did not even know where it was. How often in public places, at various events and receptions, I had to take part in something like this conversation:

Are you from India?

No, I am from Sri Lanka.

Is it in India?

Where is it?

And here the poor Sri Lankan once again had to explain that Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, is a small independent state where tea grows; the well-known American film The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed on the island, etc.

Ordinary Americans have little interest in Asian issues. They heard about India, from which "more than one American president had a headache," about the Indian "saint" Hari Krishna. They know about the existence of Vietnam, where they could not win. But Sri Lanka?

It would be possible not to attach special importance to these lines, full of bitterness. But somehow, having become acquainted with the multi-volume work of the Sri Lankan historian N. E. Virasuriya, I found statements about the unseemly role of the West in this region.

In the preface, N. E. Virasuriya writes: “The history of Ceylon is little known, even less understood. During the period of British rule, Ceylon was considered "Lipton's Tea Garden" somewhere in India. Lipton (Sir Thomas) was an English capitalist who went from being an errand boy to a merchant and millionaire. He made a business planting tea trees, although his hobby was yachts. Later, Ceylon ceased to exist as a country.

In the sad history of colonial conquests, there are cases when not only such states as Sri Lanka lost their name and ceased to exist. Larger countries and entire continents have been subjected to a similar fate.

For many decades, the inhabitants of the island fully ate the bitter fruits of colonialism. All the wealth of the country, whose economy was based on the "three pillars" - tea, rubber and coconuts - floated across the ocean.

While living in Sri Lanka, I traveled a lot around the tea plantations and saw with my own eyes the hard work of the plantation workers, who are under the hot tropical sun all day long. I had a chance to meet with the planters, these heirs of Kipling's heroes, whose life is covered with legends. I was particularly struck by the story of an English planter who spent most of the day in his pool, where he rested and "worked." A clock mechanism was installed on the side of the pool, rotating a paper tape. A magnifying glass is fixed above it, similar to those that can be seen on our boys. A sunbeam focused through this glass left a black streak on the moving paper tape. So, if the sun is in the sky, there is a black stripe on the ribbon. Clouds or cloudy run up - the paper strip remains white. The tape fixed with hour markers gave a clear idea of ​​how many hours per day, per week, per month were sunny, and how many were cloudy. The tape was then carefully packed and sent to London. And since the finest teas are made from tender green leaves picked in sunny weather, the owners of the Piccadilly Circus Company easily determined how many tea leaves the workers had to pick from the plantation. "Reporting" is simplified, management staff is small, modernization of tea factories is also not carried out, and income from the exploitation of the island's wealth and cheap labor is expressed in tidy sums in London banks.

Only in 1972 was the British dominion able to finally break the chains of the European "partner" that entangled it. Then a new constitution was adopted: the country was proclaimed the independent sovereign Republic of Sri Lanka (in the translation of Sri Lanka - "beautiful land"). Those who happened to visit this fabulous land put a special meaning into it.

During the years of independent development, much has already been done: agrarian reform has begun, the state sector in the economy has been significantly expanded, large tea and rubber plantations owned by foreign and local capital have been nationalized. The Republic of Sri Lanka no longer wanted to put up with colonial plunder that lasted four and a half centuries.

Sometimes I begin to wonder if I'm doing a disservice to Ceylon by painting its charms. Huge jet monsters are already landing one after another at the Colombo airport, photo and movie cameras are clicking and chirping everywhere ... But there are still hundreds of miles of seashore that have not seen a single tourist, and virgin reefs, near which so many curious fish fearlessly swim to a person that they have to be pushed away from you to take pictures.

Arthur Clark. "Reefs of Taprobane"

Friendliness and hospitality are characteristic features of the inhabitants of a tropical island. During the years of my life in the country, I have not heard any of the Soviet comrades complain about the dishonesty of the Sri Lankans, their unfriendliness or snobbery. Even during periods of change in the political climate, the majority of our acquaintances were always ready to help us in one way or another or give us some advice in case of any difficulties. It brightened up our life in a foreign country very much. Even among those who did not share our views, I did not meet people who were ready to cause us any damage. Apparently, the Sri Lankans learned long ago that regardless of views, likes and dislikes, people must coexist peacefully, otherwise it is impossible to live.

Ilya Suchkov

Colors of a distant island

INSTEAD OF FOREWORD

At first I wanted to call this book Colors of the Pearl Island. But then he remembered that pearls had not been mined on the island of Sri Lanka for a long time, and changed the name. Once upon a time, the island was really pearl, because in ancient times the Sri Lankans got the best pearls in the East from the bottom of the sea. They wrote about this at one time (Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta. Even in the literature of the last century, rich pearl crafts in Sri Lanka are mentioned. But now, alas, there are no traces of them. Nevertheless, the island can be called pearl. Many travelers so they called it - “the pearl of the East”, “the pearl of the Indian Ocean”, because the island in a necklace of white reefs looks like a pearl on the blue velvet of the Indian Ocean.

Colors of a distant island! Now, after a number of years, Sri Lanka seems even more colorful and exotic. “This is one of the most beautiful places in the world... The island has everything that the heart desires,” Azerbaijani geographer G. Z. Shirvani wrote in his diary after a long journey through the countries of the East.

The bright colors of Sri Lanka, - said sculptor Marianna Yaroslavskaya, who has visited the country several times, in an interview with reporters, - so impressed my imagination that at first I felt something like confusion. I wanted to convey this multicolor by all means, but I still did not know how to do it. I did not know, but I already understood that from now on I would no longer be able to limit myself to one-color sculpture.

I would not want to mix these bright colors like on an artist's palette. It seems to me that we just need to talk about meetings with the islanders, about their life problems, customs, traditions, beliefs and give the reader the opportunity to try to imagine all the charm of a distant island.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP OF THE WORLD...

On the school map, this Ceylon looked like a drop under the udder of the mainland.

Chingiz Aitmatov. "Early Cranes"

The Daily News, published in Colombo, published a letter from a Sri Lankan citizen. During a tour of the United States, he wrote, I discovered that Americans had a very vague idea of ​​the beautiful island in the Indian Ocean, and many of them did not even know where it was. How often in public places, at various events and receptions, I had to take part in something like this conversation:

Are you from India?

No, I am from Sri Lanka.

Is it in India?

Where is it?

And here the poor Sri Lankan once again had to explain that Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, is a small independent state where tea grows; the well-known American film The Bridge on the River Kwai was filmed on the island, etc.

Ordinary Americans have little interest in Asian issues. They heard about India, from which "more than one American president had a headache," about the Indian "saint" Hari Krishna. They know about the existence of Vietnam, where they could not win. But Sri Lanka?

It would be possible not to attach special importance to these lines, full of bitterness. But somehow, having become acquainted with the multi-volume work of the Sri Lankan historian N. E. Virasuriya, I found statements about the unseemly role of the West in this region.

In the preface, N. E. Virasuriya writes: “The history of Ceylon is little known, even less understood. During the period of British rule, Ceylon was considered "Lipton's Tea Garden" somewhere in India. Lipton (Sir Thomas) was an English capitalist who went from being an errand boy to a merchant and millionaire. He made a business planting tea trees, although his hobby was yachts. Later, Ceylon ceased to exist as a country."

In the sad history of colonial conquests, there are cases when not only such states as Sri Lanka lost their name and ceased to exist. Larger countries and entire continents have been subjected to a similar fate.

For many decades, the inhabitants of the island fully ate the bitter fruits of colonialism. All the wealth of the country, whose economy was based on the "three pillars" - tea, rubber and coconuts - floated across the ocean.

While living in Sri Lanka, I traveled a lot around the tea plantations and saw with my own eyes the hard work of the plantation workers, who are under the hot tropical sun all day long. I had a chance to meet with the planters, these heirs of Kipling's heroes, whose life is covered with legends. I was particularly struck by the story of an English planter who spent most of the day in his pool, where he rested and "worked." A clock mechanism was installed on the side of the pool, rotating a paper tape. A magnifying glass is fixed above it, similar to those that can be seen on our boys. A sunbeam focused through this glass left a black streak on the moving paper tape. So, if the sun is in the sky, there is a black stripe on the ribbon. Clouds or cloudy run up - the paper strip remains white. The tape fixed with hour markers gave a clear idea of ​​how many hours per day, per week, per month were sunny, and how many were cloudy. The tape was then carefully packed and sent to London. And since the finest teas are made from tender green leaves picked in sunny weather, the owners of the Piccadilly Circus Company easily determined how many tea leaves the workers had to pick from the plantation. "Reporting" is simplified, management staff is small, modernization of tea factories is also not carried out, and income from the exploitation of the island's wealth and cheap labor is expressed in tidy sums in London banks.

Only in 1972 was the British dominion able to finally break the chains of the European "partner" that entangled it. Then a new constitution was adopted: the country was proclaimed the independent sovereign Republic of Sri Lanka (in the translation of Sri Lanka - "beautiful land"). Those who happened to visit this fabulous land put a special meaning into it.

During the years of independent development, much has already been done: agrarian reform has begun, the state sector in the economy has been significantly expanded, large tea and rubber plantations owned by foreign and local capital have been nationalized. The Republic of Sri Lanka no longer wanted to put up with colonial plunder that lasted four and a half centuries.

COLOMBO, COLOMBO

Sometimes I begin to wonder if I'm doing a disservice to Ceylon by painting its charms. Huge jet monsters are already landing one after another at the Colombo airport, photo and movie cameras are clicking and chirping everywhere ... But there are still hundreds of miles of seashore that have not seen a single tourist, and virgin reefs, near which so many curious fish fearlessly swim to a person that they have to be pushed away from you to take pictures.

Arthur Clark. "Reefs of Taprobane"

Friendliness and hospitality are characteristic features of the inhabitants of a tropical island. During the years of my life in the country, I have not heard any of the Soviet comrades complain about the dishonesty of the Sri Lankans, their unfriendliness or snobbery. Even during periods of change in the political climate, the majority of our acquaintances were always ready to help us in one way or another or give us some advice in case of any difficulties. It brightened up our life in a foreign country very much. Even among those who did not share our views, I did not meet people who were ready to cause us any damage. Apparently, the Sri Lankans learned long ago that regardless of views, likes and dislikes, people must coexist peacefully, otherwise it is impossible to live.

But this does not mean that there are no difficult situations or heated discussions. I remember meetings and conversations with the owner of the Davasa-San newspaper concern, Mr. Gunasena, which often went like this:

Good morning! Sit down. What will you drink? Tea or Schwebs? Prefer, probably, "Schwebs", because it is red!? I do not like him.

We, the TASS correspondent and I, agree to Schwebs.

Tell me, gentlemen, is it true that in the Soviet Union children are taken away from their parents from birth and the appropriate state bodies are engaged in their upbringing?

Mr. Gunasena, where are you getting this false information from? You can't take at face value everything that your newspapers reprint from Western sources. You can go to the USSR yourself and see for yourself that this is a lie.

OK then. But tell me, why are your ships in the Indian Ocean? So I think sometimes, you wake up one fine morning, and Colombo is already red. And Gunasena will remain as naked as a falcon! BUT?

Mr. Gunasena, first you do a small favor to the Americans - at their request, you print the materials of American agents in your newspapers, without caring about their content. Then you become a victim of this scribble and begin to believe in what your newspapers publish, including in the "red", or Soviet, threat. You mentioned the voyage of Soviet ships in the Indian Ocean. Why not? After all, Russian ships sailed here a hundred years ago, sailed from Sevastopol across the Indian Ocean to the ports of Dalniy and Port Arthur. Members of the first Russian round-the-world expedition of 1803–1806, headed by Kruzenshtern and Lisyansky, were already conducting oceanographic research in the Indian Ocean. Why, now, in the age of colossal development of technology and broad interethnic economic ties, should the ships of the first country of socialism limit their navigation to the waters of the Black Sea or the port of Nakhodka? But our ships have never appeared in the Indian Ocean basin and in the ports of coastal countries with the aim of seizing foreign lands or establishing military bases. These are the facts of history...

The mansion of the head of "Rosnano" was seized by the zits-chairman

The rich have their own quirks. Roman Abramovich, for example, tirelessly builds yachts. Yes, so that each new one is longer and more luxurious than the previous one. Vladimir Potanin loves truffles worth $95,000 per mushroom, and when asked if a lot of money is spent on a simple party, he dismissively replies: “The gnomes will still dig up!” . The gnomes here are the hard workers of MMC Norilsk Nickel.

The hedonist Anatoly Chubais has his own "trick". He costs himself palaces. At the same time, using the principle of Abramovich - each new one is "more than the old one." Only, unlike the owner of Chelsea, Mr. Chubais is not happy to openly show his income. As is real estate.

Nevertheless, according to the media, today Anatoly Chubais owns luxurious real estate worth more than three billion rubles.

In particular, in the Tver region, near the village of Byltsevo, a chic estate will appear in a couple of years, the owner of which, judging by the documents obtained by the newvz.ru portal, will be the chairman of the board of OJSC Rosnano.

As follows from the same documents, in the same years a defiantly luxurious palace was built in the village of Peredelki, Odintsovo district, Moscow region (this publication is dedicated to it). Its estimated cost is about 50 million US dollars. The construction of the aforementioned estate in the Tver region has an estimated cost of about $1.5 million. That is, the total amount of these expenses for construction whims is 51.5 million US dollars, which is more than 3 billion rubles at the average rate of the Central Bank.

Given that the actual expenses on the palaces are twice the declared income of Mr. Chubais, it is not surprising that, according to the official version, all the above-mentioned luxury is not owned by the head of Rosnano and is registered in the name of "zits-chairmen". But such games are always associated with the risk that the official "zits-chairman" may refuse the imposed prefix "zits-". It seems that Anatoly Chubais got burned on this.

According to Russian Forbes, there was a field across the road from the famous dacha of Boris Pasternak in the village of writers Peredelkino, where the poet liked to walk. This "Pasternak" field is now built up with spacious country residences (see map). As it turned out, the estate on the site closest to the Pasternak Museum in the village of Peredelki was built for the head of Rosnano Anatoly Chubais and his wife, screenwriter, director Avdotya Smirnova. Construction began shortly after the wedding.

The huge house is completely finished, but empty. On him, the plot and other buildings seized. The owner of the property is the Swiss company SFO Concept AG, headed by a young financier Ilya Suchkov. According to Mr. Suchkov, the main house with an area of ​​2656.8 sq. m, two guest houses and other facilities, his company invested $ 50 million. In June and July, creditors of SFO Concept, who lent the company $ 36 million, filed several claims for the return of money, one of them was taken to court. The largest creditor is the company O1 Trust Services ltd of billionaire and friend of Chubais Boris Mints, which in early 2012 issued loans to SFO Concept in the amount of $22.9 million.

What is SFO Concept? “For a long time it was Chubais' family office, the company that managed his assets,” says a source close to one of the creditors. “After the law [banning officials from owning foreign assets] was passed, Mr. Chubais sold the company to Ilya Suchkov. The company received loans from the structures of Boris Mints, because Chubais simply needed money to build a house. And Suchkov at some point realized that he was the happy owner and CEO of a company that owns land and an almost built house, and decided to play on it.

The young financier Ilya Suchkov has a different version. “The house in Peredelki village was originally an investment project by SFO Concept,” he says. - It was financed by 50% from the company's own funds. Anatoly Borisovich was going to buy it, but then, apparently, he changed his mind. And Boris Iosifovich [Mints] liked the house so much that he wanted it for himself and because of this he initiated all this prosecution.”

“This is complete nonsense! - a source close to Chubais is indignant. “The house was immediately built by order of Chubais for the needs of his family.” According to him, in addition to loans for the construction of the house, Chubais' own funds were spent, first through the sale of his property from the balance sheet of SFO Concept, and after the sale of the company, he also reported personal funds. In general, this is much less than $50 million, the source insists. If the creditors sue the house, Chubais may buy it out, the source says, but at present, given the whole situation, he considers it inappropriate to purchase it.

Zitz-chairman from a respected family

The area of ​​the house with all the buildings turned out to be one and a half times larger than Chubais's previous country estate in Zhavoronki near Moscow (according to the tax return for 2010, it was registered to his ex-wife Marina Vishnevskaya). However, representatives of Mintz say that O1 Trust Services is trying to return the money and does not aim to take over the house. “The situation is banal - the owner of SFO Concept does not return the money that he took for the construction of the house, and decided to dispose of it at his own discretion,” says Mints' eldest son Dmitry, head and chairman of the board of directors of O1 Properties.

Ilya Suchkov comes from a family well known to Chubais. His father Vasily Suchkov worked together with the current head of Rosnano at the State Property Committee, Ilya's older brother Igor was an adviser to Chubais for 17 years. An acquaintance of Chubais says that Igor had many ideas: from investing in a network of dental clinics to building a cottage village on the banks of the Ikshinsky reservoir. He called his brother Ilya to manage projects in real estate, who in 2010 headed SFO Concept.

According to Ilya Suchkov, the company quickly ceased to be just a family office and diversified its business: it began to provide consulting services, for commissions it helped companies that worked with securities to attract clients. Suchkov recalls that he spent two days a week in Switzerland, three in Moscow, and discussed matters with Chubais once a year.

In 2013, Russian officials were banned from owning property abroad. Anatoly Chubais sold SFO Concept to Ilya Suchkov. The deal was real, not fictitious, its participants say. However, it follows from the sale and purchase documents submitted by Suchkov that Chubais did not immediately give up control of the company.

According to the terms of the agreement, Suchkov had to pay a large amount of $28 million for SFO Concept with a deferred payment, about the same amount the company at that time directed to finance a house in the village of Peredelki. As an interim measure, Suchkov signed an agreement to terminate the sale and purchase agreement without specifying a date, which Chubais could use at almost any time. A year later, the parties entered into a new agreement on the waiver of interim measures and the completion of settlements at a new price of $152,000, determined in the appraiser's report (slightly less than the authorized capital of 200,000 Swiss francs). Suchkov says that he took some of the money from his parents, borrowed some and added his savings.

A source close to Chubais insists that the due date for the SFO Concept has not yet come, while the transaction price is much higher than the authorized capital, and Suchkov has not yet paid this money. “The SFO Concept company belonged to me for some time,” Anatoly Chubais confirmed. - In 2013, I sold it to another person to organize the construction of a house and raise funds. In the future, the house was to become my property. As far as I know, the company violated a number of commercial agreements in terms of attracted financing, and, apparently, this was the reason for filing claims against it from creditors.”

friendship - friendship

According to Dmitry Mints, SFO Concept overdue payments on a promissory note by $0.9 million, which matured in 2013, but serious questions to Suchkov appeared only in December 2015. “We learned that Suchkov wanted to re-register all SFO Concept real estate to himself as an individual, without paying loans,” Mints is indignant. “This means for us that he not only cannot fulfill his obligations, but is not even going to try to pay us off.”

Suchkov lays out stacks of documents in front of him in his office - loan agreements in two languages, evaluation reports. He admits that the structures of Boris Mints credited SFO Concept. But it is clear from the agreement that the largest unsecured loan from O1 Trust Services ltd for $15.5 million is due only in April 2022, in addition, it was issued not for building a house, but for replenishing the working capital of SFO Concept AG. Another lender, Crizna Holdings ltd, lent $7.5 million for corporate purposes in June 2015 and is now also seeking a refund in court. According to Suchkov, Crizna is affiliated with Mintz, although representatives of the latter deny this.

The implication, creditors say, is that all loans will be used to build a house that Chubais will buy, and after that the company will pay off debts. However, they understand that the sale of real estate on the market will not allow Suchkov to pay off his debts: the current value of SFO Concept's assets is lower than the cost of loans, and, according to them, at the beginning of 2015 the company had no equity capital.

Lenders do not exclude the conclusion of a settlement agreement with Suchkov, but so far the parties have not come to an understanding. Suchkov offers to buy a house from him at a price of $36.5 million, based on a report from an English appraisal company, whose name he does not specify. Lenders also believe that the current market value of the house with all the buildings and the land is only $12.55 million, which is what Knight Frank estimated it to be.

“Representatives of Boris Mints are forcing them to sell real estate in Peredelka at a lower price - at first they gave $7 million, then $12 million, which puts the company at risk of bankruptcy and bringing SFO Concept management to criminal liability,” says Suchkov. “If Mintz then cedes the property at this price to Chubais, this will mean assistance in the legalization of income, because his official income does not allow him to purchase a property from SFO Concept at market value.” He also believes that the issuance of unsecured loans by Mints for ten years may simply be a transfer of funds belonging to Chubais to legalize part of the income, and, in order to verify this, he sent a request to the Cypriot law enforcement agencies.

According to calculations, Chubais's official income in 2010-2015 exceeded 2 billion rubles. He planned to pay for the house in the village of Peredelki through the sale of the property of the ZPIF Perspective Companies, established together with Mints (see inset).

“Creditors, admittedly, are stupid[...]. The degree of confidence in Suchkov was high, and credit relations were not executed brilliantly,” says one of the financiers involved in lending to the construction site. “We could have a stronger position in court when collecting a debt if we were engaged in lending to a construction site as a commercial, tough deal,” says Dmitry Mints. “No one imagined that it would be necessary to sort things out with Suchkov in court. At one time, Chubais humanly helped Ilya a lot, ”says an acquaintance of Chubais. Suchkov believes that he owes nothing to Chubais.

In the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, Suchkov won: the court refused to consider the claim of O1 Trust against SFO and the petition for the arrest of assets, because it considered that the creditor had not proved the connection between the real estate and credit relations. However, the Bryansk arbitration, where the second creditor, the Crizna company, applied, at the end of July nevertheless arrested the disputed property. The court took into account that it could be sold without the knowledge of creditors: the site, along with buildings on Internet sites, is being sold at prices in the region of 920-950 million rubles, although it is not known who initiated these announcements.

The judge also referred to an additional agreement to the loan agreement, in which SFO Concept was vouched for by the former trustee of its real estate in Russia - SFO Concept Consulting LLC. The agreement was signed by the company's general director, Sergei Krychenko, Chubais's former security guard, who worked as his assistant at RAO UES. It says that the guarantor is jointly and severally liable for the loan taken by SFO Concept for the construction of a house in the village of Peredelki. A separate paragraph provides for the consideration of controversial issues not in the London International Arbitration Court, but in the Arbitration Court of the Bryansk Region.

“The additional agreement to the loan agreement is pure falsification,” Suchkov is indignant and shows a copy of the document. It follows from it that the purpose of the loan has changed, the choice of the Bryansk arbitration is not motivated by anything, while the borrower was not even notified of the appearance of the guarantor. For Suchkov, such a turn was a complete surprise, because, according to him, he was on friendly terms with Krychenko, although they terminated the real estate trust agreement at the end of 2015.

In the appeal, Suchkov argues that his company has no delinquency on the Crizna loan, so the creditor has no grounds to collect the debt. According to him, a month before the loan expired at the end of October 2015, Crizna assigned the debt to a certain Denian Limited (BVI), also affiliated with Mints, who, in turn, signed a debt forgiveness document. “We agreed with Mints initially that this debt would be forgiven, we had friendly relations,” Suchkov explains.

Why Mintz donated several million dollars to the former company of Chubais and whether it really happened, the other participants in the case do not say. Rosnano emphasizes that this situation no longer has a direct relationship with Chubais, since he withdrew from all projects with the participation of Suchkov. “The ownership structure of Anatoly Chubais's assets complies with the requirements of Russian legislation, and all income has been declared,” says Andrey Trapeznikov, Deputy Chairman of the Board for External Communications of Rosnano.

Chubais recently admitted that he has a small family office, but he is not rich enough to be on the Forbes list. Like Pasternak, who is modest in everyday life, he could complain about life's difficulties with the words of the great writer about his house in Peredelkino: “It was necessary to decide whether to take it [dacha], go to follow its completion, dodge, get money ... "

Anatoly Chubais broke up with businessman Ilya Suchkov and a group of comrades working for him.

Businessman Ilya Suchkov, a former confidant of Anatoly Chubais, was arrested in accordance with the decision of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow. The reason for the arrest is the accusation of extortion and slander, put forward by the head of Rosnano, and, possibly, "fraud ... resulting in the deprivation of the citizen's right to housing." Anatoly Chubais promised to take measures against the former manager, who has lost confidence and is causing more and more trouble, back in the spring.

“I can’t stand court squabbles, but in the end I decided to file a complaint with the police to open a criminal case against Ilya Suchkov and a group of comrades working for him ... for extortion and slander,” he told readers of his Facebook page in March . Judicial delays took about two months: according to Interfax, the decision to arrest Suchkov was issued on June 29 (and, according to some reports, he was detained two days earlier). As a measure of restraint, the accused businessman was taken into custody. In accordance with the chosen measure of restraint until the end of the investigation, he will be in a pre-trial detention center. The materials of the case are considered in one police station of the Moscow region - at the scene of the crime.

Ilya Suchkov was charged under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale, or resulting in the deprivation of a citizen's right to housing). We are talking, in all likelihood, about the problematic estate in Peredelkino, which, as the media reported, was built for Anatoly Chubais, but became part of intricate property and legal relations.

The property, valued at about $40 million, was registered in the name of Ilya Suchkov (who served as head of Anatoly Chubais' family office for several years). The house was built by the Swiss company SFO Concept AG - originally owned by Chubais, but, after the appearance in 2012 of a ban on the possession of foreign assets for Russian officials, registered on Suchkov. According to Anatoly Chubais, the company was sold in order for the new owner to start "arranging the construction of a house and attracting funding." It was assumed that upon completion of construction, the head of Rosnano and his wife, screenwriter Avdotya Smirnova, would settle in the estate. But something went wrong...

When, in September last year, the Arbitration Court of the Bryansk Region on the suit of Crizna Holdings ltd. arrested the property of SFO Concept AG (and Anatoly Chubais said that “the company violated a number of commercial agreements in terms of attracted financing”), both the land plot in Peredelkino and the estate built on it were arrested.

The troubles didn't end there. As Anatoly Chubais later said, he became the object of blackmail by some "wonderful company" (presumably Ilya Suchkov, as well as "a group of Chechen comrades working for him"). First, they demanded to buy the Peredelkino house at an inflated price, then “they began to send secret recordings of business negotiations, with the threat of their publication,” the head of Rosnano shared details in the spring. Today he is more stingy with comments.

“I have only one clarification: Suchkov was never my partner, he was a hired manager,” Anatoly Chubais reacted to the news of the arrest of Ilya Suchkov. Ilya Suchkov has worked as a manager of SFO Concept since 2010. It is worth clarifying, however, that not only this connects him with Anatoly Chubais. The businessman, whom the head of Rosnano accused of blackmail, is the son of Vasily Suchkov, who worked together with Anatoly Chubais in the State Property, and the brother of Igor Suchkov, who worked as an adviser to Chubais for 17 years. There are no comments for Ilya Suchkov at the moment. Earlier, he stated that he had no debts to Anatoly Chubais, and the price of $36.5 million at which it was proposed to purchase the house was confirmed by an independent appraisal commission.