General Director of the holding company "Yuzhnouralsk Industrial Company" since 1991; born June 27, 1955 in Makhachkala, Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; graduated from Dagestan State University with a degree in geophysics; 1983-1985 - Head of the geochemical test site of the Southern Branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Geophysics in Baku; 1985-1988 - head of the physics and geophysics party at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Geophysics; 1988-1991 - General Director of the Intersoyuz company; co-chairman of the presidium of the Independent Association "Civil Society"; holder of the Golden Honorary Badge "Public Recognition"; member of the Moscow English Club.
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Why doesn’t Gazprom directly enter into an agreement with the consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. and its European clients
Investigating the murder of Boris Nemtsov, reporters from the investigative department " Novaya Gazeta“We came across a number of crimes committed, presumably, by the same group of Chechen security officials. At the same time, the victim in one of the stories (de facto, but not de jure) turned out to be the hero of the investigation, which we conducted in parallel and which, it would seem, was connected not with crime, but with complex financial schemes and the work of state monopolies. But then two stories converged at one point - on the runway of the Vnukovo-3 business aviation airport. And, as we now understand, it is not so accidental.
I owe you!
A tactical group of Chechen security forces stationed in Moscow left for Vnukovo, as soon as they received information that a person, as one might assume, similar to a member of the board of Gazprom PJSC, General Director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC, Kirill Seleznev, was heading to the airport.
The group, according to our information received from representatives of security forces, probably included Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, who is today suspected of murdering Boris Nemtsov. And the group could presumably be led by the deputy commander of the Sever Internal Troops battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ruslan Geremeev (he has not yet been charged).
The group was clearly late for their “date.” In addition, there was a traffic jam on the Minsk highway.
We do not know who Ruslan Geremeev turned to, but our sources in the customs service claim that on that day they allegedly received an order from above to detain a business jet on which a man similar to Seleznev intended to fly out of Moscow. The VIP passenger was already on the plane, and, according to our sources, customs officers had to stall for time under the pretext of checking baggage clearance.
“Geremeev’s brigade”, having arrived at Vnukovo, as one might assume, freely drove to the aircraft’s parking area and boarded the airliner. They did not stay in the cabin for long, came out, apparently, with a man similar to Seleznev, and quickly left the airport.
According to our information, law enforcement agencies have recordings from CCTV cameras installed at Vnukovo. They recorded the incident. However, the potential victim did not report the crime. Moreover, literally a few days later, money was transferred to the accounts indicated by “representatives of the security community in Chechnya.” Presumably, from an account opened in the Geneva branch of ING Belgium Brussels bank (details are at the disposal of the editors). And the money is not small. We are talking about the amount of 1,000,000,000 (one billion) dollars. Three independent sources told Novaya about this. True, all three expressed three different versions of how the passenger, who was interested in a group of Chechen security officials, “accumulated a debt” (“Novaya” continues the investigation and will refrain from voicing these versions for now).
We assume that in order to “repay the debt” the debtor could turn to Rashid Sardarov, the owner of the South Ural Industrial Company (SUPK) CJSC and the actual beneficiary of the company Industrial Investments & Participations SA, a figure in the “500” rating richest people Russia,” the compilers of which clearly underestimated Sardarov’s wealth, counting him “only” $100 million.
Kazakhstan transit
I became aware of the incident at Vnukovo when I had been conducting a journalistic investigation for several months about the relationship between the Russian PJSC Gazprom and the Kazakh consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO).
Back in July last year, Novaya had at its disposal several contracts and additional agreements concluded between ZAO South Ural Industrial Company (SUPK) and Gazprom’s subsidiary, Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg LLC (GDO). The documents dealt with the processing of unstable gas condensate at gas processing plants. At the same time, UPK provided GDO with condensate produced in Kazakhstan by the KPO consortium and supplied to Orenburg via a condensate pipeline owned by OJSC Gazprom neftekhim Salavat ( 100% of the company’s shares also belong to Gazprom; for details of the consolidation of the company’s shares, see No. 21 “Novaya” dated February 29, 2016).
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Unstable gas condensate is a viscous, usually colorless, compressible liquid, similar to oil, but without resins and asphaltenes. Sometimes gas condensate is called “white oil”.
At gas processing plants, unstable gas condensate is stabilized by extracting methane-ethane and propane-butane fractions from raw materials.
Stable gas condensate is a raw material for the fuel and petrochemical industries. In the process of further processing, for example, high-quality gasoline, jet, diesel and boiler fuel are obtained from it...
During a business trip to Kazakhstan, I was able to meet with the managers of the KPO consortium. From them I was surprised to learn that SUPK also does not have a direct contract for the purchase of gas condensate produced at the Karachaganak gas field. But the company Industrial Investments & Participations SA (IIP) has such an agreement, which, judging by the details, is considered a Canadian company.
My Kazakh interlocutors claimed that all negotiations with the KPO consortium on behalf of IIP were conducted by Rashid Sardarov. Moreover, KPO managers repeatedly flew to Moscow to agree on contract details and sign additional agreements. And often negotiations were conducted in a mansion located in Bolshoi Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane in Moscow. The same historical building, which once belonged to the famous philanthropist Morozov, now houses the head office of the UUPK.
Judging by the contracts, Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V. supplies unstable gas condensate to Industrial Investments & Participations SA, which, in turn, again according to documents, transfers raw materials to the South Ural Industrial Company, and SUPK already provides condensate to the plants of LLC Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg.
After processing, the finished products, according to documents, are returned to UPK, which, in turn, transfers the goods to IIP. In reality, all these transfers and returns occur only on paper. In fact, unstable gas condensate is supplied from a gas field in Kazakhstan through a condensate pipeline to a gas processing plant in Russia, and the processed product is loaded into railway tanks and delivered to Murmansk, where it is transferred to tankers at the local port and delivered to European consumers.
The question inevitably arises: why can’t Gazprom directly enter into an agreement with the consortium Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V.? If Gazprom is the owner of all links in the technological chain, then why can’t it itself sell finished products to Europe?
Until 2003, Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg LLC directly received unstable gas condensate from the Karachaganak gas field, processed and sent the finished product to Murmansk.
The peak of interaction between Kazakhstani partners and Gazporm Dobycha Orenburg LLC occurred in 2002. Then the GDO processed 4.5 million tons of raw materials.
On March 20, 2003, 29-year-old Kirill Seleznev was appointed general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC. It is possible that this is a coincidence, but it was in 2003 that the expansion of South Ural Industrial Company CJSC into the market for processing unstable gas condensate began with a simultaneous decrease in the volume of processing of Kazakhstani condensate at gas processing facilities.
In 2003, UPK supplied 852 thousand tons of gas condensate from Kazakhstan as customer-provided raw materials to gas processing plants. In subsequent years, the following volumes of raw materials were supplied (in millions of tons):
2004 - 1,1542005 - 1,085
2006 - 1,228
2007 - 1,310
2008 - 1,399
2009 - 1,094
2010 - 1,206
2011 - 0,819
2012 - 0,838
2013 - 0,857
2014 - 0,718
Thus, in the period from 2003 to 2014, GDO processed about 13 million tons of unstable gas condensate produced in Kazakhstan and brought to Russia as a toll raw material by the YuUPK company. At the same time, the share of condensate purchased directly by gas processing plants in Kazakhstan decreased from year to year, and in 2011 amounted to only 393 thousand tons.
The secret of the pipeline
The management of the Kazakh consortium KPO has repeatedly contacted Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC with proposals for both direct supplies of gas condensate to gas processing plants and with requests to provide the opportunity to process raw materials to other enterprises. However, I invariably received an answer that one of the pipeline strings of the 16-GPP UKPG was leased from Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat OJSC and that the GDO did not have the ability to transport raw materials to the enterprise.
A piquant detail. Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. monthly informed Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg LLC about the volume of gas condensate supplies to Industrial Investments & Participations SA “in the Orenburg direction.” That is, both in Kazakhstan, and in Orenburg, and in the management of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC could not help but understand that the Canadian company was included in the scheme as an “operator”, as we assume, only according to the documents. But when, according to documents, a Canadian company exports Kazakh gas condensate to Europe, this allows de jure exclusion from the chain extraction-transportation-processing-transportation finished products companies registered in Russian jurisdiction. And this makes it possible to avoid taxation in Russia, saving on contributions to budgets different levels 150-200 million dollars per year.
In addition, Gazprom could directly buy gas condensate from Kazakh producers and deliver it through a condensate pipeline controlled by Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat OJSC, part of Gazprom PJSC, to the processing facilities of Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg LLC.
Experts have calculated that with the average European cost of stable gas condensate being about $700 per ton, all costs of Industrial Investments & Participations SA amounted to no more than $300 per ton. For example, under contract No. 1830-70 dated December 23, 2010, the YuUPK transferred 611 rubles 40 kopecks (about $20) to the GDO settlement account for processing each ton of condensate. In 2013, the cost of processing increased to 1,100 rubles (about $35).
And the total losses of PJSC Gazprom over the 11 years of operation of the “Canadian” scheme, according to experts, could be at least four billion dollars.
Canadian phantom
An attempt to find Industrial Investments & Participations SA in Canadian registries was unsuccessful. But we found a company with exactly the same name, registered on April 11, 2002 in Luxembourg. The company's registration number is 886662. However, no signs of the enterprise's operation could be found. Apparently, the company was soon closed in Luxembourg and “re-opened” in the jurisdiction of another country. And apparently not in Canada. Although all contracts signed with Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B. V. indicated a Quebec address: 5300, Boulevard des Galeries 210 Quebec, G2K 2A2 Canada.
At our request, Canadian colleagues visited this address in Quebec and found something completely different there. entity. We can assume that this is not the address of an enterprise with multimillion-dollar turnover, but a place of mass registration of offices.
The experts we interviewed suggested that the office in Canada could be opened to “optimize taxes.” Translated into everyday language, this means the opportunity to either not pay taxes at all, or pay as little as possible.
Having an office in Canada allows IIP to operate throughout the world. And the company took advantage of this opportunity by opening a current account in the Geneva branch of ING Belgium Brussels bank. According to our information, funds from the sale of processed gas condensate were transferred to this account.
The direct sale of raw materials to European consumers was carried out by the company DFN oil, registered in Copenhagen (Denmark). What's interesting is 100% authorized capital The DFN oil company belongs to another company with a similar name, founded by three immigrants from Russia. From Danish registers we were able to find out that the entire staff of the company is four people. But at the same time she has solid turnover. For example, in 2012, $483 million passed through the company’s accounts.
Back in December last year, we sent a request to DFN oil and received confirmation that the request had been received and forwarded to management. After that, we repeatedly called the company’s office. But a pleasant female voice invariably answered that the management of the DFN oil company was not there.
Uncle, give me a billion
Rashid Sardarov also did not respond to the written request. He preferred personal meeting and invited me to the head office of the SUPK, located in Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane in Moscow.
Sardarov immediately stated that he was “virtually unfamiliar” with the General Director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC, Kirill Seleznev:
I have no biased relationship with anyone from Gazprom. “I have never been to the head office, I have never participated in Gazprom’s parties,” Sardarov said. - There are exclusively production relations. For example, I use the Gazprom pipeline. It doesn't belong to us. But I regularly pay for pumping gas condensate.
Sardarov said that the South Ural Industrial Company has been operating since 1994. And that today he is the only founder of the company.
According to Sardarov, over 21 years of operation the company has built 32 workshops for processing gas condensate. My question, what was the point of concluding contracts for condensate processing with Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg, having our own capacities, remained unanswered.
When asked why Gazprom does not directly buy gas condensate from the Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. consortium, Sardarov replied that the Kazakhs do not sell raw materials to anyone:
They provide condensate for processing in the form of customer-supplied raw materials. We recycle, they take it. And they sell it themselves.
True, right there during the conversation Sardarov stated that over the past 20 years he had not sold a single gram of goods that he had not processed himself.
So, did you sell it after all? I did not hear an answer to the question.
Sardarov also considered it necessary to emphasize that since the registration of SUPK, the company has never taken out loans:
“We don’t even have a credit history,” my interlocutor said.
Why are you not on the Forbes list? - I asked at the end of the conversation.
“We are not on the Forbes list, but we are on the list of those organizations that professionals respect,” Sardarov answered philosophically.
We do not and cannot have any complaints against Rashid Sardarov. He, like any businessman in his place, just took advantage of the situation.
Questions can only be addressed to the management of Gazprom and specifically to Gazprom Mezhregiongaz LLC. Because it is very strange that Kirill Seleznev, “practically unknown” to Sardarov, created, as one can judge, a maximum favored nation regime for the companies he controls. And this has allowed Sardarov since 2003 (when Gazprom Mezhregiongaz was headed by Seleznev) to allegedly earn more than four billion dollars.
And therefore, there is nothing surprising in the version that it was Rashid Sardarov who could be approached by the “victim” of the “incident” at Vnukovo airport with a request to pay off the “debt” (the origin of which is still unknown to us) in the amount of one billion dollars.
We sent an editorial request to Seleznev, in which we asked questions about the incident at Vnukovo and about the relationship with Sardarov. But they never received answers to their questions.
Russian oligarch Rashid Sardarov, who owns the South Ural Industrial Company, did not spare $10 million (250 million Czech crowns) for the wedding of his daughter Victoria in Prague. Robbie Williams entertained guests at the wedding.
Russian oligarch Rashid Sardarov arranged a luxurious wedding for his 25-year-old daughter Victoria in the center of Prague. It took place at the Zofin Palace, where several hundred guests from Moscow arrived. Among them were conductor Vladimir Spivakov, pianist Denis Matsuev, opera singer Khibla Gerzmava, Anton Tabakov’s family, designer Izeta Gadzhieva, one of the Victoria’s Secret “angels”, Portuguese model Sara Sampaio, and many others. The newlyweds were entertained from the stage by British singer Robbie Williams and the popular Norwegian band Madcon.
According to the iDNES portal, the wedding differed from usual celebrations not only in the luxury of outfits, decorations and the endless abundance of delicacies on the tables. Guests were greeted and entertained by burlesque dancers from Europe's largest fetish club, Torture Garden. This club has a very scandalous reputation. Its artists often stage performances with orgies and sacrifices.
Guests of the party, held on Streletsky Island on the Vltava, at the request of the organizers, did not share pictures with the bride on social networks. It is known that she chose 34-year-old Anton Antonov, a former security guard at the Moscow Gipsy club, as her chosen one, with whom she dated for two years. According to the publication Blesk, the celebration cost 250 million crowns. At the same time, Robbie Williams' fee alone amounted to 50 million crowns. The wedding ended with colorful fireworks on the river bank.
Rashid Sardarov is included in the ranking of “500 richest people in Russia”. His family owns the Gut Brunntal mountain estate in southern Lower Austria, covering 500 hectares and worth 25 million euros. Since 1991, Sardarov has headed the South Ural Industrial Company.
Victoria Sardarova and her husband Anton Antonov.
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Received higher education in Dagestan state university, majoring in geophysics.
Activity
From 1983 to 1985, he held the position of Head of the geochemical test site of the Southern Branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Geophysical Exploration Methods in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan.
In the period from 1985 to 1988, he headed the party of physics and geophysics at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Geophysics. Then, until 1991, he was the General Director of the Intersoyuz company.
In 1991, he became General Director of the holding company South Ural Industrial Company. Member of the Moscow English Club. He holds the post of co-chairman of the presidium of the Independent Association “Civil Society”.
Married to M. Sardarova. The couple have two adult sons and a daughter.
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Private jets worth more than $20 million are maintained by operating companies, and this procedure is not transparent.
Businessmen who fly private jets spend millions of dollars a year on their maintenance. But the owner of the plane or the employees of his family office can hardly know how much it costs to replace a microwave on board or why the price tag for a mounting bolt is €1,500. Operating companies handle private jets from Bombardier, Dassault Falcon, Embraer, Gulfstream, Boeing and Airbus worth more than $20 million, and in some cases more than $50 million.
Business aviation is developing rapidly in Russia. Since the early 2000s, the number of flights has increased sixfold; jets now make approximately 21,000 flights per year from Moscow alone. According to the managing director of Jet24, Pavel Zakharov, the total annual business aviation market is approximately $3 billion (excluding sales and purchase transactions). The average bill for ordering a private jet is about $35,000. Flights from Russia are very popular and before the crisis were among the world's top 10 in business aviation. Even foreign pilots can hardly be surprised by flights from Moscow to Nice or London. Moscow - St. Petersburg remains a popular domestic route.
After several financial crises, the market began to change. Managing partner of the Business Aviation club Andrey Kalinin says that Russian market was wild until 2008, when no one counted money and operators increased commissions, but now billionaires have become more tight-fisted.
Cloudy skies
The head of the family office of one of the Russian billionaires notes that servicing private jets is not transparent and it is very difficult to catch someone stealing. “Previously, on some planes they allegedly managed to steal up to €1.5 million a year. Nowadays this rarely happens, only if the operator is very arrogant and the owner signs all the bills without looking,” says Kalinin. Typically, clients deposit between €200,000 and €300,000 in advance with the operator, depending on the destination and frequency of future flights. Entire ownership of Bombardier Global Express, based in Moscow, costs the owner about €3–4 million per year. Kalinin says that unscrupulous companies can earn another €200,000–300,000 a year from hidden commissions. When Kirill Kim was an employee of the bank of one of the billionaires and monitored the costs of his two jets, he was confused by the strange bills that the jet operator sometimes issued, and he even decided to have a third-party audit. “We suspected we were being deceived, but we couldn’t figure out where or how,” says Kim. As a result, he wanted to build a business that would control jet costs.
The founders of My Sky set the task of identifying unreasonable expenses and creating a service that is understandable to a layman. By July 2015, an IT system was created for several hundred thousand euros. It was initially tested on three aircraft of wealthy friends of Kim and Garber - a Bombardier Challenger 605, a Bombardier Global Express XRS and a Gulfstream G450. Aircraft maintenance costs and cost per flight hour were compared with similar costs for other owners. The software processed thousands of operator accounts (invoices), but the process turned out to be not so simple due to the fact that operators do not have a uniform reporting form. My Sky software helps optimize spending and find deviations associated with fraud or errors. The result showed that savings when controlling operator costs can be up to 25% of annual costs. The cost of My Sky services depends on the type of aircraft and service - from €42,000 to €60,000 per year per board. Representative of the family office of the owner of the Bombardier Global Express - Global 6000 aircraft, Gaspard Booth, says that the potential savings (per year) exceed the monthly cost of services.
My Sky staff have identified hundreds of violations. Among them, for example, an invoice from a shell company for 120 servings of sushi from an elite restaurant on a flight without passengers to Baden-Baden, Germany, where the jet was supposed to pick up the owner’s relatives. In another situation, 220 plastic cups were included in the bill at a cost of €30 each. Someone had a DVD player installed for €190,000 (with a maximum price of €50,000) on an old Challenger 604 jet.
A separate line is payment of crew expenses. The owner of the jet is obliged to cover the costs of the pilots associated with the flight - food, laundry, accommodation outside the home city. One day it turned out that before a flight from London, one of the pilots, for courage, repeatedly drank £500 worth of whiskey in a bar and billed the owner. “It’s not just about the amount, but also about the safety of the private flight,” says Garber.
Kalinin clarifies that usually the violations of pilots are not so flagrant, sometimes they spend money from a corporate card (linked to the board) on personal items worth €100–300 per month, foreign pilots book too expensive hotels (for example, the Ritz Carlton in Moscow).
Operators often write off inflated expenses for aircraft maintenance, fuel, airport services, and Internet. They send repeated invoices or checks for payment for the services of other people's aircraft. Managing partner of Peremena-Avia, Grigory Ioffe, says that such cases are usually not made public: due to the specifics of the business, the limited number of clients, and the rather narrow sphere in general, almost all cases are resolved pre-trial.
Status brawlers
In 2015, a drunk passenger on a private jet on a Moscow-Nice flight could not calm down, he pestered the flight attendants, climbed up to the pilots to take the helm and started an argument. The situation required an emergency landing in Prague. Unlike regular flights of brawlers from a private jet, no one reports them to the police. Having calmed the passenger on the ground, the pilots after some time continued their journey to Nice with the wealthy brawler on board. Although there were cases, says one of the operators, when passengers who had gone overboard were left on the ground.
The unusual behavior and difficult to explain greed of passengers on private jets have not surprised operators for a long time. Clients from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are especially different. According to one of the operator’s employees, Ukrainian businessmen who bought a flight on a business jet may, in order to save money, refuse to eat or not go to the VIP lounge for several hundred dollars. Sometimes clients are ready to control the little things and, for example, calculate the route from the hotel to the airport for the pilot so as not to overpay several tens of euros for the transfer, but literally immediately without looking they sign a bill for €50,000 for a jet seat covered in new leather.
“Clients believe that if you receive money, you are always obliged to resolve any issue,” says Kalinin. Wealthy passengers are rarely concerned about the regulations and standards adopted in aviation; they are confident that everyone must adapt to them. For example, a pilot must fly no more than 12 hours, taking into account time on the ground (travel to the airport), and a businessman says that he will be several hours late and also wants to hold a meeting in the airport business lounge. In such cases, you need to negotiate with the pilot.
Castles in the air
In 2016 at email My Sky employee received a letter in which the manager of a British jet operator explicitly offered to refuse unnecessary questions to his company for £300,000. This operator served two aircraft of My Sky clients. The owners of the jets refused his services, and the company soon went bankrupt: it turned out that it not only issued fake invoices, but also did not pay contractors, having an annual debt to suppliers.
Nobody wants publicity in this market. The major bankruptcy of the operator Ocean Sky, one of whose main investors was Timur Sardarov, the son of the president of the South Ural Industrial Company Rashid Sardarov, was completely ignored by the press, although the company served hundreds of Russian clients, including billionaires and officials.
Ocean Sky appeared on the market in 2003 during a boom period: the charter market was not yet developed, clients paid the company about $10 million a year for service, its turnover exceeded $100 million. In 2014, the company went bankrupt. Judging by the statements of Ocean Sky UK, it did not pay for client services by £500,000, and the clients themselves lost at least £800,000. Among Ocean Sky's creditors were the largest aviation companies and airports in the world. According to Kalinin, customers of the operator Ocean Sky had to pay their bills twice.
Zetta Jet, which had become one of the fastest-growing charter operators in the Asia-Pacific region with a fleet of Bombardier Global and Challenger aircraft, went bankrupt last fall. Zetta Jet estimated its liabilities at between $50 million and $100 million. Company director Jeffrey Cassidy was accused of stealing $20–30 million from the company, after which he was fired in mid-August 2017. Cassidy bought houses, cars and yachts with clients' money, and he himself used the company's planes for free.
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More than 75% of private flights in the Moscow region are concentrated in Vnukovo, in the Vnukovo-3 terminal. Slightly less than 75% of the airport belongs to the billionaire, State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch (formally all his assets are registered in the name of his father Vladimir Skoch) and his junior partner Vitaly Vantsev, the state has a blocking stake. Skoch is a long-time partner of billionaire Alisher Usmanov F5, who owns the largest private aircraft in the capital - the Airbus A340 (a huge hangar was built for it in Vnukovo). Roman Abramovich's F 12 aircraft and the major business jet operator NetJets are based in Vnukovo. The cost of services at Vnukovo is higher than at European airports. Approximate one-time cost of ground handling Embraer Legacy 600 (without parking, fuel, VIP lounge and meals) at Vnukovo-3 - €2500, at London Luton Airport - €2000, on the Côte d'Azur (Cote D'Azur airport in Nice) - € 1000. According to My Sky statistics, the average cost of servicing a long-haul Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft for one turnaround flight (arrival-departure) is twice the price for a set of similar services at Domodedovo.
According to Kim, Vnukovo-3 invoices include expensive items in the basic service - a fee for a company representative (representation) or for communication services (communication). As a result, the bill for servicing a jet weighing 45 tons ranges from €6,000 to €12,000 without refueling. “The cost of 24-hour parking for the first day at Vnukovo can be three times higher than in Nice for the same type of aircraft,” says Kim.
The situation is similar with the fuel supplied by the Vnukovo refueling complex. In practice, prices in Vnukovo are approximately 25% higher than in Domodedovo, the difference can be up to €200 per ton, My Sky says. The fuel tank of different Bombardier models holds more than 6 tons of fuel, the popular Embraer Legacy - more than 8 tons.
“It’s difficult to fight fuel surcharges at airports, but we see them. Customers at the same airport filled up with the same fuel almost simultaneously: two planes were refueled at one price, and the other two were refueled at a different price,” says Kim. According to him, in Vnukovo different services are interconnected: if you don’t order basic services and refueling, difficulties may arise with the provision of a tractor and escort vehicles. Kalinin explains that the infrastructure for business jets at other Moscow airports is less developed. The owners of Vnukovo, according to Kalinin, have the right to set prices for their services themselves. Vnukovo did not respond to Forbes’ request.
An alternative to Vnukovo is Sheremetyevo Airport (service is 15-20% cheaper), but its main focus is still on regular flights, and there are not enough parking spaces, and Domodedovo and Ostafyevo airports are intimidating due to the travel distance.
Catch Me If You Can. How business jet operators profit from billionairesMy Sky co-investor Alexey Garber says that its employees are not liked in the market and are sometimes threatened. My Sky company is engaged in an unusual type of business - it conducts financial control and benchmarking the costs of operating business jets. My Sky was founded by former banker Kirill Kim and Swiss aviation expert Christopher Marich. Today, more than 80 My Sky employees control the costs of servicing fifty aircraft of entrepreneurs from the EU, Russia, Kazakhstan and China.
18.08.2016 18:32:04
THE DAUGHTER OF A DAGESTAN OLIGARCH MARRIED A BOUNCER
Special dress code, a huge castle in Prague and guest singer Robbie Williams - Russian oil tycoon with Dagestan roots, Rashid Sardarov married off his daughter Victoria.
The love story of Victoria Sardarova and Anton Antonov is more reminiscent of the fairy tale about Cinderella, only in reverse. Sardarova is the heir to her father's multimillion-dollar fortune; he is a bouncer in one of the nightclubs in Moscow. The young people dated for two years, after which they decided to tie the knot, which Victoria’s parents did not interfere with.
The wedding took place over two days - August 14 and 15. For this purpose, one of the most luxurious Prague castles was rented. The invitations clearly stated the dress code - Total black, so the wedding was more reminiscent of Satan's Ball from The Master and Margarita than a refined wedding celebration. All guests were greeted by girls with fake fangs, doused in fake paint that imitated blood.
Of the 500 invited guests, they are all celebrities. Pianist Denis Matsuev, conductor Vladimir Spivakov with his wife actress Sati Spivakova, Victoria's Secret model Sara Sampaio, opera singer Khibla Gerzmava, designer of Dagestan origin Izeta Gadzhieva, the family of Anton Tabakov (son of the legendary Oleg Tabakov - Note "MI") and other.
While the guests ate meat, seafood delicacies and washed it all down with the famous Don Perignon champagne, the world famous British singer Robbie Williams performed his hits and did not refuse those who wanted to take a photo with him.
It is noteworthy that those present at the celebration were allowed to take photographs and videos of the wedding with only one condition - the bride and groom were not to be included in the frame.
The name of Rashid Sardarov is known to few Dagestanis. Lezgin by nationality, born in Makhachkala, was able to make his fortune in oil. Today he is on the list of the 500 richest people according to Forbes magazine, and his capital is $100 million (according to unofficial data, Sardarov’s fortune is estimated at $1 billion. - Note “MI”).
The Sardarovs own the Gut Brunntal mountain estate in southern Lower Austria, covering 500 hectares and worth 25 million euros.
The highlight of the estate is the golden initials R. S., engraved on the gate, a large natural pond and a separate guest house.
Sardarov does not skimp on expensive gifts. So, in 2009, for the birthday of his wife Marianne, the owner of the Ru-arts art gallery, he invited Sir Elton John, who sang for the birthday girl for $1.5 million, and the guests were entertained by Cirque du Soleil artists.
By the way, the wife of a businessman with Dagestan roots is also from Makhachkala. Marianna Sardarova was born in 1959, and met her husband while studying in Moscow. The couple have three children - Timur, Ratmir and Victoria. Her gallery houses a rich collection of contemporary art - paintings, graphics, installations.
In 2014, Sardarova tried herself as a co-producer of the film “Leviathan” directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, which was awarded numerous awards both in Russia and abroad. Just like her husband, Marianna is distinguished by her generosity in gifts. For example, she gave her close friend, once the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Nikolai Tsiskaridze, a fully furnished apartment in the center of Moscow.
Shuana MAGOMEDOVA