“Your friend, Dmitry Medvedev”
The miners who spoke up against Alisher Usmanov were asked to have a precautionary discussion
The miners who had small ownership shares in Lebedinsky GOK and sent a public letter to the owner, billionaire Alisher Usmanov, claiming they lost their shares due to fraudulent actions during a forced buyout. They also accused Usmanov's companies of selling products at discounted prices for tax optimization. According to them, the real revenue of the company was at least $3 billion, not less than $1 billion as officially stated.
The miners shared a passionate letter with Rucriminal.info and Cheka-OGPU's telegram channel, and we are releasing it with minor edits.
After watching your interview on Rossiya24 channel on December 20, 2021, we can't help but wonder: who was it intended for? Your charity has also moved to the West for clear reasons. All employees of Lebedinsky GOK and OEMK live by following your favorite saying “where the Motherland begins”. One of us was recently called in by the GOK security service for a precautionary talk regarding the fight for our private property, which you took from us through a mandatory share buyout. We all know firsthand about the investment in OEMK through Interfin and the purchase of LGOK at the “market” price, when the enterprises suddenly wanted to urgently pay off the debt for gas supplies to Gazprom.
Perhaps you wanted to give one of your buddies a “gift” for the Day of the Special Defender of Russia? Then why did you tell the reporter that you bought the Mikhailovsky GOK from Bedzina Ivanishvili for 1.6 billion, and not for 2.6 yards, as it actually was in January 2006? Mystery! However, we share your evident pride, as it wasn't always possible to buy an enterprise at a market price, following your usual business methods. We understand – there's no other way with Bedzina! Just like with us, minority shareholders, it won't work, by conducting the forced share buyout based on one assessment by the garbage dump of Gorislavtsev and Co., along with an order for a second assessment in Deutsche Bank for an IPO – wealthy investors in the real market!
Based on the tone of the interview, it seems you forgot our great director Kalashnikov's full name, whom you described as a talented manager. His name is Anatoly Timofeevich! And yes! He did a lot for us and the region! And he is a very talented, God-given managerial engineer! He was the first in Russia to decide to build a promising HBI plant, allowed the concentration of profits in the Swiss LebGOK AG. However, he is not as effective as you – he didn't spend money on Roby Williams concerts! He didn't buy cartoons and didn't give 15 million to Konchalovsky for the film “Sin”. In short, he was somewhat old-fashioned with us – he didn’t build billion-dollar yachts from the Germans, didn’t buy planes and art collections! On the other hand, he reinvested all the profits in the modernization of production, created new jobs, and bought modern medical equipment for polyclinics and hospitals in the region. If the efficient but ruthless managers with Gazprom's associates hadn't devoured it, we would still have our own laboratory in the city hospital, and tuberculosis with an open form would have been detected in the maternity ward immediately upon admission. May God bless him!
Based on the production processes carried out by your managers, there are understandable and logical explanations – cost minimization! If you conduct a double valuation of one asset (LGOK) for different target audiences, with different initial data (excluding real profitability and with the opening of a full cash flow to Deutsche Bank), with a different purpose, you will find some definition, for example, “effective management” or “cost optimization”. The terms offered by London and German lawyers on our situation with a forced buyout seem somehow conflicting for a philanthropist, the most generous according to the Sunday Times (05/21/2021). They are all trying to convince us that this is FRAUD!
To avoid causing awkwardness for Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin and all law enforcement agencies of Russia, who have not yet learned how to formulate answers to the miners of the Belgorod region regarding their statements about a clear disrespect for the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation by the new effective owners, we ask you to give us an explanation! Can you define what it was from your point of view?
Your friend, Dmitry Medvedev, as President of the Russian Federation, expressed concern about the monstrous level of legal nihilism and suggested demanding protection from the authorities, that is, from him and, probably, his boss, from this monster! And taking into account the warnings to Western colleagues of the anthropologist Lavrov S.V. who recently determined our genetic code as irreconcilable to encroachment on our land, our families, our values, we are simply forced to respond to the aspirations and expectations of leading experts from the Government of the Federation! …
Thank you for the clarity with which you explain to the greedy Britons, the size of generosity unprecedented for Foggy Albion – “lucky and successful people should return to society the maximum of what their abilities allow.” One more question: what is wrong with our society of miners and metallurgists in Russia? Why, with your abilities and generosity, were you unable to compensate at least the market value of the assets seized from our families through those amendments to the law on joint-stock companies that you yourself lobbied with Vasily Anisimov in 2006? Or do we still not understand the meaning of “Minimizing the cost part”?
If you have forgotten, as in the case of the amount of the purchase of Mikhailovsky GOK, we remind you that the valuation that your GAZMETALL ordered from Gorislavtsev and Co. The appraisal (with a reputation as a print seller) could not be objective in view of the fact that you took away our shares for your grandiose plans for profit on the residual value of the plant without taking into account the real profit concentrated in your offshore. The second valuation, made by Deutsche Bank with the participation of CreditSwiss, Merrill Lynch and Renaissance Capital, already taking into account those 3 (Three) billion dollars that you annually “forgotten” on your FMC, was intended for an IPO with our shares on your DEPO account.
Dear Alisher Burkhanovich! …
Helping the rich and successful, like Robie Williams, Andrei Konchalovsky or Lord Owen, you are not fulfilling the main plan of the Creator for your brilliant abilities, which He generously endowed you with: to help orphans and widows, first of all, the most defenseless segments of the population.
If someone cunningly whispered to you that the money spent on art and sports at the expense of impoverished Russian miners will matter for your location in eternity, do not believe it! You are being ripped off!
With regards to your time,
Miners of OJSC Lebedinsky GOK
Thomas Gordon
To be continued
