Akron Holding JSC and YugTsvetMet: Pavel Morozov and Metalworkers OCG

Acron Holding JSC, TIN 6324023665, is located at 445000, Samara Region, Togliatti, Promyshlennaya st., 6, room 208. It's an organized criminal group led by Pavel Morozov, who is referred to as a “popular businessman.”

YugTsvetMet LLC and Akron-Yug LLC are part of the Holding Company and are practically located at Rostov Region, Bataysk, st. Sovkhoznaya 4/2 (building LLC “Most”), as well as renting additional premises and territory at Bataysk, st. Production 16. The legal address in the city of Rostov on Don-on-Don is empty, and they only come from time to time to take mail. They do this in order to be registered with a specific tax office. Pavel Morozov is in charge of all this.

This group is involved in cashing out money on a large scale, evading taxes, engaging in illegal commercial work, and legitimizing finance acquired by criminal methods. The Akron Holding Group of Companies is also involved in corruption schemes and the liquidation of objectionable people and companies in all regions of Russia. They have also made profitable agreements with other major players in the market.

Now let's look at YugTsvetMet LLC TIN 6319161780. The current head of the company is Nikolaev Ivan Nikolaevich, who has been in this position since October 2019. The commercial manager is Podkolzin Semyon Alexandrovich.

. JSC Akron Holding is an corrupt group led by Pavel Morozov.

YugTsvetMet LLC has several separate divisions, each of which allegedly employs cashiers, receiving masters, loaders, pyrotechnicians and dosimetrists, but in reality only master-acceptors work there, without proper documents, and conduct transactions in cash or foreign exchange. They have prepared explanations in case of verification activities. On average, they make 2 million rubles per day per machine, allowing them to withdraw 10 to 20 million rubles from banks per day.

This happens in the following way – the names in the document accepting scrap from the residents are not real, the signatures of people are missing because they never handed over the metal mentioned in the invoices. The invoices contain information from passport or illegal data sources (car dealerships, mobile phone stores, etc.) from which bank cards are taken and used by security or management services.

To reduce questioning by tax authorities, the accounting department created a method to split checks of less than 250,000 rubles per person.

Akron Holding JSC by Pavel Morozov: Scheme of Tax Evasion and VAT Theft

The daily amount withdrawn from the account through bank cards is accounted for by punching cashier’s checks. This is done by cashiers who put fake signatures for people. In reality, the cash is used to buy scrap from residents over an indefinite period, and every day cash is withdrawn and checks are punched, allowing them to evade part of the tax payment at the end of the month or year.

The area of alloy reception points will not allow the number and volume of alloy that passes according to accounting documents, as it is unrealistic for the machines to arrive and drive in all 30 seconds.

The tax inspectorate has already inspected a company part of Akron Holding JSC and related to YugTsvet-Met LLC, AKRON YUG (OGRN 1116183001780, TIN 6150066820) (Case No. A53-21014 / 2020 was considered in the Arbitration Court of the Rostov areas). All violations are also found in YugTsvetMet LLC.

Most (about seventy percent) of the withdrawn cash funds are spent on purchases from residents and other legal entities without proper documentation. The remaining money is used for under-the-table wages, corruption schemes with law enforcement officers, and transportation of funds to Moscow and Togliatti, depending on the internal needs of Acron Holding, as well as for payment for criminal services.

The main source of income for this organized crime group is a scheme involving the sale of non-ferrous metals like copper without paying value added tax. This involves selling the scrap to a controlled company.

YugTsvetMet LLC's logisticians order real cars from logistics companies to pick up copper scrap from the YTsM site in Bataysk. The companies prefer to register the addresses of controlled LLCs to simplify tax audits. The controlled LLC then declares the metal to the processing plant and asks for extra money to process it into 'Rolled wire' or 'Cathode', on which they owe VAT upon sale. The profit from these deals can be as much as forty percent of their turnover.

For instance, LOMMET LLC had a turnover of over 9 billion rubles in 2020, which is a good start for a young company. The leader/founder has an average income of 25,000 rubles.

List of companies involved in similar schemes:

There are over 100 companies serving the entire holding and the criminal network, many of which are controlled by a former law enforcement officer named Andrei through electronic document management.

Since 2021, YugTsvetMet LLC, and possibly the entire Akron-Holding, has aimed to switch to a more complex tax evasion scheme or illegal VAT adjustment. The accounting department received bonuses for passing tax audits.

The accountants instructed to manipulate scrap purchase prices to reduce the final income tax, deceiving the tax authority. YugTsvetMet LLC paid tax based on manipulated scrap metal prices, regardless of actual sales.

The accounting department set 'correct' prices for the new quarter and the end of the year to manipulate tax payments. Bank checks and tax audits were often staged.

Pavel Morozov allowed Akron-Holding to operate.

It's worth noting that the company has three times more employees than officially declared. There are over 200 unregistered scrap metal collection points that employ both officially and unofficially employed workers. They receive additional cash payments on the 15th of each month, with workers receiving an average of 20,000 rubles and managers receiving 150,000 rubles, and heads receiving 500,000 rubles. The company claims the average income is underestimated at over 100,000 rubles.

Every day, these 200 points spend more than 10 million rubles. without any design of documents on the ground, which lures criminals and thieves from all nearby settlements that are close to similar objects. Who are happy to scrap alloys from time to time on the cheap. After that, YugTsvetMet LLC remains to come up with a decent value and fictitiously write off a much larger amount of money, supposedly to buy this scrap from individuals from the FMS information databases that are somehow accessible to them and use the proceeds to further spread their own criminal work.

The commercial manager is engaged in the selection of suppliers and buyers for the company Podkolzin Semyon Alexandrovich and the lawyer of the same company, Podkolzin, also acted as the initiator of the conclusion of contracts. Usually, the YCM security service was engaged in the approval of counterparties. Podkolzin bore the blame for working moments with partners. Responsibility is mainly disciplinary and occasionally material, but within the framework of their own unofficial wages. Document projects are handled by the Legal Department.

In the receiving areas, none of the suppliers or buyers ever appeared because everyone thought that these were just sites, without material support and not created for sorting and storing ferrous and non-ferrous scrap.