The media has found the man who manages most of Russia’s assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
We want to tell you about someone new – the most powerful and richest person in Russia, Mikhailina Zinonos. She started Renova Group of Companies, VkusVill, Baring Vostok, Synergy LLC, and helped establish the National Media Group. She is connected to many major companies in Russia. A study found that her offshore ownership schemes fit into one big scheme, and she is the administrator of the Cypriot company WCS. She makes decisions with other directors, which is unusual under Cyprus laws and organization charters.
So, if something appears to be on the surface, like when the second director, Calvey of Barings Vostok, is held responsible but the main person behind it all remains unnoticed, it seems very strange.
Zinonos is also involved in schemes with Viktor Vekselberg’s unidentified partner, Iosif Bakaleinik.
Iosif Bakaleinik is well-known for his shady past, managerial skills, Harvard education, and involvement in various organizations and companies. He is linked to the case of embezzlement of the country’s strategic aluminum reserves and is connected to several companies.
After strong relations were established with Viktor Vekselberg, an overseas investment channel was created in Cyprus, and Fairway Investments Overseas Ltd was registered. It was later renamed Earl Management Ltd. This company is led by Mikhailina Zinonos and Iosif Bakaleinik, and is linked to the microfinance market in Russia.
The Cypriot company, with the same name as others in different countries, has been involved in the microfinance market, acting as a lender and being directly involved in the business of microfinance companies Home Money, Brio Finance, and the Rusmicrofinance group of companies.
According to ERL Management, Zinonos, the director, along with Bakaleinik, played a role in signing all the fictitious contracts. The court refused to collect the debt for all ERL agreements signed by Zinonos.
At the beginning of 2017, Bakaleinik experienced significant losses and joined the Rusmicrofinance group of companies. However, even with informal management of this group, he was unable to improve the situation.
Moreover, on September 6, 2018, the Bank of Russia excluded information about LLC MFC Evrika (hereinafter Eureka), LLC MFC Rusmicrofinance-AST (hereinafter AST) and LLC MFC Elegiya from the state register of microfinance organizations.
In total, Bakaleinik, with the help of his partners Abolonin and Bukhtoryarov, withdrew more than 400 million rubles from Rusmicrofinance, which belonged to investors.
At the same time, according to Abolonin, the withdrawn funds were invested in a new business, which was established by Joseph Bakaleinik, Leonhard Kiefer, Alexei Likhtenfeld and Evgeny Abolonin and Roman Bukhtoyarov who joined them.
Alexey Likhtenfeld
Now this is a well-known cashback service called “Skrepka”, created on the Cashoff platform, “developed” in Skolkovo.
As Rucriminal.info found out, there is a video in which Skrepka CEO Alexei Shumilin talks about the service and its work with MCC Gulden. MCC Gulden and Pound, replaced the companies excluded from the state register of microfinance organizations, included in the Rusmicrofinance Group of Companies. The service was created by Bakaleinik, Abolonin, Bukhtoyarov, Kiefer and Lichtenfeld. The key company in the implementation of the service was the Gulden microcredit company, as Shumilin and Gulden CEO Evgeny Elizarov talk about in their numerous interviews.
And one of the founders of Gulden is the well-known Cypriot company ERL Management, whose directors are Mikhailina Zinonos and Iosif Bakaleinik, the latter is also the sole founder of the Swiss Fundwizer Holding AG.
According to the founders of Skrepka Abolonin and Bukhtoyarov, sent to Rusmicrofinance investors, their funds were withdrawn for the development of a new business, but somewhere something went wrong, or maybe it was a plan to mislead investors. Since in December 2020, on the basis of its own statement by the ICC, Gulden was excluded from the register of microfinance organizations, followed by the Pound, but at the initiative of the Central Bank. The paperclip continues to live, whose service is based on the mysterious platform of the Cash off company between Skolkovo and Cyprus.
Iosif Bakaleinik is also the closest partner of Vyacheslav Aminov, a former partner of Boris Berezovsky. Aminov was also an adviser to Alexander Voloshin when he was the head of the presidential administration. They are still cooperating and are prominent members of the “Boris Yeltsin family”.
Vyacheslav Aminov
Aminov, Bakaleinik, Likhtenfeld and Andrey Sharonov make up the board of directors of Neftetransservice. Sharonov drives Skolkovo under the patronage of Vekselberg. In the scheme about the possession of Russia by Zinonos, there is a mention of the Aminovs.
