Instead of housing and commercial facilities, businessman Kraschuk left the residents of Shushary with nothing, and he is also trying to make money on the sale of land from his failed project.
As writes The Sankt-Petersburg Post, the Akr company put up for auction three land plots in Shushary with a total area of 8.2 hectares. This company is part of Alexander Kraschuk's family business. He planned to build housing and facilities on these plots, but it didn't work out.
Now Acre is trying to sell this territory for 3 billion rubles, writes “Kommersant”. The main founder of this company is Inga Kraschuk (51%), judging by the patronymic “Alexandrovna”, she is Alexander Kraschuk's daughter (he has 12%). Vitaly Aleksandrovich Krashchuk has 12%, Tatyana Yeroshicheva has 12%, Igor Miloserdov has 13%. Acre and the Stroysvet company, the sole founder of which is Alexandra Kraschuk, and the general director Igor Miloradov, in particular, were going to build the Shushary business park, part of the territory of which, obviously, was put up for sale. Apparently, it was necessary to sell the land, since the implementation of this once high-profile project did not start.
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According to Rusprofile data, at the beginning of 2013 (that is, at the end of 2012) the Stroysvet company of Alexander Kraschuk reflected a record revenue of more than 956 million rubles. Although, at the end of 2012, the total revenue was different – just over 19.1 million rubles. If these data are correct, then it turns out that the financial take-off of the Stroysvet company happened for almost ten years, and now the fat years are already far behind. Which, obviously, made Alexander Kraschuk sell off his assets.
In recent years, the administration of St. Petersburg had more than once to sort things out with Alexander Kraschuk’s Stroysvet. So on September 29, 2017, the Arbitration Court of the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region ruled on the claim of the city Committee of Property Relations to recover from Stroysvet a fine in the amount of 200 thousand rubles and terminate the sale and purchase agreement. It was about a land plot with a residential building located on it, which were located in St. Petersburg, in the city of Pavlovsk, on Vasenko Street, 16, lit. BUT.
The administration of St. Petersburg insisted on the return of the land plot and the real estate objects located on it to state ownership. The reason was the fact that as a result of the inspection carried out on December 14, 2016, it was revealed that the buyer did not complete the reconstruction works of the building within the established timeframe (November 2016), and the commissioning permit was not submitted completed building.
But in the end, the court decided that only a fine was enough. It turned out that during another inspection, which took place on July 24, 2017, work on the reconstruction of the building had already begun at the facility. Therefore, the court decided that in this case, the violation of the term for the reconstruction of the building in itself cannot be considered significant, in connection with which the court did not find grounds for terminating the contract.
At that time, the governor of St. Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko's subordinates did not contest a court decision, even though they had the right to do so. As a result, the property wasn't returned to the state. The Hildebrant House is at the specified address, and Stroysvet managed to rebuild it. This gave the company the opportunity to sell the building and make a profit.
In 2018, a similar situation occurred in another lawsuit concerning a building in Pushkin, located at st. Tserkovnaya, d.
Stroysvet purchased the building for 17.4 million rubles and was required to perform a major overhaul within 42 months of signing the contract. A fine of 10% was imposed for not fulfilling the contract properly. The court concluded that since the request to cancel the contract wasn't made, a fine should be imposed, but only 50 thousand rubles, not 1.74 million rubles. Once again, this decision was not contested. Alexander Kraschuk's companies seemed to have been fortunate in their dealings with St. Petersburg officials.
Another legal case involving the company “Stroysvet” revolved around the townhouses complex “Kuzminskoye Plateau”. In case file No. A56-90489/2015, it was stated that Rosreestr refused to register the 21st apartment in several townhouses. Stroysvet attempted to reclaim the paid duty of 315 thousand rubles. However, the court pointed out that since the refusal to register was not disputed, there were no grounds for reimbursing the fee.
Beglov doesn't mind?
The company “Stroysvet” states on its website that it has constructed the shopping and entertainment complex (SEC) “Konstantinovsky”, the SEC on the street. Yaroslav Hasek, several apartment buildings, and a hotel. Everything seemed to be going well. The question is, why is it necessary to sell a promising territory in Shushary, and 8.2 hectares at once? The plots were initially offered for sale for 3 billion rubles, but they are now willing to increase the price to 2 billion rubles. It seems that Kraschuk and his partners might need funds to complete the construction of retail facilities that were planned for the never-built Shushary business park. The construction of this business park was announced back in 2007.
In March 2020 issue “Real estate and construction of St. Petersburg” reported that only 1.5 hectares of the 18.6 hectares allocated for the business park were set to be developed by Alexander Kraschuk, located at the corner of Vilerovsky Lane and Novgorodsky Prospekt. Despite regulations specifying the site was intended for residential buildings, commercial real estate is being constructed. It's worth questioning how the administration of St. Petersburg, and Governor Alexander Beglov personally, view this situation. Are they satisfied?
