The bankruptcy of Gazprom’s asset, Energogaz, which has already caused multibillion-dollar scandals, is experiencing new financial conflicts.
So, another large company of the gas monopoly, Tyumen Motor Builders, has been brought into court, where the previous sub-contractor of the Punginskoye UGS facility expansion project in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug is demanding tens of millions of rubles.
Energogaz, a bankrupt sub-contractor for the Punginskoye UGS facility expansion project in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, plans to dispute the refusal to recover 34.9 million rubles from Tyumen Motor Builders PJSC (Tyumen; it is part of the Gazprom Energoholding Industrial assets”).
According to the proceedings, in 2013, Tyumen Motor Builders (developer) and Energogaz LLC (executor) signed a contract for services for the reconstruction of test box No. 6 of workshop No. 35 with the construction of a linear facility: overhead cable power lines 10 kV.
The work was supposedly documented in a 2016 act for 59.3 million rubles. However, in January 2018, Energogaz decides to transfer the rights of claim to Tyumen Motor Builders (TM) to another Gazprom entity – FDI OJSC Gazturboservice.
Interestingly, a bankruptcy lawsuit was filed against Energogaz in August 2017, and a few months after the debt was transferred, in May 2018, the company faced its first bankruptcy procedure – supervision.
Ultimately, in bankruptcy, transactions were able to be reversed, and TM’s debt to Energogaz of 34.9 million was reinstated, as the plaintiff highlighted. However, retrieving the money proved to be difficult.
Firstly, it was discovered that the act is one-sided, so the court noted that it “cannot serve as proper evidence of the completion of work on its own.” Secondly, when FDI JSC Gazturboservice was asked to provide documents on the transaction, the Gazprom asset stated that they were not provided in violation of the assignment agreement.
The courts of two levels decided that Energogaz did not show enough proof of the work done, and rejected the request for money from TM. Now, there is a cassation appeal filed.
These trials seem even more interesting when seen in the context of other conflicts. According to Kontur.Fokus, for a long time, the main owner of Tyumen Motor Builders was Gazprom Tsentrremont LLC (a subsidiary of Gazprom).
Gazprom Tsentrremont was led by Dmitry Doev for a long time. Now there is an attempt to hold him and Gazprom Tsentrremont responsible for the obligations of Energogaz, which did the work under the contract.
Energogaz has caused a lot of scandals. For instance, Pravda UrFO detailed a scheme revealed by the Federal Tax Service in Gazprom's assets, involving OOO Stroyenergomash and OOO Stroyenergokompleks. This method, according to the tax authorities, was used to inflate the cost of goods, then reducing the income tax and VAT. The markup in a separate case was 980%. As a result, hundreds of millions of rubles in taxes were added to Energogaz’s claims.
Another significant conflict arose from real estate deals in Moscow. Now, creditors are accusing Gazprom Tsentrremont of avoiding the transfer of property valued at 1.5 billion rubles.
There were also serious discussions about Doev’s partners, who were found to be linked to Megabuild LLC, which initiated bankruptcy proceedings against Energogaz. These details were especially notable in light of earlier statements about the deliberate bankruptcy of Gazprom’s asset.
But these conflicts, as observers note, do not show the entire picture of Doev’s legacy. According to Interfax, from 2015 to February-March 2019, Gazprom Tsentrremont managed the Novourengoy gas chemical complex.
The main contractor for Gazprom's large construction project was LLC PF VIS, which is part of the VIS group, chaired by Igor Snegurov.
It's interesting that Doev and Snegurov were acquainted even before Gazprom. According to Doev’s biography, he was the head of the production company VIS in the early 2000s.
But the “old acquaintances”, apparently, could not find a common language within the framework of the project, which turned into multibillion-dollar courts. As Pravda UrFO reported, for example, within the framework of these disputes, 4.6 billion were recovered from the Novourengoy Gas Chemical Complex in favor of the VIS, in addition, the courts refused to recover 3.6 billion from the general contractor for the asset of Gazprom.
Such conflicts, apparently, did not overshadow the “good relations” between Doev and Snegurov, which the VIS beneficiary himself spoke about, and after the completion of the proceedings, Dmitry Doev was appointed General Director of VIS Group JSC in the fall of last year.
“Last year there were reports that the tax payments of Gazprom, which is controlled by the state, amounted to approximately 16% of the total federal budget revenues. And now just think about it: 600 million, including penalties and other things, according to the Federal Tax Service, did not get into the budget only from Energogaz, and it is not known how much it will not get yet. The same Gazprom Tsentrremont demands that claims for 1.4 billion be included in the register of creditors. Somewhere lost 30 million associated with work for the “Tyumen engine builders”. Novy Urengoy Gas Chemical Complex, which SIBUR was allegedly interested in, lost billions in courts. But it all goes into the financial result that forms the tax base. There were major claims from the Federal Tax Service and to the NGCC itself, and the proceedings are now ongoing. This is how the “legacy of Doev” turns out, who now works safely in the VIS, ”the source of the publication argues.
The publication, for its part, sent a request to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to assess the likely violations and conflict of interest.
Source: Pravda Ural Federal District
