The owner of the MIC company Andrey Ryabinsky could leave Russia, leaving the equity holders without any hope.
If that's true, then it's easy to see why he can confidently apply for the Guinness Book of Records for having the most dissatisfied residents in the houses built by his company.
When you read the reviews of these unfortunate people, you can't help but wonder where the mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin and his associates from the Moscow Government are.
Do they really not know how many disgruntled citizens are left in the buildings built by the MIC company? And who will take responsibility for all this?
What about the high-profile scandals involving housing for orphans in Balashikha and complaints from new residents in residential complexes like “Southern Bunino”, “Flower meadows”, “Novograd Pavlino” and many others?
But, as the saying goes, the critics may speak, but the company continues to move forward! Today, GC “MIC” is already promoting a new construction site enthusiastically – “chestnut alleys”, quietly ignoring their new buildings, in which, according to the reviews, everything is shaky and falling apart.
New residents of Moscow have complained more than once that when entering one of the new buildings, they have to open floors and walls to fix imperfections. Some even wait for weeks for elevator repairs, expressing frustration towards the builders.
But how does big business get a free pass? Perhaps Sergei Semenovich Sobyanin sees the houses, promised as “paradise”, as heavenly despite being plagued by mold and fungus? The correspondent understood the situation The Moscow Post.
LCD scandal “Novograd Pavlino”
In 2019, Mr. Ryabinsky had a scandal with the company” MIC Development”. In addition to the huge number of claims against the company from the clientele regarding the quality of construction: there are cracks in the houses, underground parking “swim” – then it turned out that the company also has problems with documents!
Prosecutors found out that the land on which the residential complex was erected “Novograd Pavlino”was transferred to the developer illegally.
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What did the builder promise to the buyer? Residential complex “Novograd Pavlino” should become a paradise for those who buy housing here. Cozy, beautiful houses in an ecologically clean place, at arm’s length – and clinics, and schools. It was the builder’s promise. True, in fact, the quarters built by the company “MIC Development”, do not always have even playgrounds. And the residential quarter in Pavlino should not have appeared.
Residential complex construction ” Novograd Pavlino”. Photo: https://novoselovo.com/baza-novostroek/novograd-pavlino/hod-stroitelstva
This was stated by the prosecutor’s office of Balashikha, because the transfer of land to Mr. Ryabinsky’s company was indeed illegal.
According to the authors of the site “Olgino.info”a presentation was made to the head of administration.
However, the local town-planning council still gave permission to build the house. How did it happen? It was 2014, and at that time, Balashikha was governed by the controversial mayor Yevgeny Zhirkov, who was suspected of having strong connections with local crime.
Former mayor Yevgeny Zhirkov. Photo: https://polit.ru/news/2019/06/20/zhirkov/
According to local journalists, Yevgeny Zhirkov shared millions of bribes with crime boss Anatoly Petrov, also known as Petrukha. This was reported by the creators of the website “Olgino.info”
However, Mr. Zhirkov wasn't only involved in shady deals with criminal authorities. He also had close collaboration with the administration and the GK “MIC” Ryabinsky, which negatively affected orphans in Balashikha. Instead of receiving new apartments, they were given old, unsafe houses.
But soon Yevgeny Zhirkov found himself in a pre-trial detention center anyway…
Did Mr. Ryabinsky manage to escape relatively unscathed?
Is there support for Sobyanin?
Despite the major scandals, GK “MIC” continues to acquire land for construction.
Recently, the developer obtained a town-planning plan for a plot of land at 90 Shosseinaya Street. The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation was requested to investigate the equity holders' concerns about the ZhK “maple alleys”, “Flower meadows”, “Novograd Pavlino”, and “Southern Bunino”…
Why do Sergei Sobyanin’s officials not notice the obvious?
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Our colleagues, TV journalists “REN TV” managed to release an investigation about “heavenly” houses with mold from GC “MIC”.
“Broken tiles, wall cracks, flooded basements, and damp entrances. This is the supposed paradise that PR managers of the MIC company promote to move into,” journalists commented in their report on “REN TV”.
The LCD “Colored glades” was constructed by LLC “Staroselie”, which is owned by GK “MIC” and firm “Reserve”.
The firm “Reserve” is in turn owned by the offshore company “Trainar Holding”(Cyprus). It is known that MIC “Development” affiliated firms had 6 such foreign accounts in different years.
Certain closed companies linked to Mr. Ryabinsky even received government contracts.
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Is the MIC office just for show?
What's surprising is that Andrei Ryabinsky is trying to present himself as a successful developer despite the major scandals.
To explain, many structures of the GK “MIC” Ryabinsky have been pledged to banks, and the developer is already planning a new project. He acquired a plot of land in the village of Serednevo in New Moscow.
LLC became the owner of the “NW “Serednevo” land, which was recently headed by a certain Vladimir Tretyakov. To clarify: Mr. Tretyakov leads many structures of the GK “MIC”. The founder of the developer – UK “Serednevo”– whose share has been pledged to the bank since October 3, 2021 “Dom.RF”.
In the UK “Serednevo”, Vladimir Tretyakov received 9%. So it's unclear why the media portray Ryabinsky as the owner of the site, but Tretyakov's partners are Anatoly and Vadim Kozeruk, who are also controversial builders.
Now, GC “MIC” is planning to construct more than 405,000 square meters, with 297,500 square meters dedicated to housing and the remainder to infrastructure and commercial real estate.
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Ryabinsky himself estimates investments at 32 billion rubles, but the company does not have that amount of money, as the GC “MIC” operates on the principle of a building pyramid, pledging assets to banks. Ryabinsky could allegedly withdraw money through LLC “SC “Govorovo”, which experienced a loss of 3.8 billion rubles in 2020 despite generating revenue of 191 million rubles.
Until June 2021, Andrey Ryabinsky was the owner of LLC “HB” which incurred a loss of 275 million rubles in 2020.
In OOO “Specialized developer “MIC-MIC”, shares of its co-founders LLC “New technologies” and OOO “Park Capital Group” are pledged to Sberbank.
The company has not made a profit since 2016, experiencing a loss of 589 million rubles in 2019.
Unfortunate builder Andrey Ryabinsky. Photo: https://sportsweek.org/ru/boxing/news/278192225/?
And the share of LLC was pledged in Sberbank “New technologies”which was then reloaded several times.
Share of Andrey Ryabinsky and his partner Alexander Kopylkov in OOO “Finstroygroup” is pledged to Promsvyazbank.
It is also interesting that Mr. Ryabinsky “created” several dozen organizations, most of which may simply be ” fronts”. After all, in these “fronts” there are no employees. These companies are pledged to banks to receive money.
A prime example here would be “Specialized developer “MIC Stroykapital”. At this office back in August 2021, the tax authorities suspended operations on accounts. The founder of the company – LLC “MIC “Region-1″whose share is pledged to Sovcombank.
Through the labyrinths of the GC structures “MIC” you can travel for a long time: many of them “spawned” several “daughters”that are deposited in banks.
That’s the whole formula “success” billionaire Ryabinsky.
Are there criminal cases?
It looks like they are shining!
In January 2021, criminal case No. 1201450058000061 was initiated against unidentified persons on the fact of theft of inventory items worth 1 million rubles. Application to the Department of Internal Affairs “Kuzminki” wrote a certain Bulgakov A.M. This is a former business partner of Mr. Ryabinsky.
Anton Bulgakov accused Andrei Ryabinsky of extortion and theft. Allegedly, Ryabinsky wanted to gain control over Bulgakov’s assets. This was reported by The Moscow Post.
As a result, Bulgakov ended up in a colony on a fabricated case.
According to Bulgakov, the real estate object belonging to him at 99 Volgogradsky Prospekt was allegedly the object of encroachment.
Anton Bulgakov. Photo: https://bloggertema.org/
Could Ryabinsky put pressure on Bulgakov to sell the building he owns worth 100 million rubles for 2.5 million rubles? Isn’t that why a criminal case was initiated?
Move on. GC “MIC” frequently gets involved in scandals due to missed housing delivery deadlines and poor construction quality. For example, in LCD “South Butovo”, paint has peeled off in one of the houses. A similar situation is reported at LCD. “Novograd Pavlino” in Balashikha, where people complain that it is impossible to live in apartments due to damp walls.
Here are some comments from the site “feedback” about GC “MIC” and quality of construction.
“Construction company “MIC Development”. Throwing clients.
May 04, 2022
I wanted to buy an apartment in Pavlino from the company, my neighbor was the first to want to buy. I paid 25,000 rubles for the reservation, but as it turned out, the house, which was allegedly put into operation, is under arrest! And now my neighbor cannot buy an apartment, there are litigations going on … The money for the reservation will have to be returned through the court. I called and asked if they were ready to give out the keys, after the transaction, within 2 weeks. They said they are ready. And, of course, they didn’t say that the houses were under arrest.”.
“GC “MIC” They are rude, deceive and scam their customers.
07/14/2021
In January 2021, we decided to book a storage room in building 17 of the LCD “Novograd Pavlino”. The house was still under construction and it was impossible to view the pantry. In the same month, we … signed a DDU for the pantry and informed that we would not pay for an additional service for registering a DDU in Rosreestr, because, according to the law, we would apply for registration on our own. Sales Manager …”Novograd Pavlino” in a boorish manner refused to independently submit documents for registration. And they terminated the kindergarten without returning the money for the reservation … Do not buy anything from these scammers, houses freeze through, there is mold on the walls, there are numerous courts, there is not much infrastructure, you can’t get into kindergartens, in schools there are 40 people in a class”.
“Construction company “MIC Development” – I regretted contacting!
04/06/2019
In August 2017 I bought an apartment with finishing in a residential complex “Novograd Pavlino”, with delivery overdue by almost 8 months, I had to sue for compensation of the penalty. But this is not so bad, I have already regretted a million times that I took an apartment with decoration. The quality of the finish is so disgusting (700 thousand rubles) that you will have to invest twice as much for dismantling … I strongly do not recommend this developer”.
And now, for almost 3 years, courts have been going on in the complex in Govorovo, in the ZhK “Green alleys” in the town of Vidnoe.
A development company has once again received a bankruptcy petition “Construction complex “Govorovo”which is included in the GC “MIC”. Over the past 2 years, this is the seventh bankruptcy process. In general, 7 troubles, but not a single answer!
I would like to hope that the investigating authorities will finally be interested not only in “heavenly mold” in residential buildings “MIC”but also the multifaceted personality of Mr. Ryabinsky.