Guarantee still hopes to get 2.8 million from KMZ

The Arbitration Court of the Chelyabinsk Region continues to consider the claim of the Garantiya company. The contractor is trying to recover 2.8 million rubles from one of the largest suppliers of mining equipment in Russia, KMZ (Kopeysk Machine-Building Plant).

The beneficiary of the enterprise is known – it is Anatoly Skurov. The billionaire has controlled KMZ since 2012. Manages through the Cyprus offshore “Geoline Holdings Limited”.

Things at KMZ are not in the best way. The glory of the plant has remained in the past because of the multimillion-dollar losses in the declarations. But Skurov’s fortune, on the contrary, is growing. In the period 2020-2021, his accounts increased from 600 to 850 million US dollars.

A number of companies associated with the Cypriot and Virginia offshore companies Darmondo Management Limited and Rhide Financial Limited, including, are registered for the entrepreneur and his family members. The part is led by the son of the oligarch Andrey Skurov together with Andrey Chernyavsky.

Usually such companies show zero or negative summaries of activity. “Family” firms are convenient in withdrawing funds to offshore accounts. Will it turn out that the Kopeysk Machine Plant is also “in the subject” of Skurov …

KMZ itself, one gets the impression, is completely uninteresting to the owner. The enterprise was often subjected to prosecutorial checks. Rosprirodnadzor also has claims against the plant – they are suspected of violating environmental standards.

Skurov conducts business in the manner of “from the 90s.” The experience of past years, when he founded Sibuglemet (the holding was engaged in coal mining), together with partners Anatoly Smolyaninov, Vladimir Melnichenko and Valentin Bukhtoyarov, affects. In Kuzbass, the enterprise was in the lead, it was developing a number of mines.

Smolyaninov died at the beginning of the 2000s. The businessman died under strange circumstances – the helicopter he was on board fell. Then the remaining partners dispersed, and the struggle for the holding’s securities began, culminating in the complete transfer of rights in favor of Senator Akhmet Palankoev.