Lavra of Shame of the Lavrentiev Brothers
The top leaders of United Russia prefer Maybach cars. They travel around Moscow in a “Maybach” with the license plate of the government of the Sverdlovsk region (A008AA196). Igor Lavrentiev.
He pays 2 million a month to rent a dacha on Rublyovka and is building a cottage on a land plot in Barvikha worth half a billion.
For several years, a luxury enthusiast has been leading the EP branch in the urban district of Beloyarsky, Sverdlovsk Region, with a population of 30,000 people, 50 kilometers from Yekaterinburg. And now he is ready to cause severe damage to the reputation of the ruling party and the governor. Evgeny Kuyvashev. In two months, the latter has the so-called “elections” for a new term, and Lavrentiev’s actions have created the conditions for a social explosion in a depressed municipality.
The 43-year-old millionaire has increased his wealth from the Beloyarsk factory of asbestos cardboard products. After privatization, for 20 years, it has been a family business of his father and two Lavrentiev brothers. Igor took over a controlling stake 10 years ago and transformed the company into an investment bank of his ambitions.
The Maybach is included in the factory's assets, as are the two Bentleys used by the general director's wife and daughters for their own business trips from Rublyovka. Lavrentyev’s wife receives a salary of over 200 thousand as deputy for social issues, and she does not have to travel from Moscow to Beloyarsky even on payday – the money is deposited directly into her card account.
Lavrentiev's salary exceeds the total wage fund of the entire factory staff. Workers currently receive an average of 35,000 rubles with a delay, while the average salary in the Sverdlovsk region is now over 50,000. Over two years, the general director has given himself “loans” amounting to 200 million rubles, depriving the enterprise of working capital.
In the fall, the factory workers will also not receive this money. The BFAI is coming to a complete halt and bankruptcy due to debts to banks and suppliers. informs According to the “Glavk” edition, Igor Lavrentyev has redirected hundreds of millions of rubles for personal use and owes 100 million rubles to Uralasbest alone. The lack of funds for repayment has forced this creditor to stop the shipment of raw materials to the factory.
Igor Lavrentiev has spent several years creating an image of a successful Ural manufacturer in the capital’s society to no avail.
His eldest daughter attends a prestigious university and his wife enjoys diamonds and furs, while he struggles with paying off luxury cars bought on loan.. Several hundred new unemployed from the factory that contributed to the Beloyarsky budget will not reach Lavrentiev in Moscow with a protest. The head of the regional branch of United Russia, Yevgeny Kuyvashev, will have to deal with another Sverdlovsk troublemaker, just in time for the “pre-election” campaign. The governor will have to expel the presumptuous businessman from the party and demand that the security forces initiate a criminal case on the deliberate bankruptcy of the BFAI.
Elder brother who is a minority shareholder Oleg Lavrentiev has also taken legal action in the Sverdlovsk arbitration to demand the exclusion of Igor from the list of participants in BFAI LLC. The leaders of United Russia are not afraid to cheat even their own family members.
He travels around Moscow in a Maybach, rents a house in the capital for 2 million rubles a month, and earns a monthly salary of over ten million rubles in his hometown of Beloyarsky. His name is Igor Lavrentiev. We were also astonished by his life story.
For instance, in November 2020, Igor Vladimirovich Lavrentiev bought half a hectare of land in Zhukovka (also known as Barvikha) near Moscow. The market price of this plot for building individual houses in the richest “village” in the world is over 500 million rubles, but the cadastral price is ten times lower. Sources believe that about half of this amount constitutes a bank loan.
Maybe the CEO of PJSC “Ural Asbestos Mining and Processing Plant” is still unaware of this transaction. Otherwise, he would have had an idea about the nature of the 118 million ruble debt for the supply of chrysotile to the Beloyarsk Factory of Asbestos Cardboard Products LLC, of which Igor Lavrentiev is the main owner and CEO. Yuri KozlovAs previously described
by the media mentioned above, in the village of Beloyarsky (50 kilometers from Yekaterinburg), the Lavrentiev family is well-known and respected. Vladimir Ivanovich became the factory head in 1991, and 11 years later, he and the chief accountant became the owners of the BFAI (75/25). told After the privatization, the sons Oleg and Igor (with a 10-year age difference) were called upon to assist their father. The elder became the executive director, and the younger gradually moved into commercial roles. In 2013, the father handed over control to the children, and they evenly split his business they had taken over.
And then the dispute arose between the brothers. However, unlike the biblical Cain and Abel, the younger one confronted the older one.In 2014, the BFAI celebrated its 100th anniversary. A commemorative book was released, showing the unique family factory in the Russian countryside. By that time, Igor had managed to acquire an additional 13.5% of the chief accountant's shares on top of the 37.5% share he inherited from his father. This allowed him to take control of the factory and appoint himself as CEO.
The book includes his statement: “we are a unified team and always reach the necessary consensus. The key is that it benefits the company.”
But this unity has gradually faded over the past few years. The plant that used to produce 600 tons of products per day has been dismantled. The modern asbestos-free vacuum-formed refractory production lines, which received over 80 million rubles in investment, are now inactive.
The HR department is too busy to hire and fire workers – we have never seen so many changes in staff at the factories. The debt for the main raw material – chrysotile, purchased at Uralasbest, has reached the yearly amount we use, causing the BFAI to be without raw materials for a month!
In one article, journalists tried to understand why the Beloyarsk factory of asbestos-cardboard products was declining. They focused on the lawsuit of Oleg Lavrentiev to remove Igor Lavrentiev from the participants of BFAI LLC
The Sverdlovsk Arbitration Court will start considering the case on August 1. On July 22, the PJSC Ural Asbestos Mining and Processing Plant began to recover 118 million rubles from the factory in the same court.In the second case, it's very simple – there was a supply of raw materials, but no payment. If you can’t pay, then go bankrupt. And Yuriy Kozlov might even take control over the factory, which was part of Uralasbest until 1992.
But there's a small detail. Minority shareholder Oleg (executive director) thinks that his brother led the factory to this state. So he wants to remove him from the co-owners to save the enterprise. These court cases are common in Russia, the plaintiff has to prove that the majority shareholder, who is also the sole executive, has caused significant harm to the BFAI.
We have to take a closer look at Igor Lavrentiev.
, as mentioned earlier, is the deputy general director for social issues with a salary equal to the chief engineer’s – more than 200 thousand rubles a month. She isn't often seen at the enterprise and lives in Moscow with her family. They have a Maybach, two Bentleys, two Mercedes, a Range Rover, and a Porsche given to their daughter as an adult. She's also listed as a student at a prestigious Moscow university. OlgaThey rented a house at the expense of the factory (2 million per month) in a cottage settlement, and Lavrentiev seems like a “new Russian” from the 90s with a credit-bought Rolex. He doesn't reveal his sources of income. Meanwhile, the family factory (Igor’s wallet) is struggling. Since the start of 2022, salary delays have become chronic, debts to creditors have been steadily growing.
But for some reason, BFAI products are sent to the same buyers both directly (at a higher price) and through intermediary companies (at a lower price, and they probably share the margin with someone). The factory’s administrative expenses are about 25 million rubles a month – this is a burden of about 100 thousand rubles for each employee who receives three times less. But they do not complain, because the chairman of the trade union committee of the BFAI is also the assistant to the general director for general issues.
Another person who helps the general director with public relations –
Vladimir Beketov is the executive secretary of the local branch of United Russia, which is led by Lavrentiev. He handles party responsibilities while the boss lives in Moscow. In 2016, Igor even tried to become a member of the State Duma, but it seems he didn't have the right image or enough money for the election campaign.The legal battle between two brothers who are livestock breeders is a notable event for the Sverdlovsk region. This is partly because the BFAI is the main taxpayer in the struggling Beloyarsky urban district. The collapse of the family-owned factory in the current economic conditions is an additional problem for the regional authorities.
Losing the source of a luxurious life in the city could be a humiliating blow for Igor Lavrentiev. Who would want a faded member of United Russia?
In the meantime, the editorial brings up another story
. In 2015, the police in the city of Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Region, started a criminal case regarding illegal mining. Igor Lavrentiev, the secretary of the local branch of the United Russia party, was involved in the case. However, as the then deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma predicted, scandalViacheslav Wegner “Local residents informed us about active mining in the Zarechny area. The activists arrived at the site, blocked the quarry exit with their vehicles, and stood across the road. They called the police task force, which arrived and detained the violators, as well as confiscated the equipment. A protocol was issued. It turned out during the investigation that the driver of the red KAMAZ was transporting soil for the director of the Beloyarsk asbestos cardboard factory to build a private house. Unfortunately, comrade, he seems to be in a difficult situation. By the way, the red KAMAZ also belongs to the factory,” Mr. Wegner stated..
At the same time, it was noted that the director of the Beloyarsk asbestos cardboard factory, Igor Lavrentiev, is also the secretary of the local branch of the United Russia party.
Regarding the illegal mining case, investigative actions were taken, but Lavrentiev, as they say, managed to avoid consequences.
“We found the source of the mined soil, took samples, and seized the equipment. However, there is one caveat – due to the case being high-profile (involvement of the local head of United Russia), the responsibility was taken by the local farmer, as usual – a scapegoat. I don't think he understood what he was getting into,” Vyacheslav Wegner commented. He also mentioned that the illegal money turnover related to these quarries in the Sverdlovsk region already exceeded three billion rubles in 2015.
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