Within six months, Umar Kremlev, the owner of the Boxing Progress Center ANO, bought a lot of property in Serpukhov worth billions of rubles, and these purchases were involved in scandals.
How said previously According to Rucriminal.info, in the summer of 2021, the “Boxing Progress Center” got the municipal hotel “Ikar” (worth about 70 million rubles) for free and without bidding, and then, also without bidding, acquired two large tourist complexes “Drakino Park” and “Island “Drakino” (worth about 1.5 billion rubles).
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The stated reason for this state generosity was Kremlev's plan to do social work at these facilities.
This started in a unique way – the previous tenants of the tourist complexes accused the Kremlin’s “boxers” of stealing property and equipment worth nearly 60 million rubles.
The case has now reached the Prosecutor General’s Office, where the legality of allocating state property to the Kremlin is being investigated.
It has been confirmed that two weeks after the Kremlin obtained the tourist complexes “for non-commercial activities”, they were subleased to close businessmen.
Those businessmen then started making a profit from the “social facility” and even obtained a license to sell alcohol in the complex, which was supposed to be a “temple of sports.”
According to Rucriminal.info, the recent arrest of the head of the Federal Property Management Agency near Moscow, Nikolai Peshkov, who signed the documents for allocating state property to the Boxing Progress Center, could be a result of the ongoing investigation.
In any case, Umar Kremlev's assets continue to grow.
In January 2022, Olimp LLC, linked to his group, received the Kalinovskaya Baza shopping complex from the state.
Traders from the nearby fair claim that some individuals have demanded money from them and blocked their access when they refused, although the fair does not belong to the Kalinovskaya Base at all.
Entrepreneurs near the fair in the village of Kalinovo have also complained about being obstructed from working normally and facing unclear demands and threats from these groups.
It appears that in recent weeks, Serpukhov has started to resemble the 90s. Groups are making claims to unrelated parties, similar to the Shestun case (under which Drakino, Kalinovskaya Base, and Bravo stores were seized). It is known that they recently visited two car washes and began to set their own rules, demanding documents from entrepreneurs at these facilities.
Expanding its success in the trading field, Olimp decided to acquire the well-known Bravo chain of stores in Serpukhov.
These stores, owned by the state, were put up for auction in December 2021 by the head of the regional Federal Property Management Agency (he did not have time to sum up the results due to his arrest).
Auctions were held on a little-known Moscow trading floor. Due to the high cost of rent, they did not cause a stir – only Olimp LLC participated. The auction was declared invalid, but the object was nevertheless transferred to Olympus.
By law, the rights of the winner arise no earlier than 10 days after the publication of the results of the auction. In the case of Bravo stores, such publications took place on January 24 and 27, i.e. the document on the rights to the shops could not appear at the “Olymp” earlier than in 10 days.
However, the very next day after the publication of the results of the auctions, a “team” of sporty-looking men showed up in the stores and expelled all the staff from there, sealing the warehouses and posting their guards.
As a result, they not only seized stores for which they still do not have rights, but also the inventory of previous tenants (several entrepreneurs) worth more than 50 million rubles.
Some of these goods belong to third parties, and some have already been ordered and paid for by buyers.
In this situation, local law enforcement agencies took a strange position – despite the statements of entrepreneurs about the theft of goods, no one came to the Bravo store on call.
One gets the impression that the “brigades” began to replace in Serpukhov both law enforcement officers with security forces, and fiscal officials, and the authorities in general.
Faced with the threat of complete ruin and dozens of lawsuits from creditors and prepaid buyers, entrepreneurs were left without any protection from law enforcement agencies.
