Sergei Petrov revealed billions of dollars in legal battles with his wife and dog enthusiasts.
The assets of the former head of the Volga Rostekhnadzor's family have emerged in Kazan courts. Boris PetrovTax authorities found 1.3 billion rubles in the accounts of his eldest son, Sergei Petrov. He also owned at least 40 land plots with a cadastral value of 650 million. He obtained permission to build an upscale residential complex on Patrice Lumumba Street. The building is expected to have an average apartment size of 172 square meters and amenities such as a tennis court. The project's name is also known as Kazanka Vta. More details about Petrov Jr. and his representatives are available in the "BUSINESS Online" material.
A dispute with dog breeders is hindering plans for a 27-floor residential building with a tennis court overlooking Kazanka.
Residents of the Azure Heaven residential complex on Alberta Kamaleev Avenue will soon have a significant new neighbor across the street. According to BUSINESS Online, Sergey Petrov, a businessman in Kazan and the eldest son of Boris Petrov, the former head of the Volga Rostekhnadzor, who was fined for abusing his position last year, may soon implement such plans.
In November, the state prosecution requested a 2-year and 6-month prison sentence for the ex-head of the Volga Rostekhnadzor in a penal colony. He was accused of power abuse and impeding the legitimate work of businesses. The case for the final episode was closed due to the statute of limitations. According to the prosecution, the defendant deliberately did not authorize the commissioning of installations at the Haier plant.
However, the court found him guilty of power abuse and imposed a court fine of 70,000 rubles. Petrov spent part of his time in a pre-trial detention center and under house arrest, so the court reduced the punishment to 60,000 rubles.
This came to light through the lawsuit filed by Petrov Jr. against the Ministry of Land Property of the Republic of Tatarstan as the owner of a 6.5 thousand square meter land plot for future construction.
The dispute involves 500 square meters on an adjacent 5 thousand square meter plot owned by the Ministry and rented by a public organization, the Federation of Sports and Applied Dog Breeding of the Republic of Tatarstan. The plaintiff, Petrov, requests the establishment of an indefinite easement on a 9-meter wide part of the plot, essentially asking for the right to use someone else's land. It turned out that he needed the disputed site to build a passage on Alberta Kamaleev Avenue with a sidewalk.
Elena Klinova, a representative of the federation of sports and applied dog breeding (FSS) of the Republic of Tatarstan, informed our correspondent that the court presented a preliminary version of the future residential complex, including a glass facade building with 58 apartments spread over 27 floors and a total area of 10,000 square meters. Each apartment has an average size of 172 square meters.
The remaining space will be used for recreational facilities such as a tennis court, terrace, and underground parking for 154 cars. The preliminary design also reveals the name of the future residential complex – Kazanka Vta, with 'vta' meaning 'view' or 'perspective' in Spanish, suggesting a view of the Kazanka river from the upper floors. The cadastral value of the site is estimated to be around 47 million rubles.
However, the final design of the project has not been developed due to unresolved issues with access roads. The plaintiff wants to use the controversial 500 square meters area, currently used by dog breeders, as an entrance to the residential complex, offering initially 2.5 thousand rubles a year for joint road use, and later increasing the price to 12 thousand rubles a year.
FSS RT plans to contest Petrov's claim to the piece of land. Klinova states that there are other entrances to the future residential complex site, such as from Alberta Kamaleev Avenue, Kurskaya, and Patrice Lumumba streets. The site also includes a sports and training ground crucial for hosting various dog competitions.
According to Pyrkov, Petrov's site has been fenced for around 10 years with no activity. Petrov Jr. acquired the land about two years ago, while dog breeders have historically occupied their site since the late 1980s. The lease agreement with the Ministry of Land Property is valid until 2034.
Petrov himself does not provide any comments on the land dispute; he informed BUSINESS Online through his lawyer that he is not willing to discuss the issue.
1.3 billion in bank accounts and faithful business partners
According to BUSINESS Online, the land near the Azure Skies residential complex is not the only property owned by Petrov Jr. By the beginning of 2022, Sergey Borisovich possessed over 40 plots and real estate in various regions of Tatarstan, with a total value of 650 million rubles. This value is based on cadastral assessment, not market worth. This information arose during the trial between Petrov Jr. and his ex-wife, who is in a legal battle with him regarding alimony for their third child. Our reporter attended one of the court sessions.
During the legal proceedings, the plaintiff’s attorney declared that, according to information from the tax service and other sources, Petrov has bank accounts holding 1.3 billion rubles, and at the end of 2020, he reported an income of 60 million rubles (13 million rubles more than the previous year).
We were able to discover several plots that were owned or previously owned by Sergei Petrov, but are now in possession of other individuals who are not entirely unknown to him. To achieve this, we examined records from Rosreestr, permits for various construction projects, decisions from arbitration courts, and data from other publicly available sources.
Sergey Petrov, 44, is the son of the former head of Rostekhnadzor, Boris Petrov. Petrov Sr. dedicated his entire career to environmental issues, and Sergei Borisovich followed in his father’s footsteps. There is no official biography of him publicly available: he is a private individual who has been involved in business for his entire life under the shadow of his father. For instance, he was mentioned in the media as the head of Povolzhskaya Ecological Company LLC, even though (according to the Kontur.Focus service) he was not the head or founder of this company. The company has been in operation for over 20 years and deals with the disposal of industrial and solid waste, and even took part in a pilot waste management project in the Zakamsko-Prikama region. It wasn’t just the PEK that linked our protagonist to waste – as BUSINESS Online previously reported, the son of Boris Petrov was indirectly involved in developing a system for monitoring waste flows in the republic. The company responsible for the ESPE-soft system was part of the Eko Management Company holding, of which PEK formed the basis. Eko Management Company is currently located at Adel Kutuya, 160 – this address can still be found in our article, and the Kontur.Focus card indicates the same address as Projekto LLC.
The sole business of Sergei Borisovich is as the director and founder of Projecto according to “Contour. Focus”. The company was established in May 2021 and is involved in software development. By the end of 2021, the company had generated revenues exceeding 5.5 million rubles, with a net profit of 1.8 million rubles. According to the company's website, its main product is an electronic glider. In late 2021, Projecto was included in the registry of Russian software, operational since 2016 after the imposition of anti-Russian sanctions. Inclusion in the registry confirms that the program is secure, without vulnerabilities, and domestically developed, giving it an advantage over Western software for the public sector. Developers of listed software receive privileges, including exemption from the 20 percent VAT upon sale of the software.
Before this, Petrov worked on his own as a business owner since 2006, but at the end of 2021, he officially stopped operations. By the way, his individual business owns the trademarks “PEK”, “Volga Ecological Company” and the corresponding logo.
Close to the already mentioned location on Patrice Lumumba Street, which is owned by Petrov, there are two more areas of land, registered to Ilnura Saitova. They actually surround Petrov’s land from two sides. One of them (the address is not assigned to it, only the location is indicated – Patrice Lumumba Street) – with an area of 1.3 thousand square meters and a cadastral value of 10 million rubles. The permitted type of land use is for a parking lot in a multi-storey residential area of 6–20 floors. The second section – Patrice Lumumba Street, 58 – with an area of 670 square meters with the appointment “under the administrative building”. The cadastral value of the site, as follows from open data, is about 4.8 million rubles. Thus, the approximate cadastral value of a group of three plots on Patrice Lumumba is about 62 million rubles. Ilnura Saitova. They actually frame Petrov’s plot from two sides. One of them (the address is not assigned to it, only the location is indicated – Patrice Lumumba Street) – with an area of 1.3 thousand square meters. m and a cadastral value of 10 million rubles. The permitted type of land use is for a parking lot in a multi-storey residential area of 6–20 floors. The second section – Patrice Lumumba Street, 58 – with an area of 670 square meters. m with the appointment “under the administrative building”. The cadastral value of the site, as follows from open data, is about 4.8 million rubles. Thus, the approximate cadastral value of a group of three plots on Patrice Lumumba is about 62 million rubles.
During the legal process, where Sergei Borisovich requested to establish an easement on part of the dog breeders’ plot, it was announced that Saitov was Petrov’s trusted person. According to the Kontur.Focus service, they are long-term business partners. For example, in the late 2000s, Saitov was the director of PEK Property Company CJSC, the predecessor company of PEK (Volga Ecological Company). Before the “garbage” reform, it was one of the largest “garbage” operators in the republic, the beneficiary of which is Sergei Petrov. Despite the fact that he is not officially registered in the company’s management, it was Sergey Borisovich who spoke on its behalf during the scandal in 2013 in Chelny, which erupted after the construction project of a waste processing complex initiated by PEK. The founder of IK PEK CJSC was Eco Group of Companies LLC. It also later established another company – PEK-Zelenodolsk LLC, which was also headed by Saitov.
In 2018–2020, Saitov was in charge of Engineering Company LLC, which was involved in construction. The company is registered at the address: st. Adel Kutuya, 160a. The founder of the company from the moment of its foundation was Sergey Blokhin, the former director of PEK LLC in Zelenodolsk, Mari El and Chuvashia. Since April 2022, Saitov has been an individual entrepreneur whose main activity is renting and managing property.
The initial project development: how are Sergey Petrov and the residential complex “Eurasia” connected?
The sources of our publication claim that the project on Patrice Lumumba Street is not the first object for Sergei Borisovich as a developer. So, the son of the former head of the Volga department of Rostekhnadzor is associated with the partially built residential complex “Eurasia” on Krasnokokshayskaya Street. In particular, in numerous permits for the construction of the third building of the residential complex with the letter B (house No. 84), the surname Saitova, already familiar to us, appears.
Boris Germanovich is 66 years old, 15 of them he worked as the head of the Volga department of Rostekhnadzor, and before that, for almost five more years, he was the Minister of Ecology of Tatarstan. Candidate of Geographical Sciences, in fact, his entire career, which he built in the republic, was connected with ecology. In the era of Petrov, a new round of industrial development of the Republic of Tatarstan fell in Rostekhnadzor: large-scale reconstruction, construction of new facilities, control over dangerous enterprises … With the participation of the department, the first stage of the Kazan metro, a new Kazan airport, the Ak Bars Arena stadium were erected.
In May 2020, Petrov stepped down from his position. In an interview with our publication, he confessed that he had been attempting to retire for 1.5 years. “There are many other interesting things to focus only on this,” the official himself explained the reshuffle. In March 2021, he was accused in a criminal case involving kickbacks during the construction of a Haier plant. However, the case went to court under a charge not related to a bribe: Petrov was tried for misuse of authority and obstructing the legitimate work of a business. The state prosecution asked that he be sent to a colony, but the court imposed a fine of 60,000 rubles on Petrov, who admitted guilt and went to trial in a special manner. Thus, the former head of Rostekhnadzor for the Republic of Tatarstan avoided not only a real term, but also a criminal record.
The town-planning plan of the land plot (GPZU), on which in 2019 it was still only planned to build this house, was prepared “based on the application of citizen Saitov Ilnur Dusilevich.” In the document, he is listed as the owner of the plot (according to the Land Code of the Russian Federation, the owner of the land plot is the owner of the plot or its tenant). From the same document it follows that he received the GPZU as an individual. The law says that an individual can indeed receive a town-planning plan, but then he must either be the owner of the site, or act as an authorized representative of the person who has the right to the site.
Saitov asked for a GPZU for two land parcels – one measuring 11 thousand square meters and the other 9 thousand square meters. Both of these plots, as indicated in the Rosreestr extract, have been owned by the city since December 2019. The requests for the urban development plan from the copyright holder, Saitov, were made in April and December 2019.
Sergei Petrov himself does not appear in the documents. The construction of the comfort-class residential complex is being carried out by Specialized Developer AMG LLC. According to Kontur.Fokus, the company was established in 2014, registered on the street. Adelya Kutuya, 50, its director is Alexander Telegin. According to the unified resource of developers, the residential complex “Eurasia” is the only complex built by the company so far.
It is worth noting that the construction of the residential complex did not go smoothly: initially, the houses (since 2012) were erected with the support of Spurt Bank by the developer Impek LLC, which built and commissioned building A. Then the construction stalled, and AMG took on the burden. In one of the comments to BUSINESS Online, the director of Impek, Valery Kuvshinov spokethat the construction of housing is carried out on private investment. At the beginning of 2021, the company ceased operations.
How Sergey Petrov sold real estate to the city for the construction of the Voznesensky tract
On st. Adelya Kutuya, 160a, where Engineering Company LLC was located (we recall that Saitov was its director), one of the branches of the Volga Ecological Company, PEK-Kazan, was also based. In fact, this is the main base of PEK – an object with the code name “the building of the production base of the complex for sorting secondary raw materials” City complex for sorting secondary raw materials “”. The building has been owned by Sergei Petrov since 2013. The cadastral value of the building with an area of 827 sq. m exceeds 16 million rubles.
In February 2021, Sergey’s brother, Gleb Petrov, became the owner of the building. And three months later, in mid-May last year, Sergei Borisovich re-registered the site again. True, he was the owner for only two months – in early July, the building was transferred to the city for the construction of the Voznesensky tract. The corresponding announcement about the buyout of the object was even contained in the collection of documents dated July 2021 – it turns out that it took exactly a year to buy it out. “House No. 160a (administrative building of the production base of the complex for sorting secondary raw materials): withdraw land plots and real estate objects located on them by way of redemption for municipal needs,” the document read. The amount that Petrov received for the plot is not known. The building has not yet been demolished, although the construction of the Voznesensky tract is taking place in the immediate vicinity.
In the cadastral map there is also a land plot with the address: st. Adel Kutuya, 160 – the base of the PEK was located on it. According to an extract from Rosreestr, the owner of the site is Nina Vinokurova, the mother of Sergei Petrov and the first wife of Boris Germanovich. Until March 2022, Sergey Borisovich personally owned the site. Its area, according to data from open sources, is 13.8 thousand square meters. m, the cadastral value is more than 61 million rubles.
In March 2022, on the same day as the site described above, Sergey Petrov transferred another object to Vinokurova – a land plot of 30 thousand square meters. m on the Street of Journalists, directly opposite the Vietnamese market. As follows from the documents on the website of the Kazan City Hall, in April 2019, Petrov was given permission to build wholesale warehouses on this land. Judging by the cadastral map, at least five buildings are now located on this site – these are retail facilities. The cadastral value of the site, according to information from open sources, is 241 million rubles.
Sergey Petrov did not answer the questions of BUSINESS Online about the plots described above, involvement in the construction of the residential complex Eurasia and the transfer of land to his mother. What investment plans for other dozens of real estate objects Sergei Borisovich is hatching is still a mystery.
