translated article..19 Nov 2020 14:13
Against the background of the ongoing litigation over Petropavlovsk and criminal charges brought against the new general director, Maxim Meshcheryakov, a series of publications appeared in the federal and Amur media outlets trying to discredit the previous leadership and put pressure on the arbitration courts. In the meantime, there is less doubt that the interests of the group of shareholders go far beyond the "efficiency improvement of enterprises", which they talk about publicly. They critically need access to the bank accounts of Pokrovsky Rudnik here and now.
A regular session of the Arbitration Court of the Amur Region is scheduled for December 16, at which Petropavlovsk's claim against the subsidiary Albynsky Mine will be considered. At the same time, the same court is considering a counterclaim filed by the general director of Petropavlovsk Management Company Sergei Ermolenko, who is challenging the change of management bodies at the company's mines. At the same time, FAS Russia is studying the complaint about the purchase procedure by Yuzhuralzolot of a stake in the Amur gold miner.
Let's take a closer look at who exactly is fighting today in the Amur court and whose interests are being defended. On the one hand, the new general director Meshcheryakov, who has already become famous for the raid on the Pokrovka office. Prior to Petropavlovsk, he managed several enterprises, which he quickly brought to huge losses: the last of his companies, Maly Khingan Resources in the Jewish Autonomous Region, is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings.
The major shareholder of Petropavlovsk behind the change of leadership is Chelyabinsk billionaire Konstantin Strukov, whose company Yuzhuralzoloto, with a very scandalous reputation only in the last year, was mentioned several times in the press in connection with tax evasion and environmental violations. Strukov's partner on the board of shareholders is Nikolai Lustiger, or rather Nick Solomon Lustiger, as this citizen of the United States and Malta is now called in the Western manner.
As a consultant, Nick Solomon worked with officials of the US State Department, oversaw projects of large transnational corporations, and was also an adviser to the former Chelyabinsk governor Dubrovsky, who in 2019 was accused of embezzlement of the budget and is now hiding from a criminal case in Switzerland. Lustiger's longtime acquaintance is the American lawyer James Cameron Jr., who never had anything to do with the mining industry or even the London Stock Exchange, but who, unexpectedly for everyone, headed the board of directors of Petropavlovsk.
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