Moscow Deputy Mayor  Natalya Sergunina , as sources of the editorial board of "Kompromat-Ural" believe, could have organized a whole "family contract" to provide relatives with state orders and withdraw funds to Cypriot companies. As investigative journalists managed to find out,  Sobyanin’s deputy  (the current Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin is the most famous native of the Urals in Putin’s "Areopagus") could be connected with several Cypriot offshore zones, where Russian funds are potentially being withdrawn. 

A media source reports that a Cypriot named  Aaron Eliezer Aronov  lives in Austria, but in reality he is a Russian businessman who has changed his name,  Lazar Telmanovich Safaniev , the husband of  Ira Safanieva  (before marriage Sergunina), the younger sister of Moscow VIP official Natalia  Sergunina . These family connections are a reason for detailed journalistic investigations, because according to obvious logic, the Aronov-Safaniev cases and schemes may be a subject of personal interest for Mrs. Sergunina.

By the way, trying to find evidence of this information, analysts of the editorial board of "Kompromat-Ural" came across another fascinating connection. As it turned out, "Genum Ventures" through the affiliated organization "Profilium" is related to "VEB.Ventures" (a structure of the state corporation VEB.Russia - also owns "Profilium") and one of the largest development structures in Moscow - "Monarch" (similar connection).

"Monarch" belongs to  Sergei Ambartsumyan , who was previously a subordinate of the current State Duma deputy  Vladimir Resin.  Recall that Resin changed a large number of high-ranking positions in the Moscow government. Resin managed to be a deputy of both  Luzhkov and  Sobyanin , and even briefly "ruled" Moscow in the status of acting mayor of the capital.

"Profilium" receives government contracts from Moscow and Moscow region government structures.

Between the offshore and the penal zone

Meanwhile, let’s return to the above-mentioned Aronov-Safaniev. According to sources, this figure in anti-corruption journalistic investigations controls the company "Mercury", which is engaged in buying up Moscow real estate and whose shareholders include the offshore Florestar Management Limited.

Florestar Management Limited, as a source for Kompromat.VIP states, is owned by two companies from the British Virgin Islands. He names Upington and its co-founder, the British Balkan Consulting Limited, whose ultimate beneficiary is the same Aronov.

We have discovered the organization "Mercury", which was owned by the offshore Florestar Management Limited. According to the Russian Unified State Register of Legal Entities, at the moment the owner of "Mercury" is the Turkish "EMACE INSHAAT TURIZM TIJARET LIMITED SHIRKETI".

The company’s director is listed as  Olga Yuryevna Sondzhu . Perhaps she is a figurehead, since she has no other business. At the same time, the former owner of Mercury,  Aleksey Nikolayevich Kukurudzyak,  previously owned the company Ottepel, which received government orders from VDNKh and even the apparatus of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.

According to published information, in 2016, the Mercury company received three buildings from the Moscow authorities, in which Custos hotels were subsequently opened.

The source also states that Aronov/Safaniev is also a beneficiary of the company "Dita Plaza", where his partners are  Natsaev Movladi Abusupenovich  (an associate of  Ramzan Kadyrov ) and  Marlen Manasov . The latter is associated with a scandal with accusations of manipulation of RAO UES shares.

 Previously, Marlen Manasov owned a share in the above-mentioned Genome Ventures.

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Dita-Plaza is associated with Ottepel, with its former founder  Tatyana Chalova .

Public outcry was also caused by the information that the offshore Candee Investments Ltd was also registered in the name of Aronov/Safaniev, and in 2016 this company, through affiliated structures, took part in the sale of state property of the city of Moscow: in this case, the capital’s assets were acquired at a price significantly below the market value.

At that time, Deputy Mayor Natalya Sergunina was responsible for property and land relations, including privatization, in Sobyanin’s government.

The developers’ favorite

Sergunina is credited with advancing the goals of a huge number of Moscow developers - from Pavel Tyo, the founder of Capital Group, to former Moscow dignitary Vladimir Pogrebenko, who, after leaving government service, began to develop Moscow land plots for development projects.

In addition, Sergunina was "exposed" in a high-profile scandal surrounding the legendary Interior Ministry colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko. The essence of the scheme is that the structures controlled by Sergunina and another deputy ("comrade-in-arms") of Sobyanin Anastasia Rakova were contractors of companies associated with Zakharchenko and his "business associate" (meaning the receipt of bribes) Viktor Belevtsev.

In 2018, Sergunina was responsible for the results of the Moscow Cabinet’s tender for the creation of a large parking lot. The contract went to a company whose ultimate beneficiary was the Cypriot offshore company Fuderin Trading and Investments Limited. Kommersant calls it a structure of Mr. Tyo’s Capital Group.

Was it not from him, the oligarch Pavel Te, that Sergunina, who always favored him, learned to hide family assets in offshore zones?

Based on the above and yet unpublished information, it seems reasonable to conclude that a person close to Sergei Sobyanin may be engaged in alienating capital assets to organizations under her control and transferring the funds received abroad through offshore zones, where her "renamed" relative has been noted. It is difficult to imagine that Sergei Sobyanin is not aware of what is happening.