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According to them, a scheme for the withdrawal of assets during the construction of elite real estate and commercial bribery of one of the top managers of Sberbank in order to obtain contracts for large construction projects could be organized by the Ukrainian-Israeli-Russian businessman Eduard Shifrin.

If the information is confirmed, a loud scandal is worse than the mysterious loss of Colonel Zakharchenko's 200 million rubles from the vault of the state bank, and Shifrin, who received Russian citizenship only in 2016, will firmly gain the glory of the milker of the Russian budget.

Eduard Shifrin, a billionaire figure in the Forbes global rating, is better known in Russia as a public figure and promoter of traditional Jewish values. The businessman holds the post of vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and actively funds synagogues and Sunday schools. In 2015, he even opened the country's largest religious and cultural center in the elite village of Zhukovka on Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway. It is no coincidence that his application for citizenship was supported by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia.

Those who have been familiar with the activities of an enterprising Jew from Dnepropetrovsk for a long time and not from the glossy side are convinced that Shifrin's business methods are far from the principles of both the Torah and modern civilized entrepreneurship. In Eduard Shifrin entered the metallurgical business of the Canadian businessman of Russian origin Alex Schneider and together with him founded Midland Resources Holding Limited, which later grew into a group of companies.

In the middle of the 2000s, Eduard Shifrin moved to Russia for permanent residence, where the group was closely engaged in the development of the development business. It was the projects for the construction of elite real estate that became a stumbling block for the partners, when in 2008 they decided to split the business. Alex Schneider even appealed to the London International Arbitration Court with claims against Shifrin, believing that his former partner dodged him when he was dividing development assets in the Russian capital.

It was important for Eduard Shifrin that Schneider, when they were still partners in Midland, did not find out about the real situation in the development business in Russia, and therefore he tried to prevent Schneider from coming to Moscow. This follows from the testimony of the former head of the security service of the group Vasily Yordan, which he gave during the proceedings in London. Almost blackmail and threatening calls were used.

Jordan also said that with the help of administrative resources in law enforcement agencies, Eduard Shifrin organized pressure on Schneider: as soon as he was going to come to Moscow, law enforcement officers reopened the criminal case against the business partner, initiated back in 2008. At the same time, witness Jordan did not exclude that the case was fabricated from the very beginning.

Eduard Shifrin and withdrawal of money

Eduard Shifrin had something to hide, and not only from his business partner, but also from law enforcement agencies. Details of his activities in the Russian construction market began to surface last year.

The ex-director of the MPM reported that Eduard Shifrin organized a criminal scheme to withdraw funds from the company, which were intended for construction and installation work on a number of facilities of Sberbank of Russia. In particular, one of the most famous long-term construction projects in Moscow - the Oruzheiny business center. Today this skyscraper with a 35-meter spire has become one of the landmarks of the capital, on the construction of which the owner of MPM, through a company connected with Sberbank, Savings Capital LLC, probably “mastered” millions of dollars.

The counterparties identified MPM with Sberbank and, without question, entered into contracts for the work. But when the construction was over, the subcontractors did not receive money. According to the above statement, Savings Capital has already terminated the agreement with MPM. Thus, the contractors for the construction of the Oruzheyny and the project for the refurbishment of the Sberbank building on Volgogradsky Prospect did not receive approximately US $ 30 million.

Intentional bankruptcy

In addition, on April 3, 2018, a criminal case on large-scale tax evasion was initiated against the management of the MPM. As a result of fraudulent contracts, the company owed the Russian budget over 130.4 million rubles in income taxes.

According to various assumptions, Eduard Shifrin could have heated the Russian state for a much larger amount - according to various estimates, from 1.5 to 2 billion rubles. Only one transaction for the sale of real estate objects of the former paper mill "Voskhod" for 249 million dollars was supposed to bring the budget about 100 million dollars in taxes, which at today's rate is more than 6 billion rubles!

It seems that Shifrin managed to sell Sberbank, in fact, 55 thousand bare walls of the old factory for 4.5 thousand dollars per square meter, and then get a contract for the finishing of these areas at the Sberbank data center, and the Russian budget did not receive a dime from this transactions. All the profits could have settled on the offshore company Frospex LTD, registered in the distant British Virgin Islands, whose belonging to the Shifrin surname, as well as participation in the scheme, would not be difficult for law enforcement officers to verify.

Eduard Shifrin's connections

The testimony of the criminal actions of Eduard Shifrin on the territory of Russia is given by employees of numerous offices of a pious Jew. All of them claim that Eduard Shifrin put nominee directors at the helm of the firms, who "signed documents without looking." Obviously, such a management scheme was created in order to shift the responsibility for fraud onto the directors. Of course, pride in “not signing anything and managing everything” can only please managers of very narrow specialization.

He also managed to catch with partners dashingly. Eduard Shifrin has always been famous for his ability to establish connections with the right people. According to Vasily Yordan, security officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office, and top managers of state-owned companies, including Sberbank, "" and Vneshtorgbank, were friends with him. Is it any wonder if bragging hadn't extended to criminal connections?

Jordan admitted that he regularly took tens of thousands of dollars to the general in "royalties." Shifrin paid for Derevyanko's services for "spinning" his partner Alex Schneider generously, adding Derevyanko to buy a house on Rublevka and two land plots in Zhukovka - a total of $ 3 million out of 6.3 needed. Until today, General Derevianko lives happily in this house on Rublevka, possibly helping Shifrin to solve problems here too.

Information about bribes Derevyanko was also confirmed by Alexander Petrov in another appeal to the TFR in September 2017. He also announced that for many years Eduard Shifrin had been actively "cooperating" with the top management of Sberbank of the Russian Federation. This provided MPM with construction contracts from the state bank in the amount of about $ 1 billion. Petrov asked the ICR to check the facts of commercial bribery stated in his appeal and to initiate a criminal case against Shifrin. Approximately the same was asked by contracting companies that were left without money as a result of the "friendly" work of Eduard Shifrin and some managers of Sberbank of the Russian Federation!

It is worth recalling that state banks, like law enforcement agencies, received great opportunities for the implementation of development projects in the postluzhkov era in the construction sector. But, as you can see, access to their construction projects is still open to dealers like Eduard Shifrin. Because of this, the treasury is imperceptibly, but regularly loses huge sums.

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Eduard V. Shifrin(eng. Shifrin, genus. July 12, 1960, Dnepropetrovsk) - Ukrainian billionaire.

Candidate of Science (Engineering) (1992). In 1999, along with other authors of the fundamental textbook "Theory of Metallurgical Processes", he became a laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology.

Since 1999, co-chairman of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine. Since 2002, Vice-President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. Vice President of the World Jewish Congress.

Biography

Born into the family of Professor Vladimir Moiseevich Shifrin, a prominent specialist in the field of metallurgy.

Graduated in 1977 from a school with in-depth study of physics, classmate Evgeny Chervonenko. Then he graduated with honors from the Physics and Chemistry Department of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1983). After graduation, he was assigned to one of the giants of domestic metallurgy - the Zaporozhye plant "Dneprospetsstal", where he worked in 1983-1993: assistant foreman, foreman, assistant shop manager, head of the laboratory group, head of the laboratory, head of the steel shop, deputy head of the marketing department ... Thanks to his connections with the management of the plant, the businessman focused on the resale of Zaporizhstal products. Participation in the privatization of Zaporizhstal allowed the partners to become one of its main shareholders. His Ukrainian connections helped Midland gain control of Zaporizhstal in 1990.

In 1993-1995 he was an employee of the Ukrainian representative office of the Hong Kong trading company "Linful International LTD". In 1995-1998, he headed the Ukrainian office of the Canadian company Midland Recourses Inc. In 1998-2004, General Director of the representative office of Midland Recourses UK (Great Britain) in Ukraine. 2004-2012 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Zaporizhstal JSC.

Having met Alex Schneider, who had a trading company Trans Resources NV in Toronto, Alex Schneider decided to turn his attention to the declining domestic metallurgical industry. In 1994, the partners founded the offshore company Midland Resources, which became one of the largest sellers of Zaporizhstal products, the fourth largest steel plant in Ukraine. Eduard Shifrin is the co-founder of Midland Group, a holding company headquartered in Guernsey. The company was engaged in buying Russian coal, giving it to Ukrainian steel companies, and taking finished steel in return. By 2001, the money earned allowed them to acquire several metallurgical plants, including Shifrin's own enterprise. The company's sphere of interests: steel (Zaporizhstal), shipping, real estate, agriculture, the company owned the Formula 1 team Midland F1 Racing.

In Russia, the group owns a portfolio of 1 million m2 of commercial and 600,000 m2 of residential and hotel real estate, including business centers on the Arbat "Midland Plaza", "Diamond Hall" on Olympic Prospect, "Yuzhny Port" next to the metro station "Kozhukhovskaya", and also a chain of shopping centers in the Strip Mall regions (currently projects are frozen due to the growth in the cost of credit resources). Midland Group also owns a stake in RusSpetsStal.

According to Forbes magazine, Shifrin was in the 486th place in 2006 in the ranking of billionaires, with a fortune of $ 1.6 billion, in the 2007 ranking he took only 538th place, although his capital grew to $ 1.9 billion, in the rating “ Billionaires of the World "in 2009, he was placed from 559th position, the capital is estimated at 1.3 billion dollars. In 2006, in the Sunday Times Rich List, he was listed at number 59 with an estimated fortune of £ 920 million. In 2008, the Polish magazine Wprost estimated the fortune of Eduard Shifrin at $ 1.7 billion. In 2011, Focus magazine estimated the fortune of Eduard Shifrin at $ 1 407 billion (No. 14 in the rating of the 200 largest wealthy people in Ukraine, which was made by the magazine "Focus").

According to his own statement, he has been living abroad since 1996.

He is married with three children.

Laureate of the prize of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia "Person of the Year" in the field of patronage (2007).

Business

Does business in 34 countries of the world.

For 13 years, his company has grown into a transnational empire, which includes heavy industry enterprises, supermarket chains, real estate with an annual income of $ 215 million.

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1983 - work at the Dneprospetsstal plant (assistant foreman, foreman, assistant to the head of the shop, head of the laboratory group, head of the laboratory, head of the steel shop (the youngest in the history of the plant), deputy head of the marketing department). Worked "in harsh conditions, on a concrete floor, night and day shifts"

At one time he worked at a metallurgical plant. When the era of export opened, I realized that Western companies cannot do business in Ukraine, because they do not understand the local specifics. At the same time, the "red directors" could not do business with Western companies, because they did not understand Western specifics. I realized that we need people who will be able to connect knowledge of metallurgy and Ukrainian specifics with Western business. I tried to become that person. My first clients were metallurgical plants in Ukraine and Western trading companies.

1995 - Head of the Ukrainian office of the Canadian firm Midland Resources Intl.

1996 - Chief Engineer at the Tantal Technology Center.

1997 General Director of the representative office of Midland Resources Intl (Ireland).

1998 - General Director of the representative office of Midland Resources UK ltd (Great Britain) in Ukraine.

1999 - Together with a partner, we started buying up state shares of Zaporizhstal.

April 10, 2000 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Zaporizhstal (concurrently).

2004 - Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Zaporizhzhya Metallurgical Plant Zaporizhstal.

October 2007 - a public center named after Vladimir Shifrin, his father, a teacher with 30 years of experience, opened in Kiev.

2009 - decided to leave Ukraine, focusing on the Russian Federation.

Personal qualities

Six-meter armored Maybach Shifrin

If we analyze the online and video interviews of the oligarch, then we can draw conclusions about him as a person:

He writes quite well in Russian.

Believes that "the United Arab Emirates is heavily over-invested today."

"Not always, but I try my best (to be happy)."

The teacher in the business world was Dale Carnegie, the authorities - Buffett, Jobs, Gates.

Drives a BMW armored car in Moscow. According to TablID, in Ukraine it is a 6-meter Maybach. And in London Bentley Arnage. There is a $ 20 million private jet.

Loves luxury.

Became a believer after 30 years, knowingly. I've seen miracles.

Hobbies - yoga, skiing, fitness.

Don't mind funding the construction of an intergalactic station.

Finances school and kindergarten.

He never gets behind the wheel (only drives in the back seat) and does not fly on regular flights.

Loves rare Scotch whiskeys ("fantastic whiskey").

Wears special order in boutique Ave Rossini, which is located in London on Bond street.

I like "slimming" jackets and shoes made of eel skin.

Impulsive shopper.

He spent his childhood in a poor apartment on the basement of a five-story building - his mother, father, grandmother, great-grandmother and he lived in it: "Money in the family was despised and cursed."

He now has five houses. There is a country house in London for $ 5 million. The most expensive for $ 10 million is on Rublevka (bought in 2004). There is a sauna, billiards, home theater, wine cellar.

Loves wood in design.

Learns French on an Apple player.

A lover of socialist realism in art.

Family and connections

Family and connections
A family	Olga's wife raised three sons. Son Igor Eduardovich - ex-development director of Midland Development. Employee of the investment fund Open Capital, which credits the Professionals website. Graduated from the London School of Economics (Management) in 2005.
Close ties	Vitaly Satsky - God of metallurgy, "junior" partner of "Indians". Withdrew from active affairs. In 2007, the Kievites left, selling their shares. At the same time, information appeared in the QMS about Midland's desire to bring the company to an IPO.

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Edward Shifrin. Photo by Kommersant

As it became known, in the work of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) there are materials on the case related to the theft of funds on contracts of the development structure of Sberbank of Russia - Sberbank Capital. According to them, a scheme for the withdrawal of assets during the construction of elite real estate and commercial bribery of one of the top managers of Sberbank in order to obtain contracts for large construction projects could be organized Ukrainian-Israeli-Russian businessman Eduard Shifrin.

If the information is confirmed, a loud scandal is cleaner mysterious loss Colonel Zakharchenko's 200 million rubles from the storage of the state bank cannot be avoided, but for Shifrin, who received only in 2016 Russian citizenship, the glory of the miller of the Russian budget will be firmly entrenched.

Partnership outside the Torah

Those who for a long time and not from the glossy side are familiar with the activities of an enterprising Jew from Dnepropetrovsk, were convinced that Shifrin's methods of doing business are far from principles like Torah and modern civilized entrepreneurship. In the 90s, Shifrin entered the metallurgical business of the Canadian businessman of Russian origin Alex Schneider and together with him founded Midland Resources Holding Limited, which later grew into a group of companies. In the middle of the 2000s, Shifrin moved to Russia for permanent residence, where the group was closely engaged in the development of the development business. It was the projects for the construction of elite real estate that became a stumbling block for the partners, when in 2008 they decided to split the business. Alex Schneider even appealed to the London International Arbitration Court with claims against Shifrin, believing that his former partner twisted him around his finger when he was dividing development assets in the Russian capital.

It was important for Shifrin that Schneider, when they were still partners in Midland, did not find out about the real situation in the development business in Russia, and therefore he tried to prevent Schneider from coming to Moscow. This follows from the testimony of the former head of the security service of the group Vasily Yordan, which he gave during the proceedings in London. Almost blackmail and threatening calls were used. Jordan also said that with the help of administrative resources in law enforcement agencies, Shifrin organized pressure on Schneider: as soon as he was going to come to Moscow, law enforcement officers resumed the criminal case against the business partner, initiated back in 2008. At the same time, witness Jordan did not exclude that the case was fabricated from the very beginning.

Fictitious contractor

Shifrin had something to hide, and not only from a business partner, but also from law enforcement agencies. Details of his activities in the Russian construction market began to surface last year.

So, in September 2017, the director of Shifrin's Millennium Property Management LLC (MPM), Alexander Petrov, sent a statement to the head of the ICR, Alexander Bastrykin, with a request to initiate a criminal case against the owner of the company under several articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud, abuse of power and falsification of evidence. The ex-director of the MPM reported that Shifrin had organized a criminal scheme for withdrawing funds from the company, which were intended to carry out construction and installation work on a number of facilities. Sberbank of Russia... In particular, one of the most famous long-term construction projects in Moscow - the Oruzheiny business center. Today this skyscraper with a 35-meter spire has become one of the landmarks of the capital, on the construction of which the owner of MPM, through a company connected with Sberbank, Savings Capital LLC, probably “mastered” millions of dollars.

The scheme looked something like this: before the subsidiary structure of the state bank Sberbank Capital and ZAO SB Finstroy, apparently owned through the Cypriot offshore Eduard Shifrin, established the Savings Capital company with 51% and 49% shares, respectively. Other Shifrin's companies - Midland Development LLC, but more often MPM - acted as intermediaries between the customer - Sberbank - and the end subcontractors. And all three structures were completely controlled by Shifrin personally. The counterparties identified MPM with Sberbank and, without question, entered into contracts for the work. But when the construction was over, subcontractors did not receive money... According to the above statement, Savings Capital has already terminated the agreement with MPM. Thus, the executors of the construction of the Oruzheyny and the project for the refurbishment of the Sberbank building on Volgogradsky Prospect did not receive about $ 30 million.

MPM was recently declared bankrupt. Earlier at that time, the temporary manager of the company, Oleg Mikheev, suspected that the bankruptcy was deliberate and controlled, and turned to law enforcement agencies. In addition, on April 3, 2018, a criminal case on large-scale tax evasion was initiated against the management of the MPM. As a result of fraudulent contracts, the company owed the Russian budget over 130.4 million rubles in income taxes. According to various assumptions, Shifrin could have heated the Russian state for a much larger amount - according to various estimates, from 1.5 to 2 billion rubles. Only one transaction for the sale of real estate objects of the former paper mill "Voskhod" for 249 million dollars was supposed to bring the budget about 100 million dollars in taxes, which at today's rate is more than 6 billion rubles! It seems that Shifrin managed to sell Sberbank, in fact, 55 thousand bare walls of the old factory for 4.5 thousand dollars per square meter, and then get a contract for the finishing of these areas at the Sberbank data center, and the Russian budget did not receive a dime from this transactions. All the profits could have settled on the offshore company Frospex LTD, registered in the distant British Virgin Islands, whose belonging to the Shifrin surname, as well as participation in the scheme, would not be difficult for law enforcement officers to verify.

Vicious ties

The testimony of the criminal actions of Mr. Shifrin on the territory of Russia is given by employees of numerous offices of a pious Jew. All of them claim that Shifrin put nominee directors at the helm of the firms, who "signed documents without looking." Obviously, such a management scheme was created in order to shift the responsibility for fraud onto the directors. Of course, pride in “not signing anything and managing everything” can only please managers of very narrow specialization.

He also managed to catch with partners dashingly. Shifrin has always been famous for being able to establish connections with the right people. According to Vasily Yordan, security officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office, and top managers of state-owned companies, including Sberbank, Rostec and Vneshtorgbank, were friends with him. Is it any wonder if bragging hadn't extended to criminal connections?

At one time, the media wrote a lot about the adventures of the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District, Major General Sergei Derevyanko who was fired by Putin's decree in 2014. One of the reasons was the information that the general interacted with the businessman in solving problems with business partners. Shifrin, apparently, used it in the fight against Alex Schneider. Jordan admitted that he regularly took tens of thousands of dollars to the general in "royalties." Shifrin paid for Derevyanko's services for "spinning" his partner Alex Schneider generously, adding Derevyanko to buy a house on Rublevka and two land plots in Zhukovka - a total of $ 3 million out of 6.3 needed. Until today, General Derevianko lives happily in this house on Rublyovka, possibly helping to solve Shifrin's problems here as well.

Information about bribes Derevyanko was also confirmed by Alexander Petrov in another appeal to the TFR in September 2017. He also said that for many years Shifrin had been actively “cooperating” with the top management of Sberbank of the Russian Federation. This provided the MPM with construction contracts from the state bank in the amount of about $ 1 billion. Petrov asked the TFR to check the facts of commercial bribery stated in his appeal and initiate a criminal case against Shifrin. About the same asked contracting companies that were left without money as a result of the "friendly" work of Shifrin and some managers of Sberbank of the Russian Federation!

Against the background of the fight against corruption in the government, Sberbank is likely to try to hush up this case. But, obviously, after the scandalous facts are made public, the country's largest credit institution will have to think about its personnel policy and the methodology for selecting business partners. It is worth recalling that state banks, like law enforcement agencies, received great opportunities for the implementation of development projects in the postluzhkov era in the construction sector. But, as you can see, access to their construction projects is still open to dealers like Eduard Shifrin. Because of this, the treasury is imperceptibly, but regularly loses huge sums.

Valery Aldoshkin

Canadian citizen Eduard Shifrin, according to Forbes, is one of the richest people in London. Former classmate Yevgeny Chervonenko over the past fifteen years has managed to turn from a promising scientist into one of the wealthiest people in Europe. His business interests are not limited to Ukraine only. Shifrin and his partners conduct their business in 34 countries of the world.

Ambition.

Eduard Shifrin is an ambitious person. He demonstrates his ambitions in business, conquering new sales markets for the products he controls.

Biography.

Was born in 1960 in Dnepropetrovsk. Graduated from high school with in-depth study of physics. In 1983 he graduated from the Physics and Chemistry Department of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. After graduation, he was assigned to one of the giants of the domestic metallurgy - the Zaporozhye plant "Dneprospetsstal". He began his labor activity as an assistant to the workshop foreman. In 1990, Edward works in a steel shop and earns about $ 70 a month. Thanks to his tenacity and organizational skills, Eduard became the youngest head of the largest steelmaking shop in Europe. After 3 years, he decides to go into business. First he worked for a Chinese trading company.

During his frequent business trips, Shifrin meets his future partner, Alex Schneider, who had his own trading company Trans Resources NV in Toronto. Alex Schneider drew attention to the declining domestic metallurgical industry. The partners founded their firm Midland Resources in 1994, which was engaged in buying Russian coal, giving it to Ukrainian steel companies, and taking finished steel in return. The firm has become one of the largest sellers of Zaporizhstal products. Participated in the financing of production. The company is gradually becoming a link between Ukrainian metallurgical plants and the international market. In particular, Midland bought Russian coal, transferred it to Ukrainian steel companies, and received finished steel in return.

By 2001, the money earned allowed them to buy several metallurgical plants, including Shifrin's own enterprise. The businessman's interests were not limited only to the metallurgical industry. In 2002 he created the Amstor supermarket chain. Midland Group implements projects for the construction of commercial and residential real estate in Russia, Ukraine and Canada. Shifrin earned $ 2 million selling the Formula 1 team. The entrepreneur invested 7 million in the creation of the film Inhabited Island. But the economic crisis hit Shifrin's assets as well. His fortune has decreased by almost 400 thousand in 2 years. However, the businessman has ambitious plans for the future. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Zaporizhstal JSC.

Charity

Eduard Shifrin is known for his charitable activities. He invested in the reconstruction of a synagogue in Kiev. He took an active part in the opening of the restored synagogue in Volgograd. In October 2007, with the assistance of Shifrin, a Religious and Educational Center named after his father, Vladimir Shifrin, was opened in the capital. Who, according to Eduard Vladimirovich, has been teaching for 30 years.

Shifrin took part in the project "Revival of Khortitsa". “When we talk about the project for the revival of Khortitsa, we do not mean the construction of one facility for a tick. To breathe a second life into the real shrine of the Ukrainian people, a sovereign approach is also necessary, and we are focused on the comprehensive implementation of the project, which we rightfully consider our own brainchild, ”says Eduard Vladimirovich. (proUA, April 5, 2005)

Business empire

According to the online edition proUA, Eduard Shifrin is related to the following companies:

JSC "Zaporozhye Metallurgical Plant named after Ordzhonikidze; Midland Resources Holding Ltd; Zaporizhstal-Security LLC; Istrade Ltd; CJSC IC Intertranspolis; LLC "MD Group"; Azov-Sea-Terminal LLC;

CJSC Insurance Company MD-Garant; CJSC Lugansk Pipe Plant; CJSC Zaporizhzhya Iron Ore Plant; OO PTP Zaporizhstal-Invest Torgprom; LLC Zaporozhye Independent Television and Radio Company TV-5; LLC Resurs Ltd;

JSC "Zaporozhkoks"; LLC Zaporizhstal-Prominvest; ALC SK West-Reserve; Global Steel Investments Ltd; Airol Beteiliqunqen AG; Emarglen Finance LTD; Denion LLC; Fininvestgroup CJSC; Metallurgical Center LLC; Otrino Trading Limited; Discovery Industrial Holding Limited; Kiev Security LLC Group "; Midland Capital Management; Weybridge Company Inc.; Temis LLC;

LLC "MD Group Kremenchug"; LLC JV "Metall Holding"; LLC "Instrade Ltd"; Alesio Universal S.A.; Express Bank JSB; Steel Track LLC; Pameli International Enterprises Inc.; Volgograd Metallurgical Plant Krasny Oktyabr CJSC; Engels Carriage Works; CJSC Ukrfinkom.

BUSINESS BUSINESS

In the summer of 2008, Alex Schneider and Eduard Shifrin began dividing the assets of the Midland Group. Russian assets were transferred to Shifrin. According to the newspaper "Vedomosti", in Russia the group owns a portfolio of 1 million square meters. m of commercial and 600,000 sq. m of residential and hotel real estate. Among them are Midland Plaza business centers on Arbat, Diamond Hall on Olimpiysky Prospekt, Yuzhny Port near the Kozhukhovskaya metro station, as well as a chain of shopping centers in the Strip Mall regions (at the moment, projects are frozen due to an increase in the cost of credit resources ). Midland Group also owns a stake in Russpetsstal.

“We have been partners for 15 years now, we have no complaints against each other, just everyone wants independence,” Eduard Shifrin commented on his relationship with a partner (Vedomosti, December 24, 2008)

In December 2008, Alex Schneider and Eduard Shifrin sold the MD Retail chain of convenience stores. The media also reported that the Amstor hypermarket chain will be put up for sale. In March 2009, there was even information that this network was on the verge of default. However, it was a little revealed that the company had redeemed bonds for a total of UAH 50 million.

In 2005, Midland Group acquired the Formula 1 team Jordan Grand Prix for $ 50 million. A year later, the company sold the team for $ 106.6 million to the Dutch sports car manufacturer Skyper Cars. By the way, the marketing director of the Jordan Grand Prix team was the grandson of the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. Eduard Shifrin is related to the ZAPOROZHY football club "Metallurg".

SALE "ZAPOROZHSTALI"

In May 2010, Midland Resources Holding Limited (Guernsey, UK), which is owned on a parity basis by Eduard Shifrin and Alexander Schneider, and the owners of the Industrial Bank Group sold the Zaporizhstal Group, whose key asset is the Zaporizhstal metallurgical plant, through the Russian investment company Troika Dialog. This follows from the hearings in the Royal Courts of Justice held on July 14 and 15, the transcript of which was made public on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BILII), at the suit of Luxe Holding Limited (Cyprus), controlled by the family of Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov, to Midland. According to the document, initially (on May 4), the Midland owners signed an agreement for the sale and purchase of their stake in Zaporizhstal to Luxe for $ 690 million, under which the Cypriot company transferred $ 50 million on May 6.

Until May 31, when the transfer of shares was to be completed, Luxe was to be paid another $ 350 million, and the remaining $ 290 million - in equal installments over 18 months. In accordance with the promulgated text, the parties also agreed to sign a more detailed agreement by May 20, however 19 In May, E. Shifrin called R. Akhmetov and informed about the decision to sell Midland's stake in Zaporizhstal to another buyer. According to the document, the next day R. Akhmetov received a call from one of the co-owners of the Industrial Bank Group, who said that the day before Together with his partner, he discussed the potential sale of Zaporizhstal with E. Shifrin to a new buyer. As a result, the Industrial Bank Group decided to sell its stake in Zaporizhstal to this new buyer “jointly and simultaneously with Midland”.

Midland refunded $ 50 million in advance to Luxe and another $ 50 million as a fine, which was discussed in the signed sales and purchase agreement. According to Luxe, the deal with Troika Dialog was completed on May 26, its price was $ 850 million. Midland $ 50 million). The defendant, in turn, insists that he had the right to withdraw from the deal and $ 50 million is sufficient compensation. The document also indicates that Midland originally agreed to sell 20 companies to Luxe, of which 17 were Russian and Ukrainian, and through them control over the Zaporizhstal Group was exercised, while another was from Guernsey, and two from Ireland. According to the Cypriot company, Midland included 16 companies in the deal with Troika Dialog, excluding the last three, whose importance is not great. The plaintiff is represented in court by White & Case, the defendant by Allen & Overy. According to the latest information, the transfer of Zaporizhstal to the Russian side will end by the new year.

Financial situation

In 2009, the Focus magazine estimated Shifrin's capital at $ 295.2 million. According to the publication, over the past year he lost $ 754.8 million. According to the Korrespondent magazine, Eduard Shifrin's fortune in 2009 was $ 143 million. In 2008, the Polish magazine Wprost estimated the fortune of Eduard Shifrin at $ 1.7 billion. In November 2006, Forbes presented the list of the richest residents of London, in which Eduard Shifrin, with a fortune of $ 1.6 billion, took 17th place. In 2007, according to Korrespondent's estimate, Shifrin's fortune is $ 318 million. In 2008, this magazine estimated his fortune at $ 837 million.

Environment

Alex Schneider, Igor Dvoretsky, Vitaly Satsky, Nikolai Soldatenko. Childhood friend - Evgeny Chervonenko.

Regalia

Candidate of Science (Engineering). Member of the Board of Trustees of the Children's Hospital of the Future Charitable Foundation, initiated by Ekaterina Yushchenko. Vice President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine. Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Kiev City Jewish Community. Winner of the 2000 Kyiv City Jewish Community Prize in the "Patron" nomination. Co-chairman of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. President of the Ukraine-Israel Chamber of Commerce. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Children's Hospital of the Future Charitable Foundation, initiated by Yekaterina Yushchenko.

A family

He is married and has three children.

Hobby

He is fond of football.

Prepared based on materials from open sources

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