"Fact" daily writes:
A few days ago, the "Past" daily reported that "Gefest Mining" limited liability company, registered on October 22 of this year, submitted an application for the right to purchase shares of "Teghut" CJSC and to obtain the right to further operation of the mine in the Republic of Kazakhstan just a few weeks ago, whose shareholders are LLC "CUPRUM MINERALS MANAGEMENT" and Alexey Leonidovich Utkin, established in the Republic of Kazakhstan again recently, on October 17.
In turn, the company "CUPRUM MINERALS MANAGEMENT" has two shareholders: citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan, state official Nurlan Zhetpisovich Kusainov and shareholder of the same "Gefest Mining" company Alexey Utkin.
First of all, we should note that the analysis made on the basis of the materials extracted from the state registers of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation does not justify the experience, financial capabilities and economic interest of Mr. Utkin and Kusainov in a mining asset like Teghut, which is worth 200 million USD and is distinguished by the complexity of management. to acquire and exploit, and there are doubts that they are not the real ultimate beneficiary in this case, so a detailed analysis related to them would be inappropriate, and There is no need to go into detail about these people, but we will give some information later.
The "composition" of "Gefest Mining" itself and the personality of the company's director are more interesting. The information obtained from open sources leads to quite remarkable conclusions and sheds light on the infinite "love" of the newly created company's shareholders for the Teghut mine.
Thus, the director of "Gefest Mining" company is Dmitry Dmitrievich Betsal, who has quite an interesting work experience. was the general director of ООО "УССУРИЙСКАЯ МЕДЬ" registered in the Russian Federation, on 19.05.2022. from to 19.04.2023 was the general director of ООО "СЕВЕРО-БАЙКАЛЬСКАЯ ГОРНОРУДНАЯ КОМПАНИЯ", registered in the Russian Federation, and from 13.07.2022 to 28.02.2024, again the general director of the ООО "ГОЛД СТРИМ ХС" registered in the Russian Federation.
If identifying the ultimate beneficiary of the first two companies was not a great difficulty, which we will consider in this article, then the attempts to identify the ultimate beneficiary of ООО "ГОЛД СТРИМ ХС" company lead to the Dutch ЗИЛМЕТА Б.В. to the company, whose shareholders "Past" is conducting an additional study to identify. Both ООО "УССУРИЙСКАЯ МЕДЬ" and ООО " СЕВЕРО-БАЙКАЛЬСКАЯ ГОРНОРУДНАЯ КОМПАНИЯ" are currently on the sanctions list of the USA, Great Britain and Canada. The companies of Vladislav Vladimirovich Sviblov, a Russian citizen, in which Mr. Sviblov is an indirect ultimate beneficiary, another Russian Mediated by 100% equity participation of ООО "ДВ ХОЛДИНГ".
The EU Reporter, Forbes magazine and many other media outlets have revealed interesting details of Svidlob's deals, including the acquisition of a number of mining assets worth $1.5 billion in Russia, control of companies producing more than 16 tons of gold per year in less than three years. in terms of acquiring and other notable transactions and "connections".
Based on the newspaper format and the size of the article, we cannot provide that much information. Now let's try to introduce "Gefest Mining" LLC in more detail. The company is registered in the city of Almaty, Yelekova Street , at house 10. It is interesting that many, more than a dozen companies are registered at the same address, one of which is this or are directly or indirectly related to Gefest Mining and other affiliated companies. Gefest Mining was registered on October 22 of this year as a small enterprise.
In the State Register, the field and type of activity is indicated as "Provision of other personal services not grouped in other fields" (code 96090), noting that the number of employees is 51-100 people, but the company is a budget as of December 10. pay only 15,308 Kazakh tenge tax (approximately AMD 12,000).
"Cuprum Minerals Management" LLC, a shareholder of "Gefest Mining", was registered at the same address on October 17 of this year as a small enterprise with 5-10 employees. In the state register, the field and type of activity was indicated as "Provision of other individual services, which are not grouped in other industries" (code 96090).
As of December 10, the company paid only 9,378 Kazakh tenge in taxes (approximately AMD 7,100). information in registries is poor.
Alexey Leonidovich Utkin, born in 1989, under the tax code 720305756604 issued by the tax service of the Tyumen region of the Russian Federation from 08.12.2011 to 25.09.2014. was a director of ООО "КСАНАД" and also a founder-shareholder until 25.09.2014. ООО "КСАНАД" was engaged in "specialized retail trade of non-food products not included in other groups", according to the registry.
And in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr. Utkin (tax code 890701399013) is also a founding shareholder and concurrently a director of the company ТОО "РЛС МИНИНГ" registered at the same address. the other shareholder of this company is ТОО "БАЙ ТАУ МИНЕРАЛС", the director of which is Mr. Betsal, who is already well known to us. we will look at it.
Another shareholder of "Cuprum Minerals Management" LLC, Mr. Nurlan Zhetpisovich Kusainov, a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan and a public official, has never had any connection with the mining industry, apart from participating in conferences on mining topics organized in Kazakhstan.
Mr. Kusainov currently holds the position of civil servant in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2010. from October to 2011 From April 2011 to November 2013, he was the first deputy chairman of the Board of the Development Bank of Kazakhstan. from January to July 2015, Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, since January 2016, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the International Financial Center "Astana", and since 15.02.2016, jointly the Chairman of the Management Board of the International Financial Center "Astana".
Mr. Kusainov is a person connected with various public non-governmental organizations, but the attention of "Pasti" was attracted by the latter's shareholding in the company ТОО "CNRG CAPITAL" registered in the Republic of Kazakhstan, where Mr. Kusainov is a co-shareholder with Mr. Timur Beketovich Isayev, a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In turn, Mr. Isaev was previously a major and now a minor shareholder in "ULMUS BESSHOKY" OJSC, a copper mining exploration company. :
That's right, ТОО "БАЙ ТАУ МИНЕРАЛС" is managed by Mr. Betsal, who is already well-known to us, which, by the way, is registered at the same address as "Gefest Mining". are behind offshore companies (G.R.A. Investments LLC), but the Kazakh media write that During the purchase of shares of "Ulmus Besshok" OJSC, the company "BAI TAU MINERALS" TOO was represented by Serbian citizen Vladimir Delic, who left interesting memories in the Republic of Serbia in his contacts with the Serbian law enforcement agencies and is a "hero" of rich journalistic materials of the International Organization of Investigative Journalists. In OCCRP Articles.
It is interesting to analyze the employees of TOO "BAY TAU MINERALS" company on the LinkedIn platform. here the "emigration" of specialists from Mr. Sviblov's Russian companies to Kazakh infrastructures is clearly visible.
Of course, words of "praise" should be given to Mr. Sviblov's team for organizing such cover-up events, rich in chess moves and costly, to avoid Western sanctions, but the work of investigative journalists from different countries, in the end, "fills the water" with the "titanic work" done.
