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“THE URAL SWINDLER ACCUSED OF EXTORTION REVEALS THE TRACE OF VLADIMIR
PALIKHATA’S PARTICIPATION IN THE SEIZURE OF SHCHYOLKOVO AGROKHIM”

by Jane Soer
02/02/2022
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“The Ural swindler accused of extortion reveals the trace of Vladimir
Palikhata’s participation in the seizure of Shchyolkovo Agrokhim”

> The media were interested in new details in the high-profile story of an
> attempted raider takeover of one of the country’s leading chemical holdings,
> Shchyolkovo Agrokhim JSC. In the course of the investigation of the criminal
> case on extortion initiated against the Yekaterinburg raider Eduard Fedosov,
> along with the former commercial director of the holding Elmira Iraidova
> (considered to be the organizers of the attack), it became known that a
> well-known businessman Vladimir Palihata was involved in the scheme for the
> alienation of assets.

Currently, three criminal cases related to the raider attack on Schelkovo
Agrokhim are being investigated at once. In addition to the above, there is a
case of illegal acquisition and disclosure of trade secrets, initiated in
January of this year, and of fraud on an especially large scale, which appeared
in July, in which Elmira Iraidova and former chief accountant of Schelkovo
Agrokhim Lyudmila Prikhodko are accused. The latter, as reported by the media,
being minority shareholders of the holding, combined their shares – respectively
11% and 20%, to create a blocking package to obtain unlimited access to
documents and produced technologies of the leader of the country’s agrochemical
sector, probably to blackmail its founder. The calculation was made that the
founder of Schelkovo Agrokhim, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Salis Karatokov, who devoted his whole life to science, would agree to buy back
from them his own shares, which he endowed members of the board of directors for
the period of their work in the company in exchange for non-disclosure of
confidential information about all developments of society over the past 10
years. The scheme seems to have been invented by Fedosov, knowing that both
Prikhodko and Iraidova were soon to leave the holding.

For Prikhodko, who was about to leave for Austria, this was a chance to get the
fabulous money promised to her by Fedosov – 1.5 billion rubles. The woman handed
over the entire database to him. With Iraidova there was another combination.
Being a commercial director for many years, managing representative offices of
the holding in 40 regions, she was removed from this function at the end of
2019, which caused her personal resentment, which Fedosov did not fail to take
advantage of. At the end of 2020, Iraidova, having received 20% of the shares
from the equally naive as the mercantile Prikhodko, thus collected a blocking
stake and presented an ultimatum to the unsuspecting Karakotov – either he pays
her 3 billion rubles, or other people who already own all information about the
society, data about employees. To their surprise, plan “A” did not work – the
scientist began to defend himself, sending claims to the courts, demanding the
initiation of criminal cases. And after 10 months, transactions with shares were
destroyed by the courts with a statement of the fact of intentional abuse of the
rights of formal owners of shares who concluded them for illegal purposes. And
after a series of complaints about the red tape and inefficiency of the
investigation of the criminal case, it was moved off the dead center – it was
withdrawn from the district link to the region. That’s when Fedosov proceeds to
implement “Plan B” – to resort to the help of persons known in the field of
corporate wars.

Skin of an unkilled bear

Back in July of this year, Fedosov developed the so-called “project strategy”,
from which it followed that he was going to “enter the enterprise” by developing
“options for negotiating from a soft position of cooperation to demonstrating
the presence of criminal legal risks in work enterprises”. In fact, this
businessman, who at one time came from the Sverdlovsk region, settled in the
capital and subsequently earned himself the fame of a “Ural swindler”, decided
to do his usual business – a nightmare of business. After this crook was
dismissed with a scandal for fraud from the post of the ex-general director of
the respected Association of Law Enforcement and Special Services Workers of the
Russian Federation, he launched a stormy commercial activity to protect
trademarks from copying. In fact, the Brandpol Group Ltd., owned by Fedosov,
seems to have engaged in banal extortion from bona fide entrepreneurs – it
imposed its services on some, threatened to bring them to justice on others.

In the case of Shchelkovo Agrokhim, his plan included, in particular, “gaining
access to the corporate structure and management of the enterprise, changing the
company’s dividend policy.” Fedosov even foresaw how the protection of the
rights of minority shareholders would be built, bearing in mind the interests of
Iraidova – in the best traditions of greenmail: initiating criminal prosecution
of the company’s management, checking the “reliability of counterparties … for
the purpose of legalizing funds and participating in illegal cashing out of
funds”, searching for signs tax evasion. One of the points of the “strategy” was
“summoning for interrogation the head of the enterprise” and other top managers,
preferably “forcibly”, as well as organizing a “departure to the enterprise with
a search” and providing “access to documentation through bailiffs”. Fedosov also
provided for the possibility of filing “various claims and claims against the
holding’s management, including a claim for damages for canceled interim
measures in the Shchelkovsky City Court.” In order to hit the enterprise on all
fronts, Fedosov introduced the clauses “initiating a dispute by a third party
demanding a ban on the production of any product”, and Schelkovo Agrokhim, by
the way, being one of the market leaders, produces a wide range of chemical
protection products plants, and “disputes over the quality of products from
buyers.”



Particular attention is drawn to that part of the plan, apparently invented by
Eduard Fedosov, which concerns a kind of restoration of the status quo – the
return of the raider campaign to its original point, for fear of losing the
trust of Elmira Iraidova, and with it a profitable asset . It directly fixes:
“in relation to the current owner of the shares, it is necessary to determine
the financial source of their acquisition”, otherwise control over the 31% stake
in Shchelkovo Agrokhim “may be lost in the near future”. However, Fedosov
himself, as follows from his own “strategy”, does not have either the financial
or administrative resources to achieve the main goal, which is simply getting
money for mediating a deal. This means that one should “search for a potential
professional investor” and “negotiate with professional participants in the
market of such conflicts.” And by mid-October, such a pro is in the person of
Vladimir Palikhata.

Virtuoso of Captures

Rosbuilding, Moscow River Shipping Company, Sphere, etc. – companies that in the
early 2000s terrified entrepreneurs. The structures specialized in the seizure
of property, whether it was private or public, it did not matter. The owners of
companies that have long since died in Bose are respected people today and
occupy high places in the Russian Forbes rating. Vladimir Palikhata, who owned
Sphere, is not included in the top 200, although Forbes itself calls him “a
virtuoso of aggressive M&A deals”.

He, , as a rule, came to dainty enterprises from outside, buying up their debts.
And only then a wide range of raider tools were used, probably up to murders –
his companion and personal security guard Nikolai Nesterenko was responsible for
the rough work. For the sake of taking possession of a profitable asset, all
means were good. For example, the director of the Ulyanovsk electrical plant
“Kontaktor” spent a year in prison on charges of deliberate bankruptcy,
apparently because he wanted to prevent Palikhata and Nesterenko from seizing
the enterprise by force. The list of “feats” of both on the raider field also
includes the capital’s department store “Moscow”, the building of the magazine
“New Time” on Pushkinskaya Square, the Research Institute of Elastomeric
Materials and Products on Malaya Trubetskaya and Efremov Street. For the last
one, Nesterenko should have probably been imprisoned for many years for fraud on
an especially large scale, but he got off with a suspended sentence. All thanks
to connections in influential circles for which Palikhata is famous.

So, in 2010, in the fight to accuse the investigator Andrey Grivtsov, who led
the criminal cases against Nesterenko, of a 15 million dollar bribe – allegedly
in exchange for not involving Palikhata in the case,  the senator personally
harnessed  ;Lyudmila Narusova – wrote more than two dozen requests and letters
to the investigation, was summoned for interrogation, went to the high offices
of law enforcement officers. It was not possible to achieve 9 years in prison
for Grivtsov, but the investigator was removed from the case, and later left the
authorities altogether, even after his colleagues admitted that the
investigation against him was falsified.

On October 12 of this year, lawyer Valery Kulish, who in the early 2010s was
sentenced to 4 years in prison for fraud with the property of the Military
Construction Directorate of Moscow (VSUM), mysteriously fell out of the
window of a building in the capital Main Investigation Department. The day
before, he testified that Vladimir Palikhata was part of an organized criminal
group that embezzled the assets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and that four
marginal individuals, immigrants from neighboring countries, whom the organized
criminal group appointed as nominal directors of management structures, were
killed by a certain Konstantin Mishchenko. Kulish died immediately before the
confrontation with Mishchenko was to take place.

It is curious that it was on October 12 that Vladimir Palikhata, in the building
of the Central House of Writers belonging to him, an old mansion on Povarskaya,
50, where a closed private club for the powerful of this world operates, signed
a cooperation agreement with Eduard Fedosov with the likely goal of capturing
Schelkovo Agrokhim “. At the same time, Fedosov, as it became known, tried to
make an appointment for October 11 after 16:30, but, apparently, Palikhata had
more important things to do.

Pawns and Kings

Under an agreement with Fedosov, Palikhata acted as a sponsor of the raider
campaign, and also, it seems, took upon himself the settlement of all problems
in the courts and the investigation. Namely:

– decision of the issue in the cassation instance on the cancellation of the
decision of the Tenth Arbitration Court of Appeal dated September 23, 2021, by
which the contract between Iraidova and Prikhodko was recognized invalid;

– closure of criminal cases against Iraidova and Prikhodko;

– settlement of disagreements between them – as previously reported by the
media, the ex-chief accountant never received money from Iraidova for the 20% of
the shares transferred to her:

– and, in fact, the most important thing – the removal of the arrest from 31% of
the shares of Schelkovo Agrokhim.

Only after that the securities were credited to the personal account of
Vladimir Palihata.

Having enlisted the support of such a monster of the M&A market, Fedosov, who
calls his partner a “chess player” (Palikhata headed the Moscow Chess Federation
for some time), apparently decided not to be content with little, but to take
aim at the whole of Schelkovo Agrokhim. So, in the “road map” apparently
developed by him, which describes various options for capturing a holding near
Moscow, the possibility is also considered of “implementing the strategy of“
forcing peace ”of the general director of the enterprise, and even his“ purchase
”, in fact, exerting severe pressure on Salis Karakotov with to force him to
sell the company. The threats are already being fulfilled – earlier it was
reported that just before the arrest, Fedosov sent a message to his
“lawyer-fixer” Alexander Orlov with a list of Karakotov’s close relatives,
indicating their personal telephone numbers and residential addresses.

The presence of Palikhata among her accomplices also inspired Elmira Iraidova –
now during interrogations she openly declares that “all her opponents and those
involved in the detention will regret it, since high-ranking persons and
partners will be involved in resolving the issue.” Iraidov is not aware only
that Fedosov, it seems, was going to throw her. So, instead of 2.5 billion
rubles, which both Dostoevsky pawnbrokers planned to receive, they were due only
630 million rubles – this amount was in the agreement, which, according to
Fedosov, Iraidova was never given. At the same time, according to the agreements
with Palikhata, Fedosov planned to receive 2.25 billion rubles from his partner,
which were to be credited to a covered irrevocable letter of credit. It is not
difficult to see that this amount is significantly less than the amount that the
raiders extorted from the founder of Schelkovo Agrokhim.

It must be understood that for Eduard Fedosov, Schelkovo Agrokhim itself, as
well as Iraidova, potential buyers of the asset, as well as Palikhat, are only
means to achieve their goal, – believes Mosmonitor journalist Aleksandr Sedunov
. As he admits, “the ultimate goal and measure of success in the project is
money. Process for the sake of process doesn’t matter.” Fedosov can only be
prevented by depriving him of his freedom, which is why he seems to be ready to
actively cooperate with the investigation and is counting on the help of his
newfound companion. However, unlike Elmira Rafisovna, who can still resignedly
put up with the fate of a cheated pensioner, “professional investor” Vladimir
Palikhata is unlikely to forgive the excessive frankness of his business partner
with the investigation.

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