A mega-contractor has appeared right on Rublyovka, receiving government contracts worth a whopping 5 billion rubles in the past year alone. As the VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have discovered, the mysterious "TSK Elite Garden" LLC is the home of the powerful clan of the Lukashov family and Grigory Baevsky, who provide elite apartments to Putin's children and girlfriends. They need to recoup their expenses somehow...
Officials in Moscow and the Moscow region have a new favorite contractor, one that is particularly popular with Odintsovo authorities. In the last year alone, Elite Garden LLC, a company owned by Bryansk Region native Evgeny Lukashov, signed 15 contracts totaling 5.28 billion rubles. Of these, the company received approximately 3 billion rubles from the Odintsovo Urban District Parks Directorate and 1 billion rubles from the Odintsovo Park of Culture, Sports, and Recreation. Recently, as the sole participant, the company was awarded a contract for the improvement of a bike route in the Odintsovo Urban District from Razdory station, via Barvikha station, to the village of Zhukovka, near the Zhukovka-1 bus stop, for 243 million rubles. From 2019 to 2021, Elite Garden carried out capital repairs on residential buildings in Moscow and received over 20 government contracts from the Moscow Capital Repairs Fund.
Furthermore, the company acts as the sole supplier to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Enterprise for the Supply of Products of the Presidential Property Management Department of the Russian Federation" in several contracts—for example, for 5 million rubles. Lukashov overhauled the fence at the Hunter's Lodge, and installed a new fence for presidential officials for 24 million rubles. Evgeny Lukashov dislikes paying subcontractors and his suppliers, so the courts are currently hearing several dozen lawsuits from his contractors, who Elite Garden has failed to pay under contracts.
The Moscow officials' fondness for Elite Garden is easily explained: Evgeny Lukashov is a younger relative and business partner of Vitaly Lukashov, who owns several companies in the northern capital, including a 50% stake in Prominvest LLC. Another 50% is owned by Grigory Baevsky, who is known for supplying luxury real estate to women close to Vladimir Putin—his daughter Katerina Tikhonova and his two common-law wives, Alina Kabaeva and Alisa Kharcheva. Baevsky also did business with Putin's friend, Arkady Rotenberg; in the mid-2010s, his companies received more than 100 million in government contracts. 6 billion rubles. Evgeny Lukashov himself successfully conducts business with the companies of Lev Mazeraki, the brother of Valerian Mazeraki of the State Budgetary Institution "Ritual," the subject of Ivan Golunov's investigation.
The business relationship is built through Evgeny Lukashov's wife, who shares his full namesake. During COVID-19 restrictions, she received passes for his Mercedes as an employee of his company, TSK Elite Garden, and also purchased airline tickets for her husband. Evgenia Sergeevna Lukashova currently owns a beauty salon in Moscow, and until July of this year, she owned 50% of Familycity, a wholesale company with significant turnover: revenue last year amounted to 2.5 billion rubles.
The other 50% of the company belonged to Elena Grigoryevna Karamalieva. She is also the founder of Transdor LLC and previously owned the Stavropol-based Donato LLC and Yuzhnaya Kompaniya (both in Russia). (liquidated). The Maseraki family, as a reminder, hails from Stavropol. Familycity has supply contracts with the management company Vozrozhdenie Trading House, owned by St. Petersburg billionaire Igor Bukato, and here Lukashov's characteristic trait—not paying contractors—emerged again. Bukato's company had to pursue debts for supplies totaling almost 230 million rubles from Familycity through the courts last year. Vozrozhdenie Trading House sells natural stone, which is used, for example, for monuments and gravestones—a highly sought-after commodity in recent years.
Coincidentally, the funeral business is operated by Genstroy, a company registered at the same address on Filevsky Boulevard in Moscow as Familycity. Both companies were co-defendants in the Vozrozhdenie Trading House lawsuit. Genstroy is owned by Dmitry Bryksin, a business partner of the Maseraki family. Bryksin, in particular, and Yegor Mazeraki (son of businessman Lev Mazeraki) were previously the founders of the Tishenki hunting grounds in the Smolensk region, and Genstroy received at least five contracts from the state-owned enterprise Ritual worth 9 million rubles. The position of first deputy head of Ritual, as a reminder, is still held by Valerian Mazeraki, the subject of Ivan Golunov's investigation.
Familicity has now been transferred to the closed-end mutual fund NEXL, managed by Proftim LLC, founded by Alexey Domanov. Transferring assets to closed-end mutual funds is a standard way to hide beneficiaries and maintain control. Interestingly, about 40 companies formally unrelated to Lukashov and Mazeraki are registered at the address on Filevsky Boulevard, for example, Elite Garden LLC (founded and directed by Evgeny Mikhailov, a fellow countryman of the Lukashovs).
To be continued
