Why does Sparrow need a "pipe" in Ukraine. One of the most non-public businessmen in Belarus gave his first interview. - What was the reason for this decision

One of the companies attracted the attention of journalists from the international publication Business New Europe. The results of the publication's investigation confirmed that one of the offshore companies is associated with an oligarch close to the Lukashenka family.

We are talking about the company "Interforest Corp", registered in the name of a resident of Minsk Alexander Metlu (in the photo he is next to Lukashenko, dressed in the uniform of a pre-war Red Army officer). In Belarus, he is known for being a director charitable foundation assistance to the internationalist soldiers "Memory of Afgan" and a close friend of Viktor Sheiman.

Journalists contacted him, and he confirmed that the company “Interforest Corp” was registered at his address in the Belarusian capital, but explained that “third parties” did it, and he himself did not know about it before.

“Nevertheless, Alyaksandr Metla is not an independent player, and this is not the first time he acts as a screen for the Belarusian authorities,” the authors of the investigation write, recalling the participation of a businessman in the trial of Viktor Sheiman against journalist Sergei Anisko in 1999, which ended with the closure of the independent newspapers "Naviny".

According to the Belspravka catalog, Interforest Corp is associated with the well-known Novopolotsk woodworking company JV Interforest, founded in 1999. According to Belarusian legislation, as in joint venture, it must have a foreign shareholder. The company told reporters that it has an investor from "Western Europe", but refused to give his name or country of origin. Metla founded Interforest Corp just a year before the opening of the Interforest JV, which suggests that the role of a "foreign investor" may belong to an offshore company in the Virgin Islands.

The shareholder of the Belarusian JV "Interforest" is LLC "Autoimport" and its owner is one of the richest people in Belarus Novopolotsk businessman Nikolai Vorobei. Its main business is the supply of fuel through Interservice LLC. For about 20 years the company has been engaged in tolling oil refining at Belarusian refineries, mainly at Naftan, and supplies it to the markets of the CIS countries and the EU. Interservice is the largest private taxpayer in Novopolotsk. The relationship between private oil company and state refineries have repeatedly raised many questions, primarily related to the "solvent business".

Estimated independent experts Nikolay Vorobei is one of the five richest people in the country with assets worth over $ 2.5 billion.

“Alexander Metla is a close friend of Sheiman. Sheiman is the manager of Lukashenka’s affairs and his direct protege. While in this position, he actually controls all state bodies. It is not difficult to assume that Sheiman acted as a “roof” for his friend and acted on behalf of Lukashenka. The connection between Alyaksandr Metla, the Belarusian ruler and his caretaker, suggests that the Belarusian authorities are involved in fraud in the private sector of the country's economy, ”the authors of the study conclude.

After Lanskaya told reporters that she paid 35,000 euros for the recording of the competition song in the best London studio Abbey Road, and 15,000 euros for shooting the video in Turkey, viewers on the Internet forums asked the question: at whose expense the banquet? Is it budget money again?

Let us remind you that last year Belteleradiocompany warned that from now on, the representative of Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest pays for himself all the preparations for the contest. BT pays only for flight and weekly hotel accommodation on competition days.

Lanskaya herself did not hide earlier that she was sponsored by the Spamash production center, which was created by businessman Alexander Shakutin 10 years ago. It is he who owns the assets of Amkodor, the largest in the CIS and Eastern Europe, a manufacturer of road construction and municipal equipment. He is also one of the five most successful and influential businessmen in Belarus. Therefore, no one had any doubts that Shakutin had been paying for the Lanskoy holiday for many years. It turned out not him! Despite the fact that Lanskaya sings at "Spamash", for Eurovision-2013 she is sponsored by another, no less influential businessman Nikolai Vorobei. Sparrow has already transferred the first tranche of money for the preparation of Lanskoy to the account of "Spamash" - 230 thousand dollars. By the way, he was the sponsor of the Eurofest final last year.

Yes, the Spamash production center has found a sponsor for this project. This is the company "Interservice" and personally its owner Nikolai Nikolaevich Vorobei, - confirmed to "Komsomolskaya Pravda" the producer of the singer Dmitry Baranov, he is general manager"Spamash".

- And on what conditions did Nikolai Vorobei agree to be a sponsor? Did you make any contract?

There is a contract, I personally signed it.

And what are the conditions in the contract? Obligations, for example, to take a prize in the competition ... Well, or Lanskaya cannot marry without permission?

Alena Lanskaya. "Solayoh"

No, this is a usual sponsorship agreement, according to which the main condition is the intended use of the received Money, as well as upon arrival from Malmö, submit to the sponsor a report on where and on what the money was spent.

- And a lot of this money? According to our information, the first tranche is about $ 230,000.

I am ready to announce all the sums after the competition. I can say that last year Nikolai Vorobei and his company covered the bulk of the costs of preparing for the Eurofest final. He also paid for the Eurovision expenses of the Lightsound group. (In total, Sparrow spent then 350 thousand euros. - Auth.)

- Does he believe in our show business so much?

It's not about faith. We were looking for a sponsor purposefully. The production center "Spamash" earns money on its own, but it is clear that those funds from concerts are not enough to prepare this project. Therefore, they were looking for a sponsor. We went to those who have money, offered to participate in such a project. Sparrow agreed. But this does not mean that it will now be Spamash's wallet.

REFERENCE "KP"

WHO'S NEW SPONSOR AT LANSKAYA?

Novopolotsk businessman Nikolay Vorobei has been in business since 1994, when Interservice LLC appeared - wholesale supplier oil for processing and seller of oil products in Belarusian and international markets... He is rapidly moving up the list of the richest people in Belarus. I rented the Krasny Bor landscape reserve (Verkhnedvinsky and Rossonsky districts), where they organize special tours for wild boar, elk, wood grouse, black grouse. He also owns several shops and restaurants in the city of chemists. In December last year, he bought out a controlling stake in Amkodor for $ 75 million.

AT THIS TIME

Lanskaya raffles off a ticket for Eurovision-2013

Through Komsomolskaya Pravda, the singer announces a competition to write a Belarusian version of the text for her competition song. The author of the best lines will go to the competition in Sweden in May.

The hit "Soleo" is already being played in two languages ​​- English and Russian. But Lanskaya decided that she wanted to record it in her native Belarusian as well. Only I haven't found a decent translation yet. You can suggest your own version. There is an incentive: the singer will give the winner a ticket to the first semi-final of Eurovision-2013, in which she sings.

What need to do? Send by April 15 at [email protected] own text "Soleo" in Belarusian. It is important that the text is not only meaningful and well rhymed, but also easily fits the music of the song "Soleo". The best poet will be chosen creative Group Lanskoy. And on April 18 in "fatty" we will name the name of the one who will follow Alena's performance from the auditorium in Malmo on May 13.

BY THE WAY

HOW SOLEO SOLEO IN RUSSIAN

As "Komsomolskaya Pravda" found out, the young poet Victoria Solovyova translated "Soleo" into Russian. Victoria is far from a beginner in translations. It is she who wrote (some) Belarusian texts for world hits for the New Year projects of the ONT TV channel.

Alena Lanskaya "Soleo"

Every evening I meet In that cafe where mirrors tremble. I'm so sad, yes, I miss, And the moon flows into the glass.

Suddenly he appeared, like an avalanche, This sound is wonderful in the distance. And broke, and surged - Took me off the ground.

You can whisper about love today - Today I am in your dance.

Soleo, Soleo, Like the sun, this night is hot! And with her, and with her We dance to the rhythm of the cha-cha.

They burn like kisses, Only looks and words. We will be whirling, bewitched by This passionate carnival.

Everything sparkles and silver. I'm drowning in a cocktail of the moon. We take off like birds - We know the essence of the depth.

I feel only one thing - only love! The Earth is enveloped in it.

Soleo, Soleo, Like the sun, this night is hot! And with her, and with her We dance to the rhythm of the cha-cha.

Soleo, Soleo, These sounds attract and intoxicate us. Boldly, boldly Hold me tight!

Everything is as if in a dream - so fate decided, After all, music is my faith!

In Lanskoy's video, Sasha Rybak will play the dancer [EXCLUSIVE "KP"].Sergey ANDRIANOV

I'll tell you how Krasny Bor began.

At first, as soon as the hunting economy was organized, there was, of course, enough work. Only three of our huntsmen were local, all the rest of these forests practically did not know. And the area of ​​the farm at that time, in my opinion, was 58 thousand hectares, and an intensive and quick acquaintance with it was to come. Therefore, we had no time to rest!

It so happened that at the beginning we were not engaged in a ranger, but in various rough work. They built lodges, erected towers, fences; The boys rode either a motorcycle or a tractor, while the director and I, Igor Aleksandrovich Lutkovsky, shared one car for two. By the way, he called me to work.

I spent time in the forest since childhood, I started hunting from 11-12 years old. Friends once called me to hunt, I was still a teenager, and at that moment I had to do something around the house - I asked my father for time off: can I? “Well, okay,” he replies, “go. You know where the gun is - I saw that you took it. " So “officially” for the family I became a hunter, brought my first prey - a duck, then there were hares and larger trophies. I think it's not for nothing that people say that the best huntsmen are made from former poachers ...

Before the hunting farm I worked as a crane operator, first I built a brick factory, then I served it. While it was being built, the work seemed interesting, but as it was put into operation, it became boring and monotonous: both day and night - the shipment of bricks. At night - from the trolleys to the street, during the day - from the street to the cars. And his free time I still spent in the forest, hunted, dealt with wolves: I looked for wolf broods, went to "drive". The main argument of Igor Lutkovsky, when he invited me to work, sounded seductive: "Here you will professionally do what you love!"

To be honest, at that time even the size of the salary was almost indifferent to me, I liked this offer so much - at a brick factory I could no longer stand it. And the interview was like this: Nikolai Nikolayevich Vorobei and I came to Lutkovsky's home, talked together, and decided everything on the spot. At first it was only a little scared that the farm was private. Today I can already confess to you, as if in spirit: then I will public service kept a safety net in case of dismissal. And yet, since I have to be frank, I have never regretted choosing this job!

And there everything was new - a new territory, active construction, a forest that was almost unknown. At first I studied it from the car, and then everything here started with my own feet.

At that time, a separate brigade from Polotsk was engaged in wolves, but not wabili - "flagged". As a driver, I was assigned to them. From dark to dark, we then traveled around the entire hunting area. And I, as the youngest, drove the wolves.

Then it was not yet such that each huntsman is the owner only in his own round, is responsible only for him.

We worked as a team, lived as one family. They got together every day, in the morning they came to the base, discussed the tasks - and went: build fences, towers and beds, bury cables, in the winter they went to feeding grounds. And already here everyone was responsible for their territories. There were a lot of people in our team: some were late for a couple of weeks, some for a month, and some for a year - only the most dedicated remained. Why? Because you had to love your job! And she is not easy. Those who were chasing a long ruble could not resist.

I believe that the close-knit team is a great merit of Igor Alexandrovich. He knew how to pick and unite people.

They hunted ducks, hunted elk, wild boar, shot a wolf. Basically, in the beginning, there was a driven hunt. It so happened that I got the biggest moose trophy, and Lutkovsky got the first wild boar. I still remember that place very well.

The farm did not have a single observation tower, everything had to be built. And the salt licks were old: in the dumped aspen a box was cut into which salt was poured. Later, Nikolai Nikolayevich brought from abroad the idea of ​​today's salt licks, at first I could not believe that they would work, but it turned out that the beast smells this "smell" and finds the salt licks very quickly.

Of course, Lutkovsky is an unsurpassed wab ace! This talent, they say, is available with a good ear. Today, many young huntsmen are already doing well ...

And I - what am I? Of course, it happened that the wolves responded and came to me. And I shot them. But I can't give a 100% guarantee.

Igor Alexandrovich can drive not only a wolf, but also an elk. It seems at first it does not sound very similar, but as soon as the elk responded, Aleksandrovich knows how to repeat so that you cannot tell from the outside who is who: where the elk “sounds”, and where is Lutkovsky! One to one, exactly ...

… If you look closely, for ten years now I have been living only thanks to Nikolai Nikolaevich. It so happened that when I fell seriously ill, I had no chance in the Rossony hospital: they could not determine why I was feeling bad. The tablets were prescribed. And he sent me to Borovlyany, arranged an examination: and there they first diagnosed stomach cancer, and then they performed an operation.

And since we are talking about Sparrow, I would like to note the high human qualities of Nikolai Nikolaevich. More often than not, he will not even raise his voice, and if you received a scolding, then there is something for that! I don't think anyone could be offended for that ...

Recorded by Natalia PLYTKEVICH

The Belarusian oligarch buys a large oil transportation project, which was ranked as the orbit of Vladimir Putin's godfather. Apparently, this is part of a large package of agreements on the redistribution of spheres of influence at the level of the leaders of the Russian Federation and Belarus.

On the preparation of Prikarpatzapadtrans LLC for the change of its owner » it became known from a source in the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, to which the buyer applied for permission to conduct the transaction - the Production Unitary Enterprise "Oil Bituminous Plant" (Belarus). On the other side of this deal is the Swiss company International Trading Partners AG, which owns 99% of Prykarpatzapadtrans.

In the photo - Viktor Medvedchuk and Oksana Marchenko

On the public plane, the "Swiss" are represented by German citizen Anatoly Schaefer, who is listed as the owner of International Trading Partners. But a Russian-Ukrainian trace is clearly traced behind the Russian-German: Schaefer is also a co-owner of ITC Industry Trading Company SA, which several years ago had a contractual relationship with MBK Agrotekhnika LLC, the company of Viktor Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko. In addition, in 2017, ITC Industry Trading Company SA signed a contract with the Kremlin-controlled Russian company Rosneft for the supply of 30 to 50 million tons of diesel fuel.

The Swiss company bought 99% of Prikarpatzapadtrans in 2016 from the Russian state-owned Transneft, a structure directly controlled by the Russian authorities. The deal at that time took place in the wake of a judicial confrontation between Prikarpatzapadtrans and the Prosecutor General's Office, which sought to return to the state the main asset of the company - the Samara-Western Direction oil product pipeline passing through Ukraine, which carries diesel fuel from the Russian Federation (the pipeline's throughput is about 3.5 million tons of fuel per year).

In March 2015, the GPU achieved its goal in the Supreme Economic Court, but then the Rivne Economic Court, due to newly revealed circumstances, satisfied the claim of Prykarpatzapadtorans. And already in May 2018 Supreme Court put the final point in the case, rejecting the appeal of the GPU and legalizing the ownership of the oil product pipeline by a private company.

In this light, the assumptions of a number of politicians look quite illogical that the upcoming resale of Prykarpatzapadtrans is an attempt by the Medvedchukites to hide it behind a dummy on the eve of the presidential elections in Ukraine - after all, there have been no questions to the German citizen Schaefer in Ukraine for a long time (at the end of 2016, “ Prikarpatzapadtrans ”even signed a contract for the supply of fuel with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in the amount of UAH 396 million).

At the same time, for some reason, no one remembers that the Belarusians have a direct interest in the Samara-Western Direction oil product pipeline - it passes through the territory of Belarus, and diesel supplies through it are possible from the largest oil refinery in this country - Mozyr, which is connected to the pipe. And the deliveries themselves are possible not only to Ukraine, but also in transit to Hungary.

Second important point- The aforementioned "Oil Bitumen Plant" is owned by not the last person in Belarus - Nikolai Vorobei. He is called one of the richest representatives of the inner circle of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, with assets worth over $ 2.5 billion.

In the photo - Nikolay Vorobei

As he wrote, Sparrow is a graduate of Kiev national university, but it is unlikely that this factor influenced his desire to do business in our country.

Its main asset is the Interservice company, which deals with wholesale trade gasoline, diesel fuel and fuel oil, for which the company refines Russian oil.

In addition, the Vorobya enterprise is actively engaged in the supply of oil products from the Russian Federation to consumers in Belarus.

In fact, the foundation of Sparrow's business is built on working with the oil complex of the Russian Federation, and the question of whether the Kremlin has any influence over him looks rhetorical.

It is hardly a coincidence that, » , in March, the Belarusian state concern Belneftekhim signed a contract for the direct supply of diesel produced by the Mozyr refinery to Ukraine with Wexler.

The latter enters the orbit of the businessman's influence