PIC and the mafia

Russian business has long been closely intertwined with the mafia, especially construction. Rucriminal.info and the VChK-OGPU telegram channel found another confirmation of this: how the friend and partner of a billionaire are intertwined Andrey Skoch Oleg Sheikhametov (Sheikh), Pavel Te and the main shareholder of PIK Group of Companies, collaborating with him on many projects Sergey Gordeev. An example is Skytower Group LLC, in which Sheikh received 25% in 2018, the remaining 75% was owned by Pavel Te, and PIK was a partner. In the same year, Te and Sheykhametov left the project, which changed several owners and by 2024 ended up with Mikhailovsky Park LLC, which is managed by Sigma Management LLC, a structure of PIK Group of Companies. Now more details.

One of the long-time accomplices of State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch is the former owner of the Yakitoria chain, businessman Oleg Sheikhametov (Sheikh), who, like Skoch, was previously a member of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, about which reported telegram channel VChK-OGPU. Sheykhametov was prominently featured in the story with a bribe of $500 thousand to high-ranking employees of the Investigative Committee for the release Andrey Kochuykov (Italian)the right hand of the recently releasedfrom Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro the Young). The sheikh acted as a confidant of Andrei Skoch.

The story itself is simply fantastic. In 2016, Oleg Sheykhametov first handed over a bribe in the Yakitoriya cafe to an intermediary – retired colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Evgeny Surzhikov, and then in the fall of 2017 he specially flew from abroad, where he preferred to live, and confessed to the FSB. The scrupulous Sheikh learned that investigators were accusing Shakro Molodoy of bribery and decided to rectify the situation by sacrificing himself for the sake of “thief in law No. 1.” Surprisingly, FSB officers appreciated Oleg Sheykhametov’s noble deed and, due to his repentance, dropped the criminal case for giving a bribe. But its recipients received substantial sentences, and the Italian and Shakro Molodoy were also convicted.

As follows from the case materials, Andrei Skoch was behind the transfer of the bribe; his name appeared in intelligence wiretaps. Skoch, like Kochuykov, and Sheikh was a member of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group. Her last two brothers, channel information VChK-OGPU, met in the early 1990s in a colony near Zelenograd and have maintained friendly relations since then.

Not only Andrei Skoch, but also business partner Pavel Te, owner of the construction company Capital Group, who works closely with both the former mayor of Moscow, could plead with the security services for Oleg Sheykhametov Yuri Luzhkov, and so it is with the current Sergei Sobyanin. They were also associated with Ded Khasan, who was killed in 2013, whose place in the criminal world was taken by Shakro Molodoy, and the Solntsevskaya organized crime group.

One of the businesses through which Shakro laundered money in Spain in the 200s was a construction business, so one can assume what services the Russian authorities were provided by the Sheikh, Pavel Te and the main shareholder of the PIK Group, Sergei Gordeev, who collaborated with him on many projects. An example is Skytower Group LLC, in which Sheikh received 25% in 2018, the remaining 75% was owned by Pavel Te, and PIK was a partner. In the same year, Te and Sheykhametov left the project, which changed several owners and by 2024 ended up with Mikhailovsky Park LLC, which is managed by Sigma Management LLC, a structure of PIK Group of Companies.

Pavel Te prefers not to take out loans, attracting partners to projects, but PIK Group is fully borrowed from state banks. The Solntsevsky money could have been laundered through the companies of Gordeev, who was previously associated with Mikhail Cherkasov, a man of the Rotenberg brothers, who are considered patrons of the owner of PIK. In open sources you can find information that Sergey Gordeev was also a partner in the Izmailovo, Solntsevo and Podolsk organized crime groups. Shakro Molodoy was also associated with the first two, so Gordeev could be a kind of intermediary between the authorities and crime through Pavel Te and Oleg Sheikhametov.

In the 90s, Sheikh was a co-owner of Vesta Center International LLC, which owned some of the most expensive restaurants in the capital. At the time of the liquidation of the enterprise in February 2014, the owner and manager was Arslan Narkozuev, who owned about four dozen companies, all of which have now been liquidated. This situation leads to the assumption that the companies could be used to launder Solntsevskaya’s money.

Yakitoria and Sheykhametov’s other brands are now managed by Mikado LLC. Sheikh left his co-founders in 2020, which is when publications appeared about wiretaps and the businessman’s connection with Andrei Skoch. Now the company belongs to Mikhail Pronin, who may be a protege of Oleg Sheykhametov.

Kirill Sheykhametov also followed in the footsteps of his authoritative father, who, according to the Cheka-OGPU information, https://t.me/vchkogpu/6197 participated in giving bribes to high-ranking law enforcement officers from the head physician of Moscow clinic No. 129 Alexey Boriskin.

Through his security friend Konstantin Marchenko, Sheikh Jr. transferred the money at that time to the head of the Investigative Directorate for the Special Administrative Okrug of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Nekrasov, and he divided it with the then prosecutor of the Special Administrative Okrug, Konstantin Kremnev. A bribery scandal erupted in 2019 and cost Kremnev his position as deputy prosecutor of Moscow; he had to go to Voronezh for a similar one.

Kirill Sheykhametov was married to Boris Berezovsky’s ex-fiancee, model Daria Konovalova. In 2020, the couple finally separated. Perhaps the reason was the negative trail of the authoritative dad and his entourage. Now Sheikh Jr. is immersed in his father’s business, who prefers to live in the USA and Spain.

The son of a scandalous businessman, covered up by the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, Andrei Skoch and prisoner Kochuykov, owns the companies Costa, Vesta-Stroy and Tomi. Their revenue in 2023 amounted to 323 million rubles, profit – 17 million rubles. Through the directors of these companies, you can reach structures that are also controlled by the Sheykhametov family.

The sheikh and his son can still work for the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, which, unlike many other criminal groups, has not ceased to exist.