Valentin and Denis Manturov. Denis Manturov's family ties helped him build a career
Denis Valentinovich Manturov
Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
from May 21, 2012
Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation
September 11, 2007 - May 19, 2008
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
May 19, 2008 - February 2, 2012
Birth: February 23, 1969
Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR
Academic degree: Candidate of Economic Sciences
Denis Valentinovich Manturov (born February 23, 1969, Murmansk) is a Russian statesman and manager, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Acting State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 1st class.
Denis Manturov was born on February 23, 1969 in Murmansk. Graduated from Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov (1994), specialty - “sociology”. In 1997 he graduated from graduate school at Moscow State University, Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 2006 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, majoring in jurisprudence.
In the early 90s, Denis Manturov worked in a Russian-Indian joint venture engaged in air transportation. Since 1993, he has been exporting Mi-8 helicopters from the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant. In 1998-2000, he served as Deputy General Director of the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant. In 2000-2001, he was the commercial director of OJSC Moscow Helicopter Plant named after M. L. Mil. In 2001-2003, Denis Manturov served as Deputy Chairman of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Investment Corporation". In 2003-2007 - General Director of OJSC United Industrial Corporation Oboronprom. From September 11, 2007 to May 19, 2008 Denis Manturov - Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation. On May 19, 2008, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Since December 1, 2011, Denis Manturov has been a professor at the Department of Management Systems for Economic Objects at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Denis Manturov is among the “first hundred” of the reserve of management personnel under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation.
On February 2, 2012, Denis Manturov was appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Federation V. Putin. O. Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
In May 2012, the Rossiyskie Vesti newspaper published information about Manturov’s lobbying for the appointment of Igor Kholmanskikh to the post of Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Ural Federal District.
On May 21, 2012, Denis Manturov was appointed Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
According to RIA Novosti, Manturov earned the most among the Russian government ministers in 2012. According to the Anti-Corruption Declaration 2012, published on the website of the Russian government and quoted by RBC daily, Manturov earned 103.8 million rubles in 2012. He owns an apartment with an area of 480 square meters. m, guest house, Porsche Cayenne Turbo and Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe, four parking spaces; The official also has four land plots leased for 99 years. His wife Natalya, according to Forbes and the marker.ru portal, owns the Lancet Center for Plastic and Endoscopic Surgery, owns a Bentley Continental GT car, and owns a house with an area of 800 square meters. m, land plot. In 2012, she earned 2.7 million rubles.
Wife Natalya Manturova, two daughters. Eldest daughter
Denis Valentinovich Manturov has been the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade since 2012, head of the department at Moscow State University and part-time millionaire.His income is one of the highest among representatives of the federal government. In 2014, he earned 113.5 million rubles and took 5th place (after Khloponin, Abyzov, Trutnev and Prikhodko) in the income ranking of government members. According to the submitted declaration, he also owned a residential building of 814 square meters, a 9-room apartment measuring 481 square meters, two cars, and five plots of land.
Childhood and family of Denis Manturov The future high-ranking official was born in Murmansk on Defender of the Fatherland Day, February 23, 1969. His mother, Tamara Fedorovna, was a housewife, and his father, Valentin Ivanovich, was a former naval cadet, Komsomol secretary and deputy chairman of the city executive committee. He soon graduated from the Academy of Foreign Trade and, when his son was 7 years old, was sent to work abroad. 
They left for Bombay, where the head of the family worked as director of the Soviet cultural center. There, for the first time, Denis met his future wife Natasha - they were the same age and studied at the school at the embassy. Her father, Evgeny Kisel, worked in this South Asian country at the representative office of Aeroflot airline. After the children became friends, the parents began to communicate closer.
In the 1980s, the head of the family of the future minister had already received a promotion to embassy adviser, headed the representation of our state to the UN and at the same time headed the cultural center in Colombo. At that time, Khloponin, the father of the current Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, also worked on the island as a translator from foreign languages.
Career of Denis Manturov In 1994, the young man graduated from Moscow State University, acquired the profession of sociologist, got married and entered graduate school.His father continued his diplomatic activities - he headed the Russian Tourism Committee in the United States of America. And my father-in-law went into business at home, in Russia. In partnership with Aeroflot, he established the AeroRepcon company and hired his son-in-law as his deputy. They were exporting components for Mi-8 helicopters to India. At the same time, the young man himself founded an enterprise that became a Beeline dealer.
Then Denis Manturov, as a graduate student in sociology, defended his dissertation, received a PhD in economics and, with the help of his father-in-law, at the age of 28 became the main shareholder and deputy general director of the aircraft plant in Ulan-Ude, a large industrial enterprise with a long history. They organized the mass sale of helicopters to China, Sri Lanka, and India.
The experience gained and the allegedly friendly relations of his father-in-law with Sergei Chemezov, helped the young leader in 2000 to take the chair of commercial director of the already capital helicopter enterprise named after Mikhail Mil, one of the most reputable manufacturers of helicopter equipment. After working at the plant for only one year, he managed to patent his invention of a helicopter blade design.
In 2001, the production manager took the position of deputy chairman of the Gosinkor unitary enterprise, which owns several defense companies. In 2004, he became the head of Oboronprom, created for the purpose of organizing a holding company for the construction of aircraft.
Denis Manturov on the benefits of sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation
Denis was one of the members of the collective management of a number of development companies, including OKB Sukhoi, Kamov, Kurgamashzavod. In 2006, he received a law degree from the Civil Service Academy. In 2007, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy, and in 2008 - to the same position in the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The official entered the presidential personnel reserve. Since 2011, he has taught at Moscow Aviation Institute. In 2012, Putin, then prime minister, appointed Denis Valentinovich as head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The head of the department also became the head of the supervisory board of the Rostec corporation.
Interview with Denis Manturov about economics
Denis Manturov has a number of government awards, including the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, the Order of Friendship, and Honor.
Personal life of Denis Manturov Denis got married almost immediately after receiving his university diploma. His life partner Natalya is a doctor specialist in the field of cosmetology. Back in 1999, she registered her first private clinic, Lancet. Then she expanded her business (center of aesthetic medicine “Russian Beauty”, “Delight M and B”). 
After moving to the civil service (due to the fact that civil servants by law do not have the right to engage in business, with a few exceptions), the husband had to transfer part of his assets to her (in particular, the Primorye sanatorium in Gelendzhik, where she sends her patients for a period rehabilitation).
The official's wife enjoys spending time not only on professional, but also on social activities. She is the head of the ethics committee of the Society of Plastic Surgeons of Russia. As a doctor-cosmetologist, she heads a specialized department at one of the faculties of the National Research Medical University named after N. Pirogov.
Their family includes a daughter, Lionella, born in 1995, and a son, Evgeniy, born in 1998. In 2013, social networks actively discussed the scandal of spending half a million dollars to celebrate the birthday of the minister’s daughter in the capital’s most luxurious restaurant Safisa. But later it turned out that Lionella, at that time a student at Moscow State University, was actually celebrating the 20th birthday of her classmate friend. The minister's daughter graduated from school in Italy and wanted to live in London.
Denis Manturov now In 2018, Denis continues his activities as head of the Ministry of Industrial Trade in the governmentManturov Denis Valentinovich (born February 23, 1969, Murmansk, RSFSR, USSR) - Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (since 2012, retained his post in May 2018 in the new government of the Russian Federation), head of the Department of Social Technologies of the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University. Acting State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class.
Graduated from Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov in 1994, specialty - “sociology”. In 1997 he graduated from graduate school at Moscow State University, Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 2006 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA), majoring in jurisprudence.
In the early 90s, he worked in a Russian-Indian joint venture engaged in air transportation. Since 1993, he has been exporting Mi-8 helicopters from the Ulan-Udinsk Aviation Plant (his father-in-law, president of the Medical Technology Development Fund, was a major shareholder of this enterprise). In 1998-2000, he held the position of Deputy General Director of the Ulan-Uda Aviation Plant. In 2000-2001, he was the commercial director of OJSC Moscow Helicopter Plant named after M. L. Mil. In 2001-2003, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Investment Corporation".
In 2003-2007 - General Director of OJSC United Industrial Corporation Oboronprom. From September 11, 2007 to May 19, 2008 - Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation. On May 19, 2008, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Since December 1, 2011, he has been a professor at the Department of Management Systems for Economic Objects at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Denis Manturov is among the “first hundred” of the reserve of management personnel under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation. On February 2, 2012, then Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin appointed Denis Manturov as acting Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. On May 21, 2012, Manturov was appointed Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Denis Manturov is married to (nee Kisel). The married couple has two children: daughter Lionella (born in 1995) and son Evgeniy (born in 1998). Natalya Manturova is a physician, specializes in plastic surgery and was the owner of the Lancet clinic. According to Forbes magazine, the Manturov couple in 2015 took 4th place among the richest government officials of the Russian Federation - the income of Denis Manturov and his wife Natalia amounted to 149.8 million rubles. In the Krasnodar region, companies associated with Natalya Manturova are engaged in winemaking and they own the Primorye boarding house and the four-star SPA Hotel & Wellness Primorye. According to Russian media reports, Natalia Manturova’s structures also plan to build a cosmetology and plastic surgery center and a complex of Fellini townhouses in Gelendzhik.
Deputy Minister Denis Manturova will become the head of the Russian Helicopters corporation. The official himself may end up in prison for his wife’s dubious business and suspicions of corruption.
On the sidelines of the Ministry of Industry and Trade they say that Manturov was afraid that questions might arise against him because of his “appointee” Anatoly Serdyukov, the same ex-minister and person involved in the Oboronservis case. After all, it was Manturov, together with the head of Rostec Sergei Chemezov, who lobbied Serdyukov to the board of directors of Russian Helicopters. Now Manturov’s deputy, Andrei Boginsky, will head Russian Helicopters instead of Alexander Mikheev, and, as they say, will try to squeeze out Serdyukov.
Rostec and the Ministry of Industry and Trade do not comment on the situation. Let us note that Manturov himself is considered Chemezov’s creature. Thus, since November 2012, Manturov has been the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rostec.
“Denis Manturov, like everyone else in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, is considered a creature of Sergei Chemezov. We see: where Rostec’s interests arise, representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade begin to appear,” Pavel Salin, director of the Center for Political Science Research at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, assessed the situation.
Speaking about helicopters, it is worth remembering one detail from Manturov’s biography. In the early 2000s, he headed the enterprise OJSC Moscow Helicopter Plant named after. M.L.Mil." Plant workers said that Denis Valentinovich structured the work in such a way that “strange intermediaries appeared in contracts between the customer and the plant, which reduced the enterprise’s income.”
Question to Manturov
People have been eyeing Manturov for quite a long time - since his appointment in 2007 as Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. An “old bureaucratic scheme” was carried out, according to which his assets, affiliated with the Black Sea sanatorium “Oboronprom” - “Primorye”, located in the resort town of Gelendzhik - were “migrated” to his wife Natalya Manturova and an office called LLC “Financial Systems”, which in turn belongs to the Cyprus offshore Monticello Holdings Limited. For some reason, the investigators did not have any questions then.
In 2007, Financial Systems controlled more than a dozen different companies, including several defense enterprises. By the way, in 2009-2010. The FAS twice refused Financial Systems' request to increase its shares in defense enterprises, arguing that it "failed to establish reliable information about the actual owners of Financial Systems LLC."
Already at the ministerial post (approved by Vladimir Putin in 2012), Denis Valentinovich is accused of organizing a real raider takeover of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Departmental Security of Industrial Facilities of Russia.” A number of media claim that immediately after the issuance of his order on the appointment of acting. General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Departmental Security of Industrial Facilities of Russia”, again “his own man”, there was a real forceful seizure of the head office of the enterprise! 15 people from the minister’s personal security ran into the Federal State Unitary Enterprise office and seized it!
In December 2015, after reducing the salaries of officials of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on the instructions of the Kremlin, Manutrov raised the salaries of his employees by 38%! This increase, according to experts, was implemented in circumvention of the law on the Federal Budget. Moreover, the minister’s initiative ran counter to Vladimir Putin’s order on a 10% reduction in spending in all departments. One cannot help but mention Manturov’s Villa. To begin with, the official has a house with an area of 1,200 square meters. There is also a house measuring 814 sq. m. meters specified in the declaration.
In addition, Denis Valentinovich also has a 9-room apartment in a business-class building at Bolshoi Tishinsky Lane, 10, building 1. Let us recall that at the end of 2010 Manturov was elected chairman of the board of directors of the Apatit company, which is part of the Phosagro holding. The most interesting thing is that when Manutrov became a civil servant, he did not react to Dmitry Medvedev’s order according to which “all senior officials are required to leave their posts on the boards of directors of corporations with state participation.” Let us note that Phosagro belongs not only to Andrei Guryev, but also to the rector of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute, Vladimir Litvinenko, who is considered a friend of Vladimir Putin (three times he headed Putin’s St. Petersburg election headquarters in the presidential elections).
Guryev does not want his business to be squeezed out, like YUKOS from Mikhail Khodorkovsky. That is why such odious figures as Manturov and Litvinenko appear. But an official should not combine a post in a private structure and a high government position! There is a question about Manturov’s conflict of interests!
"This is my family"
In 2013, news broke that the official Manturov spent 500 thousand dollars on his daughter’s 20th birthday. The entire “pop party” of the Russian stage was there, led by Channel One host Andrei Malakhov: Philip Kirkorov, Nikolai Baskov, Timati, Dmitry Malikov, Alsou, Ivanushki International, Grigory Leps, Valery Meladze, Irina Dubtsova. And these “stars” pay for a corporate event ranges from 30 to 100 thousand dollars!
Manturov’s press secretary, Yuri Koritsky, said that this information “does not correspond to reality.” There's just a catch - there are photos! And Manturov earned “only” 100 million rubles in 2012. Where does the money come from? Then they explained to journalists that Leonella Manturova was only a guest...
It should be noted that several development projects are associated with the family of Minister Manturov, in particular a hotel complex and a clinic focused on cosmetology and plastic surgery. As journalists wrote, the amount of investment was 1.88 billion rubles. Let us note that the official’s wife Natalya Manturova is “a doctor of medical sciences, a plastic surgeon, a doctor of the highest category.
We have already written that Sergei Ivanov, considered a “hawk,” will be a possible successor to Vladimir Putin. Against this background, a number of opponents of Dmitry Medvedev are trying to discredit the already unpopular government as much as possible. And if the case of the former head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Ulyukaev is political, initiated by Igor Sechin, then the Manturov case may have a basis. But it will be initiated before the elections, as a political technology. In the meantime, Denis Valentinovich is trying to protect himself, including by appointing “his own man” to Russian Helicopters.
Family
Father - Valentin Manturov, worked as the first secretary of the Murmansk city committee of the Komsomol, then deputy chairman of the Murmansk city executive committee. Soon after the birth of his son, Valentin graduated from the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade and began a diplomatic career.
Denis's wife, Natalya Manturova, is a businesswoman, they have two children - a son and a daughter. Daughter Leonela (born March 6, 1995) is a student at Moscow State University.
Biography
Denis was born on February 23, 1969 in Murmansk. In 1976, the father of the future Minister of Industry and Trade received the post of director of the Soviet cultural center in Bombay and the family moved to India.
In the late 1980s, Valentin Manturov served as First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the UN and Advisor to the USSR Embassy in the Republic of Sri Lanka - Director of the House of Science and Culture in Colombo. At the same time, the father of the Deputy Prime Minister, Gennady, worked as a translator in Sri Lanka.
While still in India, the Manturovs became friends with the family of Aeroflot's representative in this country, Evgeny Kisel. Kisel's daughter Natalya and Denis Manturov studied at the same school in India and continued to be friends in Moscow, where they returned to receive higher education.
Denis received his education at Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov (1994), specialty - “sociology”. In 1997 he graduated from graduate school at Moscow State University, Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 2006 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, majoring in jurisprudence.
Natalya Kisel studied at the 2nd Med, and then completed her residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Russian State Medical University. Soon after graduation, Denis and Natalya got married.
Manturov's father-in-law, Evgeny Kisel, returned to Russia and went into business. Using old connections, Kisel, together with Aeroflot, created a joint company Aerorepkon, which sold air tickets.
He made his son-in-law Denis Manturov his deputy. But soon Kisel switched to another business: he began organizing the export of MI-8 helicopters produced at the aircraft plant in Ulan-Ude to India, Sri Lanka and China, where he still had many connections. Aviation plant workers have repeatedly noted that these contracts were unprofitable for the enterprise.
Manturov worked at Aerorepcon and at the same time ran his own business. He created the Bell Line Center Stolichny company, which in 1996 became one of the first dealers of the Beeline cellular operator and in a few years connected about 4,500 subscribers.
Bell Line Center Stolichny even made an attempt to become a competitor to Beeline in the mobile communications market, agreeing to create its own satellite communications operator Inmarsat, which would use the infrastructure of the state-owned enterprise Morsvyazsputnik. But the project ended in failure, since satellite communications were much more expensive than cellular communications.
At the end of 1997, Kisel managed to collect a stake in OJSC Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant and lobby for the appointment of his 28-year-old son-in-law as deputy general director of the enterprise.
In 2000, Manturov became commercial director of OJSC Moscow Helicopter Plant named after M.L. Mil. Employees of the enterprise recall that during the period of Manturov’s work, the export contracts of the cost center were revised, and strange intermediaries appeared in new contracts between the customer and the plant, which reduced the income of the enterprise.
During the same period, Denis Manturov registered a patent for the invention of a “helicopter blade tip.” In 2001, Manturov became deputy chairman of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Investment Corporation (Gosinkor), which owned a number of defense enterprises.
In 2004, he was appointed general director of OJSC United Industrial Corporation (Oboronprom), created by Rosoboronexport and Gosinkor, whose task was to create a helicopter manufacturing holding.
Since 2004 - member of the board of directors of JSC OKB Sukhoi and JSC Kurganmashzavod, since 2005 - chairman of the board of directors of JSC Moscow Helicopter Plant named after. M.L. Milya" and member of the board of directors of OJSC "Kamov".
In 2007, Denis Manturov was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, in charge of the defense complex, chemical-technological complex, pharmaceuticals and customs and tariff policy. He also became a member of the government commission to ensure the implementation of measures to prevent bankruptcy of strategic enterprises and organizations.
After leaving for the civil service, Manturov got rid of part of his business assets. Bell Line CJSC, Bell Line Center Stolichny CJSC and Klimant LLC, which was engaged in the sale of spare parts for helicopters, were liquidated.
The other part of the assets associated with the former Black Sea sanatorium of Oboronprom - Primorye, located in the center of Gelendzhik - was transferred to his wife Natalya Manturova and the company Financial Systems LLC. The owner of the latter is the Cyprus offshore Monticello Holdings Limited, which controlled a stake in the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant and the Kirov-based JSC Lepse (produces electrical equipment for the aviation industry).
From September 11, 2007 to May 19, 2008 Manturov was Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation. On May 19, 2008, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
In October 2010, Denis Valentinovich was elected chairman of the board of directors of the Apatit company (part of the Phosagro holding). Moreover, Manturov was in no hurry to part with this post, even despite the decree of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that all senior officials are required to leave their posts on the boards of directors of corporations with state participation.
In July 2011, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov was again elected head of the board of directors of Apatit OJSC.
Since December 1, 2011, he has been a professor at the Department of Management Systems for Economic Objects at the Moscow Aviation Institute.
On February 2, 2012, Manturov was appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Federation V. Putin. O. Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
On May 21, 2012, Manturov was appointed Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Since November 2012, he has also been the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Rostec State Corporation.
In October 2015, Manturov said that the Russian Federation is becoming an attractive country for foreign investors, even despite the introduction of sanctions. This happens because the costs of raw materials and labor are “low here.” According to Manturov, Russia has good conditions for production. The reason for this is the devaluation of the ruble. He spoke about the steps that the Russian government is taking to stimulate foreign investment. He noted the “investment contract,” which is designed to provide investors with special conditions for government procurement.
Denis Manturov is among the “first hundred” of the reserve of management personnel under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation. Has state awards.
Income
According to the anti-corruption declaration of 2012, in 2012 he earned about 100 million rubles. (the largest income among the ministers of the Russian government), he owns a 9-room apartment with an area of 480 m², a house with an area of 1200 m2, two Porsche cars, as well as lease rights for 99 years on four plots of land.
His wife Natalya owns the Lancet plastic and endoscopic surgery clinic, a house with an area of 800 m², and a plot of land; in 2012 her earnings amounted to 2.7 million rubles.
Scandals, rumors
The Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov was more than once suspected of lobbying the interests of the Phosagro holding, and was reproached for his connections with the oligarch Andrei Guryev, the owner of the Phosagro holding, which owns the Apatit plant.
It should be noted that Manturov was born in Murmansk. It is in the Murmansk region that Apatit OJSC is located, the main production resource of the Phosagro holding.
Also, Andrey Guryev, the main owner of Phosagro OJSC, is a senator from the Murmansk region. So Manturov and Guryev are, in a sense, fellow countrymen.
Of course, now Manturov’s connection with Guryev’s structures is no longer so visible, because on February 14, 2013, Konstantin Nikitin, director of the Kirov branch of PhosAgro AG CJSC, was elected chairman of the board of directors of Apatit OJSC.
However, this post was previously held by Manturov himself, while being the current deputy minister, and then the minister. Let us recall that Manturov was first elected chairman of the board of directors of Apatit in October 2010. Of course, this election is not accidental, and this was agreed upon in Moscow.
In July 2011, at that time, Denis Manturov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, was again elected head of the board of directors of Apatit OJSC, thereby retaining his post, despite the presidential ban on combining the posts of head of state corporations and officials.
Those. The presidential decree was ignored, but Andrei Guryev received the Federal Minister of Industry and Trade as a lobbyist as head of the board of directors of Apatit OJSC. This gave Andrei Grigorievich virtually unlimited opportunities in the field of lobbying his interests.
Rumor has it that even now, no longer being the formal head of the board of directors of Apatit, Manturov continues to secretly lobby for Guryev’s interests in the agrochemical market.
In addition, it seems that the current minister at one time not only sat on the board of directors of Apatit, but also helped Guryev absorb new assets! So they say that it was Manturov who was involved in the raider seizure of the main assets of Metakhim CJSC in the interests of PhosAgro OJSC.
Let us recall that after the Phosagro holding, together with the St. Petersburg Mining Institute and the Danish company FLSmidth, signed an agreement to develop a project to modernize the production complex in Pikalevo worth 200 million euros, experts started talking about an imminent raider takeover of the Pikalevo factories by Phosagro structures. . After all, in fact, it was this deal with FLSmidth that was the main pretext for the raider actions.
Moreover, the then governor of the Leningrad region, Valery Serdyukov, told reporters that PhosAgro OJSC bought the Volkhov-based Metakhim enterprise, as well as Pikalevskaya Soda. However, who advised Phosagro to enter into a contract with FLSmidth?
The media said that the idea to sign an agreement with the Danish engineering company FLSmidth was suggested to the owner of PhosAgro Andrey Guryev by the chairman of the board of directors of Apatit Denis Manturov. Thus, Manturov not only was involved in the raider seizure of Metakhim’s structures, but also actually suggested to Guryev the plan for this seizure.
So, in fact, Manturov was involved in the raider takeover of Metakhim. But before this, Manturov was considered one of the possible organizers of a raider attack on the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Departmental Security of Industrial Facilities of Russia” (VOOPR).
In May 2012, the Rossiyskie Vesti newspaper published information about Manturov’s lobbying for the appointment of Igor Kholmanskikh to the post of Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Ural Federal District.
The appointment of the head of the Uralvagonzavod workshop, Igor Kholmanskikh, as the President's plenipotentiary envoy in the Ural Federal District caused extreme surprise, bordering on confusion, among the Russian political establishment.
The fact is that Kholmanskikh was selected to participate in the federal election campaign by employees of the Sverdlovsky branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Departmental Security of Industrial Facilities of Russia." He was selected on the grounds that Kholmanskikh was absolutely loyal to the general director of Uralvagonzavod Oleg Sienko.
And Sienko is the person of the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. In general, Uralvagonzavod is Manturov’s de facto financial fiefdom.
And now Manturov, perhaps thanks to the efforts of his patron, with whom he shares common control over Defense Systems, promoted his protege to the post of Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Ural Federal District.
It is clear that Manturov’s “fiefdoms” in the Urals - Uralvagonzavod and Ural Optical-Mechanical Plant - will benefit from this. That's the whole point.