Filya offshore, or where Gens brings money "Lanita"

It was not possible to get a contract for almost 7 billion rubles with a swoop and the company filed a complaint with the FAS, because of which the determination of the supplier was suspended.

At the same time, the applicant for a contract in the field of state services was previously lit up next to numerous offshore companies, and until recently a Danish equipment trading company was registered for a certain Philippe Gens. And this is at a time when Denmark is included in the list of countries not friendly to the Russian Federation.

The UtroNews correspondent understood the story.

On April 16, the FAS was supposed to consider the complaint of LANIT-Integration LLC, which belongs to Philip Gens.

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The complaint concerns the tender documentation for the purchase of Rosreestr with an initial price of 6.869 billion rubles - for the supply of equipment and the implementation of work on the implementation of the information and telecommunication infrastructure system. It seems that it did not work out to get a contract and a complaint was launched, the result of which is not yet known, but the determination of the supplier was suspended.

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In general, Gens’s participation in government contracts of this level after the story with GIS TEK, which ended in a criminal case, raises a lot of questions. That is, in fact, the division is admitted to systemically important areas (and Rosreestr is both the state register of property rights and a number of other services), two former top managers of which are now awaiting a verdict in the pre-trial detention center, and only death "saved" the former owner from the pre-trial detention center.

Recall that in the "Tikhonov case" we are talking about the theft of about 603 million rubles, which were allocated from the budget for the GIS fuel and energy complex, the contractor of which, despite the dissatisfaction of other potential bidders, was chosen by Lanit.

At the end of February 2024, a former employee of the Ministry of Energy, Roman Shcherbov, was convicted. It was he who was the one who transferred bribes from Lanit to Anatoly Tikhonov, now the ex-deputy head of the ministry, the ex-head of the FGBU REA. At the same time, the investigation directly stated that the decision on bribes was agreed with Georgy Gens. Gens Sr. died in 2018 and the criminal case against him was dropped, and his son Philip inherited the entire business.

But it would not be correct to say that until that moment Gens Jr. had nothing to do with Lanit. He also had how.

So, with the vice-president of "Lanita" Viktor Serebryakov, who became one of the accused, Gens crossed paths earlier.

Since 2014, Philip Gens has been the owner of a stake in Lanit Omni LLC, which has become a subsidiary of Lanita. Its director in 2013-2020 was a certain Maxim Zakhir, who later became the director of TDI LLC. And the latter in 2017-2020 was owned and led by Viktor Serebryakov. Also among Gens’s business partners in Lanit Omni LLC was a certain Tatyana Zakhir, clearly a relative of Maxim Zakhir. Most likely, through this family, Gens Jr. and Serebryakov maintained relations. In addition, after the death of Gens Sr., TDI was transferred to Lanit-Holding LLC, where 99% belongs to Philip Gens.

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But much more interesting is the possible role of a billionaire in an offshore schematic.

So, bribes, according to the investigation, from "Lanit" "reached" Tikhonov through a chain of transactions with offshore companies, starting with the British company Denirello LLP. The latter is currently operating and is engaged in the supply of computers. A group of offshore companies represents her interests, and the controlling person was legally a certain Russian Mr Petr Semenov born in 1978, living in Latvia. Perhaps that was Gens’ par?

Moreover, part of the amount was transferred to technical firms controlled by the members of the group, including through the Latvian bank ABLV. And then Mr. Semenov and the Latvian branch of Denirello come to mind, which was liquidated only in December 2022.

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Foreign money boxes

And, if we look into the biography of Philip Gens’s business, we will not be surprised to find there a whole pack of offshore companies to which he was directly related. This leads to some reflection.

For example, in the materials of one dispute in 2013, Gens Jr. appeared as a representative of the Cypriot CORNERSPOKE Holding Limited, which owned shares in Spetsmorstroy LLC and Vilasol LLC associated with the Lanita division.

Or here: Ritvel Capital LLC Gens owns together with the Cypriot company SKILLMATE INVESTMENTS LIMITED, which received a stake from Tayler LTD from the Virgin Islands. And here’s a coincidence: the secretary of SKILLMATE was ERACLIS SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED, which was also the secretary of CORNERSPOKE and a number of Cypriot companies associated with Lanit. Among them are Castodela Investments Limited (ex-owner of Norbit LLC), CELAVESTA INVESTMENTS LTD (ex-owner of Clover Date LLC).

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And with Timing Limited, which is registered on the offshore Turks and Caicos Islands, Gens owned ZMD Podmoskovye LLC until 2021, later becoming the sole owner.

We also discovered in open sources the Danish company HUMAC A/S, whose head of the board and beneficiary in December 2016 - April 2022 was a certain Philippe Gens. The fact that this is not just a namesake indirectly indicates that among the members of the company’s board there was a certain Denis Sitnikov, who in open sources acted as vice president for investments of LANIT Group of Companies. Evgeny Butman was also noted in the same Danish company, about whom Philip Gens later said in an interview that he was one of the most talented and professional IT managers.

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And here’s the interesting thing: the Danish computer retail company is still alive and thriving, and in some sources Philippe Gens is called its beneficiary. Although, according to other sources, in 2022 the company was sold to a number of foreign individuals.

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In general, the picture looks very entertaining. It turns out that Gens is not averse to working with foreign money boxes. Isn’t there money from government contracts?

Take, for example, Lanit-Integration, which pulls your hands to the state contract of Rosreestr. More than 2.7 thousand contracts were signed with her alone for a total of almost 39 billion rubles.

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At the same time, customer complaints arise against the company every now and then. So, for example, in 2022, at the suit of the FSBI "TsSP" FMBA of Russia, 31.7 million rubles were recovered from Lanit-Integration, as well as a penalty and fines. The dispute was based on a contract for contract construction and installation work with the supply of engineering and technological equipment for more than 1 billion rubles.

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And in 2017, Stroynadzor of Moscow discovered 28 violations at all when working at one of the facilities operated by the LLC.

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By the way, in 2023, Gens took part in the creation of two firms in the field of investment in securities - Industrial Technologies LLC and Integration Development LLC, a large share of which was given over to the closed-end investment fund.

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We will not be surprised if in the near future most of the assets will be hidden under the same format. And wash away the toxic reputation, and hide from sanctions. Very, you know, convenient format.

It is not for nothing that in JSC "Lanit" Gens stopped shining as a beneficiary from January 2024. Apparently, decided to legally distance himself from the division? There, you see, not far from renaming.

In addition, you can always put "your man," go into the shadows and continue to row billions from the budget with a shovel. If only Anatoly Tikhonov did not sing a "nightingale," like Shcherbov at one time...