Mazurov Dmitry Petrovich

Mazurov Dmitry Petrovich

Biography

Born on January 25, 1976 in the city of Leninsk, Kazakh SSR (now - the city of Baikonur).

He graduated from Kazan State University (since April 2, 2010 "Kazan (Volga) Federal University") with a degree in radiophysics.

In 2002, he established the company Oil and Gas Chemical Technologies, which later became the basis for the formation of Novy Potok JSC.

In 2004, together with partners, he founded the Antipinsky Oil Refinery - the largest production enterprise in May 2019, managed by Novy Potok JSC.

Since 2018 - Member of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), co-chairman of the Commission on the Oil and Gas Industry.

2018: Loss of Antipinsky Refinery

In May 2019, he was also chairman of the board of directors of Novy Potok JSC, the key asset of which was the Antipinsky oil refinery with a capacity of 9 million tons of oil per year. In May 2019, due to the difficult financial situation and, as a result, interruptions in oil supplies that began back in 2018, the refinery was forced to suspend work and go under the control of the main creditor - Sberbank.

2019

Arrest at the request of the head of Sberbank G. Gref

Novy Potok clarified that on July 11, 2019, Mazurov voluntarily arrived at the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he gave "detailed explanations and provided an extensive package of documents for all circumstances of interest to the investigating authorities."

On July 5, 2019, the investigator of the Investigative Department "issued a decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case, but later this decision was canceled."

"In connection with a sharp change in the position of the investigation and the subsequent detention of Mazurov, Novy Stream JSC assumes the possibility of exerting pressure on the investigating authorities by Mazurov's ill-wishers," the company said in a statement.

The press service added that Mazurov "never hid from the investigation, had no intentions to leave Russia and showed full readiness to give all the necessary explanations on the issues of interest to the investigating authorities."

On July 13, 2019, the founder and chairman of the board of directors of the New Stream group of companies Dmitry Mazurov was detained at Sheremetyevo airport on arrival from a foreign business trip.

Photo: Courtesy of Novy Potok JSC

He is suspected of fraud. On July 15, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested Mazurov and sent him to a pre-trial detention center until September 12.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs imputes him theft from Sberbank in the amount of $29 million, which at the Central Bank exchange rate is 1 billion 806 million 700 thousand. rubles The investigating authorities opened a criminal case against Mazurov after the statement of the head of PJSC Sberbank"." Hermann Gref The credit institution was recognized as the injured party in the case.

The investigation believes that the owner of the "New Stream" committed a crime as part of an organized criminal group.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, Mazurov is also suspected of embezzling credit funds from Promsvyazbank and Absolut Bank. The total amount of damage can be more than $3 billion.

Version on diesel fuel export under the guise of furnace fuel

On July 21, 2019, telegram channels reported that the inspection of energy customs was related to the case against the head of the "New Stream" Dmitry Mazurov. The version is checked according to which Dmitry Mazurov's structures exported diesel fuel from the Russian Federation under the guise of furnace fuel, revenue remained abroad. In this regard, questions arose about the relationship between Mazurov and his partners with energy customs officers, the head of the FCS.

2020

Claims of banks for 77 billion rubles

PSB filed an application to include a debt to him for 22 billion rubles in the register of claims of bankrupt creditors, chairman of the board of directors of the Novy Stream group of oil and gas companies Dmitry Mazurov. He is accused of fraud on an especially large scale. Earlier, claims against Mazurov were presented by Sberbank and Sberbank Capital in the amount of more than 56 billion rubles.

Arrest and transfer to "Sailor Silence"

Mazurov was arrested by the decision of the Tver District Court of Moscow and placed in a special block of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, where he was first accused of especially large-scale fraud, then of the same embezzlement in connection with the theft of a loan of $29 million by the Antipinsky Refinery, which was part of Novy Stream, as well as the withdrawal of about half a billion rubles under a fictitious contract. At the final stage of the investigation, an episode of intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm (part 3 of article 111 of the Criminal Code) by model Yulia Milshtein appeared in the case, which allegedly tried to compromise Mazurov.

British Virgin Islands sentence: 18 months in prison

In October 2020, Dmitry Mazurov was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the British Virgin Islands. The Supreme Court of the island state decided that Mazurov showed disrespect for justice, without disclosing to his creditors from VTB all their assets, which they could have recovered against debts amounting to €69.6 million and 3.1 billion rubles.

In support of the arbitration proceedings in London, VTB Commodities appealed to the Supreme Court of the British Virgin Islands with a statement on the worldwide seizure of Dmitry Mazurov's assets, which was granted.

2023: Sentence - 10 years in prison and a fine of 21 million rubles in favor of Sberbank

On December 12, 2023, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow sentenced the founder of the New Stream group of companies, the former owner of the Antipinsky oil refinery Dmitry Mazurov. He was assigned ten years in a maximum security colony for fraud, embezzlement and organizing an attack on model Julia Milstein. This was reported in the Telegram channel "Moscow Courts of General Jurisdiction."

Mazurov, who was found guilty of embezzlement of 473 million rubles, fraud and causing grievous bodily harm, was also ordered to pay a fine in favor of Sberbank in the amount of 21 billion rubles. In addition, the court satisfied the claims from the Antipinsky plant for 1.7 billion rubles and the injured Milstein.

Dmitry Mazurov

The businessman's accomplice Alexander Kurilov, in turn, was sentenced to eight years in a maximum security colony. As the investigation found out, he was the perpetrator of the attack on the model. Kurilov was accused of causing grievous bodily harm, illegal possession of weapons and destruction of someone else's property.

Investigators found that Mazurov, having owned the Antipinsky Refinery, received several loans from Sberbank for more than 300 billion rubles for the development of the enterprise. However, as a result, he appropriated all the money to himself. Sberbank considers the verdict announced in the case to be objective and legal, the press service of Sberbank told Forbes.

The attack on the model took place in Tyumen in 2015. It is assumed that Mazurov was in a personal relationship with Milstein. After parting, the girl repeatedly asked for a meeting. The businessman, fearing that the ex-lover would compromise him, organized an attack on her.

The defendant pleaded not guilty. It is noted that the state prosecution requested to appoint Dmitry Mazurov 16.5 years in a strict regime colony, Alexander Kurilov - 13.5 years.^[1]

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