Lyah Mikhail Yuryevich

Lyah Mikhail Yuryevich

Biography

Mikhail Lyya was born on August 3, 1962 in Moscow.

He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers. transport

From 1987 to 1991 he worked at the Ramensky Instrument-Making Plant.

From 1991 to 1993, he worked as Deputy Director of the Software and Network Department at KAMI JSC.

Chapter "Complink"

In 1993, Mikhail Lyya co-founded USP CompyuLink and became its president.

In the first half of the 2000s, the Delta Private Equity Partners fund became a minority shareholder of Complink, and in 2006-2008 the company planned to place shares on the stock exchange (IPO), which never took place.

In 2012, Sergey Sulgin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Complink since 2006, left the Board of Directors of Complink ^[1]After that, Mikhail Lyya was elected chairman of the board of directors of Complink. He combined this position with the post of president of the Complink Group of Companies.

In 2013, Lyya in an interview with Vedomosti said that he owns a large, but not controlling stake in Complink, and with it several investment funds are shareholders.

2018

Mask show and interrogation of Mikhail Lyashch

On September 20, 2018, a TAdviser source in the security forces reported that Mikhail Lyya was detained in Moscow. A similar message was distributed by the Mash Telegram channel, adding that the detention is related to projects in the Rostec Group of Companies.

Two TAdviser sources close to the investigation claim that the businessman's detention has nothing to do with Rostec.

On September 20, Complink did not deny Lyashch's detention, but told TAdviser that they have not yet commented on this information. The investigating authorities, to which TAdviser made an official request, also did not comment on the situation.

On September 21, one of the TAdviser sources added that it is more correct to talk about interrogation, and not about the detention of Mikhail Lyashch. Whether the businessman remains at large or his freedom is limited, the source did not specify.

According to the interlocutor of TAdviser, "mask shows" and searches took place in "Complink," and the company's management was urged not to comment in any way on what was happening. Everyone in the company is in shock, he adds.

On September 21, Complink itself made an official statement. The company told TAdviser that on September 19, 2018, Mikhail Lyya was invited to testify by law enforcement officials. After all the answers were received, Lyia was detained for 48 hours to clarify all the circumstances of the case.

As of September 13.00 21, 2018 (the time to publish this part of the text) has not yet expired 48 hours.

The case is not connected with embezzlement at Rostec Corporation or with questions about the implementation of state contracts with Rostec, Complink reported.

Complink Group of Companies did not conclude an agreement and did not implement projects for the Rostec state corporation, and also did not have contracts with companies mentioned in the media in the context of illegal withdrawal of funds from Rostec, added to Complink

All questions that have arisen to Mikhail Lyashch are not related to the main activities of the Complink Group of Companies, the company also said.

Arrest

On September 21, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Mikhail Lyashch for two months, Interfax news agency reported, citing court spokeswoman Anastasia Dzyurko^[2]. A court ruling against Lyashch chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period until November 20, she said.

The president of "Complink" is suspected of embezzlement of funds, they say in court. He is charged with fraud committed on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Lawyers for Mikhail Lyashcha associate the initiation of a criminal case with a certain joint-stock conflict, "in which law enforcement agencies intervened," Kommersant writes^[3]. Defense representatives do not name the parties to the conflict and the essence of claims against their client, but emphasize that the president of Complink is not charged with offenses with state contracts, contracts concluded with state corporations or fraud with budget funds.

Initially, Lyya came for interrogation to the building of the police GSU as a witness. But in the end he was detained for two days. According to the newspaper, the defense insisted on applying a preventive measure to Mikhail Lyashch that was not related to detention in a pre-trial detention center. However, in the end, the court sided with the investigation and he was arrested.

Later, Complink reported that the interest of law enforcement agencies in Mikhail Lyashch was associated with his personal project - CJSC Symbiotel, which had nothing to do with Complink itself. Symbiotel was founded in 2008 by a group of individuals and was the developer of the EZTalk product. EZTalk is a hardware and software complex that allows you to connect Call Back, make conference calls, and send SMS without using the services of cellular operators. The service was supposed to be provided for a small fee to all persons who downloaded the corresponding program to a mobile phone.

Investments in Symbiotel by VTB - Venture Capital Fund and RVC amounted to about 100 million rubles. However, in 2010, due to the lack of its prospects, the project was recognized as unprofitable and frozen.

The Kommersant newspaper, citing its sources, writes that Lew returned about half of his invested funds to investors. They did not seek to recover all debt through the courts. The RVC newspaper reported that after the change of management of the company in 2016, "a full internal audit of the historical portfolio of funds was carried out with the participation of the company's capital." In early 2017, the results of the audit were transferred to the prosecutor's office, which, after its inspection, initiated an investigation.

The initiation of a criminal case in the Main Investigative Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, the RVC emphasized, was the result of the qualification by the investigating authorities of the data of the "provided report."^[4].

Leaving the pre-trial detention center under house arrest

On October 22, 2018, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow transferred Mikhail Lyashch, president of the Complink group of companies, suspected of embezzlement of funds, to house arrest, Interfax reported with reference to the court.

By the decision of the Tver court of Moscow, Lyashcha changed the measure of restraint from detention to house arrest until December 16, 2018, Svetlana Skachkova, a representative of the court, was quoted as saying by the news agency.

2020: Criminal case against the head of "Complink" dismissed

As it became known to CNews, the criminal case against Mikhail Lyashch, president of the Complink group of companies, initiated in the fall of 2018, was terminated in March 2020. The corresponding decree of the senior investigator of one of the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was signed on August 30, 2019. Earlier, Complink did not publicize this fact. CNews had the opportunity to familiarize himself with the document^[5]

Recall that the Tverskoy Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Mikhail Lyashch on September 21, 2018. Initially, a preventive measure was chosen against him in the form of detention for a period until November 20, 2018. however, already on October 22, it became known about the transfer of Lyashch to house arrest, and on November 15, CNews learned that Lew was given the opportunity to visit his organization's office, directly involved in business management.

Mikhail Lyashcha was suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. This rule describes fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale, but also punishes crimes related to real estate. The article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 10 years with a fine of up to 1 million rubles.

2021: Withdrawal from the assets of Complink Group of Companies

As TAdviser found out, in May 2021, the co-founder and former president of Complink, Mikhail Lyya, completed the withdrawal from all the group's assets. According to information from the base of legal entities "Kontur.Fokus," businessman Yuri Borovsky became the main owner of assets instead. Read more here.

2023-2024: Bankruptcy

As TAdviser found out, in March 2024, the Moscow Arbitration Court will consider an application to establish a ban on traveling abroad for the founder and former president of Complink Mikhail Lyashch, who was previously declared bankrupt. The application was received from the bankruptcy financial manager^[6].

As of March, the bankruptcy movement is in full swing. The financial manager collects evidence in various instances, such as, for example, information about the presence of objects of taxation registered to Mikhail Litshch - movable and immovable property, about open/closed accounts of the debtor, about the initiated enforcement proceedings against him, etc.

The bankruptcy case of Mikhail Lyashch was initially initiated in 2023 under the lawsuit^[7] Rosbank, which demanded about 510.4 million from him. rubles This is the amount of bank guarantees that the bank paid to a number of companies under a bank guarantee agreement with USP Complink (later renamed Infralink), which, in addition to the principal debt, also includes arrears in the payment of commissions and a penalty.

Among those who declared creditor requirements in the case card in the Electronic Justice system are Gazprombank, AKB Derzhava, Joint Stock Commercial Bank (AKB) Centrocredit. The case file as of March does not yet provide the amounts that Gazprombank and AKB Derzhava demand from Mikhail Lyashch.

ACB "Centrocredit," in turn, put forward a large demand - in the amount of more than 3.3 billion rubles, which includes overdue principal debt under surety agreements, interest and penalties. Under these agreements, Mikhail Lyya, as a guarantor, pledged to answer to the bank for the fulfillment by the Infralink company, which acted as a borrower, of obligations under loan agreements concluded by it with the bank.

However, in February 2024, the court decided that the claim of the Central Loan Bank was not subject to inclusion in the register of claims of the debtor's creditors. At the same time, it must be taken into account by the financial manager in a separate list of claims of creditors to be satisfied after the repayment of claims of creditors included in the register^[8]

The court found that Infralink and TsentroCredit JSCB were part of the same group of persons, and the bank financed Infralink's activities "in order to hide the state of the property crisis" of the latter.

Of the circumstances established by the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court back in November 2022 in the framework of the bankruptcy case of Infralink^[9], between the latter and TsentroCredit JSCB on September 2020, affiliation was established through Yu.P. Borovsky. Since September 2020, he has been the only member of Complink Holding, which is a member of UK Complink Group, which, in turn, is a 100 percent member of Infralink. This is stated in the ruling of the Moscow Arbitration Court of February 20, 2024.

How exactly Yu.P. Borovsky was associated with TsentroCredit JSCB is not explained in this court ruling, but there is an explanation in other court documents. For example, in the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow District N F05-28925/22 in the case N A40-131709/2021 of May 31, 2023, which states that the activities of Borovsky Yu.P. In the interests of the Central Loan Joint Stock Company are confirmed by the common economic interests of his and another person and their management of one business in the interests of the Central Loan Joint Stock Company - Tandem, Adshvao and Neochemteh. The resolution provides a chain of ties between these companies and the Central Loan Bank.

And Mikhail Lyya was the president of the Complink Group of Companies, co-owner of UK Complink Group, Complink Holding, and president of Infralink. At the same time, the termination of ownership of the group's companies did not entail a loss of communication with the borrower's group - Infralink, in which he continued to work as a development director, the court states.

Thus, the debtor issued a guarantee for an organization affiliated with him - Infralink - to an affiliated creditor, and the subrogation requirements of TsentroCredit JSCB cannot compete with the requirements of other creditors, the Moscow Arbitration Court concluded.

In addition to the organizations already mentioned above, KB IS Bank also demanded about 30 million rubles from Mikhail Lyashch, but the court did not include him in the register of creditors' claims, ordering him to satisfy the request at the expense of property remaining after satisfying the claims of creditors included in the register^[10]

In parallel with the bankruptcy of Mikhail Lyashch, cases of bankruptcy of companies of the Complink group continue, including Infralink, Complink Holding, Complink Integration, UK Complink Group, etc. Creditor requirements for them are made by a much more extensive list of companies than for Mikhail Lyashch.

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Photo - Sergey Porter/Vedomosti/TASS