Molibog Nikolay Petrovich

Molibog Nikolay Petrovich

Biography

Nikolay Petrovich Molibog was born on July 16, 1975 in the settlement of Nadvoitsy of the Segezha district Karelian the ASSR.

In 1997 graduated from economics department of the Novosibirsk technical university of communication and information science.

From 2000 to 2003 worked as the managing director of network of the regional enterprises of Kommersant. Izdatelsky dom Ltd.

From 2003 to 2004 worked as the deputy managing director of the Gazeta newspaper.

2004-2013: "Poster" and Afisha-Rambler

Since 2004 Nikolay Molibog worked in Afisha company where at different times held posts of the director of distribution and regional development, the publisher of the Bolshoy Gorod magazine, the director of publishing projects and also the deputy CEO of Afisha Industries Ltd. Supervised questions of publishing work and distribution.

In September, 2009 Nikolay Molibog was appointed the CEO of ID Poster.

In July, 2010 Molibog headed Afisha-Rambler company when the ProfMedia media holding integrated Rambler Media with assets of Poster.

In May, 2013 the CEO of Afisha-Rambler company which integrated with SUP Media earlier Nikolay Molibog left the post.

2013: CEO of RBC

On July 10, 2013 the Vedomosti newspaper announced fast appointment of Nikolay Moliboga the new CEO of RBC holding. This information was confirmed by the acquaintance Moliboga and also the person close to the Onexim group (the controlling owner of holding) of Mikhail Prokhorov. According to them, appointment it will be announced in the next few days, and will come to Molibog's work in the middle of August, 2013. Employed Moliboga, according to Vedomosti in RBC Derk Sauyer is the founder of Sanoma Independent Media (SIM), and now the president of RBC, one of interlocutors of Vedomosti tells. The current CEO of RBC Sergey Lavrukhin, according to him, can pass into Board of Directors of the company. And the person, close to shareholders of RBC, adds that Lavrukhin can return to Onexim. Before arrival to RBC it was a chief executive of Oneksim and the CEO of the media group "Live!" (also enters into Onexim). The interlocutor of Vedomosti reminds that Lavrukhin was invited as the anti-recessionary managing director, his tasks included also search of the new CEO. Lavrukhin told Vedomosti that he^[1] of Moliboga's appointment^[1].

On July 12, 2013 the Gazeta.ru edition reported that Nikolay Molibog could not settle terms of the contract with RBC. The initiative of purpose of Moliboga to a post of the CEO of RBC, according to Gazeta.ru, proceeded from the vice president of RBC Elena Myasnikova and at the moment could not be realized in the real contract, specifies a source. According to him, difficulties in negotiations are connected, including, with the fact that RBC is a difficult and multi-profile asset which both TV, and printing editions, and a hosting, and the Internet enters.

The final decision on purpose of Moliboga to a post of the CEO of holding is not made. The high-ranking source in RBC holding adds that information in media on fast purpose of Moliboga is not true^[2].

In August, 2013 announced RBC receiving consent of Nikolay Moliboga to hold a post of the First Deputy CEO of the company.

2014: Correspondence with the Russian President Administration

On March 31, 2015 grouping of hackers "Anonymous International" laid out the archive containing about 40 thousand SMS messages in network. They were extorted, presumably, from the mobile phone of Timur Prokopenko who from fall of 2012 to winter of the 2014th supervised the Internet in the Russian President Administration (and then it was appointed responsible for federal elections). In archive correspondence begins with summer of the 2011th and comes to an end in October of the 2014th. On it it is possible to trace rise of career of Prokopenko — from the activist and the leader of the pro-Kremlin movement "Young Guard" to the official of Presidential Administration to whom report, including, media executives and Roskomnadzor.

The Meduza edition studied correspondence and published a fragment of expected correspondence of Timur Prokopenko and Nikolay Moliboga^[3]about.

If to trust the published data, the CEO of RBC saw the first deputy administrator of Presidential Administration, the curator of domestic policy Vyacheslav Volodin and Timur Prokopenko more than once. In correspondence it is told, at least, about five meetings; the managing director of RBC Elizabeth Osetinskaya allegedly went to one meeting instead of Moliboga.

Prokopenko tried to adjust the editorial policy of RBC. The official asked "support an action" the political scientist Konstantin Kostin, close to the Kremlin, and also drew the attention of "Moliboga" to the materials of media holding devoted to actions for "federalization of Siberia" and a "thin" column of Russian "humanitarian convoy". "Молибог" promised "to be accurater" and suggested to work through news agencies, close to the state, which for RBC — "a relevant source".

Besides, in the fall of 2014th Prokopenko received order from the unknown to deal with Maxim Solopov's investigation about the Russian soldiers in Ukraine ("there RBC caused a stir with article about military in Ukraine today. Yours is necessary tutors a conversation. in general to a fir-tree ear …. "). Prokopenko addressed Molibogu: "From Gromov's device I was asked to pay your attention to this hell". There is no answer of "Moliboga" in the published data array.

Prokopenko and "Molibog" in SMS conversations exchange thanks ("Thank you that you help", etc.). Despite it, in the middle of September, 2014 "Molibog" asked the official to communicate with edition without pressure: "with edition hard lately, I press on them too much", "))) They take offense at my sanctions, call the suppressor of freedom of speech)".

On the same day on March 31 Nikolay Molibog at himself on Facebook reacted to the publication of correspondence^[4]:

1. I confirm the correspondence fact. Yes, I actively communicate and meet officials of AP and many other representatives of the state. We — very large business in the media industry, it would also be strange if I did not do it.

2. Yes, I communicate with the state concerning our content (but not I in RBC define that we write and we show, and our editors-in-chief). And, moreover, it seems to me it is normal. Because I sincerely consider that in our country (and the world) a lot of bad occurs just because we talk little and we do not try to listen and hear each other. And therefore that that volume of changes which happened to RBC in the last one and a half years could not be carried out, without explaining what we do.

3. I understand that the form of my communication in some places of this correspondence can seem unacceptable for dialog between media and the state what I apologize for. I was not ready that my own space of working dialogs which never and had to become nobody known will be property of publicity and would like to refrain from further public discussion of my manner of non-public communication.

2015: The court obliged Alexander Panov to compensate moral harm to Nikolay Molibogu

In the spring of 2015 of RBC announced that she intends to file a lawsuit against Alexander Panov because of critical expressions in the press concerning the policy of holding in the market of hosting services.

Panov doubted the interview that the solution of RBC to sort one own data center (Byte Telecom was it) and to move to others platform is a good idea.

In November, 2015 the court obliged to publish Media Grus Ltd in the closest ambassador of the introduction of court's decision in legal force issue of the ЦОДы.РФ magazine a denial of expressions to RBC.

Collect from Panov Alexander Valeriyevich for benefit of the head of RBC Moliboga Nikolay Petrovich compensation of moral harm in the amount of 25,000 rub, the state fee in the amount of 9500 rub.

Collect from Media Grus Private company for benefit of Moliboga Nikolay Petrovich compensation of moral harm in the amount of 25,000 rub, the state fee in the amount of 9500 rub^[5].

2016: Criminal case about the Panov and Karetsky's deprivation of shares in one of RBC companies

On April 29, 2016 the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow brought criminal case according to Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the fraud committed by organized group or in especially large size, the sanction — imprisonment up to 10 years) according to the statement of the former shareholder of Byte Telecom (managed a data processing center, it was controlled by RBC) Alexander Panov for deprivation it and Yaroslav Karetsky of 25% of stocks of the company. It is said in the notification on criminal case. In the resolution on criminal proceedings it is said that the cost of 25% of stocks of BT was $13.4 million.

According to Panov who is familiar with documents of the investigation, the group of people whom law enforcement agencies will check for participation in crime, includes also the CEO of RBC Nikolay Molibog.

Materials on matter in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were transferred by the State Office of Public Prosecutor, follows from the reply of supervisory authority to Alexander Panov. The State Office of Public Prosecutor established that from 2009 to September, 2014 Panov and Karetsky owned on 12.5% of stocks of BT Ltd, the remained 75% belonged to offshore Karuta Investments. At the disposal of RNS there is a document signed by Molibog according to whom 75% of Byte Telecom as of September 23, 2014 belonged to RBC through offshores Karuta Investments, Gattico Holding, Halvertson Holdings and Pintolexa Holdings. The director of Karuta was Derk Sauer, Panov specified.

On August 29, 2014 Farida Karimova, working allegedly as the only shareholder of BT, signed and reported for registration to the authorities of UFNS of Russia for Moscow decisions on reorganization of BT Ltd in Investproyekt LLC, dismissal of the CEO of BT Igor Selivanov and appointment of to this position and also the transfer act of property from Byte Telecom Ltd to Investproyekt LLC, the document says. Then Investproyekt was attached to Drok LLC registered in the Republic of Tatarstan, "in the place of mass registration of legal entities and not performing the actual activity", the State Office of Public Prosecutor set.

"With respect thereto the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation as Article 37 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation check materials on the facts of fraudulent activity concerning the property belonging to you (to Panov. — RNS) and to Karetsky Ya. V. and also illegal education (reorganization) of the legal entity are sent to Investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation", the document says.

Panov claims that Karimova liquidated several legal entities who were earlier entering into RBC.

Nikolay Molibog wrote in the Facebook:

"We did not see any resolution, we do not know what in it is written, and we do not even know whether we are mentioned in this resolution of RBC or someone from the staff of RBC". "We understand that any hint on news about us is "hot pies" now, but let's see we this resolution, we will understand whether it has relation to RBC, and then we will give the comments" — wrote Molibog^[6].

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