Safmar Safmar

The founders of the Safmar group are:

• Shishkhanov Mikail Osmanovich,
• Gutseriev Mikhail Safarbekovich,
• Gutseriev Sait-Salam Safarbekovich.

Aktivs

The holding includes oil production and oil refining holdings, coal, potash companies, construction corporations, logistics and hotel complexes, shopping and office centers. SAFMAR Group owns assets in the financial sector: banks, insurance and leasing companies, non-state pension funds.

As of May 2017, the group includes four main blocks:

• industrial (oilgas sphere,,), coal mining potassium production
• financial (principal asset - Binbank),
• housing construction (including Inteko, A101 Development), as well as
• commercial construction and commercial real estate management.

History

2024: Technopolice Moscow bought a business center in Skolkovo from Safmar for billions of rubles

Technopolice Moscow bought the Stratos business center from Safmar with a total area of ​ ​ 78.7 thousand square meters. m in Skolkovo for billions of rubles. This deal became known in May 2024. Read more here.

2021

Avet Mirakyan resigned as CEO

In August 2021, Avet Mirakyan resigned as general director of the Safmar group and focused on working as general director of the SFI investment holding. Previously, he combined two posts.

Avet Mirakyan resigned as CEO of the Safmar group and will now "focus on working as CEO of the SFI investment holding," the company said in a statement. He used to combine two posts.

Dmitry Kirillov was appointed acting general director of the group, as representatives of the company said yesterday, from September 1, 2021.

Sale of a 13.5% stake in M.Video-Eldorado

On March 9, 2021, the Safmar group, owned by Mikhail Gutseriev and his family, announced the sale of 24.28 million shares of M.Video-Eldorado (about 13.5% of the total). The deal will be done as part of a secondary offer (SPO).

By March 9, 2021, Safmar, through its structure, Ericaria Holdings owned 132 140 111 ordinary shares of M. Video-Eldorado, which amounted to 73.5% of the total. After the closing of the transaction, the share will decrease to about 60%.

Based on the rate of quotations of M.Video-Eldorado at the Moscow Exchange on March 9, 2021, a 13.5% package may cost about 19.3 billion rubles. During trading that day, the company's securities fell by more than 2%.

Safmar sells 13.5% of M.Video-Eldorado shares

According to the press service of M.Video-Eldorado, the retailer will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares owned by Ericaria Holdings. It is also noted that the proposal will not dilute the shares of other shareholders of the company.

Another 15% of the shares of the network of electronics and household appliances stores belong to the German company Media-Saturn-Holding GmbH (owns a network of MediaMarkt stores), 1.1% - MVM LLC, another 10.4% from other shareholders.

SPO will increase the liquidity of M.Video-Eldorado shares and their availability to a wide range of investors, said the retailer's general director Alexander Izosimov (his words are quoted in a press release).

I believe in the growth prospects of M.Video-Eldorado and am convinced that the company has significant potential for creating value for shareholders due to the further development of its sustainable business model, as well as improvements in corporate governance and investment attractiveness, which will undoubtedly be facilitated by this proposal, - said the Chairman of the Board of Directors of M.Video-Eldorado Said Gutseriev, quoted by the retailer's press service.[1]

2020: Settlement agreement with Trust and Otkritie banks after the Central Bank lawsuit for ₽85 billion

On September 22, 2020, the Samphar group of Mikhail Gutseriev announced the conclusion of an amicable agreement with the controlled CENTRAL BANK OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION banks "" and OpeningTrust"." It is connected with the lawsuit of the regulator against a businessman for 85 billion, the rubles requirements for which are related to reorganization, B&N Bank where Gutseriev had a minority share.

The settlement agreement was signed on September 18, 2020. It affects all claims of Banking Sector Consolidation Funds the Central Bank regarding the operations that Binbank and "" Growth Bank performed before their reorganization. Earlier, the Arbitration Court of the city Moscow received several major lawsuits from the Bank Russia and Trust against the former leadership of Binbank.

Gutseriev and Trust entered into an amicable agreement after the claim of the Central Bank for ₽85 billion

The new agreements include, among other things, claims that the Central Bank presented to the ex-leaders of Binbank in the framework of case No. A40-175485/2020. Safmar did not disclose the details of the settlement agreement.

As explained to RBC in the press service of Safmar, the lawsuit was filed by the Central Bank in accordance with Art. 189.23 of the Law "On Insolvency," which establishes the liability of persons who controlled the credit institution. At the time of the reorganization of Binbank, Gutseriev was his minority shareholder.

The Central Bank stressed that the previously filed claims of Trust for 329.2 billion rubles against the ex-leaders of Binbank as controlled by Rost Bank "partially intersect with the claims of the Bank of Russia exclusively in terms of defendants." The statements were prepared by the "Trust" independently, taking into account the analysis of assets that are on the bank's balance sheet, concluded in the Central Bank.

Earlier, the first settlement agreement was concluded between Safmar, Trust and Otkritie until 2024. The amount of transactions included in the perimeter of the previous agreement amounted to over 135 billion rubles. About 94 billion rubles were paid in money, part was obtained through the transformation and restructuring of some assets.^[2]

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