Vainshtok Semyon Mikhailovich(born October 5, 1947, Klimautsy village, Moldavian SSR, USSR) is a Russian and Israeli businessman and manager. Former head of state-controlled companies "" (1999-2007) and "Olympstroy" (2007-2008).

He graduated from the Kiev Civil Engineering Institute with a degree in civil engineering, later - postgraduate studies at the Tyumen Oil and Gas University. Since 1982, he held the positions of Deputy Head of NGDU Povkhneft, Deputy General Director of Production Association Kogalymneftegaz of Glavtyumenneftegaz of the USSR Minnefteprom.

Since 1988 - Deputy General Director, and since 1993 - General Director of AOOT Lukoil-Kogalymneftegaz. From 1995 to 1999 - Vice President of Lukoil and General Director of OOO Lukoil-Western Siberia. From 1999 to September 2007 - President of OAO AK Transneft, member of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Management Board. From September 2007 to April 2008 - President of the State Corporation for the construction of Olympic facilities and the development of the city of Sochi as a mountain climatic resort. In 2008 he left for the UK. Since 2010, he has been permanently residing in Israel, and is the chairman of the board of directors of Israel's Financial Levers.

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Weinstock and Yevlakhov strike back

Former president and former vice-president of Transneft Semyon Vainshtok and Sergey Evlakhov won a case in the Central District Court of Tyumen against CJSC Business Tuesday Information and Analytical Agency, the founder of the Delovoy Tuesday newspaper. Actually, the decision was made on November 30, and the other day it entered into force. The court ordered the newspaper to refute the negative information about the ex-top managers of Transneft and collect a large compensation for moral damage: in favor of Weinstock - 150,000 rubles and in favor of Yevlakhov - 100,000 rubles. And in September, the Tyumen Arbitration Court ordered the Tyumen Arbitration Court to refute all the negative information about Transneft as a company contained in the Business Tuesday article. The whole black information “collision” with Weinstock and Yevlakhov was not worth a penny.
link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/nefticorrotv.htm

Daughters of oil generals are allowed everything

One of the characteristics of the economy of our country is that the relevance of natural monopolies increases during the pre-election season, since it is quite easy to draw money from the opaque state bins to support the right candidate. And so that there are still no special claims against the monopolies from the Accounts Chamber, the Prosecutor General's Office and other controlling and inspection organizations, subsidiaries and affiliated structures are created at the suggestion of the management of the monopolies: firms, state unitary enterprises, etc.

There are several tens or even hundreds of such satellite structures in the orbit of each monopoly - as, for example, is observed in Gazprom and the Ministry of Railways. More modest monopolies create a much smaller number of subordinate companies, but give them much more powers. Thus, Transneft, a well-known company in narrow circles, which has a monopoly on access to an oil pipeline, recently acquired a 100% subsidiary, which was simply and uncomplicatedly called Stroyneft. However, such a prosaic name is more than offset by the opportunities transferred by the parent company.

Stroyneft was generously granted the right to single-handedly conduct all tenders, as well as pre-tender qualification selection, act as a single customer for work at Transneft facilities, purchase products for all projects of the pipeline company and, in addition, single-handedly carry out all volumes of construction, reconstruction and repair, starting from project documentation and ending with the commissioning of the facility. The special attitude to one of the dozens of subsidiaries of Transneft is explained quite simply - all the privileges for Stroyneft were lobbied with the help of I.V. Vozyakov, nominally occupying only the position of assistant to one of S. Weinstock's deputies.
link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/pozvoleno.htm

The company found draw oil and record dividends in the pipe

Vice-President of Transneft Sergey Grigoriev said that about 150,000 tons of no-man's oil had accumulated in the system of main oil pipelines. Therefore, the state-owned company asked Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko to give her permission to send this oil for export. According to Sergey Grigoriev, oil accumulates in the system due to the excess of natural loss norms over actual indicators. That is, Transneft loses less during pumping than it should be according to the rules.

This is not the first case of such a successful find. In 2001, 200,000 tons of oil accumulated in the pipe, which were safely exported by the state-owned company. Simultaneously with this discovery, Transneft President Semyon Vainshtok, following in line with government decisions that have not yet been taken, announced that his company would receive a record profit this year - 20 billion rubles. against 13 billion rubles. a year earlier. Accordingly, Transneft will pay record dividends - 2 billion rubles. 25% of preferred shares (not to the state) and the same amount of 75% of ordinary shares (to the state). Recall that last year the company paid the state and the owners of prefs 1.3 billion rubles each. At the same time, Semyon Vainshtok said that in the future dividends would be significantly lower.

It is not easy to understand the source of such a large-scale increase in the state-owned company's profits, because in 2003 the pumping tariffs increased very slightly (by 5%). Obviously, we are talking about internal reserves. The company's management clearly wants to please its shareholders. It is no secret that the former main owners of Transneft's preferred shares, Interros and Nafta-Moskva, sold them to unknown structures.

According to some information, the managers of Transneft became the owners of the preferred shares. But Semyon Vainshtok is unlikely to be so bold as to withdraw funds from the company so frankly. Most likely, he shared preferred shares with the "right people." Therefore, the company needs to increase its net profit. This can be done only by increasing the tariffs for pumping. However, so far Transneft is in no hurry to do so. Next year the tariff will be raised only by 8.6%. But money can also be found elsewhere—for example, in a pipe. After all, if you look, you will surely find it there.
link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/mesto.htm

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link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/navalny.htm

The Prosecutor General's Office is looking for real owners of the state monopoly

Disclosure of information about clients can negatively affect the reputation of brokerage companies, Anatoly Yushin, managing partner of AST Legal, warns that at a minimum, brokers must notify clients that information about them will be disclosed. He confirms that prosecutors had the right to request information without a court order, but he is sure that until such a decision is made, brokerage companies can refuse, citing confidentiality agreements. Valery Tutykhin, senior partner at John Tyner & Partners, argues that it will be difficult for brokers to refuse a prosecutor - only if the requests are incorrect.

And Alexander Zakharov from Uralsib points to another risk for clients: “In two weeks, the database with the owners of Transneft may end up in Gorbushka.” And Tutykhin believes that the risk for clients is small: “Who does not want to be disclosed, holds shares through offshore companies, and it is difficult to determine the beneficiaries there.”

Transneft is distancing itself from the proceedings. “The matter has nothing to do with the company, we do not monitor its progress,” says Sergey Grigoriev, vice president of Transneft, and emphasizes that Transneft managers do not own its preferred shares.

Until 2003, 20% of the preferred shares of Transneft belonged to Interros, but the company sold the package without specifying a buyer. “I don't know them, they don't visit us,” Semyon Vainshtok, president of Transneft, said in an interview with Vedomosti about the new shareholders. A year ago it became known that 6.6% of "preferred shares" belong to "Abakanvagonmash", which is part of " base element Oleg Deripaska. But the holding insists that neither Bazel nor its affiliated structures have Transneft shares. A minority stake in Transneft belongs to the structures of Millhouse Capital, a source close to this company admitted. But he specified that this was a small package and a portfolio investment.
link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/raskrytie.htm

Weinstock is a position. Why was the oil general thrown into the Olympic construction site?

Semyon Vainshtok was born and raised, one might say, by the chimney. His father was the director of a large oil depot in Donduseni, the regional center of Moldova. The family lived on the territory of the oil depot, occupying three rooms in the office. Childhood friends recall that the owner of Russian pipes and the future manager of the Olympic construction site of the century dreamed of something global from a young age.

- We with him, consider, all our childhood hung on the same fence, - Nina Bezhinar recalls. We lived next door, we were friends. Nuts grew in our yard, so we will pick green ones, sit under a tree and let's talk. Syoma was very fond of telling stories, and as I later realized, half of his stories were from the realm of fantasy. Imagine, in the 1950s, he assured us that his brothers, who live across the river, have snowmobiles, which he often rides. They had oil trucks, and Semyon learned to drive them very early. His father did not allow him to leave the yard. But Syoma still convinced everyone that he often travels "on business in fuel trucks." If they didn’t believe him, he could quarrel and loved that he always had the last word.

“We have erected a monument to the Jews who were shot during the war,” said the head of the village, Viktor Kiriyak. - He is already old, dilapidated, ashamed. We wrote a letter to Weinstock asking for help, but received no answer.

Nina Bezhinar asked me to hint that his classmates are donating to help their school - as much as they can: the average pension in Moldova is $31. In Weinstock’s small homeland, they know that Syoma is not in poverty: he easily sent a whole plane of relatives across the ocean to his mother’s funeral in the United States, where she emigrated many years ago with her younger brother Semyon. To all attempts by distant relatives and friends of his youth to establish contact with Weinstock, there is only one answer: "Very, very busy."
link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/dolzhnost.htm

Oil and corruption: On some specific features of the business of the state company Transneft

According to the most cautious expert estimates, the shadow market accounts for at least 40% of Russia's GDP. The most affected by corruption are the strategically important and most profitable sectors of the Russian economy, primarily the oil industry. Half of all GDP revenues are generated by foreign exchange earnings from oil and gas exports, while more than 90% of all oil produced in Russia is transported through trunk pipelines that run through 65 regions.

At present, all pipeline transport is legally owned by the state and formally managed by the state-owned company OAO Transneft in the interests of the state. Transneft is headed by a group of former top managers of the Lukoil oil company, headed by Semyon Vainshtok. His closest assistant and especially confidant is Transneft Vice President Sergey Evlakhov, who controls the department of transport, accounting and oil quality in the company. Evlakhov, unlike Weinstock, a logistics specialist, is a petroleum engineer by education. In 1983, he graduated from the Grozny Oil Institute, and began his career at the Kogalymneftegaz Production Association under the guidance of the then General Director Vagit Alekperov. After the creation in 1993 by Alekperov, already in the rank of First Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR, the Lukoil oil company on the basis of Kogalymneftegaz, Yevlakhov ended up in Lukoil-Western Siberia LLC, the largest of subsidiaries concern. Semyon Vainshtok, a confidant of Alekperov, became the head of the company at that time. From this period, the tandem of Weinstock and Yevlakhov began to form, where each harmoniously complemented each other. Weinstock needed his trusted man, an experienced oilman, while Yevlakhov liked Weinstock's connections with Alkperov, who promised the possibility of further career advancement and the accompanying increase in material well-being. Then he could not even imagine what incredible opportunities would open up for him after Weinstock became the head of the state company Transneft.
link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/nefticorr.htm

Semyon Vainshtok, ex-president of Transneft and ex-head of the state corporation Olimpstroy

link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/nenash.htm

Guerrilla war of "family" oligarchs

Many are inclined to view the recent “government raid” on Yukos as another game in the presidential strategy of equidistant Russian oligarchs. Of course, this looks quite logical and does not particularly surprise anyone now, in comparison, say, with the "removal" of the ever-memorable V. Gusinsky and B. Berezovsky. Not very loud voices in defense of M. Khodorkovsky, or rather not even him, but the letters of the law, are drowned out by powerful cries of "Down with the oligarchs." At the same time, society obediently pays attention to the disgraced oligarch, not noticing or simply forgetting that not only oil magnates M. Khodorkovsky and R. Abramovich live and are well in the country, but there are several dozen more, and not all of them are known to the general public . However, the oligarchs themselves are not so terrible as their fusion with state structures and state monopolies. Moreover, it is even difficult to say which is worse - the open privatization of such monopolies, as, for example, is now happening with the housing and communal services complex, which A. Chubais, M. Fridman, V. Potanin and several other major financiers are going to buy up on shares, or an unspoken bribing government officials at the head of natural monopolies.

You don't have to look far for such examples. Both in the railway and gas departments, and in the government, a certain scheme of interaction has long been established, allowing officials to lobby the interests of the oligarchs without much effort. Moreover, the scheme is practically universal and trouble-free and allows solving problems of any level of complexity, whether it is changing tariffs, obtaining preferences, holding closed tenders, etc. "family". And although recently their positions have been significantly pushed back (the replacement of R. Vyakhirev, the resignation of N. Aksenenko, etc.), they are still strong and have significant potential. For example, representatives of the "family" and the oligarchs close to them still fully control Transneft, a state monopoly that owns an oil pipe. Thus, the president of Transneft, S. Weinstock, is a protege of the aforementioned Mr. Aksenenko, who lobbied for his appointment when he was the first deputy prime minister of the government. For quite a long time, the president of Transneft faithfully served the "family" and lived in peace and harmony with the "family oligarchs" M. Khodorkovsky, R. Abramovich and M. Fridman. It is not clear which cat ran between them, but recently the oligarchs have felt that they are losing their former influence and, accordingly, profit, and have attended to strengthening their power.

According to sources in Transneft, I.V. became their protege in the company. Vozyakov, who only occupies the position of assistant to one of the deputies of S. Weinstock, but in fact is a “gray eminence”. Using the oligarchic support of Mr. Vozyakov, who had never before shone with organizational talents, in a very short time he managed to create and take full control of a 100% subsidiary of Transneft - Stroyneft MCC. Immediately after the “birth”, the daughter received such rights that the crown prince never dreamed of, namely, the right to act as a single customer of work at the facilities of the parent company and to solely carry out all volumes of construction, reconstruction and repair, from project documentation to commissioning of the facility in operation. In addition, Mr. Vozyakov won the right to single-handedly conduct all tenders and even pre-tender qualification selection for his beloved offspring. Thus, having received all these gifts, Stroyneft pulled over about $ 2 billion, which is almost 70% of Transneft's turnover. However, even with such funds and opportunities in the asset, Vozyakov could not exercise competent leadership. He chose the creation and maintenance of a 1,500-strong bureaucracy and the placement of the received state $2 billion on the deposits of commercial banks as a priority for his leadership activities. Moreover, Mr. Vozyakov carries out the placement of these funds exclusively himself, not entrusting such an important operation to anyone, which, in general, is not surprising - why should anyone else know about the size of his own dividends.
link: http://compromat.info/main/transneft/a.htm

Weinstock replied to Alekperov

Transneft proposes to deprive Lukoil of the rights to the terminal in Vysotsk

The long-standing conflict between the president of Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok, and his former boss, the president of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, flared up with renewed vigor. In response to Alekperov's proposal to merge Transneft and Transnefteprodukt, Weinstock proposes to deprive Lukoil of the right to manage the port under construction in Vysotsk.
LUKOIL is the largest oil company in Russia, in 2003 it produced 81.5 million tons of oil. The company's revenue for 2003 according to RAS amounted to 261.9 billion rubles. , net profit - 48 billion rubles.

LUKOIL is building an export terminal in Vysotsk with a capacity of 10.6 million tons of oil and oil products per year. Its first stage of 4.7 million tons should be launched on June 16. Oil products are delivered there by rail. It cost the company $200 million. According to preliminary data, in 2003 the company exported 37.5 million tons of oil and 13.6 million tons of oil products.

LUKOIL has long dreamed of a terminal for the export of oil and petroleum products to the United States and Europe: the company is increasing exports and expanding its network of filling stations abroad. Last week it bought 779 filling stations in the US, bringing the number of stations in that country to almost 2,000. The Vysotsk terminal is one of the favorite creations of Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov. He was present at the laying of the terminal, came several times to inspect the construction, and last week he personally oversaw the pilot filling of the tanker. The opening of the terminal is planned with pomp: an official from the government of the Leningrad region claims that Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov is expected to attend the ceremony.

But Alekperov's joy may be hindered by his former subordinate, Semyon Vainshtok. On Friday, he proposed to give the LUKOIL terminal to the management of the state monopoly for the transportation of petroleum products - Transnefteprodukt (TNP), citing the fact that uncontrolled export of petroleum products could affect the macroeconomic situation in the country. “Vysotsk should not be managed by a private company,” Interfax quotes Weinstock. And the vice-president of the state monopoly, Sergei Grigoriev, suggested that Transneft could send a corresponding proposal to the government.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=6122

How Sochi-2014 was built by the oilman Weinstock, the tiler Kolodyazhny and the brewer Bolloev

German Gref, who oversaw the Olympic project at first, of course, made Olympstroy for himself. But providence judged otherwise, and Weinstock was appointed. This person is generally legendary. Being a very tough and authoritarian leader, he has an amazing sense of humor, and therefore, in the words of one of the contractors who suffered from him, “of course, they fuck you, but they do it in such a way that you laugh to tears. And only then - you already cry from grief.

When Olympstroy took over from the management, the first thing Weinstock did was to gather all the contractors for a meeting (and there were more than a hundred of them) and delivered something like the following speech to them:

“You all worked very badly. And only the presence of women in the hall (there really were two or three women per 100 people) prevents me from fully describing to you how poorly you worked. This is good news for you. The bad part is that you all have to prove to us that you can do a better job. There should be a queue in the offices of my deputies. Thanks to all."

The most striking thing is that the appointment of Weinstock was a strategically correct step. He would build the Olympics. Another thing - for what money, but would have built. But evil fate intervened in the face of the same IOC.

Weinstock, by his mentality, is, first of all, an oilman, and for an oilman, everyone who does not produce oil is not the kind of people whose opinion should be heeded. The IOC does not produce oil, which means it can go "in the garden." But in turn, the first rule of the Olympic movement says: it is better not to quarrel with the IOC. And even more so - not to send him to where he could be and should have gone in theory, but ... You can’t, in short, do this. Weinstock did not take this into account, and therefore was awarded a medal and retired.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_30383.htm

A soldier not in our army

When Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded a change in the route of the ESPO pipeline (Eastern Siberia - the Pacific Ocean) in order to protect the ecology of Lake Baikal, the then president of Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok, saluted with the words: "I am a soldier, and the President is the Commander-in-Chief." The owner of the Russian pipes, one of the most powerful Russian oligarchs, has done a lot to look like Putin's henchman and staunch ally in the raw materials industry.

In fact, Weinstock is one of the few top managers who have held their positions not at all thanks to the president. Semyon Vainshtok took over Transneft in 1999, a few months before Putin was elected president. That is, Weinstock was inherited by Putin from the old Yeltsin "family" team, for which the appointment of Weinstock was of fundamental importance. In September, the head of the Yeltsin administration, Viktor Kalyuzhny, held an extraordinary meeting of Transneft shareholders, at which, on their behalf, he voted for the resignation of the company's president, Dmitry Savelyev, and the appointment of Semyon Vainshtok, vice president of Lukoil, to this post. The next day, the office of Transneft was surrounded by riot police, after which the former head, who did not agree with the resignation, was forced to leave Transneft. Since then, Weinstock has diligently ensured that there is not the slightest doubt about his loyalty to Putin, but in reality he remained a true member of the "old Kremlin" team.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_22601.htm

Semyon Vainshtok stole $4 billion during the construction of the ESPO pipeline.

The minority shareholder of Transneft, Alexei Navalny, published documents from which it follows that the volume of non-targeted expenses of the state monopoly during the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline from 2004 to mid-2008 amounted to about $ 4 billion (120 billion rubles). Navalny refers to the report of the state company. according to Navalny, the materials were prepared by Transneft and its subsidiaries for an audit conducted by the Accounts Chamber. The acts contain expert opinions regarding the work on the ESPO and occupy a total of more than 100 pages, cites the history of the theft of "gazeta.ru".

It follows from the documents that the cost of work on the ESPO was unreasonably high, tenders for the selection of contractors were held with violations, documentation was illegally destroyed, and some acts were falsified by contractors. In addition, Transneft suffered major damage as a result of non-fulfillment of obligations by contractors. The report contains many examples. One of the acts states that the cost of design and survey work for the ESPO, which was carried out by JSC VNIIST, is unreasonably overstated by more than 10 billion rubles. The expert assessment was given by employees of Transneft itself. Also mentioned is an increase in the estimate due to errors and design flaws - 1.49 billion rubles and in calculations - due to the unreasonable use of belt coefficients (64.3 million rubles) and arithmetic errors (36.7 million rubles).

It follows from the documents that tenders for the selection of contractors and suppliers for the ESPO project were conducted with violations of the law. But the contractors who won as a result of dummy bidding, for the most part, did not fulfill their obligations.
link: http://anvictory.org/blog/ 2010/11/17/semn_vaynshtok_ ukral_4_mlrd_pri_stroitelstve_ truboprovoda_vsto/

Witness for the prosecution

The ex-president of Transneft and the ex-head of Olympstroy, Semyon Vainshtok, managed to become both a witness and an accused at the same time, and, ironically, he had to testify just in the Yukos case. As part of the second trial of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, the court accepted for consideration the data provided by the ex-president of Transneft regarding the volume of oil transportation by Yukos abroad in 1998-2000. There was no sensation in these reports, Weinstock only confirmed some figures that worked more in favor of the former Yukos leaders than against them.

The sensation happened after the first May holidays. The Prosecutor General's Office allowed, possibly deliberately, a leak in the media that Semyon Vainshtok himself and his former deputy Yuri Lisin are now defendants in a criminal case on embezzlement of public money for the construction of the ESPO TS. News agencies presented this news in such a way: "from sources in the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation." Moreover, the sensation was not even that the state missed 3.5 billion rubles at the “construction of the century”. - this information was announced back in March by the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergey Stepashin - but that law enforcement agencies decided to disturb the peace of the "honorary pensioner" Weinstock, as well as the current first vice president of Transneft. It is noteworthy that just two weeks before this, Yuri Lisin received from the hands of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin the Order of Merit for the Fatherland - just for his personal contribution to the construction of the ESPO TS.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_29292.htm

Semyon Vainshtok: I couldn't let Vladimir Vladimirovich down

The former president of Transneft and the state corporation Olimpstroy, Semyon Vainshtok, is not sitting on a pension. After moving to Israel, he headed the board of directors of Israel Financial Levers Ltd, leading a number of development and oil and gas projects. In his homeland, Weinstock is accused of fraud during the construction of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline. Following the honored oilman, other participants in this high-profile project also moved to Israel Financial Levers Ltd.

"Golden Keys" exchanged for a steel skyscraper

As a source close to Semyon Vainshtok told Marker, after his dismissal from Olimpstroy, Semyon Mikhailovich was in a great mood and said that he had a project that he intended to do. “Now we rarely see each other, we met once in London. I don’t know what exactly he does, but I know that he doesn’t live in Russia, ”said the source of Marker.

It turned out that Weinstock moved to Israel this spring. He changed his Moscow apartment in Golden Keys to housing in one of the three towers of the new Tzameret Towers complex, located in a prestigious area of ​​Tel Aviv. Weinstock's apartments confirmed to Marker that he lives at this address. It was not possible to contact the ex-head of Transneft and Olimpstroy himself.
link: http://marker.ru/news/2599

Semyon Vainshtok fell under a major criminal case

According to preliminary data, announced by the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin on March 25 at a plenary meeting of the State Duma, the damage caused to the state by the fraudulent actions of the former management of Transneft during the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline system in 2004-2007, amounted to at least three and a half billion rubles.

As a result of the audit of the auditors, a criminal case was initiated, the main defendant of which was the temporarily unemployed ex-president of Transneft and the ex-head of Olympstroy Semyon Vainshtok.

The results of the check were received more than a year ago, but for a long time they were not made public. Experts believe that one of the reasons for such secrecy is that Weinstock is a friend of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In addition, the ESPO had not yet been built at that time, and the publication of data on the abuses of the Transneft management during the active construction of the pipeline could significantly damage Russia's reputation as the organizer of the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
link: http://news.babr.ru/?IDE=85578

Promotions - for examination!

Who now owns the preferred shares of Transneft is a mystery to investors. Until 2003, 20% of the preferred shares belonged to Interros. A source familiar with the register of shareholders of the monopoly of those years says that Interros bought these securities from the structures of the former managers of Transneft. Then Interros sold the entire stake, Vladimir Potanin, co-owner of the holding, admitted, but did not name the buyer. Even the head of Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok, does not know the new shareholders of the company. “I don’t know them, they don’t visit us,” he said in an interview with Vedomosti. A year ago it became known that 6.6% of the "preferred shares" belong to the structures of Oleg Deripaska. A small company that is part of Basic Element, Abakanvagonmash, approved the purchase of 6.6% of the total number of preferred shares of Transneft (1.65% of capital) from the offshore Fokker Developments for resale to another offshore - Mallow Capital. According to AK&M, both companies belonged to Bazel, but the holding said that neither Bazel nor its affiliates had Transneft shares.

The intensification of the investigation may be connected with the intention to remove Weinstock, says a source close to the Kremlin. The interlocutor of Vedomosti, who is familiar with Weinstock, also agrees with him. “This, of course, is a blank shot, because Weinstock has nothing to do with this long-standing story, but the signal is unpleasant,” Vedomosti's interlocutor believes. He recalls that recently President Vladimir Putin rejected the route of the Eastern Oil Pipeline proposed by Weinstock, and officials came up with the idea of ​​merging Transneft with the state-owned Transnefteprodukt, SG-trans, and others.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=8923

The pipe is more expensive

Baikal will be removed from the Water Code

Lake Baikal and environmentalists again almost prevented the president of Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok, from laying an oil pipeline to China. A dozen deputies proposed to include the area between the lake and the mountain range surrounding it (namely, it is planned to lay a pipe there) into a zone where construction is prohibited or is under special supervision. After Weinstock went to Putin, his Duma colleagues noticed something was wrong and now they are forced to submit the Water Code for a new vote.
Yesterday the Natural Resources Committee proposed to the Duma Council that the draft Water Code and the draft law enacting it be returned to the second reading. This rarely happens, only if an important error is found in the document, Oleg Kovalev, head of the Duma committee on regulations, admits. Already on Wednesday, the Council of the Duma will decide whether to submit the code for a new vote.

Vedomosti managed to find out exactly what the oversight is. An amendment dedicated to Baikal appeared in the law that puts the code into effect - its water protection zone “includes the deltas of the rivers flowing into the lake, and passes along the tops of the ridges, the slopes of which adjoin” to the lake. It was introduced by 10 deputies, including two deputies from the Irkutsk region - Sergey Kolesnikov and Vitaly Shuba. “We wanted Baikal to be preserved as the greatest reservoir of the purest water on the planet, so that our children and grandchildren could have at least some resource when we pump out hydrocarbons and forests,” Kolesnikov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, explains his initiative. In the water protection zone, the construction of objects that can damage the environment is prohibited, says Kolesnikov. According to him, each project in such a zone must be approved by the state expertise.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=8842

Surgut printing for BTS

The first stage of the project is estimated at $500 million. Of this amount, the cost of building the Kirishi-Primorsk oil pipeline is $280 million, and the construction of an oil terminal on the coast of the Gulf of Finland is $220 million. The design capacity of the new port is 45 million tons per year. It is planned that the port will include terminals for transshipment of crude oil with a capacity of up to 30 million tons per year (the first stage - up to 19 million tons), oil products - up to 9 million tons per year (4.5 million tons), general cargo - up to 2, 5 million tons per year, as well as liquefied gas.

The press immediately “surfaced” a letter signed by Transneft President Semyon Vainshtok, sent to Surgutneftegaz back in February of this year. The letter said that Surgutneftegaz needed to pay $ 7 million for pumping in 1999 for the export of oil, which the CIS carried out as a supply of raw materials to the Kirishi plant. The conclusion made by the representatives of Transneft was simple: Surgutneftegaz does not want to lose such a profitable item of replenishment of the company's budget, and therefore opposes the implementation of the BPS project. Which, let us add from ourselves, was recently recognized by the Russian government as a priority within the framework of the program for diversifying oil export directions. Atu "Surgutneftegaz", who dared to go against the decisions of the "party and government"! In general, a nightmare and horror.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=6976

Transneft is looking for intermediaries

WEINSTOCK HURRY TO PETERSBURG
The board of directors of Transneft approved the creation of a branch of the company in St. Petersburg and the introduction of appropriate amendments to the charter, Transneft said in a statement. According to the vice-president of the company Sergey Grigoriev, the company's central office will remain in Moscow. “We are definitely not going to move to St. Petersburg,” he said. According to him, the need to open a representative office in St. Petersburg is connected with the tasks of optimizing the management of the Baltic pipeline system, which currently accounts for “the lion's share of the cost of the entire Transneft”. “There is a desire to properly manage the assets that are available in this region, from there,” he said.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=6876

Weinstock remained

Transneft President Semen Vainshtok retained his seat. Yesterday officials extended his contract for another three years. However, the government is in no hurry to approve the monopoly's plan to create a branch in St. Petersburg. Analysts are sure that the delay was lobbied by Moscow officials, as the monopoly initiative threatened the capital with a loss of up to $ 50 million in taxes a year

The state owns 75% of the shares of Transneft (100% of the votes). In 2003, the company transported about 400 million tons of oil. Its proceeds according to international standards for 2003 amounted to 114.16 billion rubles, net profit - 30.56 billion rubles. Semyon Vainshtok came to Transneft in 1999 from LUKOIL, where he headed the largest producing subsidiary, LUKOIL - Western Siberia. His contract expired on 13 September. According to the charter of Transneft, the extension of the president's contract is within the competence of the meeting of shareholders.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=6761

Transneft steals money

Rumors that the budget of St. Petersburg will be replenished at the expense of Transneft taxes turned out to be close to the truth. The company will open a branch in this city to manage the property of the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS), which will ensure payments to the city treasury. According to analysts, Moscow will lose about $50 million on this move.

The state owns 75% of Transneft (100% of the vote). Its revenue under IFRS for 2003 amounted to 114.16 billion rubles, net profit - 30.56 billion rubles. In 2003, Transneft paid 11 billion rubles. income tax. BTS is the main project under construction of Transneft, now its capacity is 47.5 million tons.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=6692

Weinstock expired

In September, Semyon Vainshtok, who has been heading the Transneft pipeline monopoly for five years, expires on his contract. Although the head of Transneft has ill-wishers among the oil workers, there is little doubt that Weinstock will be able to hold on to his post.

The state owns 75% of the state monopoly Transneft (100% of the votes). In 2003, the company transported about 400 million tons of oil, of which 207.5 million tons were exported, including 169.5 million tons to non-CIS countries. rubles, net profit - 30.56 billion rubles.

As a government official told Vedomosti, recently Transneft warned the relevant ministries that its president, Semyon Vainshtok, would soon be expiring his contract, and asked to convene an extraordinary meeting of shareholders to extend it. Officials have already scheduled an absentee vote of the board of directors for September 6, which will decide on holding the meeting, he said. Transneft Vice President Sergei Grigoriev confirmed that Weinstock's contract ends on September 13. “If the contract is not renewed, the company may have management problems,” says Grigoriev.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=6672

Oil paradox

Transneft has problems filling oil pipelines

Despite peak oil prices, Transneft faced the problem of loading its pipelines. The oil companies failed to restructure their plans in time for the new phase of the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS), and part of its capacity turned out to be unclaimed. Experts believe that uncoordinated actions of officials are to blame. The state owns 75% of Transneft (100% of the vote). In 2003, the company transported about 400 million tons of oil, of which 207.5 million tons were exported, including 169.5 million tons to non-CIS countries. rubles, net profit - 30.56 billion rubles.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=6505

Former President of the state corporation "Olympstroy"

Transneft case closed

As it became known to Vedomosti, the Prosecutor General's Office closed the criminal case, which twice served as a pretext for the arrest of preferred shares of Transneft. Experts do not rule out a local growth in the company's stock quotes, although they will not return to themselves the image of a risk-free paper soon.
link: http://kompromat.flb.ru/material1.phtml?id=10066

Semyon Vainshtok withdrew $2 billion from Transneft

At the disposal of the editors was the Presentation of the Accounts Chamber of Russia to the leadership of Trasneft on the results of an inspection of the construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline. This is a grandiose project worth more than 320 billion rubles ($9.6 billion at today's exchange rate). Transneft was audited throughout 2008 by the auditor of the Accounts Chamber, Mikhail Beskhmelnitsyn […]. The Accounts Chamber found in Transneft during the period of its leadership by former president Semyon Vainshtok (left the company in September 2007) standard violations of the rules for holding tenders, delays in the performance of work, replacement of materials with cheaper ones without reducing the contract amount, and other trifles in the amount of 5 .9 million rubles.
link: http://www.compromat.ru/page_ 11073.htm

Semyon Vainshtok fell under a major criminal case

Loud scandal around one of the key figures of the companies "Transneft" and "Olympstroy" Semyon Vainshtok.
According to preliminary data, announced by the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin on March 25 at a plenary meeting of the State Duma, the damage caused to the state by the fraudulent actions of the former management of Transneft during the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline system in 2004-2007, amounted to at least three and a half billion rubles. As a result of the audit of the auditors, a criminal case was initiated, the main defendant of which was the temporarily unemployed ex-president of Transneft and the ex-head of Olympstroy Semyon Vainshtok
link: http://news.babr.ru/?IDE=85578

Semyon Vainshtok fired for merit

From Transneft, which Weinstock led before his appointment to the Olympic post, he brought his team to Olimpstroy. Former top managers of Transneft received seats in Olympstroy as members of the board. Weinstock's resignation will not lead to a change of team, Kozak is sure. “We have worked with the team, with the entire board of Viktor Kolodyazhny, constructive cooperation has been established today,” says the head of the Ministry of Regional Development. The vice-president of Olimpstroy, Sergey Grigoriev, in an interview with a Gazeta correspondent, says something else: “The team should be where its helmsman is. Personally, I'm leaving." At the same time, Grigoriev confirmed that Weinstock's resignation did not come as a surprise to his colleagues. “He really came only to the first stage of the work of the state corporation,” says Grigoriev.
link: http://www.gzt.ru/topnews/business/-semen-vainshtok-uvolen-za-zaslugi-/176655.html

Former head of Transneft and Olimpstroy Semyon Vainshtok went into business in Israel

Former president of Transneft, Weinstock served as president of Transneft from 1999 to 2007.
and the state corporation "Olympstroy" Weinstock worked as president of the state corporation from September 2007 to April 2008.
Semyon Vainshtok is not sitting on a pension. After moving to Israel, he headed the board of directors of Israel Financial Levers Ltd, leading a number of development companies in Israel, the United States and Kazakhstan.
and oil and gas offshore Israel
projects. Weinstock is accused of fraud in his homeland. An audit by Rostekhnadzor, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Accounts Chamber revealed serious violations during construction, after the new head of Transneft, Nikolai Tokarev, announced that the failure to launch the first stage was due to the fault of the general contractors chosen by the previous management. The damage caused to the state was estimated at 3.5 billion rubles.
during the construction of the Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean oil pipeline. Following the honored oilman, other participants in this high-profile project also moved to Israel Financial Levers Ltd.
link: http://www.marker.ru/news/2599

Semyon Vainshtok handed over the Olympic construction site to Viktor Kolodyazhny

Semyon Vainshtok left the state corporation Olimpstroy yesterday. His place at the Olympic post will be taken by the ex-mayor of Sochi Viktor Kolodyazhny.
Weinstock was appointed head of the state corporation in November 2007. To do this, he left the post of head of Transneft. Yesterday he noticed that he was completely satisfied with the results of his activities as the head of Olympstroy. And he stressed that “he made the decision to leave this job on his own initiative,” but has not yet decided what he will do in the future.
link: http://www.rg.ru/2008/04/18/olimpstroj.html

Semyon Vainshtok answered for Yukos, now he will answer for himself

The ex-president of Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok, and the current first vice president, Yuri Lisin, may become defendants in a high-profile criminal case that, in terms of intensity of intrigue, is not inferior to the famous Yukos case. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the Tagansky District Court declared illegal the actions of the OBEP employees who tried to "hush up" the investigation into the facts of Transneft's unprecedented generosity: in 2005-2008, the state corporation allegedly spent 15 billion rubles on charity. In addition, the former leaders of Transneft are suspected of embezzling 3 billion 500 million budget rubles during the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline system (TS ESPO), which was announced back in March by Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin.
link: http://compromat.ru/page_29292.htm

Semyon Vainshtok's press secretary responded to accusations of embezzlement of billions of dollars

On November 16, well-known blogger and lawyer Alexei Navalny, based on documents from the Accounts Chamber of Russia, accused the ex-president of Transneft Semyon Vainshtok of being involved in the theft of billions of dollars. The information, first made public in Navalny's LiveJournal, has already been circulated by more than a hundred Russian network resources, including state media (but none of them has announced the reaction of Weinstock himself). In turn, the chairman of the Federation Council, Sergei Mironov, told reporters that "if even a small fraction of the facts are confirmed," the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office will be obliged to respond to this.
link: http://izrus.co.il/oligarhi/article/2010-11-17/12488.html

Pipe-eaters. How they saw in Transneft

Born on October 5, 1947 in the village of Klimautsy, Donduseni region, Moldavian SSR. In 1964 he was a worker at the Baltic Furniture Plant of the Minlesdrevprom of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1965 he graduated from the Zhytomyr Technical School of Mechanical Woodworking, worked as a foreman at the Drochiev furniture factory of the Ministry of Furniture and Drevprom of the Moldavian SSR. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the army, then worked as an engineer at the enterprises of the Minlesdrevprom and Minmestprom in the city of Chernivtsi.

In 1976, Weinstock graduated from the Kiev Civil Engineering Institute with a degree in Industrial and Civil Engineering. From 1974 to 1982, he headed the regional bodies of the Glavsnab and the Ministry of Trade of the Ukrainian SSR in Chernivtsi.

Since 1982, Weinstock has worked in the oil industry. He held the position of deputy head of the Povkhneft oil and gas producing enterprise, and then, from 1986 to 1988, deputy general director of the Bashneft enterprise for personnel and life. From 1987 to 1988 he was a member of the Kogalym City Council of People's Deputies. Since 1988, he was the Deputy Director General for Social Affairs of the Kogalymneftegaz Production Association of Glavtyumenneftegaz of the USSR Ministry of Oil and Gas (later - Lukoil-Kogalymneftegaz), and since 1993 - the General Director of Lukoil-Kogalymneftegaz. From 1995 to 1999, he was Vice President of OAO Lukoil and General Director of OOO Lukoil-Western Siberia.

On September 13, 1999, Vainshtok was appointed President of OAO AK Transneft. On November 24, 1999, he was appointed to the Interdepartmental Commission on the use of the system of main pipelines and marine terminals for the export of oil and petroleum products. He is a member of the Board of Directors of JSC Russian Innovation Fuel and Oil Energy Company (RITEK). He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Petrocommerce Bank.

On September 11, 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Weinstock to head the state corporation for preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics. At the same time, Putin stressed that over the eight years that Weinstock headed Transneft, the company had implemented many important projects for the country. Weinstock thanked the president for his trust and expressed his readiness to leave NK and start preparing Sochi for the Olympics. Earlier there were rumors that upon reaching the age of 60, Weinstock would retire. Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko, head of Zarubezhneft Nikolai Tokarev, deputy head of Gazprom Valery Golubev, and lawyer close to the authorities Nikolai Yegorov, head of the law firm Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev and Partners, were named as a possible successor to Weinstock as head of Transneft. .

The work that Putin entrusted to Weinstock was so significant in public opinion that political scientists even suggested that Putin, after the end of his second term in office, would personally lead the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics (although not in the rank of head of a state corporation, but heading the organizing committee). It was reported that it was Weinstock who would supervise the construction of the Olympic venues, and the Olimpiyskaya state corporation headed by him would receive $12 billion by 2014, and its suppliers would receive significant benefits.

On April 17, 2008, Weinstock was relieved of his post as president of the state corporation Olimpstroy. The press noted that the relevant order, at the request of Weinstock himself, was signed by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov. The head of government thanked Weinstock, noting that he "created a state corporation, selected a team" who "did a colossal job." On the same day, former Sochi Mayor Viktor Kolodyazhny was appointed to the position of the head of the corporation. At the same time, information was published that Weinstock had resigned due to his retirement.

Weinstock graduated from the Tyumen Oil and Gas University and the German Academy of Management. He has a doctorate in sociological sciences and the academic title of professor. Author of a number of works on the management of oil and gas enterprises. Full member of the International Informatization Academy, the Academy of Mining Sciences, the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation. He has a number of state awards of the Russian Federation, as well as the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Semyon Vainshtok is married.

The head of the oil company Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok, knows how to add fuel to the fire, and this quality cannot be taken away from him. With his harsh statements, he further fueled the conflict between Moscow and Minsk.

On Monday, January 8, Weinstock indignantly stated that the Belarusian leadership encroached on the "sacred cow". According to him, Belarus illegally took 79,000 tons of oil from the Druzhba pipeline. It really doesn't look like a friendly act.

In response, Weinstock ordered to stop the supply of oil through the pipeline. One must think that he made such a decision not without the consent of President Vladimir Putin.

Weinstock - a relic from the old times

At the end of 1999, Semyon Vainshtok was appointed head of the state-owned oil transportation monopoly Transneft. The conflict with Belarus around the Druzhba oil pipeline was the most difficult test for him in this post. Weinstock still has Putin's support, but since he, unlike Gazprom chief Alexei Miller, is not a member of the Russian president's confidants, he must act very carefully.

First of all, this is the "siloviki faction" in the Kremlin, which would like to remove Weinstock as soon as possible and put their own man in his place. Friendship with the head of the Kremlin administration, Sergei Sobyanin, at least still protects him from open attacks.

Despite the fact that Weinstock gives the impression of a scientist, far from real life, he knows how to maneuver, to achieve his own and in no case suffers from a lack of self-confidence. Once, in a radio interview, Weinstock said the following about himself: "For the entire period of my work experience, and I already have more than 40 years of experience, I have not had a single unsuccessful project."

Knowledge Worker Moved into Business

Semyon Mikhailovich Vainshtok was born in Moldova in the village of Klimautsy. After attending a technical school and graduating from the Civil Engineering Institute, he entered the graduate school of the Tyumen Oil and Gas University.

But he still did not stay in science, but went into business. He first worked at the Bashkir oil company Bashneft, later at Lukoil, where he rose through the ranks to the post of vice president. He deepened the acquired skills of managerial work in courses at the German Academy of Management.

In 1999, Roman Abramovich and Nikolai Aksenenko, the Minister of Communications and Deputy Prime Minister, at that time a very influential figure (later a criminal case would be opened against him on charges of corruption, which would be stopped only after his death) tried to push Weinstock to the presidency " Transneft.

As a result, a scandal erupted. Dmitry Savelyev, who had been the head of the company until then, was dismissed from his post and protested his dismissal in court. After that, the court froze Weinstock's powers for two months. In the end, Weinstock still got his way.

With his appointment as president of Transneft, he became one of the most influential people in Russia. The company is the owner of the world's largest network of main oil pipelines (with a total length of about 50,000 km). In order to export oil, all major oil concerns are forced to negotiate with Transneft. At the same time, conflicts often occur. Even with his former boss Vagit Alekperov, the president of Lukoil, Weinstock already has rather strained relations, and even more so with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who, being the head of Yukos, wanted to build his own oil pipeline to China.

Weinstock took aim at Baikal

On the other hand, Weinstock sincerely welcomed Khodorkovsky's idea of ​​expanding export markets for "black gold" to the East. After all, it fits perfectly into the concept of the company. He commented on his position on this issue in the following way: “We have overfed Europe with oil. And in any textbook on economics it is written that with an excess supply, the price decreases. As soon as we turn towards China, South Korea, Australia and Japan, this will immediately take part oil from our European colleagues".

Regardless of the environmental consequences, the construction of an oil pipeline to China along the shores of Lake Baikal was strongly accelerated. In order to obtain a building permit, the results of environmental assessments were "adjusted". Conservationists demonstrating in front of Transneft headquarters were quickly arrested to avoid unwanted public attention.

Change route command

All this, however, did not bring anything, because. President Putin himself at the last minute unexpectedly ordered a change in the route of the pipeline. “If there is at least an insignificant part of the danger of Baikal pollution, then we, thinking about future generations, should not minimize this danger, but exclude it,” Putin explained to Vainshtok, who timidly tried to object to him.

Now the pipeline is moved as far as possible from Baikal. "I am a soldier, the President is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, orders are not discussed," Weinstock commented on the President's decision.

In the conflict with Minsk, the "soldier" Weinstock, it seems, will not soon receive an order to retreat. That is why he will continue to adhere to the course of confrontation with Minsk. After all, his contract as president of Transneft ends in 2007, and then the government will decide whether to keep him in this position or not.

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