Nikolay Kretov, once a famous Ural businessman, a favorite of Governor Rossel.

 

Since September 2020, after he lost the cassation, on the complaint he filed himself, he continues to enjoy life, although this life is not on display as before, but more in the quiet of the countryside...

As a result of personal bankruptcy, Nikolay Kretov currently owes more than one and a half billion rubles to his creditors, including the terrible and all-powerful Alfa-Bank, which owns 50% of this debt. But there are no enforcement proceedings against Kretov from them. There are only enforcement proceedings against Kretov from Oleg Mironov, which was closed several times, but Mironov's persistence restored the enforcement proceedings.

As the VChK-OGPU telegram channel and Rucriminal.info found out, from his close relationship with the former governor Rossel, Kretov was left with lands and real estate, which were re-registered to third parties, mainly to his close friends such as Valery Yakhnev. Naturally, Kretov got these assets for free or for a symbolic sum. And no one is demanding these assets back, no one has thought to this day where the three-time bankrupt got his real estate and land plots from... The village of Aromashevo in the Sverdlovsk region, where the main office is located today, where Nikolai Kretov lives. He is listed there as a freelance adviser, does not receive a salary. If you walk around the village, the huge greenhouse immediately catches your eye, which is visible directly from the Yekaterinburg-Alapaevsk highway. When asking the villagers who Nikolai Kretov is, everyone unanimously says - he is the owner, everything around is his... There is a huge amount of forest in the Alapaevsky district, most of this forest belongs to Nikolai Kretov. In March 2023, a new company, Aramashevskoye LLC, was registered with an authorized capital of 79 million rubles, the main founder is Valery Mikhailovich Yakhnev, who testified under oath at the trial in the Alapaevsky District Court in March 2022 about his salary, which, according to the interrogation protocol, is 15 thousand rubles!!!! Per month!!! Not millions of rubles!!!! In Yekaterinburg, there is a retail chain called Mollino, officially it belongs through a network of offshore companies to the newly minted British citizen Timur Goryaev, but 18% of this company belongs to Nikolai Kretov through Raynon Holdings Limited (the editors of the VChK-OGPU have documents confirming this) and there is also about 30% ownership of Mollino, through the company Ancona Coast Group Inc, which formally does not belong to Kretov, but there are facts showing a connection with this company. The turnover of the Mollino company is more than 17 billion rubles per year. Confirmation of the facts of joint ownership of the Mollino company is the fact that in August 2023 a new company, OOO Mollino Development, appeared, in which four people were the founders, including a relative of Timur Goryaev, his partner Alexander Petrov and Valery Yakhnev, already known as a friend of Kretov, the holder of all his companies in Russia and one of the alleged perpetrators of the assassination attempt on Oleg Mironov in 2012.

The strangest thing about this is that, knowing about these facts, the head of Alfa-Bank's problem assets, Yuri Negrey, did not consider these assets as assets that could be used to pay off Kretov's debts to the bank. After all, the bank has always been famous for its bloodthirsty position towards debtors, and here we have such, let's say, carnivorousness towards the debtor...

Apparently, the management of Alfa-Bank has no time for such debtors, they have more serious issues that they resolve every day, and 25 million dollars is not such a big amount of money, no matter what Mikhail FRIDMAN says...

It is hard to imagine any other large bank in Russia that would throw around and squander property like that and thereby cause losses to itself. And all for the sake of some small businessman from the Urals...

But apparently the support of the all-powerful Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Colonel General Lebedev, does its job and not only bankers, but sometimes even top authorities give in to a small businessman from the Urals...

Kretov does not hide and is even proud of it that he rebuffed Sergei Terentyev, a well-known person in the Urals and Sergei Lalyakin, aka Luchok, in the summer of 2023...

Kretov never takes responsibility for his words and his debts and therefore behaves in this way. We have a video at our disposal, which is attached as material evidence in a criminal case related to a fight in the village of Aramashevo in November 2020, where Nikolai Kretov, referring to Gii Sverdlovsky, who at that time was an overseer in the Sverdlovsk region, tells his counterpart that he does not owe anyone anything and you should get out of here... As it turned out later, Gii Sverdlovsky did not even know him.

But Nikolai Kretov, as a former political worker, does not mince words, and will always find something to say, even if it is a complete lie.

Most knowledgeable people in the Urals have developed a persistent feeling over the past 10-15 years that Kretov has nothing , but in fact Nikolai Kretov specially created such a situation around himself.

Ivan Kuznetsov, the sole owner of the companies "Uralbuilding" and "Alfastroy". Until 2009, according to one of the company's employees of that period, he was poor as a church mouse, was on the side of Kretov, a builder, built mainly for Kretov.

In 2009, his company Uralbuilding was in bankruptcy proceedings, the company owed creditors more than 1.2 billion rubles, including Nikolai Kretov's company ZAO HC Lider more than 930,000,000 rubles. And suddenly, at the end of 2009, Uralbuilding signed a settlement agreement with HC Lider within the framework of the determination of the Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region to terminate the bankruptcy case in connection with the approval of the settlement agreement (case No. A60-17124/2009-C11 dated 08.12.2009) and the repayment of debts until 2012. Naturally, Kuznetsov did not repay any debts to Kretov...

After this, the Uralbuilding company rapidly takes off in the Ural construction market. It is building the Klever Park residential complex (the land at that time belonged to Kretov's structures). Contracts are pouring in like water from a horn of plenty, Ivan Kuznetsov immediately became famous, articles about the successful builder appeared in the local media. Construction of an airport in Perm and Gelendzhik, construction of the Aquatoria residential complex in Moscow, an office in Moscow on Patriarch's Ponds, and so on...

"Where does Zin's money come from?" How can one not recall Vysotsky's song, because no bank would ever lend to a company with such a history and debts, it turned out to be simple. Before bankruptcy, Ivan Kuznetsov, through an unsecured bill of exchange (confirmed by court materials under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), bankrupted the Linkor Group of Companies, thereby helping Nikolai Kretov to take assets away from Oleg Mironov. A debt is paid in kind. Kretov transferred the money that he kept in foreign accounts to Ivan Kuznetsov, prudently signing all the legal papers with him so that he would not screw Kretov over. This is where Uralbuilding's debt to HC Lider came from.

 

Kuznetsov did not advertise his relationship with Kretov, meeting with him only late in the evening, once a month, for a report.

According to the most conservative estimates of the Cheka-OGPU, Kretov's assets, accumulated in the accounts of the Liechtenstein Lamont Foundation, amount to more than 150 million euros. The foundation is managed by his son Kirill Kretov, a Swiss citizen living in Geneva.

To be continued...

Timofey Grishin