Uk theorem Igor Vodopyanov. Vodopyanov Igor Mikhailovich

The always available Igor Vodopyanov stopped communicating. The appearance of the FSB at his Benoit residence symbolized: the place of the released billionaire Kostygin should not be empty.

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On February 14, the Investigative Committee of St. Petersburg conducted a series of searches in the territories controlled by the owner of St. Petersburg business centers, Igor Vodopyanov. The accounting records of his main company, Teorema, were seized, and employees of companies under his control are suspected of transferring bribes to the tax inspector. Traditionally, the public Vodopyanov has turned off his phone, but he is seen in public places.

Vodopyanov disappeared from all kinds of radars on the morning of February 14th. It is the basis for the operational activities of the development giant Teorema, which manages a dozen large business centers, warehouses and residential real estate leased by well-known global companies. The businessman had become so accustomed to journalists that he was his own press service that there was nowhere to get positive comments. His phone was switched off; his assistant Maria left long beeps instead.

By eleven in the morning, the Investigative Committee of St. Petersburg and operatives of the “banking” department of the Economic Security Service of the regional FSB appeared at the Benois business center, the calling card of Teorema. Go, as if they were told at a departmental meeting, to the accounting department. .

There are enough Benoit tenants, and it seemed to many that the No. 1 target of the official guests was the holding’s subsidiary, Teorema Telecom (TT).

TT started in 2004 and grew to become an IT industrialist. Vodopyanov's legacy obliged. The company was the first in Russia to equip large business centers with integrated infrastructure. Tenants in the complex received reliable access to their servers, a secure Internet connection and VPN access for remote workers, virtual PBX services, an intelligent answering machine and a private call center.

Teorema Telekom is headed by Dmitry Loktionov. He was not at his workplace, and someone whispered that he was detained after a search in his apartment. Instantly, the figure of Eduard Krupin appeared in the gossip. According to SPARK, he is still listed as the owner of the TT, but physically appears to be in Georgia. And the investigation also had questions for him.

The Megafon network, which services Igor Vodopyanov’s phone, was, meanwhile, strained by a flurry of requests for his number. The woman’s answer for the billionaire was “The caller’s machine is turned off,” and the mood of the callers sharply contrasted with the indifference that the owner of the answering machine voice put into this phrase.

Vodopyanov, according to Fontanka, also, like everyone who was looking for him, was far from a state of serenity. Early in the morning they came to his home and presented him with a search warrant. They say the procedure went correctly, but still left a residue. The investigator was operating on a criminal case, but it was unknown what kind. Only a 17-digit number (117...044) showed. Behind them, these numbers, it is as if the giving of a bribe is encrypted. And not to the road inspector, but to the tax inspector. More precisely, the deputy head of the 24th MIFNS from Dalnevostochny Prospekt, which serves, among other things, the Nevsky district, and Teorema Telecom is legally located in this area. And the bribe is serious, 5 million rubles, transferred by bank transfer, using the accounts of companies controlled by Vodopyanov.

“Well, that’s nonsense,” the entrepreneur could answer this and would be right in a way.

Igor Vodopyanov is his own press service for a reason. He is a full 49 years old, was born in Leningrad, does not carry a passport with him (they recognize him by sight), personally asks the newspaper “Business Petersburg” not to include himself in the ratings (because he does not know how much money he has), but is surprised to learn from the business -The media, that he has almost 10 billion in his hands, was freed from cheers by his upbringing, visited and supported the Open Library platform, known for free discussions, and even, they gossip, finances city opposition movements and politicians. It is unlikely that such a person, aware of close attention to himself, would participate in bribing a 64-year-old tax official.

But Vodopyanov was silent. By the evening of the 14th the city was completely gone and... There were talks about the arrest from Moika, where the Investigative Committee is located. Vodopyanov was taken there, and few people manage to leave freely.

Another St. Petersburg billionaire, Yulmart co-owner Dmitry Kostygin, knows this firsthand. Exactly at the time when Vodopyanov’s rumor was sending him to the isolation ward, Kostygin was listening to a sensational story. Of course, the business community was not without a joke:

“I passed my duty! I have accepted duty!

Meanwhile, Fontanka got through to the entrepreneur’s partner, Kirill Shishkov. His voice clearly did not match the rumors:

“Igor Mikhailovich went to celebrate Valentine's Day. Detained? Not true. Tomorrow he has a meeting with Vice-Governor Igor Albin on Krestovsky Island, you can see for yourself. He will be there."

The soothing rhetoric was superimposed on another rumor. It’s as if federal structures, almost Sergei Chemezov’s Rostec, are interested in isolating Vodopyanov. The fulcrum was the Aquatoria business center at 61 Vyborgskaya Embankment. It is not part of the Teorema structure, but partly belongs to Vodopyanov. The entrepreneur was indeed involved in filling the building with tenants, in which the entire Head Design Research Institute-5, now involved in Rostec, was located, but this story began in the late 90s, ten years before the formation of Rostec.

According to Fontanka, Igor Vodopyanov was indeed interrogated. The procedure - with paperwork, identification, pointless questions - took 2.5 hours. Actually, investigator Sharanov asked about the activities of “Theorem” and relations with tax and other government agencies for an hour and a half.

“The interrogation took place,” lawyer Sergei Andreev confirmed to Fontanka. – But Igor Mikhailovich is in the status of a witness. From his testimony it follows that he has nothing to do with the circumstances of interest to the investigation.”

And yet I couldn’t believe it. But thanks to the secular and social network world. The founder of the Mesto restaurant, Ekaterina Bokuchava, met the clearly tired Vodopyanov and pleased the business community. By one o'clock in the morning the entrepreneur's phone did not come to life. Maybe he just decided to change his number.

Alexander Ermakov, Fontanka.ru

The business elite of St. Petersburg has been seething for several days now.

After the high-profile arrests that 2017 was so rich in, everyone expected silence. But the temporary calm turned out to be illusory. Recently, the investigation became interested in another “celestial being” of the St. Petersburg business firmament - billionaire Igor Vodopyanov.

Tax bribery

An acquaintance of Saddam Hussein, a virtuoso in transferring assets abroad, a successful developer - such epithets are applied to the successful entrepreneur Igor Vodopyanov on the sidelines of financial circles. But today the public's eyes are focused on the billionaire not because of his financial abilities and luck. Everyone is tensely waiting to see how the story of the 5 million ruble bribe to Tax Inspectorate No. 24 employee Sergei Romanchuk will end.

For two days in a row, on February 14 and 15, Igor Vodopyanov, managing partner and founder of Teorema, spoke with representatives of law enforcement agencies. Searches were carried out at his company's office and place of residence. It is noteworthy that in addition to the investigative team, employees of the regional FSB Directorate participated in the events. Next, the investigators spoke with the billionaire. The topic of the conversation was the criminal case initiated regarding mediation in bribery (Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Billionaire Igor Vodopyanov.

For now, the billionaire is serving as a witness in the case, unlike his colleague, CEO of Teorema Telecom Dmitry Loktionov, who was detained in his apartment. The investigation believes that the Stroytrest company, controlled by Igor Vodopyanov (located in the Eureka shopping center, owned by his holding), was involved in bribing its permanent inspector from the tax inspectorate, since those same millions of bribes were transferred to its account. The billionaire himself was kept in the investigation room for several hours and released. Once released, the businessman immediately devoted a lot of time to the media. Thus, the entrepreneur told several major publications at once that he had nothing to do with the bribe situation and knew nothing about it, as well as about his procedural status.

Business center "Langensiepen".

Business center "Eureka".

Business center "Benoit".

Business center "Obukhov-Center".

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Igor Vodopyanov was born on August 31, 1968. Master of Sports of the USSR in fencing. From 1985 to 1991 he studied at the Baltic State Technical University. Ustinov with a degree in Radio Engineering. In 1994, he became one of the founders of the financial company CJSC Balt-Group, which specialized in the securities market. In 1997, together with his partner Kirill Shishkov, he created the Aquatoria business center. In 2000 he left Balt-Group CJSC. In 2001, he headed the Teorema business group. Today he is the managing partner of this company. Personal wealth is estimated at 9.8 billion rubles.

Meanwhile, the details of this story became known. Actually, the receipt of a bribe by tax inspector Romanchuk, according to investigators, occurred in the summer of 2017. During a routine audit, the taxman discovered that the large dairy plant Neva Milk underestimated its revenue by 49 million rubles. Here, according to the investigation, the inspector offered to reduce the amount of penalties and fines imposed in such cases to the plant for a small share. And as the media write, he confidently named the bank details of that same Stroytrest company. The money was deposited into the company's account and then cashed out. How information about this became known to law enforcement agencies, history is still silent.

Iraq and the past

Billionaire Vodopyanov does not really like to remember his past. Especially if it concerns the “dashing 90s”. No, nothing criminal in the style of the “brothers” stains the honor of the financier. However, like any rich person of those times, Vodopyanov has “blind spots” in his biography. In particular, in 2009 there were persistent rumors that Igor Vodopyanov sold the St. Petersburg business centers “Langensiepen”, “Eureka”, “Benoit”, “Obukhov-Center” to certain “reliable partners”. This happened against the backdrop of creditors rubbing their hands, to whom, as Kommersant wrote, Vodopyanov and his co-owners owed $320 million. Rumors, meanwhile, said that the beneficiary simply cleverly stole assets from creditors, transferring them to other companies. And he himself allegedly remained as a manager on their behalf.

Igor Vodopyanov in Iraq.

The information on this matter was quite unexpected. They also said that the entrepreneur found unexpected salvation among his old friends in Iraq. In general, Vodopyanov himself, in fact, never hid his acquaintance with the major eastern political figure Saddam Hussein. And even among the invited persons he attended the birthday party of the Secretary General of the Iraqi branch of the Baath Party. And here everything (as analysts later wrote) was quite simple. Iraq is oil, oil is dollars, dollars are money that needs to be invested somewhere. It was from that remarkable trip and the meetings that followed, as they say, that the financial rise of Igor Vodopyanov and his partners began. And it seems that it was these partners, smelling of petrodollars, who extended their reliable helping hand from the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates in sad credit times. They were well versed in the right investments. Let us note that the phrase about “money laundering” was not mentioned here.

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The project of the Aquatoria business center brought Igor Vodopyanov much fame. The businessman converted the former institute into a center with various premises and, unlike his competitors, did not sell them, but rented them out. Also, the Aquatoria center was the first to provide additional services for clients - a cafe, restaurant, free buses to the metro, gyms and a popular nightclub of the same name. The idea turned out to be successful, and soon other business centers appeared - “Langensiepen”, “Eureka”, “Benoit”, “Obukhov-Center”, “H2O”. In total, Teorema holding manages approximately 200 thousand square meters of offices. Vodopyanov also owns the Teorema-Terminal warehouse complex.

Ambitions and future

The current situation around billionaire Igor Vodopyanov is, frankly speaking, ambiguous. In the context of the trial and investigation of billionaire Dmitry Mikhalchenko, brokerage business shark Igor Khavronov, and the escape of co-owner of the RKS-Energo company Yuri Bobylev, the picture for Vodopyanov is developing with a hint. Yes, with a difficult one. On the agenda are several versions of what could have caused such close attention from law enforcement agencies to the billionaire’s person.

Someone is already predicting for Vodopyanov the fate of another St. Petersburg oligarch Dmitry Mikhalchenko.

Version one. Political.

No one can call Igor Vodopyanov quiet. The businessman was always broad-minded and used his verbs wherever possible, and especially where he could not. For several years in a row, this major businessman has allowed himself to publicly attack Smolny and the governor’s administration regarding development projects. Words such as “lobbying” and “corruption” were heard loudly. They sounded not only loud, but in some places even offensive. And the authorities, as you know, do not forgive offensive things. Especially when a major businessman allows himself to publicly criticize the city’s general development plan.

Version two. Political.

Igor Vodopyanov did not experience any friction with the security forces and no serious questions arose to him. But some time ago, according to some reports, the billionaire began to actively flirt with the opposition, posting relevant posts about the government on social networks. There was even talk that the businessman sponsored some individual opposition events. A sort of dissident from St. Petersburg big business. After the searches at Vodopyanov’s place, some noted that the story was preceded by the appearance of advertising billboards with his image. A similar coincidence happened with Sergei Polonsky, who also published an advertisement in his name, and then became a political outcast, persecuted by the authorities.

Billboard with a picture of a billionaire.

Version three. Nothing personal just business.

Some time ago, Igor Vodopyanov’s assets included interesting territories in the Peterhof area, where it is planned to build hotels and dachas - a site in Polustrovo, for the construction of business-class residential buildings, as well as territories on Okhta and Vasilyevsky Island. According to the testimony of many of Igor Vodopyanov’s business partners, his way of doing business can be very aggressive, harsh and not always honest. Some newsmakers believe that perhaps those representatives of business circles who were annoyed or crossed by the billionaire took some unfriendly steps in his direction. Given the constant attacks on the city administration, there seems to be a direct connection here.

Version four. Black cash

In the story of the dairy plant, the greedy inspector Romanchuk and the detention of Igor Vodopyanov’s partner Dmitry Loktionov, some see a completely harmonious score. Despite the fact that the parties actively deny any involvement (except territorial) of the Teorema holding company in this criminal case, inspector Romanchuk’s defense remains significantly silent on leading questions. This silence is, of course, connected with the next extension of the tax officer’s detention. And evil tongues say that “Frida will not be the only one falling off her chair,” and more heads will roll, since the investigation, as they say, has reason to suspect that both Stroytrest and other affiliated structures of billionaire Vodopyanov, to put it mildly, were engaged in illegal activities cashing out funds, and in particular large bribes for tax authorities. And maybe not only them. Of course, for a percentage. History is still silent about how this information became known to the investigation, but most likely it has common roots with version No. 3.

There is also information that Vodopyanov’s companies were engaged in cashing out.

In any case, a summons for a conversation with an investigator for a large businessman is a public “call.” And there was no case when such “calls” did not end in anything for the entrepreneur. Meanwhile, in business circles they are already openly saying that Vodopyanov is about to suffer the fate of Dmitry Mikhalchenko, who also took the “call” incorrectly and stayed in his homeland, overestimating his influence and capabilities. The editors will monitor developments.

Vodopyanov Igor Mikhailovich was born on August 31, 1968. In 1985 he graduated from school, sports class in fencing, master of sports. From 1985 to 1991 he studied at the Baltic State Technical University. Ustinova (“Voenmech”) with a degree in radio engineering.

From 1994 to 2000, he was a shareholder and conducted successful activities in CJSC Balt-Group, a financial company working with clients on the securities market. In 1997, Mr. Vodopyanov, together with his partner Kirill Shishkov, created the Aquatoria business center. It was a successful business venture. The new business center, the premises of which were rented out, satisfied the growing demand for high-class offices.

In 2001, another commercial project was implemented. Igor Vodopyanov becomes a representative of Teorema Holding Limited. Continuing to work with Kirill Shishkov, he took the company to a new level. The tandem of two businessmen turned out to be successful. In the same 2001, the Turbine Blades Plant, with an area of ​​45 thousand square meters. m. was purchased by Teorema for only $16 per square meter and converted into the Eureka business center. The next projects were the T-4 and Langensiepen business centers on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt.

At the moment, Teorema Management Company owns the built business centers “Eureka”, “T4”, “Langensiepen”, “Benoit”, “Obukhov-Center”, “Winter”, “Leto”, as well as the warehouse complex “Teorema Terminal” .

1. If you do not treat girls like beasts, then they will be quite satisfied with having money and minimal filling of the skull. I draw these conclusions from the conversations of young couples that I hear in restaurants: if two people at the next table are not looking at their phones, then they are talking complete nonsense. But I go to a certain circle of establishments. I don't want to take risks. While we are fighting against world imperialism with the help of a hunger strike, it is better to visit proven places where they will definitely not be poisoned, so I prefer “Probka”, gastrobar “Company”.

2. In St. Petersburg, a layer of girls focused on financing is still thriving, and happening on the same evening. Previously, this company of fairies was observed for a long time in Buddha-Bar, then it moved to Big Wine Freaks. When such a migration occurs, this is the first sign that the establishment may be in trouble. They offer love services for cash rubles, there is no flair - all specifics. You make acquaintances not only for the sake of instant satisfaction of sexual needs, but for the sake of intrigue, conversation, some kind of story. When the likelihood of vulgar prostitution is high, you can no longer understand exactly who you are dealing with here and now, at the table.

3. Men first like beautiful people, then smart people, then young people. This is a well-known expression. Sometimes among the latter there are quite intelligent ones, although rarely. But if the man is already aged, then young girls look extremely attractive, even if they have a vacuum in their heads. You can make attempts to fill it, which is not always possible, and in this case the relationship is most likely not very long-term in nature. And the problem is broader.

4. When you live alone, after a while you start to like it. Getting along with another person is a rather difficult process. At a young age, this is easier, because feelings are brighter and there is more willingness to compromise.

5. Sooner or later, all couples separate. I have many friends who got married and had children during or immediately after college. And ninety percent of them divorced between the ages of thirty-five and forty. Some of the friends now live alone, others have acquired a beautiful young creature. This is how the world works, it is not entirely fair to the female sex - unfortunately, one can only sympathize with divorced people. I can’t even imagine how they continue to exist; I’m not an expert on adult women. I know only a few exceptions that saved marriages. Moreover, in our company the phrases were often heard: “You are all goats, but Natasha is lucky, she has such a good husband.” And indeed, that marriage seemed ideal, both were smart, smart, no one had ever seen the husband with another young lady. But even after such a happy union for many years, he unexpectedly left for someone else - young, of course.

6. The desire to live alone, which has strengthened over the years, is not connected with the fact that in this case you can bring a new lady to you every day. There is no longer such a need, it disappears for various reasons, including because you understand: all girls are not built so differently. But I don’t have a phobia related to marriage; last year I even proposed, but my chosen one refused. And I understand that she did the right thing. I believe that the only reason for a wedding can be a child, and for many years now the wonderful Freken Bock has been coming to me for laundry and cleaning twice a week.

7. Different generations have different habits. It was somehow not customary for our parents to get divorced - they grew up in another country with a different worldview. Marriage was needed for living together, and even if you wanted to separate, there was nowhere to go. The sense of responsibility for children can still keep people together today, but all the same, when the heirs grow up, people break up, because over the years they have already told each other everything a long time ago.

8. You become cool with the constant rotation of girls over time. I used to go to clubs at one time, and I had “Aquatoria” - a very popular establishment. But several of my friends of a similar age have some kind of obsession about this. Some work out in the gym like crazy or cross-country ski, while others sit in nightclubs and discuss trophies passing by. I stopped communicating with one acquaintance, tired of a set of five phrases, like “Oh, look what it is!”, “And I’m with that one,” or “Wow, I should go meet you!” I couldn’t resist: “Listen, can you talk about some other topic? Do you have other interests?” He replied: “Yes, of course. But look how she went!” Everything must be approached without fanaticism.

9. At all times, the best minds of humanity have thought about the peculiarities of relationships. In the West, there are other traditions, for example, in managing the family budget, when the wife earns for herself and the man provides for the whole family. In Italy we see matriarchy, in Norway or Sweden - a joint-stock company, in Arab countries the status of women is very low. If we talk about us, then St. Petersburg is a swamp in which ethereal creatures live, sometimes on the verge of being city crazy, walking with inspiration along the embankments. Moscow has always been a more merchant city, so the girls there know exactly what they want. Moreover, Muscovites love to start relationships here: they come, and a beautiful St. Petersburg woman is waiting for them, about whom his wife in the capital does not know.

10. Time does not stand still. In the 1990s, Tatyana Sanayeva’s modeling agency Modus Vivendi existed in St. Petersburg, and then it seemed that her girls had fantastic beauty. Nowadays smart and beautiful rolled into one is the norm. First of all, thanks to the developed infrastructure: at every step we see beauty salons, whose services have become noticeably cheaper. The girls have read a lot of fashion blogs, and with the current availability of things, when Louis Vuitton from China cannot be distinguished from Louis Vuitton from Turkey and from the real Louis Vuitton, it’s enough just to look stylish. It is all the more easy to refine a good foundation, and Slavic women have always been very beautiful. You just have to tint them and dress them up. I don’t understand men who are against makeup and outfits. It’s nice when you come to a restaurant with a girl, and everyone looks at you with envy.