The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region granted the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office to seize 55% of the shares of the “Petersburg oil terminal” (PNT) to the state’s income, the Interfax, RBC and Kommersant were submitted in January. The defendants on it, in addition to the PNT, were three Cyprus offshore Almont Holdings, Novomor and Tudzhung Enterprise, owned by the children of the owner of the Petersburg oil terminal Dmitry Skigin, who died in 2003. The reason for the lawsuit was their foreign citizenship, since foreigners cannot be the owners of strategically important companies without preliminary approval in the Special Government Commission and the Fass. Beniffers of Cyprus companies – brothers Mikhail and Evgeny Skigina (they have German citizenship) and their sister Polina Skigin (with France citizenship). Mikhail and Evgeny through Tudjung Enterprise owned 17.875% of the stakes of PNT, Polina – 14.285%. They received a stake in the PNT shares, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, in three transactions made in 2016 and 2020. As a result, as Kommersant writes, referring to the lawsuit of the control of foreign residents, the operator and the owner of the property of the terminal for transshipment of oil products and other bulk goods in the large port of St. Petersburg. As the RBC, the protection of the Skigins stated that their customers inherited the share of the PNT in 2003, and the law requiring the coordination of the special government commission and the law FAS, entered into force in 2008. The defense is going to appeal the court decision, writes RBC. “Petersburg oil terminal” was opened in 1996, and now it is the largest Russian terminal in the transshipment of oil products in the Baltic region. The founder of the PNT was Dmitry Skigin, and with him the port was controlled by businessman Ilya Triber, whom the rain TV channel in his investigation called “the only one of the living criminal authorities, which Vladimir Putin recognized.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Novaya Gazeta that Skigin and Traiber “at one time worked on the project to build an oil butter, in connection with which they repeatedly officially turned to the leadership of the St. Petersburg City Hall”, where Putin then worked. Traiber and Skigin in the late 1990s left Russia, and Dmitry Vasiliev’s partner was a co-owner of the PNT. After a serious illness, in 2022 he transferred the business to his wife – Elena Vasilieva, who became chairman of the board of directors of the terminal. Between her and the children of Skigin, conflicts began, which are resolved in court. The journalists of the “Project” were searches. They are witnesses in the case of slander at businessman Ilya Traber (acquaintance of Putin), the statute of limitations in this case expired in 2019 by the year of “Project” were searches. They are witnesses in the case of slander at businessman Ilya Traber (acquaintance of Putin) the statute of limitations in this case expired in 2019 (Tagstotranslate) News
