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Head of department at Gazprom, managing a budget of 150 billion rubles. per year, left the company. He did not agree with the transition of the monopoly to EPC contracts, several sources in the company told RBC.
Alexander Filatov (Photo: gazprom.ru)
One of Gazprom's key subdivisions, Department 338, which is responsible for the overhaul of pipelines, has lost its head. According to several RBC sources in Gazprom, close to the monopoly and among the company's contractors, in early August, 51-year-old Alexander Filatov, who had been in charge of it since 2013, resigned. Now his duties are performed by Sergey Grigoriev, who previously held the position of deputy head of this department.
“The company always posts information about personnel changes on the official website,” Gazprom’s information department told RBC. Information about Filatov's departure is not reflected on the monopoly's website, he is still listed as the head of the department. However, three interlocutors in the monopoly claim that his contacts have disappeared from the internal telephone database.
The share of the 338th department in 2016 accounted for 17.3% of the costs of the investment program of the monopoly following its adjustment: 147.6 billion rubles. out of 853 billion rubles, follows from the statements of Gazprom. In 2015, 161.6 billion rubles were allocated for capital repairs.
Alexander Filatov was born in 1966 in the Orenburg region. He has two higher educations: in the field of industrial and civil engineering and oil and gas processing equipment. From 2000 to 2007 in a subsidiary of Gazprom dobycha Orenburg. He held positions from the deputy head of the construction quality control department and compliance with its projects and estimates to the head of the capital construction department, according to the Gazprom website. From 2008 to 2013, Filatov led such subsidiaries of the company as Podvodgazenergoservis and Orgenergogaz. In 2013, he headed the overhaul department at Gazprom, which was renamed Department 338 in 2015.
A number of RBC interlocutors in Gazprom and from among the former employees of the monopoly call Filatov a protege of the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, Vitaly Markelov, who oversees the topic of construction in the company. An employee of the central office and one of Gazprom's specialized subsidiaries, as well as a source close to the leadership of one of Gazprom's contractors, say that the reason for Filatov's dismissal was a discrepancy with Markelov in the vision of the department's development prospects. The Deputy Chairman of the Board defends the need to merge several departments of Gazprom into a single managing body and transfer the monopoly to the EPC contract system in work with key contractors for major construction projects. EPC-contracts (eng. Engineering, procurement and construction) involve "turnkey construction" at a fixed price, when the contractor takes over the entire cycle of work (design, procurement of materials and construction). At the same time, the customer has a minimum of authority to manage the EPC contractor or subcontractors.
The gas holding is preparing large-scale staff cuts in the central office. Under the reorganization and enlargement to a single department, it was supposed to bring at least three specialized departments: department 333 of Sergey Prozorov (responsible for construction), department 336 led by Andrey Skrepnyuk (design work) and department 121 of Mikhail Sirotkin (corporate costs). As RBC found out, the overhaul department can also be liquidated around the end of this year as part of this reorganization, if it is approved. The joint department, which will oversee issues of capital construction and work with EPC contractors, may be headed by Sergei Prozorov.
RBC's interlocutors claim that Filatov did not support Markelov's plan for such a reorganization and, without waiting for his own dismissal as part of the reform, wrote a letter of resignation "of his own free will." However, while the “road map” for such a reorganization has not yet been drawn up, two interlocutors of RBC know: a Gazprom employee and a manager of one of the contractor companies, since the document was not signed by Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller.
Two interlocutors of RBC in Gazprom claim that Filatov was fired due to staff reductions and received an order to dismiss him a month before leaving. He goes to work in one of the subsidiaries of Rosneft, which is responsible for capital construction, the interlocutor of RBC heard in Gazprom and in one of the monopoly contractors. Filatov is not in the central office of Rosneft, two interlocutors of RBC in Rosneft know. The process of applying for a job at Rosneft usually takes at least three months, according to one of them. The press service of Rosneft told RBC that they had no information about the transfer of Alexander Filatov to Rosneft.
Gazprom Corporation is among the largest players in the Russian and global economy. How is the corporate governance structure organized? In which cities does Gazprom operate?
General information about the company
Before considering what constitutes the organizational structure of Gazprom, we will study the basic information about the company.
Gazprom is traditionally viewed as a global energy corporation. Its main areas of activity:
Mineral exploration;
Fuel extraction;
Gas transportation;
Processing and sale of fuel.
In addition, the corporation also produces and sells heat and electricity. Gazprom has at its disposal the richest natural gas reserves in the world. The value of the corresponding reserves is about 18% of the world and 72% of the Russian. In turn, if we talk about that, the corporation accounts for about 14% of its global volumes and 14% of Russian ones.
The company is actively developing projects in vast territories - in Yamal, on the Arctic shelf of Russia, in Siberia, in the Far East. Settlements, the economy of which is largely based on the facilities owned by Gazprom - Urengoy, Astrakhan, Nadym, and many others. Actually, it can be one of the city-forming in these settlements.
Gazprom has a developed transport and industrial infrastructure at its disposal. The company is also actively developing processing industries. Gazprom's capabilities make it possible to almost completely satisfy the domestic demand of the Russian economy for natural gas.
In addition, Gazprom has branches abroad. The activities of these structures are also largely related to the exploration and production of fuel. The corporation supplies gas to both the Russian and foreign markets.
The corporation is one of the key players in the European fuel market. Gazprom's largest projects for the development of fields abroad are being implemented in Venezuela, India, and Algeria. Managers of the Russian corporation actively interact with colleagues on a wide range of issues: investment, implementation of joint projects, exchange of experience in the application of technologies for the extraction and delivery of fuel.
In Russia, Gazprom owns the Unified Gas Supply System. Its total length exceeds 168 thousand km. In fact, the company is the only manufacturer and exporter of liquefied gas in the Russian Federation.
Gazprom was founded as a public company in 1989. Its turnover during the active periods of capitalization was fixed at about 3.9 trillion rubles.
The city in which the head office of Gazprom is located is Moscow. The largest structures of the corporation are also located in St. Petersburg. It is known that it is planned to move the main office of Gazprom to the Northern capital in 2018.
history of the company
It will be useful to get acquainted with the main facts from the history of the company's development.
In the middle of the 20th century, a number of large gas fields were discovered by Soviet specialists in Siberia, the Urals, and the Volga region. They began to be quickly mastered, and, as a result, in the 1980s, the USSR became one of the largest countries in the world in the field of gas production.
In 1965, the Ministry of the Gas Industry was established in the USSR. He was in charge of mineral exploration, fuel extraction, its delivery and sale to consumers. In August 1989, this department was transformed into an economic entity - the Gazprom concern.
In 1993, it was renamed RAO Gazprom. The ownership structure of a corporation has changed significantly over time. Thus, in the 1990s, a significant part of the corporation's shares were sold as part of the privatization mechanism. By 2004, the state in Gazprom owned 38.7% of the shares. In addition, the Russian Federation had a majority in the Board of Directors of the company. Subsequently, the state's share was increased to more than 50%.
In 2000, the corporation actively increased its turnover. In 2008, in terms of capitalization, it was among the top 3 largest global businesses. In 2009, Gazprom launched the first liquefied natural gas plant in Russia. The European direction of business was actively developing. Thus, in 2012 the company launched the second branch of the Nord Stream pipeline. Soon, Gazprom officially launched production at one of the largest gas fields, Bovanenkovskoye.
In May 2014, Gazprom and the Chinese corporation CNPC signed a major contract for gas supplies to China. The contract price was $400 billion. The agreement is for 30 years.
Company owners
Who is the owner of Gazprom? The ownership structure of a corporation has the following features.
The main shareholder of the corporation is the Federal Property Management Agency, which in this case is represented by the state. This department - in fact, the country - owns 38.373% of Gazprom's shares. The next largest shareholder of the corporation is The Bank of New York Mellon. He owns 26.955% of the corporation's securities. Rosneftegaz owns a 10.74% stake in Gazprom. Rosgazifikatsiya has a 0.889% stake in the gas corporation's capital structure. Other persons own 23.043% of the company's shares.
One way or another, the state owns 50% plus 1 share of Gazprom Corporation. The management structure of the company is as follows.
Corporation Management: General Meeting of Shareholders
The supreme governing body of the company is the General Meeting of Shareholders. Its formation is carried out annually. In addition, extraordinary General Meetings are possible. Owners of ordinary shares have the right to vote.
All holders of the relevant type of securities, independently or through a representative, may exercise the right to participate in the General Meeting. An event of the corresponding type is recognized as eligible if the attendance of shareholders is ensured, who collectively have more than half of the votes.
The competence of the general meeting is represented, in particular:
Amending the provisions of the company's Articles of Association;
The definition of the auditor;
income distribution;
Election of members of the Board of Directors, as well as the Audit Commission;
Making decisions on changing the structure of the company's management;
Making decisions on changing the size of the authorized capital of Gazprom.
General management of the corporation is carried out by the Board of Directors. It will be useful to study its features.
The activities of the Corporation's Board of Directors are regulated by a separate Regulation. The considered intra-corporate structure of the Gazprom company resolves business development issues if they are not within the competence of the higher corporate management body - the General Meeting. At the same time, among the relevant competencies is the election of members of the Board of Directors. This procedure is carried out annually.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom is in charge of the company's management structure under consideration. The main competencies of the relevant body:
Approval of the corporate budget for the year;
Development of investment programs;
Making decisions on the formation of general meetings;
Legal issues.
Audit Commission of Gazprom
There is another important structure that is part of the management structure of the Gazprom corporation. We are talking about the Audit Commission. It is accountable to the General Assembly and is an elected body. The work of the Audit Commission of the company is also regulated by a separate Regulation.
In addition, the relevant structure of Gazprom is guided in its activities by the legislation of the Russian Federation, the Company's Charter, as well as decisions of the General Meeting. The main tasks that this structure solves:
Control over the formation of reports and other information reflecting the indicators of the company's economic development, as well as characterizing its property status;
Control over the compliance of accounting methods used in the corporation with the provisions of Russian legislation;
Ensuring the timeliness of reporting by the corporation to interested structures;
Preparation of proposals aimed at improving the efficiency of the disposal of the corporation's assets, as well as the implementation of other areas of financial and economic activities of companies;
Preparation of proposals to reduce economic risks, optimize internal control mechanisms in the corporation.
This is how one of the largest companies in the world works, this is how its management is organized. In terms of its structure, Gazprom is generally organized like other corporations of the same size. But given the importance of the tasks that the company solves in the course of its activities, the organization of business management in this case requires the use of the most effective approaches in management.
De jure, the head of Gazprom, the chairman of the company's Board of Directors, as well as persons subordinate to him solve difficult tasks to bring the corporation's management system in line with this criterion.
Company branches
In the course of building the Gazprom management model, its branches were transformed into independent legal entities. They began to function as regional corporations in the gas sector. Each branch of Gazprom is thus de jure independent of the main company, although, of course, it develops in the context of the strategic priorities developed by the head office of the corporation.
Migration of management to the Northern capital
The management of the largest Russian gas corporation is characterized by a very remarkable trend - the steady migration of Gazprom's internal corporate structures to the Northern capital. We already know that the city where the main office of the Gazprom corporation is located is Moscow. But now St. Petersburg has every chance of becoming a key city in Russia in terms of brand presence at various levels of legal relations. With what it can be connected? What attracts such a corporation as Gazprom, St. Petersburg?
First of all, of course, it is worth noting that the northern capital of Russia is a wonderful city in itself, and this circumstance alone can become a factor in the desire of the country's leading managers to work there. According to experts, the largest Russian gas corporation now occupies about 20% of St. Petersburg offices in the luxury segment.
By 2018, the company's headquarters are planned to be located in the northern capital. It is assumed that the new head office of Gazprom will be located in the Lakhta Center building, which is currently being built in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg. The building will be represented by a skyscraper, as well as an office complex. The total area of the facility will be about 400 thousand square meters. meters.
At what address in the Northern capital will the main office of Gazprom be located? The address of the Lakhta Center is Lakhtinsky Prospekt, 2, bldg. 3. The construction of the structure began in 2013. It is expected that the skyscraper of the center will be the highest among the buildings in Russia and Europe. In particular, it will be 88 meters higher than the Federation Tower, which is located in the Moscow City office complex.
Office address
Actually, where is the headquarters of the Gazprom company now located? The address of the current head office of the corporation: Moscow, st. Nametkina, 16. The building is thus located in the South-West of the Russian capital. It is possible that after Gazprom moves (St. Petersburg and Lakhta Center are still in a state of expectation of this), the competent structures involved in the management of the company will continue to work in the building of the current headquarters of the corporation. .
Gazprom's subsidiaries and departments operate in St. Petersburg.
Gazprom has announced a number of major reshuffles in its top management. In particular, highly experienced department heads Elena Karpel and Boris Posyagin retired and were replaced by their former deputies. Andrei Kruglov ceased to combine the positions of Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom and Head of the Department of Financial and Economic Policy, but continued to oversee the financial block.
All personnel changes were announced on Tuesday evening by Gazprom's information department. Vitaly Khatkov (born in 1969), who previously held the position of deputy head of the same department, was appointed head of Department 817, which oversees issues of economic expertise and pricing. The former head of the department, Elena Karpel (her age has exceeded 70 years), has retired.
The head of Department 310, which coordinates the work of the Unified Gas Supply System of Russia, has also changed. Boris Posyagin, 70, who managed the Russian gas transportation system for many years, retired and was replaced by former first deputy Sergei Pankratov (b. 1960).
As the newspaper "" reported on Wednesday, referring to the opinion of anonymous sources, the gas market was surprised by the resignation of the old-timers of "Gazprom" B. Posyagin and E. Karpel. The interlocutors of the publication do not expect that significant changes will occur in the activities of the departments of Gazprom that have replaced the leadership, since continuity is maintained in them.
Major changes have taken place in Gazprom's financial block. According to the company, Alexander Ivannikov (born in 1966) has become the head of department 816, which is responsible for the financial and economic policy of the company. Prior to that, he was the first deputy of the former head of this department, Andrey Kruglov, deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom.
Kommersant writes that a number of his sources were expecting the appointment of Mikhail Sirotkin, head of Gazprom's corporate cost management department, to the financial department. Other sources of the newspaper believed that A. Ivannikov would be appointed, as then happened.
In addition, within the framework of the financial block, Gazprom created a new Department 839 (according to Kommersant, the Treasury Department has been turned into a new department), headed by Alexander Dushko (born in 1964). Previously, he was deputy head of department 816. Andrey Kruglov will now oversee the work of both departments.
The transformation of the structure of the financial block is designed to increase the efficiency of its work and strengthen the centralization of cash flow management of the Gazprom Group, according to a press release from the company.
In addition, department 811 (according to the Prime agency, the department for automation of process control systems) was liquidated in Gazprom, its head Nikolai Stolyar retired. Instead, department 840 was created (according to Kommersant - the IT department), it was headed by Natalya Borisenko (born in 1977) - another former deputy. A. Kruglov. The latter will also oversee the work of the new department.
Regarding the change in the position of A. Kruglov, Kommersant's sources in Gazprom say that the refusal to combine the posts of the head of the department and the deputy chairman of the board in charge of the financial block is only a technical decision, and there is no talk of weakening the role of this top manager. One of the newspaper's interlocutors explained that the department would soon move to St. Petersburg, while A. Kruglov, for family reasons, wants to continue living in Moscow.
Plots:
It is obvious to the audience that some employees of the "daughters" and "granddaughters" of "Gazprom" no longer understand why they work in these state-owned concerns, and have lost acceptable guidelines for behavior. A similar impression was made by the former governor of the Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin. Like Sirotkin, he led a wild life. He gave Lexuses to model girls in gratitude for a short but pleasant intimacy. And during the search, a billion rubles in cash and a pen for 3.6 million rubles were confiscated in Khoroshavin’s dwelling. Khoroshavin has long been in the dock, his assets have been confiscated in favor of the state, Vladimir Putin promised that he would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But what about Gazprom's goodies? Why is the president not asked about them at a press conference, and central TV channels do not release incriminating investigative reports? Is rampant theft taken for granted, are they afraid, or are they just waiting for a command?
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ORGIES FOR GAZPROM MONEY
"Stockings and a belt are welcome!"
Mikhail Sirotkin, head of Gazprom's corporate cost management department, seems to spend most of his time communicating with women of easy virtue. Official events, including meetings with the head of the gas monopolist Alexei Miller, are reported to him by phone - even his own subordinates rarely see a top manager who is carried away by promiscuous sex.
Just a giant!
The average man from 30 to 40 years old on working days most often talks on the phone with his wife and children, in second place is work. Mikhail Sirotkin, 43, head of Gazprom's corporate cost management department, categorically does not fit into this statistic: most often he talks on working days with girls, including those of easy virtue, and with the master who finishes his home. The detailing of calls by his cell phone number for July-September 2014 that got to journalists leads to an amazing conclusion: the person who oversees the development of the country's largest monopoly has no time for work at all - his thoughts are occupied only by women, moreover, in incredible quantities for a respectable person.
Simple arithmetic: during the indicated period, Mikhail Sirotkin talked on the phone with the girl Dasha about 300 times, about 200 times with the girl Lena, the same number with a worker from Belarus, who equipped his new housing, and the same number with the procuress, who herself provided intimate services to him, and was looking for other girls. During this period, the secretary managed to contact his high-ranking boss a little more than 100 times - but he was clearly not up to her. An employee of the Corporate Cost Management Department distracted Mr. Sirotkin with reminders of his own business meetings (including with Alexei Miller!) just when Sirotkin himself was arranging a rendezvous with another girl.
With the girl Dasha, for example, the top manager of the gas giant calls up almost daily - moreover, it seems that he has no other business at work, except how to confess to Dasha how much he misses her and agree on another romantic evening. True, at some point Dasha flies away to rest abroad - no doubt, at the expense of our hero. She tenderly thanks him for this, he also gently texts in the sense that he is bored and will wait impatiently, and in the meantime he conquers loneliness with other beauties.
Lifestyle: girl for an hour
A small reservation should be made here: Dasha for Mikhail Sirotkin is the very “first wife in the harem”, but it does not at all follow that he communicates only with her. Nothing like this!
During the period from the beginning of July to the beginning of October 2014 (3 months), one of the top officials of Gazprom spoke 470 times on the phone with beautiful girls and 686 times corresponded with them via SMS. Moreover, the context of communication suggests the idea of parallel, very intensive contacts via e-mail and social networks. Can you imagine how Mr. Sirotkin is a talented leader - Gazprom prospers practically without his participation - he is not up to it, given the above figures! Who else can so brilliantly organize the work of such a serious department so that the well-oiled mechanism functions while the boss is resting with the girls?
However, even the word “resting” here, apparently, is not entirely appropriate - the described 1156 connections for 3 months concern more than one Dasha girl at all - she accounts for only 241 messages and 98 phone calls. During the period we studied, Mikhail Sirotkin talked closely with 8 beauties - it would be indecent to say how many times, although the specifics of communication draw attention: this is a couple of hours a day. Our hero, it seems, is not only insatiable, but, like anyone wallowing in promiscuity * (the medical term for promiscuity), prefers to avoid deep serious relationships. His style is a girl for an hour.
But there are many different ones! For three months of overwork for the benefit of the first monopolist of the Fatherland, we counted eight, apparently, beautiful girls. The communication of our hero with each of them is equally passionate (especially from the side of the girls), and almost every series of correspondence ends with the question that the excited Mikhail asks the interlocutor: “Will you come to visit?”. And, judging by the answers, as a rule, it does not receive a refusal. And, judging by other answers, the girls, in addition to wonderful evenings, receive foreign tours, cars, rent of good apartments in Moscow from our hero-lover. Exceptionally, in general, sublime relations.
But only a naive reader will think that this is where the description of the love affairs of the head of the Gazprom Corporate Cost Management Department ends. No, no, he's even cooler than we've already figured out!
Multi-role game
Among the eight beauties with whom Mikhail Sirotkin manages to actively and almost simultaneously communicate for three months, there are two with whom he, obviously, recently met.
For example, he somehow impatiently asks the girl Lena:
- I have two questions for you: 1. What about the rights? 2. Will we see each other again?
The top manager, presumably, made sure that Lena got the rights, and is now seeking a date. But Lena evasively refers to objective obstacles:
On Monday I will go to retake in the morning. Last Tuesday, I flunked a theory.
Several days pass (during which our hero consoles himself with other persons), and we see such a dialogue between him and Lena, which obviously begins with the fact that Lena, who does not want to be forgotten, sends Mikhail her own very extravagant photograph:
Mikhail: - Cool make-up, do you have some kind of flash mob there?
Lena: - No. Bad mood. I pick it up as best I can
Michael: Is there anything I can do to help?
Lena: - I don’t even know ... Depending on how you want to help
Michael: - Only as you want!
Lena: - I now need moral support.
Mikhail: - You know everything for you!
Lena: - And how can you help me?
Michael: Exactly as you say. Any options! The main thing is that you feel good!
Lena: - So you are even ready to just walk with me?
Michael: - An excellent choice, of course ready. Only if you change and wipe off that wonderful lipstick.
Lena: - Of course.
Mikhail: - Then I'm waiting for a signal ...
"Waiting for a signal" Mr. top manager develops another novel:
- Anya, hello! This is Michael, we met yesterday at Marriott. How are you? Maybe we'll see each other? he writes to another new acquaintance.
A few weeks later, they've been doing great for a long time.
Michael: - Anya, hello! How about meeting tomorrow! Stockings and a belt are welcome. I really want to see you!
Anya: - I'll be at 10, I'll take stockings and a belt ...
But the conquest of new peaks for our hero is more than a hobby - it is, apparently, a lifestyle. Among his faithful girlfriends, he has at least one who plays two roles at once: partners and procuresses. During the three months we studied, Mikhail Sirotkin talked to this beautiful lady 250 times by phone alone. The activity of the girl in both roles is to be envied.
Here she is "lover":
Michael: - Far?
She: - No, I'll be there in 15 minutes. OK?
Michael: - Do I have a choice?
She: - Mmmrr) I'm wearing such cute stockings today)
Michael: Understood. That is, there is no choice.
She: - You don't want to see me that much?)
Michael: Why? I say stockings leave me no choice!)
She: - Okay
And here she is the "pimp":
She: Mish, as I thought, no one is in Moscow. One with my mother in Nizhny until Thursday, the second with a friend in St. Petersburg until tomorrow evening. Only Irina can today. What to do? Angela, by the way, has a couple of pretty friends. I can ask her to send a photo. Need to?
A few days later, she sends our hero the phone of the probably charming Irina, and after a couple of days, she carefully asks:
Mish, hi! How are you How did the meeting with Ira go?
And a little later he shows a healthy sense of humor:
She: - Hello dear student! How are you
Mikhail: - Why a student? Or mixed up the number?
She: - Well, for a schoolboy you are already too learned))) How can I confuse the number of my favorite student?
And she is absolutely right! Around the same days, another character gets in touch with the main lover of Gazprom:
- Michael, hello. My name is Renat, your contact was given to me by Edita ... from Uzhgorod, I am dating, there is a lot of interesting information for you. I heard a lot about you as a decent person and would very much like to cooperate with you. Have a nice day. Renat…
Let's hope that Mr. Sirotkin successfully used the services of Renat, and one more pathetic message received by him from an unknown well-wisher, presumably, reinforces the life credo of our hero:
“They will leave, they will leave, after all, years fit for debauchery ...
However, our hero has clearly not yet left them - you don’t have to worry.
More gas...
It seems that only his own subordinates are worried in this case. For example, the secretary of Mikhail Sirotkin, presumably, just lost her feet.
Firstly, she hardly sees her boss, which is why she is forced to inform him about all events via SMS. Including meetings held by the head of the gas giant, Alexei Miller. He, presumably, does not suspect that the head of the Department of Corporate Cost Management is almost literally pulled out of bed at meetings with him.
Secondly, it is impossible not to pay attention to how the working days of our hero usually begin:
The secretary at 12.25: Mityushov arrived (the last name is the same as Alexei Mityushov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Salavat Neftekhim Remstroy JSC, SNHRC - Kompromat-Ural note)
Michael at 12.26: Coming soon...
Or this option:
Secretary at 08:49: Good morning! Today at 9.15 according to the schedule, a call is scheduled with ... Connect at the appointed time or already when you arrive at the office? ..
The answer to this message is not recorded, but it is appropriate to assume that the top manager is not up to it after yesterday's rendezvous with another girlfriend. And the poor secretary has to dodge in communicating with the visitors of Mr. Sirotkin, who were given appointments, who arrived on time, but the top manager was not found at the workplace, and often even “within the network coverage area”.
However, sometimes the hero-lover still has to be at work - and in order to withstand this tedious task, he also got someone there. In addition to SMS with schedules of upcoming events (in addition to those sent by the secretary), colleague Olga writes him something like this:
Hello dear, are you busy tonight? I wanted to invite you to dinner!
And cares with clear understanding:
- Good morning, the planning meeting was canceled ...
Beauties guard the interests of Gazprom
It is worth noting that Gazprom should perceive the fact of Sirotkin's appearance at the workplace as a holiday. He spends a significant part of the year in foreign resorts: in Nice, in Tel Aviv, in Milan, in the Maldives, etc. And, of course, in Courchevel, which he loves so much. And certainly during these visits, many of which are made out as "business trips", Sirotkin is accompanied by young and beautiful girls.
In 2012, on "business trips" (as indicated in the accompanying documents) to Italy and other European countries, Sirotkin's campaign was made by Kristina Voronina, born in 1988. One would think that this is a new rising "star" of Gazprom management, which helped Sirotkin. But no. It turns out that Christina Voronina (pictured) is a beautiful fashion model.
Such trips had an extremely favorable effect on Voronina. After them, until then, a not particularly well-known model became a star. Her photos unexpectedly appeared on the covers of various magazines, in particular, in the Russian version of L'OFFICIEL. How business trips affected Sirotkin is hard to say. Still, he is a married man, his legal wife is the head of the property management department of PJSC Gazprom, Elena Mikhailova.
In 2013, Sirotkin changed his companion. Mikhail's new companion in almost all his "business" and private trips was a native of the Donetsk region Alexandra (according to the Ukrainian passport - Oleksandra) Chebotareva, born in 1993. This beautiful girl, before meeting Sirotkin, was a regular participant in various parties with big businessmen, but then she “settled down” and entered the Ostankino Higher School of Television. With this girl, Sirotkin visited Nice and Milan in the spring.
In the summer of 2013, for a short time, the top manager of Gazprom has a new companion. He went to Nice, accompanied by 19-year-old Angelina Firsova. Also a participant in parties, a student of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
And then the Donetsk beauty Oleksandra Chebotareva again began to provide professional assistance on business trips to Sirotkin. In October 2013, she twice accompanied the top manager on trips to Geneva, followed by moving to the mountain resorts of France. At the beginning of November, the Sirotkin-Chebotareva couple purchased tickets for a flight to Phuket, where they planned to spend more than two weeks. But then the plans changed, as a result, Sirotkin and Chebotareva spent one week in November in the Vanoise National Park. Mikhail and Gazprom's volunteer assistant Oleksandra returned to Moscow for only a month, and on December 28 they again set off in transit through Switzerland to their beloved Courchevel. From there, the girl posted photos on her personal page on the Internet. It is clear that her high-ranking companion did not get into the frame. The couple rested until January 11, 2014.
The weekend, as well as Monday and Tuesday of the last week of January 2014, Sirotkin again spent in Vanoise Park, but with a new accompanying beauty. Helena of Olives, born in 1988, became his companion. The girl graduated from the Academy of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and looks simply charming in the tunic of a police lieutenant. However, now she no longer serves in the police, but receives high incomes in one of the commercial firms.
It is worth noting that the "flower garden" of the top manager of "Gazprom" Sirotkin is not limited to this magnificent four. The number of beauties who periodically accompany him to Vanoise is much greater.
When studying the travels of Mikhail Sirotkin in 2014, one might think that we are talking about a billionaire of the level of Roman Abramovich. The top manager of Gazprom became so rich last year that he finally switched from regular flights to private jets.
So, on March 12, 2014, he went to Geneva on a personal liner. On April 25, again on a private plane, Mikhail flew to the Maldives, where he stayed until May 11. June 27, Friday, Sirotkin went to Milan and returned on Sunday, June 30. For the weekend, a personal liner delivered the top manager of Gazprom to Italy and back to Moscow. The same private jet was at the complete disposal of Mikhail during the weekend from August 29 to September 1, 2014, when he visited Verona. On November 12, a personal vehicle delivered our hero from Rome to Moscow. The personal liner was at the disposal of Sirotkin and when he spent the next weekend from November 28 to 30, 2014 in Milan. During the New Year holidays, the top manager of Gazprom again relaxed in the ski resorts of France, however, he went there later than usual - only on January 5, 2015.
However, there is clearly more gas in the country than Mikhail Sirotkin has energy - so, in a global sense, everything described above, most likely, will not affect anything.
SELEZNEV'S CASTLE: HOW SIROTKIN WAS CHANGED FOR YERKULOV
Groups of influence in the board of Gazprom no less than in the Kremlin. Thanks to the results of their struggle, there is a redistribution of cash flows, received tenders and, most importantly, the number of kickbacks. As in government, the level of influence is determined by the level of proximity to the center.
When Alexey Miller, upon joining Gazprom, assembled his management team, a large number of places were taken by his former subordinates in the Sea Port of St. Petersburg and the Baltic Pipeline System. Appointed as heads of departments, members of the board and given the positions of general directors of subsidiaries, these personnel could not boast of suitability for their position.
But, enjoying the trust from above, they took root and were able to settle down in Gazprom's tanks. And if some of Miller's proteges flowed along the course he set, then the other part decided to take the oars into their own hands and rake them under them.
Seleznev and Sirotkin
Kirill Seleznev and Mikhail Sirotkin came to Gazprom almost simultaneously. Prior to that, Sirotkin worked for most of the nineties in legal services for commercial firms, after which he worked side by side with Seleznev in the corporate management of the port of St. Petersburg.
At Gazprom, Sirotkin got to the position of deputy head of the legal department, but did not pull it off and moved to the property management and corporate relations department. Such career growth has become a real gold mine for him and his family. When Seleznev took control of Mezhregiongaz, Sirotkin could not help but use his "nepotism" connections to bring his wife Elena Mikhailova to the firm.
We wrote earlier about what kind of business Kirill's cartel was doing in Mezhregiongaz. Sirotkin during this time was able to gain a foothold at the head of the tender committee, and then appeared on the basis of his Competitive Procurement Management Department, and, in addition, become the general director in the Krasnoyarsk division of the gas giant.
Because of this, he often had to be on business trips, which did not affect his marriage very well. After several years of working "on the plane", he got used to filling it with young models, greedy for gas money. Relations with his wife eventually turned into a purely business one, while Mikhailova's quotes in Gazprom are already much higher than what Sirotkin has.
Not smooth bribes
In 2013, Sirotkin's position was undermined by the case of the international persecution of Siemens. The German concern has been the victim of numerous lawsuits from the Swiss Prosecutor General's Office for kickbacks in construction since 2003. The Swiss arbitration called the Russian side responsible for “high-ranking Gazprom managers”, because of whose work the prices for the construction of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline on the Russian side increased by 2-3 times.
Since the case was primarily associated with Lengazspetsstroy and other construction departments, which with gross violations were removed from the property of the company, the name of Mikhail Sirotkin was repeatedly indicated among the perpetrators. This ghost from the past with such an international coloring was very out of hand for Sirotkin.
Seleznev cleverly took advantage of this - Anatoly Erkulov came to Mezhregiongaz, which is responsible for most of Gazprom's construction projects. He headed the direction of capital construction and investment in Gazprom-Mezhregiongaz, which largely duplicated the functions of Sirotkin.
By that time, he was already a proven corruption fighter. His "successes" in delaying the construction of a science city in Peterhof, "freezing" funding and fighting protesters helped him get into Gazprom's Expoforum construction project. On this project, together with the chief accountant of the cartel, Natalia Konovalenko, they built a contract project for 400 million for the company Transstroy, where Yerkulov owns a quarter of the shares.
They wanted to get even more money by privatizing the land around the future construction site, but the prosecutor's office intervened in this matter. After joining Gazprom Mezhregiongaz and Investgazifikatsiya, his name began to appear more and more often in the press. Even the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF) dedicated a video to him from the meeting with Putin, when it became known about the withdrawal of 1 billion rubles, which were distributed among 46 similar projects of sports facilities.
In 2015, it was once again confirmed that Sirotkin's influence is not enough for independent work at the top. Andrey Kruglov, the former financial director of Gazprom, decided to leave his position in the Department, which he was transferring to St. Petersburg, and focus on the work of the deputy board of directors for finance in Moscow. Sirotkina was asked to marry him for a long time, but Seleznev did not lobby for his candidacy.
As a result, the place went to Alexander Ivannikov. After that, Sirotkin became limp, and most of the real work on tenders went into the hands of Yerkulov. And although he is still listed as the head of the same Department 121 (corporate cost management), now this vague wording means much less than it used to mean. And the position of deputy director of Mezhregiongaz Yerkulov approached the level of the leaders of the "parent company".
Regregion
Thanks to this reshuffling, Seleznev's already strong position has been added to power, and with it the amount of finance that can be channeled through his schemes. His henchman Yerkulov loves to be responsible for tenders and projects, which are almost always irresponsibly spent under him. This was the case at St Petersburg University projects, during the construction of Expoforum, and this is how it is now at all regional projects of Mezhregiongaz.
In addition to the high corruption component, objects under his patronage have a high downtime in terms of time - for this, Yerkulov was repeatedly “kicked” by the regional authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation. But since the gasification of small settlements is not a priority project for either Kirill Seleznev or the head of Gazprom, the pressure of the authorities was always dealt with once or twice.
Seleznevsky Anatoly Erkulov
even cooler than Sirotkin!
For Seleznev, the active "effective manager" Yerkulov is a very convenient working option. And although he is older than Sirotkin, he is already flabby and "full" in comparison with him, and in such cases as theft on an industrial scale, charge is the main thing. No friendship and family ties will get you far here. The fact that Sirotkin does not prevent Yerkulov from steering tenders and purchases affects the entire company. Contracts for hundreds of billions of dollars pass through his unclean hands, which are distributed according to the method of mutual responsibility.
Since the appointment of Yerkulov, almost all major contracts have been concentrated in the hands of STNG (StroyTransNefteGas), which is owned by Seleznev and Timchenko. At the same time, Ziyad Manasir was squeezed out of business, who was deprived of control over Stroygazconsulting. There are a lot of similar examples of interested influence on contractors and suppliers of Gazprom since Yerkulov's arrival, so it's hard to call it a coincidence.
Having "adopted" Sirotkin's work duties, he helped Seleznev take his corruption schemes to a new level. The work of STNG on the large projects Power of Siberia, Nord Stream-2, gas pipelines in Yamal and Sakhalin will bring Seleznev tens of billions, which Yerkulov will conduct both through procurement tenders for building materials and for the work itself. Yerkulov fearlessly transfers money from the corporate pocket to the personal one, receiving his share from the blue stream for this. For this, it was not even necessary to carry out painstaking work to squeeze Sirotkin from his position. It turned out to be enough just to make him sign and put a seal on any projects from the "Seleznev" deputy.
