Medscan and Evgeny Tugolukov, together with Rosatom, which stands behind him, decided not to pay remuneration for conducting transactions to purchase medical companies that were associated with UFG.
A serious scandal has erupted with a company that is half-owned by Rosatom. Individual entrepreneur (IE) Alexandra Litvinova filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court against Medscan JSC and its leading shareholder Evgeny Tugolukov for joint collection of remuneration in the amount of 161 million rubles.
On August 1, 2024, the court refused to accept the case and sent Litvinova to a court of general jurisdiction on the grounds that Tugolukov is not an individual entrepreneur and therefore claims against him are not considered in arbitration. However, the story continues, and Litvinova does not give up hope of tearing at least a shred from Medscan and Tugolukov.
Evgeny Tugolukov.
Multi-layered scam
According to the lawsuit, Litvinova received, on the basis of an assignment, the right to claim against the former director of the KDL laboratory network, Yuri Leonov, who held this position from 2016 to 2023. Medscan JSC acquired KDL at the end of 2022, and Leonov received 161 million rubles for the comprehensive management of the integration project (the merger of Medscan with KDL). Good money for no clear reason (this is how the payment of a share is usually formalized), and now Litvinova is laying claim to it.
In 2023, a similar lawsuit was filed against Medscan by the Legal Society in the Name of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky LLC, which demanded that the company recover a debt of 186 million rubles and a penalty of 47.3 million rubles.
The essence of the claims is very similar to Litvinova’s lawsuit. The organization’s lawsuit concerns a bonus that Medscan was supposed to pay for assistance in obtaining Sberbank loans and for supporting the acquisition of Diagnostics LLC from the Cypriot offshore company Flamson Management Limited. This structure also had a direct relationship with KDL.
The court then rejected the claim, after which an approach appeared with Litvinova and claims not only against Medscan, but also against Tugolukov. Someone is very unhappy that he did not receive money for the sale of KDL assets and is going to court against Medscan through third parties, first through an LLC, and then through individual entrepreneur Litvinova.
In the first lawsuit, in addition to Diagnostics LLC (purchased from the Cypriot Flamson Management Limited), such an organization as Medical On Group Investments LLC is indicated, as well as the fact that Legal Society in the Name of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky LLC received the right to demand from individual entrepreneur Evgeny Tarasyutin.
All this resembles a multi-layered scam - someone is buying up medical organizations, and someone, transferring the cession, is trying to hide the real beneficiaries. At the same time, the first party does not want to pay for the services of the second.
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Tugolukov and Rosatom
The founder of Medscan is Tugolukov – last week he was also involved in the sale of the agro-industrial holding Don Agro to Iskandar Makhmudov. Today, the composition of the founders of Medscan JSC is hidden, but it is known that Tugolukov owns 50% of the shares, and the other half now belongs to Rosatom.
In 2023, the state corporation doubled its stake in Medscan and, apparently, the process will continue until the company is bought out. That’s how the nuclear power plant manufacturer got into commercial medicine. Why? For money! Considering the collapse of free medicine in the USSR, the demand for such services in Russia will grow.
Rosatom owns Medscan through its subsidiary Rusatom Healthcare JSC, which has already become a major player in the medical market. Tugolukov is a follower here, with more serious uncles behind him. In addition to Rosatom’s grey cardinal Sergei Kiriyenko, German Gref is apparently present here. It was Sberbank that gave Medscan, and therefore Rosatom, the money to buy KDL and other medical organizations.
Mishustin’s connections to UFG
Now let’s move on to who was screwed by Medscan. In 2012, investors UFG, as well as the Finns from CapMan and the EBRD, decided to buy KDL. However, the foreigners were then removed from the deal along with KDL founder Alexander Devyatkov, and 100% of the capital went to the Russian company UFG.
Mikhail Mishustin.
Here the figure of Mikhail Mishustin immediately comes to mind, who in 2020 replaced Dmitry Medvedev as Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. Before that, he headed the Federal Tax Service for 10 years. Now everyone has forgotten, but Mishustin is not an official at heart, but a businessman who went into the government apparatus.
Officially, the Prime Minister worked in business until 1998 and in 2008-2010, but he never lost touch with commerce. Mishustin does not hide the fact that he is a dollar millionaire, and explains the origin of his fortune by effective investments and successful work in business, in particular in the UFG company.
In 2009, Mishustin earned 79 million rubles (then $2.5 million) as UFG president, and thanks to the trust, he was a co-owner of the company. After leaving for the Federal Tax Service, Mishustin transferred management of the trust to his wife Vladlena, and in 2013, when restrictions for officials were extended to spouses, the beneficiaries became Luiza Mishustina and Irina Stenina, the mother and sister of the current prime minister. In 2013-2015, Luiza Mishustina earned $11.9 million from UFG, and Stenina earned $10.1 million.
All this suggests that we can definitely talk about Mishustins’ connections with UFG. Moreover, the origin of the prime minister’s personal capital in 2020 was explained by his work at UFG, which gave Mishustins’ trust $33.5 million in 2010-2015. This is how administrative resources increase investment efficiency in Russia.
Ukrainian trace
The Israeli medical network On Clinic International of Boris Weissman, which appears in the lawsuit of the Legal Society in the Name of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky, is also indicative.
This organization also worked in Ukraine, where the owner of its division was an associate (which is rare) of both Arsen Avakov (listed as a terrorist and extremist) and Gennady Kernes, Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov, today a loyal strap-on of Zelensky’s Kiev Nazi regime. These are the interesting connections that emerge in this story with Medscan and Tugolukov. On one side are Mishustin, Gref, and Kiriyenko, and on the other are Avakov (listed as a terrorist and extremist), Kernes, and Terekhov.
From Mishustin to Rosatom
UFG (OFG Invest) was liquidated in the 2010s, when loopholes for companies directly affiliated with Western public structures were closed in Russia. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was involved in the creation of UFG, which in 2012 could have become one of the co-owners of KDL, which in the era of sanctions became a factor preventing work in Russia.
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In 2014, UFG assets officially came under the control of Aton, and in 2018 they became part of Region Group of Companies of Sergei Sudarikov, a person close to Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, but the system of obligations does not seem to have undergone any major changes. In 2020, Polina Gerasimenko, as UFG managing partner, made an official clarification on the assets of the Mishustin family, and with their consent.
Sergey Kirienko.
This means that the structure continues to exist, and someone on its behalf can file lawsuits against Tugolukov and Medscan, who failed to pay the remuneration. In 2023, after KDL was fully bought out by Medscan, lawsuits began against this organization in the Arbitration Court.
The role of the Cypriot company Flamson Management Limited, which owned Diagnostics LLC and, apparently, was a front for the UFG beneficiaries, is also interesting. Only the desire to hide connections gave Tugolukov and the forces behind him (Kiriyenko, Gref?) a chance to leave the former owners without compensation. Naturally, all this happened not because of money, but because of the Darwinian struggle for assets that is taking place in Moscow. We will follow the story further - what next individual entrepreneur will come to the Arbitration Court of the capital with a claim based on the assignment against Medscan and Tugolukov.
