IN last days is constantly in Austria, where his wife has real estate and serious business interests.
Gottfried-Kumpf-Gasse 18 in Breitenbrunn south of Vienna is the permanent residential address at which for a long time was registered in Austria. However, she recently moved out of here, although, as it turns out, she never came here. According to Di Presse reporters, the house was not rented for housing.
Firstly, this is a faceless building with an area of 150 square meters. m, secondly, the vice-president of Inteko Oleg Soloshansky and another Russian are registered at the same address, and thirdly, no one has ever seen either Baturina or Luzhkov in Breitenbrunn.
The residents of Breitenbrunn are perplexed. “Why did they need this house? It has stood empty all these months!” - says neighbor Andreas Siegl.
The mayor of the city, Josef Trellinger, is upset: “It’s a pity that we never came here. I would have awarded Frau Baturina the title of honorary Breitenbrunn.”
The choice of a house in Breitenbrunn is all the more incomprehensible, since the Luzhkovs have a luxurious villa in Aurach for 20 million euros, where their neighbors are the Swarovski family, the owners trading network"Herty" and representatives of bohemians.
“Everyone knows that Luzhkov and Baturina live here. But no one asked about them here before. Everyone was interested: where does Hansi Hinterseer live here?” - says the gas station operator
Now journalists come here often. “We have no peace here now, just because someone has a lot of money,” complains the Luzhkovs’ neighbor.
"Absolutely normal people, without pretentious manners,” other residents of Aurakh tell about them.
They say that the wife of the ex-mayor likes to go shopping - no one here recognizes her.
“Mrs. Baturina appeared here four years ago and has been coming here ever since. She is always accompanied by an interpreter and security, and once Yuri Luzhkov came with her. Elena is always calm and friendly,” recalls Erika Janisch, an employee of the Kitzbühel Shportalm boutique.
As Kitzbühel mayor Klaus Winkler says, unlike other rich people who settled in these places, Luzhkov and Baturina were the only ones who did something for the region. For the third year, the Inteko company has sponsored the Triathlon World Cup, Rotary Club conventions, and has twice supported the Jazznova music festival. They brought Carlos Santana here in 2008, and Stevie Wonder in 2009 - it was a sensation.
Not far from the former villa, Inteko built the Grand Tirolia hotel with an 18-hole golf course. Annual membership fee at their golf club - 16,000 euros.
True, Frau Baturina believes that she was deceived by her former financial adviser: “For two years she gave 1 million 200 thousand euros for sponsorship purposes. And then it turned out that her adviser took a commission of 15%,” says her lawyer Emilio Stock.
However, they no longer like chalets in the city, where the Luzhkovs are treated so warmly. Too close to the road. “People practically look into the windows. They don’t like it,” says Stock. Apparently, we will have to look for a new home.
In addition, there are rumors that the Luzhkov couple purchased a villa in the Vienna district of Döbling. It is in Vienna that the real estate trading company Safo GmbH, owned by Baturina, is registered. It concentrates a significant part of Inteko's capital in Austria, which allows you to save on taxes by investing within the country.
Elena Nikolaevna Baturina is the richest woman in the Russian Federation, billionaire, ex-owner and co-founder of one of the largest metropolitan business empires, Inteco, chairman of the supervisory board of Inteco Management, wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who was dismissed in 2010.She is the creator of an international high-class hotel chain, including the Grand Tirolia complex with a golf course in the Austrian ski resort town of Kitzbühel, the New Peterhof hotel in the northern capital of Russia, a hotel as part of the new generation business center Moscow Park in Kazakhstan (Astana ), QuisisanaPalace in the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary), Morrison Hotel in the capital of Ireland.
In 2016, the businesswoman once again, for the fourth time, topped the list of the country's wealthiest women by Forbes version. This publication estimated her finances at $1.1 billion. In 2008, according to the same magazine, she owned $4.2 billion.
Childhood and family of Elena Baturina
The first Russian female billionaire was born in Moscow working family March 8, 1963, seven years after the birth of his brother Victor. She attended the same school as her older brother. Then she entered the evening department of the Institute of Management. Sergo Ordzhonikidze, where Viktor Baturin also previously studied. 
In 1980–1982 the girl worked on largest enterprise cutting tools "Frezer", where the working life her parents. Later she became an employee of the Institute economic problems development of the national economy of the capital, head of the secretarial department of the Union of Cooperators, member of the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee in the area of cooperative activities. In 1986 she received higher education, and in 1989 went into business.
Business of Elena Baturina
Elena Nikolaevna's first business project was a cooperative, established in partnership with her brother, specializing in the development software and implementation computer equipment at facilities in various fields of activity. 
In 1991, the sister and brother founded the Inteko company, whose area of interest included the production of polymer products, commercial real estate, construction and investments in shares of the largest state-owned enterprises, including Gazprom, Oskolcement, Atakaycement, Sberbank.
The company provided financial support in the implementation of projects in the fields of education, culture, art, sports, including international golf tournaments. Elena Baturina initiated the “House for the Whole World” initiative (the program provided housing to those in dire need Russian families in different cities), sponsor of equestrian competitions (Elena was the president of the specialized domestic Equestrian Federation). In 2006, she received the position of deputy head of the interdepartmental group on the national program for the construction of affordable housing.
Since 2007, Elena Baturina has been actively reviving the tradition of our artists performing abroad, created in 1907 by Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev and called the “Russian Seasons”. Thus, in 2008, with her assistance, concert performances of domestic dance groups, classical musical works, a folk song dedicated to Orthodox Christmas.
Biography of Elena Baturina
In 2009, Inteko completed the construction of the Moscow-Park multifunctional complex in Astana. The complex included shopping, entertainment and business centers, a panoramic elevator, restaurants, cafes, office space and a 4-star hotel.
In 2010, Elena Nikolaevna opened the New Peterhof hotel complex in the Northern capital; as part of assistance to victims of fires, it financed the construction of a preschool educational institution in the Tula region, and sold the Russian Land Bank to foreign investors.
Elena Baturina about her business in Europe
In 2011, information was made public about the billionaire’s donation of porcelain from the Imperial Factory from her personal collection to the Tsaritsyno Museum, as well as the sale of Inteco. In 2012 it became known about the opening of the Quisisana Palace hotel in Karlovy Vary, in 2013 - the Morrison hotel in the capital of Ireland. In 2016, it acquired a number of office buildings in the New York borough of Brooklyn, near the Barclays Center sports arena.
Personal life of Elena Baturina
The successful billionaire woman is married. With her husband, Yuri Luzhkov, they got married in 1991. The husband, for whom their marriage was the second, is 27 years older than her. Married couple raised two daughters - Elena, born in 1992, and Olga, who younger than sister for 2 years. Before Luzhkov left the post of mayor, they were both students at Moscow State University (the eldest daughter studied at the Faculty of World Politics, the younger daughter at the Faculty of Economics). In 2011, the girls and their mother moved to the capital of the United Kingdom, where they continued their education at University College London. 
Olga also earned a bachelor's degree from New York University and a master's degree in hospitality management. In 2015, the woman, with her usual marketing savvy, opened her own bar, Herbarium, in Kitzbühel, near Grand Tirolia. In the new establishment, Baturina tried out the old idea that such an establishment could be a place where you can not only drink, but also enjoy herbal drinks in a comfortable environment.
Elena Baturina loves equestrian sports, enjoys tennis, golf, alpine skiing, collecting photographs, works of art (in particular, she owns a painting by the English artist Francis Bacon) and classic cars (her fleet includes about 50 vintage vehicles).
Elena Baturina today
Businesswoman is engaged hotel business, acquisition and construction of real estate (in the USA, in the UK), together with her husband, management of the Weedern horse breeding concern. She finances whole line charitable organizations– “Noosphere” to provide selfless assistance in matters of education, tolerance for other faiths, lifestyles, customs, Be Open to promote the progressive ideas of young creative people in different ends peace.Victor Baturin about his sister Elena Baturina and Yuri Luzhkov
Elena Baturina was included in the first list of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia in 2004 and since then has consistently been on it with a fortune of more than $1 billion (with the exception of the crisis year of 2009, when she was “valued” at $900 million). At the same time, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow invariably remains the richest Russian woman, amounted to $1.2 billion in 2018. In 2010, she and her children had to quickly leave Russia; a year later, the Inteko company, the heart of her entire multi-billion dollar business, was sold. Baturina settled in London, where her daughters began to study, and does business in the UK, Ireland, Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Cyprus and the USA. Anywhere, but not in Russia. What difficulties does she have to face being away from her usual environment?
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“Yes, I came out with money. Now I have quite a lot of cash on hand to develop new businesses,” Baturina said in an interview with Forbes in 2011 in one of the luxury Viennese hotels. At one time, Inteko's revenue reached $600 million, the company was building almost 1 million square meters. m per year, it was planned to implement investment projects worth billions of dollars. Now Elena Baturina is acting much more cautiously: the amount of investment in individual projects amounts to tens of millions of euros.
Here's an example. In 2011, the Irish real estate market was experiencing a crisis, and the Morrison Hotel, located on one of the central streets of Dublin, became unprofitable and was taken over by the State Asset Management Agency. In March 2012, Baturina’s company bought the hotel for €22 million ( independent assessment was €25 million). Having invested about €8 million in the reconstruction and expansion of the hotel room stock, Baturina received revenue of €12 million and €4.5 million EBITDA in 2017. At the same time, the market value of the hotel, according to Baturina’s managers, tripled, and a press release was even issued about this. Success? Quite modest, if you remember that in 2009 Baturina was only individual paid $125 million in personal income tax to the Russian budget.
Another example. Living in Russia, the owner of Inteko could easily allocate €100 million for a resort complex project in Morocco. Now she is suing her partner in this project, Alexander Chistyakov, and the court is painstakingly seizing his property worth several million euros.
After the sale of Inteko to Mikail Shishkhanov in the fall of 2011, Baturina could receive, according to estimates, from $200 million to $600 million (the amount of the transaction was not officially disclosed). In addition to Inteko, Baturina sold two cement plants in Krasnodar region. Seven years later most of This money, invested in development investment funds in Europe and the USA, forms the basis of Baturina’s fortune; the contribution of “new businesses” is much more modest.
The market value of Baturina’s assets in these funds is $500 million, assures her representative Gennady Terebkov. He refused to name the funds, but Baturina herself named one of them in an interview with Dozhd in 2013 - Queensgate. In April 2012 Management Company Queensgate Investments has launched the £500m Queensgate Investment Fund I with plans to invest in commercial property.
Queensgate Investments is a partnership of three large and well-known companies in the UK real estate market. One of them is called LJ Investment Group, a multi-family office with assets in excess of $10 billion. Its co-founder and managing partner, Andrew Williams, is also one of three partners at Queensgate Investments. In 2018, Baturina, together with LJ Investments, allocated funds for the construction of two centers psychological assistance Maggie's cancer patients, this allowed them to open new center at St Bartholomew's Hospital and to begin construction of a second center at the Royal Marsden Hospital (both medical institutions specialize in cancer).
One among strangers
Charity helps build connections. In 2017, Elena Baturina became one of the trustees of the London Mayor Sadiq Khan Foundation, which helps young Londoners from poor families. The richest woman Russia, together with other trustees, will determine the composition of the foundation's charitable programs. Baturina’s own humanitarian foundation, Be Open, supports talented young people in various fields.
However, charity does not open all doors. The population of the tiny commune of Aurach, a few kilometers from Kitzbühel in Tyrol, barely exceeds 1,000 people. The mayor personally congratulates his elderly fellow countrymen on their birthday. It is in this quiet place in the mountains, Elena Baturina decided to buy a house for her family in 2008 for €10 million. Concluding a deal was not easy. The Tyrol authorities hesitated for almost a year before approving it: foreigners are not very welcome here, even if they are investors.
Two years earlier, in 2006, Baturina purchased for €35 million the luxury Grand Tirolia hotel under construction in Kitzbühel (it was being completed under her supervision) and the nearby Eichenheim golf club. The wife of the mayor of Moscow immediately joined in social life Kitzbühel. She sponsored triathlons, founded the JazzaNova music festival and donated money to the ATP tennis tournament. Austrian journalists immediately reported that the Muscovite was trying to win the trust of the Tyrolean establishment. Baturina herself said that her activity is related to the promotion of the hotel and the desire to increase occupancy at any time of the year.
In 2011, after leaving Russia, the family of the former mayor of Moscow sold their first house and wanted to buy a larger estate in the same Aurakh. History repeated itself: the deal was agreed upon again for almost a year. In multimillion-dollar London, Baturina has her own office in Mayfair and a house near Holland Park - and there are no difficulties with the acquisition.
Trustees
In Russia, Baturina had a strong team of top managers. Vice-presidents of Inteko Oleg Soloshchansky and Konstantin Edel worked with her for more than 10 years. In Europe everything is different. Almost immediately after the move, Baturina parted ways with the Austrian management of the company that manages the hotel chain. Baturina also had no luck with her advisors; one of them, according to the Wiener Zeitung newspaper, took bribes, and, having caught him, the owner of the Grand Tirolia hotel stopped sponsorship payments to the ATP.
In 2015, Elena Baturina bought 75% of Hightex, one of the oldest companies in Europe producing membrane structures for sports facilities, walls and facades. A few years earlier, the son of its founder, Klaus-Michael Koch, left the post of CEO of the company. And the company found itself in a pre-bankruptcy state, although Hightex’s order portfolio included huge stadiums in Brazil (“Maracana”) and Johannesburg (“Soccer City”). Baturina again made personnel decisions.
“The management team is based on specialists who worked in the company from its founding until the arrival of the manager, whose activities led to its bankruptcy. That is, today the Hightex team has returned to the composition of the “golden” period of the company,” said Baturina’s representative. Koch owns 25%, he again became the CEO of Hightex. In 2017, the portfolio was replenished with two large orders: the construction of membrane roofs and facades for the Al-Khor stadium in Qatar (the area of the membrane structure is more than 200,000 sq. m) and the installation of membrane elements during the construction of the Canopy of Peace monument in the USA with a height of 50 m (part of the World War II Museum). About efficiency measures taken While it is difficult to judge, financial indicators are not disclosed.
When you leave the country, even your most trusted managers can let you down. In 2013 after desk audit the tax service assessed additional VAT with penalties of about 240 million rubles small Russian company Elena Baturina "Amoris". The company was headed by former vice-president of Inteko Oleg Soloshchansky. "Amoris" was the customer for the construction of the elite cottage village "Gorki-2". Tax officials proved in court that settlements with one of the subcontractors, Eurolux LLC, were fictitious. “Eurolux LLC, after receiving funds from Amoris LLC, transfers the same banking day or the next cash to one-day organizations that transfer funds to foreign organizations,” the court decision said.
Baturina’s company, through the court, demanded from Oleg Soloshchansky to compensate for losses in the amount of 386 million rubles, which allegedly arose due to the fact that the general director entered into transactions with obviously dishonest counterparties, which led to additional VAT charges. Three days later, a new lawsuit followed against Soloschansky for the recovery of losses in the amount of 1.4 billion rubles - by this amount, according to the appraiser hired by Amoris, the costs of the construction of Gorok-2 exceeded market value object. Baturina’s company lost both proceedings; Soloshchansky managed to prove that all transactions were made with the knowledge of the main shareholder, Baturina herself.
Sentimentality in business matters is not typical for Baturina. At the end of 2015 her youngest daughter, 21-year-old Olga, opened the Herbarium bar in her mother’s Grand Tirolia. The girl studied bar culture in New York and Japan, and textbooks also helped, she wrote Tatler magazine, who interviewed Olga for the first time. The bar with cocktails based on alpine plants found its customers and is still operating.
And yet, in the spring of 2018, Baturina sold Grand Tirolia along with the famous golf club. It is necessary to increase the number of rooms, but the Tyrol authorities are dragging their feet on approval, Baturina complained in an interview. “The decision was made to invest in more profitable projects,” a representative told Forbes. The details of the transaction were not disclosed; according to the Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper, the amount was €45 million, and the funds invested in the project could not be returned over 10 years. “Olga now works independently in the field of interior design,” Baturina’s representative told Forbes. Eldest daughter Elena works at marketing service hotel chain and is preparing to launch its project in the hotel business.
What “more profitable projects” can we talk about? Baturina’s representative does not comment on this, but there are many projects in her portfolio. In 2019, the volume of investments in alternative energy and improving the energy efficiency of enterprises will reach €40 million, a pilot project to optimize the energy consumption of Paradisiotis, one of the largest meat producers in Cyprus. Financial indicators are not disclosed, the number of employees is also not disclosed. Here in Cyprus, on the coast of Limassol, Baturina is building a luxury 12-storey residential complex, investments again amounting to tens of millions of euros. In 2015, Baturina’s company purchased a building with an area of 1,500 square meters for $10 million. m in Brooklyn for redevelopment. The list of such relatively modest purchases could take a long time.
In 2008, Elena Baturina's fortune reached a record $4.2 billion. Will it ever be possible to repeat this result on a new basis?
Family friend, billionaire Yuri Gekht tells
- says family friend, billionaire Yuri Gekht
Why aren't criminal cases brought against LUZHKOV? - Vladimir PUTIN was asked at one of the recent press conferences.
It's too early. And why do you think that there is nothing about Luzhkov? - the president answered slyly...
The trial of the ex-mayor of Moscow and his cunning@opoy Millions of people are looking forward to their spouse. And among them, of course, Yuri GEKHT is a friend of his youth and a former accomplice of Yuri Mikhailovich, and now his irreconcilable enemy. Hecht was once a member of the Supreme economic council under the Presidium Supreme Council Russian Federation and the big bourgeoisie. And now he is a simple Israeli pensioner and, in fact, a criminal wanted by Interpol.
On the eve of Elena Nikolaevna’s anniversary (she will turn fifty dollars on March 8), Yuri Hekht was visited in the Promised Land by the special correspondent of Express Gazeta.
I've always stood up for Luzhkova, - Yuri Georgievich assures. - Even in 1993, when angry deputies wanted to remove him from the post of mayor. The capital was then writhing in dirt and poverty! At a meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, I managed to repel Luzhkov. In fact, he is a strong business executive. Everything that happened to him later was the fault of the seasoned boor Elena Baturina. Previous wife - Marina Bashilova, daughter of the first deputy minister chemical industry USSR, - created by Luzhkova. And this matron made Yura the founder of corruption in Russia! For example, I was personally present when Luzhkov bought land in Sochi for next to nothing...
According to Hechta Having come to power, Luzhkov made him his confidant. Out of gratitude to his old friend, he had to grit his teeth and endure communication with his eccentric wife.
Betrayal
I not only had access to the house, but also personally arranged for Baturina to go to the best Moscow maternity hospital named after Grauerman! - Hecht remembers. - Due to her young age, she was terribly afraid of the first birth. A week later, I gave Elena a watch for 300 dollars - then it was a decent amount - as a present for the newborn. Baturina had never tried on such elegant things: she ran around with a watch like a child. In those years, there were no imported goods in stores, and I often traveled abroad. Baturina's girls were dressed and shoed. I also kept in touch with Luzhkov’s children from a previous marriage. But Elena did not let them on the threshold. Junior Alexander I could still come to my dad’s work, but the eldest Mikhail was afraid. Elena arranged this for her husband! Misha took his father's betrayal seriously. Started drinking. Of course, Luzhkov did not like this. (My son, by the way, worked in the gas industry, and as soon as Luzhkov was removed, he was also asked.)
It was Hecht, according to him, who persuaded Luzhkov to begin competitive investment in capital real estate.
Luzhkov, having become mayor, did not know what to do, says Hecht. - There is no money, there is devastation, but the city needs to be rebuilt. In June 1992, at the height of Gaidar's all-consuming reform, I proposed to him the idea of private investment in construction. Yura doubted: “Who will go? Such a risk! I say: “I am!” And he was the first to take part in a competition to invest in the construction of two prestigious buildings in the capital.
Yuri Gekht proudly calls himself a “hereditary papermaker” - since 1740, his ancestors have been producing paper. During perestroika he was lucky:
The Ministry of Forestry and Pulp and Paper decided to unite the most backward enterprises in the industry that were not feeding themselves. And I was appointed general director of Sokolniki Production Association. It also included the Serpukhov paper mill. In 1987, I rented it, and in ’89 the association was privatized. The ministry allowed me, as director, to receive 49 percent of the shares, the rest remained with the team. But then privatization began according to Chubais, and everyone who was not too lazy began buying shares from workers right on the streets. By decision general meeting people did not sell to strangers, but trusted me to buy back the remaining shares. Since then, I have often heard whispers behind my back: “The first Soviet billionaire is coming.” But I couldn’t even touch this money, I never used the dividends - I directed everything towards the development of production. Now the enterprise has been destroyed, more than a thousand people have been laid off. Only one paper mill in Vladimir is operating, and the Serpukhov mill was captured by raiders...
Sperm
Luzhkov was afraid of his wife like fire, - says Yuri Georgievich. - He pulled me home every Saturday. Somehow we were sitting with them Tsereteli. It's almost midnight and he won't let us go. We understand: another scandal is brewing. Elena comes out in a hastily wrapped robe and says: “It’s time to go to bed!” Yuri doesn't react. Then she comes up, takes off her slipper and slaps him on his bald head!
And what did you do at the Queen’s reception in 2004 in London? Just came to power Tony Blair. Everyone has gathered, we are sitting and waiting for Baturina. Yuri is running around, nervous. Finally, Elena enters the hotel with a racket. Luzhkov: “Lena, the queen is waiting for us!” - “Nothing, he’ll wait.” Seven minutes later, Yuri jumps out into the hall in red spots: “We’re going without her!”
In the USA in mall Elena suddenly shouted at Luzhkov so loudly that the entire delegation burned with shame. And in Munich she went to a horse farm. There she was given the sperm of one of the best stallions. She immediately hid the priceless flask at the hotel, but when she began to pack her things to leave, she could not find it. City Hall employee Vladimir Lebedev offered to check her suitcase, but she got angry and gave young man a few slaps. In Moscow, after a customs inspection, we decided to see if all the things were in place, and we found a flask with sperm in her suitcase!
Boorish
Hecht had a serious conflict with Baturina in 2004 in the office of the first deputy mayor Vladimir Resin, who oversaw the construction.
There I learned: Lena wanted three old residential buildings near the Arbatskaya metro station, which belonged to me. (Now they are owned by Telman Ismailov.) I wanted to build a hotel on this land. I evicted 240 families, talked to each tenant personally - I didn’t receive a single complaint. Invested $23 million in the facility. But after the default, I couldn’t start construction. I understand: there is a formal reason to find fault, Lena will not back down. I agreed to sign an agreement on the transfer of objects, but only on condition of payment of compensation: “Lena, return what you spent!” But she told Resin: “Let his friend Luzhkov compensate him.” I couldn’t resist and hit the table with my fist: “You’re just a village boor!” Luzhkov first tried to help me out. But Baturina stood her ground. As a result, she brought contracts for the purchase of all objects, and the amount of compensation was 50 thousand rubles! Realizing that I would not sign, he and Resin offered me three dilapidated buildings on Arbat: garbage dumps bought by Caucasians that needed to be resettled. Even 150 million dollars would not be enough for me! I came to Resin and said: “Am I now going to resettle all of Moscow at my own expense?” He said that I would not sign the agreement until it stipulated that the eviction would be carried out at the expense of Moscow. But Luzhkov betrayed me and did not sign.
Setup
In 2004, Hecht suffered from severe kidney problems, and he decided to receive treatment in Israel.
And shortly before leaving, three people close to Luzhkov warned that an attempt was being prepared on my life, - says Yuri Georgievich. - The vice mayor was the first to call Joseph Ordzhonikidze- he oversaw the hotel and gambling business. He started talking about some nonsense. I told him: “Did you call me for this?” Suddenly he gets up from his chair and whispers: “Yura, leave immediately, I beg you!”
Events were not long in coming. First, Hecht had an accident: a truck blocked the way for his car. Hecht and the driver miraculously survived:
Soon I was accused of kidnapping a person, a certain Vladimir Baryshnikov-Kuparenko, who was supposed to deliver German equipment to my factory, but deceived me: the equipment did not arrive on time. I punched this Baryshnikov in the face and threatened to terminate the contract and collect the amount paid to him and damages. This scoundrel saw on my table the magazine “Kompromat.RU”, in the creation of which I participated. The latest issue described in detail how Baturina received land for construction without a competition and how budget funds were transferred through Mosbusinessbank and Bank of Moscow to finance her undertakings. Baryshnikov decided to take advantage of my conflict with Baturina and went to see her with this magazine. Elena immediately bought the entire circulation, and they developed a scheme to eliminate me from the market.
According to Hecht, the operation was supervised former boss Moscow police colonel general Vladimir Pronin.
Baryshnikov staged his kidnapping, - explains Yuri Georgievich, - allegedly carried out on my order. He imitated an escape from my office, where the kidnappers allegedly locked him for Saturday and Sunday, and he supposedly went into the toilet, climbed out through the window and arrived by taxi to the reception of the mayor of Moscow, and then turned to law enforcement agencies with a statement. On the basis of this nonsense, they arrested the athletes with whom I was seen in the restaurant in the evening after the competition - I supervised sports in Serpukhov. They were made the perpetrators of this pseudo-kidnapping. They gave me eight years. I did my best to get them out. They were released after two years for a huge bribe.
After successful operation After a kidney transplant, Yuri Georgievich gained hope of returning to Russia.
“I’m not hiding,” says the exile. - I correspond with Interpol, but everyone is “looking” for me. I was denied a Russian pension and a Russian international passport, despite court confirmation that I am a Russian citizen. Through Telman Ismailov, Baturina took all my property. I haven’t communicated with Luzhkov since then - it’s useless: he, in fact, became her hostage. But I must return to Russia to prove my innocence. The only thing I ask the president Putin and premiere Medvedev, - to give me the opportunity to personally participate in the investigation of a criminal case.
The wife of ex-Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, entrepreneur and former owner of the Inteko holding, Elena Baturina is one of the most influential businesswomen in Russia. In the Forbes list of the richest compatriots for 2008, she took first place. The Inteko holding, which belonged to her, controlled a fifth of the capital's construction market and was a leader in the production of polymers and plastic products.
Elena Baturina was born in the capital in 1963. The future entrepreneur received higher education at the Moscow Institute of Management, worked research fellow. In 1991, together with his brother, Baturina took his first steps in business. They jointly open the Inteko cooperative and begin to promote the production of polymer products. A few years later, after marrying the future mayor Yuri Luzhkov, family business has turned into a real holding company. Polymer production full cycle took about 30% Russian market plastic products.
The beginning of the 2000s became a new milestone in the history of the Inteko company. It transformed from a cooperative into an investment and construction corporation. The family enterprise was able to retain about 25% of the Moscow panel housing construction market. A year later, the Inteko Corporation entered the monolithic construction market. In 2002, Inteko's activities expanded to include cement production. In 2003, Inteko management officially announced its intention to issue a bond issue.
This was followed by property conflicts between the Baturins and condemnation in society and high circles, which laid the first brick in the emergence of “mistrust” of Yuri Luzhkov and his subsequent removal from the post of mayor. Meanwhile, his wife continued to conduct business and achieved considerable success in this. By Forbes version in 2006, the businesswoman had a fortune of $2.3 billion. Over the year, this figure has increased slightly. At the same time, Baturina was the only woman on the list of the richest Russians. 2008 brought Elena Baturina an increase in wealth to $4.2 billion. There are also a number of large transactions with blocks of shares, the amount of which, for obvious reasons, is not disclosed.
Elena Baturina leads a sporty lifestyle. Her interests include tennis, horse riding, shooting, and trips to ski resorts.
According to unconfirmed information, in 2008, the wife of the ex-mayor purchased the luxurious Whitanhurst mansion in London with an area of 3,700 square meters, second in size only Buckingham Palace. The transaction amount was $100 million. The previous owner of the estate was English developer Marcus Cooper. The deal turned out to be very profitable for him, since he initially invested $72 million in the purchase of real estate.
Despite repeated denials of the validity of the transaction by Ms. Baturina herself and the emergence of information that the luxurious mansion belongs not to her, but to the owner of the PhosArgo holding, ex-senator Andrei Guryev, this was not officially reported anywhere. Moreover, Guryev's representative made it clear that Witanhurst is not the direct property of Guryev. Considering Baturina’s interest in this property, which realtors spoke about, and difficult relationship Luzhkov from the Russian political elite, it can be assumed that the transaction was carried out secretly, in compliance with all necessary measures caution so as not to arouse suspicion and noise in the press. Whether this is true or not cannot be stated unequivocally. However, the presence of financial schemes in the case of the purchase of Witanhurst suggests certain thoughts.
House of Elena Baturina in Gorki-2
Elena Baturina is also the owner of an estate in the elite village of Gorki-2 near Moscow in the Odintsovo district. The cost of real estate here starts from 50 million rubles. Gorki-2 is separated from the center of the capital by 14 km of the Rublevo-Uspenskoe Highway.
Despite the proximity of the city, the village pleases its residents clean air. Residents spend time surrounded by centuries-old pine trees and can stroll along the picturesque banks of the Moscow River. Luxury and privacy are the main aspects that create a special atmosphere here.
Cottage village "Gorki-2" with total area 120 hectares are under surveillance and protection, landscaped, equipped with centralized communications. There is educational establishments, the shops, medical institutions and other infrastructure facilities.
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