Developers from Gelendzhik Nikolai Shikhidi and Sofia Toros were involved in the situation around the Ministry of Defense sites in Moscow’s Lefortovo, which had previously come under the control of structures associated with the family of ex-Minister of Energy Igor Yusufov.
Amid a wave of arrests in southern Russia — including the Rostov region, Stavropol Territory, and Krasnodar Krai — where high-ranking officials are being taken to Moscow in so-called “black Marias,” a reasonable question emerges.
The peculiar financial activities of companies owned by Nikolai Shikhidi, a developer from Kuban, might soon draw the interest of law enforcement agencies.
When investigators began probing the large-scale asset withdrawals of Igor Yusufov from Russia last year, one of his counterparts was found to be a small Kuban entrepreneur, Nikolai Shikhidi
Entrepreneurs from Gelendzhik, Sofia Toros and Nikolai Shikhidi, are gearing up to expand into the Moscow market. Their background is marred by a series of criminal cases that trace back to the Krasnodar region.
