Pervomaisky district of Izhevsk, almost the center of the capital of Udmurtia.

Pervomaisky district of Izhevsk, almost the center of the capital of Udmurtia. Late Stalinist development of five- and four-story houses, typical for hundreds of Russian cities. Udmurtia is a subsidized and poor region, so even in the center of the house they look quite neglected. Falling plaster, chaotic advertisements on the facades, broken sidewalks, and the first floors have been converted into eclectic commercial spaces designed in the style of “the worst urbanist’s dream”.

In general, nothing unusual, with the exception of one — an unusual girl is registered in one of the apartments in building 201 on Kommunarov Street.

By the age of 30, she became the owner of a multimillion-dollar fortune and the controlling shareholder of several Kazakhstani mining companies. The girl’s name is Anna Bereznyakova, and today our story is about her.

Director. Black gold

The earliest traces of Anna Bereznyakova’s presence in Kazakhstan’s business that we were able to find in the public domain are the girl’s signature in the document on the approval of the board of directors of Aman Munai Exploration JSC .

In 2013, she signed it as the director of the parent Aman Munai Exploration BV (the company was founded under the name Kazakhmys Petroleum BV ), she also became the head of this structure in 2013. At that time, she was barely 25 years old, and a business structure with a capital of € 342.9 million was under the management of a young Russian woman (the capital has not changed since the creation of the legal entity in 2007).

Aman Munai Exploration is a Kazakhstani company engaged in the exploration and production of oil in the Aktobe region on the East Akzhar block with an area of ​​500 km².

Judging by the audit reports, the Dutch company headed by Bereznyakova was not the ultimate beneficiary. The controlling party was the Maltese investment fund Falcon NR&I Fund SICAV PLC , which owned the Dutch company through the Belgian structure Aman Munai Exploration BVBA .

It is difficult to document who was the ultimate beneficiary at that time, even though the Maltese fund, which owned the oil field in the Aktobe region, was spotted in the PanamaLeaks leak.

Most likely, the final owner can be considered the billionaire and officially the richest Kazakhstani Vladimir Kim or people close to him. This may be evidenced by the fact that initially the Dutch company bore the name Kazakhmys Petroleum BV, consonant with Kim’s main asset.

Probably, last year Vladimir Kim decided to take new partners into the oil business. In June 2020, Aman Munai Exploration BV left the company’s shareholders (Anna Bereznyakova was no longer its director at that time), and Aman Munai Exploration changed its name to Altai Resources JSC .

Syntech FZE, registered in the special economic zone of Sharjah, has become a new shareholder . The ultimate beneficiary in Altai Resources’ reports is the Singaporean firm Mahesh S / O Pulandaran , controlled by the Maltese offshore Advaita Trade Private Limited .

Judging by the base of the same “heavenly documents”, the key person in the company from Malta is Boris Nikolayenko from Almaty . This is the full namesake of the former top manager of the Kazakh office of Kazakhmys PLC . At the same time , new faces appeared in the latest report on the affiliates with Altai Resources JSC — the former son-in-law of the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, Leonid (Alexei) Dyachenko and his family. Leonid Dyachenko was the second husband of Yeltsin’s daughter Tatyana; the couple lived in marriage from 1990 to 2002.

Dyachenko is quite familiar with the oil sector. For some time he headed and partially owned the Urals Energy company registered in Cyprus , which was producing oil in Russia — on Sakhalin and in the Timan-Pechora basin in Komi. The company arose in the late eighties with the sanction of the head of the first main directorate of the KGB of the USSR (foreign intelligence) Leonid Shebarshin as a cover for studying shadow export channels, in 1990 set off on an independent commercial voyage and went first to the former intelligence officers and son-in-law of Boris Yeltsin — Leonid Dyachenko, and then Sberbank for debts.

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