The ALROSA Group of Companies is a group Russian companies ranked first in the world in terms of production of natural diamonds and havingworld's largest proven diamond reserves.

AK ALROSA (OJSC) and its subsidiaries and affiliates jointly form the ALROSA group of enterprises. The main activity of our enterprises is the exploration, production and sale of natural diamonds. The group's diamond mining enterprises carry out a full cycle of rough diamond production - from geological exploration, diamond mining, their enrichment, sorting to product marketing. Mining is carried out at ten alluvial and nine primary diamond deposits by open and underground methods.

At present, the key shareholders of PJSC ALROSA (OJSC) are the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Agency for Public Administrationproperty, owning 43.9256% of shares; the region of the Russian Federation - the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - represented by the republican Ministry of Property Relations, whose share of shares is 25.0002% of the shares; eight municipalities of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - 8.0003% of shares; among other legaland individuals distributed 23.0739% of the shares.

In the third quarter of the reporting year 2013, our company made an international public offering (IPO) of about 16% of its shares: 7% of shares were sold from the governments of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and about 2% of treasury shares.

Geography of activity

The ALROSA Group of Companies operates in ten countries around the world.

The basic production facilities of PJSC ALROSA (OJSC) are concentrated in Russia, in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), namely in the city of Yakutsk and areas of Western Yakutia: Mirninsky (Mirny and Udachny towns, Aikhal and Svetly settlements), Lensky district, and also in the Anabar and Nyurbinsky uluses, where the company's subsidiaries Almazy Anabara OJSC and ALROSA-Nyurba OJSC are engaged in the development of diamond deposits. The Representative Office of AK ALROSA (OJSC) is located in Yakutsk.

In the Arkhangelsk region, the company operates a subsidiary diamond mining company, Severalmaz. Representative offices of AK ALROSA (OJSC) also operate in a number of other cities of Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Orel.

Outside of Russia, the company is represented by a branch of AK ALROSA (OJSC) in the Republic of Angola (Luanda). In the same country, the company owns a 32.8% stake in the mining company GRO Katoka, the largest diamond producer in Central Africa. In addition, PJSC ALROSA (OJSC) owns 55% in the authorized capital of the joint-stock company Hydroshicapa, established jointly with the National Energy Enterprise of the Republic of Angola ENE. The Company acts as a customer for the construction and operation of the Shikapa-1 hydropower plant on the Shikapa River in the province of Lunda.

Foreign representative offices of sales organizations of PJSC ALROSA (OJSC) operate in Great Britain (London), Belgium (Antwerp), China (Hong Kong), Israel (Ramat Gan), United Arab Emirates (Dubai), USA (New York).

The main office of the company is located in the city of Mirny of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the other two main offices are located in Moscow and Yakutsk.

Place in the global diamond market

In 2013, the level of rough diamond production by the ALROSA group in physical terms reached 36.9 million carats, and the volume of proceeds from the sale of rough and polished diamonds increased by 7.3% to $4.9 billion. Over the past four years, the ALROSA group has been the world leader in terms of rough diamond production.

Detailed information about the main trends in the development of the diamond industry and the company's position among the largest diamond producers is presented in the ALROSA Group Annual Report for 2013. ()

our story

PJSC ALROSA has more than half a century of history of the formation of the diamond industry in Russia, the history of the development of remote territories of the Russian Far North with a harsh cold climate, a history full of glorious deeds and heroic deeds. We are proud of our history and place information about the main stages of our company's development in each non-financial report.

Our history dates back to 1954 - from the sensational for the whole world discovery of the first primary diamond deposit in the territory of the Soviet Union - the Zarnitsa kimberlite pipe. In 1955, pilot diamond mining in Mirny began at the newly discovered Mirny kimberlite pipe. In 1957, the Yakutalmaz trust was organized, processing plant No. 1 produced the first diamonds, and in 1959, the WTO Soyuzpromexport sold the first batch of industrial diamonds from Yakutia on the world market.

Many years later, in the new political realities, in 1992, the joint-stock company Almazy Rossii-Sakha was established, which would later be renamed AK ALROSA (OJSC). Since its inception, the company has gained control over the exploration, production, marketing and sale of diamonds in the domestic and foreign markets in order to ensure the effective functioning and development of the Russian diamond complex and strengthen Russia's position in the global diamond markets.

The names of the pioneers are imprinted in our corporate traditions: for many years, the company has been assigning nominal scholarships to students, providing assistance to the company's veterans, memorial relics are preserved in the historical and production museums, meetings of diamond mining veterans with schoolchildren and students, young specialists are organized. Books from the "Diamond Library" series, dozens of documentaries, hundreds of articles and documentary essays keep all the pages of our corporate chronicle.

The main stages of the company's development
1954-1960	The Zarnitsa pipe, the first primary deposit of natural diamonds, was discovered. The Mir and Udachnaya pipes were discovered, 15 primary diamond deposits were discovered. The Yakutalmaz trust was created. The first enrichment plants were put into operation. The Aikhal pipe was opened.
1961-1970	A research and design institute "Yakutniproalmaz" was created. The Aikhal mine and a new processing plant were launched. The first contracts for the sale of diamonds were signed with TNK De Beers. The "Udachny" mine was created. The first phase of the Vilyuiskaya HPP was put into operation. Trust "Yakutalmaz" was transformed into a production and scientific association (PNO) "Yakutalmaz".
1971-1990	The Jubilee pipe was opened in the village of Aikhal. The Udachny mine was reorganized into the Udachny Mining and Processing Plant. The Aikhal Mining and Processing Plant was created, and the development of the Yubileinaya pipe began. The Mirny geological exploration expedition was created.
1991-2000	The Mir mine was reorganized into the Mirny Mining and Processing Plant. A joint-stock company "Diamonds of Russia - Sakha" was formed. In the Republic of Angola, with the participation of the company, a mining company (GRO) "Katoka" was created. The Botuobinskaya and Nyurbinskaya pipes were opened. The Unified Sales Organization (USO) was created. A subsidiary of OAO ALROSA-Nyurba, the Nyurba Mining and Processing Plant, was established. Sales offices of the company were opened in Angola (Luanda), Belgium (Antwerp), Great Britain (London). AK Almazy Rossii-Sakha was renamed into AK ALROSA (OJSC). The first underground diamond mine "International" in Russia was put into operation. The Markhinskaya pipe was opened. On the basis of the Anabar mine, the Anabar GOK was formed. Diamonds ALROSA starts cutting diamonds.
2001-2012	Completed trade relations between AK ALROSA (OJSC) and TNK De Beers (2002–2006). The beginning of the development of the diamond deposit named after. M. V. Lomonosov in the Arkhangelsk region. Construction of the Udachny underground mine has begun. Launch of underground mine "Mir". In the Republic of Angola, the 2nd stage of the Katoka GDO was put into operation. PJSC ALROSA (OJSC) was transformed into an open joint-stock company. Shares of JSC ALROSA (OJSC) entered free circulation on the financial market. The Concept of the Strategy for the Development and Implementation of the Social Policy of OJSC ALROSA for the period up to 2021 was approved. Concept approved marketing policy Companies for 2013-2015 Development of the Botuobinskaya kimberlite pipe began. The Long-Term Development Plan of OJSC ALROSA for 2012–2021 was approved.
Key events 2013:	The Aikhal underground mine has reached its design capacity of 500,000 tons of ore per year. The company has consolidated 100% of the shares of OAO Nizhne-Lenskoye, a diamond mining company that develops alluvial deposits in Western Yakutia. The resource base was re-audited in accordance with the JORC code, confirmed the world's largest reserves of rough diamonds. The Strategy of the ALROSA Group was adopted, providing for a concentration on diamond mining, maintaining production volumes in Yakutia and increasing production in the Arkhangelsk region, sale of non-core assets and improvement of performance efficiency. A number of agreements were signed for the sale of non-core assets of the ALROSA Group. Placement (IPO) of 16% of the company's shares on the Moscow Exchange as part of the privatization program

Ratings and awards

Credit ratings. During 2013, the international rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's confirmed last year's ratings of the ALROSA Group at BB-, with a "stable" outlook, and Ba3, with a "positive" outlook. In October 2013, Fitch upgraded the rating of the ALROSA Group to BB, with a stable outlook.

Other ratings. In the rating "Expert-400" rating agency "Expert-RA", JSC "ALROSA" (OJSC) according to the results of 2013 ranked 51st among the 400 largest Russian companies. Based on the results of 2013, the independent Institute for Socio-Economic Modernization ranked the company 34th in the TOP-50 rating of innovative companies in Russia.

Top Managers Awards. In the Top 1000 rating of the best Russian managers in 2013, annually conducted by the Russian Managers Association and published by the Kommersant newspaper, Fyodor Andreev, President of AK ALROSA (OJSC), is still among the top ten top executives in the metallurgical industry.

Subsidiary ratings. The Expert RA rating agency has confirmed the reliability rating of the insurance company SK ALROSA at the level of A + - "very high level of reliability", the outlook on the rating is "stable". positive impact IC ALROSA's rating is influenced by high current liquidity indicators.

In May 2013, the Expert RA agency also confirmed the reliability rating of NPF Almaznaya Osen at A level (high level of reliability), with a stable outlook. At the end of 2013, NPF Almaznaya Osen is still included in the ranking of the largest pension funds in Russia in terms of its own assets and the number of participants.

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Alrosa

ALROSA (Al mazy Ro ssii - Sa ha) (Yakut. Arassyyya wanna Sakha almaastaryn public aakhsyyalardaakh holbohuga) is a Russian group of diamond mining companies that occupies a leading position in the world in terms of diamond mining (as of 2012). The corporation is engaged in exploration of deposits, mining, processing and sale of rough diamonds. The main activity is concentrated in Yakutia, as well as in the Arkhangelsk region and Africa.

ALROSA mines 95% of all diamonds in Russia, the company's share in the world diamond production is 25%. The company has proven reserves sufficient to maintain the current level of production for at least 18-20 years. The probable reserves of ALROSA make up about one third of the world's diamond reserves.

Full name - Joint Stock Company ALROSA, short AK ALROSA. Headquarters - in Mirny (Yakutia) and in Moscow.

Alrosa (airline)

JSC ALROSA Airlines is a Russian airline operating regional flights in Yakutia, regular and charter flights in Russia, charter international transportation to the countries of the CIS, Asia and Europe, cargo transportation and special aviation work. Based in Yakutia at Mirny and Polyarny airports (Udachny city).

In addition to regular and charter flights, the company also carries out airport activities and is the operator of such airports as Mirny, Polyarny, Aikhal, Vitim, Lensk, Olenyok, Saskylakh.

ALROSA Airlines JSC was established on the basis of the Mirny Aviation Enterprise, which was a structural subdivision of AK ALROSA, since January 1, 2013, it has been functioning as an independent legal entity.

ALROSA is an association of diamond mining companies, which is the world leader in terms of diamond production, as well as in terms of money. The Group carries out a full range of activities related to the main line of business: exploration of deposits, their development, production, processing and sale of raw materials. ALROSA mines 27% of all world diamonds and 95% of Russian ones. ALROSA's headquarters are located in Moscow and the city of Mironom (Yakutia). The association has reserves of rough diamonds, which, at the current level of production, can be developed within two decades.

Production capacity

Most of the company's facilities are located in Yakutia. In addition, deposits are being developed in Africa and the Arkhangelsk region. In total, AK develops 22 deposits, of which 13 are alluvial and 9 are primary. Objects are being developed both underground (closed) and quarry (open). In addition, four mining and processing plants in Yakutia go to the structure of AK ALROSA: Udachinsky, Mirninsky, Nyurbinsky and Aikhalsky. In accordance with JORC, resources and reserves for 2013 amount to more than 970 million, of which: probable - 308 million, proven - 665 million.

The diamond mining industry dates back to 1954, when Zarnitsa (the first kimberlite pipe) was discovered in Yakutia. In subsequent years, geologists discovered only 15 diamond deposits. In 1957, the leadership of the USSR formed the Yakutalmaz trust in the city of Mirny, and the extraction of raw materials began. The first industrial diamonds were mined in the same year, and in 1959 the sale of Russian minerals on the world market began. In the early 1960s, the USSR contracted for the supply of part of the diamonds to the international corporation De Beers. During this period, basic production facilities were formed, factories were built and basic mines were built. In perestroika times, in 1992, by the Decree of the President, Yakutalmaz was transformed into JSC Almazy Rossii - Sokha. In 1998, it was transformed and renamed into CJSC AK ALROSA. In 2011, it became an open joint stock company and its shares were given the opportunity of free circulation on the stock markets.

OJSC ALROSA -

In October 2013, ALROSA went through the IPO procedure. The results of the auction were as follows: 60% - acquired by investors from the United States, 4% - went to investors from the UK, 20% - from Europe, 14% - from Russia, 7% - acquired by representatives of the government of Yakutia, 7% - representatives of the Government of the Russian Federation, 2 % were quasi-treasury securities. Thus, the corporation raised more than 40 billion rubles. In the same year, ALROSA completely sold off non-core assets, including its insurance company and corporate hotel. To date, the company's shares are owned by:

the Russian Federation, represented by the Federal Agent for State Property in the amount of more than 50%;

The Government of Yakutia represented by the Ministry of Property Relations of the Republic of Sakha - in the amount of 32% and one more;

eight municipalities Yakutia (uluses) in the amount of 8%;

Investment fund Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund in the amount of 2%;

other physical and legal entities(RDIF, Lazard, NPF "" and others) in the amount of 8%.

Since 2009, ALROSA has been headed by Fedor Andreev, a professional economist who moved to the corporation from the post of senior vice president of Russian Railways. He left the post in September of this year for medical reasons. A new leader has not yet been appointed. The volume of the authorized capital is more than 3.5 billion rubles. It is divided into more than 7 billion registered ordinary shares with a nominal value of 0.5 rubles. as of October 2014 is more than 288 billion rubles.

OJSC AK ALROSA

nominal undocumented. The shares have been circulating on the Russian stock market since the end of 2011. - 50 kopecks. Only 0.09% of the total volume is in free circulation. The ticker is ARLS. Total 7.3 billion shares. The level of liquidity on the MICEX is average. Since July 2014, the shares of AK ALROSA have been included in the VTB list of “sufficiently liquid securities”.

Some details of the sale of a 10.9% stake in the state-owned diamond mining company ALROSA have become known. It turned out that the package was sold at a price that was not the most favorable for the state, while the names of the buyers were not disclosed. Therefore, it is quite likely that the deal carried out in a hurry from the very beginning was conceived as a profitable combination “for their own”.

ALROSA has become the first large lot in a new campaign for the sale of state property, which the Russian authorities have been talking about since 2012. The exchange option was chosen for the sale of 10.9% of the company's shares. As a result, according to VTB Capital, most of the shares were bought by investors from Asia, Europe and Russia. “We gave priority to investors who were the first to submit bids,” said Boris Kvasov, director of equity capital markets at VTB Capital, in an interview with Interfax.

The share price was set at 65 rubles per share. According to unofficial information, this threshold was approved on July 8 at a meeting at the Ministry of Economic Development. Thus, the cost of the privatized package amounted to 52.18 billion rubles ($812 million), while in general ALROSA is estimated at 478.72 billion rubles ($7.45 billion). According to analysts, the stake was sold 6% below the average price of the company's papers over the past six months.

ALROSA is a very tasty morsel. The company is an industry leader and has very good financial indicators. In 2015, De Beers had an EBITDA margin of $990 million - 21%, while ALROSA had an EBITDA margin of $1.9 billion - 53%.

The number doesn't seem to be very big. But do not forget that as recently as last December, the Federal Property Management Agency announced that now is not the time for the sale of state property. Already after these statements, ALROSA shares on the stock exchange were traded at much more attractive prices: for example, a couple of months ago, their price reached 78 rubles per share. Why was there such a rush? By the way, applications for the purchase of shares were accepted only ... a day and a half.

The President is not a decree?

As a result, it becomes clear that the sale of ALROSA's securities will not do without a scandal. In particular, the Yakut branch of the Just Russia party has already started collecting signatures against the privatization of the diamond giant. As the party members themselves explained to Our Version, they, of course, do not count on the cancellation of the deal, but they hope to prevent further sale of the company. Recall that, according to the presidential decree, the state's stake in ALROSA can be reduced to 33.0001%. “We are collecting signatures and will apply to both the government of the republic and the government of the Russian Federation in order to prevent further privatization,” the chairman of the council told Our Version. regional office fair Russians in Yakutia Fedot Tumusov. – For the Republic of ALROSA, this is a very important company. There was a time when she was almost the only one large enterprise in the region. Now, of course, many other companies are working, but ALROSA is still one of the backbone companies.”

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Who owns ALROSA

The state has 43.9%,

Yakutia - 25%,

8 uluses of the republic - 8%.

In free float - 23.07%.

After the sale of the state-owned 10.9% stake in the company, the free float will increase to 34%.

It is noteworthy that the names of investors have not yet become known. Recall that back in February of this year, President Vladimir Putin quite unequivocally stated that the privatization of state assets should be as transparent as possible. “There should be no sale of shares for next to nothing, at a bargain price. For the budget, this will not bring much benefit, moreover, this practice is fraught with the seizure of enterprises by competing companies, ”Vladimir Putin said on February 1 this year during a meeting on economic issues. At the same time, he clarified that the transfer to private hands is possible only if the potential buyer has a development strategy for the acquired company, and the investors are in Russian jurisdiction. “For successful privatization, it is fundamentally important that the state clearly understands what it is selling and to whom, and what consequences this will have for the development of entire industries and the entire economy,” the president noted.

Obviously, none of these points was observed during the sale of ALROSA.

Negotiated with the buyer

According to Fedot Tumusov, it is possible that the hasty sale of ALROSA shares was originally planned so that the company's shares would fall into the "right" hands. “There are a lot of questions here and we need to figure it all out. It is absolutely incomprehensible who bought it, it all happened quickly. But sooner or later it will become known and it will be clear who is behind all this,” the politician said.

Market analysts remind that ALROSA is a very tasty morsel. The company is an industry leader and has very good financial performance. For comparison: in 2015, De Beers had an EBITDA margin of $990 million - 21%, while ALROSA had an EBITDA margin of $1.9 billion - 53%. Given that the capitalization of the main owner of De Beers is 10 billion, and ALROSA has 6.5 billion dollars.

“I don’t know the behind-the-scenes details, and you and I won’t know anything about it for sure, but I think that the buyers have been agreed in advance. I think they knew who they would sell to. Well, who will sell differently in Russia?” - says the director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (IGSO) Boris Kagarlitsky.

It is also important to take into account the fact that the sale of ALROSA is actually a touchstone in the campaign for the sale of state assets. This year, it is also planned to sell 50% of the shares of Bashneft, about 25% of Sovcomflot and 19.5% of Rosneft. Should we expect their sale to follow a similar pattern?

“In general, I have a bad attitude towards the privatization of large state enterprises. But this does not mean that I consider state-owned companies efficient. On the contrary, they are extremely inefficient. But it is necessary to increase their efficiency not through privatization, but through improving the quality of management,” says Boris Kagarlitsky. However, there seems to be no one to do this in the government.

Will assets be scattered among old friends?

The idea of ​​privatizing state property arose when Dmitry Medvedev held the post of president of the country. And the main ideologist of privatization at that time was the current Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. And therefore, the past privatization processes, obviously, did not accidentally turn out to be in the hands of businessmen, especially those close to the main ideologists of privatization. Here, in particular, we can recall the privatization of the United Grain Company, 50% (minus one share) of which was received by the Magomedov brothers. Or the sale of a 7.58% stake in Sberbank cheaper than the announced 100 rubles per share. By the way, then 95% of the sold package was also bought by unknown foreign firms. Here we can assume that the preparations for the sale took place not without the participation of the head of Sberbank German Gref, who also traditionally belonged to the so-called liberal wing of the Russian government.

An interesting detail: the Safmar financial group, for example, showed its interest in ALROSA, former group BIN, owned by the Gutseriev-Shishkhanov family. In turn, Mikhail Gutseriev owes his return to Russia to German Gref, as well as to the oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov (since 2007, Gutseriev, accused of illegal business and tax evasion, was forced to hide from Russian justice in London). As a kind of gratitude for the successful operation, Yevtushenkov received on the cheap 49% of the shares of Russneft that belonged to Gutseriev - he needed the company for the development of Bashneft, which at that time was owned by the oligarch. German Gref, returning Gutseriev to his homeland, obviously expected to return a loan of $ 2.8 billion, which Sberbank had issued at one time to Russneft. As you know, after a recent noisy investigation, Vladimir Yevtushenkov is no longer the owner of Bashneft.

In this regard, it is possible that the hasty privatization, initially lobbied by the liberal wing of the government, is actually an attempt to return assets that once belonged to businessmen close to them.

Konstantin Druzhinnikov:

The country's budget is short of revenue. Decided to sell assets. Privatization has begun. But this did not happen transparently, not at the highest price (and a large package could also have a premium to the market). Now the whole world sees that the shares are being sold hastily and below the market, which means that someone could be “brought in” for this. To give such a sign means to fail the whole privatization. Because now it is clear to any large investor: you need to “bring” it to someone and you will be able to play at the next stage of tearing apart the country. And this puts the cards in the hands of both foreign agents and commercial lobbyists. As in the 90s, the state is ready to ignore those who take a bite out of such deals. And in vain - the legacy was heavy. Investment sharks felt blood after the ALROSA auction. We "flowed" - that's what they felt. Now there is a risk that the interested parties will not only rob the state in each subsequent round, but also attack companies in the markets to reduce their prices, put pressure on representatives in the government to privatize what greedy investors want, put pressure on politicians who are ready to defend protectionist positions . And who will stand behind the "Arab funds", we will not know for a very long time - the shares may then emerge, like those of our oligarchs, who quickly fussed and prepared everything for themselves, so, perhaps, in the United States. At the moment, buyers are hidden so well that we do not even know the names of the “pads” on which the shares were withdrawn.

If you look at it, human history on a global scale over the past hundreds of years is nothing more than a continuous revision of the results of privatization. It is unlikely that the story will end due to the fact that several people stole a lot of money. Even if these few people hire three Fukuyama each. (with)
If someone thinks that Fukuyama is a geisha, then he is not far from the truth ..)))

A bloody diamond trail of Israeli businessmen and N. Mikhalkov, on the side.

Israeli businessman Arkady Gaydamak, who was arrested in Switzerland on the complaint of a football coach, may be extradited to France, where he faces six years in prison in an arms trafficking case. Behind him stretches a bloody trail not only in Angola, but also in Rwanda, where a bloody massacre was organized between Hutu and Tutsis, and where Ukrainian mercenaries were involved in massacre of the white population of Rwanda

Gaydamak's lawyer Mark Bonnant confirmed to Swiss television the information about the arrest. "My client was arrested for activities that took place nine years ago, following a complaint that, for some strange reason, was activated.(!!!) despite the fact that my client paid the money, Bonnant explained.

Also involved in the transaction, the prosecution considers b Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and his Deputy Jean-Charles Marchiani , writer Paul-Lou Sulitzer and e X-Advisor to President Mitterrand Jacques Attali http://www.gazeta.ru/social/2013/11/26/5770373.shtml

Jacques Attali

Senator Charles Pasqua stated during the trial that Gaydamak was a French counterintelligence agent. Arkady Gaydamak does not hide the fact that he collaborated with the French special services. About what he was secretly awarded a number of orders, he told back in 2007 in an interview with the NEWSru Israel website.

The French indictment implicated 42 French officials and politicians, including son of former French President Francois Mitterrand - Jean-Christophe. And the final accusation was brought against Gaydamak and his French colleague Pierre Falcon. http://www.gazeta.ru/social/2009/10/27/3277449.shtml

A. Gaydamak, being a citizen of France, Angola, Canada and Israel also a major sponsor of the Jewish community in Russia, (information for thought))), ex-owner Moscow News publications, United Media holding (Kino FM, Business FM radio, Business and Financial Markets newspaper, BFM.ru portal)

One can also recall the sensational court in London, which took place in 2012, between A. Gaydamak and a Hasid from Tashkent, the diamond king, as they write about him in the newspapers, L. Leviev.
The Israeli tabloid jewish.ru wrote at the end of June 2012. : Leviev owes nothing to Gaydamak, the London court dismissed Arkady Gaydamak's lawsuit filed by him last year (2011) against Lev Leviev. http://www.jewish.ru/theme/cis/2012/06/news994308920.php

Lev Leviev, 56 years old. He left the USSR in 1971. Grew up in Uzbekistan. His father Avner was a Lubavitcher rabbi. Avner traded in textiles and collected Persian rugs. In Soviet Uzbekistan, he managed to amass a fortune of $ 1 million, which in 1971, before the family left for Israel, he converted into diamonds and smuggled out of the USSR.
Leviev is an Israeli citizen. He started out as a diamond cutter. Lev Leviev opened his own cutting factory in 1977, when Israel begins unregulated diamond speculation
Leviev shareholder and head of the board of directors of the holding Africa Israel Investments: real estate, retail, trade in luxury goods (looted in Rwanda and Africa as well)
Assets in Russia: development company AFI Development, diamond holding "Ruiz" (Moscow Jewelry Plant, " Ruiz Diamonds, Uralalmaz).

Lev Leviev was said to be the man who hacked into De Beers, although before that he worked closely with the monopolist.
In 1990, Moscow created JV Ruiz Diamonds. Leviev's partner was a division of Glavalmazzoloto, which united all Soviet enterprises in the diamond industry. The Glavalmazzoloto deal gave Leviev access to Russian raw materials and angered De Beers. http://m.forbes.ru/article.php?id=3283

"On the court Gaydamak insisted that it about He brought Leviev to Angola and Ascorp received the exclusive right to sell Angolan diamonds due to his activities in this country. He has many years of ties with the leadership of Angola. " I made the law under which only one licensed company has the right to sell all diamonds, and thus contributed to the end of the war, ”says the entrepreneur. The implementation of the law was monitored, as Gaydamak puts it, by the “private riot police” - the SCG company, co-owned by the former head of the Mossad Dani Yatom, his subordinate Avi Dagan and Gaydamak himself. OMON officers traveled around Angola, transporting money in one direction and diamonds in the other, ensuring the safety of diamond mines and catching illegal miners.
According to Leviev, Gaydamak agreed to transfer about $350,000 a month to the federation of Jewish communities in Russia, and this was recorded in a document handed over to Berl Lazar. ", writes Forbes magazine. But Berl Lazar said that he lost the document somewhere, especially since only one copy was compiled.

Regarding the trial in London between two swindlers and world-class criminals. It's not just about the trade in weapons, oil and minerals in Africa, as well as financial scams in Israel itself, it's also about diamonds.

The global diamond market has long been dominated by De Beers. Managers working for De Beers are agents of British intelligence MI6. And there are no former ones.

Israel has the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum next door to the Israel Diamond Center (IDC) House of Diamonds, and the Israel Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan. I think that I will not be too mistaken in saying that, along with the implementation of trading transactions on the diamond exchange according to the ancient Judaic rite, which ends with a handshake and two Hebrew words “smeared ubraha”, Israel not only smuggles diamonds, but also closely cooperates, coordinating their actions with De Beers and British intelligence in other areas.

There are no random people in this business. However, British intelligence, using Leviev in "delicate assignments" in Africa, has a good memory, especially since both Leviev and Gaydamak are omnivorous people.

The fact that Levayeva and Gaydamak were suing in London, like other oligarchs from former USSR trust only the English Themis, says a lot. They know where to sue, how and why…

Therefore, the arrest of the international swindler and criminal A. Gaydamak is a landmark event not only in the diamond market, the confrontation between British and French intelligence services, but also in the geopolitical alignments in the world. And the scandal, which will be like a domino effect, will affect many high-ranking world officials and leaders.
In Russia and in the post-Soviet space, too.

From interview with Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky, former adviser to De Beers, a well-known expert in painting, collaborating with Sotheby's, the son of emigrants, a US citizen, a graduate of Oxford University, a geologist (he searched for mercury in Tunisia and Alaska, nickel in Venezuela, iron in Liberia, worked in diamond mining in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa), a banker and collector, adviser to the South African diamond monopoly De Beers, a descendant of Rurik:

"So far, unfortunately, the Russians ( why are Russians like that ???, or maybe it's time to call a spade a spade - my note) billionaires for the civilized world are an example of how to learn to steal and kill and get rich quickly on this.
A good example is our yours - my note) compatriot Gaydamak, who, with the Frenchman Falcon, financed the war in Angola and earned a billion from it.
Or Lev Leviev, the diamond tycoon...
... Abramovich does not give a broken cent to Russia and culture. By the way, many Russian-Jewish millionaires are distinguished by this - they do not care about the future of Russia if it is not connected with their financial affairs.

… some of them are philanthropists involuntarily. In return, they receive favorable decisions for their business and the loyalty of the authorities. But still, for some reason, Russian billionaires in London and New York get shot more often than their counterparts from the West. They are generally not allowed into the Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switzerland. Some exclusive resorts in the Caribbean do not accept them. For some reason they are discriminated against. But perhaps this is a prejudice.

Millionaires, in order to preserve and increase their wealth, resort to defensive investments, like consumer goods department stores, minerals (minerals and oil) and raw materials. And, of course, a significant part of the state (10-40%) is in precious metals. The more aggressive ones speculate on the bonds of technically bankrupt countries like Greece, Portugal, Ireland and others.

To become a player in the diamond market, and at the same time significant, you need to be Jewish. To a lesser extent Indian. Then, of course, connections, which in Russia are necessary for kickbacks, and, last but not least, commercial talent. "

“Since diamonds bring in $1.5 to $2 billion in income for Russia, this is a minimal amount compared to oil and gas. Therefore, it makes no sense to consider it strategic. Diamonds have no political influence.


And here uv. the prince is disingenuous, at least, as well as the fact that there are no FORMER))):

I constantly tried to explain to the Soviet authorities that the USSR would never find a more reliable partner in the world than De Beers. But it is extremely difficult to convince a Russian official that De Beers is not deceiving Gokhran, because he is genetically inclined to be suspicious of a foreigner. He is sure that he wants to deceive him, and the diamond business in Russia is built on corruption. (who would say, but not an MI6 employee) A Russian person cannot imagine that De Beers is such a fool not to steal diamonds in the USSR. I had to prove the absurdity and corruption of the then head of the Gokhran, who, under the pretext of checking world prices for stones, sold $20 million worth of diamonds without an agreement with De Beers, losing money for the country on this.
Fortunately, I managed to convince the deputies to arrange a discussion in parliament of the state of affairs of De Beers in the USSR. This is the only discussion in the Supreme Council on the subject of a foreign company."
Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky: I would like to be Lorenzo Medici http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/20191

Actor N. Mikhalkov apparently also decided to participate in profitable business, by investing his undeclared assets in the Leviev diamond trade.


The Federal Security Service of the Chelyabinsk region opened a criminal case on the fact of illegal trafficking in diamonds worth 1 million 250 thousand dollars, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office.

By the way, in 1990 in Moscow it was created JV Ruiz Diamonds.(Moscow Jewelry Factory, Ruiz Diamonds is part of Leviev's structure). Leviev's partner was a division of Glavalmazzoloto, which united all Soviet enterprises in the diamond industry.
The Glavalmazzoloto deal gave Leviev access to Russian raw materials and angered De Beers. http://m.forbes.ru/article.php?id=3283

It was established that in 2012 ChelProm-Diamond and Dundela Limited entered into contract for the supply of diamonds for 10 million dollars (320 million rubles) . Later, between the organizations it was concluded supplementary agreement for the supply of goods worth 1 million 250 thousand dollars (40 million rubles).
During the audit, it was found that this the transaction is illegal and violates the law"On Precious Metals and Precious Stones" Dundela Limited does not have a registered office in Russia. (but simply smuggling as it is - approx. my)
Based on the results of the inspection, a criminal case was initiated under the article “illicit trafficking in natural precious stones by a group of persons by prior agreement.
Earlier it was reported that director Nikita Mikhalkov is a co-owner of ChelProm Diamond. The enterprise is one of the ten largest cutting enterprises in Russia. http://www.polit.ru/news/2013/11/26/diamonds/
Jumped Kurbanshi)))

Russia. ALROSA - gold, precious metals, oil, diamonds. It's time to take back this land for yourself (c)

OJSC "AK ALROSA" is the world's largest producer of diamonds by carat. In 2012, the company mined 34.4 million carats, the volume of product sales for the group amounted to 4.61 billion dollars.
The authorized capital of the JSC is 3 billion 682 million 482 thousand 815 rubles, it is divided into 7 billion 364 million 965 thousand 630 ordinary shares with a par value of 50 kopecks. http://www.alrosa.ru/

In 1992, Yakutia, like all other republics, took as much sovereignty as it could. The main thing that she succeeded in was to transform the union trust "Yakutskalmaz" into the company ALROSA and subordinate it to itself - local businessmen, the government, the heads of eight uluses where diamonds are mined.

The profit from the sale of diamonds remained entirely in subsidized Yakutia, and the latter spent it on whatever it wanted. The National Dance Theater was created, and a program to support Yakut culture and identity was launched.
In 2006, Il Tumen, the local parliament, following the example of the indigenous peoples of the United States, thought about creating a sperm bank in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

And in order to make it more difficult to take the property of the republic from it, in 2003 Il Tumen approved by a special law that only legal form closed joint stock company.

In Yakutia, ALROSA has never been treated simply as a company. For the Yakut establishment, it has always been production complex, who was constantly building, repairing, repairing something, according to the Ministry of Finance official. The market says the same thing about ALROSA. The company has always been surrounded by suppliers, contractors, developers - thousands of local firms that provided their services at exorbitant prices.

At the beginning of 2002, Shtyrov, having easily won the regional elections, became the president of Yakutia, leaving the post of president of ALROSA. Following this, the dual post of chairman of the supervisory board was abolished, and the board was headed by Kudrin alone.


Since 2002, ALROSA, a $2.7 billion diamond monopoly, there were two chairmen of the supervisory board - one from Moscow, one from Yakutia. This corresponded to the distribution of the company's shares: Moscow owns 37% of CJSC ALROSA, Yakutia - 40%, and the rest of the papers are held by former and current employees of the company, as well as third-party investors.

This reshuffle was the beginning of the active actions of the federal center, which decided to gain full control over the diamond monopoly. President Vyacheslav Shtyrov was required to begin transformations in the company.

To help raise funding for investment projects AK ALROSA and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)" was investment group "ALROSA" was created. Sergey Vybornov, the former head of the investment and credit department of Norilsk Nickel, was appointed General Director (effective management is called))

In other words, IS must find funds for those projects that the diamond company cannot or does not want to do on its own.

IG ALROSA is an unusual formation. This is a half-private company, to which the state diamond monopoly ALROSA and the government of Yakutia were transferred at one time promising deposits gold and precious stones. Gigantic assets were under the control of IG ALROSA:
approximately 200 million carats of diamonds in the Arkhangelsk region and 700 tons of gold in Yakutia.
Only one number can tell about the scale of the company: The predicted reserves of the Lomonosov diamond deposit are about $12 billion.

Articles appeared in the press that Senior Vice President of Vneshtorgbank Otar Margania, who worked as a freelance adviser to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, is a sort of eminence grise in ALROSA IG. Margania did not deny his participation in the creation of IG ALROSA. A. Kudrin at that time headed the Supervisory Board of ALROSA and supervised the industry.


The most valuable acquisition of IG is the Severalmaz company, which owns a license for the Lomonosovskoye field in the Arkhangelsk region. Significant funds were required for its development, and at first the South African company De Beers showed interest in the project. But the project fell apart.

Negotiations with the British Fleming Family & Partners were also failed. Under a preliminary agreement, FF&P was to receive a 43% stake in Severalmaz, which owns licenses for 6 kimberlite pipes at the Lomonosov diamond deposit with total reserves of 200 million carats.

The same situation occurred in the gold mining industry. All attempts to find an investor ended in failure. http://m.forbes.ru/article.php?id=18758

The fact is that the ALROSA Investment Group, created with the participation of persons unknown to the general public, was supposed to gain access to billions of dollars of investments, and this did not suit many people, and above all the Kremlin represented by the sovereigns.

The Ministry of Finance said so: ALROSA was a feeding trough for the local elite.“For six months, from December 2008 to June 2009, the company accumulated over $1.5 billion in debt- says Andrey Polyakov, head of the PR department of ALROSA.

In May 2009, ALROSA already experienced huge difficulties in paying interest on loans. They began to analyze the situation. It turned out that the only way to avoid default is about $1 billion in state aid.

The decision was made personally by the Prime Minister: Gokhran bought $1 billion worth of diamonds from ALROSA.

Sergei Vybornov was accused of working in the interests of De Beers and removed.

After all, the South African company was still trading, but ALROSA was not, and, having already accumulated a huge debt, it already owed more than $5 billion.

The company itself considers $1-1.5 billion to be a comfortable level of debt burden for ALROSA. The new president, Fyodor Andreev, was instructed to solve the problem of the debt burden. And the authorities of Yakutia were immediately billed politically.

The republican law directly states that CJSC is the optimal form of ownership of ALROSA for the republic.

“Our task is simple - to get at least something from ALROSA,” explains a source in the White House, otherwise in 2010 100 million rubles of dividends is a ridiculous amount by any standards.
But it was not possible to turn the tide, because Shtyrov prevented this in every possible way, citing local laws and dragging out the process.

November 11, 2011 ISRALend wrote: Leviev is interested in ALROSA coming under the control of Usmanov and Kerimov. The Israeli portal ISRALend notes a coincidence that is clearly not accidental: in Israel, Lev Leviev's “attack” on the diamond business takes place simultaneously with the events unfolding around the Russian diamond monopoly ALROSA. After this company lost its influential patron Alexei Kudrin, who left the posts of Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Russian government due to irreconcilable contradictions with Dmitry Medvedev, it has become an attractive target for absorption by investors closest to the current Russian president.


The “investors” are Alisher Usmanov and Suleiman Kerimov, whose investment company, Nafta-Moskva, currently owns 1.0% of ALROSA, and it has a fairly high chance of “increasing its stake to at least a controlling stake.”

Attention is also drawn to the fact that the instigator of a powerful information campaign directed against the current leadership of ALROSA, consisting of representatives of the team of A.L. Kudrin, "became Kommersant, owned by A. Usmanov, who has excellent relations with I. Shuvalov and D. Medvedev.

ISRALend also recalls “an old friendship with L. Leviev, dating back to the times of the USSR, when A. Usmanov’s father, being the prosecutor of Tashkent, helped the Leviev family to leave for Israel, despite the criminal case initiated against the head of the family.”


A. Usmanova

“Before A. Kudrin’s grouping came to power in ALROSA, L. Leviev received about $500 million worth of rough diamonds from Yakutia a year – this figure also included the production of Almazy Anabar OJSC and Nizhne-Lenskoye OJSC, which is almost completely went to an Israeli diamantaire. In addition, through ASCORP, L. Leviev fully controlled the sales of the joint venture CATOCA in Angola.

After A. Kudrin headed the Supervisory Board of ALROSA, L. Leviev's share in the acquisition of Russian diamonds has been steadily declining and currently barely exceeds $100 million a year, and he had to leave Angola,” writes ISRALend.

Now Leviev is interested in ALROSA came under the control of A. Usmanov and S. Kerimov: in this case, he could "quickly regain lost ground, which would provide him with undisputed leadership in the diamond industry in Israel.”. This is what his “colleagues in the industry are afraid of, which explains the unprecedented information attack on LLD in the Israeli press. What is characteristic Russian media left the “offenses” of L. Leviev without attention. And although during the investigation, LLD is bound by a ban imposed by the prosecutor's office on the disclosure of confidential information, the reasons for the tough information pressure are more than obvious: most likely, it will continue for another 3-4 months until the situation with ALROSA is finally resolved.” http://1sn.ru/52984.html?a09201393012=am09201393012&a13Etc/GMT-4amSun ,


Billionaire Suleiman Kerimov was considering buying a stake in the Russian diamond monopoly ALROSA, several sources close to the company told Forbes. According to one of them, Kerimov has been showing interest in the company for quite a long time, and has already met with ALROSA President Fyodor Andreev and some officials on this occasion. http://m.forbes.ru/article.php?id=76184

Shtyrov was offered a compromise: ALROSA becomes an open joint-stock company, enters an IPO and attracts a strategic investor, while the ratio of the share of Yakutia and the federal one remains the same. Ideally, this creates an open market structure with the ambitions of a global leader in the diamond market. Why not: according to the results of 2009, Russia - that is, in fact, ALROSA - came out on top not only in terms of reserves of stones, but also in terms of their production. The problem is that few people in Yakutia were interested in bringing ALROSA to an IPO.

Local activists were called to Moscow for consultations. The point is small: to introduce a law, but this is an extremely unpopular decision in Yakutia. According to a source in the government, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov suggested that Vyacheslav Shtyrov follow the AvtoVAZ scheme: the government gives money, but sharply increases its stake in the company. The Yakut share, accordingly, was eroded.

Shtyrov never introduced the law. Until the fall of 2009, he pretended to panic, or maybe he didn’t portray it - ALROSA was really on the verge of bankruptcy. Then he tightened it as much as he could. Shtyrov's resignation was an unpleasant surprise for the authorities…..

In 2010 thanks to above-planned revenue, the company began to pay off debts ahead of schedule. A strategic task was set - to bring the company to IPO.

October 2011 The parliament of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) by a majority of votes amended the law of the republic “On the management and disposal of shares of AK ALROSA”, removing the last restrictions that prevent the transformation of ALROSA into an open joint-stock company and the subsequent placement of the company’s shares on the stock exchange. “There were transactions with the company's shares before, although it was not entirely legal, so everything was formalized through donation transactions,” says the source.

ALROSA today is in desperate need of investment. The Soviet stock is about to be eaten away, and the quarries where mining is taking place open way, will be depleted. Companies need to go underground, build mines.

Production by AK "ALROSA" for 9 months of 2013. increased by 6% compared to the same period last year - up to 27.1 million carats. This was said in a statement.

16th of May Fedor Andreev, head of AK ALROSA, said that the company plans to get rid of its non-core gas assets in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO) by the end of 2013.

July 2, 2013 2 members of the supervisory board of AK ALROSA, representing the interests of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Viktor Efimov and Alexander Morozkin, died in a plane crash.

July 30, 2013 The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation granted the petition of Rosneft's subsidiary, RN-Holding (formerly TNK-BP Holding), to acquire the gas assets of AK ALROSA - 100% of the voting shares of CJSC Geotransgaz and a 100% stake in the authorized capital of LLC Urengoy Gas Company.

September 14, 2013 It was reported that ALROSA plans to sell its gas assets in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to Rosneft.
OAO NK Rosneft is planning to close a deal to purchase gas assets of AK ALROSA in the near future, Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, told journalists.


Rosneft in March 2013 acquired TNK-BP, which includes TNK-BP Holding. At the end of June 2013 shareholders of TNK-BP Holding decided to rename it to RN-Holding.
Rosneft is the largest state oil company, production in 2012. amounted to about 125 million tons of oil and 16 billion cubic meters. m of gas.
Read in full: http://quote.rbc.ru/news/fond/2013/09/14/34024846.html

As of October 14, 2013. The largest shareholders of the company are the Russian Federation, which owns approximately 50.9% of the shares, as well as Yakutia, which together with RIK Plus OJSC owns approximately 32.0% of the shares.
Net profit JSC "ALROSA" international standards financial reporting in the first half of 2013 decreased by 9.7% - up to 14.616 billion rubles.
Sales revenue amounted to 82.229 billion rubles, an increase of 7.4% compared to the same period last year. Read in full: http://quote.rbc.ru/news/fond/2013/10/26/34050495.html

Who owns another 9% of the shares - all that remains of the 23% of the shares that once belonged to the labor collective - is not disclosed

Production by AK "ALROSA" for 9 months of 2013 increased by 6% compared to the same period last year - up to 27.1 million carats. This was said in a statement.

On November 25, 2013, the Supervisory Board of AK ALROSA approved NEW list candidates for the .
After the IPO, in which 16% of AK shares were placed, the Russian Federation owns approximately 43.9% of the company's shares, Yakutia owns approximately 25% of the shares. In the list of candidates for the new composition
: http://quote.rbc.ru/news/fond/2013/11/25/34069037.html

The Government of the Russian Federation has approved the sale of a 7% stake in the charter capital (more than 515 million shares) of AK ALROSA to VTB Capital as part of the privatization of state assets. The order also provides for the mandatory terms of the sale and purchase agreement, including the condition for the transfer of shares only after their full payment and receipt of funds to the accounts of the Federal Treasury, the Cabinet notes.

As part of the IPO, will be put up for sale
515 million 547 thousand 593 shares (about 7%) owned by the Russian Federation,
515 million 547 thousand 593 shares (about 7%) owned by OAO RIK Plus (fully owned by the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),
150 million 237 thousand 555 shares (about 2%) owned by Wargan Holdings Limited (a company registered in the Republic of Cyprus and controlled by AK ALROSA).

The branch "Goldman Sachs (Russia)" acts as an agent on behalf of the Russian Federation in connection with the sale of shares, and also provides the services of the organizer of the sale of shares of OAO "RIK Plus". Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan Securities Plc., Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc. and VTB Capital are joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners of the share offering. Renaissance Capital is the joint bookrunner of the share offering.
Quote.rbc.ru: http://quote.rbc.ru/news/fond/2013/11/25/34069037.html

November 27, 2013 VTB Capital acquired 0.2% of ALROSA as an IPO stabilization agent
VTB Capital, acting as a stabilization agent, purchased 2,400,000 of the company's ordinary shares on the market, which is about 0.2% of the total offer. Recall that the stabilization agent had the right to purchase up to 10% of the company's ordinary shares sold as part of the offer, ALROSA said in a statement.

Going forward, VTB Capital will exercise the put option granted by Sunland Holding SA, a 100% subsidiary of ALROSA, to sell shares acquired during the stabilization period.
Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and VTB Capital acted as joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners of the offer. Renaissance Capital was the joint bookrunner of the offer.
http://www.finam.ru/analysis/newsitem7A551/

OJSC AK ALROSA is one of the largest diamond mining companies in the world and accounts for 25% of world production.

As I wrote French newspaper "La Tribune": First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Sechin is the main coordinator of the country's oil strategy, a key person in the system of power created by Vladimir Putin.

He is also the main reason for the expansion of the influence of Rosneft, since he has been in charge of it since 2004, that is, from the second presidential term of Vladimir Putin. One of the current prime minister's closest supporters began his career as an interpreter in Mozambique in the 1980s, when the country was in the throes of civil war.


Why did Igor Sechin become interested in Rosneft? To create a counterbalance to Gazprom, to form a large national oil company that could compete with the gas monopoly in influence and power. He also had a hand in the splitting of the Yukos assets, thanks to which Rosneft was actually formed. Sechin combined work in the government and Rosneft until August of this year, when President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the ministers to step down from senior positions in business. Though reluctantly, Sechin had to comply. However, the agreement with ExxonMobil and his presence at the signing ceremony prove that he continues to play a decisive role in determining Russia's oil strategy

Eagle made of rough diamonds. Exposition of the Alrosa company museum, Mirny

Maybe for De Beers, mining and the diamond market is "dust on the boots", but it will come in handy for us ..)))

P.S. Who and how found diamonds in Russia. felling "Successful". Forgotten Heroes. Sensational discoveries