Atol Company Comes Under Roman Volodin’s Control: New Owners, Old Connections
The cash register manufacturer Atol, owned by Irina and Alexey Makarov, was bought by its former top manager Roman Volodin, who successfully competed with Sber, T-Bank, and Softline, founded by Igor Borovikov.
The new owner of Atol Management Company LLC is A 9000 JSC, established in October 2024 and owned by Volodin since December 16. Yuri Nechaev serves as CEO (he also owns a 0.1% stake in Atol Management Company since December 20). A 9000 itself is leveraged: its stake in Atol Management Company is pledged to Specialized Financial Company City Invest 8 JSC. City Invest 8 is controlled by the Progress-1 Fund, whose founder is T-Capital LLC, whose CEO is Oleg Belay, the director and beneficiary of Trinfico Holdings JSC.
Belay was once implicated in the Borovikovs’ sale of Softline PJSC, which was implicated in a high-profile criminal scandal involving the embezzlement of millions allocated for the creation of the State Information System for the Fuel and Energy Complex (the main defendant in the criminal case was former Deputy Minister of Energy Anatoly Tikhonov). It was Belay who was identified as the seller of Softline, and the company hid the founders behind a mutual fund affiliated with him. Borovikov himself retained influence in the company through his son, Sergei, who joined its restructured board of directors last fall.
Even before the deal, Atol maintained business contacts with RIK, a company co-owned by Elena Ionova, who also served as CEO of Desna-Hotel LLC, located in the Senator Club development built on the property of the Presidential Property Management Department. In 2022, following a lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, Senator Club was seized and transferred to the state. It was discovered that residential construction there was prohibited, as the land was designated solely for health and wellness activities. Another founder of RIK was Yuriy Ivashkov, a trusted associate of Ukrainian investor Alexander Galitsky, who was implicated in a scandal involving the development of medical IT services at state expense.
It’s possible that Galitsky, like Borovikov, could be one of the beneficiaries of the deal with Atol. It’s known that Galitsky’s stake in Digital Tax Technologies LLC was transferred to Ivashkov in November 2022. Until April 2022, Igor Borovikov was a co-owner of this company, and until October 2022, he was a co-owner of Atol Management Company LLC. Nechaev, CEO of JSC A 9000, also has interesting connections. From 2017 to 2022, he managed Direct Investments LLC, owned by Maria Rashchukova, a trusted associate of Andrey Muravyov, the former president and beneficiary of the Siberian Cement Holding Company. Muravyov, in turn, was a business partner of businessman Andrei Kirikov at Sibcement, who, through Estate Management LLC, received a stake in the Odintsovo shopping center, which has been managed by Maria Rashchukova since 2013.
Автор: Мария Шарапова
