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Now this field is being developed by Kazzinc LLP , a joint venture between the Swiss Glencore (69.74%) and a subsidiary of the state fund Samruk-Kazyna Tau-Ken Samruk (29.82%).
Two years ago, a scandal erupted in the Swiss press , the central plot of which was the suspicion that Glencore transferred its stake in the elite Haileybury Astana school to Bulat Utemuratov’s charitable foundation worth $ 23 million. This money was then simply written off the company’s balance sheet. Journalists suggested that the funds could be used for the provision of some lobbying services by Utemuratov, who, like Vladimir Kim, is considered to be in the inner circle of the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Last year, Kazzinc produced 18.7 tons of gold, almost a quarter of the total in the country.
Approximately 16 tons of gold fell to the share of a subsidiary of the Russian mining company Polymetal of billionaires Alexander Nesis and Alexander Mamut .
Another major player in the market and one of the first on it is JSC AK Altynalmas. In 2020, the company mined 12.9 tons of gold. And taking into account the acquired last year another oldest gold mining enterprise JSC Kazakhaltyn (3.9 tons), the total volume of gold mined by the group can be estimated at 16.8 tons.
Dutch company Gouden Reserves BV is the key shareholder of JSC AK Altynalmas with a 59.97% stake. The ultimate beneficiary of this company, through an intricate system of gasket firms in the Netherlands and Singapore, is also Anna Bereznyakova .
At the end of last year, the company received 63.2 billion tenge of net profit or $ 148 million — almost five times more than the value of the entire Karazhyr coal company. Other shareholders of Altynalmas are Vladimir Dzhumanbaev(21.99%), President and CEO of this joint-stock company Diyar Kanashev (9.50%) and a citizen of the Republic of South Africa Igor Vetiul (5.5%).
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So who is this really Anna Bereznyakova, who closes assets in Kazakhstan for several hundred million dollars?
The same document that she signed in 2013 as director of Aman Munai Exploration BV gives us some hint. From it, we, in particular, learn that “a citizen of the Netherlands Anna Bereznyakova” was born in Soviet Izhevsk on July 27, 1988.
Since it is not forbidden to have a second citizenship in Russia and the Netherlands, we assumed that she could have kept her Russian passport. And indeed it is. In July last year, Anna Bereznyakova received a new foreign passport at the Russian consulate in The Hague. We got access to this document, which, among other things, contains data on all previously issued passports to her.
It follows from it that Anna Bereznyakova is still assigned in Izhevsk in a house on Kommunarov Street, 201. Although it is obvious that in the middle or since the end of the 90s she does not live there (Anna received her first foreign passport in 1995, when she was 7 years). She last renewed her general civil (internal passport) in 2011, when she turned 23. To do this, she had to return to her homeland and receive a document at the place of her registration in Izhevsk.
Anna Bereznyakova before and after she became the nominal owner of a multimillion-dollar fortune
But the most interesting thing here is not Anna’s photograph, but information about her parents. And if we could not find information about her father in the public domain (he is the full namesake of the Petersburg businessman Andrei Valerievich Berezin), then her mother turned out to be a well-known person in the Kazakhstani business community.
Elena Yaroslavna Yakubovskaya is listed as the head of dozens of firms associated mainly with the business of Vladimir Kim and Eduard Ogay. It was previously impossible to trace her relationship with Anna Bereznyakova in the reports of Kazakhstani companies, since Kazakhstani legislation does not require the indication of close relatives of non-residents in the lists of affiliated persons.