Collector Konstantin Grigorishin was arrested in absentia
ARTinvestment.RU   27 апреля 2016

The owner 300-миллионного collection of paintings and graphics being prosecuted for non-payment of income tax in the amount of $10-15 million is Exactly the amount not yet decided

a Russian businessman Konstantin Grigorishin was born in Ukraine, in Zaporozhye. Fortune he amassed in the early 1990-х on the sales of Ukrainian metal to Russia. Now in Ukraine the owner of the group "Energy standard" major assets — "Sumy NPO named after M. V. Frunze", "Zaporozhtransformator", companies manufacturing equipment for power industry. In General, the owner of factories, Newspapers, steamships ("Ukrrechflot" also belongs to him).

Write that, in addition to Russian, he has Cyprus, and in 2008 Grigorishin was a sponsor of the "orange revolution". There is an opinion that Russia is only a small part of the assets of businessman. But he lived in Moscow. And that in Moscow "a friend of Poroshenko" (as Forbes calls it) and now having problems with the government.

the Decision on correspondence arrest of Konstantin Grigorishin, the Basmanny court of Moscow received yesterday, April 26, 2016. The merchant, whose fortune in 2016 after the losses of the crisis is estimated at $950 million (82-е place in the Forbes list), the Investigative Committee counted the tax arrears — whether $10 million or $15 million Given to leave, then arrested property, apartments, country house, carried out searches at the enterprises, declared in the international search. The businessman, who is presumably in Kiev, seems to be willing to pay the arrears remitted voluntarily, without admission of guilt, but he's not allowed to do it for organizational reasons.

In particular, due to the fact that the investigation and the prosecution has not formed a unified position on the amount of arrears. How can this be? Don't ask. Perhaps better to quote "Kommersant": "...lawyer (Grigorishin. — AI.) Andrew Bastrakov said that on the eve of the trial he visited the city's tax Inspectorate No. 2, which identified the arrears, but was unable to obtain from its leadership a clear answer, how much exactly you need to pay. According to the defender, in different documents featured different amounts — 647 million and 674 million rubles. In the end, the tax authorities sent the defender to the investigator. The difference of almost 30 million rubles interested in Arthur Karpov (the judge hearing the case. — AI.), which for clarification are addressed in court the representative of the FTS. Latest even more puzzled by those present, saying that, according to him, the amount of arrears with interest and penalties amounts to 916 million rubles."

Okay. As they say, no we've got this.

it is Clear that 674 million rubles, as well as 916 million rubles for Grigorishin amount sensitive, but certainly not critical. But for internal Russian art market, the annual sales of which in 2015 was no more than $20 million ($4.2 million — auction sale of, rest @the gallery mdas) the loss of even one such a buyer will be significant.

Obviously, now the businessman will be greatly to art. But Grigorishin was a buyer not in the ordinary, and very active and, on circumstantial evidence, quite generous.

His first purchase was a landscape Klodt for $20,000 in 1993. Bought emotionally, on the advice of a friend — rather by accident. But it so happened that in 2010-х in the collection of Konstantin Grigorishin were first names and masterpieces of world art — Picasso, Modigliani, Gerhard Richter, Peter Doig, Paul Delvaux, etc. Grigorishin is not focused on one direction and became a collector of wide profile. In addition to the world of art, he gathered an excellent collection of Ukrainian avant-garde (Bogomazov, Ermilov). He is one of the best collections of Soviet unofficial post-war art (the sixties our: Krasnopevtsev, Roginsky, etc.). Collected Grigorishin and modern Russian artists. All the best. That is especially important for your collection Grigorishin did not hide behind the seven locks — willing to give work to the exhibition, setting the bar, his example created the fashion for collecting art. I remember the ART-МОСКВЕ in 2009-м in the framework of the special project he put the gigantic size of the work of Peter Doig "Boat", bought on the eve of the Western auction for a stunning money. Many people first learned about the existence of Doig.

Now the arrest was effected just in case 2009-2010. And well, if taxes really the reason, not an excuse.

What can I say? Wonders sequence. The authorities hastily figure out how to improve the investment climate, fervently shaking the taxes of five years ago. Shake those willing to pay. Shake and loud, with arrests but with searches. "What are you yelling? You're all fish to me scared away..." — muttered in such cases, Carlson. And who's to say that the fat man with a propeller was wrong?

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI