MTI

MTI includes the following companies:

• MTІ GROUP LLC

Address: Kyiv, Lesi Ukrainky boulevard, 4.

EGRPOU code: 41567029

Authorized capital: UAH 600,218,247

Director: Vladimir Tsoi.

The beneficiaries are the Cypriot company Niku Holding Limited. Its ultimate owners are Vladimir Tsoi and Serhii Bashlakov.

• MTІ LLC

Website: https://mti.ua/

Address: Kyiv, Lesi Ukrainky boulevard, 4.

EDRPOU code: 13669756

Authorized capital: UAH 39 million.

One of the leading providers of hi-tech products to the Ukrainian market.

Director: Boris Belyansky.

The owners are the Cypriot firm Niku Holding Limited and Atlantis, a closed non-diversified venture corporate investment fund.

The ultimate owners of the legal entities are Vladimir Tsoi and Bashlakov Serhii.

• Intertop UA

Website: https://intertop.ua/

A store chain of high-quality and comfortable shoes from well-known world brands: Intertop, Armani Exchange, Emporio Armani, Clarks, Ecco, Geox, Marc O'Polo, Napapijri, Skechers, Timberland.

Intertop Ukraine LLC

Address: Kyiv, Podedy Avenue, 23

EDRPOU code: 41097426

Authorized capital: UAH 10.26 million

Director: Sergii Badritdinov

Beneficiaries, through the Dutch company Intertop Group B.V. and the Atlantis investment fund, are Vladimir Tsoi and Serhii Bashlakov.

• Amadeo LLC

Pandora jewelry store chain

Website: https://www.pandora.net/uk-ua

Address: Kyiv, Lesi Ukrainky boulevard, 17

EDRPOU code: 39435939

Authorized capital: UAH 19.55 million

Beneficiaries: owned by Vladimir Tsoi and Serhii Bashlakov through the Atlantis investment fund and Amadeo Group VB (founder: Direction Commerce LTD, registered in Belize).

• Protoria LLC

Website: https://protoria.ua/

Address: Kyiv, Druzhby Narodov Boulevard, 14-16.

EDRPOU code: 39659560

Authorized capital: UAH 3.38 million

A sore chain on retail selling computers, household appliances, and electronics.

The owners are the Cypriot company Niku Holding Limited and Atlantis, a closed non-diversified venture corporate investment fund.

The ultimate owners of the legal entities are Vladimir Tsoi and Bashlakov Serhii.

• MTI Fashion LLC

Retail trade of luxury brands Ermenegildo Zegna and TOD's.

Address: Kyiv, Vladimirska str, 20/1

EDRPOU code: 35592141

Authorized capital: UAH 74,620

Founders: Serhii Bashlakov, Vladimir Tsoi (through Nika Holding Limited), and a resident of Vienna Sergey Distergov. Distergov is known as a man of Hennadiy Boholyubov, but we did not find official confirmation of this information.

In Austria, he runs a company that provides business management consulting. Also, there is a person with the same name who is a co-owner of a souvenir shop in Vienna.

In 2018, MTІ Fashion opened a boutique of one of the most famous shoe brands Tod's in the metropolitan Passage on Khreshchatyk.

• Technoguard

Website: http://technoguard.com.ua/ru/

Address: Kyiv, Václav Havel Boulevard, 9

EDRPOU code: 32955649

Authorized capital: UAH 1.6 million

The company provides services for protecting retail and wholesale enterprises from theft and damage, for automating the agro-industrial complex, and developing solutions for accounting, control, and business security in various industries.

The founders, in addition to Vladimir Tsoi and Serhii Bashlakov, are Vagan Movsisyan from Cambridge, Canada.

The group of companies also includes a modern warehouse complex Denka Logistics. Its area is 20,000 sq.m. It is located in Chaiky village, Kyiv region.

Website: https://denka.ua/ru/

The group of companies employs over 3,000 employees. In 2019, МТІ paid more than UAH 2 billion in taxes.

In 2019, Intertop store chain included 114 stores and 14 multi- and mono-brand footwear and clothing chains. Pandora store chain is represented by 47 stores in 22 cities of Ukraine.

MTI became the first wholesale computer equipment seller in Ukraine that opened certified service centers for Sony, Panasonic, Epson, and other world brands.

In 2008, the list of MTI companies was replenished with Protoria store. In 2013 MTI opened the first official online store of Lenovo products in Ukraine, as well as the first in Kyiv and the largest single-brand retail store in Ukraine Samsung.

Apart from that, the company's portfolio contains more than 50 leading world brands: Vagabond, Bronx, ARA, UGG and others. МТІ has a footwear brand and ТМ BRASKA accessories, both produced in Spain, Portugal, India, China, and Ukraine.

• Founded in 1991 by fellow students Vladimir Tsoi and Oleg Don. Later, another partner Serhii Bashlakov appeared.
• In 1993, the company opened the first Sony retail store in Ukraine. In 1994, it was rated the best Sony store in Europe.
• In 1994, the first Intertop store opened in Kyiv, Artema street (now Sichovykh Streltsov).
• In 1995, a certified MTI service center and an electronics supermarket Orbita were opened.
• In 2006, Intertop entered the Kazakhstan market.
• In 2012, МТІ became an official partner of the European Football Championship EURO 2012. At the same time, Intertop stores appeared in several cities in Russia. After Russia started its military aggression in Ukraine, the companies left the Russian market.
• In 2013, the first Pandora jewelry store was opened, and in 2015, jewelry boutiques began to open in Kazakhstan.
• In 2014, MTI was one of the first to shut down its business in the annexed by Russia Crimea. By the end of March, all 11 stores were closed.
• In 2016, MTI decided to close the Plato shoe store chain due to disappointing financial results.

'It is interesting that the discounter Plato is listed among the Russian shoe brands that have left Ukraine. However, the fact is that like Braska and Lobster, Plato was invented by MTI that also develops Intertop multi-brand stores. And the "legends" for these brands were created solely for marketing reasons,' wrote Ukrainian Retail Association website.

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• In 2014, Capital website wrote that Intertop chain uses a scheme of artificially lowering the invoice goods' value at customs, as they allegedly used the banking details of technical enterprises to generate super-profits.

'The owners of the Intertop retail chain get super- profits. At customs, prices are reduced by 5-12 times. A pair of shoes that get customs clearance for UAH 93 is sold for UAH 1,200 in a store,' said First Deputy Head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine Volodymyr Khomenko.

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MTI assured that the company does not provide customs clearance of its goods and does not work with customs, since it purchases shoes from suppliers and manufacturers in Ukraine.

• Now, the National Police is investigating the activities of the State Enterprise Center of the State Land Cadastre and the companies that supplied them with equipment. The employees are suspected of theft, fraud, and forgery.

During the investigation, they found out that in 2018-2019, a private company sold equipment to the State Migration Service for UAH 41.2 million. According to the documents, it was bought from MTІ for 25.5 million, but there were no invoices for the equipment.

According to the police, the equipment was second-hand, it was previously written off as obsolete and then smuggled into Ukraine. Now, the investigators are trying to figure out who is involved in the supplies, so they asked the court for access to the documents that are kept in the State Tax Service.

During the coronavirus crisis, MTI actively helps doctors. For eight hospitals in Kyiv, they bought 300,000 medical gloves.

The previously closed club of general directors and business owners CEO Club Ukraine (Vladimir Tsoi is a member), raised more than UAH 10 million. They bought 15 ventilators, 17,000 protective suits, 25,000 masks, as well as medicines.