The echo of nationalization: the former owner of the Tuapse port may lose 100 million rubles in dividends. An amazing trial is gaining momentum in the Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory. The next meeting is scheduled for November 10 on the joint prosecution of the Regional Prosecutor's Office and Tuapse Sea Commercial Port Enterprise LLC (TMCP). The plaintiffs demand that the deal to distribute dividends for 2024 in the amount of 100 million rubles be declared illegal. The accused is the former beneficiary of the Shahlar Novroz-Ogli Novrozov port.
Novrozov officially ceased to be the owner of TMKP in December 2025. This was preceded by a large-scale investigation, which revealed the illegal withdrawal of the port property complex from state ownership and the transfer of control of the strategic facility to foreign structures.
The former owner himself became a defendant in a criminal case of fraud on a particularly large scale. In November 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation managed to fulfill the claim for the complete confiscation of several assets of the businessman, including the port of Tuapse. Defense attempts to challenge the nationalization failed miserably in February 2026.
Since July 2026, the confiscated property has found a new owner: the Federal Asset Management Agency transferred the port to JSC Clients Strategy Result (JSC KSR). It is interesting that until 2022, the founders of this legal entity included the Cypriot Templeton Investments Holdings (Cyprus), and the structure itself was repeatedly called in the business media as being associated with VTB Bank.