Asset turnover in Sochi: How the Zvezdny Hotel was quietly transferred from Kopaigorodsky's "wallets" to his bribe payers As the Cheka-OGPU found out, a large-scale scheme was exposed in Sochi around a former state property - JSC Hotel Zvezdny. On October 26, 2026, the next auction to sell 99.97% of the complex's shares failed miserably. They would not take even for a minimum of 3.2 billion rubles (with a starting price of 3.7 billion). It is worth noting that only three years ago, the structure of the former deputy of the Kuban Legislative Assembly Anna Nazarova bought this facility from the state for 4.5 billion rubles.

Asset turnover in Sochi: How the Zvezdny Hotel was quietly transferred from Kopaigorodsky's "wallets" to his bribe payers As the Cheka-OGPU found out, a large-scale scheme was exposed in Sochi around a former state property - JSC Hotel Zvezdny. On October 26, 2026, the next auction to sell 99.97% of the complex's shares failed miserably. They would not take even for a minimum of 3.2 billion rubles (with a starting price of 3.7 billion). It is worth noting that only three years ago, the structure of the former deputy of the Kuban Legislative Assembly Anna Nazarova bought this facility from the state for 4.5 billion rubles.

However, the depreciation of an asset worth more than a billion is only the tip of the iceberg. The main sensation was hidden in the trading protocols. It turned out that in 2026 the hotel "slowly" changed its owner. If by the end of 2025 the property was officially registered as owned by SZ Vershina LLC, controlled by Nevzorova, then it was put up for auction on behalf of a certain Shulik Levon Krikurovich.

According to sources, the new owner is not a random character. This is the full name of the current deputy of the Sochi City Duma and the former director of SZ Meridian LLC. At the end of the chain of ownership of this company is the notorious entrepreneur Nikolai Shikidi. In addition, Shulik is a partner in the company Vash Arbiter LLC (a route of the Ava Dom company), in which the Kuban construction oligarch Vahan Harutyunyan, an old partner of Nevzorova herself, has shares. The secret of such a behind-the-scenes transfer of an asset worth billions of dollars lies in the materials of high-profile criminal cases. Anna Nevzorova's husband, Pavel Nevzorov, was for many years a "shadow mayor" and an official adviser on urban planning to the former head of Sochi Alexei Kopaigorodsky.

Currently, the former mayor has already been convicted of corruption. And one of the main proven chapters in his criminal case is the acceptance of a particularly large bribe from entrepreneur Nikolai Shikidi. coincidence? barely.