The Altai Menzheruk resort, in which Saber has been an investor since 2011, has become an elite vacation spot for Russian officials, oligarchs and businessmen. After the outbreak of a full-scale war, the head of the bank, the German Graf, promised to turn it into an analogue of Courchevel. The implementation of the project was accompanied by the demolition of hotels and regular tourist centers, as well as the forced purchase of land from local residents under the pretext of a state program.
Now a night in a local hotel costs from 20 thousand rubles. For the wealthiest guests, 13 separate villas with their own barriers were built. Their rental costs 200-500 thousand rubles per night. The price includes personal security, car and personal butler. The menu includes black caviar, oysters and even products defined as "talented" in the procurement documents.
At the same time, ski enthusiasts criticize the resort for early closing of lifts and lack of entertainment. In the future they plan to open a casino there. However, the main audience is not athletes, but rich Russians, including those subject to international sanctions.
Among Manzheruk's clients are the founder of the Evil Corp hacker group Maxim Yakubets, for whom the FBI secured 5 million dollars, the head of AFK Sistema Felix Yevtushenkov, the oligarchs Igor Altushkin and Konstantin Malofaev, as well as representatives of large Russian companies.
The resort is also visited by high-ranking officials: Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, head of Moscow's transport department Maxim Liksutov and representative of the presidential administration Alexander Nikulin. In addition, Vladimir Putin's assistant Vladimir Medinsky organized the conference "Altai - the ancestral home of the Turks", thanks to which Kremlin employees can go on vacation every year at the expense of the budget.