Russian President Vladimir Putin allocated two aircraft from the Rossiya squadron, which serves the top officials of the state, to transport passengers of the VIM-Avia airline from Antalya, Turkey. “A special flight detachment “Russia”, on behalf of the President of Russia, will send two Tu-214 aircraft to Antalya to take out passengers of the VIM-Avia airline,” Yelena Krylova, press secretary of the presidential administration, told RIA Novosti on Friday, September 29. She clarified that one plane will take off at 13.00 Moscow time, the second - at 18.00 Moscow time. Both aircraft will be serviced at Vnukovo airport.
Also on Friday, President Putin signed a decree punishing Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov for the crisis situation that has developed with the removal of passengers from foreign resorts due to the debts of the VIM-Avia airline. “To announce a disciplinary sanction in the form of incomplete official compliance with the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Sokolov M. Yu.,” the text of the document published on Friday, September 29, on the official Internet portal of legal information says. The decree notes that the penalty was announced at the suggestion of the government.
The head of state announced the disciplinary measures taken against Sokolov on September 27 at a cabinet meeting. “And I want to tell the minister: I announce to you about incomplete official compliance. If you deal with this situation quickly and efficiently, then we will think with Dmitry Anatolyevich what to do with this incomplete official compliance. If you can’t do it, then we’ll think about it too, ”Putin said then (quote from RIA Novosti).
The President of Russia was surprised by Sokolov's explanation that VIM-Avia met the requirements for air carriers. “If you have developed such criteria, then what are they worth if nothing is visible behind them? What are these criteria? It meets the criteria, but it cannot work. Tens of thousands of people, tens of thousands found themselves in a very difficult situation. Well, it would be good if it was the first time, but this has been going on for years, ”Putin said.
He also criticized Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, who oversees the transport industry in the government. “I draw the attention of the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of transport: you are not paying enough attention to this industry, not enough. Maybe you are overworked too? We have already talked about this,” Putin said. The head of state instructed Dvorkovich and Sokolov to effectively and promptly resolve the situation with the VIM-Avia airline, as well as to prepare proposals for resolving problems in the industry as a whole.
The total debt of VIM-Avia for services, fuel, airport and ground support for flights is about 1.3 billion rubles, according to a decree of the Russian government. “The Prime Minister signed a decree on the allocation of budgetary appropriations in the amount of 98 million rubles to the Federal Air Transport Agency to provide comprehensive services from September 28 aircraft airline "VIM-Avia". Our main task for this moment- to ensure the return of people home. This is one of the solutions aimed at solving this problem,” said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich (quoted by RIA Novosti).
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Complexities of tourism
Tour operators are ready to finance the transportation of VIM-Avia passengers to places of rest with a departure date before October 29, TASS reports, citing a source familiar with the situation. According to him, tour operators plan to pay airlines so that carriers take their clients, whom VIM-Avia was supposed to bring to resorts.
“Tour operators want to pay for re-delivery and take on the guarantee that they will pay for it for those passengers who must fly after October 16, when there will be no more VIM-Avia flights. And until October 16, the export will be issued from extrabudgetary sources, - said the source of the agency. “The depth of these transportations is until October 29.” He added that "it can be any airline, now there is a discussion with tour operators."
Tour operators interviewed by Forbes could not confirm the likelihood of such a decision, but confirmed the fact of negotiations. At the same time, they refused to assess the volume of financial losses of operators and tourists, since the situation may still change.
Tatyana Kruglova, PR manager at TUI, explained in an interview with Forbes that the company is actively looking for solutions. “The problems of the airline affected our activities, as part of our tours are based on this air carrier. This is mainly the Turkish direction, in terms of time - until the end of the summer season, and this is until the 20th of October in Turkey. At the moment, we are promptly looking for alternative transportation for our customers,” she said.
Director of the Department of Marketing, Sales and Work with Agencies of the ICS Travel tour operator Valeria Romanenkova, in turn, explained that the tour operator did not plan the program with VIM-Avia for the winter season, and the last two flights remained on the summer program on October 1 and 8 - we will replace them by another carrier.
“In general, the situation for the market is, to put it mildly, unpleasant. With a number of tour operators this airline occupies a large percentage of the transportation, someone has already planned the winter season with it. Of course, it will not be easy for them, since many of them sell with depth. But, it seems to me, at a time when summer programs are already ending, and winter has not yet started, it is possible to find additional capacities from other carriers,” Romanenkova is sure.
Escape of the owners and interrogations "without sleep and food"
The situation with the departures of VIM-Avia flights over the weekend, after which the airline officially announced that it did not have enough finances to continue working. VIM-Avia has stopped charter flights, but continues to operate regular flights. Other airlines have joined in the export of passengers under the control of the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Air Transport Agency.
The investigators detained CEO and the chief accountant of VIM-Avia in the case of embezzlement. The co-owners of the company Rashid and Svetlana Mursekaeva fled the country, now the Investigative Committee is establishing where they are.
The chief accountant of VIM-Avia Ekaterina Panteleeva in the Investigative Committee gave detailed testimony related to the mass cancellation of flights by the airline, her lawyer Ekaterina Pavlovskaya told Interfax.
“The day before, being interrogated as a witness, my client gave the investigator very detailed testimony, explaining the reasons for what happened. But of course, she does not recognize any theft. This is absurd,” the lawyer said. Pavlovskaya said that her client arrived at the UK on September 27 at five o'clock in the evening to testify as a witness. After the interrogation, they did not let her go home, and by 11 o'clock on September 28 they issued a detention.
“Since the interrogation as a witness lasted almost all night, without sleep and food, Panteleeva asked to postpone her interrogation as a suspect. It will take place, as expected, tomorrow morning,” summed up the lawyer. According to her, the investigation will go to court with a request for a measure of restraint for her client on September 29. At the same time, the issue of the arrest of the general director of VIM-Avia, Alexander Kochnev, will be resolved. investigative committee is investigating a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale) on the fact of theft Money passengers by airline officials.
Who will pick up the assets
In January-August 2017, VIM-Avia carried 1 million 834 thousand passengers (10th place among Russian airlines, an increase of 31% compared to the same period in 2016), the average passenger seat occupancy rate was 76.1%. In terms of cargo and mail transportation, the airline ranks 11th in the country (11,700 tons).
The airline's revenue in 2016 amounted to 17 billion 174 million rubles (an increase of 38% compared to 2015), net profit - 89.1 million rubles (a decrease of 5.7 times). As of September 2017, the VIM-Avia fleet consists of 23 aircraft: 12 Boeing 777s (leased in 2015-2017), four Airbus A319s and Boeing 757s, two Airbus A330s and one Boeing 767. Average age aircraft - 19 years. In July 2017, the company signed an agreement on leasing 15 new Russian MC-21 aircraft.
The main owner is Svetlana Mursekaeva, she owns 99% of the shares of VIM-Avia, her husband Rashid - 1%. Svetlana and Rashid Mursekaev are put on the wanted list. According to Interfax, the spouses may be in Turkey.
Aeroflot is not interested in the assets of VIM-Avia, the airline said, commenting on information published in a number of media about the start of a struggle for assets and slots of VIM-Avia between market participants. Aeroflot refutes any speculation by journalists that the company is in any kind of struggle for the assets of VIM-Avia. Aeroflot is not interested in either airplanes or route network, nor other assets of VIM-Avia, the report says.
Moscow, news September 27, 2017. Rashid Mursekaev offered to sell the airline for 1 ruble. The owner of VIM-Avia was invited to a meeting on the situation around the air carrier on the morning of September 27, did not attend the meeting and probably left Russia. This was stated by the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) Alexander Neradko, speaking in the State Duma.
He stressed that Rashid Mursekaev offered to sell the airline for 1 ruble. On September 25, Vim-Avia announced the termination of operations and that it could not carry passengers due to debts. According to the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, at that meeting Mursekaev said that he was "tired of working in aviation, and he is ready to sell his business for a ruble."
Neradko said that Mursekaev was repeatedly called to the Federal Air Transport Agency, where he reported that the financial and economic condition of the airline was stable, and no cessation of operations was predicted.
“However, last week the owner of the airline turned to the Federal Air Transport Agency with a request to assist in negotiations with creditors on the allocation of additional borrowed funds to support operations,” Neradko said.
He stressed that his department tried to provide such support, but on September 25 Mursekov announced the termination of activities and the inability to fly within Russia and abroad due to the company's financial debts to suppliers.
According to Neradko, at a meeting of the owners and creditors of VIM-Avia, Mursekaev said that he was tired of working in aviation, he was ready to sell his business for a ruble and leave.
“I assume that he is now no longer on the territory Russian Federation. I guess,” Neradko said.
Law enforcement agencies cannot contact the co-owner of the VIM-Avia company, Rashid Mursekaev. According to some reports, he flew from Vnukovo airport to Turkey, presumably to Istanbul.
Rashid Mursekaev and his wife Svetlana Mursekaeva own 100% of VIM-Avia.
Aircraft of the VIM-Avia airline, which has now stopped charter flights, arrested at airports in Turkey and Belgium, said the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko, speaking in the State Duma.
“Now it is clear that the airline will not be able to take out charter passengers on its own. For debts, her planes were arrested at the airport of Antalya and Dalaman of the Republic of Turkey, as well as at the airport of Liege (Belgium - ed.),” Neradko said.
At the moment, according to two major travel operators alone, over 4 thousand tourists from Moscow and St. Petersburg are waiting for their departure in Turkey, who were supposed to fly home on flights of the VIM-Avia airline that has stopped all its charter programs. VIM-Avia airline to six banks.
For these tourists, there are still no free capacities on the aviation market, and operators, in accordance with their obligations, cannot currently guarantee them a flight to their place of permanent residence in the coming days. Tour operators are now doing their best to find at least some acceptable options, but so far there are no free planes.
Moreover, each day of waiting adds to the indicated number of new tourists who have not flown out - the rest of the next group ends, ”the Association said in a statement.
According to the Deputy General Director of the tour operator "NTK Intourist" Sergey Tolchin, quoted by ATOR, the situation clearly requires urgent government intervention to resolve the issue.
Earlier it was reported that due to problems with the company, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced to the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov about incomplete official compliance.
- But let me, how did he serve
in cleaning? I didn't appoint him there.
Mr. Shvonder gave him a recommendation.
If I'm not mistaken.
- It's him? - He is.
Only, bastard, overgrown again.
Great company
Founded in 2002, in 2003 acquired the first 4 aircraft.
And then it started - in 2004, the company has already acquired 12 Boeings and has become the leading charter carrier in Russia in the most popular destinations - Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia. Then 4 more Boeings - and already flights to Western and Eastern Europe.
In 2007, VIM-avia became the number one company in the charter market.
In 2008, they began flying under the auspices of the UN. And in 2011, they became the first among the companies flying from the UN.
In 2013, the company carried one and a half million passengers and performed almost 9,000 flights.
In 2015, it has already transported 1,600,000 passengers and performed more than 11,000 flights, of which 10,500 are not charter, but regular.
And in 2016 - already more than two million passengers.
And all this time they were buying, buying, buying planes.
17 Boeings and 6 Airbuses. Of which 4 are owned and the rest are leased...
And suddenly, with such success, everything suddenly ended ..
The company is bankrupt.
Yes Yes. There is such a company. A small LLC-shka, owned by husband and wife Svetlana and Rashid Mursekaev. The authorized capital of the company is 50,000 rubles (fifty thousand rubles). Do not laugh. And there is. 50,000 rubles, of which Svetlana owns 99% (49,500 rubles) and Rashid - 1%, having invested 500 (five hundred) rubles in her own enterprise. It is with these funds that the founders are responsible for all the debts of the company.
And nothing more. Well, still the property of the company. Yes, only it is not theirs, but in leasing. More precisely, all planes bought on lease formally belong to VIM-Avia, but the procedure is such that if they are not paid for, then the planes are taken back.
So, if anything, Rashid will give as much as 500 rubles. True, his conscience woke up for a second, and he wanted to pay 50,000,000 rubles for the sins of the office from his own funds, but changed his mind in time and rushed into hiding. But according to the law, he owes 500 rubles. Because the director and Chief Accountant. But they are not to blame either. Because they say they didn't steal
So.
The company is registered in the urban-type settlement of Bogatye Saby, Sabinsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan, on Stroiteley street 1a. On the diagram, this street is marked with a red square. By the way, on the Yandex map there are no houses No. 1a along Stroiteley Street. House number 1 is, but 1a is not.
Judging by the registration data, the company assumed a big take-off.
Well, the fall should have turned out not sickly.
And already at this stage questions arise.
How did it happen that SUCH a tiny company, located, how to put it mildly, so as not to offend the Rich Subs, in a remote region of Tatarstan, was entrusted with loans, leasing schemes, and licenses, after all?
Here is the shortest path to the success of the founder of the company:
Mursekaev Rashid Maviyaevich (born in 1965, Barnaul, Altai region, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian businessman, owner of the aviation company VIM-Avia.
With the shipping company did not work, he took up the aviation business. Professional.
So, the matter is not just dark, but the darkest.
By the way, VIM is Viktor Ivanovich Merkulov, the very founder of the company who sold the company to Rashid. He died in 2006 at the age of 70. This person is really connected with aviation - he was an honored pilot of Russia and the founder of various airlines.
And here's to you financial statements VIM-Avia company with an authorized capital of 50,000 rubles for 2014 and 2015. For 2016, alas, I did not find:
What do we see? And we see a lot of beauty.
For example, fixed assets of the company for 2 billion 455 million rubles.
And debts - for 8 billion. Of these, borrowed funds for 5 billion rubles and debts to creditors for almost 3.
Tell me, please, do you need to be an auditor, or at least an accountant, to be surprised at such a disproportion?
At the same time, there is a receivable in the amount of 3 billion rubles. Who owes VIM-avia?
Leasing companies, whose aircrafts in the amount of 19 pieces are not on the balance sheet of the company for some reason? Or did Mursekaev himself so cunningly persuaded the accountant to spend these funds in this way? Most likely, both. The balance sheet will not tell about this - someone owes the company, and that's it. For some reason, it seems to me that some offshore companies owe VIM-avia companies. Who can't repay their debts! But this is so, nothing unfounded suspicions.
In general, leased property should be accounted for in the fixed assets account. So, everything is complicated. You can't just say that in terms of balance. So yes. The matter is dark.
Can you imagine? All the planes on the company's balance sheet are worth 2.5 billion, and yet someone owes her 3 billion. For what? Who? The version that these are all "insolvent travel agencies" or "airports", or even passengers, can be safely dismissed. Why did the whole country suddenly owe the company such a huge amount? Still offshore. Probably.
Moreover, the profit from the sale of the company in 2015 amounted to only one and a half billion rubles. Net profit in 2015 turned out to be only 626 million, and in 2014 there was a loss in general. This information can be seen in the income statement.
And the company borrows everything, and borrows money. And someone gives her everything and gives them ... In 2015, however, they partially paid off debts, but also borrowed again.
For what?
Unclear.
Obviously not on planes. Because they did not increase on the balance sheet, unlike debts, and fixed assets even decreased by 500 million ..
Apparently, they still frolicked with borrowed funds. Here and there...
As a result, debts of 8 billion rubles accumulated already in 2015, which it was no longer possible to pay back.
And what happened there in 2016-2017 is still unknown.
Probably something terrible.
As a result, the founder had the same "extra" 50 million rubles, which he wanted to give to save the company, which he himself had driven into debt, and apparently not the only ones. And the company has another 2 billion rubles of loans.
Does anyone really think that a hired director and, moreover, an accountant were involved in all this?
Today, they write, the company has a debt of 10 billion rubles, which they owe to credit institutions, lessors, airports, fuel filling complexes. And even if you sell all the property of the company, it will be impossible to cover these debts.
I won't be surprised if Mursekaev is now sunbathing on his island.
I wonder if the auditors saw these blatant disproportions in 2014? And the taxmen? And the creditors, what, were not interested in the state of affairs in the company, where they generously poured money? Banks that issued loans did not care? What about leasing companies?
How did it happen that no one noticed that the company had accumulated debts in the amount of its annual sales proceeds?
And the funny thing is that our founders are not responsible for anything. They are not guilty.
And then it turns out that the director and accountant, too. They paid regularly to the budget and salaries.
Everything else seems to be an internal affair of OOO-shki.
Even a criminal case is impossible.
Whats up? Fraud? Theft?
Who deceived whom? Who was robbed? Well, except for passengers stuck on their routes
Lenders? So they are to blame. These are their risks.
Prove it.
I'm afraid they can't. And the city of Londongrad will get new tenants with millions of accounts in foreign banks.
Investigators in the VIM-avia case are investigating how the co-owners brought the airline to collapse and where they could hide assets and money. It is possible that Rashid Mursekaev guessed about the imminent collapse of the aviation business and removed assets ahead of time, including through relatives and proxies. According to one version, the money went to Luxembourg - there, Mursekaev's son-in-law (or his full namesake) found an offshore company. And Mursekaev's daughter sold her billion-dollar fuel company a few weeks before the collapse of VIM-Avia. A month earlier, a company that was created to manage the carrier's finances had gone bankrupt. Both stories involved Sergey Galan, a longtime business partner of the Mursekaevs.
Strong bonds of family business
Most of Rashid Mursekayev's firms are family owned. Even in VIM-avia, the main owner is not him, but his wife Svetlana. Two of his sisters, for example, owned real estate companies.
Rashid Mursekaev
And in 2014, the daughter of a businessman also went into business. Anna Ambrosova (Mursekaeva), still in her fourth year at MGIMO, founded the fuel company FT International. Already two years after the creation of FT International, it was earning 2.5 billion a year. The second co-owner was Anna's husband, 25-year-old graduate of the Higher School of Economics Nikolai Ambrosov. He is the son of Mursekaev's longtime business partner, Evgeny Ambrosov. Together, at the beginning of the 2000s, they managed a large maritime hub in Russia - the Far Eastern Shipping Company.
Presumably, the daughter's fuel company also made money by selling kerosene at the Bratsk airport in the Irkutsk region. This airport has long been owned by the Mursekaev family - first through the Invest Holding office, and now through VIM-avia.
Bratsk is a small but important hub used by transatlantic flights for refueling, and by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for extinguishing fires in the taiga and for observation flights. "VIM-avia" he was needed as transshipment point to refuel and maintain their Chinese flights: they started their business with charter flights to China. And this airfield is halfway from Moscow to China. On it, experts say, you can earn money by selling fuel.
The main income there is refueling helicopters and planes, - says the head of the consulting company "Infomost" Boris Rybak.
Despite good financial performance, in August of this year, Anna Ambrosova and her husband unexpectedly decided to sell FT International. Interestingly, by that time, the father's airline was just beginning to have problems with debts for aviation kerosene. If we assume that the Mursekaevs knew about the imminent collapse and were preparing to flee abroad, then this step looks like getting rid of Russian assets. Especially given the personality of the buyer. They became a Moscow businessman Sergei Galan - a longtime acquaintance of the family. The offices of his firms are even located in the same business center as the Mursekaevs.
Interestingly, a month before the buyout of FT International, Galan, through the Technopolis controlled by him, bankrupted the same company of the Mursekaevs, which originally owned the Bratsk airport. It's about Invest Holding. The Mursekaevs created it 10 years ago to manage assets and securities, in a word, to provide management and operational support to VIM-avia. According to the Kartoteka.ru database, last year Invest Holding showed a net profit of 9 million rubles. However, for some reason, he did not have enough million to pay off some obligations to Technopolis in time. The court materials do not say what exactly Invest Holding owes.
offshore latitudes
The investigation may also be interested in the family's foreign assets. At one time, the airline was 20% owned by a Liechtenstein firm called Hercules Partners Fund. This may indicate at least that the Mursekaevs have connections there, and at the maximum - that part of the profit was withdrawn there.
And now, thanks to the Mossack Foneska database, it was possible to find out that a person with the same name and surname as Mursekaev's son-in-law is associated with an offshore company in Luxembourg. This is a company called Aloma S.A. Nikolai Ambrosov is its beneficiary. The investigation will have to find out whether the company is really controlled by Mursekaev's son-in-law or just his namesake. To do this, Luxembourg can send a request through Interpol.
Probable place of offshore registration:
Aloma has chosen the largest French Credit Agricole as its correspondent bank. "Correspondent bank" means that all settlements were carried out through it, and, most likely, the company's funds are stored in it. It is located in the same building as the Luxembourg branch of the bank.
The experts are divided
Some experts say that all this path of bankruptcies, changes of ownership and offshores could serve to withdraw assets. The Mursekaevs understood that the airline could soon be closed, and prepared the ground for withdrawal. Thus, the chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, Kirill Kabanov, is sure that the owners of VIM-avia did not plan to save the airline.
The owners of VIM-avia acted according to a well-known fraudulent scheme. They got loans secured by property (liners) in four banks (according to preliminary data from the investigation, these are Sberbank, Absolut Bank, VTB and Zenit), Kirill Kabanov told Life.
According to the chairman of the NAC, most likely, the Mursekaevs took most of the money from the banks abroad. And this process did not begin now, but three years ago, when the owners began to issue loans in large Russian banks, Kabanov believes.
There are questions to the supervisory authorities, which poorly controlled the movement of funds from the bank accounts of the airline, - the head of the NAC notes.
However, other experts believe that the Mursekaevs did not plan to hastily leave the country. According to the expert, editor-in-chief of the Air Transport Review magazine Alexei Sinitsky, most likely the reason for the collapse of VIM-Avia was the lack of working capital due to the desire to earn maximum during the high season.
The owners did not calculate their financial capabilities. The money that the airline received for the tickets sold in the autumn-winter season was not enough to pay off creditors, Sinitsky suggests. - There could be a cash gap, and then everything just fell apart.
Sinitsky is sure that the Mursekaevs hoped that banks would support them with loans, and that Domodedovo Airport would continue to serve on credit.
Autumn is always a financially difficult time of the year, and the owners of VIM-avia could not find a way out of this situation, the interlocutor sums up. - But it seems that they fought to the last for the company's viability and did not plan to leave Russia in advance.
Flew, but did not promise to return
Whether the Mursekaevs planned to leave the country or not, they did it. According to the UK, the family flew out of Russia at the beginning of last week. Presumably, they flew to Turkey immediately after they publicly announced the pre-investigation check of the UK.
Turkey is usually quite willing to cooperate with the Russian security forces. Therefore, Life in the previous article about VIM-Avia, that a family can move from Turkey to the UAE, Great Britain or Uzbekistan.
In Russia, they still have some real estate assets. So, Svetlana Mursekaeva is registered in an apartment a stone's throw from the Arbat. Shares in this apartment are owned by Mursekaev's son Rashid and daughter Anna. The profitable house in Skatertny Lane was built at the beginning of the last century, and in the 2000s it was restored and turned into a club house. Now it has only 12 apartments, each with an average of 200 square meters and a price of at least 200 million rubles.
The Mursekaevs' apartment in Skatertny Lane:
From the Arbat, through Moscow traffic jams, the children of the Mursekaevs got to their place of study. Both entered MGIMO. Moreover, Rashid was recommended for enrollment with only 65 points for the Unified State Examination in the Russian language.
Mursekaev Jr., unlike his sister, has not yet completed his studies. On the way to the university, he sometimes breaks the rules of the road. He is reckless, drives in the opposite direction and shows disrespect to other drivers. At the beginning of 2017, he did not give way to a car with special signals. This is stated in the materials of the capital's courts. True, it does not say to whom exactly Rashid did not give way - an ambulance or the police.
Life according to the judicial base counted four fines in the amount of 18 thousand from him. He did not pay them on time, which is why the amount of the fine doubled and fell on the guy with a debt burden.
In this sense, Mursekaev Jr. followed in the footsteps of his father. Problems with Mursekaev Sr. also began because of debts. This led to the collapse of his business, criminal cases, and thousands of our compatriots could not return home on time.
The first wave of claims hit his company in May: the carrier delayed dozens of charter flights across the country. Then the company justified itself by the fact that allegedly not all aircraft managed to return from scheduled maintenance.
The second wave turned out to be the last for the company. Fuel suppliers and airports said that VIM-avia owed them more than half a billion and they did not intend to fill in more fuel on credit. And in August-September, all departments began to make claims against VIM-avia: Rostransnadzor, Rosaviatsia, Rostrud, the Prosecutor General's Office, and the Investigative Committee.
Full name of the company: Limited Liability Company "Airline" VIM-Avia"- a Russian company headquartered in Moscow and a base airfield in Domodedovo. 100% of the shares belong to the spouses Rashid and Svetlana Mursekaev. Airline specialization " VIM-Avia» - charter and regular domestic and international Passenger Transportation. In 2010 year air fleet The company consisted of 11 foreign-made aircraft, old domestic aircraft were removed from flights.
Contact Information
The site of the company: www.vim-avia.com
contact number for advice, ordering and booking tickets: 8-800-700-0-757 (for calls within Russia)
The central office of VIM-Avia is located at: Moscow, st. Novokhokhlovskaya, 23 building 1.
International company designations
IATA code: NN
ICAO code: MOV
Internal code: HH
Company management
Airline CEO: Kochnev Alexander Yakovlevich
Airline history
The history of the company begins in 2002, it was named after its first leader Viktor Ivanovich Merkulov (died in 2006). Airline « VIM-Avia» is considered one of the largest charter companies in Russia, part of regular flights in 2010 was only 32.4% of the total passenger traffic. For recent years The company's management pays great attention to domestic flights. In 2011, the company opened flights to many cities of the Russian Federation, including Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Magadan, Barnaul, Novosibirsk and others settlements. During 2009 the number of transported passengers exceeded 1,200 thousand people. Some big cities the number of regular departures was increased to two times a day. VIM-Avia operates regular and charter flights to Barcelona, Basel, Rimini and Thessaloniki.
