Basic Element (company)

Basic Element Group of Companies
TypeDiversified industrial group
Private company limited by shares
IndustryEnergy, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Construction and Aviation.
Founded1997 (1997)
FounderOleg Deripaska
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
(Head office)
Jersey
(Registered office)
Key peopleValery Pechenkin
(General Director)
Gulzan Moldazhanova
RevenueUS$27 billion (2012)
OwnerOleg Deripaska
Number of employees
Approximately 150,000 (2014)
Websitewww.basel.ru

Basic Element Ltd. (Russian: Ба́зовый элеме́нт, romanized: Bazovy element, IPA: [ˈbazəvɨj ɨlʲɪˈmʲent], or simply Базэл) is one of the largest diversified industrial groups in Russia. The company was founded in 1997 and is owned by Oleg Deripaska. It is based in the British tax haven of Jersey and is headquartered in Moscow. It was known as Siberian Aluminum until 2001.

Overview

Basic Element manages Oleg Deripaska's investments into the six economic sectors of energy and mining, manufacturing, financial services, construction and real estate, agribusiness, and airport and airline management.

Over 150,000 people work at the group's companies in Russia and the CIS, Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Latin America as of 2014.

In 2007 the company's revenues were US$26.8 billion, representing 45% growth relative to the previous year, and it had US$45 billion worth of assets. In 2012 the company's revenues were US$27 billion.

Basic Element built several Olympic facilities for 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, including the Coastal Olympic Village, Imeretisnkiy sea port, Doubler of Kurortny Avenue in Sochi, renovation of the Sochi International Airport. The total investments account for over $1.4 billion.

In June 2016, after the United States Treasury listed Basel on its list of Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity, Valery Pechenkin (Russian: Валерий Печенкин) became the general director of Basel, replacing Gulzhan Moldazhanova (Russian: Гульжан Молдажанова). Moldazhanova had been the general director from 2005 until 2009, when Deripaska became general director, and then again from the summer of 2012 until June 2018.

Operations

Energy and mining sector

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Machine building sector

JSC Russian Machines was established in 2005 to unite Basic Element's machine building assets.

Airport management

Basel Aero, a joint venture between the Singaporean Changi Airports International, Basic Element, Sochi International Airport and the Russian Sberbank, is a company-operator of airports in Sochi, Krasnodar, and Anapa. As of 2015 the company handles 9.5% of total passenger traffic and 3.5% of the total cargo traffic in Russia.

Basel Aero Airports

Financial services sector

Basic Element has been managing Oleg Deripaska's personal stake in the amount of 10% of Ingosstrakh's ordinary shares.

Construction sector

JSC Glavstroy is a vertically integrated construction holding corporation. Management functions are carried out by Glavstroy-Management.

Other businesses

Agribusiness

Port business

  • Imeretinsky Port, Sochi

Real estate

  • BasEl Real Estate

Owners and management

The owner of the "Basic Element" is entrepreneur Oleg Deripaska. Legally most of the assets of the companies included in the "Basic Element" belong to one degree or another to Basic Element Ltd (registered on the island of Jersey), which is 100% owned by A-Finance, a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, the beneficiary of which is Deripaska.

CEO is Valery Pechenkin.

Notes

  1. ↑ Lieutenant General Valery P. Pechenkin (Russian: Валерий Печенкин) was in the Russian intelligence community for 30 years. He was the head of the FSB directorate for the Novosibirsk Oblast before becoming in charge of counter intelligence as the deputy director of the FSB from 1997 to 2000. Pechenkin supported Deripaska when Deripaska obtained billions in Russian money from Minatom's uranium deals. He then started working for Deripaska and Deripaska's SibAl. Valery Pechenkin headed the security services of the Mikhail, Lev, and David Cherneys-Deripaska-Makhmudov-Tokhtakhunov and the Sergei Aksyonov (Russian: Сергей Аксёнов), Sergei Popov (Russian: Сергей Попов), and Anton Malevsky (Russian: Антон Малевский) associated Izmaylovskaya and Podolskaya Bratvas. Pechenkin has former heads of both the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russian: Министерство внутренних дел) working in these private security services.

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