Igor Sosin and his new one. The double life of "billionaire" Sosin: the suspect in the murder of his mother changed faces

The high-profile crime, in which 19-year-old Yegor Sosin was involved, drew public attention to the person of his father, billionaire Igor Sosin. 48-year-old Igor Sosin made a fortune not on privatization or sale natural resources. His name is well known in a narrow segment of the economy - retail. Once, in the mid-90s, together with friends, he founded the country's first chain of goods for the home, "Old Man Hottabych". The project, created with Grigory Kozhemyakin and Artur Popelnyukhov, was a breakthrough: in those days, our fellow citizens bought materials for repairs entirely at wholesale depots and construction sites.

The first chain stores opened in the capital in 1994. For almost two decades, the project has remained a prominent player in the home improvement and renovation (DIY) segment. AT different years, according to the magazine Secret of the Firm, the network's revenue ranged from 2.3 billion to 5 billion rubles. But in 2014, Hottabych, unable to cope with competition from the growing Western hypermarkets OBI, Leroy Merlin and Castorama, left the market.

By this time, Sosin no longer had anything to do with this business: in 2002, he left the project due to disagreements in the development strategy. A year before, having retired from managing a retailer, the businessman, together with partner Yakov Panchenko, tried to develop a chain of stores selling bed linen under the French brand Linvosges, a well-known catalog dealer in Europe, as well as a network of Dream House furniture centers. Later, the initiators of the projects got rid of them.

In 2003, having sold a stake in Hottabych to his partners, Sosin, together with a serious partner, the German OBI chain, one of the leaders in the DIY market in Europe, created the Do-It-Yourself company to build shopping centers in Moscow and the Moscow region. OBI AG received 51 percent, Sosin became the owner of 49 percent - through Milo Investments Ltd. The experience of managing a network specializing in the trade in building materials was very useful. Having become a competitor to yesterday's partners, Sosin actively took up new project. As the businessman explained in an interview with Kommersant, under an agreement with OBI, Milo, which he owns, is building "boxes" for hypermarkets, and the DIY company rents these premises. After the property is built, Milo usually sells the building to one of the Western real estate funds.

In 2010, the Russian division of OBI provided about 10 percent of total sales (the company is represented in 13 countries of Central and of Eastern Europe), and the Russian market itself became the largest for the retailer after Germany. Ian Strickland, CEO of OBI in Russia, spoke about this. However, the network was much inferior to the leader of the domestic DIY market and its closest competitor, the French retail chain Leroy Merlin. The French in 2013 occupied about 11 percent Russian market, and OBI - 4.4 percent.

In 2006, Sosin, together with Konstantin Mirzayants and the Troika Capital Partners Direct Investment Fund, founded the economy-class fashion supermarket chain Modis.

The clothing market attracted investors by the fact that, despite its impressive volume, there were no really large players on it, occupying a share of more than 1 percent, Konstantin Mirzayants explained to Forbes magazine.

The idea was to flood the market with cheap clothes by cutting costs in all directions, opening 120 stores with an area of 3000 square meters in three years. square meters each. Thus, businessmen thought to lure the public from clothing markets to modern shopping malls.

Things were supposed to be sewn in Southeast Asia, stored in their own distribution center in the Moscow region and transported around the country using their own logistics division.

But the crisis destroyed all plans. In 2008, only 32 stores were opened, and the revenue amounted to about 3 billion rubles, or 0.25 percent of the market. The partners had to correct the project. Troika withdrew from it, and Sergey Lomakin and Artem Khachatryan, former shareholders of Kopeyka, who developed Fix Price stores, became the new co-owners. The reorientation from large-scale expansion to making a profit has brought results. At the end of 2014, Modis got into the top 100 largest retailers in Russia according to Infoline, ranking 85th. And in the ranking of fashion chains in terms of revenue (excluding sellers of shoes and sporting goods), the company rose to 10th place (in 2013 - 14th place). Now the retailer operates 139 stores in 70 cities from St. Petersburg to Krasnoyarsk. Competing Gloria Jeans had more than 500 stores at the end of the first half of 2015, while H&M had about 85 (Infoline data).

In 2014, the project earned 13.2 billion rubles, profit from sales - 1 billion rubles (according to RAS). However, the difficult situation in the economy affected the clothing market. In 2015, he lost about 5 percent in terms of money, calculated in Infoline. In the second half of the year, the decline only intensified. According to the agency's estimates, clothing sales in monetary terms will fall by 8-10 percent by the end of the year and will not exceed 1.65 trillion rubles.

At the beginning of September, changes took place in Modis: Sergey Lomakin and other minority shareholders sold their shares, and the company is now almost completely owned by Igor Sosin. He also had to solve the current problems of the project - by the end of the year it is necessary to capitalize the company by 60-70 million dollars. These funds will be used to reduce the debt burden of Modis. According to the network's top management, the main goal now is to get at least some positive result in the face of a sharp contraction in consumer demand.

Igor Sosin also has other assets, although they are less significant. It is known that he is a co-owner of the Format group of companies (manufacturer industrial products from expanded polystyrene), a network of pet supplies stores Cats & Dogs (more than 50 outlets in Russia). In 2012, the businessman and his partners launched a soft drink under the ZEO brand, which was presented in nightclubs in London.

The businessman himself loves to spend time abroad and lead a secular lifestyle, renting expensive mansions for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even about tragic death he recognized his ex-wife in Nice. After a divorce from Anastasia, Sosin remarried. According to secular media, he played a wedding with the beautiful Inna in one of the most picturesque places in Monte Carlo in 2013.

For his young wife last May, the billionaire in Cannes at the annual amfAR charity dinner bought a collection of nearly fifty dresses in shades of red from various famous designers. For only 3.5 million euros. For her, the jewels of famous jewelry houses are also purchased. Sosin is also interested in rarities: he bought the manuscript of Truman Capote's novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" for 306 thousand dollars.

His 19-year-old son Yegor also lived abroad for a long time. A student at the International Business School in London, on the public page "Typical Billionaire", claimed that he managed to earn 55 thousand dollars on his own thanks to a certain media company in the United States. In addition to business projects, Sosin Jr. is fond of electronic music and tried himself as a DJ. in social networks Sosin Jr. admitted that he lacked parental attention, and he dreamed of achieving independence from his mother and father.

Igor Sosin - famous Russian billionaire, who often makes headlines around the world with his acquisitions of luxury goods, such as a unique €3.5 million collection of dresses for his second wife, Inna, and a $306,000 manuscript for the novel Breakfast at Tiffany's. The founder and ex-owner of Starik Hottabych, the largest household goods chain in Russia, is engaged in a number of successful business projects and manages the MODIS retailer. In addition, the oligarch heads the New Idea Investment Consulting consulting company and is a co-owner of the ZEO soft drink brand.

The biography of Igor Sosin is completely hidden from prying eyes. It is known that the billionaire is 48 years old, and he almost constantly lives abroad. Becoming successful businessman, Igor Vladimirovich does not hide that he loves high level comfort of life, therefore, leaving Russia, he annually rents an elite estate with a spacious mansion in Southampton, whose area is 4 hectares.

The billionaire achieved success in business thanks to his pronounced entrepreneurial “vein”, which allows him to join new projects on time and easily part with those in which he is losing interest.

Personal life of Igor Sosin

The personal life of Igor Sosin has two stages. His first wife was Anastasia Sosina, who gave birth to two children to the billionaire - Yegor and Taisiya, who, after the divorce of their parents, remained to live with their mother. After breaking off relations with his family, the oligarch married a second time in 2013. Sosin's wedding with his new darling Inna took place in Monaco. The celebration was organized on a special scale in the prestigious hall of Le Monte Carlo Sporting Club.

Businessman Igor Sosin is known to the public as a big "secular" party-goer, who does not spare money for organizing chic parties. Yachts are also among his hobbies, and he likes to devote his free time to playing tennis and skiing.

The eldest son of Igor Sosin killed his mother

December 10, 2015 at former family Igor Sosin suffered a terrible tragedy - his 19-year-old son Yegor strangled his mother, the ex-wife of a billionaire, with a charger cord. As it turned out, 44-year-old Anastasia took her son to Kazan to participate in a seminar by a German psychotherapist in order to rid the child of drug addiction. On the eve of the start of psychotherapeutic measures, being in an inadequate state, Yegor Sosin killed his mother.

As it turned out later, the son of a billionaire does not even remember what happened in their room with his mother. Therefore, the young man, referring to hallucinations, could not explain to law enforcement officers why and why he beat his parent, and then strangled her. Yegor Sosin was arrested for two months, during which a series of examinations will take place. After all the circumstances of the tragedy are established, the final charges will be brought against the billionaire's son.

“She was strange, as if under the influence of something. She was talking about paranoia. I told her that she was behaving strangely and if she didn't stop I would kill her. She didn't react. Then I got up from my bed, lay on top of it and began to choke with both hands. I cried and realized that I was killing my mother. I felt that she had died, and it became easier for me, ”admitted Yegor Sosin.

Attack on Guf

The children of billionaire Igor Sosin are known for their difficult characters. So, a week ago, Sosin's 13-year-old stepson, Vyacheslav, did not like the short performance of rapper Guf, after which the boy's guards beat the singer.

Recall that last weekend Guf (Aleksey Dolmatov) came with a concert to the Bunker club for the birthday of Vyacheslav, the stepson of the famous billionaire Igor Sosin. According to the artist, after he performed with his set, he left the stage, where the guards were waiting for him, who took him to the basement of the club and beat him. At the same time, the rapper did not even understand why he was treated like that. As it turned out later, 13-year-old Slava Sosin did not like the artist's too short performance, and he called security.

After the incident, the rapper filed a statement with law enforcement, as well as a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion and a broken rib. He recently posted a photo of his abuser on Instagram. According to some reports, he is the head of the security service of the billionaire.

In Tatarstan, the court ruled in the case of the son of the co-owner of the Modis clothing chain Igor Sosin - Yegor. According to investigators, a young man killed his mother last year in a Kazan hotel. Based on the results of the examinations, the TFR declared the defendant to be insane. As a result, the court sent Sosin Jr. to compulsory treatment.

On Tuesday, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan issued a decision in a criminal case against 20-year-old Yegor Sosin, accused of brutal murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of his mother Anastasia Sosina. The process took place behind closed doors. The defendant's lawyers insisted on this, stating that the circumstances of his personal life and information about his diagnosis could be disclosed in court. Journalists were allowed to be present only at the announcement of the operative part of the decision.

Previously, the Investigation Department (SU) of the TFR for Tatarstan applied to the court with a decision to apply against Sosin, whom the doctors recognized as insane, "a compulsory measure of a medical nature." At the meeting, any clear signs, testifying to his mental disorder, were not noticed - the defendant, dressed in all black, was calm and consciously covered his face with a sheet of paper from the cameras.

- He was aware of his actions when he killed his mother?

No, I didn't.

- It is strange that earlier none of his acquaintances, relatives noticed any deviations behind him ...

Apparently, he had such a disease. The disease manifested itself in this way.

- It is known that Sosin took drugs. Maybe under the influence of drugs, he decided to kill?

The fact that he took serious drugs, we learned only from his testimony. This point has not been proven.

Will be treated. Heal, then come out.

- Was Yegor Sosin's father present at the last court session?

No, he wasn't.
Irina Bobrova

Sick means unpunished: the son of an oligarch who killed his mother can return to society in a year

[...] This means that Sosin will not be responsible for the murder of his mother, explains the chairman of the Moscow Bar Association "Ter-Akopov and Partners" Georgy Ter-Akopov.

“The defendant cannot be held responsible for his actions, since at the time of the crime, due to an existing mental illness, he did not give an account of his actions. To date, this painful condition continues with him. This means that he cannot adequately perceive the punishment that could to be assigned to him."

Referral to compulsory treatment is common court practice, says psychotherapist the highest category Alexander Fedorovich. Naturally, if there are grounds for this.

"The issue of compulsory treatment is accepted by the court within the framework of the proceedings, if strong evidence of a psychological and psychiatric examination is presented, which confirms the insanity of the subject at the time of the act. And if he sees a stable mental disorder which requires inpatient treatment for quite a long time.

Yegor Sosin will be treated in a closed clinic until the doctors realize that he is no longer a danger to himself or to society, Georgy Ter-Akopov notes.

"Only when the doctors come to the conclusion that he will not hang himself and will not be able to harm anyone else, although he will remain mentally ill person only then can they let him out."

This treatment usually takes a long time. But theoretically, explains Alexander Fedorovich, the patient can leave the clinic in a year.

"The term varies. The minimum is a year. But this institution has a special commission that conducts psychological testing and interviews twice a year and prepares commission materials. This commission may conclude that the condition has improved so much that the patient can continue observation, for example, with a psychiatrist at the place of residence.

If such a patient is allowed to go home and commits a crime again, trial will not touch on the first murder, says Konstantin Trapaidze, chairman of the Your Legal Attorney Bar Association.

"Both the investigation and the court will consider the circumstances of the newly committed crime. And in this case, it will not be considered as a relapse or as a repeated crime, because mental insanity is the absence of criminal responsibility. And a new crime as a relapse is not considered."

In the event of a repeated crime, no claims can be made against the experts in the first case, continues Konstantin Trapaidze. In the same way as to doctors and judges. Of course, if they did not act in collusion with the accused or with his relatives.

"Experts will answer only if it is proved that they regarded a healthy sane state as insane, which made it possible to avoid criminal liability. And here the basis will not be the examination itself, but operational data: the transfer of money or some kind of interest of experts , or telephone conversations, or other objective evidence".

I will add that compulsory treatment is carried out in the so-called psychiatric hospitals of a specialized type with intensive supervision. They are intended just for those who have committed socially dangerous acts in a state of insanity. Clinic security in certain cases can use physical force, as well as special equipment - rubber truncheons, handcuffs and even firearms.

Boris Beilin

Source:

Billionaire Igor Sosin, who founded several hardware stores, has been living abroad for many years and is famous for his love of luxury living. He has been married twice and has two children and a stepson. Teenagers give a man a lot of problems and are known for their difficult characters. For example, a week ago there was a scandal in the Sosin family - rapper Guf was beaten by the security guard of the billionaire's stepson.

Guf (Alexey Dolmatov) came with a concert to the Bunker club for the birthday of Vyacheslav, the stepson of the famous billionaire Igor Sosin. According to the artist, after he performed with his set, he left the stage, where the guards were waiting for him, who took him to the basement of the club and beat him. At the same time, the rapper did not even understand why he was treated like that. As it turned out later, 13-year-old Slava Sosin did not like the artist's too short performance, and he called security.

After the incident, the rapper filed a complaint with law enforcement agencies, as well as a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion and a fractured rib. He recently posted a photo of his abuser on Instagram. According to some reports, he is the head of the security service of the billionaire.
Note that this is not the first incident that happened in the family of billionaire Sosin. So, a few years ago, the whole country was shocked by the terrible murder of his first wife Anastasia, who was strangled by her own son Yegor, who was in a state of drug intoxication. In addition, illegal drugs were found in the Sosins' room. Before strangling his mother, Yegor inflicted serious bodily harm on her - specialists recorded numerous bruises and abrasions on the body of 44-year-old Anastasia. Thereafter young man sent for compulsory treatment.

After investigative actions, Yegor confessed to having killed his own mother. He recalled that before the murder, he warned 44-year-old Anastasia Sosina that he would deal with her if she did not stop behaving in a strange way, because his mother for a long time dabbled in esotericism.
“She was strange, as if under the influence of something. She was talking about paranoia. I told her that she was behaving strangely and if she didn't stop I would kill her. She didn't react. Then I got up from my bed, lay on top of it and began to choke with both hands. I cried and realized that I was killing my mother. I felt that she had died, and it became easier for me, ”admitted Yegor Sosin.
During the investigation, Yegor Sosin confirmed that for several years he had used illegal substances that he had purchased on the Internet. His mother found out about this, and she decided to take her son to a seminar in Kazan, believing that this would help him get rid of addiction. But everything did not happen as Anastasia expected.

The high-profile crime, in which 19-year-old Yegor Sosin was involved, drew public attention to the person of his father, billionaire Igor Sosin. Lenta.ru tried to trace life path entrepreneur from the beginnings of the business to the present day.

Build a construction business

Igor Sosin, 48, did not make his fortune by privatizing or selling natural resources. His name is well known in a narrow segment of the economy - retail. Once, in the mid-90s, together with friends, he founded the country's first chain of goods for the home, "Old Man Hottabych". The project, created with Grigory Kozhemyakin and Artur Popelnyukhov, was a breakthrough: in those days, our fellow citizens bought materials for repairs entirely at wholesale depots and construction sites.

The first chain stores opened in the capital in 1994. For almost two decades, the project has remained a prominent player in the home improvement and renovation (DIY) segment. Over the years, according to the magazine Secret of the Firm, the network's revenue ranged from 2.3 billion to 5 billion rubles. But in 2014, Hottabych, unable to cope with competition from the growing Western hypermarkets OBI, Leroy Merlin and Castorama, left the market.

Frame: video "Business Online TV" / YouTube

The experience of managing a network specializing in the trade in building materials was very useful. Having become a competitor to yesterday's partners, Sosin actively took up a new project. As the businessman explained in an interview with Kommersant, under an agreement with OBI, Milo, which he owns, is building "boxes" for hypermarkets, and the DIY company rents these premises. After the property is built, Milo usually sells the building to one of the Western real estate funds.

Photo: New Idea Investment Consulting

In 2010, the Russian division of OBI provided about 10 percent of total sales (the company is represented in 13 countries of Central and Eastern Europe), and the Russian market itself became the largest for the retailer after Germany. Ian Strickland, CEO of OBI in Russia, spoke about this. However, the network was much inferior to the leader of the domestic DIY market and its closest competitor, the French retail chain Leroy Merlin. The French in 2013 occupied about 11 percent of the Russian market, and OBI - 4.4 percent.

fashion sentence

In 2006, Sosin, together with Konstantin Mirzayants and the Troika Capital Partners Direct Investment Fund, founded the economy-class fashion supermarket chain Modis.

The idea was to flood the market with cheap clothes by cutting costs in all directions, opening 120 stores with an area of 3,000 square meters each in three years. Thus, businessmen thought to lure the public from clothing markets to modern shopping malls.

Things were supposed to be sewn in Southeast Asia, stored in their own distribution center in the Moscow region and transported around the country using their own logistics division.

The reorientation from large-scale expansion to profit has brought results. At the end of 2014, Modis got into the top 100 largest retailers in Russia according to Infoline, ranking 85th. And in the ranking of fashion chains in terms of revenue (excluding sellers of shoes and sporting goods), the company rose to 10th place (in 2013 - 14th place). Now the retailer operates 139 stores in 70 cities from St. Petersburg to Krasnoyarsk. Competing Gloria Jeans had more than 500 stores at the end of the first half of 2015, while H&M had about 85 (Infoline data).

Expensive and rich

Igor Sosin also has other assets, although they are less significant. It is known that he is a co-owner of the Format group of companies (manufacturer of industrial products from expanded polystyrene), a network of pet supplies stores Cats & Dogs (more than 50 outlets in Russia). In 2012, the businessman and his partners launched a soft drink under the ZEO brand, which was presented in nightclubs in London.

The businessman himself loves to spend time abroad and lead a secular lifestyle, renting expensive mansions for hundreds of thousands of dollars. He even learned about the tragic death of his ex-wife in Nice. After a divorce from Anastasia, Sosin remarried. According to secular media, he played a wedding with the beautiful Inna in one of the most picturesque places in Monte Carlo in 2013.

Frame: video Super ru / YouTube

Who will get the father's business empire, if Yegor Sosin's guilt is proven, is unknown. Egor has younger sister- 15-year-old Taisiya.