Deripaska is a “self-made” billionaire and close ally of Vladimir Putin who built his fortune in the aluminum sector during the early 2000’s. Today, his industrial group Basic Element spans six economic sectors — energy and mining, manufacturing, financial services, construction and real estate, agribusiness and airport management. En+ Group, where Mishakov is currently the Deputy CEO, represents his mining, metals and energy assets.

After Mishakov left Expert Development, a second Deripaska-connected businessman, Pavel Lebedev, was named CEO and oversaw the completion of Reutov Park. Lebedev and Mishakov had previously worked together at another Deripaska-owned company, Altius Development, which built the Olympic Village for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Pavel Lebedev

Lebedev appears to have left Expert Development by 2016, and the company has since been re-named “Building Systems” — perhaps in an effort to distance itself from the growing controversies surrounding IC Expert, the company responsible for Novokosino-2.

In November, 2015, 3 weeks after signing the Trump Tower LOI, US-sanctioned Sberbank extended a line of credit to IC Expert in exchange for a pledge of 100% of the firm’s equity. But with construction continuing to lag and IC Expert now claiming they don’t have the funds to complete the project, it is unclear what happened to this money.

Both Expert Development (now Building Systems) and IC Expert are owned by mystery offshore companies. Expert Development, where Mishakov and Lebedev successively served as CEO, is owned 100% by Wallington Holding Limited, a British Virgin Islands company of unknown ownership. IC Expert is owned by 3 offshore companies, 60% by Cyprus-based Colisen Trading Limited, 25% by Marshall Islands based Trianguli Limited, and 15% by EcoPrestige, a Russian company in turn owned 100% by Cyprus-based Karnberg Development. While Rozov has been discovered as the owner of Colinsen, the three other companies remain a mystery.