State corporation Rostec has received the used-car sales platform CarPrice, Interfax reports, citing SPARK data. The asset had previously been seized in the case involving businessman Alexander Galitsky.
In total, Rostec was given stakes in ten companies. The assets were transferred directly to the state corporation, without passing "in transit" through Rosimushchestvo. The corporation said they would be used "in national interests, in the implementation of state projects."
"Decisions on transferring companies under the management of the state corporation are made by the state. Our job is to carry them out," Rostec said.
The Galitsky case. It became known only a month ago, on March 27, that a court in Moscow had seized CarPrice during proceedings against Alexander Galitsky and his fund Almaz Capital Partners. At that time, the state took not only the investor's assets into state revenue, but also the property of "third parties." Galitsky's lawyer called the court's decision unprecedented.
In the same week, Galitsky himself and his fund were recognized as an "extremist association." The investor was accused of financing Ukrainian weapons companies.
The Bell noted that the decision to seize assets from third parties creates serious risks for business as a whole. Now under threat are not only companies that invested in an "extremist community," but also those in which the "extremist organization" itself had invested.
In February, the businessman's former wife Aliya, who had been suing him and had promised to publish compromising material about him, was arrested and later found dead in a detention facility. Galitsky himself had been close for decades to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
What is Rostec known for? It is a state corporation that brings together more than 700 enterprises in the defense, aviation, and electronics industries. It is headed by Sergei Chemezov, a longtime friend and associate of Vladimir Putin, whom he met during service in the KGB.
A wave of nationalizations. In March, Russia's prosecutor general reported that in 2025 companies with a total value of 4 trillion rubles had been nationalized. The head of Rosimushchestvo said that courts had transferred about 805 companies to the state.
The largest assets were handed to people from Putin's inner circle, Novaya-Europe found at the end of February. At least 11 companies came under the control of Arkady Rotenberg's structures. People linked to the son of former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev became directors of another ten companies.