Inteco

History

Inteco was founded by Elena Baturina along with her brother Viktor Baturin in 1991 as a plastics company. It was awarded the contract to produce seats for Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow's largest stadium, in 1995. This drew allegations of corruption since Baturina's husband, Yuriy Luzhkov, was the mayor of Moscow between 1992 and 2010.

Also in 1995, Inteco was awarded a contract to produce plates for Russkoe Bistro, a fastfood chain set up by Luzhkov and owned by Moscow city authorities. Later Inteco moved into the construction trade, despite Baturina stating that this would be a conflict of interest: "as the mayor’s wife, I have to be very careful not to hurt my company’s reputation". Inteco became very successful and at one time produced 20% of all new buildings in the capital. Inteco's leadership has insisted to have been awarded all tenders in a fair manner and according to the relevant laws.

In 2011, INTEСO was sold to SAFMAR group. In 2017, control over INTEСO passed to the Banking Sector Consolidation Fund, which formed a new board of directors of the company. In 2018, the shares of INTECO were transferred to the Bank of Non-core Assets, established on the basis of the bank «TRUST» (open joint-stock company) - Russian financial institution with the majority state participation, formed within the framework of the activities of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for the rehabilitation of the banking system.

In 2019, INTEСO the company re-branded and introduced a new logo and for the first time in 7 years put on sale new construction projects on the Moscow real estate market (business class housing complex West Garden and comfort class housing complex Westerdam). In October 2020, TRUST gathered 100% of shares of INTECO.

2005 attacks

On October 9, 2005, executive director of Inteko-agro Alexander Annenkov was attacked by three assailants armed with axes. He survived.

On October 13, 2005, Inteco lawyer Dmitry Steinberg was shot at the entrance to his house.