The key facts
- The lawsuit for 5.445 billion rubles was filed by OJSC KDV, JSC Boavishta and JSC Konditerus Kom; the substance of the claims has not yet been disclosed.
- Additionally, claims by Konditerus Kom against Shtengelov* and four foreign companies have been registered, as well as a claim by LLC KDV Yashkino against two foreign firms.
- In 2025, KDV Group's assets were transferred to state revenue, and the Shtengelovs* were added to the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.
A multi-billion lawsuit against the former owner of the holding
Companies of the KDV Group holding, which produced products under the Kirieshki and Yashkino brands, have filed a lawsuit for 5.445 billion rubles against the former business owner Denis Shtengelov*. The claim was registered by the Arbitration Court of the Tomsk Region — TASS reports this citing court records. The plaintiffs are three structures of the holding: OJSC KDV, JSC Boavishta and JSC Konditerus Kom. Details of the claims have not yet been disclosed; by law, the court must decide whether to accept the claim for proceedings within five working days.
Two more related cases
The lawsuit was not the only one: on November 6, the court registered a claim by JSC Konditerus Kom against Shtengelov* and four foreign companies — Flexway Fzco, Katrina Factory Fze, Smart Seven Mini Mart LLC and QP5 Europe LLC For Trade. The substance of the claims is also not specified in the case registry. In addition, on November 9, a claim was filed by LLC KDV Yashkino against the companies KDV-Sport PTY LTD and Flexway DMCC, in which Shtengelov* is listed as another party.
Context: asset confiscation and management change
The lawsuits were filed against the backdrop of earlier decisions. In 2025, a court, on a lawsuit by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, transferred KDV Group's assets to state revenue, and the court also recognized as extremist an association that included the businessman and members of his family. Later, Denis Shtengelov* and his father Nikolai Shtengelov* were added to the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring. At the end of October, according to the Kontur.Focus system, the management changed in the holding's companies: Alexei Duranin became the general director of KDV and Konditerus Kom, while Maria Denisova took over JSC Boavishta and LLC Yarche, which manages the retail chain of the same name. Life.ru also previously reported, citing Mash, that Shtengelov* purchased a penthouse in Dubai worth 1.73 million dollars and continues to sue Russian media, demanding protection of his business reputation — the claims are related to publications about his father.
