Marani Brands Inc. (MRIB)

[Matthew Berg]

Hmmm... 45 years in operation and the only client of record is MRIB? And doing enough business to support 120 employees? For the record, there aren't 120 able bodied workers in the whole region. Anyone who could work left years ago.

Information off a portal is not suitable DD. Anyone can get listed with whatever information they want to be displayed. This has been a regular thing with MRIB as they use unconfirmable information and phoney web sites to give the illusion of something "real".

For starters, if you check the information (which is by the way posted in identical fashion in a few other places as well) you will find that the address listed does not exist. Sort of hard to believe for a plant that supports 120 people. Second, both the phone and fax number go to private Russian cell phones. In the actual business filings, although little is available, the company is listed as an LLC filed in 2012 (just months before MRIB 2.0 started up) with an address which is a mail stop in Yerervan and the bank they use is listed as ARMBUSINESSBANK, Inc. And two contacts seem to be recurring, Gregov Tevanyan and Ramzik Tevanyan. Guess what turns up when searching the US for these two names. Probable relatives who live or have lived in Glendale, CA. It appears that currently Gregov is a doctor in North Hollywood while Ramzik is a local politician in Yerevan. You would need a politician to pull of this scam so it makes sense.

It's all a little too much coincidence. But the scam is pretty obvious. There is no Wine Plant. The village of Eraskh is well documented as having no water as well. How do the make vodka without water. It's 60% of the product! Here's an article from a couple of weeks ago:

http://hetq.am/eng/news/60289/single-mom-raises-three-kids-in-yeraskh-village-whats-the-use-of-crying-and-complaining.html

No jobs. No water. Absolute poverty... but there's a winery/distillery with 120 employees thriving there while children haul jugs of water over their parched land from the water truck that makes it to the village twice a week? If you believe there is a Wine Plant of Eraskh in any form other than a shell company it's strictly wishful thinking avoiding the reality that it's a total sham. 45 years of operation and not a single non-MRIB product on shelves. Not a single picture of the plant. No women in hair nets at the bottling line. Not a single trace of an employee in 45 years. A handful of BOLs all from MRIB post 2007. What did Eraskh do for all the time before that with 120 workers? It's all too implausible. It's made up BS and a fictional entity trying to establish MRIB as "real". It's amazing how many people have fallen for it based on "proof" that can be concocted in a matter of hours through an internet portal that cares nothing about confirming the information as genuine. Just content for them.