Business security
in reliable hands

Using advanced technologies and relying on high moral values, we ensure the economic security of our clients’ businesses.

2006year

The company was founded

20+

Years in business security

80+

Brands under protection

558.7m USD

Damage prevented per year

Services

Our services

Brand protection, corporate security and personal security — an integrated approach to each client.

All services

Analytics and screening

Counterparty and people screening, market research and risk assessment before a deal or launch — so decisions rest on facts.

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Business security

Economic, legal and physical security audits, security organisation and crisis response when incidents arise.

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Brand & IP

Full-cycle brand and IP protection — from registering rights to stopping infringements online, offline and at customs.

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Legal and regulatory
consulting

Legal documentation, dialogue with authorities, industry support and court representation.

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Trusted by leading Russian and international brands

Approach and record

Departments built into one system

Our departments work together — from analytics and advice through to legal support. Coordinating them provides an integrated approach to the client’s business security tasks.

The project coordination department organises and monitors every stage of work — managing timelines, quality and cross-department communication, and keeping processes transparent for the client.
The analytics department collects, verifies and processes information and analyses companies, individuals and markets. We identify risks and violations, producing structured materials for management and legal decisions.
The legal department provides legal support at every stage of a project — advisory work, litigation, and legal strategies designed to protect the client's interests.
The special projects department coordinates engagement with law enforcement across Moscow, Russia’s regions and the CIS. The team provides expert and advisory support during suppression measures and documents outcomes within anti-counterfeit projects.
The IT and online department handles digital assignments — marketplaces, online checks, monitoring and OSINT analysis of internet activity, and remote or contract-based project delivery.
The monitoring department works offline sales channels: it monitors retail and wholesale markets, documents identified infringements and assembles materials within client-agreed projects. Where needed, it organises verification purchases and engagement with specialist advisers and competent authorities in accordance with the law.

95%

Reduction in consumer complaints to the hotline

4,8×

Damage prevented for every rouble invested

60%

Of programme costs returned to the rights holder via GI

4/ wk

4+ suppression measures a week with law-enforcement participation

Key figures for the year · Best practice

Brand protection

Shutting down counterfeit distribution channels

Within six months the number of outlets found carrying counterfeit fell by 85%, and no further shipments entered the country.

Analytics

Mapping the supply channels

Four unauthorised import channels were identified; head office was able to cut off supply at the source.

Risk analytics

Structured analysis

OSINT and operational data gave the client a factual basis for a personnel decision on a top manager.

Litigation support

An evidence base on a multi-country embezzlement was built where interstate cooperation had been blocked.

Brand protection

Raid on illegal production

A site producing high-quality fakes was found and shut down; the client’s revenue recovered.

Brand protection

Working across the EAEU: protecting a market from cross-border counterfeit

The counterfeit was stopped in Kazakhstan, the trademarks were entered into the customs registers of the EAEU states, and criminal proceedings were opened.

Corporate security

Identifying and documenting theft

Collusion among staff at multiple levels was established, the warehouse theft channel was shut down, and assets were recovered.

Brand protection

Identifying illegal production: customs + police

Working with customs and police, shipments of counterfeit packaging were seized and illegal production was stopped.

Brand protection

Identifying counterfeit: online monitoring and offline verification

Verification purchases, documenting warehouse infringements and delisting cards reduced the infringer’s presence in online and offline channels.

Due diligence

Background screening

Due diligence on a CIS partner uncovered a person who had previously harmed other investors. The deal did not proceed.

Corporate security

Corporate disputes

Collusion between staff and suppliers was resolved internally — without litigation costs or reputational damage.

Geography

We protect our clients’ business

We work and provide services in Russia and the CIS, as well as in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Cooperation with foreign partners, together with membership of specialised international associations, enables us to represent clients’ interests, including brand protection in the EAEU.

7 countries of presence

5 EAEU member states

80+ brands under protection

Company history

A record marked byinternational recognition

2006
The company is founded; operations begin in Moscow in business security and brand protection. Development of engagement with law-enforcement authorities on countering counterfeiting.
2010
More than 10 successful brand-protection programmes and further development of the practice of shutting down illegal production. CEO Vladimir Solomanidin is elected head of the World Association of Detectives (WAD, founded in 1925).
2014
CEO Vladimir Solomanidin receives the Norman J. Sloan commemorative award from the World Association of Detectives (WAD) for long-standing professional service in business security.
2015
Participation in organising and providing informational support for one of the largest suppression measures: law enforcement seized more than 100 truckloads of finished counterfeit goods. The company team exceeds 50 people. Company leadership is recognised with the V.V. Leontief medal “For Achievements in Economics”.
2020
Reaching a rate of 15 illegal production sites closed per year. The company portfolio exceeds 80 brands; active work begins against illicit excise goods. An online practice across a number of foreign jurisdictions.
2022
A contribution pivotal for Russia’s law-enforcement system to sustaining market protection against illicit goods under sanctions pressure. Alexey Solomanidin becomes the youngest president in WAD history.
2024
Active development of practices against threats in the online environment and against unfair competition. Co-authorship of a number of specialist initiatives and legislative amendments.
2025
A return to “peak” performance; the geography of operations expands to the Eurasian Economic Union countries with the launch of comprehensive brand-protection programmes on new markets. Prevented damage for rights holders — more than €125,000,000 a year. CEO Vladimir Solomanidin is awarded a medal by the All-Russian Police Association (MPA).
2026
Executive Director Alexey Solomanidin is awarded the World Association of Detectives (WAD) top professional honour — Security Professional of the Year 2026. Continued brand-protection programmes across EAEU markets and deeper international expert cooperation. Strengthening support for anti-counterfeit projects and engagement with industry associations.

Business securityin reliable hands

Our services

Analytics and screening

Business security

Brand & IP

Legal and regulatoryconsulting

Project coordination

Analytics department

Legal department

Special projects department

IT / Online department

Monitoring department

How we solve client problems

Shutting down counterfeit distribution channels

Mapping the supply channels

Structured analysis

Litigation support

Raid on illegal production

Working across the EAEU: protecting a market from cross-border counterfeit

Identifying and documenting theft

Identifying illegal production: customs + police

Identifying counterfeit: online monitoring and offline verification

Background screening

Corporate disputes

We protect our clients’ business

A record marked byinternational recognition

News

Alexey Solomanidin Honored with Neal Holmes Sr./J.D. Vinson, Jr. Security Professional of the Year Award

Large-Scale Counterfeit Chocolate Production Halted in Vladimir Region

Alexey Solomanidin Participates in a Key Conference of Russia's Detective Community

Customs Value: New Challenges — New Solutions

Vlasta-Consulting Proposes Key Initiative at Anti-Counterfeit Forum

Vlasta-Consulting Joins 25th Anniversary of a Tobacco Manufacturing Plant

From Moscow to Chicago: "Vlasta-Consulting" Supported the Centennial Anniversary of the WAD Detectives Association

Public-Private Partnership: “Vlasta-Consulting” Experts Assist in Bust of Illegal Oil Operation

FCS Meeting: Combating Illicit Tobacco Trade in the EAEU

40% of Counterfeit Parts in the Auto Market: How to Avoid Fakes and Prevent Double Spending

Vlasta Consulting at AEB’s 30th Anniversary Summer Reception

Combating Illegal Tobacco Trade: Vlasta-Consulting Proposes New Anti-Smuggling Measures at EEC Meeting

Vlasta-Consulting Participates in AEB Annual Meeting with Sergey Lavrov

The Key to Combating Counterfeiting: Russian and Chinese Customs Authorities Urge Businesses to Register Trademarks in TRoIS

'OPORA RUSSIA' Leaders Congress in Irkutsk Region

Vlasta-Consulting LLC and the All-Russian Police Association IPA Sign Cooperation Agreement

Over 30,000 counterfeit shampoos were seized at the illegal production facility in Syzran

In Penza, members of an organized crime group were convicted for producing counterfeit household chemicals for over three years and distributing them across the country

A man with 200,000 illicit cigarettes was detained in Novosibirsk

99th World Detective Association Conference Held in Kuala Lumpur

An offense case has been initiated in the Kaliningrad region for the sale of 3 tons of counterfeit household chemicals

Management of Vlasta-Consultıng company take part in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Association of European Businesses

The executive director of Vlasta-Consulting took part in the WAD conference in Panama

A training session on combating counterfeiting was conducted at the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

An open lecture was held at the Higher School of Economics on issues of intellectual property protection.

Current situation on the counterfeit oil market in 2024.

WAD VIRTUAL CONFERENCE HAS BEEN ORGANISED BY ALEKSEY SOLOMANIDIN

Meeting with the State Agency for Antimonopoly Regulation under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic

A meeting was held with the State Service of Intellectual Property and Innovation under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic “Kyrgyzpatent”

Law enforcement agencies, together with specialists of Vlasta-Consulting company suppressed the activities of a counterfeit shoe factory in the Vladimir region

SPECIALISTS OF VLASTA CONSULTING LLC TOOK PART IN THE CONGRESS OF OPORA ROSSII.

The international seminar concerning the protection and commercialization of the intellectual property objects in Belarus.

The specialists of LLC “Vlasta-Consulting” participated in XI International Forum “Anticounterfeit - 2023”.

In Volgograd oblast, the police supressed the production of counterfeit household chemicals

In Penza oblast, law enforcement agencies terminated the illegal production of household chemicals

W.A.D. International conference – Prague, 2023

Meeting with Oleg Baranov (head of the Main directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs was asked to allocate a budget for ensuring the temporary storage of seized counterfeit products

Is there a liability for dealing with illicit tobacco?

The police suppressed illegal production of chemical products in Nizhniy Novgorod

Executive Director of Vlasta-Consulting Ltd. Alexey Solomanidin was named President of the World Association of Detectives

The activities of illegal production of motor oil and household chemicals was suppressed by police officers in Moscow

The threat of the vaping (new teens' trend) and how to combat it

More than 50 tons of petroleum products were found and seized.

Specialists of Vlasta-Consulting took part in the III All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation «Security in the modern world».

Impact of Covid-19: Fake certificates are gaining momentum.

Investigation of Eduard Petrov "The Tabak Case - 3"

General Director of Vlasta-Consulting took part in the XII regular general meeting of the Association "OPORA"

There is a ban, there is no punishment: the essence of restrictions on the import of cigarettes from abroad

"Moscow Patrol", together with "Vlasta-Consulting" specialists, conducted a market analysis of illicit tobacco products

The process of destruction of seized products (engine oils)

Employees of Vlasta Consulting held a training at the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) for the Northern Administrative District in Moscow

AS A RESULT OF THE TRAININGS ON COUNTERFEITING, POLICE OFFICERS IN BRYANSK SEIZED ILLEGAL CIGARETTES

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