Wednesday, April 27, 2016

General Prosecutor’s Office sent a request for Panama offshore – RBC

Russian prosecutor General Yury Chaika

Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS

As part of the verification of information on offshore companies of the” Panamanian dossier “Russian General Prosecutor’s Office sent a request to the authorities of Panama, head of department, Yuri Chaika said. He promised to publish the results of checks

Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said that the prosecutor’s office checks the “Panamanian archives.” “This test we perform. Send a request to our colleagues in Panama. Check is in the initial stage. Its results will be reported to the country’s leadership and published, “- said Chaika, speaking Wednesday in the Federation Council with a report on the annual state of the rule of law. It is reported RBC correspondent.

According to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, test results, “the Panamanian dossier” will not only be presented to the management of the country, but also be published.

The public prosecutor at the same caveat that says scandal offshore companies action, planned in one of the western states. “We have no doubt that we are dealing with the action, carefully planned and coordinated at the level of one of the western states. This was recently said the president of Russia. And just recently, what happened – RBC published and so on – that in a list of Magnitsky found people who own capital in the offshore, I was absolutely convinced that we are dealing with a really special operation conducted. There is no doubt in this part I do not have, “- said the seagull

The public prosecutor described as a” special operation “was organized.. According to him, leaked documents would be “absolutely impossible has been without the involvement of special services.” “In this case, most of the work to systematize the study of documents and certainly should perform professional lawyers and financiers. The task of journalists was to translate the finished results on a shared language, create a stir, roll out the story. We are in the information war, no secrets there is no “- said the seagull

3 April the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the Centre for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP) published an investigation on international. network of offshore companies, which was based on documents Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. The investigation appeared foreign and domestic policies, including cellist Sergei Roldugin, who is considered a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

April 5 press secretary of the Prosecutor General Alexander Kurennoj said that the agency will verify the publication of the offshore Russian natural and legal entities. He said that the main purpose of checking would be the establishment of compliance of citizens acts referred to in the investigation, the norms of the Russian legislation, based on international law and Russia’s obligations to prevent corruption and money laundering, obtained by illegal way.

On the eve OCCRP published a new material, describing it a contract dated May 2008, which shows that the International Media Overseas SA (IMO) – Panamanian company, the sole owner of which at the time was a cellist Roldugin – sold the corporation to the British Virgin islands Delco Networks SA (Delco) 70 thousand . shares of “Rosneft” for an amount slightly more than $ 800 thousand. According to investigative journalists, the shares were paid in cash, translated from the bank account Delco in Lithuanian UKIO Bankas bank to the account of Roldugina in the Zurich branch of Russian Commercial Bank (RCB).

President Putin, speaking about the investigation during a “hot line” on April 14 said that the original documents published by the journalists, but the authors “suggest shadow on the fence” and “everywhere sticking out ears of customers, they stick out and do not even blush “. About tvechaya the question on this subject, said that all the money earned in business Roldugin, cellist spent for the purchase of musical instruments. Roldugin himself in an interview with “Vesti Nedeli” said April 10 that he had long “begged money”, then friends offered him a small share of the business.

This week, 25 April, Putin returned again to this subject to ONF forum in Yoshkar-Ola. Responding to a question from “information attacks” on the front of the members themselves and their environment, the president called in response to the strengthening of Russia. “There is nothing new here for me there. And you’re right, of course, is that it is a reaction of our opponents – as we call them – to strengthen the country “, – said Putin.

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