Owner Columbus SEC suspected of evasion of 98 million rubles. – RBC

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In against mall owner Columbus Solomon Manashirova criminal case, he is suspected of tax evasion of 98 million rubles.

Main Investigation Department of the TFR in Moscow has opened a criminal case against 45-year-old businessman Solomon Manashirova on suspicion of tax evasion on a large scale (p. “B” of Part 2 of the Criminal Code st.199 ), the press-service agency. According to investigators, in 2014 Manashirov developed a criminal scheme on evasion of payment of taxes on the activities of “Armada” shopping center, according to which the nominal owners of the shopping center were 18 affiliated organizations.

Investigators believe that it is possible to illegally to apply the simplified taxation system, with the result that the budget has not been paid value added tax and income tax for 2014, totaling more than 98 million rubles. As part of the case, investigators conducted searches in the offices and apartments on 15 locations, and other investigative and operational search actions aimed at clarifying all the circumstances of the crime, the report says.

Manashirov is co-owner of shopping centers “Prague” Columbus and furniture center “Armada”, located on the “Prague” metro station and “GEM” trade fair. As he wrote RBC, the family is considered to be the beneficiaries of the developer Manashirova Columbus – OOO “MIRS».

Columbus, located on the Kirovograd street near the metro station “of Prague” – the largest and one of the last malls that opened in Moscow in 2015 . Its total area is about 277 thousand sq. M. m, anchor tenants -. shops “Okay”, “M.Video”, Decathlon and a 14-screen “Kinomax»

Solomon Manashirov along with two other co-owners of the shopping center Columbus (Roman Manashirovym and Ildar Samiev) in 2016 it took 24 th place in the top thirty “Kings of the Russian Real estate» Forbes. According to the publication, their rental income 181 thousand sq. Meters of retail space is $ 90 million.

Roman Manashirov autumn of 2015 he was arrested on a charge of mediation in bribery (Part 4 of the Criminal Code st.291.1 ) of 2 million rubles. According to investigators, the bribe was to help close the case on the organization of a criminal association in relation to a business partner Roman Manashirova Jean Rafailova. Manashirov himself denied any involvement in the mediation in bribery.