«Oil of Russia», 20.05.16, Moscow, 18:55 «It is believed that the country was illegal displayed more than 200 million shares of “Gazprom” »
The Russian security forces once again interested in the head of Hermitage Capital, William Browder. MIA suspects him of illegal acquisition of securities of “Gazprom”. According to the newspaper “Kommersant”, it is about 200 million shares of the company. In addition, the head of Hermitage Capital charged with tax evasion and deliberate bankruptcy of the companies that participated in the transaction. According to investigators, the criminal actions of Browder made in the period from 1997 to 2005.
The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Interior found that Ziff Brothers Investments Fund, which is owned by the American billionaire Dirk, Robert and Daniel Ziff, founded through a number of Cypriot offshore companies in the Republic of Kalmykia. She then was a free economic zone. Companies headed by William Browder and his partner Ivan Cherkasov. Transactions carried out by Russian companies, as while acting presidential decree, which forbade foreigners to buy shares of “Gazprom”. Securities of state monopoly they have acquired at the St. Petersburg and Moscow brokerage trading floors. In 2006, dividends and shares of “Gazprom” through the Cyprus offshore handed to American companies.
In this case Russian Prosecutor General’s Office also wants to prove that Ziff and Browder violated not only Russian but also American legislation, the head of the department of accidents of the newspaper “Kommersant” Maxim Varyvdin.
«it is believed that the country was illegally withdrawn more than 200 million shares of” Gazprom “, how much they were worth then, the participants of the investigation are not reported, but they say that only in the form of taxes the Russian budget will not get 1 billion rubles. As part of this investigation is Prosecutor General’s Office has requested help from the US, and at the same time informed the US authorities that these transactions were carried out in violation of including the American legislation. The supervisory agency expects that by careful study, due to the evidence that Russia will submit to the US side, Browder and his American partners will be involved in the case, who has brought the ocean “- said Varyvdin
The investigators should. have questions not to Browder and his companions, and to the registrar of “Gazprom” shares, said the lawyer of the Bar “Khrenov and partners” Roman Belanov.
«Some shares of” Gazprom “, despite the presidential decree, the World still came into the possession of foreign companies. What is the stock in the company? This is not a ruble, which can be transmitted, it is a kind of right on account of some kind of paper. It takes into account these securities registrar. The question arises, who translated them in the register for the foreign business? It is not to foreigners, who translated. Ministry of Internal Affairs in this part can claim anything, the most simple way – to recognize this illegal actions of the registrar and to return these shares. In the US, if not seeing in the composition of his actions in terms of their laws, they will say: “We are not going to work”, “- said Belanov
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office expects that the US authorities will provide data. needed to complete the investigation of the case and transfer it to the court. Moscow suggests that William Browder will stand trial in absentia. In 2013, under the sentence of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, he received nine years in absentia for tax evasion.
Nikita Pavlyuk, Pavlyuchenko Read more read on http://www.oilru.com/news/516086/
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