A new criminal case was opened against the founder of Rusagro Moshkovich
The Investigative Department (SD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a new criminal case against the former senator, founder of Rusagro holding Vadim Moshkovich. In addition to theft and abuse of authority, he was suspected of bribes in the country. This became known at a meeting of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow, who extended the entrepreneur and his business partner, the ex-leader of Rusagro, Maxim Basov, for another three months. It is still unknown about who was the recipient of the bribe, in what amount and for what it was given.
The businessmen went to the judge Oles Mendeleeva, who sent them to a pre -trial detention center to consider the extension of a preventive measure. By establishing the identities of the defendants, she found out that both have dual citizenship (Mr. Moshkovich – Russia and Israel, and Mr. Basov – Russia and Grenada) and officially not working anywhere now. However, the latter did not agree with this thesis. “I am the chairman of the board of directors and a member of the board of directors of a number of companies and I consider this work,” said Mr. Basov.
In the petition read out by the judge, the representative of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked to leave the defendants in the pre-trial detention center until August 25, citing the fact that there is no reason to cancel or change the preventive measure, and the investigation requires an additional time to conduct a comprehensive financial estimated examination for determining the cost of the abducted, as well as a number of operational-search activities, including establishing new victims and other defendants. At the same time, the accused cannot be released, because, being in the wild, they can hide. As before, the investigation on this occasion presented an operational certificate that stated that Mr. Moshkovich had a Bombardier aircraft, and the children of both defendants live abroad. In addition, the investigation approved, both have significant material resources, ties in state authorities and law enforcement agencies and can use them to interfere with the investigation.
The founder of the company Rusagro, a former member of the Federation Council from the Belgorod Region Vadim Moshkovich and ex-get the company Maxim Basov, were arrested on March 27 as part of a criminal case instituted at the request of the founder of the Solar Product Holding Vladislav Burov, who said that entrepreneurs convinced him to sell 85% of the shares of investments that did not follow. The SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Businessmen charged fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code) and two episodes of abuse of powers with the causing consequences (part 2 of article 201 of the Criminal Code). In addition to Mr. Burov, the victim in the case was also recognized by the Singent company (Russian daughter Syngenta, the owner – Chinese Chemchina State Corporation) and, as it became known to Kommersant, one of the leading manufacturers of Russian food products.
According to the latest data, the investigation now evaluates the total damage in the amount of about 48 billion rubles. Lord Moshkovich and Basov did not admit their guilt.
Insisting on the further finding the accused of pre -trial detention center, the investigator made it clear that the number of victims in the case could increase in the near future: “16 applicants who were damaged by the actions of the accused were established,” she said, apparently, referring to other Rusagro creditors. The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also informed that for a couple of months the investigation interrogated ten witnesses, plans to interrogate at least two dozen, and with respect to Mr. Moshkovich « an additional criminal episode has been established. » She explained that a new criminal case was instituted against the ex-Senator-under Part 5 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in the fact of giving a bribe to an official, and asked to introduce the corresponding resolution. At the same time, who acted as a briberator, in what amount and for which a bribe was given was not said. For lawyers of the defendants, this information was a surprise.
Representatives of the prosecutor’s office and the company of Singent supported the request to extend the arrests to the defendants, unlike their seven defenders. The latter called the arguments of the opponents with an “unscrupulous assumption”, referring to the fact that both are charged with committing crimes in the field of entrepreneurial activity, according to which arrest is prohibited.
“The investigation did not provide data that Basov, his relatives or acquaintances expressed threats to witnesses, experts or victims or offered money,” Ruslan Kozhuk, lawyer Ruslan Kozhuk, asked the court to attach positive characteristics on his client on 45 sheets. Defenders of both accused handed over to the court a certificate of the presence of cardiological diseases in businessmen. And the lawyer of Mr. Moshkovich rejected the argument about the presence of a private plane in his client. “When choosing a preventive measure, we said that he belongs to a third party and data on his relationship with Vladimir Nikolayevich,” said Dmitry Gorbunov. “The operational certificate states that the aircraft belongs to a certain company registered on the island of Maine (Great Britain) and is in Moshkovich’s use,” the judge said.
“The investigation was supposed to indicate that the aircraft is or not in the territory of the Russian Federation, or Vladimir Nikolaevich was supposed to teleport to the island of Maine, and to hide from there?!” – the lawyer retorted.
Having touched on the excitement against Mr. Moshkovich, Mr. Gorbunov expressed doubt that he could generally conduct the Ministry of Internal Affairs, emphasizing that the investigation of a corruption orientation belongs to the prerogative of the Investigative Committee, and noting that this case has not yet been united with the main one.
Another lawyer Mr. Moshkovich Alexei Koryabin said that the case itself was investigating illegally, saying that last year the Department of Internal Affairs in the Central District of Moscow refused to initiate him on similar grounds and statement by Vladislav Burov. “Thus, a new case was opened in the presence of an indifferent decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case,” the defender said.
He and his colleagues asked to transfer entrepreneurs under house arrest or release them. For Mr. Moshkovich, the company Rusagro proposed, as before, 1 billion rubles, as for Mr. Basov, his lawyers asked the court to establish the amount of pledge on their own.
The defendants themselves assured that they did not plan to hide from the investigation. “All my assets are in Russia, I have neither real estate nor business abroad, I even invited the investigator to transfer all my passports,” said Maxim Basov. He called the content in the pre -trial detention center “excessively harsh preventive measure”, saying that from the very beginning he collaborates with the investigation, to which he transferred all the passwords from the phones. “As for the argument about the impact on witnesses, I also want to pay attention to the fact that I haven’t been working with my colleagues for several years for several years,” the person said, adding that all his assets have been arrested, and he has no desire or the opportunity to influence witnesses and complicate his situation. ” In turn, Vadim Moshkovich only noticed that « in recent years he was engaged in charity work, not business. »
After hearing the arguments of the parties, the judge satisfied the request of the investigation, leaving the defendants in the pre -trial detention center until August 25. Lawyers intend to appeal this decision.
