Six people detained in Kalmykia in the case of raider seizure of oil enterprises

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In the case of the raider seizure of three commercial enterprises engaged in the extraction of oil and natural gas in the fields located on the territory of Kalmykia, five citizens were imprisoned. With regard to the sixth, the issue of choosing a preventive measure is being decided.

As reported on the website of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the basis of materials from the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Kazakhstan and the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Kazakhstan, a criminal case was initiated on the grounds of crimes under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 1 of Art. 170.1, part 3 of Art. 30, part 4 of Art. 159 and item “a”, item “d”, part 2 of Art. 127 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Six were detained, five of whom were taken into custody. With regard to the sixth, the issue of choosing a preventive measure is being decided.

The detainees are accused of attempted falsification of the unified state register of legal entities, fraud and illegal imprisonment, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy with the use of weapons.

As Moskovsky Komsomolets in Kalmykia reported, on April 20, a group of people from Dagestan carried out a raider seizure of the production base of the EuroSibOil oil company, located in the village of Komsomolsky, Chernozemelsky District.

According to the investigation, “a group of persons of the number of residents of neighboring regions with the aim of taking possession of the property and funds of three commercial enterprises engaged in the extraction of oil and natural gas in the fields located in Kalmykia, by preparing forged documents, while in Dagestan, organized a notarized purchase and sale transaction 100 percent share in their authorized capital by a front commercial organization. In order to carry out registration actions, the tax authority for amending the constituent documents of enterprises regarding the change of their participant, on April 17, 2021, through telecommunication channels, they provided deliberately forged documents to the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the city of Elista for carrying out the corresponding registration actions, “the website of the Kalmyk Investigative Committee reported. …

In order to forcibly change the owners of the enterprises, the participants in the raider seizure damaged communications, turned off video surveillance and kept the employees of the enterprise for a long time against their will, until they established control over production activities for oil production at oil collection points located in the Chernozemelsky region of the republic. Having illegally seized the property, the detainees caused significant property damage to the owner of the enterprise, the investigative committee said.

On suspicion of committing these crimes in accordance with Art. Art. 91-92 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, six persons were detained, a preventive measure was chosen in the form of detention in respect of five, and the issue of choosing a preventive measure was decided by the court in respect of one. The investigation of the criminal case continues.