The Head Office of the Investigative Committee continues criminal proceedings against founder and former CEO of OOO NTfarma, a limited liability company, Rustam Ataullakhanov and Yevgeny Sultanov, as well as against mayor of the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky Denis Koshurnikov. A court has placed today Sultanov under house arrest and will consider requests filed by investigators regarding two other suspects.
Ataullakhanov and Sultanov are suspected of embezzlement on a very large scale under part 4 of Article 160 of the RF Penal Code, Koshurnikov of excess of power committed by the head of the local government entailing grievous consequences under Part 3, item “c” of Article 286 of the RF Penal Code.
AO ROSNANO has invested in OOO NTfarma more than 1 billion rubles since 2010, to construct a pharmaceutical factory to manufacture vaccines and therapeutic biologicals in Pereslavl District, Yaroslavl Region. The heads of the company committed to construct and commission the factory by September 2012, however they moved the date a lot of times.
The investigators in cooperation with the Economic Security and Corruption Directorate of the RF Interior Ministry and the Economic Security Division of the Federal Security Service have established that the work to construct the said factory had not been done for many years, while the money received by NTfarma from ROSNANO had been embezzled.
To make it look like the project had been implemented, Ataullakhanov and Sultanov bought in 2011 a plot of land from Koshurnikov’s OOO Protect, while the latter served as the head of Pereslavl District at the moment of the deal. The plot is located in Lake Pleshcheyevo National Park which makes it impossible to get a construction permission without a written authorization from the RF Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology. Nevertheless, Koshernikov had issued such an authorization.
The investigation is ongoing.
Acting Head of Media Relations S.L. Petrenko
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