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The court has recognized the evidence collected by the investigative bodies of the North-Western Transport Investigative Department of the Russian Investigative Committee as sufficient to pass a sentence on director of OOO RAMAVA (Ltd.) 31-year old Igor Seryogin. He is found guilty of a crime under part 1 of article 194 of the Russian Criminal Code (evasion of customs payments collected from organizations committed on a large scale and using knowingly false documents).

The investigation and the court have established that in April 2010, the citizen of the Russian Federation, director of the Kaliningrad-based firm OOO RAMAVA (Ltd.) Igor Seryogin concluded a memorandum of agreement with the Norwegian firm on purchasing an ocean-going tanker. On 27 April 2010, he submitted the documents for registration of the vessel to customs registration department “Morskoy port Kaliningrad imeni N.S. Khazova” of the Kaliningrad regional customs, by that he knowingly misleading customs officials by providing unreliable information on the cost of reloadable ocean-going tanker which he deliberately underpriced at 450,000 US dollars.

During the preliminary investigation the accused admitted his guilt and voluntarily repaired a damage to the Russian Federation budget. He is fined with the sum equal to that concealed – 3 685 000 rubles.

The court, considering all these circumstances, sentenced Seryogin to a fine of 50 thousand rubles.