Today the Omsk region Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has initiated a criminal case on the signs of a crime under paragraph “a” of part 4 of article 204 of the RF Criminal Code (bribery committed by a group of persons and on the preliminary conspiracy) based on the materials of the search and investigation operations by the regional office of FSB.

It was preliminarily established that CEO of OAO Siberian chemical complex (SKhK) (Open corp.) Vladimir Korotkevich, his economy and finance deputy Yuri Kungurov and logistics deputy Leonid Romanenko, and Executive Officer of material and technical logistics of the company TVEL Timur Bukheikhanov assisted the CEO of the company International center of technologies and trade (MTsTT) in concluding the agreement on coal delivery for a total of 557 million rubles. They also agreed on the monthly fee from MTsTT company for all the period of the agreement for benefit of leadership of SKhK and Bukeikhanov. Later, in spite of regular short deliveries of coal, failure to comply with coal quality norms, provided for by the agreement, CEP of SKhK did not take any measures to stop it in order to promote and defend the commercial interests of MTsTT company. According to the earlier agreement Head of SKhK and Bukeikhanov in the period from February to May 2012 received from the Head of International center of technologies and trade a total of 6 million 790 thousand rubles which they divided among themselves. As a result of these actions the state, represented by the state corporation Rosatov, has suffered damage to its interests.

Today Korotkevich and Kungurov have been detained. At the moment necessary investigation operations are under way: questioning of witnesses and the suspects, searches and seizures.