Moscow Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have finished investigating a criminal case against CEO of TERVOLINA commercial organizations, Vadim Stepanov and its employee Andrey Yakovlev charged with crimes under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Criminal Code (swindling committed by a group of persons on an especially large scale) and part 3 of article 174.1 (legalization of property obtained by criminal activity and committed by an organized group).
According to investigators, in the period between July 2003 and September 2004 Stepanov, being in fact a CEO of TERVOLINA group of companies, using his official position, set up an organized group the purpose of which was by deception and abuse of confidence to get the ownership rights on 26.2 ha forest resources lands in 92nd block of Zvenigorod forestry.
Acting out of mercenary interest, accomplices bought through their staff and veterans 22.8853 ha of land which was federal property (as lands of forest resources), but which had been illegally included in the dacha cooperative in the village of Nikolina Gora, Odintsovsky district based on counterfeit land use documentation. As a result of these actions the Russian Federation suffered damage of 1 billion rubles.
Later, in order to legalize the land they had got by criminal activity, the accomplices through their relatives and acquaintances and staff of organizations controlled by them concluded fictitious transactions with the land. As a result they legalized the property on the total sum of 749 million 818 thousand rubles, which is a large scale.
Under the petition of investigators the lands have been arrested.
The case has 180 volumes and more than 250 witnesses have been questioned during the investigation.
Investigators have collected enough evidence and the indictment has been approved. In the near future the case will be sent to the court to be tried on the merits.
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