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Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee continues investigating a criminal case over signs of a crime under part 4 of article 160 of the RF Criminal Code – stealing of the state property by embezzlement of 25.5% of shares of OAO Urzhumsky distillery (OJSC).

Investigators have found that the shares were bought by OOO Partner (LLC). The CEO of this company Igor Burkov through intermediary of Andrey Devyatyarov offered the appraiser of the Kirov branch of Property Registration Bureau Marianna Popova to make an expert report with considerably lower price of the property. The report was later submitted to the Department of State Property of the Kirov Region, where it became the bases for a price of a holding of shares – 98 million 370 thousand rubles.

The investigators have information that the real market price of the property may be no less than 197 million rubles.

An investigating group has been created due to the necessity of large number of investigating operations in different regions of Russia. Within a short time the investigators carried out searches in the Kirov Region and Krasnodar Territory, identified and questioned witnesses of the illicit privatization of state property.

These operations allowed detaining Popova, Burkov and Devyatyarov. The court has today granted the petition and ruled to put the suspects into custody as a pretrial restraining measure. Investigation is to be continued.