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Investigative Committee to check broke travel agencies stranding tens of thousands of tourists

The Chairman of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has ordered Moscow Main Investigations Directorate to organize a procedural check into illegal financial transactions carried out by travel agencies ZAO firma Neva and OOO Labyrinth and damaging several tens of thousands of people. The actions of the said travel agencies made it impossible for the citizens who had paid for their package tours to leave Russia for holiday, while those who had spent their holidays abroad could not return to the country on time. 

During the check investigators are going to carefully study the activity of Neva and Labyrinth travel agencies if the actions of the staff contained signs of a crime under article 159 of the RF Penal Code (fraud).

The check will also cover OOO Expo-tour, OOO Windrose World and other travel agencies, whose suspension of operation violated rights of tourists.

A procedural decision will be made following the check.

Head of Media Relations                                                                                                    V.I. Markin