Altai Territory investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have resumed criminal investigation against Maxim Savintsev as investigators found his whereabouts. Earlier he was charged in absentia with crimes under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Penal Code (fraud committed by and organized group on a very large scale) and part 4 of article 160 (misappropriation or embezzlement committed by an organized group on a very large scale).
According to investigators, in November 2011, Maxim Savintsev learnt that OAO Doveriye was the largest municipal facility manager in the city and was worth over 30 million rubles. Implementing his criminal scheme of stealing the enterprise as a complex of property he decided to buy its shares at understated price in the name of a man of straw. As a result of his frauds the suspect in October 2013 became an owner of 100% shares of OAO Doveriye causing the town of Barnaul a loss of over 19 million rubles.
In addition, from 2012 to February 2014 he with the help of CEO of OAO Doveriye Denis Suchkov and chief accountant Svetlana Bronitskaya stole money citizens paid for the communal bills. The members of the group transferred money that went to the account of the company to accounts of sham firms and then cashed. At the same time they stole the money that was transferred from consumers to the account of the facility manager as a payment for heating and hot water supply due to be transferred to OAO Kuzbassenergo (presently OAO BTSK). To do that the members of the group conspired with the employees of a resource supplying organization, falsified meter reports knowingly putting in them understated rates of heating consumption and then filed them with OAO Kuzbassenergo (OAO BTSK). As a result less money was transferred to the organization and the accused stole the difference. The total sum of damage resulted from frauds stood at about 9 million rubles.
Due to the fact that Savintsev hid from investigators not showing up for interrogations, he was put on a wanted list in September 2014. Therefore, the preliminary investigation was suspended. In January 2015, Savintsev was detained in Thailand, later deported in Russia and transported in the town of Barnaul for questioning which is expected in the near future. The investigation is ongoing.
Criminal cases against other members of the criminal group (Denis Suchkov, Alexander Krylov, Sergey Vernigorov, Svetlana Bronitskaya and Lyudmila Yezhova) have been sent in court to be tried on the merits. A sentence on one of the cases has already been passed. Chief accountant of OAO Facility Manager Doveriye Svetlana Bronitskaya was found guilty of fraud, misappropriation and embezzlement on a very large scale. She got a suspended sentence of 4.5 years and 4 years of probation.
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