The Altai Territory investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have finished investigation against members of an organized group. Depending on the role of each one, Maxim Savintsev, former top managers of Doveriye facility manager Denis Suchkov and Alexander Krylov, head of office of OAO Kuzbassenergo (OAO BTSK) Sergey Vernigorov are charged with crimes under part 4 of article 159 of the RF Penal Code (fraud committed by an 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. Using his connections in the administration Savintsev organized preliminary evaluation of shares and almost thrice understated the price. Then he arranged so that they were sold to his men of straw step by step, in small packages, not representing any interest to potential buyers. The suspect also ensured that the bidding applications were filed from nominal participants of auctions so that it looked like bidding in due order and forced other bidders to drop out the auction. As a result of the said actions Savintsev bought 100% of shares of OAO Doveriye in the name of a man of straw and at understated price, causing the city 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.
Svetlana Bronitskaya and an employee of the resource supplying company Lyudmila Yezhova admitted to their guilt and concluded a cooperation deal with the investigator, so the criminal cases against them were sent to court to be tried on the merits in November 2014. Bronitskaya and Yezhova were found guilty and got suspended sentences of 4.5 years and 4 years respectively.
In February 2015, when Maxim Savintsev had been tracked down, the criminal investigation against him was resumed and joined with the one against other members of the organized group.
A lot of work has been done during the probe: over 400 witnesses have been questioned 17 forensic accounting examinations have teen run, a lot of searches have been conducted in cooperation with operatives of the local offices of the Federal Security Service and Ministry of the Interior, including in the offices and residences of high-ranking officials of Barnaul town administration. In order to compensate the damage to the state the investigators arrested car of one of the accused worth 900 thousand rubles, 2 million rubles confiscated from the office of Doveriye facility manager during the search and shares and property of the company worth over 31 million rubles.
Soon the case with the approved indictment will be sent to court to be tried on the merits.
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