Against ex-Senator Lebedev filed a case of theft of $220 million – Interfax

According to Forbes, with allegations of fraud in the Ministry of interior addressed a minority shareholder TGK-2

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Moscow. September 22. INTERFAX.RU Against the former Senator from Chuvashia, and the owner of group “Synthesis” Leonid Lebedev has filed a criminal case about the theft of $ 220 million of TGC-2, where he is the majority shareholder, reports Thursday, Forbes magazine, citing an environment of the businessman.

Lebedev’s Lawyer Alexey Grebensky confirmed the fact of initiation of the case, noting that he learned about it from called him of the investigator. According to a person familiar with the investigation, proceedings under part 4 of article 159 of the criminal code (fraud in especially large sizes) against Lebedev was initiated on 7 September, the office of internal Affairs across the Tver region.

As the source noted that the case of ex-Senator allocated from criminal case initiated last year against the former General Director of TGC-2 and the Executive Director of the group “Synthesis” Andrey Korolev. According to investigators, he participated in the organization of the fraudulent scheme with the goal of causing property damage, OOO “Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Tver” and “daughter” of JSC “TCS”, and also in abuse of official position. According to investigators, the damage of OOO “Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Tver” the actions of the Queen exceeded 2.6 billion rubles.

according to Forbes, the criminal case against the interior Ministry Lebedev was initiated at the request of the company Lonicera Participation Corp, which is a shareholder of TGK-2 and controls more than 62 million of its ordinary shares. Lonicera Participation Corp argues that the leaders of TGC-2 and Lebedev stole in the Yaroslavl region of $ 220 million and was brought to vicarious liability. According to sources of the newspaper “statements”, the company claims that in 2009-2015 TGC-2 has not paid a dividend to shareholders.

the Representative of TGC-2 said “Vedomosti” that he was surprised the case against Lebedev, as he never was on the governing bodies of the company in addition, law enforcement agencies are not addressed in TGK-2.

the Lawyer Lebedev believes that Lonicera Participation Corp is related to group Renova, controlled by Viktor Vekselberg, with whom his client is suing in the United States. Vekselberg 2014 requires Lebedev and Leonard Blavatnik $ 2 billion from the sale of 25% of TNK-BP to Rosneft.