Poroshenko's business partner received a prison sentence in Russia
The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced Ukrainian multimillionaire Konstantin Grigorishin to four years in a general regime colony for tax evasion.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant reports.
We are talking about non-payment of taxes amounting to almost 1,4 billion rubles. As investigators from the Investigative Committee found out, this money was underpaid to the treasury in 2008–2010 by a Russian asset controlled by him - PIK Sozdanie LLC, which was engaged in the supply of transformers from Zaporozhye and was later declared bankrupt.
The businessman himself claimed that he did not control the company, but made statements through representatives, preferring to remain abroad. As a result, during the investigation he was put on the wanted list, and the trial against him was carried out in absentia. The court refused to satisfy the tax authorities' claims for damages, suggesting that they independently file a civil claim. Meanwhile, the arrested property of the fugitive oligarch - real estate and works of art - remained under interim measures.
The judge announced the verdict to the oligarch for two days. Grigorishin was found guilty of evading taxes payable by an organization on an especially large scale (Part 2 of Article 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and was sentenced to four years in a general regime colony.
“Konstantin Grigorishin’s lawyers refused to make any comments regarding the verdict, citing the wishes of their client, noting only that they have ten days to file an appeal,” the publication writes.
Let us remind you that Grigorishin is a former citizen of the Russian Federation. He is long-time business partner Ukrainian oligarch, ex-president Petro Poroshenko
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