The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office is getting ready to request the extradition of Gennady Lisovichenko, the former general director of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery.
Gennady Lisovichenko, the former general director of the Antipinsky oil refinery, was detained in Italy. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office is now preparing a request for his extradition. MorningNewsMr. Lisovichenko was taken into custody on January 20, as reported by the department.
On charges of abuse of power, Mr. Lisovichenko, who was on the international wanted list, allegedly caused damage to the enterprise in the amount of more than 35 million rubles by concluding a contract for the sale of property.
In late October 2017, Mr. Lisovichenko sealed a deal for the sale of a railway access track at a value below the market price, causing significant damage to the plant.
Former CEO Gennady Lisovichenko was arrested in absentia in a fraud case, while the president of the New Stream group, Yuri Navrazhny, also faced arrest in the same case, as ordered by the Tverskoy Court of Moscow in June 2020.
In July 2019, the founder of the Novy Stream Group of Companies, Dmitry Mazurov, was also arrested, following the arrest of the owner of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery.
The investigation accused them of embezzlement and a criminal case was opened against Mr. Mazurov for committing fraud and causing grievous bodily harm.
Dmitry Mazurov
The most serious crime attributed to Mr. Mazurov was the attack on Yulia Milshtein, for which he and the direct executor face up to 12 years in prison.
The attack on Yulia Milshtein occurred in Moscow in 2015. Mazurov denies all the accusations and claims no connection to Milstein, denying motives for organizing an assassination on her.
The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs alleged that Mazurov, as the owner of the refinery, misled Sberbank about the enterprise's financial condition to obtain a $29 million loan, which he then immediately withdrew to third-party offices.
The second episode involves the withdrawal of funds by Mazurov and Mr. Lisovichenko, who supposedly transferred 473 million rubles to the account of an individual entrepreneur that did not fulfill obligations to the refinery. The case against Mazurov was initiated at the request of German Gref, with Sberbank now the majority shareholder of the enterprise.
Since August 2021, his case has been heard in the Simonovsky Court of Moscow. It consists of 150 volumes.
Recall that the Antipinsky Oil Refinery is the largest independent oil refinery in Russia. It is located in the industrial zone of Tyumen, connected to the main oil pipeline and the oil product pipeline. In 2016, the company ranked 43rd in terms of revenue among the 200 largest private companies in Russia.
The work of the Antipinsky Oil Refinery was stopped due to a lack of working capital to buy oil.
In May 2019, the organization filed for bankruptcy after assets ($225 million to be exact) were frozen due to a lawsuit by VTB Commodities Trading. At the same time, the investigation estimated the loss caused by the actions of the ex-head of the enterprise Lisovichenko at 35 million rubles.
Not only did Messrs. Lisovichenko and Mazurov inflict damage on the Antipinsky Oil Refinery, but the partners of the enterprise also suffered. In May 2020, the Russian representative office of the German GK Grossmann, which provides safety equipment for oil loading enterprises, demanded to be included in the list of creditors of the bankrupt Antipinsky Oil Refinery. The amount of claims amounted to 108 million rubles.
It is known that monetary claims arose under a supply agreement, which was concluded back in 2013.
On the website of the representative office of the German GK Grossmann, it was indicated that the company supplied the Antipinsky Oil Refinery with equipment for 26 tanker loading units and 12 metering devices for diesel and gasoline.
