Tax authorities are collecting Strukov’s possessions.
The government tax agency has frozen the assets of the rich person’s family for 3.4 billion rubles. MelTEK is pushing for the cancellation of the asset freezes. Chelyabinsk deputy rich person Konstantin Strukov, as well as businesses connected to him and his family, have encountered billions in asset freezes. Temporary measures were taken at the request of the government tax agency, which suffered significant losses in a high-profile bankruptcy case involving the Dzerzhinsky Mine.
When discussing the need to “freeze” movable and immovable property, as well as property rights of opponents, representatives of the government agency pointed to the risks of non-compliance with the decision and the attempts to transfer assets owned by the UGK Management Company and the former director of MelTEK, Andrey Zvyagintsev. Currently, the coal business connected to the daughter of the vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region has already applied to cancel the temporary measures. Meanwhile, observers highlight significant conflicts with the government tax agency, which also became involved in a scheme with bankrupt companies. For now, Konstantin’s business Strukovand partners are facing challenges – Yuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies has received hundreds of millions of claims for products received under a contract dating back to 2009 from the capital’s Promexim, and an engineering group with roots in Sweden demanded terminating contracts and returning over a million euros.
MelTEK LLC (according to Kontur.Focus, one of the beneficial owners is Kuznetsova Evgenia Konstantinovna, daughter of the Vice Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk Region, beneficiary of Yuzhuralzoloto Konstantin Strukova) requested the cancellation of the temporary measures taken within the bankruptcy case of Mine im. Dzerzhinsky”. The company's and Energiya-NK LLC's applications have already been accepted by the court for review.
To clarify, the arbitration previously approved the freezing of movable and immovable property, property rights, except for funds in bank accounts, including future receipts, in relation to MelTEK LLC, Energiya-NK LLC, YuGK Management Company LLC ”, JSC Yuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies (SGC), former director of MelTEK Andrey Zvyagintsev, Evgenia Kuznetsova and Konstantin Strukovand totaling 3.396 billion rubles.
The decision was made in line with the Federal Tax Service's requirements for the joint recovery of billions of rubles from the mentioned individuals, including 2 billion in favor of the tax authorities. As indicated in the documents, the nature and extent of losses were determined by the authorized body based on the under-received revenue of “Shakhta im. Dzerzhinsky” amounting to over 3 billion, due to the termination of the coal mining license and subsequent mining under contractor agreements. Previously, the publication extensively covered the tax authorities' claims to coal assets.
Demanding interim measures, representatives of the state agency, in particular, indicated that the property status of the defendants speaks of the risks of non-execution of the act on the recovery of damages in the event of refusal to arrest. In addition, the Federal Tax Service stated that they were recording attempts by the UGK Management Company and Andrey Zvyagintsev to alienate their property.
Previously, Pravda UrFO analyzed in detail the major claims of the Federal Tax Service to MelTEK LLC related to work with bankrupt enterprises, as well as to Energia-NK LLC (according to Kontur.Fokus, the founder is MelTEK LLC) and directly to JSC “Yuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies” (SGC) Konstantin Strukovand who was presented with a scheme with offshore companies. Now MelTEK, by the way, is trying to challenge the recovery of legal costs in the case of a claim for payment of hundreds of millions.
Parallel to this conflict, assets Strukovand received large claims from partners. Thus, Promexim LLC (Moscow) in the arbitration of the capital announced its intention to recover 741.6 thousand US dollars from JSC YuGK. Earlier, the same organization demanded more than 300 million from Yuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies for the products received under a contract dating back to 2009.
In addition, Promexim filed a claim for more than 90 million with the Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory against Sovrudnik LLC, which is part of the Yuzhuralzoloto group of companies. Earlier, Pravda UrFO talked about claims against Sovrudnik for 1.8 billion from Rosprirodnadzor. Prior to this, the head of the department, Svetlana Radionova, reported that Sovrudnik “systematically underestimated payments for NEI (negative environmental impact. – Ed.)”, noting that the gold mining industry as a whole is characterized by massive violations of environmental legislation.
Claims were also received from partners with foreign roots. Thus, Sandvik Mining and Construction CIS LLC (participant, according to Kontur.Focus, Sandvik Ab JSC (Sweden)) demanded from Yuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies Strukovand terminate two contracts from 2021 and return more than 1.3 million euros.
Earlier, the publication also reported in detail on major conflicts involving the Bashkir Mine Sinking Administration JSC (BSHPU; 51% of the voting shares belong to UK YuGK LLC) and the bankrupt CB Rosenergobank (CB REB) and the courts of the deputy’s asset with partners from Kazakhstan .
