Police search offices of Irkutskenergo top managers

MOSCOW, Apr 3 (PRIME) – The police have searched offices of top managers of power producer Irkutskenergo, part of multi-industry holding En+ Group, under a 139 million ruble tax evasion case, lawyer Andrei Grokhotov told PRIME on Wednesday.

“A criminal case was launched against unidentified people from the top management of the company,” he said adding that law enforcers did not disclose any names.

The company’s lawyers think that the case is illegal, and they already filed complaints to the prosecutor’s office and to the security and corruption fighting committee of the State Duma, the parliament’s lower house, he said.

The case was launched following Irkutskenergo’s request for tax preferences from the Federal Tax Service in 2011. The request was coordinated with the Energy Ministry and approved, but the tax service checked the company in 2016 and decided that it obtained the preferences illegally, while the ministry recalled its approval, Grokhotov said.

After that, the company immediately returned the money, but the case was launched nonetheless, he said.

The police are yet to provide a comment.

(65.4726 rubles – U.S. $1)

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