Prosecutors charge former CEO of Gazprom unit with 1 bln rbl theft
MOSCOW, Aug 19 (PRIME) -- The Prosecutor General’s Office has charged a former CEO of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Pyatigorsk, a regional subsidiary of Russian gas giant Gazprom, with a 1 billion ruble embezzlement, and transferred the criminal indictment to court, the authority said in a statement on Monday without naming the CEO directly.
According to the investigators, the accused person has submitted fake tax bills and accounting documents to the Federal Tax Service since March 2013 through May 2015 to reimburse value added tax illegally and to steal more than 1 billion rubles from the budget, the statement read.
According to the materials of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Pyatigorsk, Arkady Derevyanko was CEO of the company in that period.
(65.9961 rubles – U.S. $1)
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