Source: Law enforcement authorities seize Russian Post documents

MOSCOW, Dec 9 (PRIME) -- Law enforcement authorities have seized documents from the central office of Russian Post in Moscow due to unknown reasons, a source in law enforcement authorities told PRIME on Friday.

Another source said that the seizure was carried out under an investigation of a multi–million ruble bonus of Russian Post’s head Dmitry Shtrashnov. Another source said that the authorities seized not only documents on Strashnov, but also on several other top managers of the company.

The prosecutor’s office said on November 25 that it wants to initiate a criminal case against Strashnov and two heads of the communications ministry’s departments on an allegedly illegal payment of the 95.4 million ruble bonus. The ministry approved the bonus in June 2015 on results of work of Russian Post for 2014. The amount was calculated on the basis of documents submitted by the company, including a statement on a net profit of 1.2 billion rubles.

The prosecutors’ investigation revealed that the net profit had been formed thanks to a 5.4 billion rubles financing of the company’s activities from the budget, which made it possible to cover losses of Russian Post, which exceeded 4 billion rubles.

(63.3901 rubles – U.S. $1)

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