
The Prosecutor General of Russia officially notified that she did not find signs of corruption in a loud scandal about the business of the family of the first deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov with Russian billionaires. Now the initiators of the audit are counting on an international investigation: documents on transactions are transferred to the American FBI and the British Bureau for Combating Fraud, the Russian Air Force service reports.
The Russian General Prosecutor's Office said: "As a result of the audit, information about the presence of corruption manifestations was not confirmed." At the same time, the Air Force notes that neither Igor Shuvalov himself nor the Russian Prosecutor General himself questioned the authenticity of the documents provided. In addition, the prosecutor’s office did not check previously foreign publications on alleged corruption in Russia.
A statement to the prosecutor was submitted by Natalya Pelevina, who was living in New York, a Russian citizen who organized the “Committee for Democratic Russia” in the United States. The human rights activist provided the prosecutor with copies of contracts and payment documents, from which it followed that Olga Shuvalova’s wife, through the Offshore company, Seevenkey received 50 million dollars from Abramovich’s structures in 2004, then lent their company Usmanov and earned about $ 70 million, which amounted to about 40% of the per annum.
Alisher Usmanov himself confirmed Bloomberg earlier, which really attracted in 2004 the investment of the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister, who oversees the investment climate in the country, for acquiring a 13% of the British company Corus Steel in 2004. It is well known that in 2006, Shuvalov spoke out that Evraz Abramovich gained control over most Russian metallurgical companies. And in 2009, the commission, headed by Shuvalov, decided that Russia would be a guarantor of a loan of $ 1 billion, which VTB Bank will provide Metalloinvest Alisher Usmanov.
Pelevin told the Air Force that he would appeal the decision of the Prosecutor General in the Tver court in the near future. But the most important thing, according to her, is that she goes to London and hopes to interest the documents of the British Bureau for Combating Fraud on Pollates (Serious Fraud Office - SFO). In addition, transactions were transferred two months ago to the FBI. "Hope is for a normal, honest decision and further actions in America and England, because these departments there are not controlled by power structures, unlike Russia," Pelevina said.