The Investigative Committee doubted the adequacy of the actions of the owner of Royal Water

As Kommersant learned, the Investigative Committee accepted from the police the criminal case of the head of Royal Water LLC (production and sale of popular water) Iosif Badalov, accused of theft of a large loan and tax evasion. The entrepreneur's defense hoped that the investigation would also be interested in the victim, who had been twice convicted of fraud, but the Investigative Committee decided to extend the arrest of the entrepreneur, and the court supported this petition.

In addition to investigators, doctors will study the case of Joseph Badalov
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The case of Joseph Badalov, who is accused of committing crimes under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale) and Art. 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (tax evasion of 300 million rubles), from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Western District was taken into its proceedings by the main department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. At the same time, the GSU investigator petitioned the Presnensky District Court to extend the arrest of the accused for another three months, citing the fact that he needed to combine both cases, familiarize himself with them, and Mr. Badalov, if released, could flee abroad, since he has a foreign passport with a Schengen visa (the document was, however, confiscated from him).

The investigation in court was supported by the prosecutor, who reported that the accused Badalov was threatening the director of the Zashchita law firm, Dionisy Zolotov, who was a victim of fraud, and the general director of Royal Water, Dmitry Nekrasov, who was a witness in the case. However, it turned out that if threats against Messrs. Zolotov and Nekrasov came, it was not from their procedural opponent, but from the police. The fact is that, according to a statement from the entrepreneur’s relatives, Mr. Zolotov, with the assistance of some employees of the LLC, is allegedly trying to take over companies involved in the production and sale of “Royal Water” by raider, and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow began an inspection, within the framework of which he summoned them to the dacha explanations.

Mr. Badalov’s defense drew the court’s attention to the fact that the applicant in the case is Mr. Zolotov, twice convicted of fraud, who previously worked as a lawyer in Moscow under the name Tumarkin. According to the lawyers, taking advantage of the fact that Mr. Badalov suffers from a serious mental illness, the victim presented the case in such a way that the owner of Royal Water owed him $4 million and €1.5 million under interest-bearing loan agreements. Then the judge of the Nikulinsky District Court, who had previously sentenced Zolotov, Tumarkin to a suspended sentence for major fraud, placed Mr. Badalov in custody.

The Presnensky court eventually decided to extend the arrest of the owner of Royal Water until October. However, he may soon leave the pre-trial detention center, since the defense and investigation consider it necessary to send Mr. Badalov to a hospital for a psychiatric examination.

Nikolay Sergeev

The arrest was extended until examination