The court softened the measure of restraint to the defendant of the Bashneft case to Ayrapetyan

The Basmanny Court changed the defendant of the Bashneft case to businessman Levon Ayrapetyan a preventive measure from detention for house arrest, RAPSI reports . Thus, the court granted the application of the investigation.

Ayrapetyan cooperates with the investigation and recently gave the investigation detailed testimonies, but refused to admit guilt. This was reported to Interfax by a source familiar with the situation. At the same time, he could not explain why law enforcement agencies decided to ask the court to change Ayrapetyan a preventive measure.

On July 15, Ayrapetyan was detained by the FSB officers at the Premodedovo metropolitan airport, where he flew from Nice. He is charged with aiding in assignment or embezzlement, as well as the legalization of funds in the case of embezzlement and money laundering, excited against the ex-head of the Bashneft Ural Rakhimov (son of the former president of Bashkiria Murtazi Rakhimov). At the end of August, the case was also opened on laundering money on the sale of shares of the Bashkir fuel and energy company (Bashtek).

In 2009, AFK Sistema bought a Bastek from Bashkiria through funds, which were considered close to father and son Rakhimov. As the media wrote, Ayrapetyan received $ 50 million for participating in Rakhimov Jr. of this company and laundering the received funds. The amount by which the Bashneft shares were sold was, according to the witness, he was underestimated.

On September 16, the head of the AFC System Vladimir Yevtushenkov was sent under house arrest . Then the billionaire was charged under part 4 of Article 174 of the Criminal Code (laundering of money), which provides for the seven years of the colony. The head of the AFC "System" is charged with complicity in the purchase at the low price of shares of enterprises included in the fuel and energy complex of Bashkiria.

In the business community, the arrest of Yevtushenkov caused extreme concern. On September 18, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs appealed to Vladimir Putin with a request to support the defense of defending to the billionaire preventive measures. Putin did not react to the appeal. The next day, the head of Sberbank, German Gref, called the arrest of Yevtushenkov "Big Tragedy." On Thursday, the head of the RSPP, Alexander Shokhin, said that he asked the court to let Yevtushenkov let go under his personal guarantee.

On September 24, it became known that Bashneft terminated the deal with the AFK system with the AFC , within the framework of which the structure of Yevtushenkov acquired a united petrochemical company. The refusal to sell the PMC was the first suspended transaction of the "system" after the charge of Yutsushenkov.