The court arrested 9.3 billion rubles in the IKEA Rosia accounts

Krasninsky district scouring of the Smolensk region arrested 9.3 billion rubles on the accounts of the Russian representative office of IKEA, Interfax reports . The decision was made to ensure the claim of businessman Konstantin Ponomarev.

Ponomarev and IKEA are conducting a long-term lawsuit about allegedly unpaid in 2008-2010, lease of electric generators for hypermarkets in St. Petersburg.

“We perceive this decision as part of the process with violations unprecedented for Russian judicial practice,” said Viktor Stepanov, a representative of IKEA in the courts. “Ponomarev artificially introduced Alexei Tanko to the process to transfer the case to the Krasny village and return to the consideration of the circumstances that the Supreme Arbitration Court has already given its assessment. Tanko stated itself as a guarantor. on IKEA affairs, although the company never had any relationship with him "

According to the lawyer, the company of Ponomarev’s actions is considered an attempt to apply a scheme for withdrawing funds from Russia to offshore. "Now Ponomarev is trying to implement the scheme according to which IKEA and other companies with which he suits are instantly withdrawn from Russia to offshore, as soon as the court of first instance makes a decision in favor of Ponomarev. In fact, this scheme makes a return of the court, if the court decision is appealed to higher authorities," Stepanov noted. "We are going to ignore without doubt This is a decision, but we have great fears that it will be possible to return funds in the event of our victory in higher courts. "

In August, the Krasninsky court had already collected 507 million rubles from the IKEA representative office in favor of Ponomarev. Ponomarev immediately transferred the rights of the requirements for these funds that the one-day company Alfa LLC, the only owner of the Vargin Islands, is the only owner of the vast.

In Russia, IKEA is investigated by several more cases. According to the plot of one of them, Ikea Khanim LTD acquired a section where Khimki Business Park is located, illegally. The Khimki company takes place in the case in the case.

The first searches in this case were held in the IKEA head office in the fall of 2014 . In January 2015, however, the case was closed for the lack of corpus delicti. Nevertheless, a year later, KSHP Khimki achieved the resumption of the investigation. In April of this year, the office was subjected to new searches .

On August 9, the company's office was again searched. On the same day, the Khimkinsky City Court of the Moscow Region at the request of the investigator of the Investigative Committee imposed a security arrest on the land . IKEA still has the right to use it, but is deprived of the opportunity to carry out any transactions with the site.

On October 26, investigators in Khimki opened a criminal case against the German IKEA EINRICHTUNGS GmbH on the fact of tax evasion in Russia in the amount of more than 32 billion rubles. We are talking about selling in 2011 a share at IKEA MOS LLC Group’s head company - Netherlands Fuprin Holding. At the same time, taxes from the transaction were paid in Germany. By agreement between countries, such income in Russia is not subject to taxation.