The general director and chief accountant "VIM-Avia", co-owners of the Murseecaevs are detained are detained

The VIM-Avia problematic airline, due to the fraudulent actions of which about 38 thousand passengers were stuck in foreign resorts, and accounts payable exceeded 7 billion rubles, lost its management and owners.

General Director of VIM-Avia Alexander Kochnev and chief accountant Ekaterina Panteleeva were detained as part of a major fraud case, the website said on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. In the near future, both defendants will be charged, after which the investigation plans to petition the court to election a preventive measure against them.

And the co-owners of the VIM-Avia Rashid and Svetlana Mursekaeva hastily left the country, and, according to the information available at the investigation, are abroad, "noted in the UK. In this regard, measures are taken to establish their location. "At present, investigative actions are continued at the establishment of all persons involved in the theft of funds and the circumstances of the crime," the press service said.

The Mursekaevs spouses will be put on a criminal case of fraud, TASS was told in law enforcement. "Their whereabouts have not yet been established. They will be first announced to the federal, and then, possibly, on the international wanted list," the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, Rashid Mursekaev on Thursday was supposed to appear for an interrogation to the investigator, on the eve he was sent a summons.

As part of the compensation for damage to the victims of this fraud, security arrest on the property of co -owners and management of the company will be imposed. Soon they may be charged in absentia and a sanction for absentee arrest was issued.

Earlier, the Business FM source claimed that Rashid Mursekaev on Thursday appeared for interrogation. On Thursday, on Thursday, searches of key employees of the airline were also held, informed interlocutors of the radio station claimed.

The source of Interfax denied the information about the interrogation of Mursekaev, claiming that he had left Russia on September 26, flying from the capital of Sheremetyevo. On Wednesday, the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neudko, said that Mursekaev stopped answering phone calls and probably could leave Russia.

On the eve of TASS they informed law enforcement agencies that investigators interrogated Alexander Kochnev as a witness in the case, and then he was repeatedly called for interrogation. A source on Thursday specified that the general director was detained based on the results of the interrogation in the UK. “It was a second interrogation, the day before he was interrogated as a witness, he came to the investigators himself,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Afterthe mass delays and cancellation of the flights of the VIM-Avia airline, a criminal case was opened under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code ("Fraud on an especially large scale"). The official representative of the IC of the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko said that on behalf of the head of the department Alexander Bastrykin, the case was transferred to the central apparatus of the UK.

According to the investigation, from September 22, the airline officials knowingly know that there is not enough fuel purchase funds, including at Domodedovo Airport, having no contracts with other suppliers and, thus, did not have the opportunity to transport passengers, continued to sell tickets for flights. As a result, the management received more than 1 million rubles.

This week, VIM-Avia admitted that she has no means to continue operating activities, after mass delays in flights due to debt for fuel about 500 million rubles. The airline asked the Ministry of Transport "to consider the possibility of urgent provision of state guarantees" for 800-840 million rubles to pay for fuel and organize passengers from abroad. The owner of the company Rashid Mursekaev published a video message in which he apologized to the passengers for delayed flights due to lack of funds.

VIM -Avia aircraft were detained at airports for debts in Russia and abroad - in particular, in Spain, Belgium, Turkey and France. In Vnukovo from Domodedov, only four sides of 29 flew out of 29. For Tuesday-environment, VIM-Avia performed only about 10 flights.

The Russian citizens who are mainly located in the resorts of Turkey and Greece, who are "defeators," now hope only to help other airlines.

The Greek Ellinair will return 245 VIM-Avia passengers from Iraklion to Moscow, TASS reports. In addition, it is planned to connect Yamal and Siberia to the export of passengers.

For the export of tourists from Antalya on September 28, three VIM-Avia aircraft will be involved, which were released the day before from Domodedovo Airport with a refueling in Vnukovo. They will make two current flights for delivery from Turkey about 1.5 thousand passengers.

The Federal Air Transport Agency reports that about 200 million rubles from the federal budget for 2018 will be allocated to Russian airlines that will transport passengers of regular VIM-Avia regular flights. However, we are talking only about the internal flights of VIM-Avia.

The Wim-Avia itself, which Mintsyrans restored passenger air transportation for its guarantees for half a month , will also receive half a billion rubles from the state for air transportation. However, experts are sure that such infusions will not save the company and this is just a delay in its inevitable end of existence.

Currently, VIM-Avia, which closes the TOP-10 of the airlines of the Russian Federation in terms of passenger transportation, has six creditors, and its debt is approximately 7 billion rubles.

On Thursday night, it was announced that VIM-Avia aircraft would perform flights until mid-October. Passengers with the date of implementation of the regular flight from October 16 and later recommended to return the money at the place of purchase to return the money.

On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with government members, announced to the head of the Ministry of Transport Maxim Sokolov about incomplete official compliance with the situation with VIM-Avia, and accused Arkady Dvorkovich’s vice-premier’s problem of transport of insufficient attention to the industry.

The owners of VIM-Avia are Svetlana and Rashid Mursekaev. According to the SPARK -Interfax system, the company's revenue in 2016 amounted to 17.17 billion rubles, while the company repelled a small profit in RAS reports - 89 million rubles. According to Spark, Svetlana Mursekaeva recently laid part of her share of VIM -Avia Airline LLC - 5% of the authorized capital - at Zenit bank.