General Director of VIM-Avia was charged with theft

The General Director of VIM-Avia Alexander Kochnev was charged with theft of passengers. It is reported by Interfax .

A similar accusation was brought by the chief accountant of the company Ekaterina Panteleeva. They are charged with fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to investigators, VIM-Avia continued to sell flights, despite the fact that she had no money for fuel and aircraft maintenance.

Squat asks to send Kochnev and Panteleev under house arrest.

According to the Association of Tour Operators, Tour operators, as of September 29, almost 27 thousand VIM-Avia passengers remain abroad, most of them are in Turkey. Earlier in the Federal Air Transport Agency, they said that Aeroflot, S7 and a government special flight squad of Russia can join the transportation of VIM-Avia passengers.

Kochnev and Panteleev was detained on September 28. Earlier, TASS and Kommersant wrote that Kochnev is a witness in the case of fraud at VIM-Avia.

The owner of the company Rashid Mursekaev left Russia with his family, his whereabouts are unknown. In the SK it was noted that they would achieve absenteeism in Mursekaev; They want to put him on an international wanted list.

VIM-Avia aircraft arrested for debts at the airports of Dalaman, Antalya and Liezha. The company's total payables were estimated at 7 billion rubles.