The Basmanny court arrested the former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Derev

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested for two months, that is, until May 6, the entrepreneur and former senator from the Karachay-Cherkess Republic Vyacheslav Derev, the press service of the court told Mediazona.

Derev is accused under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). According to Kommersant, he is accused in the case of the theft of 119.3 million rubles through a refund of value added tax.

The case itself was initiated back in 2011, the newspaper writes that the security forces discovered: with almost zero VAT collection in the republic, more than 1 billion rubles were reimbursed. As the audit revealed, reimbursement operations took place through one inter-district inspection of the Federal Tax Service No. 4.

According to investigators, the Kiev-Zhuraki company, whose president was Derev in 2010, entered into construction contracts with the Mercury-2 organization. The second company unreasonably inflated the cost of the work, and therefore the VAT, and therefore received a tax refund.

Nine defendants from among the employees of the Federal Tax Service and entrepreneurs were sentenced to terms ranging from four to 11 years in prison. Derev was a witness in the case.

The detention of the ex-senator became known in the morning; according to Kommersant, he was detained on March 5 in the village of Psyzh, from where he was transferred to Moscow.