The Director General of the "Industrial Union of Donbass" Mkrtchan was accused of embezzlement of 85 billion rubles

The Investigative Committee calculated the damage caused by the head of the Donbass Industrial Union, Oleg Mkrtchan VEBU, and brought the businessman an accusation of a theft of 85 billion rubles. Earlier, the Ukrainian entrepreneur was charged with the theft of one billion rubles allocated by Vnesheconombank.

The Basmanny Court extended the term of the MKRTCHAN's arrest of up to 12 months, Kommersant writes. At the meeting, the representative of the IC of the Russian Federation said that the investigation in the case was completed, and the guilt of the defendant is confirmed by operational materials, testimonies of witnesses, etc. Currently, the accused and his lawyers are getting acquainted with the materials of the case, which are 79 volumes.

Mkrtchan’s lawyer Vladimir Averin asked him to transfer him to house arrest. According to the defender, the criminal case was built on the report of the Office "K" of the FSB, which in itself does not give grounds for arrest. At the same time, the investigator, according to Averin, did not give evidence that the Mkrtchan, being under house arrest, would be able to somehow prevent justice, including threatening witnesses or trying to hide.

In addition, Averin questioned the very assertion that Mkrtchan was related to the receipt and predation of the Web's loan. "The conclusion of a loan agreement with the Cyprus company Margit Holding Ltd was engaged in Vnesheconombank, not Mr. Mkrtchan," the lawyer said in court. However, the court said that in the event of a house arrest, the accused may hide from the investigation and court.

Two cell phones were seized from Mkrtchan as material evidence, the conversations on which the FSB were listened to.

The criminal case against the Ukrainian businessman, the owner of the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant (AMC) and the general director of the second largest metallurgical company of Ukraine "Industrial Union of Donbass" (ISD) Oleg Mkrtchan was brought up in early February 2018 under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). On February 8, the Basmanny Court in Moscow arrested the entrepreneur for two months, later the arrest was extended.

At the beginning of the Director General of the ISD was charged with the involvement of several Web loans to develop enterprises included in the Union and withdraw more than one billion rubles for an offshore controlled by him for the subsequent waste of this money on MKRTCHAN's personal projects. At the same time, investigators believe that he paid interest on a loan for several years in order to hide his plans from the leadership of VEB.

Now the prosecution of the businessman was expanded to the theft of 85 billion rubles in the implementation of the contract with VEB. At the same time, sources of the publication said that during interrogations and confrontations with MKRTCHAN, representatives of VEB denied the fact of theft of funds and refused to consider themselves the victim.

In February, the lawyer of Mkrtchan Alexander Kostanyants in an interview with RBC explained that the businessman did not commit theft, but "there was a corporate dispute." “This dispute cannot be considered as fraud, because in this case there was no embezzlement through deception, it is free economic relations, and to detain [Oleg Mkrtchan] prematurely,” the defender noted.

It was reported that the MKRTCHAN was taken under the testimony of the former head of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) Igor Plotnitsky , who was in February in the St. Petersburg pre -trial detention center for fraud with finances and the murder of militia leaders.

Mkrtchan is one of the three founders of the "Industrial Union of Donbass." The control package of ISD shares belongs to the pool of Russian investors, including one of the creators of the Evraz Metallurgical Company Alexander Katunin. The owners of another 49.9% of the ISD shares were Sergey Taruta and Oleg Mkrtchan.

The ISD is one of the largest companies that occupy key positions in the production of steel in Central and Eastern Europe.

The corporation includes such metallurgical assets as the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant PJSC (Ukraine), PJSC Alchevskkox (Ukraine), PJSC Dniprovsky Metallurgical Plant named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky (Ukraine), ISD-Dunafer (Hungary); ISD-HUTA ChestOCHOWA (Poland).