On March 31, the security forces conducted searches with the Director General of TOAZ Dmitry Mezheedov and his assistant Magomed Shishkhanov.
On May 16, 2019, against the beneficiaries of PJSC Togliattiazot, Sergei Makhlaya, his father Vladimir Makhlai and other persons of the RF IC opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code (organization of a criminal community or participation in it). He is charged with serious economic crimes against the state committed in 2005-2013. Two weeks later, the first person was arrested – Alexander Popov, chairman of Togliattihimbank. It was he who, with the filing of a US citizen, Sergei Makhlaya, played the main role in laundering and cashing out of the money illegally bred from the TOAZ, which went to corruption goals – mainly to the excuse of the owners of TOAZ from criminal and administrative cases. Now Popov gives in court a testimony of another criminal case – attempts to give a bribe to the judges of the Supreme Court for the abolition of taxes accrued by TooAz.
Dmitry Mezheedov, who became the general director of Toz in mid -2019, enthusiastically, took the withdrawal of money from the enterprise after the arrest of Popov. Through fictitious construction contracts, repairs, freight, consulting, acquisition of equipment at high prices from Makhlaevsky firms, Mesyedov withdraws tens of millions of dollars a year to its overseas owners.
Magomed Shishkhanov, who oversees the largest channel for withdrawal of funds, works in a tight connection with Mezheedov-through the contracts of the friendly wave of the company MSA-Stroy, the main contractor for all construction at the factory. After Popov’s landing, the role of Shishkhanov increased even more, it is he who is now the main cashier and soluler of the Mahlaev family. By the way, more recently, Shishkhanov, with a suitcase of dollars, was seen in Kazan at the threshold of the Arbitration Court of the Volga District, where one of the numerous cases of Togliattiazot is obeyed.
It is obvious that law enforcement agencies have seriously advanced in the investigation of crimes of the owners of Tauza Makhlaev. Well, now the evidence base of these crimes has probably been replenished with documents received during searches.
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