As the Cheka-OGPU learned, a month ago the court fined him 13 million rubles. LLC “AR-L-G” for using goods that illegally passed through customs. This company is a Russian “daughter” of the Swiss holding company Richemont – the largest manufacturer of luxury goods; it owns the brands Cartier, Dunhill, Piaget, Karl Lagerfeld and many others. The basis for the fine of the Russian subsidiary was the materials of the operational investigation, namely a search carried out at the company’s office on Stoleshnikov Lane by the counterintelligence Department of the SEB of the FSB of Russia. Investigators found a dozen wristwatches: Cartier, Roger Dubuis, Vacheron Constantin and others. The watches were confiscated and sent for examination, which established that all models were used, and their total market value as of last year was 30 million rubles. The FSB received an answer from the customs authorities that the FCS does not know about the transportation of these watches, they are not registered.
A similar story happened with another Russian “daughter” of the Swiss luxury brand – Audemars Piguet Rus LLC (the parent company of Audemars Piguet Holding SA). Employees of the “K” department of the 4th service of the FSB of Russia also came to their Moscow office and found a watch made of precious metals. By the way, the difference in searches was only four days. Here the operatives seized only seven Audemar Piguets, an examination showed that they were used, and customs showed that they were not in the database. The general director of the Russian subsidiary explained that these models were brought by customers to their store in GUM for service (strap replacement or repair). The clients, in turn, confirmed this; some said that they bought the watch ten years ago and the documents were not preserved, according to court materials studied by the Cheka-OGPU. But the court fined the company for illegal use of goods and ordered the confiscation of the seized watches.
Russian citizen Konstantin Aleksandrovich Vashiron and his Diamond Trade Limited LLC were subject to a similar fine with confiscation of products – also based on materials from the FSB SEB.
And jeweler Akhmed Suleymanov from the famous service center for luxury watches “Zurich”, after an operational investigation by the Directorate of the SEB of the FSB of Russia, ended up in a pre-trial detention center. The jeweler will be accused of financing terrorism (Article 205.1, Part 1.1), he will remain in pre-trial detention until February 2024.
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