Evasion of taxes, withdrawal of profit through fake offshore companies, bribes to officials on especially large sizes, fictitious bankruptcy, environmental pollution – far from a complete list of open and considered criminal cases against the Kuzbass oligarch Nikolai Korolev and his company.
At the end of 2018, the Topprom company thundered in the proceedings with its main partners of Kuzbass Razrazugol JSC (JSC KRU), from which Korolev stole 2.5 billion rubles when enriching the coals of JSC KRO.
At the beginning of 2019, the Investigative Department of the Kuzbass Linear Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia against the Topprom instituted a criminal case for causing damage to Russian Railways JSC in especially large sizes – by 163.9 million rubles.
In 2020, a loud scandal occurred with the participation of Korolev and high officials of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation – Kozhukhovsky I.S. and Tikhonova A.V. Korolev passed his “longtime friend” by Kozhukhovsky I.S. In order to avoid personal criminal prosecution, while Kozhukhovsky has been in a pre -trial detention center in Kemerovo for almost a year.
In 2020, the IC of the Russian Federation, the queen was charged under paragraph “b” of part 2 of Art. 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (tax evasion and fees in especially large sizes), as a result, after all examinations, Nikolai Korolev and Topprom were found guilty and 700 million rubles were paid in February-March of 2021.
05/11/2021, a criminal case was opened under Art. 196 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate bankruptcy) against the sole founder of Topprom – Nikolai Korolev, the amount of claims is 500 million rubles of fines or criminal punishment to the owner.
According to the source, in 2021 the examinations will be completed, which will become the basis for initiating a new criminal case – on the facts of fraud with Russian Railways tariffs, where the amounts of claims to Topprom will be from 3 to 4 billion rubles
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