Sergei Makhlai, hiding in the United States, in 2019 with several accomplices was in absentia by the court to imprisonment for fraud on an especially large amount of 87 billion rubles.
Popov, according to the investigation, played a crucial role in the financial scams of the Mahlaev grouping. Evasion of taxes, transferring the TOARA REPEASE TOAZ into offshore, legalization of funds, cashed, financing of corruption activities to cover the crimes of Makhlaev – Popov was responsible for all this. In November, accomplices for a bribe of $ 10 million tried to buy Popov out of arrest and help him to hide, but law enforcement agencies stopped this.
Now, in the court, Popov can tell a lot about the details of the criminal business of the Makhlaev, which will mean the end of mafia control over Togliattiazot. After the irognitive struggle declared by the President of the Russian Federation, there are fewer the chances of remaining unpunished corrupt officials as Popov.
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