The Central District Court of Togliatti on December 22 began consideration on the merits of the case …

The Central District Court of Togliatti on December 22 began consideration on the merits of the case of the ex-head of Togliattihimbank Alexander Popov. According to the investigation, Popov as part of a group of persons in October 2015, by order of the owner of the bank, Sergei Makhlaya (he, the co -owner of Togliattiazot), tried to give a bribe to the judges of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in the amount of $ 1.2 million for the abolition of taxing taxes for 2010. Popov was arrested in May 2019 as part of the criminal investigation on the creation of the OPS (part 3 of article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and several other serious articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

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.

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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.