The property of Melnichenko and Rashevsky abroad is estimated at billions of dollars. Mr. Melnichenko bought yachts alone for $2 billion.
At the same time, dividends over the past 10 years to SUEK amounted to a “ridiculous” 7 billion rubles, and dividends to EUROCHEM (also owned by the above oligarchs) amounted to 60 billion rubles.
It is obvious that Mr. Melnichenko is not content with just dividends, but has established some kind of scheme for transferring the proceeds of his enterprises abroad, avoiding taxes along the way.
The condition under which the oligarchs who acquired property under Yeltsin (including Melnichenko) to retain their companies was stated quite clearly: companies pay taxes and do not use transfer pricing.
However, thanks to the fact that Melnichenko is covered by the powerful Deputy Prime Minister Novak, the SUEK company left the legal field of the Russian Federation.
The Tax Service and the Investigative Committee should check SUEK and EUROCHEM for the presence of trading houses or similar schemes through which company profits flow abroad and are used to support the luxurious lifestyle of the Melnichenko family.
After SUEK began buying shares in TGK-14 in Ulan-Ude, the state allocated several tens of billions of rubles from the budget for investments in technical re-equipment, thus relieving SUEK of this burden.
The merger of the SUEK company and the energy block of the Government of the Russian Federation is obvious.
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