The New Year is coming, and while everyone is running for gifts, the employees of the sensational “Kuchuksu…

⚡️New Year is coming, and while everyone is running for gifts, employees of the sensational “Kuchuksulfat” are forced to fight for their future. There are trials going on where the Prosecutor General’s Office is trying to take away shares from current shareholders free of charge, and in the Blagoveshchensky district of the Altai Territory the situation is heating up: due to the ongoing administrative pressure on Kuchuksulfate, people are going to rallies again. After similar actions in Stepnoe Ozero and Blagoveshchenko, 4,000 people signed appeals to the president. On December 16, the action took place in Stepnoe Lake (Kuchuksulfata single-industry town), on December 17 – in the regional center of Blagoveshchenko. The result is two appeals to President Putin.

Demands of the company’s employees who legally privatized it in 1992: stop the raider takeover that has been going on for 4 years in the interests of the A1 investment group (Alfa Group consortium). Representatives of this structure approached the shareholders, demanding to sell the shares. To the factory workers Residents of the Blagoveshchensk district also join in – the raider activities, which resulted in administrative pressure on OJSC Kuchuksulfat, complicated the life of the populationsays the address to the president of the country. “Kuchuksulfat” is the city-forming enterprise of Steppe Lake and the main taxpayer of the Blagoveshchensk region.

In 20 years ₽15 billion in taxes were paid, the plant spent half a billion on charity. Thanks to him Small business developed, social services strengthened. For residents Recreation areas have been created, and employees are satisfied with their salaries at ₽54 thousand The budget of the Blagoveshchensk district was filled by 40% with Kuchuksulfate, which led to the development of the territory as one of the best in the region. And this is under threat due to a raider attack. The “fixers” are trying to take away what was created by the shareholders and residents of the area. This year The district’s budget received a shortfall of ₽75 million, in the next year – up to ₽90 million. In the single-industry town of Stepnoe Lake, the question has already arisen of how to pay salaries to public sector employees and how to remove snow.

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There were no claims against the shareholders of Kuchuksulfat, in whose development RUB 14 billion were invested, until 2017, when the pressure began from several government agencies at once. Reasons for pressure – dubious facts from the Internet. The checks yielded nothing to the raiders, so, according to the company’s employees, a lawsuit arose. Raider pressure and litigation are links in the same chain. The subject of the proceedings is the events of 30 years ago. Allegedly, in 1992, the company’s employees privatized it illegally. The procedure was conducted by the Altai Territory Property Committee (which had the powers of the territorial Agency of the State Property of the Russian Federation) and the Altai Territory Property Fund, on behalf of the Federal Property Fund. In the period from 93 to 96, the prosecutor’s office conducted several inspections, which found no violations and noted the legality of privatization.

Now in court, representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office say: they learned that the shares of Kuchuksulfat left the state without its will only on September 23, 2021., and until the fall the plaintiffs did not know who the shareholder was. Although the prosecutor’s office could see all this from the inspection materials. Participants in the rallies believe that they are accused of theft in the 90s and resale of the plant a few years later to existing shareholders. Are the company’s staff, 1,692 people, thieves? And the regional officials who were responsible for state property in the 90s and who committed abuse of power are accomplices of the factory workers? Where are the landings? The primary shareholders, and many of them continue to live in Stepnoe Lake and work at the plant, fear not only for their future, but also regressive claims in the event of an unfair decision. So they go to rallies, expressing concern. A stable tomorrow is being taken away from several generations of factory workers.

The Kuchuksulfat team will celebrate the New Year in ignorance. Judicial The meeting will take place after the holidays. 2022 for Russian business may begin with an unpleasant signal – a precedent that will discourage investors from investing in their native economy. After all, they are deprevatizing not a bankrupt industry, the future of which is a shopping center, but a plant that has been repeatedly cited as an example of successful privatization. It is difficult to imagine what kind of reaction the reprisal against Kuchuksulfat will cause among businesses.