Lawyer Yegor Redin on Sunday, December 19, in an interview with Izvestia, commented on the establishment by the investigation of the shadow owner of both SDS-Ugl and the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerovo region. They turned out to be ex-State Duma deputy Vladimir Gridin and members of his family.
The expert recalled that people’s choices are prohibited from engaging in entrepreneurial activity, but it is not prohibited to own shares of certain companies, since this does not provide for the operational management of the business and direct participation.
“In this case, the company was not directly owned by any deputy, but by an offshore company registered outside the Russian Federation. If we are talking about tracing the chain of directly beneficiaries, then this is quite simple to do. A request is made to the relevant competent authorities of the state where this offshore is registered, and the beneficiaries are disclosed, including for the investigation of a criminal case, “the channel’s interlocutor explained.
According to him, only in 2021 at Listvyazhnaya Rostekhnadzor identified 139 violations that were not corrected. And the last check was generally carried out on November 19.
Redin stressed that he hopes that all the beneficiaries of the company will be identified.
“Because if you own such an object, which brings you substantial profit, and do not take all measures to protect people, then it is obvious that the punishment will be the most severe,” the lawyer said and added that the state indicated the need to correct the violations.
The accident at the Listvyazhnaya mine occurred on the morning of November 25. As a result of the incident, 51 people died, 58 were hospitalized. In total, there were 285 people in the mine.
On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 217 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of industrial safety requirements for hazardous production facilities, resulting in the death of a person by negligence”), as well as a criminal case on the fact of negligence of employees of the Rostekhnadzor department.
On December 16, investigators managed to establish the shadow owner of the Listvyazhnaya mine and the SDS-Ugol holding, who turned out to be a former State Duma deputy Vladimir Gridin. One of the arrested managers gave testimony about the real owner of the business, but the investigators did not have time to interrogate Gridin, since the other day he unexpectedly flew to Monaco. It is noted that Gridin ran a business, being a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth and sixth convocations, holding the post of deputy chairman of the transport committee.
On December 15, the Central District Court of Kemerovo detained Mikhail Fedyaev, president of the SDS Holding Company. He is accused of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Abuse of powers, entailing grave consequences”). Also, until January 25, the general director of SDS-Ugol Gennady Alekseev was arrested.
Source: IZ
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