The Cheryomushkinsky Court in Moscow found Anatoly Kairo, a former member of the board of directors of the Rolf car dealership holding, guilty of withdrawing almost 4 billion rubles abroad and sentenced him to 8.5 years in a penal colony, according to Telegram of the Moscow General Courts Channel reports.
The court also imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles on the former top manager. He was found guilty of illegally withdrawing funds from abroad on an especially large scale as part of an organized group (part 3 of article 193.1).
In 2019 a criminal case was opened against Cairo. The investigation considers him the main participant in the transaction, which took place in 2014 under the pretext of buying shares of Rolf LLC in Rolf Estate CJSC. The shares were purchased from Cypriot offshore Panabel Ltd, which acted as the parent company of the entire Rolf distributor holding company.
The state prosecutor’s office considered the transaction fictitious and claimed that it served as a disguise for the withdrawal of funds. The value of the shares included in the deal is 3.9 billion rubles. Its Russian Investigative Committee charged Kairo as damage.
Cairo was detained in the courtroom. Lawyer Anton Gusev told Vedomosti that the defense intends to appeal the sentence.
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Source: RB
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