The court arrested the business and property of the founder of “Player.ru” at the request of the Federal Tax Service

The court arrested Konyshev’s funds in the amount of 9.7 billion rubles in all current accounts, including the accounts of Voskhod LLC, and also prohibited any actions with the PLEER brand, a BMW X7 car worth 9, 5 million rubles and 17.7 hectares of land worth 750 thousand rubles in the Vladimir region.

During its existence, Player.ru periodically changed its legal entity, without changing the structure, location of the company and personnel, the Federal Tax Service said. And Konyshev, although he remained a beneficiary, received money in his accounts from individual businessmen “involved in a scheme to hide income and divide the business,” the case file states.

“Electron”, the former legal entity of the store, “transferred its financial and economic activities to Voskhod in order to evade taxes,” the tax office said. Considering that the company had previously transferred its business to newly created legal entities, “there is a high probability that, if not seized, the company could quickly change its organizational structure again and withdraw money from its accounts,” it says the document.

At the end of September, Player.ru announced the suspension of the offline store and customer service department “for technical reasons.” Since early October, the electronics store’s partners and contractors began filing lawsuits against it to collect debts under contracts, Shopper’s wrote. According to the publication, the total amount of claims amounted to almost 330 million rubles.

Konyshev, in an interview with Kommersant, said that the company stopped operating “due to lack of funds to purchase goods.” In early October, Player.ru representatives posted a message on the store’s website stating that they planned to resume work in the market format.

• “Player.ru” was founded in 2002 and gained popularity thanks to its wide range and low prices. In 2013, Forbes ranked the company 21st in the ranking of the 30 largest RuNet organizations. The electronics store’s revenue was then estimated at $60 million.
• This is not the first time the company has suspended operations. This first occurred in 2018, when the organization’s Moscow office was searched. Also, in 2019, the court closed Player.ru for 30 days after an inspection by the Federal Tax Service and the FSB: they found that the store was fraudulent with checks.