The Prosecutor General’s Office demands the transfer of three facilities of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CHEMK) to state ownership, since the privatization carried out in the 1990s was illegal. The newspaper reports this “Kommersant” in connection with a lawsuit filed against business owners.
The supervisory authority alleges that the assets of the facilities were transferred outside Russia with the aim of harming Russia’s national interests, defense and security. According to the 1992 privatization rules, the decision to corporatize the factories and transfer them to private hands was supposed to be made by the Russian government, but this did not happen and the privatization was approved by regional authorities.
The Prosecutor General’s Office notes that businessman Yuriy Antipov registered assets in Etalon Company JSC belonging to him and his family in February 2023, after receiving 100% of the shares, after which three ChEMK factories came under the control of residents of unfriendly states. Canada-Swiss RFA International.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, products intended for the production of weapons and ammunition, which will harm the national interests of the Russian state, produced by factories under the control of residents of unfriendly countries, are exported at a reduced cost to the USA, France and England – which pursue an “aggressive policy” against the Russian Federation and countries that supply weapons to Ukraine.
Previously reportedIn Moscow, the accounts of the former Deputy Minister of Energy in the amount of approximately 42 million rubles were frozen.