Makfa Asset Seizure and 100 Trillion Ruble Claim: Key Details

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According to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, assets valued at 100 trillion rubles tied to former deputy Vadim Belousov and ex-governor Mikhail Yurevich were frozen in a seizure case. The update was reported by TASS, citing the bailiff’s order on interim measures. Source: TASS

The bailiffs targeted assets connected to the mother of Belousov’s son-in-law, Mikhail Yurevich, who is on the wanted list, along with several other entities and individuals. The arrest involved sums tied to debtor Maxim Chigintsev, Belousov’s son-in-law, whose funds were held in accounts containing rubles, euros and US dollars. Source: TASS

Officials state that the overall amount seized from the debtor is 100,000,000,000,000 rubles, as detailed in the decision. Source: Chelyabinsk Central District Court documents

To secure the Prosecutor General’s Office’s claim, the Chelyabinsk Central District Court ruled to arrest 100 percent of the shares in a series of companies. This includes the First Bread Factory, Makfa, the New Five-Year Plan, SMAK, and Dolgovskoye, along with related individuals such as Natalya Yurevich and Natalya Petrasheva, as well as the private Cypriot firm Sula Granti LTD. Shares in Chelyabinskoblgaz, owned by Belousov’s son-in-law and Yurevich’s relative, were also seized, as were holdings in Arkom and PJSC Kalanchak Bakery Plant, which are controlled by the Dutch entity MGC International BV. Source: court orders and official releases

Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation had sought to convert Makfa group shares, Russia’s leading pasta producer, into state revenue. Source: official filing

The supervisory authority pursued a lawsuit in the Chelyabinsk Central District Court requesting the conversion of Makfa JSC and related firms’ assets into state revenue. Source: court documents

In related developments, a myth regarding pasta’s impact on body weight was addressed by scientists, who denied claims that pasta consumption necessarily harms figures. Source: scientific commentary

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