admitted guilty
The Investigative Committee of Russia has launched a preliminary investigation into businessman Viktor Baturin. He is accused of fraudulently attempting to steal 25% of Inteko shares and falsifying evidence in an arbitration dispute.
“30. Up to chapter 159 (article) and the first part of chapter 303 there are two chapters. He confessed everything, ”said the source of socialbites.ca, according to whom, this week the investigation will begin to familiarize Baturin with the materials of the criminal case.
Baturin’s lawyer, Igor Shabanov, told socialbites.ca that in addition to the termination of the preliminary investigation and attempted fraud, the defendant was additionally charged with falsifying evidence twice. The representative of Elena Baturina, who was a victim in the case, left questions about the publication without comment.
The essence of the charges
Baturin is accused of falsifying evidence in a civil case where he made a “deliberately false addition” to a deal he made with his sister and gave him priority to repurchase Inteko shares. And also an attempt to acquire a 25% stake in the company worth 13.8 billion rubles, using the same document as part of a fraudulent case, that is, in bankruptcy proceedings.
The agreement in question is linked to the conflict between the Baturins, which began in the second half of the 2000s. Since the 90s, Elena and Viktor have owned the company Inteko on par (50/50). But Baturin’s wife, under a marriage contract at the time of the divorce, received half of her stake in Inteko (25%), which Elena Baturina had to repurchase. In 2001, the remaining 25% of Victor passed to his sister in a “verbal agreement”, but continued to serve as Inteko’s vice president until the end of 2005. As a result, Elena fired her brother, the conflict resulted in public accusations and lawsuits. In early 2007, the brother and sister signed an agreement in which all mutual claims should be settled amicably.
According to investigators, wanting to steal his sister’s property through fraud, Viktor Baturin filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court in October 2011 for nullity of the sale and purchase of 100% of Inteko CJSC. transferring the rights of a buyer of valuable corporate papers. The entrepreneur confirmed both allegations with the annex to the agreement with his sister Elena Baturina; accordingly, the latter undertakes not to sell the company’s shares without the consent of his brother, as he has the right to pre-purchase them, and also undertakes to pay him the market value of 25% of the shares of Inteko upon request.
Lawyers of Elena Baturina at the Arbitration Court stated that there is no such provision in the annex, and that all obligations under the contract to Viktor have been fulfilled. The parties accused each other of falsification, and both of Viktor Baturin’s claims were dismissed by the court.
In 2016, Viktor Baturin was declared bankrupt due to debts. The financial director appointed to him by the court emphasized that the agreement for the transfer of 25 percent of the shares between the brother and sister “does not aim at a real change in the owner of the shares”, but “only apparently”. ” and the controversial shares for themselves, which Elena Baturina abused her rights as head of Inteko by illegally registering in 2007, come from the filing cabinet of arbitration cases. Finance director Erenzen Manzheev contributed the value of these shares as part of a bankruptcy filing, as a debt to Elena Baturina’s brother. Manzheev is a witness in the criminal case against Viktor Baturin.
how was the case
Elena Baturina, with the help of her lawyers, wrote to her brother in 2017 a statement addressed to the deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, opened a criminal case against unknown persons for attempted fraud. Baturin and Manzheev were questioned as witnesses in the case.
Then the investigation was suspended at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and after a while, by decision of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, the case was seized and transferred to the Moscow Investigative Committee at the beginning of 2020. A year later, in April 2021, materials from the capital’s Investigative Committee to the federal level were intercepted by the first deputy head of the ICR, General Eduard Kaburneev, and entrusted to Colonel Oleg Savelyev, the head of the third investigation department specializing in crimes. against state power and in the economic field. Baturin was called to the inspector and detained.
previous cases
Viktor Baturin has already been convicted. In 2011, he was arrested on charges of attempted fraud with Inteko invoices. The entrepreneur later denied the accusations, stating that he was the victim of a slander, which the head of CJSC Inteko, Oleg Soloshchansky, called “Jew,” and declared that he owed everything to himself.
Soloshchansky came to Inteko when the company set its sights on construction; In 2001, he took over the vice presidency of Inteko, responsible for the construction and building materials sector; He remained with the company after the company’s shareholders changed and was chairman from 2011 to 2017.
In 2013, according to the sum of the sentences, Baturin was sentenced to 7 years in a colony of the general regime, during which time he already had a suspended sentence for real estate fraud. Baturin was released on parole in 2016, unable to pay his debts and was declared bankrupt.