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2021: Conflict and detention of former commercial director and chief accountant

The Shchelkovsky City Court until January 17, 2022 left under arrest one of the main defendants in the criminal case on extortion of 2.95 billion rubles from Shchelkovo Agrokhim JSC, Ural businessman Eduard Fedosov.

He was sent to the pre-trial detention center on November 15, 2021 directly from Sheremetyevo airport, from where he planned to fly out of the country.

Source: agroportal-ziz.ru

For the former commercial director of the holding Elmira Iraidova, who was detained on the same day, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of house arrest. The former chief accountant of Shchelkovo Agrokhim Lyudmila Prikhodko is also under subscription.

When deciding on detention, the court took into account the fact that the accused Fedosov had already tried to hide from justice, his connections in law enforcement agencies since when he served as general director of the Association of Law Enforcement Officials and Special Services of the Russian Federation, as well as the severity of the sane article, the term for which is determined by the period from 8 to 15 years.

All three are suspected of organizing a raider attack in order to seize the assets and technologies of the Shchelkovo Agrokhim holding JSC and alienate them to third parties, bypassing the main shareholders. Since the beginning of 2021, three criminal cases have already been initiated:

• under Art. 183 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal receipt and disclosure of commercial secrets" (January 2021);
• under Article 159 of Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Fraud on an especially large scale committed by an organized group of persons" (July 2021), as well as
• under Art. 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Extortion" (October 2021).

According to the materials of criminal cases, Fedosov was supposed to find a buyer for 31% of the shares of the enterprise, which Iraidova and Prikhodko combined into a block package through a fake deal.

Fedosov expressed his readiness to cooperate with the investigation.