The Prosecutor General’s Office entered into the bankruptcy case of the oil company Khotin “Dulisma”

The Prosecutor General’s Office acted as a plaintiff in the bankruptcy case of Alexei Khotin’s oil company Dulisma, should from the files of arbitration cases.

From the data of the electronic database it follows that the Moscow Arbitration Court decided to involve the Prosecutor General’s Office in the bankruptcy case of Dulisma on December 9.

In the petition, the Prosecutor General’s Office explained its interest in the case by the fact that in November the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow accepted the department’s claim for the recovery of 169.3 billion rubles. damage from the Rus-Oil group of companies, as well as on the withdrawal of its shares in favor of the state. The Prosecutor General’s Office points to the harm caused to the state due to the illegal activities of the company. Dulisma is part of Rus-Oil.

As stated in the documents sent to the court, the prosecutor’s office found that Rus-Oil, with the help of Dulisma, evaded taxes on mining, on VAT, and also on profits. In particular, companies created the appearance of buying and selling oil, reflected false data in accounting and did not pay the MET under the pretext of lack of money.

In addition, the Prosecutor General’s Office believes that Dulisma wants to legalize illegally obtained income and transfer property to controlled organizations through the bankruptcy procedure.

The bankruptcy procedure for Dulisma began in August 2021. In September of this year, the court introduced supervision in the oil company. The court approved Alexander Zolotukhin as interim manager, his progress report is scheduled for March 15, 2023.

Dulisma is part of the structure of the Rus-Oil company, and is also one of the main oil-producing assets of businessman Alexei Khotin. He was detained in 2019 in a criminal case on embezzlement of 290.5 billion rubles. in the Yugra bank, of which he was the beneficiary. The Central Bank revoked the license from the organization in 2017, a year later, Yugra was declared bankrupt.

At the end of November, the Prosecutor General’s Office filed lawsuit against Khotin and Rus-Oil demanding to recover 169.3 billion rubles from him and the company. The prosecutor’s office believes that it was precisely this amount that caused damage to the state as a result of the illegal activities of the Rus-Oil Group of Companies, which includes Mayorskoye LLC. Preliminary hearings on the lawsuit were held on 1 and 8 December. The next hearing is scheduled for December 22.