Oleg Belkov beguiled boats
The owner of the shipyard “Bell” received 3 years probation for smuggling two military vessels in the UAE under the guise of civilians for 500 million rubles. In the Yaroslavl region, the ex-director of the Vympel shipbuilding plant received a conditional sentence for military smuggling.
In the Yaroslavl region on February 20, 54-year-old Oleg heard his sentence proteinov, who tried to smuggle military boats across the border. According to investigators, the man organized his private production of boats – the Bell Shipyard. There, under the guise of civilian boats, military ships were built. Their Oleg proteinov tried to sell abroad – to the United Arab Emirates.
The court recognized Oleg proteinov guilty of smuggling military equipment and sentenced him to a suspended sentence.
– The Rybinsk City Court imposed a sentence of 3 years of imprisonment on probation with a probationary period of 3 years, – they said in the Yaroslavl Regional Court.
Kommersant.Ru, 21.02.2023, “Protection appeals the verdict against the director of the Rybinsk shipyard”: Sentence to the General Director of BELL Shipbuilding Yard LLC Oleg proteinovu will be appealed, the lawyer of Mr. proteinova Dmitry Pak. […] Mister proteinov from the very beginning did not agree with the charges.
“These are absolutely 100% civilian boats, and the verdict is based on an unacceptable examination,” Oleg’s lawyer told Kommersant-Yaroslavl proteinova Dmitry Pak. […] The defense hopes that the sentence will be canceled and the boats will be returned to the owner. — Inset K.ru
The story begins in August 2019. Landing craft were made under the guise of pleasure craft. The company received permission to release two patrol landing craft in the UAE without customs clearance, according to the documents. Intention proteinova was discovered in September 2020, when the security forces of the regional FSB seized the boats.
Kommersant.Ru, 02/20/2023, “Rybinsk boats were not allowed into Sharjah”: As follows from the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Yaroslavl Region, the Bell company signed a contract with Segrex Limited, a company registered in the emirate of Sharjah, UAE for the supply of two boats by June 30, 2020 “Marlin” with serial numbers 001 and 002.
Already in April 2020, the boats were manufactured. The shipyard sent documents to the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS), which in June issued a conclusion that the boats do not belong to military products. On September 29, a declaration for goods under the customs procedure for export was submitted and issued. The post of the Baltic Customs of the North-Western Customs Administration made a decision to allow the release of products outside the customs border of the Customs Union within the framework of the EurAsEC. […]
During the investigation, the FSMTC issued a new conclusion that the boats were military products. The same opinion was previously reached by the examination of the Research Institute of Shipbuilding and Armament of the Navy VUNTS of the Navy “Naval Academy”, which determined that, according to the performance characteristics, the vessels belong to the class of patrol landing boats and can be used as such. Bell Shipbuilding Yard appealed against the FSMTC decision in the arbitration court, but was refused .pdf. According to the verdict of the Rybinsk City Court, the disputed boats were confiscated. — Inset K.ru
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Despite the fact that the boats were confiscated on the territory of the Yaroslavl region, smuggling is recognized as completed from the moment the customs authority submits a customs declaration or other document allowing the import into the customs territory of the Union or export from this territory of goods or other items for the purpose of their illegal movement across the customs border .
IA “Yarnovosti”, 02/20/2023, “The ex-director of the Rybinsk Vympel, accused of smuggling military boats, received a three-year suspended sentence”: An agency source in law enforcement said that after leaving the shipyard proteinov established his own “garage” production of military boats with the consonant name “BELL”. — Inset K.ru
IA “Interfax”, 02/20/2023, “The director of the Rybinsk shipyard was sentenced to probation for smuggling military boats”: proteinov held senior positions at the Vympel Rybinsk shipyard in 2010-2018. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, proteinov is the general director of BELL Shipbuilding Yard LLC, which was registered in 2019. The main activity is the construction of ships, vessels and floating structures. The founders of the company are the Moscow combined closed-end mutual investment fund “Joint Investments” (70%), Oleg proteinov (29.4%) and Ivan Kiselev (0.6%). — Inset K.ru
