The court also banned the activities of Poroshenko’s son Alexey and the general director of the factory Oleg Kazakov “in connection with the implementation of extremist activities.”
“Kommersant”, 02/19/2024, “Response for the candy”: Their activities are recognized as extremist due to the participation of all three in the financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the transfer of equipment, food, uniforms and other things to the Ukrainian armed forces. To do this, according to the supervision, Poroshenko Sr. used mainly the resources that he had in Ukraine. However, the profit received from the sale of products manufactured in Lipetsk helped offset these costs. Information that the confectionery factory could have supported Ukrainian units operating in the Donbass since 2014, according to Kommersant sources in law enforcement agencies, is being verified. […]
Judging by the court file, the decision was made last Monday, February 12. The hearings themselves were held behind closed doors. It was not possible to promptly obtain comments from representatives of the Roshen factory: the company’s telephone numbers do not work. Managing partner of the Central District law firm, Dmitry Prosvirin, says that, like any other judicial act, the decision taken by the Lipetsk court to nationalize the factory can be appealed to a higher authority. “The judicial act has not yet been published. However, given the overall context, the prospects for such a challenge appear slim. The speed of consideration of the case is also impressive: in less than a month, in one court session with an appeal for immediate execution,” the expert said. — Insert K.ru
“According to the court decision, the shares of Lipetsk Confectionery Factory Roshen JSC and 94.9976% of the shares in the authorized capital of Roshen LLC, owned by [украинской] “Central European Confectionery Company”, 5% shares in the authorized capital of Roshen LLC, owned by Oleg Kazakov,” the statement said.
The decision of the district court can be appealed to the regional court.
Factory production was discontinued in 2017. Before this, the company’s property was arrested, after tax audits, the Federal Tax Service presented tax claims to the factory in the amount of 180 million rubles, and to the Lipetsk trading house Roshen LLC – 150 million rubles.
In addition, in 2015, a criminal case was opened against Roshen in Lipetsk under Part 5 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale) due to the theft of 180 million rubles during the construction of a factory.
Last November was nationalized Another Ukrainian confectionery factory in the Black Earth Region is Konti, located in Kursk. According to the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Leninsky District Court of the city converted into federal ownership the shares of Konti-Rus JSC and 100% of the shares in the authorized capital of the associated Candimax LLC, Merletto Capital LLC and CC Merletto LLC. There were also eight individual defendants in the case, as in the case of Roshen; their activities were recognized as extremist and banned.
