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From 03/24/2022 // The court considered the arguments of the defense in the case of Pavel Maslovsky
Lawyers insist that there was no crime in the controversial transaction for the acquisition of real estate by the Pokrovsky mine company.
(c) photo from open sources March 24, 2022, NEDRADV. The Basmanny District Court of Moscow yesterday, March 23, considered the criminal case of Pavel Maslovsky, the founder of the gold mining company Petropavlovsk Plc, who is accused of fraud.
According to the investigation, in 2018, Pokrovsky Rudnik JSC (part of Petropavlovsk Plc) acquired a building and a land plot in Blagoveshchensk for 218 million rubles. At the same time, the real value of real estate is estimated at 119 million rubles. Thus, the subsoil user suffered damage in the amount of 99 million rubles.
According to the Telegram channel “Justice for Maslovsky”, the defense presented its position at the first court session. In particular, according to lawyers, there is no actual event of the crime. The transaction was concluded on the basis of a report by an independent appraiser, who claims that he received no instructions to overprice.
In addition, the transaction has passed all required corporate approvals. All members of the Board of Directors of Pokrovsky Rudnik JSC reported that Maslovsky did not put pressure on them. All the witnesses interviewed by the investigation do not mention that the accused instructed his subordinates or appraisers to inflate the real value of the object.
The materials of the case confirm that the very fact of the acquisition of real estate and its price were disclosed to the shareholders of Petropavlovsk Plc in a timely manner in the annual reports. At the same time, the reporting was checked and approved by the largest auditing company Deloitte LLP.
The defense also points out that the examination of the criminal case was carried out by two individuals who are not state forensic experts and employees of non-state expert organizations. In the conclusion of the forensic examination, numerous errors in the applied adjustments were revealed, which ultimately affected the final assessment of the value of the object.
The defense intends to provide the court with alternative estimates from reputable expert organizations that do not confirm the conclusions of the investigation about the overpricing of the purchased building. Based on the above facts, the lawyers insist on the termination of the criminal prosecution of Pavel Maslovsky.
It should be noted that following the meeting, the consideration of the case was postponed to April 5 this year.
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Pavel Alekseevich Maslovsky is the founder of the Petropavlovsk group of companies. In 1994, he created the first enterprise of the future group in the Amur Region - JSC Pokrovsky Mine, in 1999 the first gold was obtained. In 2018, the company launched a unique autoclave and hydrometallurgical complex, Pokrovsky AGK. Petropavlovsk also includes