BARNAUL SHPALOPROPITOCHNY PLANT WAS TRANSFERRED TO BANKRUPTCY

In Altai, the arbitration court imposed surveillance on a company engaged in the production of elements of the upper structure of railway tracks (case A02-159/2023). The lawsuit was filed by the tax authorities, to whom the organization owed over 43 million rubles. The observation procedure should last until December 13, 2023.

The tax authorities initiated the trial in April. Initially, as Kommersant clarifies, the claim contained a requirement to recognize the insolvency of the organization in a simplified manner (as an absent debtor). However, the Barnaul Shpalopropitochny Plant asked not to do this and to consider the case in the usual manner.

According to the materials of the current case, the main debts of the Barnaul Shpalopropitochny Plant to the treasury arose from the organization after the Federal Tax Service conducted an on-site inspection, additionally adding taxes and revealing a tax offense (underpayment of 5,948 rubles for personal income tax, more than 11 thousand for insurance premiums and almost 5 thousand for VAT). 29.6 million rubles were demanded from the plant as the main debt, more than 13 million as penalties and almost 592 thousand fines.

For the management of a legal entity established in 2007, the current bankruptcy is not the first. In July 2017, the tax authorities have already initiated arbitration proceedings on the insolvency of an organization with a similar name, but located not in the capital of the region, but in the village of Manzherok, which had the legal status of JSC (No. A03-12823/2017).

Then the organization, established in 2000, went through all stages of bankruptcy. It turned out that the company under the leadership of Andrey Krylov has an asset, a share in the capital structure of the Aleysky Sugar Factory in the amount of 30.6 million rubles (51%). As Kommersant reported, Krylov acquired this asset at an auction for the sale of assets of the bankrupt Siberian Sugar company (previously it operated the Aleysky Sugar Factory). The property, whose initial estimate was over 53 million rubles, was bought for 13.6 million rubles.

In April 2019, the arbitration brought the ex-head of the firm to subsidiary liability for 37.598 million. In October 2019, 270 thousand were recovered from Krylov in favor of JSC. In February 2020, the bankruptcy proceedings were completed, and at the end of June 2021, Krylov achieved the cancellation of the interim measures taken by the court on June 5, 2020.

In October 2020, it also became known that the tax authorities demanded to involve Krylov for "illegal actions in bankruptcy" (Article 14.13). Experts explained this by the specifics of the political struggle in the region. In 2018, the head of the Barnaul Shpalopropitochny Plant and the Aley Sugar Plant ran for regional governors, taking the last place among the candidates (13.5%). In case of disqualification, the candidate for the chair of the head of the Altai Territory could be suspended from participating in the elections for several years.