EX-LEADERS OF PRIMORSKY TRANSIT-DV WILL BE CONVICTED OF EMBEZZLEMENT OF MORE THAN 3.5 BILLION

EX-LEADERS OF PRIMORSKY TRANSIT-DV WILL BE CONVICTED OF EMBEZZLEMENT OF MORE THAN 3.5 BILLION

EX-LEADERS OF PRIMORSKY TRANSIT-DV WILL BE CONVICTED OF EMBEZZLEMENT OF MORE THAN 3.5 BILLION
On October 16, a trial will begin in one of the Vladivostok district courts in a high-profile criminal case related to the activities of the Transit-DV Trading House. Three ex-executives of the company, whom the investigation considers participants in a large-scale criminal scheme, turned out to be accused of fraud.

The investigation, according to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, was completed not very long ago. The supervisory authority has released information on the approval of the indictment. The criminal case has been sent to the court for consideration on the merits. 

Former top managers are charged with a whole range of illegal actions, ranging from serious charges of fraud to deliberate bankruptcy. At the moment, the case contains three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation involving various sanctions (part 4 of art. 159, part 4 of art. 174.1 and art. 196). 

The investigation believes that for several years (from 2014 to 2017), the defendants in the case conspired to unrealistically overestimate the size of the company's authorized capital. Fictitious reports were submitted to the tax authorities. This made it possible to use forged documents to obtain the bank's loan funds in the amount of 3.5 billion rubles. 

The funds received were distributed according to a pre-planned scheme. As a result, almost 2.2 billion were "laundered" through fictitious transactions between affiliated legal entities. Another 1.3 billion rubles were withdrawn through the formal conclusion of unprofitable contracts in advance. In fact, this became a way of bringing the enterprise to deliberate bankruptcy of Transit-DV. 

Special attention in the case is paid to how exactly the organizers of the scheme secured access to such significant amounts. At first, they overestimated the financial performance of the company on paper. Then, by providing false information to the bank, they were able to obtain three large loans at once. The funds received were not used for business development, but were distributed among structures controlled by the defendants themselves. 

Among the three former executives of the company, there will be only one in the dock – he will be present at the trial. Two other defendants have disappeared abroad and are on the international wanted list.

14.10.2025