SINGAPORE TRADER IS DRIVING MONERON CRAB PRODUCTION COMPANY TO BANKRUPTCY

SINGAPORE TRADER IS DRIVING MONERON CRAB PRODUCTION COMPANY TO BANKRUPTCY

SINGAPORE TRADER IS DRIVING MONERON CRAB PRODUCTION COMPANY TO BANKRUPTCY
A petition for bankruptcy of Moneron company was filed with the Sakhalin Regional Arbitration Court. The company which is engaged in production of crab products and is owned by the regional deputy Dmitry Pashov, is being driven to bankruptcy by a trader from Singapore.

Osprey Networks company, a fish wholesaler, is demanding 1.9 billion rubles from a Sakhalin company.

In April, the capital court of arbitration recognized the debt of Moneron to the Singaporean enterprise for $ 26 million. It turned out that the trader paid an advance of $ 32 million, having received crab products (live snow crab and king crab) for $ 5.7 million. Last time the cargo was sent to the buyer at the beginning of February, and already at the end of the month, the head of the Moneron company was detained by law enforcement agencies.

Dmitry Pashov was placed under arrest in Khabarovsk, as a suspect in customs offenses and smuggling.

But the real owner of the ‘crab’ business, who was covered by the figure of the deputy, is Oleg Kan. Accused of organizing the smuggling of crab to China and Japan, Kang was arrested in absentia in 2020. He is also suspected of murdering a well-known businessman from Vladivostok Valery Pkhidenko. The murder itself took place over 10 years ago.

Interest in the figures of Oleg Kan and Dmitry Pashov arose in 2019, when quotas for biological resources began to be redistributed in the Far East. Last fall, Ksenia Sobchak, who planned to become a co-owner of the company, attracted media interest to Moneron. By that time, it was already clear that clouds were gathering over the ‘crab kings’. By January 11, 2021, the company's accounts were frozen due to the tax violations.

According to a number of sources, Moneron owes about 2 billion rubles to the State treasury.

Now investigators are spinning a criminal scheme, according to which the price of crab for export was underestimated. The product was formally sold to a company from Panama at one price, while the actual buyer was Japanese businessmen, who bought Russian crab at a different, significantly higher price. At the same time, the Panamanian company was controlled by Kahn, hiding in South Korea. According to the investigation, the state received less than 210 million rubles as a result.



28.05.2021