Lukoil file, returned to the Prosecutor’s Office upon the Ploiesti Court of Appeal

Prahova County Court has ordered on Tuesday the return of the Lukoil file to the Prosecutor’s office upon the Ploiesti Court of Appeal (PCA), a file with damages of nearly EUR 1.8 billion. In December, the magistrates established the indictment irregularity, pointing, among others, that some material acts were doubled or even tripled. The decision can be appealed within three days of notification, realitatea.net reports.
In December last year, the Prahova Court established the indictment irregularity by which the Lukoil file was sent to court, magistrates pointing out that some material acts were doubling or tripling, and that prosecutors have not indicated the specific criminal activity of the defendants.
On August 3, 2015 the prosecutors with the Prosecutor’s Office upon the Court of Appeal Ploiesti have completed investigations in the Lukoil file and have ordered the prosecution of Petrotel Lukoil SA Ploiesti and of SC Lukoil European Holding Bvatrium Netherlands. The companies are accused of money laundering, using the company’s credit in bad faith and complicity to money laundering. The damage is unprecedented among such cases, worth over EUR 2 billion, amount allegedly taken out of Romania. In this file, seven people were the accused, including the Director General of Petrotel Lukoil SA Ploiesti.
According to a release posted on the public ministry’s website at the time, in the same file several persons from the Petrotel Lukoil Ploiesti management, including Russian citizens, are prosecuted.
Thus, under prosecution are:
– the Director General of Petrotel Lukoil Ploiesti , member of the Board of Directors of the company, Andrey Bogdanov, Russian citizen accused of using in bad faith the company’s capital and money laundering;
– Russian citizen Alexey Voinstev , deputy Director General of the company in Ploiesti, accused of complicity in bad faith use of the company’s credit;
– Russian citizen Olga Kuzina, deputy Director General with Petrotel- Lukoil Ploiesti for committing the crime of complicity of using in bad faith the company’s credit and complicity in money laundering;
– Moldovan citizen Andrei Rata, member of the Board of Petrotel- Lukoil Ploiesti for committing the crime of using in bad faith the company’s credit and money laundering;
– Romanian citizen Dan Danulescu, deputy Director General of the company in Ploiesti, accused of complicity in the use in bad faith the company’s credit and complicity to money laundering;
– Romanian citizen Dorel Dutu, chief accountant of Petrotel-Lukoil Ploiesti, for complicity to using in bad faith the company’s credit and complicity to money laundering.
The total prejudice is, according to the prosecutors, of RON 7,597,094,338.10 (EUR 1,766,766,125.10).

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