Kyiv’s Holosiyivsky district court has arrested the Pharmex Group pharmaceutical plant (earlier Max-Well, Boryspil in Kyiv region), the ultimate beneficiary of which is Alexander Shyshkin, the former deputy of the State Duma of Russia, the press service of Ilyashev & Partners law firm reported on Nov. 6.
“The assets were arrested under a claim of BTA Bank, a civilian in a criminal case related to the embezzlement of over $6 billion from the bank and money laundering in collusion with foreign citizens,” the law firm said.
The law firm said that the scam with the pharmaceutical plant in the amount of around Hr 3 billion was a part of unlawful deals of the former owner of BTA Bank Mykhtar Ablyazov.
“The court referred to Article 5 of the Convention of the Council of Europe on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism, obliging thee state to take measures and arrest property in which the proceeds of the crime were converted,” the firm said.
As reported, English courts earlier upheld claims of BTA against Ablyazov and his partners for the amount of over $4 billion. Ablyazov was detained by French law-enforcement agencies in July 2013.
