19 June 2017, Monday, 17:10 103

Russian Court Prolongs Arrest Of Property Of Lipetsk Confectionary Roshen Until September 13

Editor: Daria Zubkova

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The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has extended the freezing of assets belonging to the Roshen corporation's Lipetsk confectionery factory until September 13.

The corporation announced this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

The company notes that 14 real estate, including a warehouse for finished goods, four workshops, an auxiliary building, and seven land plots with a total area of more than 700,000 square meters, were frozen in December 2016 within a case on allegedly embezzlement of RUB 180 million from the Russian state budget through illegal VAT reimbursement.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Roshen Corporation says the Russian Federal Tax Service is unjustifiably attempting to collect more than RUB 150 million in additional taxes on the Roshen Trading House (Lipetsk, Russia).

In January 2017, Roshen decided to stop production at the Lipetsk confectionery factory.

Roshen Corporation includes Kremenchuk, two Vinnytsia, Kyiv confectioneries, Mariupol confectionery (which shareholders decided to liquidate) in Ukraine, Lipetsk-based Likonf confectionery (Russia), Klaipeda confectionary UAB Roshen (Lithuania), and Bonbonetti Choco factory (Hungary).

President Petro Poroshenko is the ultimate beneficiary owner of the Roshen Group; in April 2016 the ICU investment company announced the completion of the transfer of the share of Poroshenko in the Roshen confectionery to the trust of Rothschild Trust company.

Later, President Poroshenko said that he does not influence on his assets in Roshen.