Post by radovic on Dec 7, 2007 12:10:22 GMT -5
Igor Churkin arrested at ‘Nikola Tesla’ Airport on Wednesday
Russian tycoon arrested in Belgrade
Author: T.M.S. | 07.12.2007 - 06:00
One of the biggest Russian tycoons Igor Churkin was arrested at Belgrade airport ‘Nikola Tesla’ on Wednesday as per the wanted list issued by the Police of Ukraine for numerous illegal activities in the process of privatization that brought him over 40 million Euros. Churkin was taken before the investigation judge who ruled him extradition detention, ‘Blic’ learns from sources close to Serbia judicial system.
Churkin fled Ukraine beginning this year when that country’s prosecution raised charges against him because of irregularities in the process of privatization by which he became owner of the ‘Black Sea Shipyard’.
The latest affair that the name of this Russian tycoon is connected with, as media in Russia and Ukraine report, is confiscation of 500 kilos of drugs at a border crossing between Ukraine and Hungary. On that occasion half a ton of cocaine and marijuana were found in five trucks that were to enter Ukraine.
Igor and his brother Oleg Churkin became known to the Russian public in 2003 when they privatized the mentioned shipyard, the biggest one in the former USSR and Europe, in an illegal way. The brothers are also major owners of a truck factory. According to the local media, the shipyard and the factory brought huge wealth to the Churkin brothers ranking them among the first ten tycoons that appeared after disintegration of the USSR.
Last year only the shipyard made a profit margin of several million Dollars. It is specialized for construction of vessels having payload of up to 105,000 tons. However, at the beginning of the year the Churkin brothers came in the focus of the Ukrainian law. Initiative for proclamation of purchase of the shipyard null and void was launched.
Police raided Churkin’s shipyard
In the investigation against Igor Churkin, armed units of the Police of Ukraine raided the ‘Black Sea Shipyard’ on August 3 this year, but also several other companies within the shipyard circle.
Julia Timoshenko that the Parliament of Ukraine is presently deciding about her post as the Prime Minister said after the raid that the ownership over the ‘Black Sea Shipyard’ ‘has been taken over by another clan’. She mentioned that leaders of the new clan trying to takeover the shipyard were the former official of the Nikolajevska Region, Aleksandr Sadikov and a controversial businessman Vadim Novinski.
Russian tycoon arrested in Belgrade
Author: T.M.S. | 07.12.2007 - 06:00
One of the biggest Russian tycoons Igor Churkin was arrested at Belgrade airport ‘Nikola Tesla’ on Wednesday as per the wanted list issued by the Police of Ukraine for numerous illegal activities in the process of privatization that brought him over 40 million Euros. Churkin was taken before the investigation judge who ruled him extradition detention, ‘Blic’ learns from sources close to Serbia judicial system.
Churkin fled Ukraine beginning this year when that country’s prosecution raised charges against him because of irregularities in the process of privatization by which he became owner of the ‘Black Sea Shipyard’.
The latest affair that the name of this Russian tycoon is connected with, as media in Russia and Ukraine report, is confiscation of 500 kilos of drugs at a border crossing between Ukraine and Hungary. On that occasion half a ton of cocaine and marijuana were found in five trucks that were to enter Ukraine.
Igor and his brother Oleg Churkin became known to the Russian public in 2003 when they privatized the mentioned shipyard, the biggest one in the former USSR and Europe, in an illegal way. The brothers are also major owners of a truck factory. According to the local media, the shipyard and the factory brought huge wealth to the Churkin brothers ranking them among the first ten tycoons that appeared after disintegration of the USSR.
Last year only the shipyard made a profit margin of several million Dollars. It is specialized for construction of vessels having payload of up to 105,000 tons. However, at the beginning of the year the Churkin brothers came in the focus of the Ukrainian law. Initiative for proclamation of purchase of the shipyard null and void was launched.
Police raided Churkin’s shipyard
In the investigation against Igor Churkin, armed units of the Police of Ukraine raided the ‘Black Sea Shipyard’ on August 3 this year, but also several other companies within the shipyard circle.
Julia Timoshenko that the Parliament of Ukraine is presently deciding about her post as the Prime Minister said after the raid that the ownership over the ‘Black Sea Shipyard’ ‘has been taken over by another clan’. She mentioned that leaders of the new clan trying to takeover the shipyard were the former official of the Nikolajevska Region, Aleksandr Sadikov and a controversial businessman Vadim Novinski.