Court postpones review of the suit to liquidate RCFS on request of the Ministry of JusticePRESS-RELEASE #1354 FROM JUNE 29, 2005
June 26, 2005. Judge Samartseva of the Nizhni Novgorod province court determined that the hearing regarding the liquidation of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society will be postponed to August 4. The decision was taken in a meeting with the plaintiff in the case, the Federal Registration Authority of the Nizhni Novgorod Province office of the Russian Ministry of Justice. The representative of the plaintiff, Aleksey Shubin, stated that at present RCFS has submitted all the required documents for review, and the officers need time to look them over.
As reported earlier, on April 8, 2005, the Federal Registration Authority of the Nizhni Novgorod Province office of the Russian Ministry of Justice submitted a suit to the court requesting the liquidation of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society. Since February 28, 2005, the authority has been conducting an audit of RCFS. In the course of the audit the authority has, among other things, required documents regarding the financial activities of the organization. However, at the time of that request those documents were in the possession of the Nizhni Novgorod tax authorities, which was reviewing them, and could thus not be submitted as requested for legitimate reasons. This was certified by specialists at the Ministry of Justice. Nevertheless, acting deputy chief of the authority E.V. Istomina considered the non-submittal of the documents - held by another government agency - as a grave violation of the law, and submitted a suit to the court requesting the liquidation of the organization. On June 16, 2005, the tax audit of RCFS was finished and the documents were returned to the organization. On June 22, 2005, the documents were in turn submitted to the Registration Authority of the Ministry of Justice. Since then no additional documents have been requested by the plaintiff.
By all appearances, the registration officials requested the postponement of the hearing in order to be able to correct their position, since it is now not possible to accuse the RCFS of failure to submit documents.
RCFS submits complaint regarding the tax authority’s neglect to prosecutor
June 20, 2005. The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society turned in a complaint to the prosecutor, accusing the Federal Tax inspection office in Nizhni Novgorod of neglect. According to RCFS, the tax officials violated the procedural time period for reviewing the petition to close the administrative case.
The case of administrative violation regarding the alleged failure to pay taxes was brought by L.F. Barskova, main state tax inspector of the Nizhni Novgorod district in the city of Nizhni Novgorod. On June 16, simultaneously with the submission of the complaint, RCFS was charged with back taxes in the amount of more than one million rubles.
On June 28 RCFS submitted to the tax inspector’s office a petition to close the administrative proceedings against its executive director Stanislav Dmitrievskiy. In accordance with article 24.4 in the administrative violation code of the Russian Federation, a written petition is subject to immediate review and decision.
However, when RCFS representatives arrived at the tax inspector’s office in the Nizhni Novgorod district to find out the decision, the head of the review department Larisa Komleva stated that the petition had still not been processed and therefore not been reviewed.
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