One more criminal case has been commenced against the Russian-Chechen Friendship SocietySeptember 23, 2005. Nizhny Novgorod. One more criminal case has been commenced against the inter-regional public organization “Russian-Chechen Friendship Society”. The executive manager of the RCFS Stanislav Dmitrievsky learnt about it during his interrogation at the Main Investigatory department at Ministry of the Interior of Nizhny Novgorod region. This time the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society has been charged with committing the crime that part 1 of Article 199 of the criminal Code of the Russian federation refers to, that is “evading payment of taxes or (and) dues by an organization at a big rate”. The criminal case bases the charges on the information collected during the audit of the financial activities of the RCFS conducted by the tax inspection, including decision #25 on bringing the tax-payer to the tax accountability although this decision has been appealed at the arbitrage court and its validity has been suspended by the arbitrage court.
The criminal case was commenced on September 2, 2005 but the RCFS staffers learnt about it only today. Yesterday a serviceman of the Main Investigatory department came to the flat where Dmitrievsky lives and handed in the summons to come to be interrogated as a witness. Dmitrievsky was interrogated the next day. It lasted from 10.30 am until 1.40 pm. Investigator Alexander Vorobyov told Dmitrievsky about the commenced criminal proceedings. No official charges have been preferred yet. However, taking into account that Dmitrievsky is the only responsible member of the organization who makes decisions on financial issues according to the statutes of the organization, it's him who will be the main suspect.
As reported before, on September 2, 2005 the prosecutor's office of Nizhny Novgorod Region officially charged Dmitrievsky with “inciting to animosity”, according to Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
The RCFS considers that criminal and administrative prosecution of the organization conducted by the bodies of prosecutorship, the Interior Ministry, tax inspection, the Justice Ministry are politically motivated and aimed at destruction of the human rights organization that has been always critical of the policy carried by the Russian authorities in the North Caucasus.
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Source: Russian-Chechen Information Agency (B) |
