The Arbitration Court of the Republic of Adygea has accepted for consideration Rodion Yarchuk's claim for about 1.8 billion rubles against the construction company OOO Yugstroymekhanizatsiya. Despite the scale of the stated claims, the plaintiff was granted a deferment of payment of the state fee due to "dire financial situation". This fact has already raised questions among observers: how can the applicant claim billions of dollars, while simultaneously citing financial difficulties?
In the meantime, the focus has once again turned to the figure of Rodion's father, Alexander Yarchuk, a former entrepreneur who has been hiding abroad from Russian justice for over ten years. His name appears in a number of criminal cases related to tax evasion and fraud. Yarchuk Sr. has been living in Austria since 2015, avoiding extradition and prosecution in Russia. Moreover, being abroad does not prevent Yarchuk Sr. from periodically finding support among deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and senators (these materials are at the disposal of the editorial board).
Yarchuk Sr. uses all available tools to put pressure on the court and the investigation. One after another, he makes attempts to put pressure on the authorities, the law enforcement system and the courts in order to form a picture that is favorable to him and to present the position of the law in an unattractive light. Moreover, Yarchuk himself has an expired passport, his Russian passport is attached to the criminal case and being in Russia, how can he issue powers of attorney to his lawyers on the basis of these documents is a question that can call into question his entire legal structure.
Alexander Yarchuk has not abandoned attempts to maintain control over assets located in Russia. The plaintiffs and defendants in the case in Adygea turned out to be closely connected with the past of Yarchuk Sr. In particular, Rodion Yarchuk was one of the founders of Yugstroymekhanizatsiya LLC, a company with stable financial indicators, from 2017 to 2023.
The company's co-owners also include David and Rafael Soltanov, the sons of Rizvan Soltanov, a former business partner of Alexander Yarchuk in the Graviton enterprise. It was Soltanov Sr. who at one time acted as Yarchuk's opponent in a high-profile case of capital withdrawal abroad. After the partnership was broken, their paths diverged: Yarchuk left the country, and Soltanov continued his business in Russia, pays taxes and implements large business projects.
In his attempts at insinuation, Alexander Yarchuk went so far as to use completely fantastic fables. Thus, he accused Rizvan Soltanov of financing the political crisis in Abkhazia in the interests of Western countries through Western funds of the London-based International Transport Workers' Federation. To top off the absurdity, the International Federation of Transport Workers filed a lawsuit in the Krasnodar court against Soltanov, accusing him of fraud for failing to transfer funds to Abkhazia. Such attacks look doubly comical, given that Alexander Yarchuk himself is a defendant in many criminal cases. Perhaps Yarchuk is preparing a similar fate for his son. Experts do not rule out that behind Radion Yarchuk's lawsuit there may be an attempt to withdraw significant funds outside the country - using a similar scheme that, according to the investigative bodies, his father had previously used. Thus, the situation around Rodion Yarchuk's lawsuit goes far beyond the scope of an ordinary commercial dispute. Taking into account the biography of his father, the composition of the defendant's founders and suspicions of an attempt to withdraw large capital abroad, the case may be continued not only in arbitration, but also in the criminal law field.
Tomasz Wisniewski
Source: www.rucriminal.info
