On Luzhkov’s Wife’s Firm Opened a Criminal Case

Construction empire Inteko suspect in the theft of land worth millions of dollars.
Large-scale business projects, Elena Baturina came in sight of law enforcement. As it became known to Life News, regarding the company Inteko, owned by the wife of ex-mayor of the capital, excited a number of criminal cases.

The subject of the investigation were plots of land earmarked for the deployment of foreign embassies in Moscow, the scandal that erupted even before the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov. In the situation then was forced to intervene, President Dmitry Medvedev.

The first “warning bell” for Elena Baturina rang back in the summer, when the Prosecutor General Yury Chaika has sent a letter to the head of state, which explains the essence of the conflict: as approved by presidential decree in 1993 has a list of land for the stationing of foreign missions clearly within these lands to the federal property on which for some reason did not want to take the capital’s mayor.

Moreover, the sites were transferred to CJSC Matveyevskoye. This company in turn transferred the land company “Territorial Directorate” Setunskaya “the only founder of which was the wife of the mayor of Moscow, the head of Inteko Elena Baturin. And, according to the latest orders Luzhkov as the mayor of Moscow, there is planned construction of Setun Hills. ”

“As a result of targeted actions Baturina EN and its controlled companies, it has become the beneficial owner of the aforementioned land,” – wrote The Seagull in an address to the Russian President.

All materials were then sent to the prosecutor’s office in Moscow in the Office of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor’s Office in Moscow. As well as the capital prosecution in the Tver district court sent a declaration of acceptance of orders illegal because they contradict the Constitution and the law “On international treaties of the Russian Federation.”

Dmitry Medvedev’s reaction was not long in coming – the president called the situation “unseemly” and instructed the Ministry of Economic Development and the Federal Property Management Agency to take “comprehensive measures, including the court.”

However, Elena Baturin in response attempted to resolve the dispute response letter to Dmitry Medvedev and Yury Chaika: wife of then-mayor of Moscow insisted that the land acquired legally.

However, it seems, in this case, Elena Baturin still was not so innocent.

– On the fact of theft by fraud of land reserved for the embassies of the Republic of China, India and Cuba, a criminal case under Section 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code “Fraud group of individuals in large-scale”, – said Life News, a source close to the investigation. – Found that the portion of land owned by Inteko.

To investigate the Investigation Department of the UPC in Moscow created a special group