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Court Weighs Custody in Ural Utility Probe as STS Offers to Cede Oblkommunenergo

Main hearings on the prosecutor’s confiscation claim open on 29 September with allegations that more than 12 billion rubles were siphoned from the utility.

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Overview

  • Judges in Yekaterinburg are set to consider pretrial measures on 24 September for beneficiaries and executives including Alexey Bobrov, Tatyana Chernykh, Artem Noskov, and Anton Bolikov.
  • Investigators have charged Bobrov and Chernykh with fraud on an especially large scale under Article 159 part 4, while Noskov and Bolikov are listed as suspects.
  • Korporatsiya STS said it is prepared to agree to transfer AO Oblkommunenergo into state ownership to resolve the dispute, while insisting its acquisitions were lawful and funded independently.
  • The General Prosecutor’s civil suit, registered on 10 September with 188 enforcement writs, seeks to confiscate assets tied to the utility group and convert them to state revenue.
  • Case materials cite 14 individuals and 20 companies as defendants, including businessmen Alexey Bobrov and Artem Bikov and former Sverdlovsk regional officials, with preliminary hearings held behind closed doors on 22–23 September.