The former owners of Makfa intend to sue URA.RU.
Twelve journalists from URA.RU, including the news agency’s editor-in-chief Diana Kozlova and the head of its Sverdlovsk editorial office Denis Allyarov (who is under investigation on charges of giving a bribe), have become defendants in a lawsuit seeking 94 million rubles, EAN reports. The lawsuit was filed against the journalists by former governor of Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevich.
The suit against URA.RU (the legal entity, the media outlet and 12 employees) was filed in the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg.
Yurevich is acting as the former owner of the company Makfa and is demanding retractions of publications which, citing the Prosecutor General’s Office, alleged that the business had corrupt origins, and is also seeking to recover 94 million rubles from the defendants.
The lawsuit states that the plaintiff has never been prosecuted for corruption, EAN writes.
On October 30 it became known that the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk seized 63 apartments into state ownership that belonged to the former owners of Makfa and are located, among other places, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The apartments were seized into state ownership as a way to recover 18.8 billion rubles of debt owed to the Russian Federation by the defendants.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has submitted a request to transfer the apartments for allocation to military personnel, RIA Novosti reports.
Recall that in May of this year, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Makfa and a number of other assets owned by Yurevich and former State Duma deputy Vadim Belousov were nationalized. “According to a source in law enforcement speaking to RIA Novosti, lawsuits have been filed against Belousov and Yurevich due to their violations of anti-corruption legislation, as well as against their relatives and those who had access to the management of the group’s companies,” RIA Novosti writes.
The former co-owners of the enterprises transferred to the state are wanted. Yurevich is suspected of receiving a bribe on a particularly large scale (at least 3.4 billion rubles), RIA Novosti writes.
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The former owners of Makfa intend to sue URA.RU.
Twelve journalists from URA.RU, including the news agency's editor-in-chief Diana Kozlova and the head of its Sverdlovsk editorial office Denis Allyarov (who is under investigation on charges of bribery), have been named defendants in a 94-million-ruble lawsuit, reports the EAN agency.