Kommersant learned the details of the lawsuit against the founder of Rolf for almost ₽13 billion
According to the supervisory authority, Petrov, who was a member of the State Duma from 2007 to 2016, while being a member of parliament, conducted entrepreneurial activities, which is prohibited by law. The lawsuit says that in 2010 he became a guarantor for a loan of 12.6 billion rubles. for “Rolf” in Sberbank. The prosecutor’s office believes that Petrov fictitiously transferred the management of Rolf to his son, but continued to head the company and receive income. In addition, the department said that Petrov provided incomplete information about his property and declared only 75.9 million rubles for 2014-2015. of their income and 189.9 million rubles. spouse’s income.
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Petrov declared Forbes that he learned about the lawsuit from the media. According to him, he completely retired from business in 2007, transferring control to a management team, and rights to shares – to a trust, and as a result, he ceased to own the Rolf companies and participate in their management. The founder of Rolf also said that he had no authority and never interfered in the affairs of companies transferred to the trust.
Rolf car dealer found a buyer amid case against management
In 2019, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Petrov and some of the leaders of Rolf on the withdrawal of funds using forged documents. The investigation believes that he and several other top managers of the company in 2014 illegally transferred 4 billion rubles. to the accounts of its parent company, Panabel Ltd, based in Cyprus. In the opinion of the Investigative Committee, the deal, which consisted in buying out the share of Rolf Estate, owned by Panabel Ltd, was fictitious, and the true value of the securities did not exceed 200 million rubles. The founder of “Rolf” was put on the wanted list and arrested in absentia, now he is abroad.
The defendants in the case and representatives of the company do not agree with the version of the investigation, since, according to their information, the assessment of the value of Rolf Estate was carried out by independent auditors. They provided the auditors’ report as evidence. The Rolf Estate company, which the security forces valued at 200 million, owned all the Rolf dealerships in Moscow, all their land and real estate.
In December 2021, the regional auto dealer network Klyuchavto, a subsidiary of the construction company SBSV, founded by businessman Viktor Sergeyev in the 1990s, agreed to purchase Rolf.