Ведомости: Цифра недели: 5,4 млрд руб.

July 30, 2008

William Browder

Цифра недели: 5,4 млрд руб.

Усердно собирая налоги одной рукой, инспекции ФНС порой щедро возвращают их другой. Прекрасной иллюстрацией стал конфликт между чиновниками и фондом Билла Браудера (William Brow­der) Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment. В 2007 г. подконтрольную ему компанию «Камея» обвинили в неуплате 1,2 млрд руб. налогов. Но обвинения, как утверждает фонд, не помешали инспекторам вернуть 5,4 млрд руб. налогов некогда управлявшимся фондом фирмам — «Махаон», «Парфенион» и «Рилэнд». Достались деньги, правда, не Hermitage.

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The New York Times: An Investment Gets Trapped in Kremlin’s Vise

July 24, 2008

William F. Brow­der was one of the most promi­nent for­eign investors here, a cor­po­rate provo­ca­teur who brought the tac­tics of Wall Street share­hold­er activists to the free-for-all of post-Sovi­et cap­i­tal­ism. Until, that is, the Krem­lin expelled him in 2005.

Mr. Brow­der then focused on pro­tect­ing his bil­lions of dol­lars of stakes in major Krem­lin-con­trolled com­pa­nies, like Gazprom, and on fight­ing to return to a land where he had deep and unusu­al fam­i­ly ties. So when he ran into Dmitri A. Medvedev, the coun­try’s future pres­i­dent, at the World Eco­nom­ic Forum in Davos last year, he saw his chance.

In a brief con­ver­sa­tion at a din­ner at the Swiss resort, he pressed Mr. Medvedev for help in regain­ing his Russ­ian visa. Mr. Medvedev, then a top aide to Pres­i­dent Vladimir V. Putin, agreed to pass along his request.

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Ведомости: Заплатить за Билла

July 24, 2008

ВЕДОМОСТИ

Целью атаки на Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment мог быть возврат из бюджета налога на прибыль. Фонд считает, что 5,4 млрд руб., уплаченные государству его компаниями, достались рейдерам, пытавшимся украсть эти компании

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