The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Anatoly Kairo, top manager of the Rolf auto dealer, to eight and a half years in a penal colony in the case of illegal withdrawal of funds abroad. This is reported by the joint press service of the courts of the capital.
Cairo was found guilty of illegal withdrawal of funds abroad on an especially large scale, committed by an organized group (paragraphs «a», «b» of part 3 of article 193.1 of the Criminal Code) . According to investigators, in 2014, together with the leaders of Rolf, he transferred 3.9 billion rubles abroad. The man was taken into custody in the courtroom.
In the company, the defendant worked as a director of the department of analysis and business development and an adviser on strategic development. In 2014, according to the security forces, he was a key participant in the transaction for the purchase of shares in Rolf Estate CJSC from the Cypriot offshore Panabel Ltd, the parent company of the entire Rolf dealer holding. The transaction was recognized as fictitious — according to the Investigative Committee, it served to mask the withdrawal of funds.
The criminal prosecution of Kairo became known in 2019 — the Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent him under house arrest. In addition to Cairo, charges of illegal withdrawal of funds were then brought against the owner of the company, Sergei Petrov, and three other managers.
At the time the case was initiated, Petrov was abroad — he was put on the wanted list and arrested in absentia. He himself told Meduza that he links the criminal prosecution to his political activities. In February 2022, a court in Moscow recovered more than 19 billion rubles from the Rolf car dealer at the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office.