In February of this year, the Khimki court complied with the prosecutor general’s demand for the recovery of 19.4 billion rubles from Rolf. The co-defendants in the proceedings were Rolf Motors LLC and Rolf Estate St. Petersburg LLC. These legal entities were obliged by the court to be jointly and severally liable.
One of the main claims of the prosecutor general’s office was that the founder of “Rolf” Sergei Pertov, when he was a deputy to the State Duma, continued to lead the company and did not give up his income from the company.
We also remember that in the summer of 2019, the Commission of Inquiry opened a criminal case against Sergei Petrov and several top executives of the company, plotting the illegal withdrawal of four billion rubles abroad. As a result, Petrov himself, as well as Rolf’s former general manager, Tatyana Lukovetskaya, and the director of the Cypriot company Panabel Limited, Georgy Kafkalia, were arrested in absentia and put on the wanted list for managing to to go abroad.
The investigation only reached the head of Rolf’s business development department, Anatoly Kairo. He is now under house arrest. His case is being heard in the capital’s Cheryomushkinsky Court.