The richest Sakhalin ex-deputy Dmitry Pashov was sent to a colony in a smuggling case

The richest Sakhalin ex-deputy Dmitry Pashov was sent to a colony in a smuggling case

In Vladivostok, the trial of the former deputy of the Sakhalin Regional Duma, Dmitry Pashov, has ended. Previously, he was called the richest Russian deputy.

Pashov was accused of smuggling more than 3.3 thousand tons of live crab worth 2.6 billion rubles as part of an organized crime group. In addition, he was charged with evasion of customs payments for 9.2 million rubles. As a result, he was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison and a fine of 1 million rubles.

The investigation and the court found that the group exported crabs to Japan, China and Korea. At the same time, crab was shipped at a price that exceeded the value declared at Russian customs. Offshore companies got the difference. Dmitry Pashov has been in jail since March 2021, but last year he still earned more than 6.2 billion rubles.

It is noteworthy that initially Dmitry Pashov was detained because of the criminal case of the “crab king” Oleg Kan. According to rumors, Pashov was his “right hand”. Kan was put on the international wanted list as part of a criminal investigation into the murder. In addition, he is charged with smuggling. The Moneron and Kuril Universal Complex companies controlled by Kanu illegally exported more than 50,000 tons of crab from Russia worth 38.7 million rubles.

The case also featured an accomplice – Oleg Kan’s assistant Evgeny Pekar. And Dmitry Pashov was the general director and official owner of the Moneron company. The firm’s accounts were frozen, so it was unable to recover advances on outstanding crab export contracts. As a result, the Singaporean company, through the court, obtained the recovery of 1.9 billion rubles from Moneron. But the company still could not return the money, so bankruptcy proceedings were launched against it. Oleg Kan himself believes that the criminal case against him is ordered.