Representatives of the partners of the ex-director of "Companion" SG accuse the investigation of concealing the economic crime. According to lawyers who applied to the prosecutor's office, the businessman organized the deliberate bankruptcy of his company. Companion was one of the largest regional players in the Russian insurance market, entering the top-25 insurers in terms of fees. Experts note that the resolution of the conflict depends on the professionalism of law enforcement agencies. Alliance Legal CG Deputy Managing Partner, lawyer Artem Grishin, commented on the current situation to the "Kommersant" social and political publication.

Entrepreneurs in Russia are constantly faced with obsolete, unrealistic and conflicting demands of the authorities. Some of them are legal, while others look more like arbitrariness of inspectors. The "secret of the company" found out what actions of the auditors most disrupt businessmen and when it will stop. Dmitry Fesko for business journal "Сompany's secret".

"Criminal legal risks in corporate bankruptcy are growing. How to minimize them, What tricks really work? About risks and their hedging, about transactions that may attract close attention of law enforcement officers, - expert material by Alina Manina (Deputy Managing Partner) for the "Federal Business Journal".

Subsidiary liability is an exceptional measure. Despite this, the number of cases in which company executives are held accountable is growing every year. According to Fedresurs, in 2018 32% of the requirements to prosecute 2,125 persons were satisfied, from which 330.3 billion rubles were recovered. This was a record for all previous years. Alina Manina, Deputy Managing Partner, Alliance Legal CG, for Pravo.ru

The lawmaker is thinking about how to reduce the burden on the courts and make it easier to recover where there is usually little disputes. One such project deals with tax debts, and the other with salary arrears. But some experts believe that nothing will change, and explained their point of view. Another bill mitigates liability for drivers who unintentionally left the scene of an accident, but still risk losing their rights for up to a year and a half. In addition, the legislator proposed a way to deal with violations when registering reports of crimes - law enforcement officers may refuse to accept them.

Some problems of delineation of civil law relations and criminal offenses, delineation of fraud with related offenses against property, committed by fraud and breach of trust.

In December 2015, the Investigative Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs initiated criminal proceedings under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code for large-scale fraud committed by an organized group (Moscow City Court ruling of 21 January 2019 in case No. 4g/1-462). During the investigation of the criminal case, it was determined that citizens, including from among the managers of one bank, created an organized group with the purpose of stealing the bank's funds by obtaining loans without the intention of returning them. The borrowers were managers of fictitious legal entities who did not actually receive the money. In court, they had to prove that they were nominal heads of organizations and did not conclude loan agreements and surety agreements, and the signatures on all documents were not theirs. However, the analysis of the judicial practice showed that in some cases the judges took the side of the bank - obliged the citizens to pay the sums of money on the credit documents, in other cases the judges refused the claim for recovery of money. Comment by Yunona Sizych, Senior Consultant at the Legal Practice Department of Alliance Legal CG, for Garant.ru.