Oleg Kan is a famous Sakhalin fishing industrialist, the creator of several large fishing enterprises. The key objects of their fishing were valuable aquatic biological resources: crabs, shrimp and other seafood.
Last year, Kan was accused of four articles of the Criminal Code. The Prosecutor General’s Office suspected him of smuggling 3 thousand tons of live crab worth 2.6 billion rubles. and evasion of taxes and customs duties in the amount of more than 3.69 billion rubles. According to investigators, in 2014–2019, the entrepreneur smuggled crab to China, South Korea and Japan at a cost significantly higher than the declared value.
In March, the court recovered 358.7 billion rubles from Kan and a number of other defendants. for damage to “aquatic biological resources”. Eight Far Eastern fishing companies and one taxi operator with a total value of 21.8 billion rubles were transferred to the Federal Property Management Agency.
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