General Director of Daggaz Abdullayev was detained in Makhachkala and taken into custody till February 10, 2014.
He is charged of registration of ownership of non-existent has pipelines in 22 regions of Dagestan with total length of 3.1 million linear meters from June 2008 till April 2013.
According to the investigation, he included the virtual gas pipelines into the lease with Dagestanservice, 100% shares of which owned by Gasprom. As a result of that, the rental fee has significantly increased and a damage worth over 68 million rubles was caused to the daughter company of the monopolist Gasprom Inter-regiongas Pyatigorsk, the main supplier of gas to the North Caucasus, said the lawyer Nasrutdinov.
The lawyer said that the action has been brought on the basis of the statement of Gasprom Inter-regiongas Pyatigorsk.
Former chief of Daggas Board of Directors, ex-Minister of Industry and Energy of Dagestan, Vice Premier, representative of the Kumyk clan, has been earlier detained in Moscow for involvement into the fraud with gas networks.—0-
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