Sergey Sopchuk biography

A defendant in a number of criminal cases on the legalization of funds acquired by criminal means of part in the year graduated from the Primorsky Agricultural Institute with a degree in Mechanical Engineer. In years, he worked at the Iskra state farm of Primorsky Territory as a mechanic, managing and chief engineer. In the beginning of the x, he took up a private business.

In the year he created an individual enterprise "Favorite" to maintain equipment. From December to the year, he was a deputy of the Duma of the Primorsky Territory of the II convocation. In years, the Oktyabrsky district was also the head of the municipality. In years he held a similar position in the parliament of the region of the IV convocation. From September to September, he served as vice-governor of the Primorsky Territory.

Sopchuk was hospitalized, the media reported two gunshot wounds. In years he worked as the general director at CJSC Favorit-Service. In the years he was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory of the V convocation. In years he occupied the chair of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. According to the court, Sopchuk was illegally engaged in entrepreneurial activity, hiding his true income and opposed the investigation.

With this money, the company conducted a large -scale exploration and discovered gold and silver reserves, which were estimated at 38.5 billion rubles. Sopchuk himself did not agree with the verdict and said that he was engaged in the company only in the years. According to him, he stopped commercial activities after being elected to the Parliament of the Russian Federation.

He only remains the creditor of the company, since she still has not returned "a significant part of ... loans." He admitted that among the participants of the company there are his relatives, but "they are independent people who are self -sufficient in terms of business." In his opinion, it is impossible to recognize the participation in the business of free advice to relatives.

The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, however, considered that he fictitiously transferred the shares to his sister. The ex-deputy of the State Duma was incriminated by the legalization of funds acquired by criminal means of part, according to the investigation, in the period, for the years, occupying various leadership posts in the parliament and administration of the Primorye, as well as as a deputy of the State Duma, Sergey Sopchuk illegally took part in the activities of a number of commercial structures-LLC Poltava Terminal, LLC Administration of River Port "Nizhne-Leninskoye" and others.

The politician was also the actual owner and head of Terna Gold LLC, developing a large gold deposit in the Primorsky Territory. In September, Sopchuk confiscated all gold mining assets in the Primorsky Territory. At the end of the year, Sergei Sopchuk disappeared from Russian law enforcement agencies abroad allegedly in the UAE. Sergei Sopchuk was put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia.

In August, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow on the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office, on the basis of the materials of the FSB, turned the assets of Sergei Sopchuk to more than 41 billion rubles in the state’s income. Wife, Ron Sopchuk, was a judge in years. In years, she headed the Soviet District Court of Vladivostok. As a result of the scandal, she was reduced in the qualification class, and then voluntarily resigned.