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LSC: Latvijas kuģniecība asks Prosecutor General's Office not to delay the investigation

Spekuliantai.lt | 2010-06-10 | NASDAQ OMX biržų naujienos | perskaitė: 1576
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LSC: Latvijas kuģniecība asks Prosecutor General's Office not to delay the investigation

Latvijas kugnieciba Company Announcement 10.06.2010

Latvijas kuģniecība asks Prosecutor General's Office not to delay the
investigation

Latvijas kuģniecība asks Prosecutor General's Office not to delay the
investigation into the defrauding of Latvijas kuģniecība's assets

JSC Latvijas kuģniecība (LK) has today contacted the Prosecutor General's
Office and asked it not to delay the investigation into the defrauding of
Latvijas kuģniecība's assets regarding which criminal proceedings were
instigated almost five years ago. Within the aforementioned criminal
proceedings, certain facts have long since been investigated which are now
being published having been sourced from materials incorporated within the
proceedings of a civil case being currently heard in the High Court in London.
LK instigated the aforementioned legal proceedings against five offshore
companies which expropriated LK assets worth almost USD 100 million. In the
opinion of LK, the admissions and testimonies of the defendants that are
incorporated within the materials of the London case constitute a great
opportunity to accelerate the course of the lengthy investigation here in
Latvia.

LK would like to draw attention to the fact that former LK officials including
Oļegs Stepanovs, Valērijs Godunovs, Alvis Akmens and others have been
classified as suspects in the criminal investigation into the defrauding of LK
assets. During the court case in London, these same persons or their legal
representatives have admitted their role in the defrauding of the said assets
and have provided sufficiently detailed testimony regarding how they spent the
money. For example, former LK Supervisory Council Member, Oļegs Stepanovs has
testified through his legal representative that he personally requested Jurijs
Paderovs (former Head of LK) to assist in establishing a network of
intermediary companies with the goal of accumulating funds with which to buy LK
shares. The defendants in the London court case have personally admitted that a
large amount of money was defrauded from LK and came into the possession of
Recoletos, an offshore company controlled by Oļegs Stepanovs. Subsequently,
these funds were used to buy shares in two other offshore companies, Ojay
Limited and Eastgate Properties which, in turn, were 27.55% shareholders in LK.

In its submission to the Prosecutor-General's Office, LK stresses that the
testimonies of the defendants in the London court case constitute direct proof
of the deliberate intention of Oļegs Stepanovs and his long-standing
associates, Valērijs Godunovs and Ņina Gļebova to commit a criminal offence,
within the framework of which fictitious ship chartering companies would be
established with the goal of defrauding LK assets. LK points out that all of
these facts have been known to the Latvian law enforcement authorities for at
least several months, if not years.

In recent days, materials from the London court case have been distributed to
the Latvian media, which have aroused particular interest due to their allusion
to the


ostensible LK ownership structure prepared by the defendants in the
aforementioned court case. Persons unknown to LK have succeeded in persuading
some sections of the Latvian media that the London High Court has acquired
proven evidence of this scheme, even though in reality the scheme was prepared
by the defendants. Pertinently, the High Court has described these testimonies
as "shadowy".

LK asks the Prosecutor General's Office to finally tackle the investigation of
this large-scale economic crime and to bring Oļegs Stepanovs and his associates
to trial, instead of exclusively focussing its attention on the speculation of
the suspects in the criminal proceedings about the possible influence of
various politicians on the privatisation process.

The LK Management Board stresses that it is working for the benefit of all
shareholders and that it is neither being "influenced" nor "controlled" by any
forces or persons outside the circle of LK shareholders. Any assumptions
regarding the influence of various politicians on the LK Management Board or
the operation of the company are fantasies and attempts on the part of the
suspects in the aforementioned criminal case regarding the defrauding of LK
assets to evade responsibility for their actions.




Additional information:

Marita Ozolina-Tumanovska
Head of PR & Advertising Department
Phone: +371 67020120, 29287169
E-mail : [email protected]

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