A regular meeting of the Center for Public Procedures "Business against Corruption" was held in the video conferencing mode, during which the appeals of two entrepreneurs from the Moscow region were considered. The main subject of complaints is illegal criminal prosecution of businesses.

The first applicant was faced with the fact that one of the parties to the corporate conflict was trying to resolve the issue not within the framework of the civil law field, but through the involvement of law enforcement agencies. Previously, the entrepreneur had won the courts, and the plaintiff's claims against him were denied. But the co-founder continued to insist on opening a criminal case. According to the facts considered during the meeting, the applicant was asked to apply to the judicial authorities to resolve the issue. A criminal case has been opened against the second applicant on the grounds of crimes provided for in Part 2 of Article 198 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (evasion of an individual from paying taxes on an especially large scale) and paragraph "b" of Part 4 of Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (money laundering on an especially large scale). At the same time, six months before the criminal prosecution, the amount of tax arrears, penalties and fines was paid by the entrepreneur. The remaining debt was fully repaid the day after the criminal case was initiated. All these sums of money were credited to the budget system of the Russian Federation, which is confirmed by the certificate of the Federal Tax Service for Naro-Fominsk on the absence of an unfulfilled obligation by the taxpayer. But the investigation believes otherwise and does not cancel the resolution. The circumstances of the case studied by the Center for Public Procedures experts, confirmed the arguments of the businessman who applied about illegal actions on the part of law enforcement agencies. The materials with the prepared conclusion will be sent to the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region for taking measures of the prosecutor's response.