UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 19, 2010. OAO Maxi Group is going to take civil action against its minority shareholder Nikolai Maksimov within the framework of a criminal case investigation. The claim regarding damages was placed by Maxi Group with Sverdlovsk Region Department of Internal Affairs. The scale of the damages was determined by the value of a loan that had been partially given back to Maksimov (5.9 billion RUR), RBC daily reports.
Now Nikolai Maksimov sent a letter to the Russian President; in it, he claims that the criminal case against him was a concocted one, and he believes the culprits are Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Works (NLMK) and the investigative committee of Sverdlovsk Region Department of Internal Affairs. The investigation of the minority shareholder’s case involved arresting his bank accounts in July 2010.