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Head of FBK-Legal Corporate Practice comments upon the draft legislation allowing local authorities not to grant working permissions to those developers who do not commission projects in time or “keep on ice” construction for over three-months.
“Good statistics yet does not convey anything, as a number of cases initiated in terms of tax crimes can meanwhile increase, at the same time, not all claims against entrepreneurs pass through public prosecution department”, told «Ъ» Alexander Sotov, Head of FBK-Legal Financial Investigations Practice.
Magazine Financial Director revises measures which can help protect company from counteragents reluctant to pay debts. “In terms of forfeit, we should remember that this way of protection is of ambiguous legal nature: on the one hand, it is compensation for losses incurred, on the other hand – liability measure for violation”, Head of FBK-Legal Corporate Practice, Alexander Ermolenko commented.
On the air of program Expertise of the radio station Golos Rossii, Alexander Sotov, Head of FBK-Legal Financial Investigations Practice, commented upon litigation which started on Wednesday against a former trader of investment bank Societe General Jerome Kerviel
”Amounts of fines which developers are to be charged with look trifling comparing to scope of construction business”, Alexander Ermolenko, Head of FBK-Legal Corporate Practice believes.
“It’s supposed that this procedure has considerable advantages over litigation, since it is much faster and requires less resources, besides it takes place without participation of state”, Alexander Ermolenko, Head of FBK-Legal Corporate Practice noted.
In opinion of FBK Tax and Legal Partner, Nadezhda Orlova “there are needed labor unions which are busy with sensible activities, not with PR promotion of their leader”. Nadezhda Orlova also pays attention to the fact that present labour legislation considers employee as a weak party in labour relations and is “tailored” for their defense from employer.
The 5th annual conference “Tax strategies in Russia” arranged by The Moscow Times took place in Moscow on May 27th, 2010. Within the conference Alexei Yakovlev, head of FBK-Legal tax litigation practice told about disputable issues originating during in-office and field tax inspections, while Ms. Galina Akchurina, head of FBK-Legal tax litigation practice presented topical arbitration practice concerning tax litigation.
On May 13, 2010, and May 14, 2010, FBK Economic and Law School and Institute of Internal Auditors held a seminar named “Fraud, internal audit and control”. Alexander Sotov, the head of FBK-Legal financial investigations practice and Irina Yutskovskaya , the director of FBK Accounting Advisory Department, shared their experience with seminar participants.
“Though the term “onerous transaction” really exists in legislation, in my opinion, it is applicable only to economic activities, since here priority is contract liberty principle», told Vek newspaper Head of FBK-Legal Corporate Practice, Alexander Ermolenko.