The Prosecutor's Office within the Ploiesti Court of Appeal has sent back to trial the Lukoil file, after the court had returned the file to the prosecutors in December last year to remedy the irregularities that existed in the original indictment.

The prosecutors have rectified the irregularities and have ordered the indictment of six individuals and two companies in the file.

They have sent to court Russian citizen Andrey Bogdanov, the general director of Petrotel Lukoil Ploiesti, for using the company’s capital in bad faith and money laundering.

Prosecutors have also sent to court three deputy general managers within the company, namely Alexey Voinstev, Olga Kuzina, and Dan Danulescu. They are charged with complicity to the use of the company’s capital in bad faith, as well as complicity to money laundering.

Prosecutors initially sent the Lukoil file to court on August 3, 2015. They discovered a prejudice of EUR 1.7 billion.

The investigation started in 2014. The case broke into the media in October 2014, when the prosecutors raided the Petrotel Lukoil refinery in Ploiesti to gather more evidence.

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