2007...
In 2004 in Brest it has been registered « Belamer Company » as which founders have acted American company « Tower Company East » on behalf of representative David Bogatina, and his son, the Russian citizen, Sergey Bogatin. In the autumn of the same year the enterprise, having constructed on the rented areas in gas boiler-house and having established the equipment, started manufacture of semifinished items for the food-processing industry as fruit jam. However has not passed also half-year as on « Беламер Компани » problems have begun. The salary to workers was late, people sent in no-charge holidays. Under the initial version, the reason of troubles became two bank credits, taken in the Byelorussian banks under purchase of reed sugar. The enterprise has already transferred money to the American supplier when in Byelorussia the decree establishing the new order of taxation by the customs of imported sugar has left.
In December, 2005 founders of the enterprise have made the decision on his liquidation: procedure was supposed to be finished till September, 30, 2006. But in January 2006 investigatory management of Department of financial investigations has excited criminal case in attitude Bogatin. It was found out, that the foreign enterprise has run into debt not only to banks. Even now the total sum of debts to creditors makes 623 million 788 thousand Byelorussian roubles, and the first in turn on reception of duties former workers « Belaner Company » still cost.
Half-year ago both founders, foreign citizens, have been deprived freedom and now serve time in the Byelorussian prison.
...and 1992
Entrepreneur Who Left U.S. Is Back, Awaiting Sentence
By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK,
Published: April 30, 1992
First he fled the United States after pleading guilty to running what New York officials called one of the largest gasoline bootlegging schemes in the nation.
Then he emerged as an entrepreneur in post-Communist Poland, founding a successful frozen-fruit exporting business and a private bank.
He even staved off a run on his bank when a Polish newspaper revealed his fugitive status, promising higher interest rates and a lottery for cars and apartments to nervous depositors who maintained their accounts.
But now David Bogatin, a Russian native with United States citizenship whom even his prosecutors concede is an indefatigable businessman, is back in New York and in jail and awaiting resentencing. Today a State Supreme Court judge denied Mr. Bogatin's request for bail while the authorities here and in Brooklyn and Long Island decide just what to do with him.
The 46-year-old Mr. Bogatin is the first person ever returned to this country under the terms of a 1927 extradition treaty between Poland and the United States. Mr. Bogatin and Polish officials both say that until the newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, published an article about him early this year, nobody in Poland had asked him any questions about where he or the money that he used to begin his businesses came from...
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