Court extends arrest of Eurotrans chairman until February 6

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow extended until February 6, 2027 the term of detention of Igor Martyshov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Eurotrans, accused of stealing fuel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was reported by the lawyer of the businessman Svetlana Selezneva.

According to the lawyer, on November 4, the investigation appealed to the court with a request to extend the period of detention of the businessman in custody for four months. However, the court extended the arrest for only three months - until February 6, 2027.

We have already appealed this decision, the date of the meeting in the Moscow City Court was set for November 25. We also appeal against the very election of a preventive measure in the court of cassation, said Martyshova’s lawyer. At the end of September, the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow seized 70 million ordinary shares of PJSC EuroTrans owned by Martyshov, which is 44% of the company’s shares.

On September 30, the court considered a complaint about the arrest of an entrepreneur and left him in custody until November 6.7, the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk reported on the detection of theft of motor fuel intended for the needs of the Moscow police.

Charges of embezzlement on an especially large scale, together with Igor Martyshov, were brought against the general director of EuroTrans Oleg Alekseenko and his deputies Sergey Alekseenko and Nikolai Doroshenko. In addition to them, the defendants in the case were the former deputy head of the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Moscow region - the head of the rear, Major-General of the Internal Service Sergey Malkov, the former heads of the Center for Economic and Service Support of the Moscow region police chief Alexei Suyarov and Gennady Peshkov, as well as the former head of the department Anna Levina. According to the investigation, from March to September 2026, the defendants stole gasoline and diesel fuel supplied under the state contract.

The total cost of the stolen Ministry of Internal Affairs was estimated at no less than 100 million rubles. "EuroTrans" - operator of the network of filling stations "Trassa", which operates in Moscow and the Moscow region. The company ranks second in terms of sales among independent operators of gas station networks in the region. According to the company’s website, by 2025, the network included 57 gas stations, an oil depot, a gasoline park, a quality control laboratory and a kitchen factory.

On the eve of the Ministry of energy of the Moscow region reported about the shutdown of 53 filling stations of the network “Trassa” in the suburbs. The owner of the property, Gazprombank Leasing, began the seizure of all 57 gas stations of the company, including four stations in other regions. The company is experiencing financial problems: since the spring of 2026, it has allowed technical defaults, and on September 7, the Moscow Exchange recorded a default on all its EuroTrans exchange bonds. In July, the intention to apply for bankruptcy of the company was reported by Bank “Russia”, in August – Sberbank. By the end of July, the total volume of legal claims against EuroTrans reached almost 34 billion rubles.