Resident of Novomoskovsk received 100 thousand fines for the role of front director

In Novomoskovsk, a magistrate fined a man 100,000 rubles for providing a passport to register two legal entities for a front person. At the same time, in fact, he was not going to do business and manage companies, he told MK in Tula in the joint press service of the courts and the regional DSD.

As established during the proceedings, from March to May 2025, an unknown person offered a resident of Novomoskovsk a monetary reward for him to become the head and sole founder of the two organizations. The man did not really need to manage companies or conduct activities in them. Having agreed to the offer for the sake of earnings, he provided his documents for the registration of companies. In May and June 2025, information about them was submitted to the EGRUL.

In court, the man fully admitted his guilt. On October 29, 2026, he was found guilty under part 1 of Article 173.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and fined 100,000 rubles.

Until the sentence enters into legal force, the convicted person will remain under a signature of not leaving and proper conduct. The court decision has not yet entered into force and can be appealed.

Earlier, MK in Tula told about a criminal case against a 50-year-old resident of Tula, whose passport data was used for fictitious registration of an individual entrepreneur.

The man handed over the documents to unknown people, although he did not intend to do business. Based on the materials of the prosecutor's inspection, a case was opened under Article 173.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the investigation of which was taken over by the Proletarian District Prosecutor's Office.