. Basmanny court of the capital of Russia has arrested the founder of the large investment companies Baring American Michael Calvey for two months, reports journalist Last news from the courtroom.

thus, the court satisfied the petition of the Investigation Department, who explained the need for an arrest that businessman can run from Russian justice, as most of the time in London.

Calvey will remain under arrest until April 13.

His blame in the case of the theft of 2, 5 billion rubles. His introduction to crime Calvey rejects.

The defense has said that he will appeal the detention.

yesterday Basmanny court arrested five people, seized together with Kabir, the Director for investments Baring Vostok Ivan Zyuzin, partner at industry, financial sector Delpla Philip, a partner in the field of media Vahan Abgaryan, the head of the Board of Directors of Norvik-Bank, the former head of Bank "the East" Alexey Koricheva and CEO of the "First collection Bureau" Maxim Vladimirov.

The decision to place under arrest Calvey, the court adjourned for today, as the Consequence has not presented evidence to the low Price of the disputed shares, and in fact was not translated into Russian language documents. Protection of the businessman asked to postpone the meeting for preparation and collection of additional materials in support of its position.

All those arrested are blaming the fraud on a large scale. They face up to ten years of punishment.

the story is about the loan that the Bank "East" issued in 2015, the " First collection Agency ", and signed by the General Director of the Bureau in 2017 compensation.

The consequence considers that Calvey with Zelalem and other associates, persuaded the Bank's shareholders to vote for the agreement on compensation, according to which instead of debt repayment "East" was transferred to 59, 9% of the shares of the organization international Financial Technology Group. They were valued at 3 billion rubles, although their real market Price was $ 600 thousand..

Firm Baring Vostok invests in Russia since 1994. She has a stake in the Internet-shop Ozon, development company Etalon, the grocery retailer " Coswell ", the operator of broadband access to the world wide web, and pay - per-view of the organization " ER-Telecom ".

in addition, Calvey owns a controlling stake in the Bank "East" included the top 40 largest in Russia by assets.



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