The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow extended the arrest of former Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov for six months. On Tuesday, February 22, Abyzov’s lawyer Alexander Asnis told Izvestiya.
“The arrest was extended for six months,” the lawyer said.
According to the investigation, from April 2011 to November 2014, Abyzov, being the beneficial owner of several offshore commercial organizations, together with his acquaintances Maxim Rusakov and Nikolai Stepanov, created and headed a criminal community.
Abyzov and his accomplices stole money in the amount of 4 billion rubles from JSC Siberian Energy Company (Sibeko) and RES. Then they withdrew them from Russia, placing them on accounts in Cyprus.
The ex-minister also remains a defendant in criminal cases on money laundering on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and illegal entrepreneurial activity (Article 289 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In addition to him, eight more people became defendants in criminal cases.
In August 2021, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation filed a claim for the recovery of more than $126 million in favor of the state against Abyzov and Alfa-Bank. According to the supervisory authority, the funds that were placed in the bank are of dubious origin.
The court exacted $22 million from the defendant in September last year to the state’s income. It was also decided to recover more than $100 million from Alfa-Bank JSC to the state’s income.
Abyzov was arrested in the spring of 2019. In addition, since October 14, 2020, the accounts of Abyzov, as well as his ex-wife Ekaterina Sirotenko, have been under arrest.
Source: IZ
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