Three defendants in Baring Vostok case ordered to stay under house arrest till May
Three defendants in Baring Vostok case put under house arrest
Detention extension order against three Baring Vostok case defendants vacated
House arrest of Baring Vostok founder extended until 2020
© Moskva city news agency, Sergey Vedyashkin
Tags: House arrest, Embezzlement, Moscow City Court, Vostochny bank, Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey, Russia
MOSCOW, April 7 (RAPSI) – The Moscow City Court on Tuesday extended house arrest of three defendants in the Baring Vostok 2.5-billion-ruble (about $40 million) embezzlement case until May 13, the court's press service told RAPSI.
The defendants are Baring Vostok partner Vagan Abgaryan, the bank's Investment Director Ivan Zyuzin, CEO of a debt collection firm Maxim Vladimirov.
In late March, two other persons involved in the case, the investment fund's founder Michael Calvey and Baring Vostok partner Philippe Delpal until for the same term.
In mid-February 2019, Moscow's Basmanny District Court ordered detention of Calvey and five other defendants including Delpal, Zyuzin, Vladimirov and ex- chairman of Vostochny bank board Alexey Kordichev.
On April 11, Moscow's Basmanny District Court released Calvey from detention and put him under house arrest. Delpal's measure of restrained was changed in October.
According to investigation, Calvey knowing about a 2.5-billion-ruble debt of the First Collector Bureau, a firm under his control, has organized the sale of its shares to Vostochny bank that has led to embezzlement.
The Investigative Committee claims that he committed a crime that could not be classified as business crime because he used a chain of sham companies settling the deal. Moreover, investigators say they have a PricewaterhouseCoopers' audit report on the done deal estimating the sold shares at 600,000 rubles, which indicates an instance of fraud.
Calvey denies allegations insisting that the deal was fair as both companies agreed its terms and stood for it, including a person reporting an alleged crime to law enforcement bodies. He noted that a report has been filed with police by a member of Vostochny bank board of directors Sherzod Yusupov. According to Calvey, the real reason of his prosecution is a wide corporate dispute related to the control of the bank by two groups of shareholders: Baring Vostok and stockholders coming from Uniastrum bank, which was reorganized and joined to Vostochny in early 2017.
Baring Vostok company founded by Calvey in 1994 focuses on private equity investments in the CIS and Russia. The company has invested in shares of Yandex, Vkusvill, Tinkoff Bank and other major projects.
14:19 07/04/2020 The Moscow City Court on Tuesday extended house arrest of three defendants in the Baring Vostok 2.5-billion-ruble (about $40 million) embezzlement case until May 13.