The founder of the International Industrial Bank Sergey Pugachev
The Swiss authorities arrested the founder of the assets of International Industrial Bank Sergey Pugachev, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Geneva. The cost of the assets frozen, he did not specify
The Swiss authorities have frozen assets belonging to the former Russian banker and former Senator Sergei Pugachev, announced on Monday, the Associated Press referring to the representative of the Public Prosecutor of Geneva Henri Della Kazu. Specify the value of seized assets the prosecutor refused.
The interviewee said that the decision to freeze the assets was made after receiving the request from the Russian side on legal assistance in Pugachev. According to him, such a request, Russia has made back in 2013, and in 2014 Switzerland back transferred documents in the case.
At the office of the Paris lawyer Pugacheva Benoit Le Bar informed the agency that the lawyer is not available for comments. Representative Pugachev Dmitry Morochenko explained RBC that Pugachev and his lawyers had no knowledge of what else the arrest of its assets in Switzerland.
The representative of the Geneva prosecutor’s office commented Swiss newspapers Posts Le Matin Dimanche and SonntagsZeitung, that with reference to sources wrote , that the Swiss authorities have blocked about $ 700 million on 24 July, Pugachev’s account at the bank Societe Generale.
According to the Pugachev funds Societe Generale, reported by foreign media, obtained an ex-senator in the loan from VTB in 2007-2008. “Terms and conditions of the credit agreement have been fully implemented, the loan is repaid. Office of Foreign Assets Sergei Pugachev engaged owner IIB, a citizen of Great Britain and New Zealand lawyer David Henderson-Stewart, who carried out all financial transactions, including those in Switzerland, and individually controlled cash flow data Societe Generale », – he explained. Representative Pugacheva said that in early 2016 a High Court judge in London Vivienne Rose issued a judgment in which it states that the funds received to the accounts in Societe Generale, – it really is money received as a loan from VTB Bank rather than Bank funds Russia issued Mezhprombank as unsecured loans, as claimed by the DIA and the Russian law enforcement agencies. “Information about the arrest of $ 700 million to Sergei Pugachev accounts is another fiction” – summed up the representative of the banker
Sergei Pugachev -. Founder International Industrial Bank, from 2001 to 2011 was a member of the Federation Council of the Tuva. In October 2010, the Central Bank revoked Mezhprombank license, and in January 2011 on the application the Deposit Insurance Agency ( DIA), which has become competitive managing Industrial Bank, State Investigative Committee (TFR) Moscow has launched an investigation on the case of deliberate bankruptcy of the bank. Soon Pugachev was stripped «for negligent performance of duties,” the senator’s mandate and left Russia for the United Kingdom.
The Russian ex-banker was charged in absentia of embezzlement and embezzlement IIB customers and abuse of power the issuance of non-performing loans.
in early 2015, Russia sent to the United Kingdom a request for the extradition of ex-banker. London’s High Court banned the former senator to leave the the jurisdiction and ordered to surrender all passports. Despite this, in June of the same year, Pugachev moved to France, saying the threats in his address. For this, as well as other violations, including the sale of assets, a London court in February Pugacheva admitted guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to two years in prison. Ex-banker announced his intention to challenge to the ECHR decision.
In May, the DIA reported that the yacht and French villa Pugacheva imposed interim measures. ACB sought the arrest of Pugachev’s assets as part of its attraction to the vicarious liability for the obligations of the Industrial Bank in the amount of 75.6 billion rubles
The Russian Forbes four times, Sergei Pugachev included in the list of 100 richest businessmen of Russia -. In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. The last time Pugachev ranked in the Forbes ranking of 78 th place, while his fortune the magazine estimated at $ 0.5 billion.
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