The ex-head of the BTA Bank is accused of embezzlement of $ 5 billion

The Investigative Committee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs brought in absentia to the former head of BTA-Bank Mukhtar Ablyazova. As Gazeta.ru reports, a law enforcement source announced this. According to him, the prosecution was charged last Friday.

Ablyazov in Kazakhstan is accused of bringing to bankruptcy of BTA Bank JSC. In Russia, according to the source, he is accused of embezzlement of $ 5 billion.

"According to investigators, Ablyazov created in Russia the largest development company Eurasia." He used the money of BTA Bank JSC to ensure its commercial structures in Russia, drawing up obviously irrevocable loans, "the source said.

According to the investigation, Ablyazov is currently in the UK and the text of the resolution was awarded to his lawyer. Earlier, Russian law enforcement agencies detained several citizens related to the commercial structures of Ablyazov. In particular, the general director of Eurasia Logistic LLC Alexander Volkov was detained.

On March 18, 2010, the Tver court of Moscow arrested in the case of the theft of 1.5 billion dollars in the BTT Bank Volkova and three more employees of the company: Artem Bondarenko, Denis Vorotyntsev, Alexei Belov. They are accused under articles on fraud, causing property damage by deception, legalization of property acquired as a result of the commission of a crime, as well as forgery and use of knowingly false documents.