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Entrepreneur Sergei Polonsky may be put on the international wanted list
The criminal case of fraud by Mirax Group managers has been transferred to the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and the head of the group, Sergei Polonsky, may be put on the international wanted list, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax on Wednesday.
According to the source, this decision was made after an initiative group of defrauded shareholders of the Kutuzovskaya Mile residential complex (one of the Mirax Group projects, whose new name is Potok) asked the Russian Prosecutor General's Office to take control of the investigation into this case and announce it to the international search for the head of the company Sergei Polonsky.
The businessman himself, according to some reports, has been abroad for more than three months.
In connection with media reports that Polonsky has recently been in Cambodia or the UK, shareholders of the Kutuzov Mile asked the Russian Prosecutor General's Office to “notify the local authorities of these countries about this and, if necessary, demand his extradition.”
In September of this year, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow opened a criminal case into large-scale fraud during the construction by Mirax Group of the Kutuzovskaya Mile multifunctional residential complex. According to investigators, in 2007-2008. Mirax Group employees, with the aim of stealing citizens' funds through deception, initiated the conclusion of preliminary agreements for the purchase and sale of apartments, knowingly knowing that they did not comply with the approved project documentation. According to investigators, Mirax's subsidiary, Avanta LLC, which acted as a co-investor in the project, collected 5.7 billion rubles from citizens, of which 3.2 billion rubles were soon transferred to the accounts of companies controlled by the group, cashed and stolen. After this, the investigation believes, the group froze the construction of the residential complex.