Former Bank Leaders of Moscow are suspected of laundering money

A criminal case has been opened against the former heads of the Bank of Moscow, Andrei Borodin and Dmitry Akulinin, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. They are suspected of committing a crime under part 4 of article 174.1 of the Criminal Code (legalization of funds received by criminal means)

Earlier, Borodin and Akulinin were accused of fraud. "During the investigation of the thefts, it was found that later the accused legalized funds through non-resident companies, again registered in Cyprus territory. According to the investigation, ex-bankers performed illegal financial transactions worth more than 623 million rubles," the message said.

In addition, the investigation is known that former leaders and employees of the Bank's structural divisions are involved in the commission of this crime.

At the end of 2010, the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a case against Borodin and Akulinin on the fact of fraud with funds from the city budget of 12.76 billion rubles through the credit of the Prime Minister CJSC, which was issued by the Bank of Moscow. Borodin and Akulininwere charged in absentia under articles 201 (abuse of authority) and 159 Criminal Code (fraud). The Tver court of Moscow issued a sanction for absentee arrest of the former president of the Bank of Moscow and his deputy.

In August 2012, the General Secretariat of Interpol included Borodin and Akulinin in the Red Circular, where they introduce those wanted for especially serious crimes. In March of the same year, the Prosecutor General’s Office sent a request to Borodin to the UK.

On March 1, 2013, Borodin said that the other day he received a political asylum in the UK . According to the businessman, his lawyers managed to prove to the British Ministry of Internal Affairs that the persecution of his and his colleagues in Russia had a political background. "The interests of politicians are behind this, including former President Dmitry Medvedev, who is the main initiator of all these persecution and persecution," Borodin said. How the lawyers managed to confirm the fact of the persecution of their client Medvedev, he did not specify.

The Bank of Moscow then said that he did not have information about the receipt of Borodin asylum, but regardless of whether it is true or not, will continue to achieve the damage from the former management. The company said that it received 54 statements for a total of more than 210 billion rubles in law enforcement agencies. In April, the judicial authorities of Liechtenstein, at the request of the Russian Prosecutor General of Russia, arrested Borodin's accounts .