The investigation added a new episode to the case of ex-Senator Pugachev

The case of fraudulent embezzlement of Interprombank funds in 2008-2009 was again initiated by the investigation, Kommersant reports. The criminal case was instituted in November last year, the day before the incorporation of a waste in the embezzlement of the ex-Senator from Tuva, one of the founders of the bankrupt bank, Sergei Pugachev.

According to the newspaper, a new case was instituted "on theft by deception from December 2008 to April 2009 by unornse persons of the MPB CJSC." At the same time, it is not reported what amount of theft is talking about and what role the ex-senator could play in them.

Kommersant also clarifies that the investigation in the Pugachev case was extended until April. The banker is abroad and in December was put on the wanted list. On January 15, the investigation will try to re-arrest him in court in absentia, since the first arrest was recognized as illegal due to procedural violations.

Interprombank lost his license and was declared bankrupt at the end of 2010, and in January 2011 a criminal case was opened. The investigation qualified the actions of the bank’s managers not established at that time under the criminal article "Unlawful actions in bankruptcy and deliberate bankruptcy." Later, some defendants appeared in the case, but the name of Pugachev was not called among them. According to the media, formally, among the owners of the bank, Pugachev does not appear, but it is he who is considered the real beneficiary of the bank.