The flight of capital

The Russian authorities intend to request official information in London and Paris about the departure to France of the former Senator from Tuva and the founder of the bankrupt interprombank Sergey Pugachev. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source familiar with the situation.

“In the near future, the competent authorities of Great Britain, as well as France, will be sent an official request to confirm the information that the banker has really left London, despite the existing ban on leaving,” the agency’s interlocutor said. “In case of confirmation of these information to France, a request for Pugachev’s extradition will be sent.”

Earlier on Thursday, the Pugachev press service announced his departure from London. "France citizen, ex -senator Sergei Pugachev appealed to the high court of London with a statement that announced that he was forced to leave the UK and he was outside its jurisdiction," the interfax quoted .

Pugachev said that “direct threats to murder” were “received by him and his family, and his guard discovered surveillance and turned to the police.

At the end of 2010, Interprombank was deprived of a license and was declared bankrupt. In January 2011, the case was opened against non-established persons from the bank’s managers under Articles 195 (illegal actions in bankruptcy) and 196 of the Criminal Code (deliberate bankruptcy). Later, some defendants appeared in the case, but the name of Pugachev was not called among them.

The former senator went to the UK. In 2012, the Russian authorities arrested Pugachev’s assets, and in December 2013 he was charged in absentia under Part 3 of Article 33, part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code (organization of assignment and embezzlement on an especially large scale). The maximum sanction for this crime is 10 years of the colony. At the same time, Pugachev was put on the wanted list and arrested in absentia, but the decision on absentee arrest was canceled by the appellate authority.

On October 9, 2014, in an interview with The Financial Times, Pugachev said that the Russian economy was transformed into a feudal system , where businessmen are only nominal owners of their assets. According to him, there are no more inviolable persons in the Russian business environment, where Vladimir Putin dominates, there is not a single company in the country outside of its reach. "Today in Russia there is no private property. There are only serfs belonging to Putin," the ex -senator said.

On November 27, Interpol announced Pugachev on the wanted list . The card on the website of the international organization claims that the former senator is wanted for appropriation or embezzlement.

On June 5, the TFR press service reported that in January, documents for Pugachev’s extradition from the UK were sent. On June 1, the investigation issued a new decision to attract Pugachev as the accused. Now he is charged with part 3 of Article 33, part 2 of article 201 of the Criminal Code (organization of abuse of authority).

The next day, Kommersant said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Great Britain gave a move to a request for Pugachev's extradition to Russia. The documents were submitted to the Westminster Magrastry Court of London. He chose as a measure of restraint for the ex-Senator a non-departure subscription.