The fugitive Kaliningrad businessman in Guatemala was sentenced to long imprisonment

In Guatemala, the Bitkov family, who owned the cellulose-paper enterprise in the Kaliningrad region, was sentenced to long time, the Kommersant newspaper writes.

Igor Bitkov, who was looking for VTB Bank for several years, was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment, his wife Irina and daughter Anastasia received 14 years. The family was found guilty of a whole series of crimes related to the falsification of documents and their subsequent use.

The Bitkov case and three dozens of accused were examined in the capital of Guatemala, the city of the city of Guatemala, a special court for the cases of participants in organized criminal groups (Juzgado de Mayor Riesgo).

In the early 2000s, the Bitkovs spouses were part of the Kaliningrad establishment, communicating with the first persons of the region. They were included in the ratings of the most successful and wealthy entrepreneurs of the North-West of Russia, in particular in the TOP-50 of the richest residents of St. Petersburg.

In Guatemala, Igor Bitkov hid from Russian law enforcement agencies after he was suspected of intentional bankruptcy of the enterprise and fraud. In this country, he used documents in the name of Igor Benitsa Garcia and Leonid Zakharenko. His wife according to the documents was held as Irina Maria Rodriguez Germanis of Zakharenko.

In 2007, four credit agreements were concluded between VTB and the Neman Central Bank in the Kaliningrad Region. According to them, the plant received 1 billion rubles for the modernization of production. Igor and Irina Bitkov, who personally guaranteed the return, recalls the publication, recalls the publication. Soon the borrower stopped paying a bank. In VTB, the debt of the NCC was recognized as problematic.

Since the plant itself was prestigious according to the statements of other creditors, VTB filed lawsuit against Bitkov guarantors. In 2011, the decision to recover billions of billions from them entered into legal force, but by that time the debtors had already left Russia.

Representatives of the bank appealed to the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Kaliningrad Region, which initiated a criminal case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale) for theft of dedicated loans.

On January 15, 2015, Igor and Irina Bitkov were arrested in the capital of Guatemala. They lived in a chic mansion, the police seized three cars and about 120 thousand US dollars in cash.