Vostok is a loud business

Michael Kalvi and other defendants were left in a pre -trial detention center: how it was

On February 28, the Moscow City Court refused to exempt from the guard of the founder of the Baring Vostok Foundation Michael Kalvi, accused of embezzlement of 2.5 billion rubles from Vostochny Bank. At the meeting, the accused said that he was stipulated, and called those involved in the arrest - the co -owner of the Vostochny bank Artem Avetisyan and shareholder Sherzod Yusupov.

The process of the process

Where: Moscow City Court.

Who: Michael Kalvi.

Article: Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Fraud committed by an organized group on an especially large scale”).

Stage: preliminary investigation.

Threats: up to 10 years in prison.

The head of the Baring Vostok Foundation was arrested in mid -February on charges of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The FSB claims that in February 2017, Kalvi convinced the shareholder of Vostochny Yusupov Bank to accept the International Financial Technology Group at the first collection bureau at a debt of 2.5 billion rubles. Kalvi, according to the investigation,, together with his partners, provided a false report in which the market price of shares was overpriced and amounted to 3 billion rubles, while their real value was not more than 600 thousand rubles.

In addition to Kalvi, five more employees of the company, who are also in custody, appear in the case. Among them are Baring Vostok partners Philip Delpal and Vagan Abgaryan, investment director Ivan Zyuzin, adviser to the head of the board Norvik Bank Alexei Kordichev and the head of the first collector bureaus Maxim Vladimirov. They face up to ten years in prison. They do not admit their guilt. The Moscow City Court was also confirmed by their arrest.

... The hearing in the Moscow City Court on February 28 began with a delay of three hours. The court found out that the US Calvi citizen is entitled by law. However, when the specialist found and resumed the process, it became clear: the translator is not very competent. As a result, the accused had to translate questions to one of his lawyers. Kalvi answered Russian with a small accent.

Defenders Kalvy Dmitry Klochochkin and Dmitry Savochkin asked Judge Olga Alexandrov to cancel the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow. Lawyers said that law enforcement agencies should not be engaged in a dispute between entrepreneurs. They noticed that the crime imputed by their client refers to the field of entrepreneurial activity, and in this category of cases, arrest is used in exceptional cases.

“The investigation was not given any evidence of Kalvi’s involvement, and the court did not indicate why it was impossible to choose a different, softer measure of restraint to him,” Kelytochkin said.

According to his colleagues Savochkin, the imprisonment of an American entrepreneur in custody is an excessive measure. He proposed to release Kalvi on a recognizance of a lower -off wizard, a personal guarantee or transferred under house arrest. According to the defense, despite the serious restrictions on house arrest, this would allow Kalvi to advise two of his children before the upcoming entering the university.

Lawyers presented about 40 guarantees for Kalvi by various entrepreneurs and famous public figures, but they did not voice their names at the meeting. Later it became known that the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais, as well as the business ombudsman, Boris Titov (was personally present at the meeting).

Kalvi himself participated in a meeting on video conferences from the pre-trial detention center "Sailor Silence". He looked pale.

Before the meeting, he smiled, then seriousness appeared on his face.

“I am innocent and did not commit any crimes. Baring Vostok repeatedly saved Vostochny Bank, ”he said.

The businessman believes that a large corporate conflict associated with Vostochny Bank was the present reason for his arrest. According to the accused, Baring Vostok filed a lawsuit against the London Arbitration Court against Yusupov and Avetisyan due to the conclusion of several dubious transactions. The amount of the lawsuit is 17 billion rubles. Kalvi noted that all detainees in this case were witnesses at the claim of Baring Vostok to Avetisyan and Yusupov.

The founder of the investment fund assured the Moscow City Court that he did not “want and will not run” from the investigation. He promised that he would strictly comply with all the conditions of house arrest.

The side of the victims completely supported the position of the investigator and the prosecutor. They asked to leave the decision of the Basmanny Court unchanged, rejecting the complaint of the defense.

“We are sure that, being free, Mr. Kalvi can and will affect the investigation,” said Yusupov’s lawyer Vladislav Teplyashin.

He insisted that Kalvi was involved in the theft of money, as he had a controlling stake and made key decisions in the bank. Teplishin added that Kalvi is accused “not of making decisions about certain transactions, but of theft of property”, and his defense is trying to “cover ordinary fraud with entrepreneurial activity”.

Judge Alexandrova agreed with the arguments of the victims, investigations and prosecutors. Thus, the founder of the Baring Vostok Foundation Michael Kalvi will remain in jail at least until April 13th.

Earlier, the Baring Vostok Foundation sent an open letter addressed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to take under personal control a criminal case against Kalvi and other defendants. The Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the president cannot “intervene in investigative actions”.