The Czech Republic refused the Russian Federation to issue the ex-head of the Inter-Kommerz bank, which laundered money, the theft of which was revealed by Sergey Magnitsky

The Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic Maria Beneshova refused to issue a former chairman of the board of the Inter -Kommerz bank Alexander Bugaevsky in financial fraud in Russia for the Russian side of the defendant in Russia. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press secretary of the department Vladimir Rzhepka. Intercommers was involved in dubious transactions with money stolen from the budget according to the VAT refund scheme. This scheme was identified by lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, tortured in a pre -trial detention center.

“In the case of Bugaevsky, the minister decided to refuse to issue it for criminal prosecution in Russia,” he emphasized. “The Russian side was informed about this. This case was closed.”

Bugaevsky was detained by the Czech police in January 2018 on the basis of an international arrest order exhibited by the Russian Federation. The City Court of Prague, and then the Supreme Court of the Republic, in which the case was considered, allowed the possibility of extradition of the suspect to Russia. Meanwhile, according to the current Czech legislation, the final decision on the issuance of a foreign state is made by the Minister of Justice.

Bugaevsky, who, before moving to the Czech Republic, was in Germany, Sweden and the Baltic countries, turned to the Prague authorities with a petition for the provision of political asylum. His request was supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. The ex-banker claims that the criminal case against him in Russia is exclusively political in nature.

According to the Russian investigation, in the period from January 21 to January 25, 2016, the chairman of the board of Inter-Kommerz Bank Alexander Bugaevsky wrote to the accounts of foreign companies controlled by him and his accomplices under fictitious contracts of the currency of the currency belonging to this bank, funds worth more than 45 million euros (more than 3.9 billion rubles).

In January 2016, the Inter -Kommerza was checking the regulator, which ordered to create reserves for 3 billion rubles. Against this news, the bank collided with the outflow of companies.

On January 29, 2016, the Bank of Russia appointed a temporary administration at Inter -Kommerz. On February 8, the bank revoked a license to carry out banking operations in connection with the failure to fulfill the laws governing banking, as well as regulatory regulatory regulatory acts, the value of its own sufficiency standards below 2%, a decrease in the amount of own funds below the minimum value of the authorized capital.

In February 2016, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Mikhail Sukhov told reporters that, according to the joint assessment of the Bank of Russia and the DIA, the “hole” on the capital of Inter -Kommerza exceeded 60 billion rubles.

On April 29, 2016, the Moscow Arbitration Court recognized the Inter -Kommerz bank, whichwas placed by many government agencies, bankrupt in the lawsuit of the Bank of Russia. The court also decided to open a bankruptcy proceedings for a period of one year in relation to a credit institution and assign the functions of a bankruptcy trustee to the deposit insurance agency (DIA).

Alexander Bugaevsky was arrested in absentia and put on the wanted list. The property of the accused was also arrested - an apartment in Moscow, a country house, land plots in the Moscow region and "funds received, presumably, criminal, worth more than 100 million rubles."

The board of directors of Inter-Kommerza included a former deputy chairman, head of the legal department of the Central Bank Sergey Golubev and ex-head of the Association of Regional Banks, Alexander Murychev, wrote Forbes .

It should be noted that Inter -Kommerz remained the last surviving bank, through which the money of firms - participants in the dubious scheme of the VAT return, which was investigated by the lawyer of the HERMITAGE CAPATAL Sergey Magnitsky.

In 2007, the prosecutor's office suspected the subsidiaries of Hermitage Capital in tax evasion. After searches in the company, the fund lawyer Sergei Magnitsky accused the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor’s office of using the materials they received for theft of more than 230 million dollars, disguised as a VAT return.

In response, the prosecutor's office accused Magnitsky of tax evasion. He was arrested and died in the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center in November 2009 at the age of 37. Before his death, Magnitsky was deprived of medical care and was actually subjected to torture. His death caused a huge public outcry in Russia and abroad, and also became the reason for the adoption of the so -called Magnitsky Law in different countries, which implies sanctions for corrupt officials and persons noticed in human rights violations. Such laws appeared in the USA, Canada, Great Britain and other European Union countries.

After the leakage of Panama Documents in 2016, the Center for the investigation of corruption and organized crime published evidence that the money stolen from the budget, which Magnitsky spoke about, settled on the accounts of the old friend of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the cellist Sergey Roldugin - he is called Putin's "wallet".

Meanwhile, in relation to the founder of the British Investment Fund, Hermitage Capital, William Brider in Russia, is initiated by new criminal cases, although he has already been condemned twice in absentia . On July 11, 2013, the Tver court of Moscow found him guilty of tax evasion on a particularly large scale (522 million rubles) and sentenced him to nine years in prison in the case of tax failure for more than 522 million rubles by falsify tax returns and illegal use of benefits intended for the disabled.

In July 2014, Russia put Brauder on an international wanted list. The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation repeatedly sent a request for the arrest of the founder of Hermitage Capital to the interpol.

At the end of 2017, the Tver court of Moscow again sentenced Bruder in absentia to the nine years of the colony, finding him guilty of intentional bankruptcy and tax evasion for more than 3 billion rubles. By the same time, Browner’s partner Ivan Cherkasov was also sentenced.

Russian investigators also accused Brauder of several murders, including Magnitsky, and the creation of a criminal community .