The defendants in the case Baring Vostok may be released before the end of the year

A new turn was outlined in the Baring case: after almost a year, the last persons who remained in the pre -trial detention center had finally entered the pre -trial detention center for house arrest - Russians Ivan Zyuzin , Vagan Abgaryan and Maxim Vladimirov. According to the sources of The Bell, this means that the defendants in the Baring case may be free in the near future or at least until the end of the year - but not necessarily with an acquittal.

Michael Kalvi during the application of the investigation in the Basmanny court for his arrest.

What's happened

The Basmanny Court changed the measure of restraint for house arrest to the last person involved in the Baring Vostok case, which remained in the pre -trial detention center - Ivan Zyuzin, Maxim Vladimirov and Vagan Abgaryan. Two others, Michael Kalvi and Philip Delpal, were transferred under house arrest in 2019.

The source of The Bell surrounded by the arrested claims that the court decision was unexpected for them. But many of the colleagues of the defendants recently seemed to be that the ice had moved. “Only today he discussed at the meeting that everyone should be released under house arrest - there is a feeling that the matter is being completed, there is no prospect of criminal prosecution, the only question is, in what time and how to finish it,” says the Bell, who is following the Baring case.

What's next

Two sources of The Bell, surrounded by people who petitioned the revision of the Baring case in high offices, confidently say that the transfer of the defendants in the case under house arrest is evidence that the case will be resolved in the coming months.

One of them even calls specific terms and script. According to his version, the court will be held already in May 2020, the defendants will be found guilty, but with short or conditional terms, which will be covered by their stay in jail and under house arrest - as a result, convicts will be able to release immediately after the trial. This outcome is also allowed by the familiar Baring case, but he does not believe that the denouement can be expected before the end of the year. Both do not believe that both will not believe that the court will back down and pass an acquittal.

The third interlocutor The Bell does not know the script details, but confirms that, by his feelings, the situation has moved from the dead point, and the case may end with a positive outcome for partners and Baring employees in the coming months. The liberation of Abgaryan, Vladimirov and Zyuzin for house arrest is a signal, he believes. The security forces, already getting involved in the case, did not want to retreat, because it would be a recognition of a mistake, he explains the protractedness of the process.

In order for the case to be closed, and his defendants are free, a critical number of corresponding opinions should be accumulated - as it was last in the spring, when Kalvi himself was released under house arrest, the financier who followed the Baring case argues. Now such a mass is already gaining: according to the interlocutor of The Bell, who was familiar with the discussion of the case in high offices, in addition to the head of the RDIP Kirill Dmitriev, who was instructed to Kalvi immediately after his arrest in February 2019, was asked by German Gref, Alexei Kudrin, Putin Administration, ex-head of the presidential administration Valentin Yumashev and many others.

Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“embezzlement”), sane by the defendants in the Baring case, does not have the lower limit of the term of imprisonment. Home arrest of the main accused, Michael Kalvi, was extended last week until May 13. Until that time, the accused will get acquainted with 75 volumes of their case, and the investigation will complete the court proceedings and send the indictment to the prosecutor.

The main argument is in question

There was also a turn in the corporate side of the conflict - and also today. The Evison lawyer (the Cypriot structure through which Baring Vostok owns the "east") Oleg Coyda told Vedomosti that the company is trying to challenge the option to transfer 10% of the shares of Avetisyan, Finvizh. They agreed on the option at the merger of “Uniastrum” and “Vostochny”, but then the fund refused to execute it - according to it, for the period between the confluence and the actual association, Avetisyan withdrew the assets from the bank. When six months later, the Amur court nevertheless decided to fulfill the option, it seemed to be a defeat of Baring Vostok, which lost control of the bank.

Now new circumstances have been revealed in the case: it turns out that the option could come into force only if the debt of the first credit bureau (PCB) was 12 billion rubles to the bank. On the expense of this debt, the bank received the shares of IFTG - and considered the debt closed. But the fact that the actions supposedly cost much less, Yusupov complained - the Baring case began with this, and it was precisely of this “embezzlement” that the defendants are accused of. At the end of 2019, it became known that the debt does not consider the bank to be regulated (he even filed a civil lawsuit-which no one noticed). That is, it was impossible to carry out an option, according to Koyda.

What is important to know about the case of Baring Vostok

The corporate conflict in the bank lasts a year and a half. The case against Kalvi about the theft in Vostochny 2.5 billion rubles was initiated at the suit of Avetisyan’s partner Sherzod Yusupov (his position was described in detailhere ).

Kalvi and Baring Vostok themselves accuse Avetisyan and Finvision of withdrawing assets from the Uniastrum before merging with East. It was this Evison that explained the unwillingness to execute the FinVision option by 10% of the bank's shares. Baring Vostok eventually lost the dispute for the option and executed it, after which 50.01% of the bank and the control of Avetisyan and partners were controlled.

Michael Kalvi and who agreed to work with the investigation, Alexei Kordichev, who agreed to work with the pre -trial detention center, went to house arrest. In August, the Frenchman Philip Delpal came out of the pre -trial detention center, while the Russian defendants, until recently, were not even allowed to see relatives. While the matter is reaching, many events have occurred - both in the life of the defendants, and in the life of the Bank "Vostochny", around which the conflict flashed (here we listed the main ones ).