the Moscow city court left under arrest on accounts of Sovcombank shares in Cyprus companies accused of fraud, Mikhail Abyzov.
according to RIA Novosti, the court determined that do not belong to the ex-Minister, and established the term of arrest until June 25.
in the Summer of last year the Presnensky court of Moscow arrested the shares, bonds of several Cypriot companies. Their nominal price is about 16.5 billion rubles. In December, the Second, the court of cassation quashed the decision of appeal instance of the Moscow city court and sent a complaint to the protection for a new trial.
the Lawyer Sergei Drozd noted that the shares do not belong to Abyzov, and Cyprus companies. The investigator was asked to leave the injunction without modification.
Mikhail Abyzov was arrested in March last year. He was accused of fraud and creation of an organized criminal group. According to the investigation, together with accomplices he brought abroad 4 billion rubles, which belonged to the Siberian power company and the company “Regional electric networks”.
Then against him was filed two criminal cases: on the fact of illegal business activities and money laundering. The ex-Minister does not consider himself guilty.
Earlier, the judge extended the arrest of Abyzova to 26 March. On the court, he said, he had acute neurosis.
