By Andrei Skvarsky.
Bank of Moscow’s emigre ex-chief executive Andrei Borodin has been slapped with a new charge in Russia, being accused in absentia of defrauding the lender of 1bn rubles ($29m at today’s exchange rate) through an alleged forex scam, according to Moscow-based daily Kommersant.
In 2010, Borodin and his former chief deputy Dmitry Akulinin were charged in absentia with stealing 13bn rubles ($380m) from Bank of Moscow, which has been part of the VTB group since 2011, via allegedly fake loans. In 2013, the two men were charged with laundering 623m rubles they had supposedly stolen from the firm.
Borodin reputedly belonged to the inner circle of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov and was ousted from Bank of Moscow in 2010 after Luzhkov had been sacked by then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.
Borodin was granted political asylum in Britain last year. In 2011, he had bought Britain’s most expensive house, 300-year-old Park Place, near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, for ₤140m ($240m at today’s rate).
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