The Moscow City Court issued a banker Gleb Fetisov from prison – RBC

Ex-senator Gleb Fetisov in the Basmanny Court. Archival photo

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Former Senator Gleb Fetisov, accused of asset stripping and embezzlement of “My Bank” is released under house arrest, the press secretary of the Moscow City Court Ulyana Solopova.

The decision Presidium of the Moscow City Court adopted on the basis of the appeal submission Prosecutor General’s Office, which said that Fetisov may be under house arrest. The submission stated that the defendant “has taken active steps to redress».

In May, during a hearing to change the measure of restraint lawyers of the former senator said that Fetisov repaid all the debts of the bank in the amount of more than 15 billion rubles. Although the proposed lawyers bail of 50 million rubles., As well as a guarantee of Nikita Mikhalkov and presidential aide Sergei Glazyev, the Moscow City Court left him in custody.

The investigators insisted to leave Fetisov custody, since otherwise case businessman might abscond or destroy evidence or influence witnesses.

Fetisov held in the detention center nearly half a year. He was arrested in February 2014 in Domodedovo airport. The next day the Basmanny court of the capital placed him in the detention facility. In January 2014 the Central Bank revoked the license of “My Bank”, and in April was initiated bankruptcy proceedings of the bank.

According to the case file, Fetisov is accused of six episodes of fraud. According to investigators, a former senator kidnapped assets worth 555 million rubles. the “My Bank”, which was the beneficiary until November 2013, and also caused damage to the bank, providing loans and deposits one-day firms still almost 1.5 billion rubles. The total amount of damages a result estimated at 1.9 billion rubles.

The very Fetisov not pleaded guilty, but a few months ago, he controlled the company bought the debts of “My Bank” in the amount of 15 billion rubles, which is seven times the amount of damage indicated by the investigation. Businessman at the same time stressed that the damage is not indicative of the fact that he pleaded guilty. According to him, the investigators let him pay the money not given details of the accounts and was not allowed to him a notary, so money was transferred under its control the company.

Payment to creditors Fetisov became the first such precedent in the Russian banking market.