Lithuanian
Prosecutor General’s Office and the Financial Crimes Investigation
Service (FCIS) will resume the investigation on the origin of Vladimir
Antonov’s investments in Snoras bank.
Details of the disappearance of 100 million
from Latvijas Krājbanka to foreign banks have become known. Moreover, it is
clear that most likely the bank itself is to be liquidated as it is not able to
fully meet its obligations to depositors and creditors.
Two years ago, the Financial and Capital
Market Commission (FCMC) found that the bank’s co-owner, businessman Vladimir
Antonov siphons money away from the bank.
The Russian billionaire
former owner of Snoras and Latvijas Krājbanka, Vladimir Antonov in Lithuania
faces 10 years, and in Latvia - three years in prison – writes Diena newspaper.
Chairman
of the Central Bank of Lithuania Vitas Vasiliauskas told Lithuanian portal
DELFI that the memories of the former shareholder of the Snoras bank in his
interview to DELFI are nonsense.
The
Prosecutor General's Office, performing pre-trial investigation of possible
misappropriation, embezzlement of Snoras bank assets, money laundering, fraud
accounting and other criminal acts, established new criminal offenses of the
bank’s former executives and shareholders Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas
Baranauskas.
Russian
oligarchs suffered from the collapse of Snoras bank and Latvijas Krajbanka.
Vedomosti newspaper found some of Vladimir Antonov’s banks’
customers.