Antonov’s investments source is investigated

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.

Polonskiy swindled Mirax equity holders and Antonov - Latvijas Krājbanka depositors

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.

Antonov began to siphon away money from Latvijas Krājbanka two years ago

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.

Antonov faces 10 years in prison in Lithuania, and three years in Latvia

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: Antonov’s memories are nonsense

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.

Antonov and Baranauskas are suspects under five articles of the Criminal Code

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’ money got stuck in Krajbanka

Russian oligarchs suffered from the collapse of Snoras bank and Latvijas Krajbanka. Vedomosti newspaper found some of Vladimir Antonov’s banks’ customers.

UK court arrested the property of the Russian oligarch Vladimir Antonov

UK court, at the request of the administrator of the bankrupt and nationalized Lithuanian bank Sronas, arrested the property, including real estate in Jurmala, of the bank’s former major shareholder – Russian billionaire Vladimir Antonov, amounting to EUR 492 million.

Vladimir Antonov is indirect (through the Lithuanian bank Snoras) coowner of Latvian bank Latvijas Krājbanka which is undergoing bankruptcy procedure.

Fatal rally of the banker Antonov

A year ago, on November 17, 2011, the Latvian bank Latvijas Krājbanka started to collapse. Dust has not settled yet. There are also offended – the companies, the government, even Raimonds Pauls, who lost about EUR 1 million in the bank. Russian banker Vladimir Antonov is fighting off the charges in London. Leaders of the Latvian banking supervision Irena Krumane and Janis Brazovskis have fallen one after another. Open City magazine tells about the course of events a year ago.

Prosecutor: Information about Snoras was concealed for several years

Former director of the Department of Credit Institution Supervision of the Bank of Lithuania Kazimieras Ramonas was concealing from the BL management the information about the property of bankrupt Snoras Bank in Switzerland for a few years.

Two ways to destroy the bank: recipes from Vladimir Romanov and Vladimir Antonov

Neither the Bank of Lithuania, nor the Government, nor financial analysts equate Ūkio bankas and Snoras. Ūkio bankas is half of Snoras, a lot less money was gone from it (it lacks only LTL 1.1 bln., compared with LTL 3.4 bln. in the case of Snoras), Ūkio bankas, unlike Snoras, did not have a bank in Latvia.

Ūkio bankas crash was predetermined by the ambitious projects of the major shareholder Vladimir Romanov, Snoras bankruptcy - possibly criminal activity. Experts from abroad started searching Snoras’s property, in the case of Ūkio bankas, one Lithuanian was enough.

In Ūkio bankas, the majority was the insured deposits. Meanwhile, Snoras bankruptcy carried away millions. Ūkio bankas will not injure the Deposit and Investment Insurance Fund so much - this time it will have to pay LTL 600 mln - 1 bln., depending on how the negotiations on the transfer of Ūkio bankas to Šiaulių bankas will end.

Snoras: Passions are rising

The way out of the crisis of the commercial bank Snoras chosen by the Bank of Lithuania was the only right. And today, according to the chairman of the Bank of Lithuania Vitas Vasiliauskas, in a similar situation, they would have done exactly the same. Association of Snoras Bank creditors and depositors intends to offer their own bank restructuring scenario that would help the creditors and depositors to get invested funds back.

Would do the same

“I often ask myself what I would have done differently. Someone may be disappointed by my answer: “Nothing.” I would not do anything differently, there was no choice, actions and behaviour were dictated by the specific situation and the specific threat. In a similar situation, I would have done exactly the same. Solutions would be the same, the same, I would have suggested the same to the Board, said the same thing to the government”, - said V. Vasiliauskas, speaking to the MPs in the Saeima (the Lithuanian Government).

"Black Friday" of Elvira Nabiullina

FLB: Central Bankrevoked the licenses ofthree banks with a trail of "bloody" crime

According to the press office of the Bank of Russia, the licenses were withdrawn from three Russian banks at a time- reports RBCTV on December 13. The Bank of Project Financing lost the right to carry out the financial transactions. Investbank that belongs to the hundred largest lending institutions in the country also lost its license. In Kaliningrad, the bank experienced difficulties with satisfaction of claims of the early repayment of deposits of all the depositors "because of the depositors’ undue panic, which was caused by an incorrect interpretation of reports in the media and on the forums". This was stated in the bank’s press release.

“Lithuanian problems” of Vladimir Antonov

After the Lithuanian authorities had decided to nationalize Snoras Bank, which until recently was controlled by the head of Converse Group Vladimir Antonov, the mass media ciculated speculation on the criminal proceedings initiated against him. Moreover, both in Lithuania and in Russia. The Moscow Post correspondent reports this.