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.
By
decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of May 28, V.Antonov and
R.Baranauskas were recognized suspected of misappropriation, embezzlement of
Snoras bank property in big amount - about LTL 1.7 billion, complicity,
activities in an organized group, fraud accounting of Snoras bank, and as
forgery and use of willful false documents.
Vilnius
2 District Court listened to a plea of the prosecutor of the Prosecutor
General’s Office to issue a writ to Antonov and Baranauskas on new suspicions.
Prosecutor General Darius Valis signed the European arrest warrants to arrest
the suspects.
We shall
remind that in November 2011, when part of the securities disappeared, the
government decided to nationalize the bank. The Russian
citizen Antonov held 68.1% and
R.Baranauskas - 25% of
its
shares.
