Oleg Mitvol, who was detained last year on suspicion of embezzling almost a billion rubles allocated for the construction of the Krasnoyarsk metro, almost immediately after his arrest, he concluded an agreement with the investigation and undertook to return the money. However, he is in no hurry to fulfill the promise. At the same time, while he is in custody, money from his accounts disappears in an unknown direction.
The other day it became known that unknown swindlers withdrew 150 thousand dollars from Mitvol’s account in the UAE bank. This was stated by the daughter of a former official Alice. When she flew to Dubai to withdraw funds from her father’s account, it turned out that the money had already been received by a certain gray-haired woman who presented a power of attorney from Oleg Mitvol, issued for some reason in the Smolensk region. The prisoner’s family filed a complaint with the police, but so far, according to our information, no criminal case has been opened in Russia on this fact.
Mitvol’s lawyer Alexander Obozov told reporters that the identity of the mysterious lady who withdrew an impressive amount from someone else’s account was established thanks to the bank’s video surveillance system.
This is not the first statement about the theft of money from Oleg Mitvol. At the end of November last year, a number of media outlets reported that almost 25 million rubles disappeared from his account. Allegedly, unknown people from Yekaterinburg forged a passport in his name, reissued a SIM card with a number and gained access to his personal account in the Internet bank. After that, the crooks methodically cleared the prisoner’s account through ATMs in Moscow and Yekaterinburg in two weeks. One of the suspects was detained, but it was not reported whether they found the stolen funds from him. The police are sure that it is impossible to pull off such a scam alone, but so far the detainee has not handed over his accomplices.
The misadventures of the Krasnoyarsk prisoner are not limited to the theft of personal funds from the accounts.
On February 2 this year, there were reports in the media about the hospitalization of 56-year-old Oleg Mitvol, due to a sharp deterioration in his health. His daughter Alisa was very alarmed, and even asked the director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, to take the case under his personal control, suggesting that their father might be dealt with, fearing his testimony against other persons involved in this case.
Recall that the crime in which Oleg Mitvol is accused was committed in Krasnoyarsk, at a time when he headed the board of directors of JSC Krasnoyarsk Trust for Engineering and Construction Surveys (TISIZ). He is suspected of embezzling 957.2 million rubles allocated for the design of the local subway. Despite his frank confession and active cooperation with the investigation, Mitvol is still in custody: the court recently extended his arrest until the end of May. In addition to Oleg Mitvol himself, the Minister of Transport of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Konstantin Dimitrov and the ex-head of the regional transport department Konstantin Mandrov were arrested in the case of embezzlement of funds. Among the defendants in the criminal case related to the construction of the Krasnoyarsk metro, they also name the chairman of the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Yuri Lapshin. True, no restrictive measures have been taken against him so far, at least – he still holds his position.
Interestingly, against the backdrop of Mitvol’s illness, some media outlets began to appear alternative versions of the reasons for the case of the “Krasnoyarsk billion thief”. Allegedly, at a time when Oleg Lvovich was not a prisoner of a pre-trial detention center, but an uncompromising fighter against malicious violators of environmental legislation, he “crossed the road for too many” and now suffers for his honesty and adherence to principles … And, of course, there were full demands to provide Oleg Mitvol with adequate treatment, which he eventually received, being in the tuberculosis dispensary of the GUFSIN.
According to the site Rucriminal.info, which refers to its sources, the hospital provided the person involved in the criminal case with a separate room and the opportunity to use mobile communications. There, Mitvol allegedly issued a notarized power of attorney, according to which his daughter Alice got the opportunity to represent his interests in the largest bank in the United Arab Emirates, First AbuDhabi Bank PJSC, and dispose of foreign real estate. According to the same source, in August 2022, Oleg Mitvol could issue a power of attorney to dispose of money in accounts with Rosbank in the name of a certain I.A. Vinogradov (probably a person close to the Mitvol family).
And in both cases, after the power of attorney is issued, the funds are withdrawn from the inmates’ accounts by mysterious “scammers”.
It is worth noting that there is no particular reason for Oleg Mitvol to worry about the stolen funds: he would hardly have been able to use them. Recall that, having concluded an agreement with the investigation, he undertook to return the stolen amount. The damage in the case, we recall, is almost 1 billion rubles, in the repayment of which Mitvol has paid, apparently, less than a million.
If this was the case, a reasonable question arises: who and why allowed the former official, who is under arrest, to distribute powers of attorney to receive the funds stored in his accounts, and were they really stolen? There are too many coincidences in the “misadventures” of the once wealthy prisoner.