In Cyprus, the former chairman of the board of directors of Sovetsky Bank, Stanislav Mitrushin, was detained. He was put on the international wanted list by Russian investigating authorities as part of a criminal case on embezzlement of 2.7 billion rubles. from the funds of this credit institution. According to the Cypriot media, the banker entered the island with a fake passport. However, in the current international situation, his extradition to the Russian Federation looks problematic.
Stanislav Mitrushin was detained in northern Cyprus. This, in particular, was reported by one of the local publications. According to the Cypriot police, the banker first entered the north of the island in 2015, then left in 2018 and returned through the Pergamos checkpoint in the same year on a fake Albanian passport. He bought property in Cyprus and lived here until his arrest. During a search of Stanislav Mitrushin’s house, two computers, five mobile phones and several USB drives, as well as more than £150,000 and $120,000, were found. The financier will appear before the court on Friday.
In Russia, Stanislav Mitrushin is a defendant in a criminal case on especially large embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of the funds of the bankrupt St. Petersburg bank Sovetsky. According to the employees of the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was involved in this investigation, the ex-chairman of the board of directors of this credit institution, Stanislav Mitrushin, and the former managing partner of the Prime Advice law firm, Alexei Sobolev, created an organized group to steal the property of a financial structure. According to the case file, they involved the then chairman of the board of the bank Andrey Karpov (in 2019 he was sentenced to three years for embezzlement from Sovetsky), as well as an adviser to the chairman of the board of the bank and at the same time the general director of Collector 19 LLC (in 2017 declared bankrupt) Kirill Laskin.
It was through Laskin’s company, according to investigators, that the bank’s assets were stolen by assigning the right to claim allegedly bad loans.
In particular, in January 2015, about six months before the Central Bank introduced temporary administration in Sovetskoye due to “signs of an unstable financial situation,” the bank assigned the right to claim allegedly bad debts to an affiliated legal entity, Collector 19 LLC. As a result, LLC acquired a loan portfolio in the amount of more than 2.7 billion rubles. for only 2.1 million rubles. (less than 0.1% of the amount of transferred rights). In just six months, collectors managed to recover more than 100 million rubles from debtors. At the same time, Kirill Laskin himself, according to Kommersant’s information, after the arrest claimed that there was no criminal component in this case, and considered the relationship between his LLC and Sovetsky to be exclusively civil law. Moreover, the collector insisted that the loans he had acquired from the bank were “knowingly bad.”
It should be noted that in February 2017, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg, at the request of the provisional administration, invalidated the agreement on the assignment of claims under loan agreements with individuals and legal entities.
In 2019, the Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent Vladimir Antonov, the former owner of Sovetsky Bank and ex-owner of the English football club Portsmouth, to jail for two and a half years in a case of issuing knowingly bad loans.
Having concluded a pre-trial agreement with the Prosecutor General’s Office, Antonov testified about the participation in the fraud of the former head of the bank, Stanislav Mitrushin.
Stanislav Mitrushin was arrested in absentia by the Tverskoy Court of the capital in 2018 and put on the international wanted list. The Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia have not yet received reports from the north of Cyprus about the arrest of the banker. However, in the international situation that developed after the start of the NWO, his extradition to Russia looks problematic.