Managing director on investment activities at Rusnano detained in connection with abuse of office case - Investigative Committee
MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax) - Andrei Gorkov, managing director on investment activities at Rusnano, has been detained in Moscow in an abuse of office case, the Russian Investigative Committee reported on Saturday.
"The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against Andrei Gorkov, managing director on investment activities at Rusnano, under Russian Criminal Code Article 201 Part 2 (abuse of office)," Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko told Interfax.
"Andrei Gorkov was detained today in close interaction with the Russian Interior Ministry's economic crimes and corruption directorate and the Federal Security Service's economic security service after buying a ticket to fly abroad," Petrenko said.
"The investigation has determined that, contrary to the established procedure and the interests of Rusnano and its only shareholder, the state, Andrei Gorkov deposited the company's funds in an amount ranging from 460 million rubles to 740 million rubles with OOO Smolensky Bank on a permanent basis from 2011 to 2013 under the guise of cash management services but de facto with the purpose of financing the bank's operations. Once the license was revoked from this bank on December 13, 2014, Rusnano lost more than 738 million rubles of its funds. At the same time, right before the license revocation, assets in the form of real estate items worth in aggregate 400 million rubles had been withdrawn from the bank in favor of Gorkov's brother," she said.
"Investigative procedures are currently being carried out [with Gorkov], and his indictment is under consideration," she said.
"The investigation plans to ask a court to take Gorkov into pretrial custody as a restrictive measure," she said.