Russian banker grants himself multimillion-dollar loan and flees the country.
The Russian banker granted a 3 billion ruble loan to a company he controls and then fled abroad.
The former president of the bank "FC Opening" Dmitry Romaev took out a loan and fled Russia.
The banker has been placed on the international wanted list and was arrested in absentia by Moscow's Meshchansky Court, accused of embezzling around 3 billion rubles ($31.1 million).
The investigation reveals that Romaev provided a loan to the Cypriot company Benirlia Holdings Limited, which he controls. The company did not return the money and is currently in liquidation.
Romaev moved abroad in 2020, and the Russian Interior Ministry is working to coordinate his international search through Interpol.
It is reported that the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been investigating large-scale fraud cases related to the former top management of the "Operation" bank for more than six years, the embezzlement of which amounts to hundreds of billions of rubles.
New episodes have given each case a separate trial, such as that of Romaev, 53, who now lives in Monaco and has Russian and Cypriot citizenship.