Defendants in the banking fraud was released on bail of 40-50 million rubles.

As the Kommersant, Russia's Supreme Court freed on bail 50 million and 40 million rubles. respectively, the financial director of "Eurasia Logistics" Artem Bondarenko, Director of Economics of Alexei Belov. Both are accused of illegal withdrawal of assets of the largest in Kazakhstan, BTA Bank worth more than $ 4 billion, the organizer of this fraud investigators believe the former owner of the bank, Mukhtar Ablyazov, who was arrested in absentia in Russia and is wanted. The publication wrote about this on Thursday, April 28. According to the publication, April 26 The Supreme Court granted the petition of lawyers and change the preventive punishment the accused. Both of the Supreme Court decision will be released on bail. Artem Bondarenko pledge named to the $ 50 million, and Alexei Belov - 40 million rubles. Kommersant said that 50 million rubles. and to this day is the highest in the history of modern Russia the amount of bail: that such a sum the court appointed a former Yukos vice-president Vasily Alexanian and the chapter "Your financial trustee" Vasily Boyko. Bondarenko and Belov come out of jail immediately after the transfer of these amounts on deposit of the court. Accused of fraud in large-scale, forgery and other crimes, has been detained since March 18, 2010. The newspaper reminds that the CEO of Russia's largest logistics company "Eurasia Logistic" Alexander Volkov, head of legal department Denis Vorotyntsev, director of economics Alexei Belov and CFO Artem Bondarenko accused of forgery, fraud and embezzlement of loans from the Kazakh BTA-Bank for $ 1, 5 billion, as well as the theft of property that was pledged to the bank for $ 2.8 billion, according to investigators, at the end of January 2009 the owner of the bank, Mukhtar Ablyazov, learned about the Kazakh authorities to nationalize the BTA Bank (at that time it was the largest retail bank in the country), instructed his subordinates to withdraw from the bank's most liquid assets. To solve this problem, according to investigators, the accused forged the signature of the representative of BTA Bank, produced false papers to terminate the contracts, mortgages, made by the bank with a dozen of their borrowers. Artem Bondarenko Alexei Belov, which in addition to posts in the "Eurasia Logistics" has also held senior positions in companies, lenders, signed the bogus documents and register them. As a result, were stolen land in the Domodedovo district with total area of ??2.5 hectares. Simultaneously, the same person, according to investigators, has made 24 fraudulent treaty of cession, brought with them dozens of shell companies offshore loans and abducted them. The publication notes that none of the defendants in this case not pleaded guilty. All of them, including Mukhtar Ablyazov, called the prosecution is politically motivated. Himself a banker, who recently lived in London, has repeatedly stated that the reasons for the nationalization of BTA Bank, and later brought against him of criminal proceedings related to his opposition activities against the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. In the investigative committee at the Interior Ministry official comment on the Supreme Court decision on the pledge did not. Private agency staff also admitted to Kommersant that "stunned" him. "Supreme Court, well aware that the gang these people have fled abroad - said one of the staff. - Ensure that the exemption did not follow their example, no ".