France will give Russia's former Minister of Finance of Moscow region
A court in France has decided to issue the RF former Minister of Finance of Moscow region Alexey Kuznetsov. On 16 January, is told on web-site of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Kuznetsova in 2008 is suspected of fraud, embezzlement and legalization of property acquired by criminal means. According to the investigation, the Minister together with his own Deputy Valery Nosov and other accomplices in a crime bought from firms utilities debts of a number of municipalities in the amount of 3.5 billion rubles, and after that for budgetary account has redeemed them.
After the initiation of the case Kuznetsov retired and with his own wife Janna Bullock went to the United States. It turns out that the spouses are the citizens of the United States, although Russian officials not allowed to have dual citizenship. In early July 2013 in the French law enforcement authorities received unknown call about the fact that in one of the hotels stopped under investigation Russian with a false passport in the name of Lord of one of the Scandinavian countries. Kuznetsov was detained in early August, the Prosecutor filed a request for extradition.
Nosova in the autumn of 2012 was sentenced to 4 years in prison for extortion. But with the settlement of his soon translated into custody: the case of fraud is not yet considered, and security officials fear that the former civil servant can escape before the new court. Two other defendants, former Manager of "RIGroup" Dmitry Kotlyarenko and former Director of the investment-financial company "RIGroup-Finance" Lyudmila Bezdel, were convicted in 2011. Kotlyarenko received 3 years of colony and 500 thousand rbl. of the penalty, and Bezdel - suspended sentence.
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