Baring Vostok founder Calvey becomes defendant in case following complaint against Federal Security Service General Tkachev

Head of ‘K’ directorate of the Economic Security Service of the Federal Security Service Ivan Tkachev

The document was provided by personally a member of the board of management of Vostochny bank Sherzod Yusupov.

Criminal case against a founder of an investment company Baring Vostok - an American Michael Calvey - was initiated following a complaint against the Federal Security Service General - Ivan Tkachev. The document was provided by personally a member of the board of management of Vostochny bank Sherzod Yusupov, report TASS and RBC with reference to the case file announced at Moscow city court.

Tkachev in his turn handed the materials over to a deputy head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Igor Krasnov. Meanwhile, the intelligence services - from February 7 till February 12 - carried out an inspection of the information that had been received; after that, they eventually transferred the files to the Investigative Committee for initiation of the criminal case. 

The CrimeRussia earlier reported Calvey and his five partners were detained on February 15 in the criminal case into swindling on an especially large scale (item 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The defendants are being suspected of theft of 2.5 billion rubles ($37.5 million) from the bank.

The investigation assumes Pervoye kollektorskoye byuro controlled by Calvey paid off the 3 billion rubles ($45 million) debt with the shares that cost, as estimated by the Federal Security Service, only 600 thousand rubles ($9.1 thousand).

Calvey in his turn is convinced that another shareholder of Vostochny - Artem Avetisyan - is trying to settle a corporate dispute. In particular, now, there’s his sue against Avetisyan in a case related to siphoning off money from Uniastrum bank (that merged with Vostochny) in London’s Arbitration Court.

The name of Ivan Tkachev was mentioned in many high-profile cases. With that, the Major-General approved an operative experiment in the course of which a former head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Aleksey Ulyukaev was arrested.

Besides that, former head of Serpukhov district Aleksander Shestun assigned his criminal prosecution with Tkachev’s threats - due to his refusal to take part in elections of a head of the city. The Major-General had also dealt with issues of a head of the Main Directorate for Economic Safety and Counteracting Corruption of Russia’s MIA Denis Sugrobov, a former head of Mariy-El Leonid Markelov and a former head of Udmurtia Aleksander Soloviev.

via