The National Crime Service is maintaining its investigation into Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman, one of the main shareholders of supermarket chain Dia, but reducing the scope of its investigation, according to information published by the newspaper. Financial timing.
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At the end of last year, the prominent figure was arrested and released on bail, on felony charges of conspiracy to commit perjury and conspiracy to defraud the Interior Ministry, as well as money laundering. This latest charge has been defended, but the other two lines of investigation will be dropped, the paper said above.
For a year, Fridman has been on a list of Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the European Union in response to Vladimir Putin’s government’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The oligarch, who was born in Ukraine, owns his supermarket chain through Luxembourg-based investment firm LetterOne. Through this entity owns more than 77% of distribution banner capital. After being put on the EU sanctions list, Fridman stepped down as an adviser to LetterOne.
In the case currently being investigated in the UK, the charges have been dismissed, according to Financial timingrelated to the tycoon’s intervention in his partner’s UK residency application.
In December, the NCA did not reveal Fridman’s identity, only that he had detained a 58-year-old man, “a Russian businessman,” he said, via a release.
Also, that he had captured two other people. On the one hand, a 35-year-old man suspected of money laundering and obstruction of justice “after he was seen leaving an address with a bag containing thousands of pounds in cash.”
The second detainee is a “former girlfriend of a current business partner” on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to defraud.
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