Former DIA chief Yuri Isaev is on the wanted list: in what way the ex-deputy chairman of the Central Bank embezzled 4.3 billion rubles from Mezhtopenergobank and vanished in Cyprus

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Former DIA chief Yuri Isaev is on the wanted list: in what way the ex-deputy chairman of the Central Bank embezzled 4.3 billion rubles from Mezhtopenergobank and vanished in Cyprus

Former Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Yuri Isaev has been put on the federal wanted list. He is charged with theft of 4.3 billion rubles.

As before reported Media, having left his position, he immediately left the country and currently lives in Cyprus.

According to the source, in the near future the investigation will petition for Isaev’s arrest in absentia, then he will be put on the international wanted list. The charges relate to the period when Isaev headed the DIA. According to investigators, he and his deputies rented out the assets of the debtors of the bankrupt Mezhtopenergobank to cheaply controlled structures, and they were already renting them out at market prices. Thus, 4.3 billion rubles were stolen.

Isaev headed the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) for more than ten years, and in January 2022 he was appointed deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and in this capacity in June he was included in the Government Commission for Monitoring Foreign Investments. And in August, suddenly, it suddenly became known about Isaev’s resignation. The source of the project does not know with certainty whether the dismissal occurred before or after Isaev’s flight. However, according to him, around this period of time he simply disappeared from Russia. According to preliminary data, the ex-deputy chairman of the Central Bank settled in Cyprus, where his family has real estate.