The Supreme Court of Tatarstan ordered the three co-founders of the Finiko financial pyramid — Zygmunt Zygmuntovich, Marat and Edward Sabirov — to be kept in custody in absentia. Local media reported this.
All three are accused in a fraud case of large-scale fraud. Since the defendants had managed to leave the country, they were placed on an international wanted list and arrested in absentia.
However, while abroad, Zygmuntovich and Sabirov, through their lawyers, filed an appeal against the decision of the first-instance court. In doing so, the interests of each are represented by [simple_tooltip content=’According to paragraph 3.1 of Article 51 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, the participation of defense counsel in criminal proceedings is mandatory if proceedings on especially serious crimes are conducted in the absence of the defendant who is outside the Russian Federation.’]public defenders[/simple_tooltip], whose services are funded from the budget.
According to case materials, the three Finiko founders flew from Russia to Belarus, and then to the United Arab Emirates. An unofficial version suggests that Zygmunt Zygmuntovich currently resides in one of the hotels on the territory of Abkhazia.
The amount of damages claimed by victims in the Finiko pyramid case has now surpassed 1 billion rubles.
More than 3,300 depositors contacted the agency, including Russian citizens and nationals of foreign states — Germany, Austria, Hungary, the United States and others. Because of the scale of the crime, the case was transferred to the Interior Ministry’s central office.
As part of the investigation, the Finiko founder Kirill Doronin, Ilgiz Shakirov and Dina Gabdulina, and the holder of the ‘Tenth Star’ title, Lilia Nurieva have already been arrested.
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