Polonsky arrest extended until the end of April 2017
Moscow. 7 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — Presnensky court of Moscow sanctioned the extension for another six months, the arrest of businessman Sergei Polonsky, accused in the theft of more than 2.6 billion rubles in the construction of luxury housing.
“The petition of the Prosecutor to satisfy. To extend the accused Polonsky’s measure of restraint in form of detention by six months”, — says the decision of judge Eugene Naydenov, announced Monday at a preliminary meeting of the Presnensky court of Moscow.
Thus, the court rejected the petition of protection of the businessman, who asked to release him from custody under house arrest.
As reported, themselves preliminary hearings pass in the closed mode.
The validity of the stored measure of restraint, the court held, in accordance with the criminal procedure code, calculated from the date of receipt of the case to the court, that is, 27 Oct. Thus, the arrest of Polonsky extended to 27 April 2017.
14 Jun 2013 in Russia Polonsky, who was at that time in Cambodia, was charged in absentia in the case associated with fraud for housing. May 15, 2015 developer was arrested in Cambodia and deported to Moscow on may 17, where straight from the airport “Domodedovo” was sent to the SIZO “Matrosskaya Tishina”.
According to the investigation, accused have stolen more than 2.4 billion rubles at participants of shared construction LCD “Kutuzovskaya mile” and 256 million rubles from co-investors “Rublevsky Riviera”. Two criminal cases against Polonsky are connected in one manufacture.
According to investigators, in 2008 and 2009, the former head of the Corporation “Mirax Group” Polonsky stole the money together with the members of the Board of Directors Aleksey Adikaev, Dmitry Lutsenko and Maxim by Temnikova with the complicity of the head of the financial Department of the Corporation Paperno and General Director of OOO “AVANTA” Pronyakin. On may 25 the Moscow city court upheld the arrest in absentia Adikaev, Lutsenko and Temnikova.