As a source of the Cheka-OGPU, familiar with the situation, said, on the eve of the New Year, Vladimir Antonov met with a friend in a restaurant. During the conversation, he said that he needed to go away for five minutes to meet with someone. No one has seen Antonov since then. At first, relatives did not raise any particular panic, but then Vladimir Antonov’s father, Alexander, wrote a statement to the police. The interlocutor did not say what the surveillance camera footage showed, noting only that “everything points to a kidnapping.”
Vladimir Antonov was once a fairly successful banker (though always with a reputation as a participant in money laundering schemes), bought a bank in the Baltic states, the Portsmouth football club and the car company Spyker Cars NV in the UK. He even negotiated the purchase of the auto giant SAAB. However, then cases were opened against him in the European Union and he was forced to flee to the Russian Federation using a fake passport. In Russia, Antonov soon ended up in a pre-trial detention center on charges of embezzling funds from the Sovetsky Bank. However, I received a short sentence, and upon leaving I tried to buy different banks, but to no avail. However, Antonov did not refuse to participate in various financial transactions and in recent years has gone to great lengths.
After his arrest in the “Sovetsky Bank case,” Antonov immediately began to cooperate with the investigation and has since given evidence in various high-profile cases. In particular, he is a witness in the case of taking a bribe by Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, in the Laundromat case, etc.
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