Former bank chairman extended himself a loan and fled Russia.

The former chairman of the board of the bank "FC Opening," Dmitry Romaev, arrested in absentia by the Meshchansky Court of Moscow, is accused of embezzling about 3 billion rubles ($31.1 million).

According to the investigation, Romaev provided such a loan amount to the Cypriot company Benirlia Holdings Limited, controlled by him. The company didn't return the money and is now in liquidation. Romaev himself moved abroad, and now the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs will try to organize his international search through Interpol.

It is noted that the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been investigating criminal cases of large-scale fraud by the former top management of the bank "Opening" for more than six years. In total, according to law enforcement officers, hundreds of billions of rubles were withdrawn by the bank. Periodically, new episodes are allocated into separate proceedings, as happened with the 53-year-old Romaev, who was recently arrested in absentia by the Meshchansky Court of Moscow. Now Dmitry Romaev, who has both Russian and Cypriot citizenship, lives in Monaco.

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