MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th February, 2019) business Ombudsman Boris Titov will ask Russia's Prosecutor General Yur Chaika to check the legality of the detention of the defendants in the Baring Vostok case, Titov's spokesman Alexander Hurudzhi told Sputnik on Tuesday.
The six defendants, including Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey, were detained last week in Moscow over suspected complicity in the theft of 2.5 billion rubles (about 37.8 million) from Russia's Vostochny Bank. Moscow's Basmanny Court has ordered to keep them in custody for two months amid the criminal investigation.
"It is obvious to everyone that Baring is a purely entrepreneurial activity. Interpreting this as a general criminal offense in violation of the principles that have been repeatedly explained by the presidium of the Supreme Court is a direct violation of the law, to which we draw attention," Hurudzhi said.
"We will petition that, while formulating the position of the General Prosecutor's Office, they would pay attention and checked this fact," he stressed.
