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In Moscow, at a metro station, policemen, during a document check, detained a man who called himself homeless. Later it turned out that he was a former banker and a big swindler.
The detainee's name is Vyacheslav Chikalin, he is a former vice president of the Russian Evrazbank and chairman of the board of directors of PJSC Sol Rusi, Kommersant reports.
Several criminal cases have been initiated against the billionaire, he himself is wanted. Currently, Chikalin is a member of the "special operation in Ukraine", and he was in Moscow during his vacation.
In March 2021, Chikalin was sentenced to seven years in prison in the case of embezzlement from the Transport Bank. From 2013 to 2015, he and six other suspects stole more than 21,8 billion rubles from the bank, making known irrecoverable loans.
When Chikalin was already in the pretrial detention center in the embezzlement case, it became known about his fraudulent schemes in PJSC Sil Rus, a project for the development of the Bilbaz rock salt deposit in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The company promised depositors a large profit. The shares were sold by calling telephone bases, and the victims who bought the shares were most often pensioners.
"After communicating with the investigators, Chikalin will probably return to SVO," the publication writes.
