In Russia, a 66-year-old entrepreneur who managed groups of logistics companies in Lithuania and Latvia and is suspected of embezzling large sums and deliberately bankrupting a company has been detained, and Russia intends to extradite him to Lithuania, reports the business publication Verslo zinios, citing the Russian business news portal RBC.
According to RBC, citing data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the entrepreneur detained in St. Petersburg and residing in Russia since 2020 is accused of leading a "large foreign enterprise" from which he unjustifiably embezzled about 1.06 million euros after its bankruptcy between 2014 and 2019.
According to the publication Verslo zinios, the entrepreneur, who has a residence permit in Latvia but no citizenship of that country, managed a logistics company registered in Klaipeda with Latvian capital, Overseas Baltic, since 2014, the funds from which were transferred to a company in Malta. In 2019, bankruptcy proceedings were initiated against the company, and it was liquidated.
The portal reports that, according to registry data, from 2014 to 2019, the company Overseas Baltic was managed by its owner, Alexander Gordeev, who is of Russian descent.
