The defendant in the case of the owner of the Rive Gauche company was placed under house arrest until February

The Moscow District Court chose house arrest as a preventive measure against Elena Streltsova, accused of fraud. She did not admit her guilt.

Streltsova and the lawyer objected, referring to the fact that the investigation was already going on for a long period of time, Streltsova appeared on all summons to the investigator, and did not shy away from appearing. They asked to take into account that her involvement was confirmed only by indirect testimony of the victims. At the same time, they pointed out that the materials of the case do not contain documents that would confirm the arguments of the investigation that the accused could abscond, continue to engage in criminal activity, and put pressure on non-witnesses. The lawyers asked that a ban on certain actions be taken as a preventive measure.

Streltsova was placed under house arrest by a court decision until February 7, she was forbidden to leave the apartment, use the Internet and other means of communication, communicate with someone other than relatives, a lawyer and an investigator.

According to the prosecution, the owner of the Rive Gauche company, the ex-co-owner of Yulmart, August Meyer, and his wife and business partner, Inna Meyer, are suspected of embezzling 2.3 billion rubles from Sberbank, received in the form of loans shortly before Yulmart “Problems started.

August Meyer was sent to a pre-trial detention center until February 7. His wife, Inna Meyer, who is accused in the same case, was placed under house arrest.

The investigation believes that the businessman has stolen more than 2.4 million rubles. at Sberbank. The criminal case on Sberbank loans has been investigated since 2017. Another co-owner of Yulmart, Dmitry Kostygin, became its first defendant. He was charged with large-scale lending fraud. The case was opened at the request of Sberbank, which provided Yulmart with a loan of 1 billion rubles. Later, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg re-qualified the charge against Dmitry Kostygin for causing damage without signs of theft.

The investigation suggests that the businessman misled the employees of the credit institution. The man allegedly did not provide them with information about the retailer’s overdue obligations to other creditors. The verdict in this case has not yet been passed.

Meyer himself previously received Russian citizenship, renouncing the American one. In 2010, in an interview with Forbes, he said: “America is sinking like the Titanic, and Russia has a future.”