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“Is this 1931?”

The owner of the Rive Gauche company, the ex-co-owner of Yulmart, August Meyer, who was detained the day before with his wife in a fraud case, admitted at today’s court session that he was “shocked”. As reported by “Interlocutor”, Meyer also objected to the arrest.

“I was shocked yesterday. The investigator saw me for the first time and said that if I admit my guilt, he would release my wife. And after that, he threatened that if my wife and I ended up in prison, the children would be placed in custody. Is it okay to hold my wife hostage? Is this 1931? ” – Meyer said with tears in his eyes, the newspaper writes.

In turn, as reported in the united press service of the courts of St. Petersburg, the businessman’s lawyer said that the materials presented are “a set of incantations and mantras that do not confirm anything.” According to him, the investigation of the case has been underway for five years, “everything has been confiscated, everyone has been interrogated.” The defense representative also asked to elect a ban on certain actions, a pledge of up to 5 million rubles. or house arrest.

However, according to a court decision, August Meyer will go to a pre-trial detention center. The businessman will remain in custody 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.”

Source: Rosbalt

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