The Belarusian Commity for State Security (KGB) has never detained Russian businessman Maxim Finsky, the press service says.
“Maxim Finsky is not being kept in the KGB detention centre. The Committee is not involved in his detaining,” Dzmitry Pabyarzhyn, Head for the KGB press office, told state-run news agency BelTA.
On Thursday Belarusian news portal naviny.by reported with referency to Russian site yodnews.ru that Maxim Finsky, former director of the company Intergeo and former partner of oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, the head of the group of companies Onexim, was detained and placed in the KGB detention centre in Minsk.
A criminal case under Art. 159 p.4 of the Russian Criminal Code – “Fraud committed by an organized group or a large scale, or one that has deprived a citizen’s right to housing” – was launched against Mr Finsky in Russia. Under this article, he could get imprisonment for up to 10 years with a fine of up to 1 million Russian rubles.
At first, Mr Finsky was held in jail, then he was transferred to house arrest. According to yodnews.ru, the businessman cut the electronic bracelet monitoring his movements and drove to Minsk in the car of Prokhorov’s security service.
