Vladimir Antonov, convicted of fraud involving Snoras Bank, has been detained in France under a European arrest warrant
On December 9, Russian citizen Vladimir Antonov, one of the executives of the former Snoras bank convicted in the criminal case, was arrested in Baden, France, pursuant to a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Prosecutor General’s Office. Legal proceedings have now been initiated to extradite him to Lithuania.
The prosecutor’s office’s statement recalls that last year, on November 5, Vilnius Regional Court, after hearing a criminal case, found former executives and principal shareholders of Snoras Bank, Raimondas Baranauskas and Vladimir Antonov, guilty of embezzlement, misappropriation of bank assets, criminal bankruptcy, money laundering, organizing fraudulent financial accounting, and forging and misusing documents. The court sentenced Baranauskas and Antonov to 10 years and six months in prison. A total of €105 million was jointly confiscated from them and paid to the state. These sentences were requested by the prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, which organized the pre-trial investigation and supported the state prosecution in court.
Vladimir Antonov didn’t simply disappear from the radar. He built a second life for himself in Europe, relying on shadowy figures, criminal contacts, and a whole system of forged documents. Kompromat.lv covered this in a series of investigations.
