Another accomplice of the former head of BTA Bank JSC, Mukhtar Ablyazov - Aleksey Vladimirovich Bogdanov, who had been wanted since 2009, has voluntarily returned to Kazakhstan.
According to the press service of the Anti-Corruption Agency, he was the nominal representative of the offshore company Metropolitan Managers Corp (BVI), the chairman of the board of Belovodsky Starch and Syrup Plant CJSC, and a specialist at Mais Agro LLP. All of these enterprises were used in the embezzlement of funds from BTA Bank totalling over 300 million tenge.
"As a result of explanatory work with the suspect Bogdanov's close relatives and lawyer, he expressed a desire to return to Kazakhstan and assist the investigation, about which he submitted a written statement", the statement says.
As a result, on 15 May, with the assistance of Interpol and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Bogdanov arrived in Almaty from Brussels.
"Given the suspect's voluntary return, full admission of guilt and cooperation with the investigation, the previously chosen preventive measure of detention for Bogdanov has been changed to bail", the Anti-Corruption Agency reported.
Currently, the agency is conducting investigative actions involving the suspect. The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Recall that previously, at Almaty airport, another accomplice and the maternal uncle of Mukhtar Ablyazov - Kuanysh Nurgazin, who also voluntarily returned to Kazakhstan, was detained. He was arrested after passing through passport control and sent to a pre-trial detention centre. The next day, the court, considering his age and state of health, changed his preventive measure to house arrest.
After this, in Russia, another accomplice of Ablyazov – a politician with nationalist inclinations, Alexander Potkin – was placed on the wanted list.