Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov's partner detained in Minsk

Maxim Finsky, a former director of Intergeo company and former partner of oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov who owns ONEXIM Group, has been detained and placed in the KGB jail.

Russia's Yod website learnt it from a source.

A criminal case under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (swindling committed by an organised group, or on a a large scale, or that deprived a citizen's right to property) was initiated against him in Russia. The offence is punished with a prison term of up to 10 years and a fine of up to one million of Russian rubles.

Finsky had been held in a pretrial detention facility in Russia before being placed under house arrest.

According to the source, the businessman removed the electronic monitoring tag and left for Minsk in a car of Prokhorov's security guards.

The same source reports that Finsky arrived in Belarus with a fake passport in the name of Vlasov. He planned to fly from Minsk to Frankfurt and then to Miami.

Russian law-enforcement officers arrived in Minsk to take Finsky to Russia, but the extradition was denied.

The Belarusian KGB neither confirms nor denies the information that Maxim Finski is held in the KGB jail, Sputnik says.

As Sputnik learnt from a source close to Belarusian investigators, Mikhail Prokhorov is going to Minsk to defend his partner.

Yod learnt from the press office of ONEXIM Group that they don't know about the current whereabouts of Maxim Finsky. They added that Finsky is a member of Intergeo Board of Directors, and “this is the only thing that links him to ONEXIM's business.”