“He is accused of embezzling $ 500,000 from the Credit-Express bank account in 2014,” RIA Novosti reports the words of his lawyer Alexei Averyanov.

He noted that his client does not recognize himself guilty.

"Between him and the victim was a loan agreement, which he repaid, as there are notarized receipts," - said the lawyer.

Earlier, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow placed the owner of Optima Development, Albert Khudoyan, under house arrest on charges of fraud more than 2 billion rubles.