“The involvement of Mikhail Abyzov and his accomplices in the legalization of money received as a result of committing a crime, as well as in commercial bribery,” she said.

According to Petrenko, new partners have also been identified, among them are former top managers of Siberian Energy Company JSC (SIBECO) Ruslan Vlasov, Yana Balan and Oksana Rozhenkova, as well as the director of Ru-com LLC Oleg Serebrennikov.

On June 24, the Moscow City Court extended for three months the arrest of Abyzov, accused of several economic crimes.

The first criminal case involved the theft in 2011-2014 of 4 billion rubles from large energy suppliers and their withdrawal abroad.