The alleged killer of ex-banker Mikhail Yakhontov and his family has been detained.

This was reported to RT by a law enforcement source.

According to the interlocutor, the suspect in the murder of three people was detained in Belarus, now investigators are working with him.

In the near future he will be delivered to Moscow.

So far, the name of the detainee has not been disclosed in the interests of the investigation.

Detained in Belarus

57-year-old Mikhail Yakhontov, his 39-year-old wife and eight-year-old son were found murdered on October 26 in an apartment in an elite residential complex in western Moscow.

The Main Investigation Department of the TFR in Moscow opened a case on the murder of two or more persons (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).  

A RT source in law enforcement agencies said that the investigation is working out several versions, including those related to the man's previous professional activities.

Previously, Mikhail Yakhontov was a top manager of Smolensk Bank and owed more than 8 billion rubles to creditors.

Also in the media there was information that shortly before the murder Mikhail Yakhontov gave testimony to investigators in the case of embezzlement at Rusnano in relation to ex-director of investment activities Andrei Gorkov.

The corporation had an account with the Smolensk Bank and also lost money after its bankruptcy.

In bankruptcy arbitration courts, Rusnano filed claims against the bank and demanded to return more than 738 million rubles.  

RT tried to contact Gorkov himself and his lawyers, but they were not available.

According to media reports, operatives were able to quickly track the alleged murderer of the Yakhontov family thanks to road cameras.

According to unconfirmed information, the detainee's name is Andrei Skripkin.

After the triple murder, according to Telegram channels, he walked four kilometers to Vernadsky Avenue, called a taxi and got to the station.

From there the suspect left for Belarus.

The list of victims is growing

Earlier, RT said that two months before his death, Mikhail Yakhontov was officially declared bankrupt.

According to the arbitration court, he owed 8.4 billion rubles to creditors of the Smolensk Bank, where he once worked.

After declaring bankruptcy, the court appointed the estate manager of the ex-banker - Dmitry Pavlov became him.

In an interview with RT, he said that while the register of creditors who suffered from the actions of the ex-banker is still being formed.

“The procedure was introduced only on September 8, and the register of creditors is still not closed, the claims are being considered.

So far, there is only one name in the register - the Smolensk Bank itself, ”the source said.

According to him, the bankruptcy law provides for cases when the debtor died at the time of the introduction of the procedure or after it.

“Regardless of the condition of the debtor, a list of his property will be formed: what a person has from real estate, vehicles and so on.

All this will be sold, and from the money received it will be possible to pay off the creditors, ”Pavlov explained.

The license of Smolensk Bank OJSC was revoked in December 2013.

And in 2016, Yakhontov and three of his colleagues were accused of a particularly large embezzlement and deliberate bankruptcy of a credit institution (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and article 196 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Together with him, the persons involved in the criminal case were the owner of the Smolensk Bank, Pavel Shitov, and the top managers of the bank, Roman Shcherbakov and Timur Akberov.

According to the investigation, the top managers, having learned in advance about the upcoming revocation of the bank's license, deliberately suspended the servicing of customer accounts, citing technical failures.

And at the same time, through the firms controlled by them, they began to withdraw funds to their accounts.

The investigation established that in the period from 2010 to 2013, the Smolensk Bank issued deliberately bad loans to the construction companies under its control in the amount of 2 billion rubles.

In March 2019, Yakhontov was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony.

The court counted in time the time he spent under arrest during the investigation, according to the formula "a day in a pre-trial detention center - a day and a half in a colony."

Shortly before he was killed, Mikhail Yakhontov was released.

The main shareholder of the Smolensk Bank, Pavel Shitov, left Russia even before the initiation of a criminal case.

According to the latest information, he lives in Ukraine and is under investigation and on the international wanted list.

In his social networks, Shitov tells how to profitably invest personal money.