“The Tagansky Court of Moscow granted the request of the investigation for the arrest in absentia of Yevgeny Viktorovich Lavrenchuk, accused under Part 3 of Art.
159 of the Criminal Code of Russia (large-scale fraud), ”TASS quoted the court as saying.
What claims are being made against Lavrenchuk is not specified.
It is noted that the decision to arrest in absentia was made in July 2020.
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian director Yevgeny Lavrenchuk was taken into custody in Naples at the request of Russia for his extradition.