Telegram channel Baza, citing a source, reported that the son of Russian Federation Foreign Intelligence Service General Alexei Korotaev was detained in the Moscow metro at the request of the Swiss billionaire Interpol. It was recorded that his identity was determined from CCTV cameras.
“On the evening of April 27, a camera with a facial recognition system exploded at the Kutuzovskaya metro station – it spotted the 36-year-old Alexei Korotaev, who was on Interpol’s international wanted list.”
Baza said:
It was noted that an international organization is looking for a businessman at the request of Switzerland, which is suspected of fraud and abuse of trust. According to Baza, Korotaev is now under arrest.
However, REN TV, citing the source writerThat Korotaev was indeed detained, but released after a checkup, as he was not wanted in Russia. His whereabouts have been reported to Interpol headquarters. The Switzerland initiating the search may request its extradition to the Russian side, provided that the facts stated in the request are within the jurisdiction of Russian law.
Alexey Alekseevich Korotaev is an investor and financier. According to unconfirmed reports, he has Russian and Swiss passports. This is the businessman’s second arrest, in 2017 he was sentenced to three years in prison in the UAE for fraud and signing an illegal check for 18 million euros, but paid a fine of 2,000 euros six months later. and was released. In connection with criminal prosecution and imprisonment free An agreement to buy the Roda football club, and Korotaev received only 20% of the club’s shares.
According to unconfirmed reports, Korotaev may have been involved in the operation of an international tax evasion network in Dubai through his investment fund Helin International, which is involved in the Emirati lawsuit against Korotaev. It was also reported that Korotaev’s company, Private Kapital Partners Asset Management Limited, registered in the island of Mauritius, is suspected of money laundering in the USA on behalf of Russian law enforcement, energy sector representatives and other businessmen.
Russia’s situation at Interpol
After the start of special operations in Ukraine, they wanted to exclude Russia from Interpol, Ukrainian and British authorities made efforts for this. However, on March 11 of the same year, the organization announced that Moscow’s membership would not be suspended, even if the procedure for receiving requests from the Russian Federation changed. It was noted that if the Russian Federation is removed from the International Police, “serious security problems may arise if the information exchange is terminated”. But at the same time Moscow has lost the ability to send requests directly to Interpol member states, but has to do so through the General Secretariat.
At the end of October 2022, the issue of exclusion of the Russian Federation was brought up again, but the issue was postponed for at least one year.
The USSR was admitted to Interpol in 1990. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia became its legal successor and the Interpol National Central Office of the Russian Interior Ministry was established in the country. The department, headed by Police Major General Oleksandr Prokopchuk since 2011, resigned voluntarily in October 2021.