A 41-year-old man, detained at a pre-trial facility at the time, is suspected of organizing the robbery targeting former federal official Oleg Mitvol. The person speaking about the end of the investigation is described as a representative of the prosecutor’s office, as reported by Kommersant.
The investigation indicates that the assailants used the former official, who is now a businessman, and a forged passport to order dual SIM cards from a mobile network operator. This move enabled access to the victim’s mobile phone banking. Investigators say the criminal plan was orchestrated by Timofey Shugaev, a figure with prior convictions who was also in pre-trial detention in Moscow at the time of the crime.
From Mitvol’s account, 30 million rubles disappeared from his banking balances while he remained in detention settings pending trial.
The publication explains that one attacker presented a fictitious document requesting the restoration of a SIM card to a Pavlovsky Posad office near Moscow. With the bank’s authorization, they accessed the online banking platform’s personal account by changing the phone number linked to the account.
Subsequently, Mitvol’s savings were redirected to accounts controlled by the attackers and converted into cash assets.
On September 14, Oleg Mitvol, a former deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor and a former governor of the Moscow Northern Administrative District, was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in a fraud case. He was found guilty of embezzling funds during the construction of a metro project in Krasnoyarsk, and the court also ordered the recovery of 952 million rubles in civil proceedings.
On November 23, the Judicial Panel of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court returned the case, which had been appealed from the first-instance court, for violations noted in the proceedings.
Earlier, Oleg Mitvol’s ex-wife sought a court reversal of a divorce decision.