Record £6.5m seized in crime proceeds case against Russian - Herald Scotland | News | Crime & Courts
Record £6.5m seized in crime proceeds case against Russian - Herald Scotland | News | Crime & Courts: "£6.5 million has been seized from a Russian businessman by the police and Crown Office in the biggest single recovery of criminal assets in Scotland.
Moscow-based Anatoly Kazachkov was involved in a money laundering investigation that spanned five countries, including Scotland, and involving the businessman son of a Rangers football hero from the 1930s.
A confiscation order was issued after a three-year investigation into a $10m (£7m) transfer Mr Kazachkov, 64, made from a Budapest account to a Glasgow bank in 2004 as part of transactions in Latvia, Hungary, Russia the United States and Scotland.
Officers from the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) previously questioned Scots financier Lawrence Gillick, whose father Torry scored 62 goals for the Ibrox club, over the transaction.
Mr Gillick, 64, of Seamill, North Ayrshire, is also a former business associate of ex-England football manager Terry Venables. The two made a failed £10m bid for London club Tottenham Hotspur in 1991.
It is understood the funds were transferred to Scotland as part of plans to buy an oil refinery in Iran.
Mr Kazachkov’s funds were frozen in the UK after a tip-off to the National Criminal Intelligence Service."
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