Today on 15 January 2016 the competent authorities of Switzerland at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation are extraditing Russian citizen Boris Mazursky to Russia.

The investigative authorities accuse him of a crime under part 4 of article 159 (Fraud on a very large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The criminal case in respect of Mr.Mazursky is investigated by the Tver Region InvestigativeDepartment of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

The investigation revealed that in April 2008 the CEO of a limited company offered Mr. Mazursky who was founder and CEO of OOO EvropaMazTsentr to conclude sale contract for vehicles.

After that Mr. Mazursky decided to steal money from the above company by defrauding its CEO about his intentions to meet his obligations. This way he received over 128 million rubles on the account of the company he controlled as payment for 86 vehicles. Part of the sum (about 34 million rubles) he transferred as payment for the delivery, but the rest almost 95 million rubles he transferred to his settlement account. Mr. Mazursky spent the said money as he thought fit.

Considering that Mr. Mazursky fled from the investigative authorities, he was put on the federal wanted list in June 2009 and on the international wanted list in December 2009.

In December 2010 when he had been found in Switzerland, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation sent to the competent authorities of the said country a request to extradite Mr. Mazursky to Russia, which was granted in January 2016.

Today Mr.Mazursky is going to be extradited to Russia escorted by officials of the Russian Federation Penitentiary Service and the Russian Bureau of Interpol.