Latvian businessman Ovsjannikovs suspected of laundering €50m and forging documents
Prosecutor Dainis Steinbergs stated after the court hearing that Ovsjannikovs is suspected of money laundering and document forgery. His lawyer, Ieva Timmermane, declined to comment.
According to Crediweb.lv, Andris Ovsjannikovs (Andris Ovsjaannikovs) is a board member of MANAT. This limited liability company, with a share capital of €70, is owned by Belarusian citizen Darya Terekhina. The company’s turnover in 2018 amounted to €2,583,146.
MANAT’s official business activity is wholesale trade in grain, unprocessed tobacco, seeds, and animal feed.
It is also worth noting that in 2019, Ovsjannikovs established ITECH SOLUTIONS, a company intended to operate in the field of computer programming.
Earlier, law enforcement cordoned off the central building of the liquidated ABLV Bank, where a large volume of documentation was seized. It was later reported that these procedural actions may be linked to a case involving the laundering of at least €50 million.
According to case materials, an organized group involving representatives from several countries was engaged in laundering criminal proceeds between 2015 and 2018, including transfers for fictitious transactions through a Latvian credit institution.
Investigators believe that the bank and its employees facilitated the group’s criminal activities by not obstructing the transfers.
The case has been initiated under two articles of the Criminal Law: document forgery and the legalization (laundering) of criminally obtained funds.
Deputy Editor
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