Romanov, who appeared on Russian television, counted about 500,000. purchase dollars

„V. Romanov is a former Lithuanian businessman who emigrated to Russia in 2013. Everything has been lost, a private bank, factories, football clubs ”, this is how the former owner of Ūkio bankas, suspected of squandering high-end assets, is presented in the Rossija 1 report. value.

An unusual “tourist attraction” is said to be – a 28-meter-long K-19 platform appeared in the town of Nikulskoy near Moscow.

“It was saved from use, it was bought and built by a local resident, a former sailor who once served on it,” said the host of a news program broadcast in late January. “He spent the last money, up to a kopeck, to buy the K-19 deck.”

“Half a million dollars,” Romanov said when asked how much it cost.

The 73-year-old also said that he had bought a plot specifically for this object and that he had previously planned to install a museum inside, but the villagers did not want that.

Delfi recalls that the pre-trial investigation into the possible misuse of high-value assets at Ūkio bankas began in February 2013, after the Bank of Lithuania provided information on suspicious transactions concluded in 2005-2012.

In 2015, Romanov was detained in Moscow but released, and the Russian authorities soon announced that he had been granted asylum.

In January 2020, the Attorney General’s Office announced that it had completed part of the pre-trial investigation of the failed Ūkio bankas.

In the investigation, complaints were made against 13 people on suspicion of operating in an organized group. Among them is the bank’s main shareholder V. Romanov, former members of the bank’s supervisory board and board of directors.

During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that the suspects, abusing their official position, made loans to the Ūkio bankas companies that they managed and therefore more than 40 million LTL was wasted. euros.