Under the investigation against Chief Executive Officer of the Rosbank Vladimir Golubkov for commercial bribery, the officials arrested the property of his brother Sergey Golubkov that totals $18 million. Previously, two land lots in the Moscow region, two apartments in the capital, and two countryside mansions of the accused banker have been taken into custody. However, all that could not pay damages to the businessman and musician Andrei Kovalev. According to the investigative committee, Vladimir Golubkov was extorting $1.5 million from Mr Kovalev in order to soften the musician's loan terms.
The advocates of the ex-banker's brother filed a claim that the seized possessions were given to Sergey Globubkov in April, but the Moscow City Court rejected it. As it turned out at the hearing, the investigators found out the documents saying that the funds were transferred on May 16. At the time, the defendant's accounts were already under arrest. It is worth to remind that Vladimir Golubkov was apprehended with a baksheesh to the tune of 5 million rubles in May. This sum makes part of $1 million, which was defrauded between 2012 and 2013 from Andrei Kovalev. Moreover, his accomplice Tatyana Polyanizina, Rosbank's vice president, as well as her ex-boss are now under house arrest.