The owner of "Rive Gauche" with his wife was detained in the case of embezzlement from "Sberbank"
In St. Petersburg , the owner of Rive Gauche and co-owner of Yulmart August Meyer and his wife Inna were detained on suspicion of embezzling 2.3 billion rubles from Sberbank. The loan was received for business development shortly before the collapse of Ulmart, which closed in March 2020.
video The case of Ulmart receiving a loan from Sberbank has been under investigation since 2017. Then the co-owner of the Internet retailer Dmitry Kostygin was detained. The investigation believed that in 2016 he took a loan from the bank in the amount of 1 billion rubles, without intending to fulfill the terms of the agreement and providing the bank with false information about the financial condition of Ulmart. The criminal prosecution of Kostygin began against the background of a shareholder conflict in the company due to the fact that the co-owners of the business did not agree on their views on its development. The conflict involved Kostygin and Meyer (together owned 61.5%), on the one hand, and another partner, Mikhail Vasinkevich (owned 38.5%), on the other. Kostygin and Meyer tried to buy Vasinkevich's share, but did not agree on the terms. Meyer is included in the list of the richest businessmen in RUSSIA according to the Russian FORBES,
The co-owner of "Rive Gauche" and "Yulmart" was detained Business