Sergei Pugachev was sentenced to two years in his absence by a High Court judge in 2016 for breaching court orders relating to hundreds of millions in allegedly stolen cash. He is pictured above with Countess Alexandra TolstoyA fugitive Russian oligarch once nicknamed ‘Putin’s banker’ is using a legal loophole to evade extradition to the UK where he faces jail. Sergei Pugachev was sentenced to two years in his absence by a High Court judge in 2016 for breaching court orders relating to hundreds of millions in allegedly stolen cash. The couple appeared in a recent BBC documentary, The Countess and the Russian Billionaire, largely shot at his opulent chateau near Nice. In the meantime, the frustrated creditors of the Russian bank pursuing Pugachev for the missing cash have criticised the muddle.

Source: Daily Mail July 31, 2020 21:01 UTC