Antonovs spirit – and the money – rested over Saab Automobile, the dramatic years 2010 and 2011 when Victor Muller tried to save the bilbolaget Saab. Photo: Jonas Fröberg
When:, a Russian banker, who wanted to take Saab Automobile. GM said no to him as a shareholder on 18 december 2009. Then he got to a large part of the funding, when Victor Muller owned Saab in 2010 and 2011. His name pops up frequently in the prosecutor’s material, but he is not indicted.
today: Antonov, who lived in London was accused of embezzlement and money laundering and was arrested in november 2011. He shall, according to prosecutors in Lithuania, embezzling their banks in Lithuania and Latvia, over 5 billion. Both his Lithuanian bankrupt snoras bank and dotterbanken Krajbanka in Latvia went into bankruptcy – which provoked a national crisis. A portion of the money that disappeared are suspected to have been used to buy Saab.
he is involved in several legal disputes. He maintains his innocence and the driver itself also a process against the Lithuanian state in the Russian court of arbitration since August of last year.
He said in an interview in the Russian news portal Kompromat1, which focuses on crime and corruption, in October 2016, he now lives in a large villa in the exclusive area of Nikolina Gora outside Moscow.
He tells us in the article that he gets up 07.30 and go to Moscow and work on days "to help others to select and purchase the assets," He claims that he does not have any assets and that the wife and kids are left in London.
He who lost very large sums of money in the Saab-deal. It raised question marks about his relationship to Victor Muller. But Antonov says now in the article about Muller:
"There are very few friends in my life. But we are friends to this day".
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