Source: Russia’s Aeroflot sues ex-exec Glushkov for $123 mln

MOSCOW, Oct 25 (PRIME) -- Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot has submitted a U.S. $122.65 million lawsuit against former Deputy CEO Nikolai Glushkov to the Savyolovsky District Court of Moscow, a source with knowledge of the case details told PRIME on Tuesday.

“This is a rough sum of damage compensation that Aeroflot claimed under preliminary investigation,” the source said.

Investigators say that Glushkov colluded with deceased businessman Boris Berezovsky and they talked former CEO of the company Yevgeny Shaposhnikov into taking large foreign currency loans in the 90s, ostensibly in order to bail out Aeroflot, but the funds were later stolen.

Glushkov is currently hiding from persecution in England.

Deputy Transport Minister Valery Okulov, a former Aeroflot CEO, will be interrogated on November 8 as a witness, the public prosecutor of the case said.

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