MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. The Tverskoy Court in Moscow granted the Federal Penitentiary Service's motion to replace the suspended sentence for Philippe Delpal, a defendant in the Baring Vostok case on embezzlement, with a real one, a TASS correspondent reported from the courtroom.
"The motion was granted in absentia," the court reported.
In 2021, the court sentenced seven people to suspended prison terms for embezzlement of 2.5 billion rubles ($30.6 mln) from the Vostochny Bank. The founder of the Baring Vostok investment fund, Michael Calvey, received a suspended sentence of 5.5 years, his business partner Philippe Delpal - 4.5 years.
Earlier, the court ruled to mitigate the punishment: sentences to Calvey and Delpal were reduced to 4.5 years and 3.5 years respectively.
Most of the defendants' convictions have already been expunged.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs put Delpal on the wanted list, and the Federal Penitentiary Service filed a petition with the court due to the convict's failure to fulfill his duties.
On September 23 last year, the Tverskoy Court refused to replace Delpal's suspended sentence with a real one, rejecting the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia’s request.
Later, the prosecutor's office appealed this decision, and on November 6, the Moscow City Court ruled to return the case to the district court for a review of the decision by a different panel of judges.