The head of the hotel chain Heliopark Hotels arrested in Moscow

Tagansky Court of Moscow arrested the head of the hotel chain Heliopark Hotels Alexander Gusakov. Businessman indicted on charges of embezzling $26 million. According to media reports, this amount was taken as a credit for business development.
12.10.2015
RBC
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In Moscow for two months was arrested the head of the network Heliopark Hotels Alexander Gusakov. As told RBC press secretary Ksenia Lyapina Tagansky Court, the judgment held more 3 October.

"Gusakov Court changed the measure of restraint on his own recognizance with a subscription to the detention", - he explained the spokesman.

The businessman, who had previously been under house arrest, was arrested after police detained him at the airport upon check-in.

As the arrest of materials Gusakov was detained at a Moscow airport, where going to fly to Simferopol, despite the release on own recognizance.

Chapter Heliopark Hotels network accused in the criminal case of theft of $ 26 million. As explained to the Interfax, the businessman took out a loan for $ 26 million at the PSB for business development.

The criminal case was against Alexander Gusakov was initiated at the request of PSB, said RBC senior vice-president of the bank, Sergei Muravyov. "In our view, the actions of Alexander Gusakova there are signs of fraud", - he explained. According tolovam Muraveva that in 2008 Alexander Gusakov, as CEO of two members of the Heliopark Group companies - JSC "Hotel-tourist complex" Clear-Polyansky "and ZAO" Russian Weekend Service "(both companies were liquidated due to bankruptcy in 2013 and 2014 respectively) - arranged for receiving PSB loans for working capital of these companies: $ 16 million and $ 10 million respectively. At the same time almost immediately stopped serviced loans, "the borrower has not been a single payment", he stressed Ants.

"Promsvyazbank has repeatedly offered various options for repayment of the loan, - said Sergey Ants. - Unfortunately, Alexander rejected all our proposals for loan repayment options, and the bank was forced to defend its interests by all possible legal means - including through the courts. "

The Bank will continue to defend its interests in a criminal case, said Vice President of Promsvyazbank.

At the time of writing the material Gusakova mobile phone was unavailable. The press service of the hotel networkth Heliopark RBC reported that they could neither confirm nor deny the information to law enforcement agencies, adding that an official announcement is being prepared.

Heliopark Hotels Hotel chain was founded by Alexander Gusakov in 2000, today it includes 10 hotels in Russia and two abroad - in Switzerland and Germany. The total number of rooms in operation and under hotel - 2500 numbers, according to the company's website. The last of them - the spa complex Lindner Hotels & Alpentherme Leukerbad, located in the ski resort of Leukerbad in Switzerland, Heliopark Hotels & Resorts took control in March of this year. Three hotel complex companies are under construction, according to the company's website. One of them - a hotel complex "Kemeri" Jurmala in Latvia - was bought earlier this year.

At a press conference in February 2015 Gusakov told that the complex was acquired for the benefit of and at the expense of partners, whose names he refused to name. However, he categorically denied the existence of any credit burden from the company, stressing that the group develops Helioparkentirely at their own expense. According to the database SPARK-Interfax, the group consists of more than a decade of legal entities, the beneficiary of which is personally Alexander Gusakov.