Together with him were detained his accountant and assistant Konstantin. According to an informed source, at the moment the accountant and assistant were released, and Bakai remained in custody.

The former official is accused that he fraudulently seized the finances of strangers. In Russia, he received ten applications from the deceived and among them a statement from Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who allegedly lent Bakay nine million dollars.

Recall, recently Bakai lived in the UAE then in Moscow and constantly borrowed money from friends.

As reported by URA-Inform, Bakai headed Naftogaz of Ukraine from 1998 to 2000. From October 2003 to December 2004 he was Head of the State Administration of Ukraine. In 2004, Bakai left Ukraine. And in March 2005 I received a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.

In the same year, the Prosecutor General's Office appealed to the Russian authorities to extradite Igor Bakai.