MOSCOW, June 21 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has detained businessman Vasily Boiko-Veliky until August 19 as part of the Credit-Express bank embezzlement case, the court’s press service has told RAPSI.

According to the Investigative Committee’s news release, the case defendants along with the businessman are bank director Alla Kabanova, chief accountant Maria Antonova and four other employees of Credit-Express Anastasia Novotnaya, Egor Pikhtin, Elena Chuyeva and Natalya Tsipinova.

The defendants have allegedly embezzled over 180 million rubles ($2.8 million) and $929,000. Investigators have detected 31 counts of embezzlement, the statement reads.

Moreover, investigators are checking facts of withdrawal of assets by granting unsecured and loss loans to legal entities, according to the news release.

Boiko-Veliky pleads not guilty.