MOSCOW, June 14 (RAPSI) - Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky's attorney Alexander Dobrovinsky was not notified of his client's summoning to the Interior Ministry's Investigative Department, the lawyer told RAPSI on Friday.

"Mr. Polonsky has been sent a summons at his company, Potok, but the investigators did not notify me, although they are perfectly aware of my whereabouts," Dobrovinsky said. He added that Polonsky would not be able to make the summoning.

The investigators said earlier that they planned to bring official fraud charges against the founder of Potok (former Mirax Group) as part of a criminal case involving the embezzlement of over 5.7 billion rubles ($176.2 million) from the participants of the Kutuzovskaya Milya cooperative residential construction project. The police have searched the homes of former and current executives of the Potok 8 development holding company, as well as those of Avanta and Concordia Asset Management. They have said that they found evidence that the money had been transferred to other companies' accounts.

Polonsky, once one of Russia's wealthiest men, was detained in Cambodia together with two Russian friends, Konstantin Baglay and Alexander Karachinsky, on December 30, 2012, for attacking the six-person crew of a boat ferrying them from a Cambodian island to Sihanoukville.

The three Russians allegedly threatened the crew at knifepoint and locked them in a cabin. Baglay and Karachinsky were released on bail on March 11. On April 3, Polonsky was released from the Cambodian prison, but was forbidden from leaving the country.

Mirax Group (later renamed Potok 8) was founded in 1994. The real estate developer's major projects include the Federation Tower in the Moscow City business center and luxury residential neighborhoods in central Moscow.