Former Snoras Bank Shareholder Antonov Extradited to Lithuania From France
French authorities approved the handover after the court rejected Antonov’s appeal, clearing the way for Lithuania to enforce convictions and collect €375 million in damages.
- On Monday, Russian tycoon Vladimir Antonov was extradited from France to Lithuania after the French Court of Cassation rejected his appeal on May 13, clearing the way for his transfer to Vilnius authorities.
- Antonov had been arrested in Morbihan, western France in December under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office, having lived there under an assumed identity.
- Convicted alongside fellow shareholder Raimondas Baranauskas of eight intentional crimes, Antonov received a 10.5-year sentence for embezzlement, fraudulent bankruptcy and forgery tied to estimated losses of at least $557 million between 2008 and 2011.
- The Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau completed the transfer within its mandated 10 to 15-day window, with the Vilnius Regional Court's restitution orders—€375 million in damages and €105 million in asset confiscation—now enforceable.
- As the principal organiser of offences that triggered Snoras' 2011 nationalisation, Antonov's extradition enables creditor restitution efforts as the bank's liquidation remains ongoing with hundreds of millions in total losses.
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In mid-December, in Morbihan, the former owner of the Lithuanian bank Snoras, was extradited to Vilnius by the French authorities, according to the Lithuanian prosecutor's office. The businessman, under a European arrest warrant and already arrested in the past, was imprisoned on the spot. He had been sentenced to more than ten years in prison in Lithuania in 2024, notably for misappropriation of funds and fraudulent bankruptcy. - Who is Russian…
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The Local - FrFrance Hands Over Russian Tycoon to Lithuania
French authorities have handed over the former owner of Lithuania's Snoras bank to the authorities in Vilnius, the country's prosecutor's office said on Monday.
The French prosecutor's office has delivered Vladimir Antonov to Vilnius, where several arrest warrants are waiting for the former bank owner.
The Russian magnate Vladimir Antonov, former owner of the Lithuanian bank Snoras and prosecuted for embezzlement, was handed over to Lithuania by the French authorities, announced on Monday 25 May 2026 the Lithuanian prosecutor's office. The oligarch was arrested at the end of 2025 in Morbihan.
As ordered by the Breton courts, Russian magnate Vladimir Antonov, arrested in Morbihan at the end of 2025, was extradited to Lithuania on Friday. He is prosecuted there for embezzlement of funds.
Following the approval of France's highest court, former Snoras Bank shareholder Vladimir Antonov was extradited to Lithuania, the Prosecutor General's Office announced on Monday.
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