MOSCOW, June 27 (RAPSI) – Alexander Dmitriyev, a former banker and ex-lawmaker of the Omsk City Legislature who is suspected of bank fraud totaling $15 million, will be extradited from Estonia to Russia on Friday, announced the press service of Interpol’s National Central Bureau (NCB) for Russia.

According to the statement, Dmitriyev will be accompanied to Moscow by the employees of Interpol’s NCB for Russia.

Dmitriyev, who headed the Omsk branch of AK Bars Bank in 2007-2009, allegedly issued over 100 mortgage loans using forged documents and fictitious personal data, totaling over 500 million rubles ($15 million). To escape prosecution, the ex-banker fled Russia and was put on the international wanted list in July 2011. He was arrested in Estonia on fraud charges in January 2013.

Estonia has rejected three requests for Dmitriyev’s extradition. In March, the Tallinn Administrative Court overturned Justice Minister Hanno Pevkur’s executive order on the ex-banker’s extradition to Russia. Last year, Pevkur issued two extradition orders, but first the Tallinn circuit court and then the Tallinn administrative court overturned the rulings.

On February 12, 2014, the Estonian Ministry of Justice adopted a final decision on the extradition of Alexander Dmitriyev.

“The suspect will now be dispatched to Omsk for trial,” said the Russian Interpol bureau press service.

Dmitriyev faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.