Lithuania: Fugitive Russian banker extradited from France

The fugitive Russian banker, Vladimir Antonov, has been finally extradited from France to Lithuania, BNS reports. Earlier, France’s highest court rejected Antonov’s appeal against extradition. In December 2025, he was arrested in western France, where he had been living under an assumed identity. Antonov and his Lithuanian business partner, Raimondas Baranauskas, have both been convicted in Lithuania for embezzling assets from their Lithuanian bank, Snoras, which suspended operations in 2011.