His wife, Sigita Baranauskienė, told Delfi in an interview that they are living “a modest life” in Moscow, where they have rented an apartment for many years, do not own a car, and travel everywhere by Moscow Metro.
The woman likened her and her husband’s life in Russia to exile. She insisted that her spouse had not embezzled any funds and said that Antonov’s admission of guilt in the Lithuanian court had nothing to do with Baranauskas.
As reported, in November 2024, a Lithuanian court convicted two former Snoras bank executives and shareholders of embezzling more than EUR 509 million in bank assets, criminal bankruptcy and money-laundering.
The court ordered the confiscation of EUR 105 million in their joint assets for the…