Calvey's lawyer later said that his client plans to return to Russia for the consideration of his complaint if he is granted a visa.
Michael Calvey was taken into custody in 2019 along with other executives of the private equity firm, Baring Vostok. He was charged with embezzling 2.5 billion rubles (nearly $34 million) from Russia's Vostochny Bank.
In 2021, a Moscow court handed Calvey a five-and-a-half-year suspended sentence. His business partner, French banker Philippe Delpal, was given a suspended sentence of four years and six months. According to sources, he also left Russia.