THE Russian interior ministry has charged Moscow's former representative to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with seeking to procure a $US1.4 million ($A1.33 million) bribe.
The ministry on Tuesday said former EBRD official Yelena Kotova and a group of others promised to award a Canadian energy firm operating in Russia a $US95-million loan in exchange for the payment.
A Russian banker named as Igor Lebedev was named as an intermediary in the alleged scheme.
The accused "deliberately took steps to obtain illegal monetary compensation from a Canadian oil and gas company," the interior ministry statement said.
It added that Kotova "made the final decisions on credits and indirectly guaranteed the businessmen (that she would give them) a positive answer in exchange for receiving from the latter the sum of $US1.425 million."
Kotova had served as the London-based bank's Russia department director from 2005 until her resignation in December 2010.
London police opened a money laundering and bribery case against her in early 2011 after the EBRD lifted the immunity of both Kotova and three other former and acting Russian officials at the bank.
The interior ministry statement described Lebedev as a "leading" Russian banker but gave no further details on his position.
Kotova's lawyer Sergei Mirzoyev said his client has been prohibited from leaving Moscow in the course of the investigation but was not being put under arrest.
"The defence considers these charges as unfounded," Mirzoyev told the RAPSI legal news agency.
The lawyer added that the interior ministry was basing its case on the evidence of foreign nationals who do not live in Russia and whose testimony is therefore difficult to check.
London police were initially rebuffed by the Russian authorities when they requested Kotova's detention in 2011.
Police cooperation between Russia and Britain ended with the 2006 death by poisoning in London of fierce Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
British authorities suspect two Russian nationals on close terms with the ruling authorities of killing Litvinenko by pouring highly radioactive polonium in his tea.
The EBRD - comprised of 64 shareholder countries alongside the European Union and the European Investment Bank - was founded in 1991 to help ex-Communist countries switch to market economies.
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