Arrest warrant for Pompey's owner Antonov

Lithuanian prosecutors have issued a European arrest warrant for the Russian owner of Portsmouth Football Club in connection with hundreds of millions of dollars in assets stripped from a local bank.

They want to question Vladimir Antonov and his Lithuanian partner Raimundas Baranauskas about Snoras Bank, which Lithuania’s government nationalised last week after discovering a huge shortfall in assets.

Prosecutors said that the two men are the main suspects in a pre-trial investigation into fraud and money laundering.

Lithuanian regulators have said the size of the asset shortfall could reach 1 billion litas (€290m).

The 36-year-old Antonov spends most of his time in England.