Against former top-managers of Probusinessbank opened a case of theft

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Против бывших топ-менеджеров Пробизнесбанка возбуждено дело о хищении

Against ex-managers of Probusinessbank opened a criminal case on the embezzlement of 2.5 billion rubles. This is stated in the message of Investigatory Committee of Russia received on Wednesday, February 17, in edition “Tapes.ru”.

Under investigation were former Vice-President of business development Vyacheslav Kazantsev, Vice-President, Finance — Vice-Chairman of the Board Alexander Lomov, head of corporate Finance Department, Nikolai Alekseev, the head of Department to ensure interaction with shareholders and subsidiaries of Marina Krylova, the head of Department on work with problem debts, the CEO of collection Agency “life” Sergey Kalachev and the heads of the five fictitious firms.

They are charged with committing crimes under part 4 of article 160 of the criminal code and article 33 of the criminal code (“Appropriation or embezzlement, organization and aiding and abetting misappropriation or embezzlement”).

According to investigators, top managers of the Bank organized an issue of shell companies non-performing loans. Under the guise of payment of fictitious transactions and purchases of illiquid securities the funds transferred to the accounts of controlled entities. Stolen thus the rubles are converted into dollars, which then were translated into accounts of foreign organizations and individuals. as a result, were abducted about 2.5 billion belonging to the Bank.

80% of bankruptcies in the Russian banking market have criminal background and are associated with the withdrawal of assets in the interests of the owners of credit institutions, said in September 2015, the representative of the Agency for Deposit insurance (DIA) Julia Medvedeva. “The owners of the banks are running”, she said.

As an example Medvedev cited the banker, who is from Singapore sent your Bank a letter in which he said that now will develop your company elsewhere. According to the newspaper “Vedomosti”, we are talking about the main owner of Probusinessbank Sergey Leontev.

In August 2015, the Bank of Russia revoked the license of Probusinessbank entering into first hundred of the rating of Russian banks by size of assets. It was assumed that the lender may have violated a number of banking regulations. The Bank came under the interim administration of the DIA.

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