Alevtina Pavlova and Co. were attracted for 1.5 billion rubles .

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© TASS04/17/2024

Ex-directors of the Republican Social Combank received up to eight years for theft

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow imposed sentences of five to eight years in prison for ex-chairman of the board Alevtina Pavlova and other top managers of the bankrupt Republican Social Commercial Bank (RSKB), finding all the defendants in the case guilty of theft from a credit institution of assets worth more than 1.5 billion rubles , reports a TASS correspondent from the courtroom.

“To find Alevtina Pavlova guilty of committing crimes under Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) (especially large-scale embezzlement) and Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) (especially large-scale fraud). By partial addition of the sentences, she will finally be sentenced to eight years in prison with serving a sentence in a general regime colony. To collect jointly and severally from the convicted persons in favor of the injured party represented by the DIA Group of Companies, material damages in the amount of 1 billion 581 million rubles,” says the verdict of Judge Diana Mishchenko.

The convict and other defendants were taken into custody in the courtroom during the announcement of the verdict.

As a TASS correspondent clarifies, former members of the board of RSKB Tatyana Nikitina and Ekaterina Baranova, as well as top managers of the bank Liliya Mironova and Galina Likhacheva, were found guilty only of embezzlement; they received sentences of five to six years in a general regime colony. The court did not impose additional punishment on the women in the form of a fine and restriction of freedom, which the prosecutor insisted on in the debate between the parties.

The trial began in court in March 2022. During the debate between the parties, the state prosecution asked that Pavlova be sentenced to nine years in prison with a fine of 1 million rubles, and the rest of the convicts – six years in prison and a fine of 600 thousand rubles. The defendants did not plead guilty to the incriminated crimes and asked the court for acquittal. Baranova and Nikitina were in pre-trial detention; the rest of the defendants were placed under house arrest and taken into custody at the time of the investigation and trial. For all convicted persons, the time they spent in pre-trial detention centers and under house arrest was counted towards their sentence at the rate of 1 day of preventive punishment for 1 day of the assigned period. The defense is expected to appeal the conviction to the appellate court. The representative of the state prosecution was satisfied with the verdict, but the supervisory authority will decide whether to appeal after receiving the full text of the court decision.

The criminal case of the theft of money from the bankrupt RSKB was investigated for about five years. The former top managers of this credit institution were initially charged with withdrawing from the bank virtually all the funds that it had at the time of revocation of the license – more than 2.3 billion rubles. The State Corporation “Deposit Insurance Agency” and businessman A.V. Klimov were recognized as victims in the case. The entrepreneur’s civil claim was also fully satisfied by the court, which recovered a little more than 84 million rubles from Alevtina Pavlova in his favor.

“Kommersant”, 03.27.2021, “Investigators invite financiers”: According to the Investigative Committee, for at least 2014–2015, the top management of RSKB issued loans to companies “with signs indicating that they had no real economic activity.” At the same time, the investigation considers the financial transactions themselves to be a banal withdrawal of assets from the bank. In addition, the day before the bank’s license was revoked (this happened on June 10, 2015), the top management of RSKB entered into a number of dubious assignment agreements, ceding the rights of claim on issued loans to commercial firms that had accounts with this credit institution. As a result, the companies repaid all debts to creditors on the same day, which the investigation is currently also inclined to consider as a withdrawal of assets. — Insert K.ru

“Kommersant”, 04.04.2024, “Women wasted capital”: Investigators detained board members Tatyana Nikitina and Ekaterina Baranova, as well as board member Liliya Mironova and head of the credit department Galina Likhacheva in March 2021. The first two are currently being held in pre-trial detention center, the other two are under house arrest. Since they were charged with the same acts as the alleged organizer of the crime, 63-year-old Alevtina Pavlova, who was under recognizance not to leave the place—the withdrawal of assets worth about 1.6 billion rubles from the RSKB—the criminal cases were combined into one proceeding. At the same time, Mrs. Pavlova was also accused of a scam involving her own apartment on Gogolevsky Boulevard in the center of Moscow. As the investigation established, in March 2014, real estate worth 153 million rubles. became security for Ms. Pavlova’s obligations to a certain Alexander Sharkevich, from whom she borrowed $3.5 million. And in May of the same year, she ended up as collateral with another creditor, Valery Klimov, who lent Alevtina Pavlova 100 million rubles. The ex-banker never paid off her debts, and in November 2021 she was declared bankrupt by the Moscow Arbitration Court. — Insert K.ru