Banker sentenced in Perm Andrey Tuev for the theft of 250 million rubles. The former chairman of the board of Ecoprombank will serve a seven-year sentence for embezzlement and abuse of power.
The Leninsky District Court of Perm found Andrei Tuev guilty of committing crimes under Article 4. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Embezzlement committed with the use of one’s official position, on an especially large scale”, part 2 of Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Abuse of authority, entailing grave consequences.”
“It has been established that in the period from 2012 to 2015, holding the specified position, using his powers and access to the funds of a banking institution, he ordered the issuance of almost 250 million rubles under the guise of a loan for one commercial organization,” the Perm regional prosecutor’s office reports. — At the same time, these funds were issued without collateral.
Also, according to the prosecutor’s office, the former chairman entered into a loan agreement with another organization in the amount of more than 260 million rubles for the purchase of 32 apartments in the Industrial district of Perm. However, subsequently, the real estate, which served as security property under the agreement, was withdrawn through affiliated persons, and documents containing false information about the fulfillment of obligations by the borrower were submitted to the registration authorities.
Kommersant.Ru, 04.10.2022, “The money was added to the apartments”: […] A loan agreement was concluded between JSCB Ecoprombank and Reis LLC, an entrepreneur Sergey Firsov, in the amount of more than 249 million rubles. 35 million rubles of which the company used to replenish its own working capital, and the rest of the money through bill schemes was redistributed between the structures of the co-owner of Permgrazhdanstroy Sergey Mokrushin. […] As a result, the loan was not returned. […]
The second episode, for which Andrei Tuev was convicted, concerns the removal of bail from apartments owned by Magnit Invest LLC, which was controlled by the structures of Vladimir Nelyubin, co-owner of Ecoprombank. In May 2014, the bank provided this company with a loan in the amount of more than 261 million rubles. He was provided with 32 apartments in the Perm Bears residential complex. Already in June of the same year, the nominee director of the LLC addressed the deputy chairman of the board of the bank, Vadim Manin, with a statement containing a request to remove the pledge. On June 25, the credit committee approved the proposal to remove the encumbrance, the document was signed by Manin and Tuev. […] As a result, this loan was also not fully repaid, and in September 2014 Ecoprombank was declared insolvent. The apartments released from bail were sold to SMU-34 LLC. Before extradition Andrey Tuev Sergey Firsov and Vadim Manin were sentenced to real prison terms. Sergei Mokrushin fled from the investigation and was put on the wanted list. — Inset K.ru
The court sentenced the man to 7 years in prison with a general regime colony, a fine of 300,000 rubles, and deprived him of the right to hold positions related to the performance of organizational, administrative and administrative functions in the banking sector for a period of two years.
The former head of the bank was hiding from the investigating authorities outside of Russia. In August 2016, he was put on the wanted list through Interpol channels, which made it possible to establish his whereabouts on the island of Cyprus. […]