In the Ust-Donetsk district court sentenced the former head of the Rostov branch of Rosselkhozbank Igor Pyatigorets. Sentences were also handed down to the head of one of the departments of the bank, Anna Ghetto, and the director of the commercial structure, Vadim Zhukov. They were accused of fraud. This was reported in the press service of the prosecutor’s office of the Rostov region.
It was established in court that they, together with the former head of a division of the same bank, Alexei Voitko, the directors of two commercial firms, Yakov Sevostyanov and Sergey Klimenko, and other persons, stole the bank’s money in the amount of more than 171 million rubles by issuing obviously non-repayable loans. Everything happened between February and August 2015.
Voitko, Sevostyanov and Klimenko were sentenced earlier. The criminal case against other accomplices is separated into a separate proceeding.
Recall that we are talking about three loans that the bank issued to the agricultural enterprises Unity and Saturn. At the same time, the heads of the companies made a deal with the investigation and the accusation against the ex-banker was built precisely on them. The banker himself stated that he did not agree with the accusation and that all loans were issued on economically justified terms.
Kommersant.Ru, 03/29/2021, “The banker was reminded of loans”: According to the prosecution, in 2015, Mr. Pyatigorets facilitated the issuance of three loans to the agricultural enterprises Unity and Saturn, which did not fulfill their obligations to return. The total amount of damage amounted to 171 million rubles, the investigation calculated. Igor Pyatigorets does not admit his guilt, his lawyer Svetlana Podgornaya told Kommersant. […] According to her, the accusations against Mr. Pyatigorets are based, in particular, on the testimony of the heads of the firms Unity and Saturn, who were recognized as accomplices in the theft. Both entrepreneurs made a deal with the investigation and entered into a pre-trial agreement.
Previously “Kommersant” wrotethat in September 2020, the director of Saturn LLC Sergey Klimenko was found guilty of fraud and legalization of illegally obtained money. According to the investigation, Klimenko, in collusion with Igor Pyatigorets, Vadim Zhukov and other unidentified persons, having the intent to steal funds from the Russian Agricultural Bank, falsified documents for a loan. The purpose of the loan in the amount of 45 million rubles. announced the acquisition from the company “Oreol”, owned by Vadim Zhukov, equipment for the processing of agricultural products. Saturn received a loan, however, no equipment was purchased, and the loan remained outstanding. In connection with the provision of assistance to the investigation, Sergei Klimenko was tried in a special order, he received three years in a penal colony. According to lawyer Svetlana Podgornaya, the head of the firm “Unity” by the name of Sevastyanov has also already been convicted. — Inset K.ru
As a result, the court sentenced Pyatigorets to 8.5 years in prison, Ghetto to 7.8 years in prison, and Zhukov to 6 years in prison. They must serve their sentence in a penal colony. The verdict can still be challenged on appeal.
Kommersant.Ru, 04.10.2022, “The court believed in the credit history”: The court in Rostov-on-Don approved the verdict in the case of the former head of the department of the branch of Rosselkhozbank JSC Anna Ghetto and local businessman Mikhail Voloshin. In 2020, they were sentenced to six and five years in prison, respectively, for fraud and money laundering. According to investigators, the Ghetto issued bad loans to two organizations for 250 million rubles. The director of one of these companies was Voloshin, who, as the court found, legalized more than 155 million rubles stolen from the bank. The defendants pleaded not guilty and appealed the verdict, but the court of appeal upheld it. […]
According to investigators, the Rosselkhozbank branch operated a scheme for granting knowingly non-performing loans. […] Then law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case on the fact of embezzlement of 390 million rubles, several employees of the bank and local entrepreneurs became defendants. Anna Ghetto was accused of two counts of fraud. As indicated in the case file, she issued loans to Aspect and Polivmaster for a total amount of over 250 million rubles. Investigators believe that the loans were deliberately bad: according to the investigation, the price of collateral was inflated several times. […] The former head of the Rostov branch of Rosselkhozbank, Igor Pyatigorets, claimed that the investigation into the case against bank employees began after he applied to law enforcement agencies in the fall of 2016. — Inset K.ru
Recall that Igor Pyatigorets was detained in April 2019 in one of the cafes in the center of Rostov. He spent all the time of the investigation in a pre-trial detention center. Pyatigorets headed the Rostov branch of the Russian Agricultural Bank from 2011 to 2017. She was also a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region.
161.ru, 02/27/2023, “Former Rostov businessman and deputy Igor Pyatigorets was sent to a colony”: Igor Pyatigorets worked for 20 years in the banking sector. Since 2010, he has been the director of the Rostov regional branch of Rosselkhozbank. He also worked as deputy chairman of the Rostov bank of Sberbank of Russia, chairman of the board of the Rostov Promstroybank, manager of the Rostov branch of Promsvyazbank OJSC. He left Rosselkhozbank in March 2017.
Igor Pyatigorets was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region of five convocations from the United Russia party. He last became an MP in 2013. Until 2018, he worked in the budget and agricultural policy committees. — Inset K.ru
