The Volzhsky District Court continues to consider the criminal case of top managers of the bank. Yesterday, Matvey Suslov and 13 members of the alleged group heard the indictment.
The case is being handled by Judge Nikita Vdovin, the charge was announced by Andrey Sukhoruchkin, Senior Prosecutor of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office, and Yury Reshetnikov, Senior Assistant to the Volzhsky District Prosecutor.
The consideration of the case started on May 26, this was preceded by a sensational press release from the regional prosecutor’s office, which reported that the ex-head of the board was charged with money laundering, deliberate bank failure and organizing a criminal community.
The OPS, according to the prosecution, arose in 2014, it was engaged in the withdrawal of bank funds by issuing obviously bad and unsecured loans. According to investigators, the bank suffered damage in the amount of more than 1 billion rubles. In addition, Matvey Suslov and other defendants, according to investigators, were withdrawing property from debtor organizations, which led to the impossibility of repaying loans.
46-year-old Matvey Suslov himself pleaded not guilty, saying that during his work as chairman of the board of Econombank, not a single client was injured.
A number of Suslov’s neighbors in the dock stated that they did not understand the charges and they considered them fabricated. Among those are Anton Kondratiev and Denis Ulyanov, already familiar to BV readers.
Recall that our publication devoted a number of publications to the complex relationship between the bank and satellite companies that were engaged in leasing, factoring, issued loans, issued bills and provided other services to the bank’s clients and its management.
All the facts given in the publications are taken from open sources – materials of arbitration courts. Anton Kondratiev is a former CEO of Bely Sokol and Econom Factoring LLC. The property of the “White Falcon” was an unfinished apartment building in the quiet center of Saratov – in the 2nd Magnitny passage. With the help of bill schemes, “powered” by the arbitration court, Kondratyev’s second firm became a creditor of the first for tens of millions of rubles. In exactly the same way, the second satellite of the bank, Econom Finance LLC, entered the register of creditors, which also issued bills, which were then purchased, but not paid by Bely Sokol.
According to informed people, the main investor in the construction of the house from the very beginning was Econombank, and the White Falcon and bill games could be needed in order to withdraw the object from the bank’s possession. It is no coincidence that the rights of claim against Bely Sokol LLC wandered from hand to hand, changing 9 owners: the owner of No. 4 was Alexander Viktorovich Suslov (the full namesake of the main shareholder of the bank), he sold them in 2015 to the owner of No. resold them in 2016 for 86 million rubles to another company, then the rights of claim wandered further, until in 2018 Tender C (owner No. 9) voluntarily returned them to the same Economy Finance.
Another objector Denis Ulyanov is the ex-founder of Econom Factoring. He is charged with Article 196 Part 1 (deliberate bankruptcy); article 159 part 4; Article 159 part 4 (fraud); Article 174.1, part 4, paragraphs a, b; Article 174.1, part 4, paragraphs a, b (legalization (laundering) of funds or other property); article 210 part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of an organized crime group or participation in it). The “track record” of Anton Kondratiev is somewhat shorter – it contains Article 210 Part 1; Article 174.1, part 4, paragraphs a, b; article 159 part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Matvey Suslov’s “bouquet” is the richest in terms of episodes and variety of articles: in addition to the standard set of 159, 174, 196 and 210 articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, he is also, according to the investigation, an organizer and accomplice of criminal acts – art. 33 parts 3 and 5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
By the way, according to open sources, Alexander Suslov, the founder and former main shareholder of Econombank, often appeared as the beneficiary of real estate transactions. It is not very clear why only his son acts as the main villain.
Now the property of the defendants has been seized in the amount of more than 2 billion rubles and 41 million dollars. The investigation began in 2017 and ended in December 2022. It was conducted by the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region, the result was 321 volumes of basic materials plus 2 thousand volumes of evidence.