Alexander Erkhov scammed DIA with fictitious deposits
Accused of attempted theft of funds from the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) by issuing fictitious deposits Alexander Erkhov is located in Spain, Kommersant reports.
On the eve of the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia him for two months under Part 3 of Art. 30 of the Criminal Code (preparation for a crime and attempted crime), part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). According to investigators, the accused made fictitious deposits in one of the commercial banks. Erkhov was named one of the organizers and participants of a criminal group for registering fictitious deposits.
According to the newspaper, Erkhov is a defendant in a case of theft of funds, including from the bankrupt Trade Industrial Bank (TPB) and Rosenergobank. Investigators believe that it was he who attracted fictitious investors, who, after the collapse of credit institutions, were to receive compensation from the DIA for a total of more than 1 billion rubles.
For example, on March 8 and 9, 2017, four days before the collapse of TPB (more than 7.2 billion rubles remained owed to investors), accomplices gathered by the organizers almost throughout the country made 530 fictitious deposits in it for a total amount of more than 627 million rubles . According to the investigation, a slightly smaller amount with the participation of Alexander Erkhov was planned to be stolen using the same scheme from Rosenergobank (in both cases, the DIA refused to make payments). It became the property of new owners, including citizens of Estonia, Israel and Russia (*aggressor country), in March 2017. However, they put nominees at the head of the credit institution, and a month later the bank with a debt of more than 41 billion rubles. lost his license. However, in it, the withdrawal of funds, according to investigators, was carried out mainly through the issuance of non-repayable loans to fictitious companies controlled by the owners, as well as “committing other obviously unprofitable transactions and financial transactions.”
Erkhov, according to Kommersant, went to Turkey and then to Spain, immediately after leaving the pre-trial detention center, where he was being held on charges of theft of 1.9 billion rubles. from Rostov Stella Bank. In this case his arrested in 2019, and in March last year he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison. However, taking into account the time spent under arrest, Erkhov did not have much time to serve and was not sent to a colony.
The investigation found that Erkhov in March 2016 bought Stella Bank, which was on the verge of collapse, solely for the purpose of withdrawing the money remaining in it by issuing obviously bad loans to dummies. At the same time, he registered the financial institution itself in the name of several dummies. About a month later, the Central Bank revoked the bank’s license, and two months later it was declared bankrupt.
