The first defendant appeared in the criminal case on embezzlement at the Moscow Vekselny Bank (MVB), Kommersant found out. The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent Larisa Samarova, former chairman of the board of a credit institution, to a pre-trial detention center until November 20.
The materials of the criminal case deal with the withdrawal of about 500 million rubles from the bank by issuing loans to insolvent borrowers. In total, the bankrupt financial institution owed creditors 934.6 million rubles.
A criminal case on the fact of especially large embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in the Moscow Vekselny Bank of the Main Investigative Committee of the ICR was initiated in May 2020. At the same time, the Central Bank applied to law enforcement agencies with statements about causing property damage to a credit institution in November 2018 and February 2019.
The MVB lost its license in August 2018 due to “systematic operations aimed at concealing the real financial position of the bank, investing in dubious assets, which resulted in a significant amount of assets of dubious quality on the balance sheet of the credit institution.”
Larisa Samarova does not admit her guilt in the act incriminated to her.
“Kommersant”, 10.10.2022, “Credits were enough for the prosecution”: According to the investigation, the theft was carried out by lending to borrowers with questionable solvency or who obviously did not have the ability to pay off their debts. In addition, the top management of the bank acquired shares in the Closed-End Mutual Fund “Holy Land” allegedly at a significantly inflated cost, and sold its property virtually without payment. Its purchasers, according to the TFR, most likely were persons affiliated with the owners of the MVB. As a result, at the time of revocation of the license, the bank’s assets were estimated at 569 million rubles, and the debt to creditors amounted to more than 934 million rubles. At the same time, 817.7 million of them were liabilities to individuals and individual entrepreneurs. […]
We also note that in November last year, the DIA filed an application with the Moscow Arbitration Court for the recovery of damages in the amount of 416 million rubles, $3 thousand and €190 thousand from nine persons who controlled the MVB. In addition to Ms. Samarova, her son Ivan Samarov is also among the defendants, was a member of the board of directors of a credit institution. — Inset K.ru
Pravo.ru, 08/20/2021, “DIA recovers losses from the ex-management of the capital bank”: Chairman of the Board of Directors Sergey Ivakhno, members of the board Ivan Samarov, Alexander Krasnyansky, Valery Chirkov, members of the board Olga Petrova, Olga Vishnikina , as well as the chairmanship of Larisa Samarova and others.
Moscow Vekselny Bank lost its license in August 2018. The Central Bank then stated: the bank systematically concealed its real financial position, and on its balance sheet it formed a significant amount of assets of dubious quality. At the end of November of the same year, ASGM declared the Moscow Promissory Note Bank bankrupt and opened bankruptcy proceedings in it (case No. A40-234494 / 2018). — Inset K.ru
banki.ru, 08/20/2021, “DIA sued former top managers of the Moscow Vekselny Bank”: Even before the license was revoked from the bank, in 2017, the Central Bank brought the chairman of the board of the bank Larisa Samarova to administrative responsibility under article 15.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Failure to comply with the requirements of the legislation on combating the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism”). — Inset K.ru