Schematicians from RAM Bank received 4.5 years
The Presnensky Court of Moscow has completed the consideration of a criminal case regarding a particularly large embezzlement of funds from the deprived RAM Bank of its license. Three former bank executives were in the dock: Chairman of the Board and Credit Committee Natalya Asanovich, Chairman of the Board of Directors Denis Shiryaev and bank beneficiary Zhasulan Tulepbekov. The court found them guilty, but imposed a term in a general regime colony almost half as much as the prosecutor’s office requested. The case was considered by judge Elena Abramova, known for criminal cases of the actor Mikhail Efremovex-colonel Dmitry Zakharchenkofootball players Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin.
From left to right: Zhasulan Tulepbekov, Denis Shiryaev and Natalya AsanovichThe investigation and the court established that in the period from February 2016 to July 2019, Asanovich, as part of an organized group with Shiryaev and the main beneficiary of the credit institution, Tulepbekov, as well as unidentified persons, entered into deliberately non-repayable loan agreements with organizations controlled by the accomplices. The General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) came to the conclusion that in this way they squandered more than 1.6 billion rubles belonging to the bank, transferring them to the current accounts of these companies, and then disposed of them at their own discretion.
During the debate between the parties, a representative of the supervisory department asked to sentence Asanovich and Shiryaev to nine years in prison; the prosecutor requested a sentence of 9.5 years in a general regime colony for Tulepbekova.
Judge Abramova agreed with the state prosecution and found all three defendants guilty of particularly large-scale embezzlement (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country)).
According to the verdict, Asanovich, Shiryaev and Tulebekov will serve 4.5 years in prison. In addition, they were given an additional punishment in the form of a fine in the amount of 500,000 rubles. to each.
The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the detention and subsequent arrest of three ex-executives of RAM Bank back in February 2021. It was noted then that the actions of the attackers led to the bankruptcy of the bank. More than 50 searches were carried out in the homes and offices of the suspects, and the arrest operation was carried out by employees of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs along with employees of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption. The trial essentially began in September last year.
As the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs established, from February 2016 to July 2019, the defendants essentially issued obviously bad loans to themselves, thus withdrawing more than 1.6 billion rubles from the bank. One of these recipients was APK Invest LLC, formed in March 2016, whose authorized capital (2 billion rubles) more than covers the damage caused by the accused. As law enforcement agencies believed, it was precisely this policy of the management of RAM Bank that became the reason for its collapse. […] Moreover, if the verdict is not appealed by the parties and comes into force, then all three convicts will receive credit for the time served for the almost three years they spent in the pre-trial detention center during the investigation and trial.
