Alevtina Pavlova and Co. were attracted for 1.5 billion rubles.
The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow imposed sentences of five to eight years in prison for the ex-chairman of the board Alevtina Pavlova and other top managers of the bankrupt Republican Social Commercial Bank (RSKB), finding all the defendants in the case guilty of stealing assets from a credit institution worth more than 1.5 billion rubles, a TASS correspondent reports from the courtroom.
The convict and other defendants were taken into custody in the courtroom during the announcement of the verdict.
As a TASS correspondent clarifies, former members of the board of RSKB Tatiana Nikitina And Ekaterina Baranova, as well as top managers of the bank Liliya Mironova and Galina Likhacheva, were found guilty only of embezzlement; they received sentences of five to six years in a general regime colony. The court did not impose additional punishment on the women in the form of a fine and restriction of freedom, which the prosecutor insisted on in the debate between the parties.
The trial began in court in March 2022. During the debate between the parties, the state prosecution asked that Pavlova be sentenced to nine years in prison with a fine of 1 million rubles, and the rest of the convicts – six years in prison and a fine of 600 thousand rubles. The defendants did not plead guilty to the incriminated crimes and asked the court for acquittal. Baranova and Nikitina were in pre-trial detention; the rest of the defendants were placed under house arrest and taken into custody at the time of the investigation and trial. For all convicted persons, the time they spent in pre-trial detention centers and under house arrest was counted towards their sentence at the rate of 1 day of preventive punishment for 1 day of the assigned period. The defense is expected to appeal the conviction to the appellate court. The representative of the state prosecution was satisfied with the verdict, but the supervisory authority will decide whether to appeal after receiving the full text of the court decision.
The criminal case of the theft of money from the bankrupt RSKB was investigated for about five years. The former top managers of this credit institution were initially charged with withdrawing from the bank virtually all the funds that it had at the time of revocation of the license – more than 2.3 billion rubles. The State Corporation “Deposit Insurance Agency” and businessman A.V. Klimov were recognized as victims in the case. The entrepreneur’s civil claim was also fully satisfied by the court, which recovered a little more than 84 million rubles from Alevtina Pavlova in his favor.