Sanal Pakhomkin exchanged an apartment for a statute of limitations
Former Board of Directors of Greenfieldbank for abuse of bail was given 3 years probation and immediately released from punishment
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© Banki.ru10/31/2022, The court gave a term to the ex-top of Greenfieldbank Pakhomkin, but released him from punishment, Photo: kalmykia.net
Aneliya Katkova
The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced Sanal Pakhomkin, the former chairman of the board of the bankrupt Greenfieldbank, to a suspended sentence. The ex-banker was found guilty in a criminal case of abuse of power, but was immediately released from punishment, learned “Kommersant”.
Judgment without punishment
The prosecutor asked that Pakhomkin be found guilty in accordance with Part 2 of Article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced to three years in a penal colony. In addition, the state prosecutor demanded to satisfy the claim of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) against the former board of directors for 4 million rubles.
The court changed the charge to the less serious part 1 of the same article and gave Pakhomkin three years probation. Since the six-year statute of limitations in the case had expired, the prosecution was dropped. But the claim of the DIA against the defendant was satisfied.
Also, the ex-banker will have to pay damages under the claim of the DIA, under which the arbitration decided to recover more than 6 billion rubles in solidarity from Pakhomkin and six other persons associated with Greenfieldbank.
What were you convicted for?
Pakhomkin was accused of abusing his authority by single-handedly deciding to remove the burden from the borrower’s apartment.
A woman in 2011 took a loan from Greenfieldbank for 8 million rubles to buy a two-room apartment in Moscow. The property was immediately placed under a bond. Until September 2015, the borrower paid 7.4 million rubles, and then asked the bank’s management to restructure the debt in order to sell the apartment and buy a new three-room apartment.
The client’s request was granted. The prosecution argued that Pakhomkin made the decision himself, without taking into account the opinion of other members of the board and his credit committee.
At the same time, the owners of the bank changed just at that time – the Antal group arrived, headed by Mikhail Yanchuk and Magomed Mukhiev. Already in October 2015, the Central Bank revoked the license from the credit institution.
Mukhiev was accused of embezzlement and laundering of billions of dollars and appointed 10 years and eight months deprivation of liberty. Yanchuk managed to escape and is on the wanted list. Other defendants, including Pakhomkin, received suspended sentences – the court decided that they were only following the instructions of the owners.
As the investigation into the case of embezzlement found out, when leaving Greenfieldbank, the new owners took with them a significant amount of documents. Pakhomkin’s defense appealed to this: arguing that the decision to remove the encumbrance from the apartment was taken collectively by the borrowers, but the documents confirming this were then lost.
“Kommersant”, 10.02.2022, “Family and financial transactions”: As it became known to Kommersant, a group of ten cashiers was sentenced in Moscow, half of whom were related by family ties. Despite the demand of the state prosecutor to sentence the defendants to real terms, they all got off with a suspended sentence. Over the two and a half years of its existence, the organized criminal group has carried out illegal banking operations for 3.3 billion rubles, receiving more than 16.6 million rubles in commission for services. […]
It follows from its materials that the organized crime group operated from October 2, 2015 to February 27, 2018. For cashing out or transiting funds, the defendants used companies controlled by them, which, as established by the investigation, did not conduct real financial and economic activities. Clients transferred money to their accounts for supposedly rendered services or delivered goods. The offer of this particular group was very popular on the black market, largely due to the fact that their commissions were among the lowest – only 0.5% of the cashed amount. […]
For example, Greenfieldbank was involved in cashing out operations, the chairman of the board of which was Sanal Pakhomkin, and his relatives Altan and Savr Pakhomkin were listed as founders of six out of thirteen LLCs used in fraud (Businesspark, Valda, Dominion, Bagris, “Laguerta” and “Konung”). However, Greenfieldbank did not last long in this chain, since on December 15, 2015 it lost its license. Just as short – just a month, until the revocation of the license in August 2017 – was cooperation with RIAbank. — Inset K.ru
