The court cut down 10.9 billion rubles from Anatoly Ballo
Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow satisfied claims of the state development corporation VEB.RF against the former deputy chairman of the board Anatoly Ballo.
Judge Ekaterina Ledeneva collected about 10.9 billion rubles from Ballo in favor of the corporation. A claim for damages was filed against the former deputy chairman in connection with the damage caused by the crime atthe lead case on the embezzlement of funds allocated by VEB.RF.
The decision on recovery has not yet entered into force, Ballo has the right to appeal against it.
On February 17, 2022, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow terminated the criminal proceedings against Ballo and the second defendant, the founder of the Arkaim timber processing enterprise, a Khabarovsk businessman Alexandra Lepikhova. The embezzlement case was dismissed due to the expired statute of limitations on it. The statute of limitations for serious crimes is ten years.
The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused them of embezzling 10.9 billion rubles allocated by Vnesheconombank in the form of loans to save Arkaim, which was headed by Lepikhov, from bankruptcy.
Moreover, as follows from the materials of the criminal case, Anatoly Ballo and Alexander Lepikhov stole almost all the credit funds allocated by the state corporation. After representatives of VEB filed a complaint with law enforcement agencies, Anatoly Ballo, who had already moved to work at Promsvyazbank, and his accomplice were detained.
Anatoly BalloLaw enforcement officers detained Ballo on June 23, 2021, after which he was taken into custody.
None of the defendants pleaded guilty.
As follows from the materials of the Moscow City Court file of December 22, 2021, two others were also combined into one proceeding with this case. In relation to Lepikhov, since November 2017, a criminal case has been investigated under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Art. 193 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the requirements of currency legislation on an especially large scale).
In addition, in 2015, against the investment banker Ballo, the criminal case of embezzlement of $14 million was terminated due to the lack of corpus delicti. a loan granted to VEB’s subsidiary JSC Evraziysky for the acquisition of 100% stake in the authorized capital of Yugvodokanal. The stolen money was withdrawn to the accounts of offshore companies in Swiss banks.
In 2016, the banker left the post of Deputy Chairman of the Board of Vnesheconombank.
