Sultan Umakhanov recalled fictitious debts
The deputy chairman of the North Caucasus Bank and the manager of the Dagestan branch of Sberbank were arrested in absentia for embezzling 10 billion rubles. from bank “Express”
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© md-gazeta.ru01/30/2023, A court in Moscow arrested in absentia the former heads of Express Bank, Photo: sberbank.ru
The Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow granted the petition of the Moscow FSB for the arrest in absentia of the former director of Express Bank, ex-deputy chairman of the North Caucasus Bank Sultana Umakhanov. He was put on the wanted list in the case of a multi-billion embezzlement from Express Bank, Kommersant reported.
Arrest in absentia as a preventive measure was also chosen for the former director of the bank, and later the chairman of the board of Express, Zaur Magomedov, the deputy head of the bank, Raisat Shapiyeva, and businessman Arsen Dzhanatliev.
Magomedov is a cousin of Sultan Umakhanov, and Shapiyeva is a common-law wife, Kommersant specified.
“All of them were put on the federal and then international wanted list. After the court decision on the arrest comes into force, the materials will be sent to Interpol, ”the publication says.
According to investigators, all four were involved in bank fraud. The damage caused by their actions to the clients of the institution is estimated at more than 10 billion rubles, and to the state – more than 3 billion rubles.
Umakhanov, Magomedov and Shapieva are suspected of embezzlement or embezzlement committed by a group of persons on a large scale (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Dzhanatliev – of insurance fraud committed by a group of persons on a large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code RF).
“Kommersant”, 01/30/2023, “Express” summed up fictitious debts”: The criminal case against ex-employees of the bank was initiated by the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). Frauds were revealed during the formation of the register of obligations of Express Bank to depositors. In particular, according to the DIA, transactions were recorded that showed signs of the formation of a fictitious debt of the bank to depositors in order to steal the funds of the compulsory deposit insurance fund. These operations, according to the DIA, were carried out mainly in the last days of December 2012 – large fictitious amounts allegedly made to deposits and bank accounts were reflected in the accounting. Since the former management of the bank did not hand over the cash and other primary documents to the representatives of the provisional administration of the Bank of Russia, it was decided not to include the bank’s obligations to individuals for such transactions in the register of insurance payments without conducting a detailed analysis of all the circumstances of their occurrence, including with the involvement of law enforcement agencies. , reported the DIA. […]
It should be noted that four years after the start of the investigation, representatives of the deceived Express depositors held a press conference in Moscow. They, in particular, said that all 12 offices and 80 ATMs of Express Bank were taken from the bank’s ownership to nominees and leased out on extortionate terms. — Inset K.ru
The Dagestan bank Express, by decision of the Central Bank of Russia, was deprived of its license in January 2013, in April of the same year the Arbitration Court of the republic declared it bankrupt.
When compiling the register of the bank’s obligations to depositors, the Deposit Insurance Agency revealed transactions that have signs of the formation of a fictitious debt of the bank to depositors. The purpose of these operations, which were mainly committed at the end of December 2012, was to steal the funds of the compulsory deposit insurance fund.
FSB investigators opened a case on the facts of illegal registration of the acceptance of deposits of individuals for 700 thousand rubles each, and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – on the facts of illegal withdrawal of cash balances of 36 million rubles from the accounts of bank customers.
@kavkaz_leakbez, 12/12/2020 06:21 PM: The stolen money was withdrawn to the accounts of Azerbaijani banks, and from there to the accounts of various one-day firms. The Sultan himself is still on the run and is presumably in Turkey, where he managed to find a second life under a new name. There is also information about the plastic surgery done and even the change of fingerprints. — Inset K.ru
@askrasul, 30.01.2023 08:34: Wanted Sultan Umakhanov is the nephew of the senator Ilyas Umakhanov who somehow manages to represent Dagestan in the Federation Council since 2001, which still remains a mystery for what merits.
However, Ilyas Umakhanov’s official connections with Express Bank are not difficult to detect. From the materials of the Central Bank it followed that the shareholders of the bank were the sons of the senator Murad Umakhanov (owned 1.11% of the shares) and Magomed-SalamUmakhanov (20%), as well as the nephew Sultan Umakhanov (1.25%). They are not only in the latest list of shareholders, recorded on the eve of the revocation of the bank’s license in early 2013. All banking activity could only be a cover for dubious schemes and operations of the financial empire.
After the revocation of his license, as wrote the newspaper “Vedomosti”had problems football club “Anji”who had a contractual relationship with the bank. “Hung” on the accounts of “Express” and the funds of some budgetary organizations, even law enforcement agencies, as well as universities of the republic. — Inset K.ru
@vchkogpu, 21.04.2021 10:01: Former vice-speaker of the Federation Council Ilyas Umakhanov, and now a special representative of the Federation Council, is retiring from big politics. Literally in a year, he went from the short list of candidates for the governorship in Dagestan to the pre-retirement routine. Due to the weakening of his position, now it is not necessary to exclude the resumption of the investigation of the criminal case against a group of his close relatives.
An organized group under the patronage of Sultan Umakhanov, the nephew of Ilyas Umakhanov, according to various sources, stole from 10 to 14 billion rubles during the bankruptcy of Express Bank. More than 50% of this amount were debit accounts of individuals. Then, in 2013, the transfer of these funds to the accounts of Azerbaijani credit organizations was established. However, not far from the money, in sunny Turkey, was Sultan Umakhanov himself.
As ex-senator Umakhanov’s shares unconditionally fall, as many examples show, the situation can unfold in the most unpredictable way. One way or another, the loss of official competencies in the Federation Council will simultaneously entail an expansion of the range for investigative actions, where it will be difficult for a senator to renounce compromising information. — Inset K.ru
