“Kommersant”, 06/26/2023, “Credits came in handy for the prosecution”: Before its collapse in 2016, this financial structure was one of the hundred largest Russian banks in terms of assets. At the same time, as of November 1, 2017, the amount of the bank’s debt to creditors was estimated at more than 30 billion rubles. One of the private shareholders of Finprombank before the revocation of the license, according to the Central Bank, was the owner of the Alliance group Musa Bazhaevwhich controlled about 8.4% of the shares. […]
It should be noted that the case of embezzlement is handled by the first department of the department for the investigation of crimes against state power and in the field of economics of the main investigation department of the TFR. Since November 22, 2017, the same division has been conducting the “big case” of Finprombank about fraudulent theft of funds from a credit institution on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) with damage of 5.6 billion rubles. This investigation was actually frozen and, according to Kommersant, for several years was conducted in relation to unidentified persons who, according to the investigation, in late 2015 – early 2016 illegally withdrew the bank’s money “under the guise of concluding various agreements”, which “in reality didn’t intend to do it.” […]
Mr. Lavrentiev was detained, he was charged with embezzlement, and the Basmanny Court of the capital, having satisfied the petition of the investigation, sanctioned the conclusion of the financier in a pre-trial detention center. At the moment, this preventive measure has been extended until July 22. […] It is interesting that in the “big” case of Finprombank, the arrested person, according to Kommersant’s information, appeared as a witness and was summoned for interrogation to the Main Investigative Committee of the ICR a couple of times. In addition, at the claim of the DIA, they tried to bring Alexander Lavrentiev to subsidiary liability, but the Arbitration Court of the Moscow District refused to do so, not recognizing him as the controlling person of the bank. — Inset K.ru
Lavrentiev’s representative claims that there are no grounds for criminal prosecution, and the loan agreements that he is charged with were signed by the defendants as part of their official duties.
“Alexander Lavrentiev, while working at Finprombank, did not go beyond his official powers and did not influence its financial policy, was neither the owner nor the controlling person in the bank. Therefore, it looks very strange that he is the only defendant in this case. The logic of the investigation looks absurd, and the accusation is unmotivated, ”said his representative.
@banksta, 11/19/2019 00:43: A screenshot from the annual report, which confirms that the money from Musa Bazhaev’s Finprombank really went to Italian Forte Village Resort in Sardinia (Progetto Esmeralda SRL), the Bank issued a loan to the company in the amount of 12.3 billion rubles. The resort itself was bought in 2014 for 180 million euros (the amount is similar to the amount of a loan from a bank), and Finprombank collapsed in 2016 with a hole of 30 billion rubles. The key head of Finprombank Anatoly Goncharov (manager of Bazhaev) worked together with the deputy chairman of the Central Bank Vasily Pozdyshev. Today Bazhaev asked for money at state banks. — Inset K.ru
