Khachatur Muradov taken for bail
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested the former beneficiary of the Russian Commercial and Industrial Bank (Ruskobank) Khachatura Muradova (case no. 3/1-0301/2023. He is accused of especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code). The investigation believes that with the approval of Muradov, Ruskobank issued unsecured loans to one-day companies and conducted lending secured by securities that had already been pledged in other financial institutions, Kommersant reports. Previously, the damage to Ruscobank exceeded 1 billion rubles.
Khachatur MuradovThe ICR opened a criminal case against Muradov on May 29. He was detained in Moscow on July 31. Muradov was charged with especially large-scale fraud, and the next day the investigation asked the district court to send the ex-beneficiary to a pre-trial detention center. The defense side insisted that the investigator’s arguments were not confirmed, and the imputed crime related to entrepreneurial activity. As a result, Muradov was arrested until September 30.
The injured party in this case is the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), represented by the bankruptcy trustee. In turn, the defendant himself and his lawyer argued that the arguments of the investigation “are unfounded and not documented”, and the act imputed to the financier relates to entrepreneurial activity.
We also note that after the collapse of Ruskobank, the Central Bank and the DIA filed applications with law enforcement agencies to initiate criminal cases under a number of articles of the Criminal Code. In particular, they saw in the actions of top management and its owners, in addition to the same fraud, signs of embezzlement, causing property damage through fraud, deliberate bankruptcy, abuse of authority, falsification of evidence in a civil case, falsification of financial documents of accounting and reporting of a financial organization (Article 160 , 165, 196, 201, 303 and 172.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). At the moment, only one filed case is known, in the framework of which Khachatur Muradov was arrested.
central bank withdrew Ruscobank had a license in June 2016, and a month later filed for bankruptcy of a financial institution.
The banker, “in violation of the requirements of the bank’s charter and administrative documents on the procedure for concluding agreements in the field of lending, without the knowledge of the bank’s board,” concluded two additional agreements to lending agreements for a legal entity. According to these documents, a certain company, which received loans from the bank for almost 200 million rubles, was able not to repay the debt with real money, but to “repay” it with worthless promissory notes of a long-ruined company.
As a result of the actions of the accused, the bank suffered damage in the amount of at least 180 million rubles, which led to the onset of serious consequences in the form of a significant difficulty in the bank’s economic activities,” the Investigative Committee said. During the investigation, it was not possible to establish the degree of personal interest of the bank’s top manager in carrying out financial fraud.
