Loans brought Igor Pyatigorets to a colony
In the Ust-Donetsk district court sentenced the former head of the Rostov branch of Rosselkhozbank Igor Pyatigorets. Sentences were also handed down to the head of one of the departments of the bank, Anna Ghetto, and the director of a commercial structure. Vadim Zhukov. They were accused of fraud. This was reported in the press service of the prosecutor’s office of the Rostov region. In court, it was established that they, together with the former head of the division of the same bank Alexey Voitkodirectors of two commercial firms Yakov Sevostyanov and Sergey Klimenko and other persons stole money from the bank in the amount of more than 171 million rubles by issuing obviously non-repayable loans. Everything happened between February and August 2015.
Igor PyatigoretsVoitko, Sevostyanov and Klimenko were sentenced earlier. The criminal case against other accomplices is separated into a separate proceeding.
Recall that we are talking about three loans that the bank issued to the agricultural enterprises Unity and Saturn. At the same time, the heads of the companies made a deal with the investigation and the accusation against the ex-banker was built precisely on them. The banker himself stated that he did not agree with the accusation and that all loans were issued on economically justified terms.
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As a result, the court sentenced Pyatigorets to 8.5 years in prison, Ghetto to 7.8 years in prison, and Zhukov to 6 years in prison. They must serve their sentence in a penal colony. The verdict can still be challenged on appeal.
According to investigators, the Rosselkhozbank branch operated a scheme for granting knowingly non-performing loans. Then law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case on the fact of embezzlement of 390 million rubles, several employees of the bank and local entrepreneurs became defendants. Anna Ghetto was accused of two counts of fraud. As indicated in the case file, she issued loans to Aspect and Polivmaster for a total amount of over 250 million rubles. Investigators believe that the loans were deliberately bad: according to the investigation, the price of collateral was inflated several times. The former head of the Rostov branch of Rosselkhozbank, Igor Pyatigorets, claimed that the investigation into the case against bank employees began after he applied to law enforcement agencies in the fall of 2016.
Recall that Igor Pyatigorets was detained in April 2019 in one of the cafes in the center of Rostov. He spent all the time of the investigation in a pre-trial detention center. Pyatigorets headed the Rostov branch of the Russian Agricultural Bank from 2011 to 2017. She was also a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region.
Igor Pyatigorets was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region of five convocations from the United Russia party. He last became an MP in 2013. Until 2018, he worked in the budget and agricultural policy committees.
