Alexander Korkin was taken out for 19 years
The ex-shareholder of Victoriabank sat down for the creation of a banking OPS and illegal transit from Russia under the “Moldovan scheme” of 126 billion rubles.
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© BFM.Ru07/12/2022, Five defendants received long sentences for withdrawing 126 billion rubles from Russia
Julia Gilmshina
The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced five defendants in the case of the withdrawal of 126 billion rubles from Russia under the so-called Moldovan scheme. The court announced the introductory and operative parts of the verdict.
Depending on their role, the defendants were found guilty of creating and leading an organized criminal community (OPS) or participating in it, as well as committing foreign exchange transactions to transfer funds abroad using forged documents (Article 210 and Article 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) .
Shareholder of Victoriabank Alexandra Korkina and lawyer Alexei Sobolev, the court sentenced to 19 years in prison with a fine of 2.5 million rubles each.
Another lawyer, Lev Pakhomov, was sentenced to 17 years in prison with a fine of 2 million 400 thousand rubles, and the treasurers of several Russian banks involved in the scheme, Venera Sharipova and Rinat Yusupov, were sentenced to 16 years and 15.5 years in prison with fines of 1.5 and 1 million rubles. According to the verdict of the court, all convicted men must serve their sentences in a strict colony, and a woman in a general regime colony.
@vchkogpu, 13.07.2022 00:05: Sobolev was the deputy general director of JSC Stroytransgaz, one of the largest Russian contractors working with Rosneft, Gazprom, etc. Stroytransgaz was controlled Gennady Timchenko. Sobolev also served on the board of trustees of the St. Petersburg FinEk, was one of the beneficiaries of the odious Prime Advice consulting group. Sobolev positioned himself as a high-level “fixer” with connections with law enforcement and special services, which confirmed his high authority among the legal community in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Sobolev initiated the initiation of criminal cases against intractable businessmen and bankers, and his opponents received real terms, and their businesses were transferred to Sobolev and his clients. Sobolev, together with his Moldovan partner, Platon, invested his criminally acquired fortune in real estate in the Russian Federation and Western Europe. Sobolev and Plato always had Lev Pakhomov (a former employee of the FSSP of the Russian Federation) in the wings. Lev Pakhomov headed CJSC TsKENERGO, closely associated with Mosenergo and former top managers of RAO UES. — Inset K.ru
In addition, the court confiscated property for state revenue, the actual owners of which are Plato, Korkin, Sobolev and Pakhomov. We are talking about 36 real estate objects in Moscow, the Moscow region and St. Petersburg worth more than 1.4 billion rubles, as well as cash, jewelry and vehicles seized during searches at the place of residence of the defendants.
Kommersant.Ru, 07/12/2022, “Lawyers and bankers were excluded from the Moldovan scheme”: Let’s note that in total, almost 500 billion rubles left the country under the so-called Moldovan scheme. According to the lawyers of several defendants in this criminal case, this is the figure mentioned in the materials considered by the court.
However, neither during the investigation nor in court, none of the defendants admitted their guilt in the crimes they were charged with. For example, the defense of the convicted Korkin insisted that the currency withdrawn from Russia was allegedly returned back, but in rubles, and therefore Art. 193.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, it was impossible in principle to incriminate the defendants. — Inset K.ru
According to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, which supported the prosecution in court, the crimes were committed “from June 2013 to May 2014.” Then the actual owner of JSC CB “Moldindconbank” Vyacheslav Platon, together with Korkin and Vladimir Plahotniuc for the purpose of illegal withdrawal of funds in foreign currency from the Russian Federation, a criminal community was created. It included the Director of the Treasury of JSC CB “Moldindconbank” Elena Platonthe actual heads of banks LLC CB “European Express” Oleg KuzminOJSC RZB, OJSC Bank Zapadny, branch of OJSC KKB Kreditbank Kreditinvest Alexander Grigoriev and Beslan Bulguchev, the heads of the treasuries of these banks, Yusupov and Sharipova, the heads of a structural unit that is part of the criminal community, Sobolev and Pakhomov.
“From June 2013 to May 2014, the above persons carried out foreign exchange operations to transfer funds in foreign currency from the correspondent accounts of the indicated Russian credit institutions to the bank accounts of a non-resident – JSC CB “Moldindconbank” with the provision of Russian credit institutions with the powers of a currency control agent, documents containing deliberately unreliable information about the grounds, purposes and purpose of the transfer, ”the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement. The total amount of withdrawn funds exceeded 126 billion rubles.
According to the Kommersant newspaperthe investigation considers the Moldovan politicians Vladimir Plahotniuc and Renato Usatii, as well as businessman Vyacheslav Platon. They were arrested in absentia in Russia and put on the international wanted list.
In relation to Elena Platon, Alexander Grigoriev and Oleg Kuzmin, verdicts have already taken place. The case of Vyacheslav Platon is heard in court in absentia.