Sergei Zabelin will sit out Demyanov
The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow sentenced the defendants in the case of embezzlement of more than 1.7 billion rubles Krasnodar bank “Novopokrovsky” to imprisonment in a colony for a period of 4.5 to 7 years, the capital’s prosecutor’s office reported on Tuesday.
Alexey DemyanovThe court sentenced Zabelin, Tsibizov and Frolenkov to seven years in prison each, to be served in a general regime correctional colony.
Bogomolova and Pozharsky were sentenced to five years and four years and six months of imprisonment in a general regime colony, respectively.
The defendants in the case were convicted under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) (misappropriation).
According to the case materials, Sergei Frolenkov’s functions included searching for fictitious borrowers, as well as providing the credit department with “deliberately false information about the absence of stop factors” in order to issue them a loan. Head of the Credit Committee Alexey Tsibizov Based on data received from an accomplice, he approved lending to both individuals and companies controlled by the accomplices that did not carry out any commercial activities.
The latter, the case says, together with the chairman of the board of directors of Novopokrovsky Alexei Demyanov, was controlled by the founder and general director of VK-consulting LLC (liquidated on April 6, 2020) Ivan Pozharsky. The issuance of loans after the approval of all documents by Alexey Demyanov was carried out, including through the capital office of Novopokrovsky, by order of its manager Olga Bogomolova.
In addition, they added, in the period from December 2016 to July 2017, Zabelin, Tsibizov, Frolenkov, the manager of the Moscow branch of the bank, Bogomolova, Pozharsky and other accomplices “embezzled funds from a commercial bank in the total amount of 694 million rubles through transfers to controlled legal entities.” .
Zabelin, Bogomolova, Pozharsky, Frolenkov and Tsibizov did not admit their guilt in committing the crime, the prosecutor’s office added.
In 2017, the Bank of Russia (*aggressor country) revoked the license at the Novopokrovsky bank and appointed a temporary administration in the company. According to the regulator, the business model of the credit institution was focused on aggressively attracting funds from the population and placing them in assets of unsatisfactory quality.
In June 2018, the Fifteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal declared bankrupt Krasnodar bank “Novopokrovsky”. In the summer of 2019, Russian Auction House JSC announced an auction for the sale of property from the bankrupt Novopokrovsky Bank. The assets were put up for auction in 24 lots for more than 454 million rubles.
