Banker arrested for dealing with insolvent people
The former chairman of the board of the bankrupt Moscow Promissory Note Bank, Larisa Samarova, was taken for dubious assets worth 500 million rubles.
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© Banki.ru10.10.2022, The court arrested the former chairman of the board of the Moscow Vekselny Bank
Lydia Novikova
The first defendant appeared in the criminal case on embezzlement at the Moscow Vekselny Bank (MVB), Kommersant found out. The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent Larisa Samarova, former chairman of the board of a credit institution, to a pre-trial detention center until November 20.
The materials of the criminal case deal with the withdrawal of about 500 million rubles from the bank by issuing loans to insolvent borrowers. In total, the bankrupt financial institution owed creditors 934.6 million rubles.
A criminal case on the fact of especially large embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in the Moscow Vekselny Bank of the Main Investigative Committee of the ICR was initiated in May 2020. At the same time, the Central Bank applied to law enforcement agencies with statements about causing property damage to a credit institution in November 2018 and February 2019.
DHS lost his license in August 2018 due to “systematic operations aimed at concealing the real financial position of the bank, investing in dubious assets, which resulted in a significant amount of assets of dubious quality on the balance sheet of the credit institution.”
Larisa Samarova does not admit her guilt in the act incriminated to her.
“Kommersant”, 10.10.2022, “Credits were enough for the prosecution”: According to investigators, the theft was carried out by lending to borrowers with questionable solvency or who obviously did not have the ability to pay off their debts. In addition, the top management of the bank acquired shares in the Closed-End Mutual Fund “Holy Land” allegedly at a significantly inflated cost, and sold its property virtually without payment. Its purchasers, according to the TFR, most likely were persons affiliated with the owners of the MVB. As a result, at the time of revocation of the license, the bank’s assets were estimated at 569 million rubles, and the debt to creditors amounted to more than 934 million rubles. At the same time, 817.7 million of them were liabilities to individuals and individual entrepreneurs. […]
We also note that in November last year, the DIA filed with the Moscow Arbitration Court statement on the recovery of losses from nine persons who controlled the MVB in the amount of 416 million rubles, $3 thousand and €190 thousand. In addition to Ms. Samarova, her son Ivan Samarov, who was a member of the board of directors of a credit institution, is also among the defendants. — Inset K.ru
Pravo.ru, 08/20/2021, “DIA recovers damages from the ex-management of the capital bank”: The chairman of the board of directors Sergey Ivakhno, members of the board Ivan Samarov, Alexander Krasnyansky, Valery Chirkov, members of the board Olga Petrova, Olga Vishnikina, as well as the chairman of the board Larisa Samarova and others were involved as defendants in the case.
Moscow Vekselny Bank lost its license in August 2018. The Central Bank then stated: the bank systematically concealed its real financial position, and on its balance sheet it formed a significant amount of assets of dubious quality. At the end of November of the same year, ASGM declared the Moscow Promissory Note Bank bankrupt and opened bankruptcy proceedings in it (case № А40-234494/2018). — Inset K.ru
banki.ru, 08/20/2021, “DIA sued former top managers of Moscow Vekselny Bank”: Even before the license was revoked from the bank, in 2017, the Central Bank brought the chairman of the board of the bank Larisa Samarov to administrative liability under article 15.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Failure to comply with the requirements of the legislation on combating the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism “). — Inset K.ru
