Non-repayable loans were converted to 4.5 years for Grigory Matyunin
The Tushinsky court of Moscow sentenced the former chairman of the board of the National Corporation Bank to 4.5 years in prison Grigory Matyunin.
He was found guilty of stealing 236.1 million rubles from the funds of a credit institution that ceased to exist in 2016 with a debt of 1.7 billion rubles, Kommersant writes.
“The Tushinsky court of the capital sentenced Grigory Matyunin to 4.5 years in prison. He was found guilty of stealing 236.1 million rubles from the funds of a credit institution that ceased to exist with a debt of more than 1.7 billion rubles. The withdrawal of money from the bank, as the court and investigation established, was carried out through obviously non-repayable loans.”writes the publication.
The trial of Matyunin began in the capital’s court in May 2022, during which the state prosecutor asked to sentence the defendant to four years in a general regime colony, and also to prohibit him from holding leadership positions in banking structures for another two years. Judge Elena Orlovaas reported by Kommersant, set a period of six months longer than requested by the prosecutor and satisfied the claim of the Deposit Insurance Agency to recover the entire amount of damage.
A criminal case for particularly large embezzlement was initiated on June 11, 2020. National Corpbank lost its license in March 2016 due to violations of banking legislation and a decrease in the amount of its own funds below the minimum value, as well as involvement in dubious transactions.
For about a year, the investigation into this criminal case was conducted against unidentified persons, and several former top managers of this credit institution, including Grigory Matyunin, were repeatedly interrogated as witnesses. On April 7, 2021, the latter was summoned for another interrogation, after which his status was changed to suspect and he was detained. At the request of the investigation, the Tagansky Court of Moscow sent the 45-year-old ex-banker under house arrest. Mr. Matyunin allegedly denied his guilt in approving the issuance of obviously non-repayable loans. According to Kommersant’s information, the investigation did not begin to prosecute other managers of this financial institution. […].
At the same time, taking into account the time Mr. Matyunin spent under house arrest, he actually has a little more than two years left in prison, and he may soon be eligible for parole. We also note that since 2019, the DIA in the Moscow Arbitration Court has been trying to recover about 900 million rubles from the four top managers who controlled the National Corpbank, including Grigory Matyunin. as compensation for losses caused to a credit institution.
An application for recovery of losses of the National Corporate Bank totaling more than 896.222 million rubles from its former managers was submitted to the capital’s arbitration court on March 15. The defendants are listed as ex-presidents of the National Corpbank Grigory Matyunin, former board member Sergei Pishchikov, as well as two more people (A. V. Sysoenkov and V. A. Pankin). “The bank’s managers committed guilty acts of issuing obviously non-repayable loans to legal entities and individuals, as well as removing collateral for a technical loan to an individual, which caused damage to the bank,” the DIA statement noted.