Criminal case Zakharikov Sergey Alekseevich. The case of illegal cashing with the participation of the former head of mosttransbank went to court
The Tverskoy District Court of the capital extended for two months the detention of the Chairman of the Board of Mostransbank Sergei Zakharikov. He is accused of illegal banking, which brought income to the group members in the amount of more than 114 million rubles. It is curious that initially the court chose a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest for Zakharikov, but after he violated it several times, at the request of the investigator, the court sent the banker to a pre-trial detention center.
Criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 172 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal banking activity”) was initiated by the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow in October last year based on materials collected by the FSB. Initially, it referred to an unidentified group of persons who “from September 2013 to June 2015 carried out illegal Bank operations for account management, cash service legal and individuals, collection and cashing out Money". To do this, they used the accounts of fictitious firms controlled by them, to which clients transferred money under the guise of paying for various types of services. In total, during this period, the attackers cashed out about 4 billion rubles, earning, according to the investigation, more than 114 million rubles.
The first and so far the only defendant in this case appeared in November 2015, when FSB officers detained Sergei Zakharikov, Chairman of the Board of Mostransbank. According to investigators, he was one of the organizers of the criminal group.
On November 26 last year, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, at the request of the investigation, chose a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest against the detainee. At the same time, a list of restrictions, standard in such cases, was imposed on the accused, including a ban on leaving the living quarters, a ban on communication with anyone other than lawyers and family members, and the use of means of communication.
However, later the investigator of the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow applied to the Tverskoy District Court with a request to change the measure of restraint for Zakharikov from house arrest to a real one. The reason for this was the reports of the inspector of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Moscow, from which it followed that the accused Zakharikov systematically violated the conditions for the execution of house arrest, without the permission of the investigator, “repeatedly leaving” his apartment without reason. The investigation also provided the court with evidence that Sergei Zakharikov took measures to destroy and conceal evidence in the case.
The banker's defense insisted in court that the court changed the measure of restraint for their client on the basis of only two violations: on January 31 and February 3, 2016. At the same time, lawyer Marina Yarosh agrees with only one claim of the investigation and the Federal Penitentiary Service. According to Mrs. Yarosh, on February 3, her client suffered an ischemic stroke and was urgently hospitalized without being able to notify the investigator about it. All other "systematic violations", according to her, are associated solely with malfunctions of the electronic bracelet worn on Zakharikov's leg. “The employees of the UFSIN themselves recognized this fact in court,” lawyer Yarosh told Kommersant.
As a result, the court agreed with the arguments of the investigation that Sergei Zakharikov violated the regime of detention under house arrest, and changed his preventive measure to a real arrest. The other day, the accused Zakharikov's term of detention in the pre-trial detention center was extended until June 21.
As for the circumstances of the criminal case, the banker's defense insists that the accusation against their client is not of a specific nature, but that the illegal banking operations themselves allegedly "are not connected either territorially or officially with Mostransbank."
To hide the withdrawal of money, the management of Mostransbank (the bank was in the top 600 by assets) used a fraudulent reporting scheme, which involved the funds of three reputable organizations - the Russian Authors' Society (RAO), the All-Russian Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Russian Union of Rightholders ( RSP). The essence of the scheme was as follows - on the last working day of each month, money was transferred from the accounts of RAO, WIPO and RSP to the accounts of the little-known company Prommo, with the help of which the company paid off its debts (overdraft) to the bank. After the statements with the supposedly repaid debt were received by the Central Bank, Mostransbank returned the money written off from their accounts to RAO RAO, WIPO and RSP and again issued a loan to Prommo.
Thus, according to investigators, we are talking on the withdrawal of more than 1.84 billion rubles. According to the DIA, the bank transferred this amount to Prommo under contracts for temporary gratuitous use. On behalf of the bank, the agreements were signed by Zakharikov. According to investigators, for the first time the money was transferred to the Prommo account in April 2014 - since then, the amount of debt to the bank has constantly increased, and funds from the Prommo accounts went to the accounts of one-day firms opened in other banks. The scheme itself, referred to among bankers as a "pump", worked in the bank for several years.
The dubious scheme of "Prommo" was revealed when, after revoking the license of Mostransbank, the DIA started its bankruptcy at the end of last year. At the same time, the agency turned to law enforcement agencies with a request to check the management of RAO, WIPO and RSP for involvement in the withdrawal of money from the bank. In addition, according to the DIA, Mostransbank could similarly withdraw money through a number of other fictitious companies - in this case, the amount of theft could amount to 35 billion rubles.
Copyright funds
The founders of the RSP, whose board president is the famous film director Nikita Mikhalkov, and whose board chairman is his son Artem, are RAO, WIPO and the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. CFO RSP Oksana Levashova confirms that her organization was a client of Mostransbank and had a settlement account in which funds were kept intended for payment of remuneration to copyright holders. At the time the license was revoked, some of these funds were in the bank.
“At the end of October 2015, after connecting to the “bank-client” system, RSP employees discovered that the incoming balance for the day differed from the outgoing one (there was no movement of funds on the account). On this fact, an appeal was immediately sent to Mostransbank with a request to provide explanations. The responsible employee of the bank referred to some technical failures in the work software", - says Levashova. According to her, within a very short time, the correct information about the outgoing balance on the settlement account of the RSP in the statement to the "bank-client" was restored, and as a result of this incident, the funds of the right holders on the account of the RSP were not affected.
The RSP says that in the fall of 2016, this organization and other clients of Mostransbank received requests from the prosecutor's office on the issue of reflecting suspicious transactions in the bank's statements at the end of reporting periods, as well as regarding possible transactions with Prommo LLC. It was then that the organization first learned that such incidents were not isolated cases and occurred in relation to the accounts of other bank customers. “Of course, now in the wake of recent events, including proceedings against the ex-management of RAO, various guesses are being built in the public space, often of a nature that does not correspond to reality and has no real basis,” says Levashova. She explains that the requests from the prosecutor's office and the investigating authorities to the RSP were solely as to the affected client of the bank and the RSP supports the verification of the circumstances of the bankruptcy of Mostransbank and is ready to provide maximum assistance to law enforcement agencies.
Atypical case
Ivan Tertychny, a partner at Tertychny Agabalyan, says that if the funds were indeed provided under gratuitous “temporary use” agreements, this is a very atypical case. “It is not clear why such a scheme was used. Usually, money is withdrawn from troubled banks by issuing loans to shell companies, while such borrowers regularly service the debt until “hour X”, the lawyer believes. According to Alexei Frolov, co-founder of Forensic solutions, in the case of Mostransbank, it is unlikely that the withdrawal of funds in such a volume could have been hidden from shareholders, so law enforcement agencies will most likely need to work out the version of their possible involvement in abuse.
It is worth noting that the work of copyright societies with small banks has already caused concern to officials due to the loss of billions of rubles. In its proposals, the Ministry of Economic Development proposed to transfer funds from the funds of copyright societies from "second-tier" banks to the Federal Treasury, and it was proposed to approve the procedure for distributing this money by the government.
society and other similar organizations. Director of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) Yuri Isaev suspected the board of RAO, the Russian Union of Rightholders (RSP) and the All-Russian Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of involvement in the withdrawal of more than 1.84 billion rubles from Mostransbank. Three organizations have recently started an association, more reminiscent of a raider takeover.
Apparently, for copyright defenders, Mostransbank, which lost its license, was a “pocket” credit institution. Approximately the same as for a number of other influential people the burst bank "Peresvet". RAO, RSP and WIPO, by a strange coincidence, had accounts in Mostransbank. Moreover, it was these accounts that were used to create fictitious reporting and withdraw money.
Vladimir Putin and Nikita Mikhalkov
Last year, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow launched an investigation into the case of illegal banking activities (Article 172 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against Mostransbank based on the operational file of the FSB. In November 2015, security officers detained the chairman of the board of the bank, Sergei Zakharikov. He, according to investigators, was the organizer of a criminal group that illegally cashed out about 4 billion rubles and earned 114 million rubles from it.
Before the bankruptcy of Mostransbank, the board of directors was also led by a "transport worker" - Alexander Shurikov, chairman of the Moscow City Trade Union of Road Transport and Road Workers. He was also one of the four co-owners of the bank, along with Zakharikov, the former head of the Mosgortrans revenue and control service, Mikhail Kitroser, and the offshore company E95 Everston Limited, registered in Cyprus, owned by Natalya Vitausovna Vingeta. This girl from Krasnoyarsk was previously a student and translator, then became Sergey Zakharikov’s partner in Professional Investment company". In addition to Mrs. Winguete, the banker Zakharikov is associated with the singer Nikolai Rastorguev. The leader of the "LUBE" group, the shareholder of Mostransbank and a number of other persons established an association of owners of watercraft - the yacht club "Golden City".
Among the members of the board of directors of the bank was Alexander Viktorovich Surits, and among the shareholders - Natalia Ivanova, director of the 5th Moscow trolleybus depot Leonid Karlikov, the former head of the 16th bus depot of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans - the current deputy of the Orekhovo-Borisovo Yuzhnoye municipal district Gennady Sidelnikov , director of the 7th trolleybus depot Viktor Strebkov, Sergey Alexandrovich Ulyanov (son of the head of Mosgortrans Alexander Ulyanov), Svetlana Korshunova and Alexander Andreev. Also, a 100% subsidiary of Gazprom avtomatizatsii, LLC Sovtigaz, owned a stake in the bank.
The list of affiliates of Motransbank according to the Central Bank can be viewed. The Central Bank is sure that the policy of the bursting bank was influenced by the head of Modern Technologies LLC Tatyana Alekseeva, businessman Roman Burmistrov - through Recreational Technologies LLC (now the company belongs to Kirill Anatolyevich Lyubovsky), Alexander Vetrov and Taras Tarsky - through Avrora-Avtodor LLC ”, Vladimir Chernov and Alexandra Borzikova - through Transinvest, Sergey Savin and Tatyana Chicherina - through RSU-Technopark, Igor Shchedrin and Dmitry Anikin - through RM Development, Oleg Gavryshkiv and Pavel Lesin - through NPO Transmagistral , Ekaterina Belyaeva and Alexander Golubkov - through RSU "Tsentrdorinvest", citizen of Kyrgyzstan Zharybek Belikov and Russian Sergey Almukov - through LLC "Innovation Technology".
Vladimir Putin and cashing professor Tatyana Alekseeva
The phone number of Modern Technologies LLC coincides with the editorial number of the Knowledge - Power magazine. Since 2002, the founder of the journal has been the sole owner of Modern Technologies and formally the largest shareholder of Mostransbank Tatiana Alexandrovna Alekseeva - professor at MGIMO, Doctor of Philosophy, member of the bureau of the expert council under the committee on international affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, member of the expert council of the committee on CIS affairs of the State Duma , a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Political Science and a member of the Academy of Military Sciences. Previously, Professor Alekseeva was personally received by Vladimir Putin, and the scientific community was accused of systematic plagiarism. Anatoly Torkunov, who became famous thanks to an informal order to inflate his son's grades, works as the rector of MGIMO Dmitry Medvedev and the revelations of other elite MGIMO students about their hate to Russia.
To date, it is known that the funds to the depositors of the collapsed Mostransbank will be paid PJSC JSCB "Svyaz-Bank" .
Ural political scientists against the plagiarist Alekseeva
Hello, friends!
Not being sure of the interestingness of the information sent to you, we still found it possible to inform you about the case of plagiarism in a textbook published under the auspices of MGIMO by a teacher from MGIMO.
The background and specific facts are given in the following text, which is a copy of a letter sent a week ago to the Faculty of Political Science at MGIMO (unfortunately, we did not receive an answer, which is why we considered it possible to bring you up to date).
We turn to you for clarification about a very unpleasant story. Recently, a book published under the auspices of your faculty fell into our hands: Alekseeva T.A. Modern political theories: a course of lectures. - M.: MGIMO: ROSSPEN, 2007. Without touching on the issue of common shortcomings of this edition, we would like to draw your attention to a glaring case: on the pages of this book there are cases of outright large-scale plagiarism.
In order not to be unfounded, we present specific example. Topic 15, sub-item "Post-structuralism: Jacques Derrida": from page 411 to page 419 the text is a verbatim borrowing from Lilla M. The Politics of Jacques Derrida // The New York Review of Books, June 25, 1998, pp. 36-41.
Here is an illustrative comparison of a small fragment:
Lilla: "The Sartre-Heidegger dispute followed Sartre"s 1945 lecture on humanism, which Heidegger read as a travesty of his own intellectual position. Sartre had appropriated the Heideggerian language of anxiety, authenticity, existence, and resolution to make the case for man as "the future of man," by which he meant that man"s autonomous self-development should replace transcendent ends as the aim of all our striving. In a long, and justly famous, "Letter on Humanism" (1946), Heidegger responded that his aim had always been to question the concept of man and perhaps free us from it. Ever since Plato, he wrote. Western philosophy had made unexamined metaphysical assumptions about man "s essence..." the quotation from Heidegger continues.
Alekseeva: "The dispute between Heidegger and Sartre began after Sartre's lecture on humanism in 1945. Using the style of Heidegger, Sartre argued that the autonomous self-development of a person should replace all transcendental goals that we strive for. In the "Letter on Humanism" (1946), Heidegger wrote that his goal has always been to question the concept of man and free us from it. "Since the time of Plato," he wrote, "Western philosophy has made untested metaphysical assumptions about the essence of man ..." Further, the quotation from Heidegger continues and, characteristically, goes as far as the same place as in the sources of plagiarism.
The subsequent text of the subparagraph continues borrowing in the same genus from the specified source. In essence, we have a translation of a foreign text, without any indication of it, that is, direct plagiarism.
We have neither the time nor the desire to conduct research to identify plagiarism in the entire volume of the book, we think, however, that there are many more such borrowings in it, however, in our opinion, these 8 pages of plagiarism are quite enough to evaluate the entire publication.
Two doctors of science are listed as reviewers of the book in question, and the book itself is published under the auspices of MGIMO and is recommended by the Educational and Methodological Association of Russian Universities and the Scientific and Methodological Council of Political Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as a teaching aid. We sincerely regret that such a blatant case affects both respected doctors and respected educational institutions and respected organizations, but it is absolutely impossible to ignore it, because it violates all scientific traditions. Scientific workers who, instead of engaging in independent research, instead of studying and working through scientific literature, instead of delving into and analyzing scientific problems, consider it sufficient to simply find and copy someone else's author's text, there is no place in Russian science, they cannot be considered scientists, since their activities fundamentally contradict international norms and standards of scientific activity.
We have decided to show loyalty and not make this outrageous case public until you conduct an internal verification of the facts presented. We ask you to analyze this situation as soon as possible, make appropriate personnel and organizational decisions, and also make a public apology.
Sincerely, the staff of the Department of Political Science of the South Ural State University.
P.S. How the scientific community should respond to such cases is illustrated by a recent example in Germany, where a minister of defense convicted of plagiarism was not only deprived of a scientific degree, but was also forced to resign.
society and other similar organizations. Director of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) Yuri Isaev suspected the board of RAO, the Russian Union of Rightholders (RSP) and the All-Russian Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of involvement in the withdrawal of more than 1.84 billion rubles from Mostransbank. Three organizations have recently started an association, more reminiscent of a raider takeover.
Apparently, Mostransbank, which lost its license, was a “pocket” credit institution for copyright defenders. Approximately the same as for a number of other influential people the burst bank "Peresvet". RAO, RSP and WIPO, by a strange coincidence, had accounts in Mostransbank. Moreover, it was these accounts that were used to create fictitious reporting and withdraw money.
Vladimir Putin and Nikita Mikhalkov
Last year, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow launched an investigation into the case of illegal banking activities (Article 172 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against Mostransbank based on the operational file of the FSB. In November 2015, security officers detained the chairman of the board of the bank, Sergei Zakharikov. He, according to investigators, was the organizer of a criminal group that illegally cashed out about 4 billion rubles and earned 114 million rubles from it.
Before the bankruptcy of Mostransbank, the board of directors was also led by a "transport worker" - Alexander Shurikov, chairman of the Moscow City Trade Union of Road Transport and Road Workers. He was also one of the four co-owners of the bank, along with Zakharikov, the former head of the Mosgortrans revenue and control service, Mikhail Kitroser, and the offshore company E95 Everston Limited, registered in Cyprus, owned by Natalya Vitausovna Vingeta. This girl from Krasnoyarsk was previously a student and translator, then became Sergey Zakharikov's partner in Professional Investment Company LLC. In addition to Mrs. Winguete, the banker Zakharikov is associated with the singer Nikolai Rastorguev. The leader of the "LUBE" group, the shareholder of Mostransbank and a number of other persons established an association of owners of watercraft - the yacht club "Golden City".
Among the members of the board of directors of the bank was Alexander Viktorovich Surits, and among the shareholders - Natalia Ivanova, director of the 5th Moscow trolleybus depot Leonid Karlikov, the former head of the 16th bus depot of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans - the current deputy of the Orekhovo-Borisovo Yuzhnoye municipal district Gennady Sidelnikov , director of the 7th trolleybus depot Viktor Strebkov, Sergey Alexandrovich Ulyanov (son of the head of Mosgortrans Alexander Ulyanov), Svetlana Korshunova and Alexander Andreev. Also, a 100% subsidiary of Gazprom avtomatizatsii, LLC Sovtigaz, owned a stake in the bank.
The list of affiliates of Motransbank according to the Central Bank can be viewed. The Central Bank is sure that the policy of the bursting bank was influenced by the head of Modern Technologies LLC Tatyana Alekseeva, businessman Roman Burmistrov - through Recreational Technologies LLC (now the company belongs to Kirill Anatolyevich Lyubovsky), Alexander Vetrov and Taras Tarsky - through Avrora-Avtodor LLC ”, Vladimir Chernov and Alexandra Borzikova - through Transinvest, Sergey Savin and Tatyana Chicherina - through RSU-Technopark, Igor Shchedrin and Dmitry Anikin - through RM Development, Oleg Gavryshkiv and Pavel Lesin - through NPO Transmagistral , Ekaterina Belyaeva and Alexander Golubkov - through RSU "Tsentrdorinvest", citizen of Kyrgyzstan Zharybek Belikov and Russian Sergey Almukov - through LLC "Innovation Technology".
Vladimir Putin and cashing professor Tatyana Alekseeva
The phone number of Modern Technologies LLC coincides with the editorial number of the Knowledge - Power magazine. Since 2002, the founder of the journal has been the sole owner of Modern Technologies and formally the largest shareholder of Mostransbank Tatiana Alexandrovna Alekseeva - professor at MGIMO, Doctor of Philosophy, member of the bureau of the expert council under the committee on international affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, member of the expert council of the committee on CIS affairs of the State Duma , a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Political Science and a member of the Academy of Military Sciences. Previously, Professor Alekseeva was personally received by Vladimir Putin, and the scientific community was accused of systematic plagiarism. Anatoly Torkunov, who became famous thanks to an informal order to inflate his son's grades, works as the rector of MGIMO Dmitry Medvedev and the revelations of other elite MGIMO students about their hate to Russia.
To date, it is known that the funds to the depositors of the collapsed Mostransbank will be paid PJSC JSCB "Svyaz-Bank" .
Ural political scientists against the plagiarist Alekseeva
Hello, friends!
Not being sure of the interestingness of the information sent to you, we still found it possible to inform you about the case of plagiarism in a textbook published under the auspices of MGIMO by a teacher from MGIMO.
The background and specific facts are given in the following text, which is a copy of a letter sent a week ago to the Faculty of Political Science at MGIMO (unfortunately, we did not receive an answer, which is why we considered it possible to bring you up to date).
We turn to you for clarification about a very unpleasant story. Recently, a book published under the auspices of your faculty fell into our hands: Alekseeva T.A. Modern political theories: a course of lectures. - M.: MGIMO: ROSSPEN, 2007. Without touching on the issue of the general shortcomings of this publication, we would like to draw your attention to a glaring case: there are cases of outright large-scale plagiarism on the pages of this book.
In order not to be unfounded, we will give a specific example. Topic 15, sub-item "Post-structuralism: Jacques Derrida": from page 411 to page 419 the text is a verbatim borrowing from Lilla M. The Politics of Jacques Derrida // The New York Review of Books, June 25, 1998, pp. 36-41.
Here is an illustrative comparison of a small fragment:
Lilla: "The Sartre-Heidegger dispute followed Sartre"s 1945 lecture on humanism, which Heidegger read as a travesty of his own intellectual position. Sartre had appropriated the Heideggerian language of anxiety, authenticity, existence, and resolution to make the case for man as "the future of man," by which he meant that man"s autonomous self-development should replace transcendent ends as the aim of all our striving. In a long, and justly famous, "Letter on Humanism" (1946), Heidegger responded that his aim had always been to question the concept of man and perhaps free us from it. Ever since Plato, he wrote. Western philosophy had made unexamined metaphysical assumptions about man "s essence..." the quotation from Heidegger continues.
Alekseeva: "The dispute between Heidegger and Sartre began after Sartre's lecture on humanism in 1945. Using the style of Heidegger, Sartre argued that the autonomous self-development of a person should replace all transcendental goals that we strive for. In the "Letter on Humanism" (1946), Heidegger wrote that his goal has always been to question the concept of man and free us from it. "Since the time of Plato," he wrote, "Western philosophy has made untested metaphysical assumptions about the essence of man ..." Further, the quotation from Heidegger continues and, characteristically, goes as far as the same place as in the sources of plagiarism.
The subsequent text of the subparagraph continues borrowing in the same genus from the specified source. In essence, we have a translation of a foreign text, without any indication of it, that is, direct plagiarism.
We have neither the time nor the desire to conduct research to identify plagiarism in the entire volume of the book, we think, however, that there are many more such borrowings in it, however, in our opinion, these 8 pages of plagiarism are quite enough to evaluate the entire publication.
Two doctors of science are listed as reviewers of the book in question, and the book itself is published under the auspices of MGIMO and is recommended by the Educational and Methodological Association of Russian Universities and the Scientific and Methodological Council of Political Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as a teaching aid. We sincerely regret that such a blatant case affects both respected doctors and respected educational institutions and respected organizations, but it is absolutely impossible to ignore it, because it violates all scientific traditions. Scientific workers who, instead of engaging in independent research, instead of studying and working through scientific literature, instead of delving into and analyzing scientific problems, consider it sufficient to simply find and copy someone else's author's text there is no place in Russian science, they cannot be considered scientists , as their activities fundamentally contradict international norms and standards of scientific activity.
We have decided to show loyalty and not make this outrageous case public until you conduct an internal verification of the facts presented. We ask you to analyze this situation as soon as possible, make appropriate personnel and organizational decisions, and also make a public apology.
Sincerely, the staff of the Department of Political Science of the South Ural State University.
P.S. How the scientific community should respond to such cases is illustrated by a recent example in Germany, where a minister of defense convicted of plagiarism was not only deprived of a scientific degree, but was also forced to resign.
A case has been opened on the embezzlement of funds in Mostransbank.
As it became known to Kommersant, the Department of Internal Affairs for the South-Eastern District of Moscow began an investigation into the embezzlement by Mostransbank's management of almost 2 billion rubles. from investor funds. At the same time, according to law enforcement officers, in order to falsify mandatory reporting to the Central Bank, the attackers used the funds and accounts of the Russian Union of Copyright Holders, the council of which is headed by the famous film director Nikita Mikhalkov, as well as the Russian Authors' Society, whose CEO Sergey Fedotov is currently accused of major fraud in another case.
According to Kommersant's sources, the investigative department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the South-Eastern District of Moscow opened a criminal case a few days ago about embezzling funds from Mostransbank depositors. The basis was the results of an audit conducted by law enforcement officers at the request of the first deputy general director of the Deposit Insurance Agency Valery Miroshnikov.
According to the police, on April 1, 2014, with the sanction of the bank's management, a multi-stage criminal scheme began to operate in it, aimed at "criminal enrichment" of its participants. In accordance with it, according to the materials of the investigation, a certain LLC "Prommo" opened two accounts in the bank, through which the money of depositors was withdrawn under the guise of loans. And so that the leakage of money was not detected, investigators believe, the bank's management organized a very original system of disguise. According to investigators, in order to convincingly falsify the mandatory reporting to the regulator in form 0409101, until December 1, 2015, at the end of each calendar month, the bank registered a "fictitious repayment" of Prommo's debt to it, transferring funds from the accounts of large banks to the borrower's accounts for a day or two. of the bank's clients - the Russian Authors' Society (RAO) and the Russian Union of Rightholders (RSP), whose council is headed by Nikita Mikhalkov. When the reporting period to the Central Bank ended, the money was returned to the accounts of their owners. The police investigation qualifies all these operations as embezzlement and embezzlement of depositors' funds by a "group of persons on an especially large scale" (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). There are no defendants in the materials of the investigation yet, we are talking about "unidentified persons". The amount of damage in the case has not yet been determined: at the initial stage of the investigation, it is said that "the amount is more than 1 million rubles." It should be noted that according to the results of an audit conducted in the bank after the revocation of its license in May last year, the DIA found a "hole" from loans issued to Prommo in the amount of more than 1.84 billion rubles. At the same time, the auditors argued that the account of the All-Russian Organization of Intellectual Property (WIPO) was also used to mask the theft of funds, and in addition to Prommo, the funds of depositors were also withdrawn through LLC Upravlenie technical support", Trust Systems LLC, Bitilink LLC, Igrotronik LLC. The total damage in the DIA was estimated at 35.5 billion rubles. The auditors, as Kommersant previously told, concluded that the chairman of the board of Mostransbank could be the organizer of the theft Sergei Zakharikov, who signed contracts with LLC.
It is worth noting that the RSP and WIPO mentioned in the investigation materials (as well as the Union of Cinematographers of Russia) are the founders of the RAO. The director general of the latter, Sergei Fedotov, as Kommersant told Kommersant, is now on trial for real estate fraud and is under arrest. The case of the former chairman of the board of Mostransbank Zakharikov on illegal banking activities (part 2 of article 172 of the Criminal Code) is already being considered by the Savelovsky District Court.
"RAO only had a settlement account with OAO Mostransbank, and OOO Prommo was never RAO's counterparty — RAO did not make any settlements with OOO Prommo," Anna Pavlova, head of RAO's judicial and legal department, told Kommersant yesterday.— At the end of October 2015, after connecting to the system, RAO employees electronic payments"Bank-client" it was found that the incoming balance for the day differed significantly from the outgoing, despite the fact that there was no movement of funds on the account. On this fact, an appeal was sent to OJSC "Mostransbank" with a request to provide explanations, since RAO did not give instructions to write off funds from the account. In response, an employee of Mostransbank OJSC referred to some technical failures in the software, asking them not to pay attention to the said statement and promising to look into the situation and restore the correct information on the account. Within a very short time, information about the outgoing balance on the current account of RAO in the statement to the "Bank-client" was indeed restored, and such cases did not recur. In the fall of 2016, the prosecutor's office sent requests to all clients of Mostransbank OJSC on the issue of reflecting doubtful transactions in the bank's statements at the end of reporting periods. RAO provided information and materials necessary to study these circumstances. RAO supports the verification of the circumstances of the bankruptcy of Mostransbank OJSC and is ready to continue to provide maximum assistance to law enforcement agencies in this matter."
The Russian Union of Rightholders did not respond to Kommersant's request yesterday, and representatives of Sergei Zakharikov did not comment on the situation either.