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.
The MVB lost its 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.
