Igor Pyatigorets ended up in a prison colony because of loans he obtained.
The ex-leader of the Rostov division of Rosselkhozbank received a sentence in the Ust-Donetsk district court. Igor Pyatigorets. The head of a bank department, Anna Ghetto, and the director of a commercial company, Vadim Zhukov, also received sentences. Vadim Zhukov. They were found guilty of fraud. This information came from the press service of the prosecutor’s office of the Rostov region. In court, it was revealed that, along with the former head of the same bank division, Alexey Voitkodirectors of two commercial companies, Yakov Sevostyanov and Sergey Klimenko and others, took over 171 million rubles from the bank by giving out clearly non-repayable loans. This occurred between February and August 2015.
Voitko, Sevostyanov, and Klimenko were previously sentenced. The case against the other accomplices is being handled separately.
It should be remembered that the situation involves three loans issued by the bank to the agricultural companies Unity and Saturn. The leaders of these companies cooperated with the investigation, leading to the accusation against the ex-banker. The banker claims that he disagrees with the accusation and insists that the loans were issued on reasonable terms.
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As a result, the court sentenced Pyatigorets to 8.5 years in prison, Ghetto to 7.8 years in prison, and Zhukov to 6 years in prison. They must serve their sentence in a penal colony. The verdict can still be challenged on appeal.
According to investigators, the Rosselkhozbank branch operated a scheme for granting knowingly non-performing loans. Then law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case on the fact of embezzlement of 390 million rubles, several employees of the bank and local entrepreneurs became defendants. Anna Ghetto was accused of two counts of fraud. As indicated in the case file, she issued loans to Aspect and Polivmaster for a total amount of over 250 million rubles. Investigators believe that the loans were deliberately bad: according to the investigation, the price of collateral was inflated several times. The former head of the Rostov branch of Rosselkhozbank, Igor Pyatigorets, claimed that the investigation into the case against bank employees began after he applied to law enforcement agencies in the fall of 2016.
Recall that Igor Pyatigorets was detained in April 2019 in one of the cafes in the center of Rostov. He spent all the time of the investigation in a pre-trial detention center. Pyatigorets headed the Rostov branch of the Russian Agricultural Bank from 2011 to 2017. She was also a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region.
Igor Pyatigorets was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region of five convocations from the United Russia party. He last became an MP in 2013. Until 2018, he worked in the budget and agricultural policy committees.
