Inessa Brandenburg, who used to lead the Siberian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (SBRR), was extradited from Spain to Russia. The editors have previously given Attention this plot.
According to the authorities, Mrs. Brandenburg, along with her partners, stole over 560 million rubles from the cash desk in Tyumen by taking money in sports bags before the bank's license was revoked. She has been wanted since 2018. Her close friend and main partner in crime Grigory Romanyuta, who received the largest portion of the stolen cash, is still on the run.
Inessa Brandenburg's extradition from Spain to Russia was announced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. “Accompanied by employees of the NCB Interpol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Penitentiary Service, a citizen of the Russian Federation Inessa Brandenburg was extradited from the Kingdom of Spain. Today, at the Madrid airport, the woman was handed over to representatives of Russian law enforcement agencies for delivery to Moscow,” the ministry said. According to her, Inessa Brandenburg was detained in Spain in September last year. She is accused of being involved in a large-scale theft committed by a group of individuals (part 4 of article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). investigation is being conducted by the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tyumen region.
Inessa Brandenburg previously worked as Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Siberian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (SBRR) in Tyumen. According to investigators, she was involved in the theft of over 560 million rubles from the bank in January 2018. According to the editors, the bank's beneficiary, Grigory Romanyuta, appointed Inessa Brandenburg as his deputy to provide an alibi for himself. The bank's team was introduced to the new deputy head exactly one week before the robbery. Romanyuta himself went on vacation to Moscow to avoid arousing suspicion. Additionally, he sent the second deputy chairman of the bank, the chief accountant, and the head of the cash operations department away as well.
According to the criminal case, the embezzlement was organized by the chairman of the board and co-owner of the bank, Grigory Romanyuta, in anticipation of the imminent revocation of the SBRR license. Dmitry Manuilov, Igor Gorbonosov, and Sergey Kuznetsov also participated, but the main role in the theft was assigned to Inessa Brandenburg.
The Siberian Bank for Reconstruction and Development was established in Tyumen in December 1990. The credit institution's co-owners included Reskom-Tyumen LLC (19.92%), the wife of the ex-deputy of the regional Duma Sergey Korobov Natalya Korobova (19.25%), ex-chairman of the board of the bank Grigory Romanyuta (14.29%), Alexey Lebzak (15.61%), Natalya Kobzeva (15.47%), and Alexander Nikulin (15.46%).
The crime was committed on January 26, 2018.
According to the investigation, before the theft, Romanyuta and Brandenburg organized a replenishment of the bank’s cash desk, having received money from the Ural State Central Bank of the Russian Federation under the pretext of an expected outflow of customers due to lower rates.
Mrs. Brandenburg took the money from the vault, putting stationery instead. Then Sergey Kuznetsov took out cash in nine sports bags. About 350 million rubles. was taken by a man not identified by the investigation for Romanyuta. And about 100 million rubles. took Brandenburg, which on the night of January 27 flew to Moscow on a pre-leased Yak-40 plane. Then, according to the investigation, she went to Berlin, and Grigory Romanyuta to Barcelona. Both were later put on the wanted list.
Grigory Romanyuta
The disappearance of money was discovered only a few days later. In February 2018, the Bank of Russia revoked the license from the SBRR for asset withdrawal transactions and appointed a temporary administration at the bank. In March 2018, the bank was declared bankrupt.
Other participants in the theft writes “Kommersant”, were detained and sentenced by the Kalininsky District Court of Tyumen to three years in prison in a penal colony. However, later the Tyumen Regional Court toughened the punishment for Dmitry Manuilov and sentenced him to four years in prison due to the fact that he received about 90 million rubles as a result of the theft, and the rest of the accomplices received 5–7 million rubles each.
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