Igor Safonov “loaned” 4 billion rubles.
The Khamovniki Court of Moscow sentenced the ex-head of the Russian Trade Bank (RTBC) to eight years in a penal colony Igor Safonov for embezzlement of more than four billion rubles, reported in the prosecutor’s office of the capital.
The agency noted that the Khamovnichesky Court had convicted 49-year-old Igor Safonov. The ex-chairman of the board was convicted “for committing a crime under part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement of property entrusted to the guilty, committed by an organized group on an especially large scale)”.
It is noted that Safonov in April 2018 signed an agreement made on his instructions for the purchase by a bank from one of the participants in an organized group of illiquid securities with a total value of more than 2.5 billion rubles. In addition, on his instructions, the controlled individual entrepreneurs involved in the criminal scheme received loans for more than 1.3 billion rubles, and then “cash”, which the participants in the scheme divided among themselves. In addition, RTBC acquired the right to claim on credit obligations of legal entities that are borrowers of the bank, in order to withdraw them from the asset of more than 816 million rubles.
It is emphasized that the total amount of damage to the bank exceeded four billion rubles.
It is added that the verdict has not yet entered into force and can be appealed.
