Friday, April 24, 2015

“Trust” was under refurbishment MIA – Kommersant

Yesterday it was reported that a criminal case against former executives of the bank “Trust”. Its top managers, according to investigators, developed and for two years was used to withdraw the criminal scheme of money the bank’s clients. As a cover for the withdrawal of assets used bogus credit agreements with companies controlled by the bank’s management. Thus, the depositors of the bank has been stolen more than 7 billion rubles. and $ 118.3 million. The Interior Ministry assured that the defendants in this case will in the near future. However, the potential figures of the case has already left the country.

to initiate an investigation against the former leaders of the “Trust” said Interior Ministry spokesman yesterday Elena Alexeeva. According to her, the main Investigation Department of Research Affairs in Moscow against them prosecuted under h. 4 tbsp. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on a large scale).

As noted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the top managers of the bank entered into a criminal conspiracy aimed at stealing “by deception and abuse of trust funds attracted by banks from legal entities and individuals.” For this purpose, in the period from 2012 to 2014 they were approved and signed bogus credit and loan agreements, in which clients’ money withdrawn from the bank controlled by the leadership of “Trust” Cyprus offshore companies. According to preliminary estimates of the investigation, so the bank was derived at least 7.05 billion rubles., And $ 118.3 million, which, after the transfer to the accounts of individuals and companies, “controlled management” Trust “were stolen”, stressed Elena Alexeeva. As a result of the scheme for two years, according to the Interior Ministry, the bank has not received income to timely debt service payments on loans. In addition, the damage on a large scale has been applied and the DIA, which from the budget was “forced to pay debts to depositors of the bank,” said the representative of the Ministry of Interior.

The ministry did not call the company through which the withdrawal of funds of depositors “Trust”. However, in the files of cases the Moscow Arbitration Court has seven claims of the bank to the offshore companies registered in Cyprus. With LB Collection Services Limited, which specializes in securities trading and lending, the bank requires 2.2 billion rubles. With “Muria Trading Limited” “Trust” expects to recover 1.96 billion rubles. And with Siberiankd Timber Enterprises Limited – 2 billion rubles. under the loan agreements.

According to the latest Bank lawsuit asked the court to adopt interim measures in the form of arrest, the share of the Cyprus company in the authorized capital of OOO “Business Group”. The latter company, as follows from the case, is implementing the project of timber processing complex in the Krasnoyarsk region. In addition, the court proceedings is a lawsuit against the company TIB Investments Limited for the recovery of $ 71.5 million. And the company “Belenfild Trade Limited” under the pledge agreement on June 10, 2014 “Trust” is trying to sue the principal amount of $ 2, 3 billion rubles. In this case, TIB Investments Limited, according to the scheme of ownership of the bank in January 2015, owned by the owner of “Trust” Ilya Yurov, Sergei Belyaev and Nikolay Fetisov.

In January this year, the Bank of Russia reported the discovery scheme asset stripping them of “Trust” and at the same time appealed to the police. As noted by the regulator, “Trust” has used the scheme lending borrowers, “not leading real economic activity, as well as the financing of investment projects not generate cash flows.”

As previously reported, “b”, at the end of December 2014 the Central Bank announced the decision to sanitize the bank “Trust”, which did not cope with the outflow of deposits. Sanatorium was chosen bank “Opening”, which is obtained from the DIA 127 billion rubles. It is the third largest amount allocated for such purposes after payments to rescue the Bank of Moscow and MOSOBLBANK. At the same time, according to deputy chairman Mikhail Sukhov, the size of the hole in the bank at the time of the announcement of the reorganization is estimated at 67.8 billion rubles. According to him, it was “the extremely poor quality of the portfolio of consumer loans,” as well as “significant losses” on loans to legal entities. According to “Kommersant”, about 45-50 billion rubles. had, in fact, on nonperforming loans, which the bank statements were recorded as restructured and therefore can not be reserved.

The biggest beneficiaries of the bank “Trust” – Chairman of the Board of Directors Ilya Yurov, board members, Nikolai Fetisov and Sergei Belyaev, according to sources, “b”, after the collapse of Russia and hurriedly left are now presumably in Australia. As noted in the Central Bank, “the bank’s shareholders did not wish in any way in the future to take part in the fate and activities of the bank.”

Vladislav Trifonov, Elena Kovalev


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