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2024: Arrest in absentia in the case of embezzlement of 22 billion rubles
On April 10, 2024, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the former beneficiary of the burst Transport Bank, Alexander Mazanov. He is accused of embezzling almost 22 billion rubles.
According to the Kommersant newspaper, two criminal cases have been initiated against Mazanov: under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement on an especially large scale) and under Part 5 of Art. 291 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (giving a bribe to an official on a large scale). In addition to Mazanov, the defendants in the case were the former president and chairman of the board of Transport Bank Elena Pletneva, her deputy Lilia Malyutina, adviser to the chairman of the board Alexander Sentyakov, director of the operations department Oksana Avdiukova, director of the retail underwriting department Irina Makarova, as well as businessmen Vyacheslav Chikalin and Maxim Anokhin.
According to the investigation, these persons from June 2013 to May 2015 carried out the theft of funds from a credit institution. The total amount of waste is estimated at 21.8 billion rubles. The money was withdrawn by issuing deliberately bad loans under forged documents.
The investigation established that Mazanov hiding abroad tried to avoid criminal liability for a bribe in the amount of $900 thousand. According to law enforcement officers, the banker intended to give money to an investigator of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was investigating embezzlement in a credit institution. Mazanov's involvement in the commission of the crimes incriminated to him is confirmed by "the testimony of witnesses and other accused, protocols of searches and seizures, expert conclusions, as well as the results of operational-search activities."
On this basis, the court chose a preventive measure against the accused in the form of detention for a period of two months from the moment Mazanov was extradited to the Russian Federation or from the moment he was detained. Other persons involved in the case in 2021 received from six and a half to eight years in prison.[1]
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