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2024: Sentence - 5 years in prison for embezzlement of 4.2 billion rubles

On July 18, 2024, the Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced in a high-profile case of large-scale embezzlement in the banking sector. Former head of the Moscow branch of the Asia-Pacific Bank (ATB) Tatyana Shablyko received 5 years in prison for embezzlement of ₽4,2 billion.

According to Kommersant, the court found Shablyko guilty of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (theft of someone else's property entrusted to the culprit, using his official position, organized by a group, on an especially large scale). The verdict turned out to be much milder than the prosecutor's office requested - the prosecution insisted on a period of 9 years and 6 months in a general regime colony.

According to the materials of the criminal case, the crime was committed in the period 2014-2015, when Shablyko headed the Moscow branch of ATB. The funds were withdrawn from the bank by issuing fictitious loan agreements with companies affiliated with the accused and other persons involved in the investigation. Among these companies are FTK LLC, Expo-Leasing LLC, AV-Import LLC, V.M.H.Y. Holdings Limited and a number of other legal entities.

Initially, Shablyko was accused of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), but during the investigation the charge was re-qualified for embezzlement. Before the verdict, the defendant was under house arrest, having previously spent one year and three months in a pre-trial detention center.

At the beginning of the trial, Shablyko did not admit her guilt. She claimed that she did not make independent decisions on the conclusion of loan agreements, but only complied with the instructions received from the head office of the bank in Khabarovsk. In particular, the defendant referred to the orders of the then chairman of the board of directors of ATB Andrei Vdovin, who until 2018 was one of the beneficiaries of the credit institution.

Andrei Vdovin, who left Russia and is in Germany, also appears in this case. He has been charged in absentia and put on the international wanted list. The German authorities refused to extradite him to Russia.

After the announcement of the verdict, Tatyana Shablyko was taken into custody directly in the courtroom for subsequent transfer to the place of serving the sentence.^[1]

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