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2024: Sentence - suspended sentence of 6 years for embezzlement of 198 million rubles
On August 26, 2024, the Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg found the ex-president of Prime Finance Bank Mikhail Tabunov and the former head of the operating cash desk of the additional office of the credit institution Maya Alekseeva guilty of embezzlement of funds. According to the ruling, these persons received prison terms.
A civil lawsuit in the interests of Prime Finance Bank was filed by the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). The court satisfied the requirements in the amount of over 198 million rubles. At the same time, the arrests imposed as part of the preliminary investigation on Tabunov's property were preserved. The court sentenced Tabunov and Alekseeva, respectively, to six and five years of suspended imprisonment.
Earlier it was reported that the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee completed the investigation of the criminal case against Tabunov and Alekseeva, accused of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement on an especially large scale). According to investigators, in 2016-2019, Alekseeva, at the direction of Tabunov, issued cash entrusted to her in cash to Tabunov himself and other persons. In total, as stated in the case file, during the specified period, cash in the amount of approximately 430 million rubles was spent from the bank's cash desk.
The Bank of Russia revoked the license from Prime Finance Bank in 2019 due to the fact that it completely lost its own assets due to the revealed "shortage of funds at the cash desk in the amount of more than 268 million rubles." According to the DIA, earlier the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region declared Prime Finance insolvent (bankrupt) - bankruptcy proceedings were opened against it. It established that the bank issued loans to persons who were obviously unable to fulfill their obligations. In addition, facts of theft of funds from the bank cash desk and ATMs were revealed.[1]