Gazin Igor Anatolyevich

Biography

2025: Sentence - 8 years in prison for embezzlement of 82 million rubles

On April 4, 2025, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the former leaders of PFS-Bank in the case of embezzlement of 82 million rubles. Former chairman of the board of the credit institution Igor Gazin received 8 years in prison.

In 2020, the Bank of Russia revoked the banking license from PFS-Bank. It was established that this credit institution committed violations of the law in the field of countering the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism. In addition, as the regulator said in a statement, the bank was "largely focused" on conducting dubious cash transactions, as well as dubious transit operations. The bank was found to have violated federal laws governing banking.

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The bank was declared bankrupt, and bankruptcy proceedings were opened against it. At the same time, the functions of the bankruptcy trustee were assigned to the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). It was established that PFS-Bank issued loans to organizations and individual entrepreneurs who are deliberately unable to fulfill their obligations. These actions led to a deterioration in the financial situation and the bankruptcy of the organization.

In 2022, the DIA sent a statement to the court to bring those who controlled PFS-Bank to subsidiary liability in the total amount of about 0.6 billion rubles. The court found Gazin, as well as the ex-head of the credit department Maria Tropina and their accomplice Ivan Nakhalov guilty of embezzlement of funds from a credit institution in the amount of over 82 million rubles. Nakhalov was sentenced to 6 years in prison, Tropina - to 3.5 years in prison.^[1]

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