Senezh, New Polymer Plant

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2023: Theft of 139 million rubles from accounts using electronic keys

A large Russian manufacturer of paints and woodworking products "Senezh" stole 139 million rubles. This became known on January 25, 2023.

On this day, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that the Khoroshevsky court of Moscow began to consider on the merits a criminal case on embezzlement of money from the Senezh Group of Companies. According to investigators, this was done by the former co-owner of the holding Alexei Knekov and his wife Olga Knekova, who illegally obtained electronic keys of access to the company's bank accounts. They transferred the written off money to one-day firms.

Plant "Senezh"

The alleged accomplice of the spouses - Dmitry Studenov, general director of two companies included in Senezh, who was dismissed shortly before the theft of money, has already been sentenced in a special order to four years in prison. For a long time, he first headed the security service of the Civil Code, and then took the post of general director of Senezh-Distribution and Senezh-Drugs, but on July 17, 2018 he was dismissed by the decision of the general meeting. Having met with Studenov in Domodedovo near Moscow, the couple, as follows from the case file, suggested that he receive a duplicate of the keys from Sberbank.

At the same time, they explained that due to the formalities related to registration with the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the bank has not yet received information about his dismissal and therefore Studenov appears in bank documents in his previous status. Accordingly, he can easily arrange remote access, and then transfer the key to the spouses. As follows from the materials of the case, the Knekovs insisted during the conversation that the dismissal of their interlocutor was illegal, so the implementation of their plan would allow Studenov to "restore justice."

The organizers of the scam explained their interest by the fact that they intend to receive the dividends allegedly due to them, but not paid. Of these, the Knekovs promised their accomplice 15 million rubles.

It was planned to consider the case in the fall of 2022, but it was postponed for various circumstances, the newspaper notes.^[1]

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