Alyakin Aleksei Aleksandrovich

Alyakin Aleksei Aleksandrovich

Biography

2025: Absentee arrest for embezzlement of 1 billion rubles from Unicorbank

On January 25, 2025, it became known that the Tverskoy Court of Moscow re-arrested in absentia the former beneficiary and co-owner of a number of bankrupt banks Alexei Alyakin. He is accused of embezzling almost 1 billion rubles of Moscow Unicorbank.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the Tver District Court of Moscow initially authorized the arrest of Alyakin in absentia in December 2015. Then the businessman living abroad was charged with two episodes of organizing embezzlement from the bankrupt bank "Pushkino" for hundreds of millions of rubles. At the same time, Alaska was put on the international wanted list.

As part of the new case, 52-year-old Alyakin is accused of embezzling about 950 million rubles from Unicorbank, which belonged to him. In July 2014, the Bank of Russia announced the revocation of the license from this credit institution due to non-compliance with federal laws governing banking activities. The regulator said that Unicorbank pursued a high-risk credit policy related to the placement of funds in low-quality assets. In addition, it was alleged that the bank was involved in dubious operations to issue cash to customers, as well as in schemes to withdraw money abroad, the total amount of which in 2013-2014 exceeded 21 billion rubles. At the same time, the managers and owners of the credit institution did not take effective measures to normalize its activities and strengthen its financial situation.

The regulator first appealed to law enforcement agencies on the facts of embezzlement in the bank in October 2014. However, a criminal case in connection with a particularly large fraud in a credit institution was initiated only in February 2016 - at that time Alaska was already abroad, hiding from criminal prosecution.^[1]

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