Kabanova Alla Rermovna

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2025: Sentence - 9 years in prison for embezzlement of 100 million rubles

On November 10, 2025, the Cheremushkinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Alla Kabanova, ex-chairman of the board and co-owner of Credit Express Bank. She received 9 years in prison for embezzlement on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the former chief accountant of Credit Express Maria Antonova, the ex-head of the active operations department of the Moskovsky bank branch Anastasia Novotnaya, her deputy Yegor Pikhtin and the ex-head of the cash operations department of this unit Natalya Tsipinova were also in the dock.

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According to the case file, these persons stole about 97 million rubles from a credit institution. The money was withdrawn by issuing loans under forged contracts, which were also issued for former Credit Express clients. Fraud was carried out for several years - up to the revocation of the license from the bank in 2018 due to a significant decrease in the amount of its own funds (capital).

The Bank of Russia has identified in the activities of Credit Express numerous violations of the requirements of the law in the field of countering the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime. At the same time, the management and owners of the credit institution did not take effective measures to normalize its activities. As a result, the Central Bank decided to withdraw Credit Express from the banking market.

As part of the case, Kabanova received the maximum prison term among the defendants. The rest of the defendants were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of seven to eight and a half years. In addition, the court satisfied the civil claim of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) recognized as the injured party in the amount of over 77 million rubles.^[1]

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