Gudkov Vladimir Vladimirovich

Gudkov Vladimir Vladimirovich

Biography

2016-2018

At the end of 2016 GSU Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia across Moscow brought criminal case upon plunder (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in the relation being the chairman of the board and the co-owner of JSB Investtorgbank Vladimir Gudkov. He and his accomplices were accused of embezzlement of more than 7 billion rubles from the Investment Trade Bank. For embezzlement, they used fictitious commercial organizations with which credit agreements and mortgage purchase and sale agreements were concluded. The bank transferred the money to the accounts of counterparties - LLC MGiS, LLC IK Stolitsa, LLC TD Finance and LLC IK Venets. However, instead of liquid securities, the buyer received illiquid ones issued by a certain Imperial-Torg LLC.

In August 2017, he was arrested in absentia by the Tver District Court of Moscow, he was also put on the international wanted list. In January 2018, Vladimir Gudkov was detained in Monaco at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.

2021:7 years in prison for embezzlement of 7 billion rubles, a fine of 800 thousand rubles

On August 3, 2021, it became known about the verdict to the former chairman of the board of the Investment Trade Bank Vladimir Gudkov. The Tushinsky court of Moscow appointed seven years in prison and a fine of 800 thousand rubles.

Since Gudkov has been on the international wanted list since 2017, the sentence was passed in absentia. The banker is hiding in Monaco, the authorities of the principality refused extradition to the Prosecutor General's Office. The prosecutor's office noted that the criminal case against Gudkov was separated into a separate proceeding and considered in the absence of the defendant.

Gudkov's accomplices received punishment. So, the Arbitration Court ordered his deputy Nina Shurmina to return 3.6 billion rubles to Investorgbank, and the Tushinsky court sentenced her to three years probation. Ex-head of the mortgage lending department Tatyana Zotina, director of the credit operations department Olga Zubkova and freelance bank employee Elena Lukyanova were sentenced to five years in prison in a penal colony.^[1]

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