Klenin Andrei

Klenin Andrei

Education

Andrei Klenin received higher education in the specialties "Applied Mathematics" and "Industrial Management." In 2009, he received an MBA diploma in New York and London.

Biography

He worked as a manager in large companies - RAO UES, Solar Products, supermarket networks Paterson,. In MTS"," Ulmart served as Director of Operations.

2015: Appointment as head of Wikimart

In May 2015, he was appointed CEO of the online retailer Wikimart.

2020: Suspended sentence for embezzlement of 124 million rubles

On May 7, 2020, it became known about the verdict that the Golovinsky District Court of Moscow issued against Andrei Klenin. The former general director of the Internet retailer Wikimart was found guilty of complicity in embezzlement (part 5 of article 33 and part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) 124 million rubles and received 3.5 years probation.

According to Kommersant, the investigation and the court found that in the summer of 2016, Andrei Klenin, who at that time headed Wikimart, instructed his subordinates to contact Aimanibank to issue a loan of 130 million rubles to replenish working capital. Despite the fact that the head of the bank Igor Volchikhin was "reliably aware" that Wikimart would not be able to return the money, a loan of 124 million rubles was still issued. 

Volchikhin himself disposed of these funds at his discretion (in 2018, the court sentenced him to four and a half years probation) and one of the co-owners of Aimanibank Anatoly Goncharov (by May 2020 is on the international wanted list).

The investigation asked to sentence the accused to seven years in prison. However, the judge considered that the correction of the businessman is possible without isolation from society, the newspaper notes.

We are dissatisfied with this decision and of course we will challenge it in higher instances, "lawyer Klenina Liubov Sergeyeva told RBC.

According to another defender of the ex-head of Wikimart Vladimir Gagloev, Klenin's guilt in court has not been proven, and the only argument of the investigation of the financial and economic examination by the court itself was recognized as unacceptable evidence. The defense filed a brief complaint against the verdict.

Andrei Klenin was arrested in August 2018. At the request of the investigation, the court placed him in a pre-trial detention center, and at the end of 2019 he transferred him to house arrest. It is noted that to participate in court hearings, Klenin had to issue digital passes due to the restrictions imposed in Moscow.^[1]

2024: House arrest due to charges of embezzlement of 9 billion rubles

At the end of September 2024, it became known that the Basmanny District Court of Moscow released Andrei Klenin, the former general director of the Internet retailer Wikimart, from jail under house arrest. He is a defendant in a criminal case on multibillion-dollar embezzlement from Finprombank, which collapsed in 2016.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the case in question was initiated under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale. Klenin, according to available information, is accused of the episode of embezzlement by a group of persons of about 9 billion rubles, including with the help of loans issued by Finprombank to Wikimart. At the same time, Klenin himself categorically denies his guilt.

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Earlier, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Klenin in a criminal case on particularly large embezzlement or misappropriation (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). However, at the end of September 2024, Judge Timur Vakhrameev sided with the defense, deciding to transfer the defendant to house arrest. At the same time, several restrictions were determined: Klenin is forbidden to go outside, use communications, with the exception of calling operational city services, as well as communicate with anyone except relatives and lawyers.

The order on release from the pre-trial detention center states that the criminal prosecution authorities have not received and have not provided the court with sufficient data indicating that Klenin was hiding from the investigation and trial, threatened witnesses or destroyed evidence.

Information about the presence of any threats to witnesses by the investigation at this stage of the investigation of the case has not been verified and has not been confirmed by anything, the court has not provided information that A. Klenin evaded the appearance to the investigator, the decision said.[2]

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