Kryazhev Ruslan Viktorovich

Biography

2023: Sentence - 4.5 years in prison for embezzlement of 2.5 billion rubles from Alfa-Bank

In August 2023, the Savelovsky Court of Moscow sentenced the co-owner of the IT company Active CIS Ruslan Kryazhev to 4.5 years in prison on charges of embezzling 2.5 billion rubles from Alfa Bank. Such an amount, according to the court decision, the businessman will have to reimburse the credit institution.

According to Vedomosti, citing a source familiar with the investigation, Kryazhev, together with senior business partner Sergei Presnyakov, fraudulently received credit funds, planning to steal them in advance. In April 2020, Presnyakov was arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list, and the case against him was separated into a separate proceeding.

Co-owner of the IT company Active CIS Ruslan Kryazhev received 4.5 years in prison for embezzlement of 2.5 billion rubles from Alfa-Bank

According to the newspaper, on August 21, 2023, Ruslan Kryazhev independently came to the announcement of the verdict. A year since the initiation of a criminal case in October 2019, he spent under house arrest, the rest of the time - under recognizance not to leave. In the Savelovsky court, the trial of Kryazhev lasted two and a half years. The prosecution asked the businessman for 9 years in prison. As a result, the businessman will have to spend four of the 4.5 years of imprisonment appointed by the court (the year of house arrest will be counted as six months of served time in a general regime colony), the newspaper notes.

Lawyer Sergei Safronov explained to Vedomosti that his principal Kryazhev is accused of fraudulently obtaining a loan, while as vice president of Active CIS he was responsible for the execution of the projects of the group of companies, carried out the instructions of the owner of Active CIS Sergei Presnyakov. Another partner, Alexei Prudnikov and his subordinates, to whom law enforcement agencies have no complaints, was engaged in working with finances and attracting credit funds. According to the defense attorney, there is no evidence in the indictment that the unreturned loans were stolen.^[1]

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