Markus Larisa Ivanovna

Markus Larisa Ivanovna

Biography

2015: Detention on charges of withdrawing 113 billion rubles from Vneshprombank

In December 2015, Larissa Marcus was detained on fraud charges as part of an investigation into the withdrawal and bankruptcy case, Vneshprombank which at the time was the largest in history. Russia According to investigators, top managers of the bank created an organized criminal group to steal funds from a credit institution and withdrew 113.5 billion from it by distributing loans to controlled firms. rubles Larissa Marcus was placed under arrest.

Larisa Markus was a shareholder of Vneshprombank (8.26%) together with the family of Rosneft top manager Artur Chilingarov and Alexander Zurabov, brother of the former Russian ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov.

2017: Sentence - 9 years in prison

On May 13, 2017, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow found Larisa Markus and her deputy Ekaterina Glushakova guilty of committing crimes under Part 4 of Art. 159 and part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code (fraud and embezzlement committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy and on an especially large scale). Larissa Marcus was sentenced to 9 years in prison.

2021

Settlement Agreement with Respect to Assets in the United States and Europe

In April 2021, it became known that Larisa Marcus agreed to a settlement agreement and was ready to part with assets in the United States and Europe.

Financial manager Marcus has already begun implementing the settlement. We will actively replenish the bankruptcy estate of Vneshprombank, - the first deputy head of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA, acts as the bankruptcy trustee of Vneshprombank, which lost its license in 2016) Andrei Melnikov.

According to RBC, Markus's property in the USA, France and Latvia will try to sell in the next six months, brokerage companies have already been chosen by the financial managing director Yury Rozhkov. Markus Melnikov did not name the amount of assets. Marcus was declared bankrupt by a decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court.

The investment company A1, in agreement with the DIA, is involved in accompanying lawsuits and recovering assets of Marcus and her brother, ex-co-owner of the VPB Georgy Bedzhamov.^[1]

Luxury sale

In November 2021, paintings, jewelry and watches of Larisa Marcus were put up for auction.

More than 110 lots have been put up for auction. Most of them are works of art. The most expensive lot is the painting "Snow Road," painted in 1955 by artist Leonid Yanush. With an initial price of 800,000 rubles. Another expensive painting is the landscape "Early Autumn. Windy Day "by Peter Petrovichev (1874-1947) with an initial price of 600,000 rubles.

They plan to sell watches from the Marcus collection. Of these, the highest initial price for a Graff wristwatch (a 750-sample gold case encrusted with 77 diamonds) is 11.98 million rubles.

Another watch from the collection - Rolex in a 750-sample white gold case - has an initial price of 6.39 million rubles. There is no branded packaging.

2024: Sentence - 13 years in prison for embezzlement of 156 billion rubles

On January 31, 2024, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced Larisa Markus to 13 years in prison in a general regime colony. The former president of Vneshprombank was found guilty of embezzlement or embezzlement of funds on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). 130 billion rubles will also be collected from it at the suit of a credit institution.

Another person involved in the case - the former first vice-president of Vneshprombank Ali Adzhin - was sentenced by the court to nine years in prison, the ex-head of the lending department Marina Klyueva - to four and a half years in prison. Three more defendants: Olga Mulina, Evgeny Oras and Heinrich Malaya - were sentenced to five to seven years in prison. Catherine Berlin received three years probation and was amnestied.

source = Kommersant

According to the investigation, Markus, together with his brother Georgy Bedzhamov, the owner of Vneshprombank, in 2009 created a criminal group to steal funds by issuing bad loans. Most of the money went to accounts, as the investigation calculated, 286 one-day firms registered to dummies. By the end of January 2024, Bedzhamov is in Britain, he is being tried in absentia in Russia.

The investigation established that a total of 156 billion rubles were stolen. Larisa Markus did not admit her guilt. The state prosecution asked to appoint her 14.5 years in a general regime colony.

This was the second criminal trial against Marcus. Earlier, the court had already found her, together with Deputy Ekaterina Glushakova, guilty of especially large-scale fraud and embezzlement.

Lawyer Markus Boris Greenberg, in a conversation with Vedomosti, said that he did not agree with the verdict and his trustee needed to be acquitted.

According to Part 2 of Art. 6 of the Criminal Code, no one can be criminally liable twice for the same crime, - he explained.

The defense during the process insisted that Marcus was charged with an "ongoing" act from the past case.^[2]

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