Mitrushin Stanislav

Mitrushin Stanislav

Biography

2023: Detention in northern Cyprus

In June 2023, the ex-chairman of the board of directors of Sovetsky Bank, Stanislav Mitrushin, was arrested in northern Cyprus in connection with a criminal case on the embezzlement of 2.7 billion rubles from the funds of this bankrupt financial institution from St. Petersburg.

During the search in Mitrushin's house, two computers, five mobile phones, several USB drives, as well as more than 150 thousand pounds and 120 thousand dollars were found. The banker's trial is scheduled for June 23, 2023.

According to Kommersant, in Russia Stanislav Mitrushin is a defendant in a criminal case on a particularly large embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of funds from the bankrupt St. Petersburg bank Sovetsky. According to employees of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was engaged in this investigation, the ex-chairman of the board of directors of this credit institution Stanislav Mitrushin and the former managing partner of the Prime Edwise law firm Alexei Sobolev created an organized group for theft of property of the financial structure. According to the case file, they attracted the then chairman of the bank's board Andrei Karpov to participate in the crime (in 2019 they were sentenced to three years for embezzlement from Sovetsky), as well as an adviser to the chairman of the bank's board and at the same time the general director of Collector 19 LLC (declared bankrupt in 2017) Kirill Laskin.

Sovetsky Bank, which was headed by Mitrushin, specialized in lending to industrial and construction enterprises, then switched to retail business and even conducted an advertising campaign with the participation of French actor Gerard Depardieu to attract individual clients. The credit institution lost its banking license in 2018, at that time the bank had a negative capital of 39 billion rubles.^[1]

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