Vlasov Oleg Leonidovich

Vlasov Oleg Leonidovich

Biography

2022: Sentence - 7 years in prison for scams with pension fund funds

On September 26, 2022, it became known that the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced persons who stole 181.7 million rubles from clients of the First Russian Pension Fund (PRPF). Co-owner of Baltika Bank and member of the board of directors of the PRPF Oleg Vlasov was sentenced to 7 years and Anna Khokhlova, general director of the Empayr trust investment company, was sentenced to 5.5 years.

According to Kommersant, both were found guilty of especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the debate, the prosecutor asked to sentence the banker to eight years, and his accomplice to six and a half years in prison, the newspaper points out.

Oleg Leonidovich Vlasov

Khokhlova's term has been postponed for ten years due to the fact that she has a small child. A civil lawsuit was also satisfied against the convicts for the entire amount of the stolen funds, but so far the court has arrested Vlasov's property in the form of Land Rover and Volkswagen Polo cars, a Harley Davidson motorcycle and three non-residential premises in St. Petersburg and the Moscow region.

According to Kommersant, the criminal scheme was built using a rare financial instrument - High Standard mortgage participation certificates (ISU). They were depreciated after the organizers replaced the fraud of liquid collateral. The case in court has been since March 2021. Both defendants were found guilty of particularly large-scale fraud for stealing 181.7 million rubles from pension fund clients.

Two more companies - Invest-Factor LLC and ReLine LLC, whose assets also provided the profitability of ISU, the investigation considers the embezzlement controlled by the organizers, believing that the loans issued to the firms were initially stolen by the owners of the bank.

Oleg Vlasov pleaded not guilty. By the end of September 2022, he is also a defendant in the case of the withdrawal of 46 billion rubles from Russia through Moldovan banks. The trial of him continues, the newspaper notes.^[1]

2023

The state prosecution requested 18 years of strict regime on charges of withdrawing 46 billion rubles

The state prosecution in January 2023 requested 18 years in a strict regime colony for the former owner of Baltika Bank Oleg Vlasov. According to the prosecution, he was involved in the illegal withdrawal from Russia of more than 46 billion rubles. according to the Moldavian scheme.

Verdict: 17 years in prison in the case of the withdrawal of 46 billion rubles under the "Moldavian scheme"

In February 2023, Oleg Vlasov received 17 years in prison in the case of the withdrawal of 46 billion rubles from the Russian Federation.

According to the investigation, under the pretext of selling currency, members of the criminal community transferred money in foreign currency to the accounts of BC Moldindconbank S.A., opened, among other things, at Bank of New York.

Then the income from transactions in rubles was written off from the correspondent accounts of Russian banks in BC Moldindconbank S.A. For this, forged decisions of the Moldovan courts in favor of foreign legal entities were used. Then the money was sent to foreign banks.

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