Warsaw Vadim Evgenievich

Warsaw Vadim Evgenievich

Biography

2018: Detention in fraud case

Vadim Warsaw was detained in March 2018. According to investigators, Petrokommerts Bank issued a loan to the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant, whose owner was Warsaw. The company pledged to fully pay off the debt by March 2018. According to the prosecution, after receiving these funds, they were sent to the Chelyabinsk company Metallurg-Trust, and from there - in two tranches to the Cyprus Masterking Trading Limited, which distributed the money between other offshore companies. The former State Duma deputy denied guilt in the fraud.

2019-2020: 3.5 years in prison for tax evasion

In December 2019, the Leninsky District Court in the Rostov Region found Vadim Varshavsky guilty of the fact that, being the general director of the Rostov Electrometallurgical Plant, he avoided paying taxes. According to investigators, from 2014 to 2015, Varshavsky included false information in the tax return, which allowed the company to "save" more than 497 million rubles in income taxes. The court sentenced him to 3.5 years in prison with serving a sentence in a maximum security penal colony.

In 2020, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow recovered more than 8 billion rubles of loan debt from Warsaw at the suit of Trust Bank.

2021:7 years in prison for embezzlement of 2.5 billion rubles from Petrokommerts Bank

In September 2021, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced Vadim Warsaw to seven years in prison with serving in a general regime colony for embezzlement of 2.5 billion rubles from Petrokommerts Bank. Ex-State Duma deputy from United Russia was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), writes RBC with reference to the press service of the court.

In addition to imprisonment, the court recovered more than 2.6 billion rubles from Warsaw. The prosecution asked for 8.5 years in prison for him, insisting on finding the defendant guilty of especially large-scale fraud. Prosecutors referred to the testimony of the victims of the bankers and the data of the financial examination of the transaction.^[1]

2024: Recovery by the court of 1.1 billion rubles

On September 9, 2024, it became known that the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to the businessman and ex-State Duma deputy Vadim Varshavsky to revise the issue of the validity of the requirement for him by Trust Bank. We are talking about the recovery of 1.1 billion rubles as a debt to a financial institution.

On August 31, 2021, the Moscow Arbitration Court, at the request of Trust Bank, introduced a debt restructuring procedure for Warsaw and included Trust's claim of 4.3 billion rubles in its register of creditors. The Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal on November 23, 2021 recognized the beginning of the bankruptcy procedure for a businessman as legal. On March 17, 2022, the Court of Cassation reduced Warsaw's debt to Trust Bank to 4 billion rubles, and on November 18 of the same year, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared Warsaw insolvent (bankrupt) and opened a procedure for selling property against it.

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In September 2023, the Moscow Arbitration Court found the Trust's claim against Varshavsky in the amount of 1.1 billion rubles justified and included this amount in the debtor's register of creditors. On January 10, 2024, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal upheld this decision. And in May 2024, the verdict was supported by the cassation court.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, reportedly, also decided to recover 1.1 billion rubles from Warsaw. The published definition states that the arguments of the complaint "do not refute the conclusions of the courts, do not confirm significant violations of the norms of substantive and procedural law that influenced the outcome of the case, are not sufficient grounds for revising judicial acts in cassation."

It is also noted that the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation at the beginning of 2023 agreed with the validity of the requirement Rosselkhozbank for Warsaw in the amount of about 12.2 billion rubles.^[2]

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