Valitov Ilgiz Nailevich

Valitov Ilgiz Nailevich

Education

In 1986 he graduated from the Golitsyn Higher Military-Political School of the KGB of the USSR. In 1987-1993 he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR in the Border Troops (Soviet-Afghan border), received the rank of major. In 1995 he graduated from the Kazan Financial and Economic Institute.

Biography

2007-2014

From 2007 to 2010, he worked as director of the regional development department of Vnesheconombank (VEB). In 2011, Ilgiz Valitov headed the Directorate of Natural Resources and Construction of VEB. Since 2014, he became simultaneously the executive director of China Finance Strategies.

2016

A court in the Rostov Region in 2016 found Valitov guilty of embezzlement of 49% of the shares of Metal-Don LLC and Irdon LLC, which were then sold for $100 thousand to a member of the board of directors of Gazprom, former Minister of Property Relations of the Russian Federation Farit Gazizullin. Then Valitov pleaded guilty and concluded a pre-trial cooperation agreement.

2022: Charge of embezzlement of 10 billion rubles of VEB

On January 21, 2022, it became known that Ilgiz Valitov was charged with embezzlement of about 10 billion. rubles Vnesheconombank Other defendants in the case also include the former deputy chairman of the board of VEB Anatoly Ballos and businessman from the Khabarovsk Territory Alexander Lepikhov, reports TASS citing a law enforcement source.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, Meshchansky court Moscow in January 2022 he began to consider the merits of the case against Ballos and Lepikhov. The defendants have been in jail for more than six months since their arrest and insist on their innocence.

Ilgiz Valitov is on the international wanted list. In January 2022, the investigation sent a petition to the Tverskaya District Court of Moscow for the absentee arrest of the ex-banker. A criminal case was instituted under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code (embezzlement on an especially large scale).^[1]

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