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2022: Top manager of MTS-Bank convicted of selling 5.6 thousand customers
On July 28, 2022, it became known that the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced three men in a criminal case on the disclosure of personal information about bank customers. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Sverdlovsk Region.
Among the defendants are the head of the Moscow additional office of MTS-Bank PJSC Andrei Vamich, a resident of the Sverdlovsk region Oleg Belyaev and a resident of the Moscow region Roman Neshcheretny.
As specified, the verdict did not enter into legal force - all parties to the process filed appeals.
According to the prosecution, in the period until October 2019, Oleg Belyaev learned about the possibility of receiving personal data of bank customers for money - contact information, information about the loan and insurance premium amounts, the date and place of conclusion of the loan agreement, the name of the bank.
"With a proposal to provide information on the credit accounts of bank customers, he turned to the executive director financially-legal an agency carrying out commercial activities to provide legal services in the field of lending, including the return of insurance premiums under concluded loan agreements," the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region said. |
The executive director was interested in the proposal, and the accused asked his friend Roman Neshcheretny to find a person who performs management functions in one of the banks.[1]
In November 2019, they managed to agree with the head of the MTS-Bank additional office in one of the districts of Moscow, Andrei Vamich. According to the state prosecution, the banker from November 2019 to June 2021 transmitted to one of the accused information about at least 5.6 thousand clients of the bank.
Subsequently, Oleg Belyaev similarly sold information about several dozen clients of other banks.
The court sentenced MTS-Bank employee Andrei Vamich to three years and six months in a strict regime colony and a fine of over 5 million rubles. for selling information about customers to fraudsters. bank Intermediaries were sentenced to a suspended sentence of 3.5 to 4.5 years and fines of about 11.7 million rubles. and about 8.4 million rubles.
The criminal case against the customer of personal data is separated into a separate proceeding.[2]