Brisk and Veliky Vasily Vadimovich

Brisk and Veliky Vasily Vadimovich

Biography

2023: Sentence - 6.5 years in prison in the case of embezzlement of 89 million in the bank "Credit Express"

On October 3, 2023, the Cheremushkinsky Court of Moscow sentenced Vasily Brisk and Veliky to 6.5 years in prison the president of the Russian Milk agricultural holding in the case of embezzlement of 190 million rubles of funds from Credit-Express Bank. He was found guilty under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code (misappropriation or embezzlement by an organized group). He will serve his sentence in a general regime colony.

In addition, the former chief accountant of Credit Express Maria Antonova and the head of the credit department Anastasia Novotnaya, the court appointed seven years in a general regime colony, ex-general director of the bank Alla Kabanova and senior economist of the credit department Yegor Pikhtin - six years six months in a colony, Konstantin Kabanov, son of Kabanova - two years six months in a general regime colony. The bank's shareholder Tatyana Makarenko was sentenced by the court to four and a half years of suspended imprisonment.

The convicts, like Brisk and Veliky, were taken into custody in court. Kabanova did not appear for the verdict. The court satisfied the civil claims for damages filed by the bank.

The court found that from 2013 to 2018, convicts stole more than 190 million rubles from the bank through forged loan agreements that were drawn up for former clients or employees of shell firms.

According to Kommersant, in January 2023, shares in several structures of the Russian Milk agricultural holding were sold. The shares of CJSC "Your Financial Trustee," which is associated with the founder of "Russian Milk" Vasily Brisk and Veliky, were put up for auction.

Since 2006, another investigation has been conducted against the businessman: he was accused of creating a criminal community (Article 210 of the Criminal Code), fraud (Article 159), falsification of evidence (part 3 of Article 303) and legalization of property (Article 174.1). The charges were related to land plots, which, according to the investigation, were fraudulently acquired. In August 2020, the criminal case was terminated. The proceedings under the article on the creation of a criminal community were terminated after amendments were made to the legislation that did not allow prosecution under the article on the creation of an OPS in connection with entrepreneurial activity.^[1]

2024: Bringing 1.3 billion rubles to subsidiary liability

In July 2024, the 15th Arbitration Court of Appeal, at the request of the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), brought to subsidiary liability the former beneficiary of CB Credit Express LLC Vasily Brisk and Veliky.

The potential amount of subsidiary liability is 1.3 billion rubles. The total amount will be determined after the end of settlements with creditors, specified in the DIA. The agency added that the grounds for bringing these persons to subsidiary liability were the issuance of technical loans and other schemes for the withdrawal of liquid assets from the bank, as well as obtaining benefits from the above transactions.

2025: Sentence - 15.5 years in criminal community case

On November 19, 2025, the Mozhaisk City Court of the Moscow Region convicted Vasily Brisk and Veliky, the founder of the Russian Milk agricultural holding and Your Financial Trustee, as well as the former co-owner of Credit-Express Bank (the entrepreneur owned 10% of the stake in this credit institution). The businessman received 15.5 years in prison in a criminal community case.

According to the investigation, Brisk and Veliky, being the head of several commercial organizations, decided by deception to acquire the right to agricultural land in the Ruzsky district of the Moscow region, which during the land reform in the early 90s and the reorganization of collective farms and state farms were granted to the common shared ownership of their former members and social workers. To implement the plan, as noted by the Investigative Committee, Brisk and Veliky formed a criminal community in the form of a structured organized group operating under a single leadership.

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Фото: Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant

As part of the criminal scheme, lands were transferred to firms controlled by the businessman, registered and sold to new owners. The investigation established that in the period from 2002 to 2011, members of the criminal community acquired ownership of land shares owned by former members and social workers of reorganized state farms for a total of almost 348 million rubles.

Brisk and Veliky was found guilty of committing crimes under Part 3 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - organizing a criminal community (criminal organization) and participating in it (it), using his official position. The businessman will serve a prison term in a maximum security colony. Eight more defendants in the case received from 10 to 15 years in prison.^[2]

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