Yeliseyeva Victoria

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2025: Sentence - 5.5 years in prison for embezzlement ₽502,6 million

The chief accountant of the Tula Pharmaceutical Factory received 5.5 years in prison for embezzlement of ₽502,6 million. This became known on March 4, 2025. The Soviet District Court of Tula found Victoria Yeliseyeva guilty and also imposed a fine of ₽500 thousand on her. Her deputy Lidia Badyina received 4.5 years in prison and a fine of ₽450 thousand.

According to the press service of the courts and the USD of the Tula region, both convicts will serve their sentences in a general regime correctional colony. The court also satisfied the civil claim of the enterprise to recover from former employees the amount of damage caused by the crime - ₽502,6 million in solidarity.

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Фото: Press - service of courts and USD of the Tula region

The court and the investigation found that Yeliseyeva and Badyina in May 2017 entered into a criminal conspiracy aimed at the systematic theft of funds from a pharmaceutical factory on an especially large scale. The defendants were charged with Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud using official position, a group of persons by prior conspiracy, on an especially large scale).

According to the case file, the former employees, acting jointly and in concert, used their official position to fill out cash checks for receiving cash from the company's accounts. These funds were intended to pay wages to factory workers and return the loans available to the enterprise, but in the documents they indicated amounts significantly higher than those necessary for this purpose.

With the help of such checks, Yeliseyeva and Badyin received cash from the settlement accounts of the TFF, some of which, according to accounting documents, were deposited at the cash desk, and the rest were appropriated. The convicts disposed of the stolen funds at their discretion.

The criminal scheme was revealed during an accounting audit in 2022. Then it turned out that from May 2017 to April 2022, the difference between the withdrawal of funds from the settlement account of the enterprise and their entry into the cash register was ₽502,6 million. During the judicial investigation, the ex-factory employee pleaded not guilty.^[1]

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