Zherikhina Yulia

Biography

2025: Recovery of 1 billion rubles in the case of large embezzlement

On April 23, 2025, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow recovered 1 billion rubles from the former head of the corporate business support department of Rosenergobank Yulia Zherikhina in the case of large-scale embezzlement. The lawsuit was filed by the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency in the interests of the credit institution.

According to the case file, in 2015, Zherikhina entered into a conspiracy with the chairman of the board of directors of Rosenergobank Konstantin Schwartz to steal funds through a client lending scheme. According to the investigation, they forced borrowers to issue loans larger than they needed, and the difference was transferred to the accounts of controlled firms.

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Фото: Anatoly Zhdanov/Kommersant

In April 2017, the Bank of Russia revoked Rosenergobank's banking license. The regulator said in a statement that the credit institution had problems due to the use of "an extremely risky business model, low quality of management and assets." In the activities of the bank, according to the Central Bank, there were signs of unfair behavior of the management and owners, expressed in the withdrawal of assets (primarily by issuing loans to legal entities in respect of which circumstances were established indicating the absence of real activity) with damage to the interests of creditors and depositors, as well as in the preparation of inaccurate financial statements. As a result, the credit institution was unable to fulfill its obligations to creditors.

In 2022, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow sentenced Zherikhina to five years in prison conditionally for fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In accordance with the new decision issued by the Simonovsky District Court, 1 billion rubles were recovered from it to compensate for the damage caused to the credit institution.^[1]

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