The events that led to the lawsuit occurred back in 2019 in Moscow. Ordinary wholesale businessmen from Transtorg LLC opened an account at UBRD Bank and came to the office to make payments for the purchase of goods. At the department, one of the employees, together with another man of Caucasian appearance, posing as a clerk, deceived the businessmen. In the style of street thimbles, they several times gave them payment orders to sign (supposedly corrected ones instead of those with errors) and, in one of the approaches, they slipped payment orders with the details of completely different companies.
Businessmen hot on their heels turned to the police and a primitive scam worth almost 129 million rubles was uncovered. Investigators from the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Southern Administrative District found that one person involved was a bank employee, Dmitry Garankin, and the second person involved (he was identified much later) was his friend and he moved inside the office premises independently using his friend’s magnetic key. The banker received the status of a suspect. At the same time, the stolen money was tracked down and “caught up” – it was seized. But all this categorically did not suit the management of the UBRD bank. 
A scandal in which a bank employee stole money right at his workplace could have a serious impact on his reputation. And it was decided to “test” the capabilities of the general, the newly minted security officer of the Ural commercial structures, Sergei Plakhikh. Already in 2020, when the investigation of the criminal case was, consider it, at the finish line, materials were urgently taken to the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And not to the investigator of the relevant department, but to the desk of Sergei Plakhikh’s friend, deputy head of the department Alexander Galitsky. After some time, the case was again sent down to the Internal Affairs Directorate with the instruction: “bury it in the archives.”
As a result, the banker who confessed to everything moved to the status of a witness, the seizure of the accounts was lifted and almost 130 million rubles went in an unknown direction, and businessmen have been trying for 4 years to get the Ministry of Internal Affairs to actually start an investigation. And the other day, as follows from the electronic file of the Moscow City Court, Transtorg filed a lawsuit against the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the award of compensation for violation of the right to criminal proceedings within a reasonable time.
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