The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has completed an investigation into the criminal case against the former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the former chairman of the board of JSCB Investbank (OJSC) Konstantin Korishchenko and the ex-head of a number of offshore companies, businessman Maxim Palchun. They are accused of embezzlement of securities belonging to the bank, committed by an organized group on an especially large scale.
The Tagansky Court of Moscow is now considering materials regarding Korishchenko’s accomplices – former co-owner of Investbank and President of the Moscow Hockey Federation Sergei Mendeleev, former adviser to the deputy chairman of the board of Gazprombank Tigran Khachaturov Grigory Yusufov, former deputy chairman of the bank’s board Olga Borgard, once the largest shadow banker Sergei Mastyugin, member of the supervisory board council Investment Bank of Sergei Zaitsev. They are accused of embezzling 3.2 billion rubles of Investbak funds.
According to the preliminary investigation authorities, Mendeleev S.V., appearing in the period from March 2011 to August 27, 2012. the main shareholder of JSCB Investbank (OJSC), as well as from April 29, 2011, on the basis of the relevant order, acting as chairman of the board of the Bank, S.Ya. Zaitsev, being a member of the supervisory board, a member of the board and the large credit committee of the Bank, exercised powers by order , management, use and storage of the Bank’s property entrusted to them, including cash and other valuables of the Bank.
Using their official position, the accused, being members of the bank’s management bodies, acting as part of an organized group, misappropriated the property entrusted to them on an especially large scale.
All the defendants in this case are also involved in other major cases. For example, Mendeleev is mentioned in the case in which his cousin Denis Yakhin was arrested. He was sent into custody as one of the organizers of the largest laundering channel, through which about 500 billion rubles passed. A significant part of this money previously belonged to the largest state monopolies – Russian Railways and Gazprom. The channel operated on the basis of the Novoye Vremya bank, whose co-owners – Ivan Stankevich and Dmitry Motorin – are wanted for giving bribes to ex-employee of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Dmitry Zakharchenko. In fact, the materials obtained as part of the “Zakharchenko case” formed the basis for the mega-laundry case. Mendeleev is also involved in the “laundry” case.
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