The leading specialist of the Deposit Insurance Agency was detained for extortion

The State Corporation "Deposit Insurance Agency" (ASV) was involved in the corruption scandal. The leading specialist of the DIA Vasily Bedin, who participated in the liquidation of a dozen commercial banks, was detained for extortion, but the investigation has not yet been able to achieve his arrest in court, Kommersant writes.

The criminal case against Vasily Bedin was opened at the request of the chairman of the regional public organization of disabled people of the Army "Veteran" Leonid Popov and the representative of the organization at the Bank "Centurion" Boris Sokalsky. "Veteran" is the main owner and at the same time the main creditor of this bank, in which the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on August 23, 2006 withdrew the license for violations.

"Veteran" owns 8 out of 10 million rubles remaining on the bank's correspondent account. On October 18, 2006, the Moscow Arbitration Court decided to start a forced liquidation in the bank. The court appointed DIA with the liquidator, and the assets of the Centurion entered the actual management of the general representative of the Department of Liquidation of the ASV banks Vasily Bedin, appointed by the bankruptcy trustee of the bank.

The Veteran asked a written request to include him among the creditors, but Bedin refused, in fact demanding half the amount. The veteran was supposed to abandon his money in the bank "Centurion" Bank: 2 million rubles under an agreement on the assignment of the claim rights were to transfer to the company, controlled by Vasily, Poorie. In addition, the Veteran had to sign a statement on the refusal of the rights of claims for another 2.7 million rubles in favor of the bankruptcy trustee itself. The chairman of the Veteran, agreeing with the requirements of Bedin, applied to law enforcement agencies.

Further negotiations of Vasily Bedin and the representative of the "Veteran" were already under the control of the operatives of the capital's UBEP. The investigators recorded all the meetings on a hidden video camera.

On February 12, in the Porto Maltaze restaurant, on Bolshaya Spasskaya Street, representatives of the Veteran handed over the documents required by Vasily Poority to his authorized person. The courier took them to the DIA building and handed them to the poor. The bankruptcy trustee was detained with red -handed in his office when he put the documents in his portfolio. He refused to explain to the police that the courier handed him over to the papers, referring to the 51st article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which gives the right not to testify against himself. He was silent on interrogation, as well as on confrontation with the leadership of the "veteran".

But the investigation believes that evidence of the guilt of the bankruptcy trustee is enough. In addition to documents in his portfolio during the search, the police found the stamp of the company, in whose favor the veteran refused money. Yesterday, Vasily Poor, the investigator of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central District, Sergei Gorchitsy, charged under part 4 of Article 204 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("commercial bribery associated with extortion", sanction - up to five years in prison).

Yesterday, the Meshchanskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office applied to the court with petitions for the removal of Vasily Bedin from work in the DIA and his arrest. The representative of the prosecutor’s office insisted in the Meshchansky court that Bedin, remaining free, could affect witnesses, and also actively counteract the investigation. But the judge left him at large under the subscription of the lower place. She explained her decision by the fact that Vasily Bedin’s dependent has two children, he is positively characterized at work, and also has a permanent place of residence in Moscow. The judge refused to remove Vasily Bedin from office for the period of the investigation.

“It is clear that Bedin is the bottom of the chain. Everyone knows that with the competitive administration there is a well -established extortion system. He simply let him know who is upstairs, that if he was arrested, he will give everyone to the court. And now I am afraid for his life,” Leonid Popov said after the court hearing.

In turn, the First Deputy General Director of the DIA Valery Miroshnikov believes that the decision of the Meshchansky court indicates the injustice of the prosecution against Vasily Poor. The incident in the DIA is considered a provocation. “This is a reservation in order to provide pressure on the AFA from criminal elements involved in laundering of funds, withdrawal of assets and other dubious transactions in banks, the investigation of which is just engaged in the DIA. It is even surprising that with the active activity of the agency in this area for several years, such pressure has become only now,” said Valery Miroshnikov.