Suspects of 1.2 billion rubles from the Pension Fund were detained

Law enforcement agencies detained several suspects in an attempt to steal 1.2 billion rubles from the accounts of the Pension Fund, undertaken on November 13 last year, Interfax reports with reference to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Irina Dudukin.

The interlocutor of the agency did not specify how many people were detained and when the detention occurred. The identities of the suspects are also not disclosed.

Meanwhile, in March, the media appeared that the case of an attempt to steal the money of the Pension Fund in the near future is planned to be transferred from the production of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office. However, the implementation of these plans was not reported over the next month.

In November 2009, an unknown attacker came to the Central Bank’s branch and presented two payment orders, according to which 1.2 billion rubles should be transferred from the FIU accounts to the accounts of dummy companies at the Kuban bank. The Central Bank began the translation. From accounts in Kuban, money was immediately transferred to accounts in Prombank and Doych-Bank.

A few days later, the Pension Fund found out about the transfer made and informed the Central Bank that he did not write out the relevant payments. The transfer was immediately interrupted, the accounts of the recipients were blocked. Thanks to this, the loss of money was avoided.