Two more suspects were detained in the case of illegal cash withdrawal of more than 2 billion rubles. employees of CB " Master Bank " and JSCB " Zolostbank". According to Kommersant . , the former leading specialist of the department for working with large businesses of Master Bank, Igor Babichev, was charged with illegal banking activities committed by an organized group He was detained after interrogation on Tuesday at the SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and until then he was under recognizance not to leave. The Ministry of Internal Affairs told the newspaper that soon the same charge will be brought against Andrei Orlov , the former deputy head of the customer service department of Master Bank. The investigation will seek through the Tverskoy court to place Babichev and Orlov under house arrest with a ban on the use of communication means.

A criminal case about illegal banking activities was opened in the spring of 2012. Employees of Master Bank, Zolostbank and Strategy Bank are suspects in the case . According to investigators, they committed illegal transactions totaling approximately 2 billion rubles. The GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs described the work scheme of the accused as follows: “ Heads of a number of banks and organizations, using shell companies, transferred money to bank accounts in order to then transfer them to the accounts of other organizations and cash them out. The transfer fee was 3-7% of the payment amount.”

were placed under house arrest As a result of the searches, by decision of the Tagansky District Court, the deputy chairman of the board of Zolostbank, Alexander Kryukov , and Evgeny Rogachev , who previously headed the corporate business department of Master Bank, . Another former specialist from the Master Bank department for working with large businesses, Sergei Kormshchikov , was also detained . Rogachev was previously placed under house arrest.

The SD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will seek house arrest for two more defendants in the case of cashing out 2 billion rubles.