Former Rosselkhozbank employees are suspected of embezzlement of 1.2 billion rubles

Former officials of Rosselkhozbank OJSC are suspected of embezzlement of budget funds in the amount of more than 1.2 billion rubles, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . A number of managers of commercial organizations were also involved in the scam. The names of the suspects are not reported.

According to operational information, in 2009, attackers provided targeted lending by the bank of affiliated enterprises OJSC APK "WE". "In the future, funds by concluding fictitious agency agreements were withdrawn from the control of the creditor and the agro-industrial company and were assigned by participants in the scheme. At the same time, borrowing enterprises, whose assets were pledge property, were declared bankrupt," the report said.

A criminal case has been opened under part 4 of Article 159 (fraud on an especially large scale). In Moscow and Novosibirsk, searches are carried out in the places of work and residence of the defendants.

In April, investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained the former deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexei Bazhanov and two heads of agro -industrial enterprises of the Voronezh region on suspicion of embezzlement of more than 1.1 billion rubles allocated by Rosagrolysing OJSC for the development and support of agriculture in the Voronezh region.

The investigation established that the unlawful scheme was implemented in 2008-2009. With controlled agricultural enterprises, leasing agreements for the supply of high -tech equipment for the production of refined sunflower oil were concluded. Budget funds were transferred to settlement accounts of “one-day” firms and were cashed out. At the same time, fictitious documents were drawn up about supposedly delivered supplies.

A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code. "In the Moscow and Voronezh regions, more than 30 searches were simultaneously carried out, objects and documents relevant to the investigation of the criminal case were seized," the report said.

The key role in the group’s activities belonged to Bazhanov. "It was he who agreed on the allocation of funds, participated in the preparation of documents on transactions, and also contributed to concealing the facts of the lack of equipment," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. Bazhanov served as deputy minister in 2009-2010. He dealt with the issues of forest and hunting farming in the framework of the authority of the department in this area.