Ex-Senator Pugachev is charged with embezzlement

The former Senator from Tuva, the beneficiary of the bankrupt interprombank Sergey Pugachev, who was arrested in absentia in absentia, was charged with waste. This was reported by Interfax with reference to an unnamed source, "familiar with the situation." The banker was charged in absentia under part 3 of Article 33, part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code (organization of assignment and embezzlement on an especially large scale). The maximum sanction for this crime is 10 years of the colony.

Kommersant wrote about the correspondence arrest of Pugachev for a period of two months on Thursday morning. It was reported that the former senator will be taken into custody as soon as he is in Russia. As the publication was told in the Investigative Committee, Pugachev has already been put on the federal wanted list, and now it has been initiated by its announcement in the international - along the interpol line. Meanwhile, to clarify which crime is charged with a banker, in the department did not.

One of the interlocutors of the publication, however, stated that Pugachev wanted to attract by the episode about the issuance of loans in the amount of $ 900 million through the OPC -Development company - the structure of the OPK group, which included interprofank, to some companies in the jurisdiction of Luxembourg and related to the enterprises of the former senator. Thus, the money was withdrawn outside the borders of Russia, which Interprombank in the crisis of 2008-2009 received from the Central Bank as unsteady loans. In total, the Bank of Pugachev received more than 40 billion rubles from the Bank of Russia; The irrevocable balance is a maximum of 30 billion. After the bankruptcy of Interprombank, who owes over 80 billion rubles, the Central Bank turned out to be its largest lender.

Interprombank was deprived of a license in October 2010, after unsuccessfully tried to restructure the debt to the Bank of Russia. In December of the same year, the MPB was recognized as bankrupt, and in January 2011, the TFR instituted the case with respect to its unidentified top managers under articles 195 and 196 of the Criminal Code (illegal actions in bankruptcy and deliberate bankruptcy). It was later reported that defendants appeared in the case, but the name of Pugachev was not called among them.

Pugachev was a member of the Council since December 2001. In 2002 and 2007, his powers were extended. In the summer of 2010, representatives of the trade unions sent a letter to the speaker of the upper house Sergey Mironov, which reported that Pugachev had been the last time to come to the region in November 2008. In January 2011, the head of Tuva Sholban Kara-ool ceased to the authority of Pugachev ahead of schedule.

It is known that the banker is sponsored by the Moscow Sretensky Monastery, the governor of which is the abbot Tikhon (Shevkunov).