Kazan businessman convicted of stealing 12 million rubles from Sberbank

In Kazan, a sentence was passed on the co-founder of Leader LLC, Gennady Kuzmin, who was found guilty of major fraud. According to investigators, the businessman carried out credit scams and stole more than 12 million rubles from Sberbank. The court sentenced Kuzmin to 3.5 years in a general regime colony. He was saved from a longer sentence by admitting his guilt.

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The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan considered a criminal case against the 48-year-old co-founder of Leader LLC Gennady Kuzmin, who is under arrest. He was found guilty under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud using one’s official position, committed on an especially large scale). According to the verdict, in 2011, Gennady Kuzmin, “under the false pretext of further full investment in commercial activities,” received several loans for his company in one of the Kazan branches of Sberbank of Russia. The total amount stolen was more than 12 million rubles.

The Leader company was registered in Kazan in November 2006 by other persons. In 2010, Gennady Kuzmin bought it with his partner, a single woman whom he had met shortly before. Taking her as a co-founder and appointing her as director, he promised that they would engage in construction work and logging processing. The woman signed all loan documents, unaware of Kuzmin’s criminal intentions.

As follows from the verdict, the accused Kuzmin carried out his first trial fraud by receiving 1 million rubles from Sberbank as a loan to replenish the organization’s working capital. He “filled out false information about the economic situation and financial condition” of the company “a certificate of expenses incurred, a certificate of income received for the period from February 2011 to April 2011” and other documents. Having examined them, the bank’s active-passive operations committee gave a positive conclusion.

After this, according to the verdict, Gennady Kuzmin carried out several more fraudulent schemes. So, in the summer of 2011, he managed to get 5.5 million rubles by involving a businessman he knew, the owner of a woodworking complex in Mari El. This businessman could not sell his complex with a warehouse and machines for a long time, for which he wanted to receive 35 million rubles. The accused Kuzmin promised to buy it, saying that he would take out a loan for this purpose. After a preliminary agreement, as stated in the verdict, he drew up a fictitious agreement, according to which he allegedly bought the complex. The base and equipment were presented to the bank as collateral. When Sberbank employees came to inspect the woodworking enterprise, its owner happily showed them everything, because he thought that their visit was connected with issuing a loan to Gennady Kuzmin for the purchase.

According to another episode, Gennady Kuzmin took 2.3 million rubles from the bank to buy an AUDI Q7 car for his LLC. Having received the car, he, as follows from the case materials, re-registered it to another person, and then pawned it in a pawnshop for 1.7 million rubles.

The defendant paid some money on the loan, 20-50 thousand rubles, but, as stated in the verdict, only “for the purpose of creating the appearance of fulfilling obligations and in the future obtaining the opportunity to continue the theft.”

Gennady Kuzmin was exposed in 2013 after Sberbank management filed a police report against him. During the investigation, another episode of his criminal activity surfaced. In August 2007, the defendant, according to the verdict, stole 1.5 million rubles from a citizen under the pretext of investing money in an allegedly highly profitable waste disposal project.

The court sentenced Gennady Kuzmin to 3.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony. Let us note that in connection with the charge he faced up to ten years in prison with a fine of up to 1 million rubles. But the court, as stated in the verdict, took into account his “admission of guilt, repentance, partial compensation for damage to the victims, and the presence of dependent young children.”

Andrey Smirnov

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