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Co-owners of the deprived Nota Bank license were arrested in a fraud case
Co-owners of Nota-bank Dmitry and Vadim Erokhin were arrested on charges of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). It is reported by Kommersant, citing a source.
The arrest was sanctioned by the Tverskoy Court of Moscow. When exactly this happened, the publication does not report. The former financial director of the bank, Galina Marchukova, is also involved in the case.
According to the newspaper, the case against the Erokhins was opened after the appeal of the former company of Arkady Rotenberg Mostotrest to law enforcement agencies, which became known in October 2015. Then the company said that in August 2015 it made a deposit of 1.5 billion rubles in Nota-Bank to receive a guarantee in the amount of 2.2 billion.
In October, after the introduction of temporary administration in the bank, Mostotrest decided to take the money, but this was no longer possible. According to the investigation, Dmitry Erokhin, who held the post of chairman of the board in the bank, was aware that the institution would not be able to fulfill its obligations.
Now, according to a Kommersant source, there are several more episodes in the criminal case, including those related to the issuance of loans for dubious projects and fictitious borrowers. The courts satisfied the requirements of the DIA, which is liquidating Nota-Bank, to recover more than 834 million rubles from such borrowers, but they failed to return half of this amount, since the debtors had neither money nor property that could be levied.
- In October 2015, the Central Bank introduced temporary administration at Nota-Bank, which was one of the top 100 Russian banks in terms of assets, and announced a moratorium on issuing money to creditors. In November, the Central Bank revoked the license from Nota-Bank. It was reported that the excess of the bank's liabilities over its assets is more than 26 billion rubles.