Sberbank employees were accused of stealing 40 million rubles from a client’s account

The police uncovered an organized criminal group that tried to steal money from the accounts of Sberbank VIP clients.

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• According to sources from several agencies at once (including RBC, RIA Novosti, TASS and Interfax), police officers detained 9 people in St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod. The police revealed signs of an organized criminal group in their actions, in particular, a clear distribution of roles is meant. It is assumed that the organizer of the criminal scheme was an employee of Sberbank, who promised the four managers a monetary reward for participating in the crime. The age of the detainees is from 30 to 64 years.
• The detainees are accused of fraud. The source cited an incident when they transferred $707,000 (about 40 million in rubles) from the personal account of a VIP client of Sberbank into savings certificates in the amount of 40 million rubles, after which they tried to cash them in two St. Petersburg branches of Sberbank. The police did not say whether they managed to get cash in their hands. Information about the disclosed fraud for 40 million rubles was also confirmed by the police.
• One person was taken into custody, eight - under a written undertaking not to leave. All Sberbank employees have been fired. The money was returned to the client. According to the press service of Sberbank, the fraudulent transaction was discovered during an internal investigation of the bank.

Liana Faizova