The court recovered over 143 billion rubles from Vneshprombank's ex-owner in embezzlement case

Khamovnicheskiy District Court of Moscow has ruled to recover more than 143 billion rubles from the ex-owner of Vneshprombank Georgy Bedjamov in the embezzlement case, as well as passed a sentence on the defendant, assigning 14 years of imprisonment. This was reported to "Izvestia" on December 17 by the press service of the court.

Bedzhamov was found guilty of committing crimes on four episodes under Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Embezzlement or embezzlement on a particularly large scale, committed by an organized group").

It was established that the defendant was the actual owner of LLC "Foreign Economic Industrial Bank", on the basis of which he controlled the work of the bank and gave his instructions on the issuance and distribution of funds. The criminal case was considered in the absence of the convicted person, who is on an international wanted list.

"On the aggregate of crimes, the court imposed a sentence of imprisonment for 14 years. Civil claims of Vneshprombank LLC were satisfied by the court in the amount of 113,528,028,333 rubles and 30,050,304,802 rubles," the court noted.

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In January the correspondent of "Izvestia" from the hall of Khamovnicheskiy court of Moscow reported that the former president of Vneshprombank Larisa Markus was sentenced to 13 years of general regime colony. The corresponding decision was made in the criminal case of embezzlement of 156 billion rubles. The court recovered 130 billion rubles from Markus and other defendants in the case.

According to the investigation, from 2009 to 2015, Markus and her sibling, ex-owner of the financial institution Bedjamov, created a criminal group together with top managers of the credit organization. They issued loans to controlled accounts and then appropriated the money for themselves. In addition, the owner of the bank and his accomplices wrote off money from the deposits of the bank's clients without their consent. As a result of all the crimes, they managed to steal more than 156 billion rubles.

It is known that the ex-owner of Vneshprombank hid from the investigation in the UK, which refused to extradite him to Russia. Back in 2021, the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) named Bedjamov the largest debtor among the bankers who fled the country. It was noted that the volume of unsatisfied creditors' claims amounted to 218 billion rubles.