Saint-Petersburg Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have finished investigating a criminal case against Dmitry Abramkin, Igor Perepech, Lyubov Stetskaya and Maxim Sidorov charged with a crime under paragraph “a” and “b” of article 172 of the RF Penal Code (illegal banking).
According to investigators, Abramkin and Mozgovoy, the main specialist of the exchange and cash department of OAO Bank VEFK, in December 2005 decided to set up an organized criminal group for illegal banking and involved the said persons. With this purpose Perepech opened on his name accounts in commercial banks from which he withdrew cash after the money was transferred after fictitious deals from legal entities controlled by Abramkin and Mozgovoy. In addition, he joined the board of the non-resident company MONTEVALLEOÜ (Estonia) with the purpose to give his accomplices to manage the accounts of the company during their illegal banking activity. He also found in Estonia other people, who were not aware of their criminal activity, and opened on their names accounts in non-resident banks in Estonia. This way, the accomplices cashed and withdrew money. Perepech also transported across the Russian border cash of clients – commercial organizations and physical persons registered in Russia. The investigators believe that Stetskaya took stock of the flows of money of clients during illegal banking activity. At the same time, Sidorov, who at the time was an operative of investigation and search station No 23 (the line of tax crimes) of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region Main Office of the Russian Interior Ministry, round and drew in clients from legal entities and physical persons to render them with illegal bank services, while Mozgovoy looked for offices in Saint-Petersburg for their illegal activity. In his turn Abramkin through men of straw founded 35 legal entities. The accounts of the said organizations were used for the money of the clients of Abramkin and Mozgovoy’s “illegal bank” and for further illegal transactions to transfer the money under fictitious contracts in order to conceal their illegal activity.
In the period between December 2005 and May 2008, the accomplices carried out illegal bank operations worth over 45 billion rubles, making a profit of 1 billion 221 million rubles.
The operational support in the investigation was carried out by the officers of the Federal Security Service.
The investigators have gathered enough evidence, therefore, the criminal case with the approved indictment has been sent to court to be tried on the merits.
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