The former owner of Yugra Bank, Alexei Khotin, was sentenced to 9 years in prison in a case of serious embezzlement. Other defendants in the case received sentences of 6 to 8.5 years in prison. According to investigators, Khotin and his accomplices stole 23.6 billion rubles of bank funds.
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The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow convicted the former owner of Bank Ugra. Alexey Khotin was sentenced to 9 years in a general regime colony, Interfax reports.
Other defendants in the case received 6 to 8.5 years in prison: former bank president Alexey Nefedov, former chairman of the board of directors Dmitry Shilyaev and head of the bank’s Moscow branch Nina Chernova.
The court also recovered 17.3 billion rubles from the defendants in a lawsuit filed by Bank Ugra to compensate depositors for damages.
According to investigators, Khotin and other defendants stole 23.6 billion rubles in funds from Yugra Bank by providing bad loans to controlled companies.
Author:
Kirill Bilyk
Source: RB
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