Category “Column Administrator”
in the community “Politics, Economics, society (without bans)”
Last week it became known that Basmanny court of Moscow under the conditions of secrecy rendered a verdict on the very sensitive for the Russian authorities the case — in relation to the militia from Lugansk to extort the Bank “Ugra” 300 million roubles under the threat of the spread of data about customers. In the words of the accused that the money would go “for the restoration of the destroyed national economy of the self-proclaimed Luhansk people’s Republic”, the court did not believe it. Punishment for 8 years of strict regime for men and 4 years shared their accomplice.
According to investigators, in the spring of 2015 an unidentified accomplice of the defendants handed the security guard of the Moscow office of the Bank “Ugra” on Sadovnicheskaya street envelope, asking him to transmit it to the Chairman of the Board. In the envelope was a copy of the data on the accounts of several customers of “Ugra”, the movement of funds in a letter in which the banker offered to immediately call the number “to purchase the entire package of documents”. Otherwise, anonymous threatened to publish the customer data on the Internet and in influential Newspapers.”
Specified in the letter to the room called one of the deputies of the Chairman. Two men, introduced himself as “Peter” and “Viktor Sergeevich, reported that they had access to the internal network and if the Bank “Ugra” does not want to publish data about dozens of customer accounts, the Bank on the same day, have to give them 300 million rubles. The criminals said that all the money “to the penny” go “to restore war-ravaged economy LC”.
Security Bank instantly do internal audit. The fact that a computer system of the Bank does not allow to query information about customers anonymously. This can be done only by the employees of the Bank. In the end, it immediately became clear that the letter referred to in the clients interest only to the specialist of the Tyumen branch of the Bank Olga Beloborodova.
The Bank management has addressed in law enforcement bodies. Beloborodov took under the supervision of investigators, and soon they found out that her roommate is an ex-police officer Alexander Solntsev, while located in Moscow. To him she handed over information about Bank customers. Another investigation found that in 2012 the sun took place in Surgut, in the case of the theft of construction equipment and two years later, when in the South-East of Ukraine began the armed conflict were seen in Lugansk, in the rapid response team “Batman”. Solntsev got the call, “the Mechanic”. After the death, in January 2015 commander “Batman” Bednov and the subsequent prosecution of his closest associates Solntsev went to Moscow.
Field investigators managed to establish that in the capital is another former volunteer “Batman” — Egor Yuldashev in 2014 he was detained on suspicion of extortion. The examination of telephone conversations of extortionists with the leadership of the “Ugra” showed that “Victor S.” seemed Solntsev, and “Peter” — Egor Yuldashev.
Militia-ransomware militiamen detained at the end of June 2015. By the time those had reduced the amount of 250 million rubles, but could not decide in what form want it: you offered the parts transfer them to the accounts of some companies, then list the full amount to the account of the Fund “Veterans for peace” under the guise of charitable aid and, finally, demanded the Bank to sign a contract with them collection. As a result, opers patience — former soldiers of “Batman” was arrested. On the same day in Tyumen at the workplace was detained and Beloborodov. They are all not guilty insisting that the corrupt intent was not and is really derived from the “Ugra” the money was allegedly intended to send to Lugansk “to restore the economy”. However Basmanny court found them guilty and “extortion in especially large size” (paragraph “b” of part 3 of article 163 of the criminal code) Solntseva and sentenced Yuldashev to 8 years of colony each, and Olga Beloborodova received 4 years of a General regime.
Interestingly, information about the sentence the militia-extortionists and their accomplice is very scarce. And the upcoming trial of the press service of the Moscow city court and the Prosecutor General’s office has announced. Failed to go to lawyers to convicts, like those they had. Walked information about the verdict party all Russian state media, with the exception of some news agencies. And those short messages referred to the press release of the Prosecutor General, which was not mentioned nor the word “militia”, or the previous background of the convicts, and a laconic — “citizens of the sun and Yuldashev”.
Any details about the process in a press-service of the Basmanny court “to the New newspaper” to tell difficult.
