Hearings began in the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow in the case of theft of funds of the bankrupt Metropol Bank. The publication reports “Kommersant”.
Charges were brought against former chairman of the board Denis Dolotov, vice-president Olga Sokolova, chairman of the board Andrei Faminsky and commercial credit specialist Irina Danilova. They are accused of embezzlement of about 400 million rubles. The investigation believes that the initiator of the criminal scheme was the bank’s former beneficiary, Aidar Kotyuzhansky, who is currently in France. His case is being investigated separately.
A criminal case for particularly large-scale embezzlement (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) was opened against Metropol Bank by the Investigative Committee of Russia on October 15, 2020. The bank lost its license in November 2016, when its debts reached almost 2.2 billion rubles. The regulator assessed that the placement of the funds raised in assets with low liquidity posed a real threat to the interests of creditors and investors.
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