Ladonshchikov Petr Leonidovich birthday. Fondservisbank: scams in the Russian space program. Roscosmos money disappeared in the criminal community

The former first vice-president of Fondservisbank, Pyotr Ladonshchikov, who was arrested along with the ex-owner of this credit institution, Alexander Volovnik, on charges of theft of 1.38 billion rubles belonging to Roscosmos, concluded pre-trial agreement about cooperation. As part of the deal, he testified about how and to which companies from the bank on his behalf former owner withdrawn 6 billion rubles. A Kommersant source close to the investigation notes that after studying Mr. Ladonshchikov’s testimony to criminal liability may attract the owners of companies that participated in the scam, and Mr. Volovnik faces a more serious charge - organizing a criminal community.

Unlike former owner and the President of Fondservisbank Alexander Volovnik, who denies his guilt, Mr. Ladonshchikov immediately admitted it, beginning to actively cooperate with the investigation. Subsequently, Mr. Ladonshchikov formalized his cooperation with the investigation by signing a pre-trial agreement with the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin. Now, according to the law, his case must be separated into separate proceedings, and he himself can be transferred from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest.

Let us recall that a criminal case regarding the theft of Roscosmos funds placed in Fondservisbank was opened in August 2015. According to the preliminary investigation, Mr. Volovnik organized the theft of at least 1.38 billion rubles from the bank, which was transferred, including abroad, through shell companies that received non-repayable loans. At the end of April, Mr. Volovnik and the alleged accomplice in the thefts, Pyotr Ladonshchikov, were arrested by decisions of the Tverskoy District Court, which was contacted by representatives of the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Now Kommersant's source claims that thanks to the testimony of Mr. Ladonshchikov, the amount of alleged thefts increased to 6 billion rubles, and in addition, companies that received bad loans from the bank, and employees of the bank itself who participated in the scam, were identified. “The decision about which of them will become new defendants in the case and who will retain their current status as witnesses will be made depending on their testimony,” the Kommersant source noted.

It is worth noting that preliminary investigation, which was initially carried out against unidentified persons under Part 4 of Art. 159.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud in the field of lending) and the investigation was rather sluggish; at the beginning of this year, after the intervention of the Prosecutor General’s Office, it sharply intensified. The classification of the crime was changed to Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement committed on an especially large scale using one’s official position), and at the end of April the first alleged participants in the thefts, Messrs. Volovnik and Ladonshchikov, ended up in the pre-trial detention center. Now, as a Kommersant source close to the investigation suggests, after a comprehensive verification of Mr. Ladonshchikov’s testimony and the probable arrests of other participants in the thefts, the ex-owner of Fondservisbank Alexander Volovnik may be charged with a more serious offense under Part 1 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community).

Meanwhile, the defense of Messrs. Volovnik and Ladonshchikov appealed their arrests in the Moscow City Court. Representatives of the first of them insisted that the crime charged against him was committed during entrepreneurial activity, proposing to transfer the banker from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. Lawyers for the second argued the need for house arrest by saying that the Tverskoy District Court did not take into account the repentance of the accused and his assistance to the investigation. However appellate authority left the bankers in custody.

Ex-owner of Fondservisbank Alexander Volovnik. Photo "Kommersant"

According to Kommersant, the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has completed an investigation into the circumstances of the theft of 7.5 billion rubles from Fondservisbank (FSB), whose main client for a long time was Roscosmos. 12 defendants, including former owner and head of the bank Alexander Volovnik and first vice president Petr Ladonshchikov, are accused of organizing a criminal community and participating in it, as well as particularly large-scale fraud. The accused themselves deny involvement in illegal operations, insisting that there were no criminal schemes for the withdrawal of assets at the bank, and those actions of the bankers, which the investigation considers criminal, corresponded to their official duties.

After finishing investigative actions In the Fondservisbank case, the investigation materials amounted to about 200 volumes. The defendants in the case have been charged under especially serious Art. 210 (organization of a criminal community and participation in it using one’s official position), as well as under Part 4 of Art. 159 (fraud on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. It should be noted that one of the 12 defendants is the former general director of the Capital Trust Company Soyuz and a member of the board of directors of Fondservisbank Eduard Chesnov - wanted and arrested by the court in absentia. According to the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which conducted the investigation, the damage from the activities of the organized crime group amounted to 7.5 billion rubles.

As the agency mentioned "Ruspres", Fondservisbank actually lived at the expense of Roscosmos funds. With billions of government rubles in its accounts, the bank had a good additional margin. Such a significant resource among small private banks was exclusively available to Fondservisbank. But this was not enough for the leaders...

The case file states that in May 2013, the owner and first president of the bank formed a criminal group whose goal was “systematic theft Money» FSB. In addition to bank employees, the creators of OPS, according to investigators, used LLC Capital Trust Company Soyuz, LLC, Automation of Business Processes LLC, LLC, controlled by them, as a “tool for committing crimes” Management Company FINSO”, as well as shell companies. At the same time, the case says, the criminal community was divided into several “separate groups” - according to the specialization of its members. Thus, employees of “Business Process Automation”, according to the investigation, looked for one-day companies, prepared packages of documents necessary for registration on them loan agreements, and then controlled the transfer of bank funds to the accounts of these companies “under the guise of carrying out civil transactions.” After which they destroyed documentation about the activities of the creditors. At the same time, the group itself, as noted in the investigation materials, was also divided into divisions - legal, accounting and support department.

The group, which, according to investigators, was headed by the general director of STC Soyuz, Eduard Chesnov, was engaged in various financial transactions with funds stolen from the bank, management of property “acquired by criminal means,” as well as “accounting and distribution of criminal income” between participants in the fraud.

The division, which, according to the case materials, was controlled by the management of Management Company FINSO, not only ensured the preparation of documents for the theft of bank funds by issuing obviously bad loans, but also, according to the investigation, used this money to engage in various operations on the market valuable papers“for the purpose of concealing traces of a crime.”

Finally, the security group, which, according to detectives, was led by the head of the FSB resource protection department, ensured secrecy, drew up inspection reports and other documents “containing false information” in relations with shell companies to which FSB money was transferred. And the loan documents processing group was engaged, the case says, in “concealing the traces of systematic theft,” issuing positive opinions, professional judgments, etc., necessary to give the appearance of legality to the issuance of non-performing loans.

As a result, as follows from the case materials, members of the group, following the instructions of the owner of Fondservisbank Alexander Volovnik and the first vice-president of the bank Pyotr Ladonshchikov, found 31 shell companies to withdraw funds, with which from May 1, 2013 to February 24, 2015, the FSB 216 loan agreements were concluded. According to them, the bank transferred 6.7 billion rubles, which were then “not returned to the bank”: the money issued, according to the investigation, was “used by members of the criminal community at their own discretion.” Moreover, in November 2014, in the bank building (Butyrsky Val, 18), according to investigators, a scheme was drawn up to withdraw 800 million rubles “by signing a fictitious contract” with Management Company FINSO, which were also stolen. Thus, the total amount of damage in the case amounted to 7.5 billion rubles.

It is worth noting that for ten years the FSB was the supporting bank for Roscosmos, which at that time held $800 million in its accounts. The bank served almost all the largest industry enterprises, salary projects and foreign currency accounts of Roscosmos. The FSB's problems began after in 2015, the new management of the state corporation demanded the return of funds placed in the bank, but in response they heard an offer to wait three years, since the money was invested in various projects. The then Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin(now the head of Roscosmos) said: “There were smart people (I won’t call them fools) who created various kinds of schemes in which the money the country earned from space launches was poured either personally into the pockets of these space bosses, or into one jar , which had nothing to do with state control.” And he added that in this financial structure“hundreds of millions of dollars earned by the country have settled.”

The management of Roscosmos turned to the Central Bank with a request to look into the work of Fondservisbank. After an audit, which, according to the then deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Mikhail Sukhov, discovered “facts of significant overvaluation of assets,” the FSB fell under the reorganization program carried out by Novikombank. Roscosmos itself offered him as a sanatorium, agreeing at the same time to freeze part of its funds placed in Fondservisbank.

The defendants in the case do not admit guilt. They claim that everything financial operations carried out by the FSB were legal, and the investigation considers those actions that corresponded to the official duties of the accused to be criminal.

Alexander Volovnik and Pyotr Ladonshchikov are accused of creating a criminal community and especially large-scale fraud in the amount of 7.5 billion rubles

The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has completed an investigation into the circumstances of the theft of 7.5 billion rubles. in Fondservisbank (FSB), whose main client for a long time was Roscosmos. 12 defendants, including former owner and head of the bank Alexander Volovnik and first vice-president Pyotr Ladonshchikov, are accused of organizing a criminal community and participating in it, as well as of particularly large-scale fraud. The accused themselves deny involvement in illegal operations, insisting that there were no criminal schemes for the withdrawal of assets at the bank, and those actions of the bankers, which the investigation considers criminal, corresponded to their official duties.

After the completion of investigative actions in the Fondservisbank case, the investigation materials amounted to about 200 volumes. The defendants in the case have been charged under especially serious Art. 210 (organization of a criminal community and participation in it using one’s official position), as well as under Part 4 of Art. 159 (fraud on an especially large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. It should be noted that one of the 12 defendants - former general director of the Capital Trust Company Soyuz and member of the board of directors of Fondservisbank Eduard Chesnov - is wanted and arrested by the court in absentia. According to the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which conducted the investigation, the damage from the activities of the organized crime group amounted to 7.5 billion rubles.

As Kommersant's sources note, the case file states that in May 2013, the owner and first president of the bank formed a criminal group whose goal was the “systematic theft of funds” from the FSB. In addition to bank employees, the creators of OPS, according to investigators, used LLC Capital Trust Company Soyuz, LLC, Automation of Business Processes LLC, Management Company FINSO LLC, controlled by them, as well as shell companies as a “tool for committing crimes” . At the same time, the case says, the criminal community was divided into several “separate groups” - according to the specialization of its members. Thus, employees of “Automation of Business Processes,” according to the investigation, looked for shell companies, prepared packages of documents necessary to draw up loan agreements for them, and then controlled the transfer of bank funds to the accounts of these companies “under the guise of completing civil transactions.” . After which they destroyed documentation about the activities of the creditors. At the same time, the group itself, as noted in the investigation materials, was also divided into divisions - legal, accounting and support department.

Photo: Kristina Kormilitsyna / Kommersant

The group, which, according to investigators, was headed by the general director of STC Soyuz, Eduard Chesnov, was engaged in various financial transactions with funds stolen from the bank, management of property “acquired by criminal means,” as well as “accounting and distribution of criminal income” between participants in the fraud.

The division, which, according to the case materials, controlled the management of Management Company FINSO, not only ensured the preparation of documents for the theft of bank funds by issuing obviously bad loans, but also, according to the investigation, used this money to engage in various transactions on the securities market “in order to hide traces crimes."

Finally, the security group, which, according to detectives, was led by the head of the FSB resource protection department, ensured secrecy, drew up inspection reports and other documents “containing false information” in relations with shell companies to which FSB money was transferred. And the loan documents processing group was engaged, the case says, in “concealing the traces of systematic theft,” issuing positive opinions, professional judgments, etc., necessary to give the appearance of legality to the issuance of non-performing loans.

As a result, as follows from the case materials, members of the group, following the instructions of the owner of Fondservisbank Alexander Volovnik and the first vice-president of the bank Pyotr Ladonshchikov, found 31 shell companies to withdraw funds, with which from May 1, 2013 to February 24, 2015, the FSB 216 loan agreements were concluded. According to them, the bank transferred 6.7 billion rubles, which were then “not returned to the bank”: the money issued, according to the investigation, was “used by members of the criminal community at their own discretion.” Moreover, in November 2014, in the bank building (Butyrsky Val, 18), according to investigators, a scheme was drawn up to withdraw 800 million rubles. “by signing a fictitious contract” with Management Company FINSO, who were also kidnapped. Thus, the total amount of damage in the case amounted to 7.5 billion rubles.

It is worth noting that for ten years the FSB was the supporting bank for Roscosmos, which at that time held $800 million in its accounts. The bank served almost all the largest industry enterprises, salary projects and foreign currency accounts of Roscosmos. The FSB's problems began after in 2015, the new management of the state corporation demanded the return of funds placed in the bank, but in response they heard an offer to wait three years, since the money was invested in various projects. The then Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin (now the head of Roscosmos) said: “There were smart people (I won’t call them fools) who created various kinds of schemes in which the money earned by the country for space launches was either poured into the pocket of this space bosses, or in one jar that had nothing to do with state control.” And he added that “hundreds of millions of dollars earned by the country settled in this financial structure.”

The management of Roscosmos turned to the Central Bank with a request to look into the work of Fondservisbank. After an audit, which, according to the then deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Mikhail Sukhov, discovered “facts of significant overvaluation of assets,” the FSB fell under the reorganization program carried out by Novikombank. Roscosmos itself offered him as a sanatorium, agreeing at the same time to freeze part of its funds placed in Fondservisbank.

The defendants in the case do not admit guilt. They claim that all financial transactions carried out by the FSB were legal, and the investigation considers those actions that corresponded to the official duties of the accused to be criminal.

Vladislav Trifonov

Tomorrow the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow will consider the petition of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for arrest former president Fundservicebank Alexandra Volovnik. According to investigators, the banker detained the day before may be involved in the theft of part of the 47 billion rubles placed in this bank by the state corporation "Roscosmos". The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), which is now the injured party in the criminal case, had to save the bank.

Employees of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained the former owner and president Fundservicebank on the morning of April 26, immediately after the search that was carried out at his home in the west of Moscow. Alexander Volovnik was taken for questioning to the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose employees, according to sources close to the investigation, eventually issued a resolution to bring the ex-banker as a suspect in a criminal case of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code ). It was assumed that the detainee would spend the night of Thursday in the temporary detention center at Petrovka, 38, and tomorrow the Tverskoy District Court would consider the investigation’s request for his arrest for two months.

The initiator of the investigation, within the framework of which the ex-owner of Fondservisbank was detained, according to sources, is the Deposit Insurance Agency. Initially, the criminal case, which involved a well-known banker in the recent past, was conducted against “unidentified persons.” Perhaps, the interlocutor notes, the investigation would not have even developed, but after a change in the leadership of the investigation department (at the end of December last year, Alexander Romanov was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and head of the department), they decided to give it a new start.

In the criminal case, according to sources, we're talking about about the events of 2015, when about 47 billion rubles belonging to Roscosmos were stuck in Fondservisbank, which was the backbone of the rocket and space industry (it served almost all the largest industry enterprises, their salary projects, as well as the foreign currency accounts of the state corporation itself).

At the same time, when the state corporation demanded to return the funds placed in the bank, representatives of its management, as sources say, explained that they could not do this, since they were invested in various projects, which is why a full return is possible only after three years.

Former vice-president of Fondservicebank Pyotr Ladonshchikov spoke about how and to which companies 6 billion rubles were withdrawn from the bank on behalf of its former owner Alexander Volovnik.

As Kommersant learned, the former first vice-president of Fondservisbank, Pyotr Ladonshchikov, who was arrested along with the ex-owner of this credit institution, Alexander Volovnik, on charges of theft of 1.38 billion rubles belonging to Roscosmos, entered into a pre-trial cooperation agreement. As part of the deal, he testified about how and to which companies 6 billion rubles were withdrawn from the bank on behalf of its former owner. A Kommersant source close to the investigation notes that after studying Mr. Ladonshchikov’s testimony, the owners of the companies participating in the scam may be brought to criminal liability, and Mr. Volovnik faces a more serious charge - organizing a criminal community.

Unlike the former owner and president of Fondservisbank, Alexander Volovnik, who denies his guilt, Mr. Ladonshchikov immediately admitted it, beginning to actively cooperate with the investigation. Subsequently, Mr. Ladonshchikov formalized his cooperation with the investigation by signing a pre-trial agreement with the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin. Now, according to the law, his case must be separated into separate proceedings, and he himself can be transferred from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest.

Alexander Volovnik

Let us recall that a criminal case regarding the theft of Roscosmos funds placed in Fondservisbank was opened in August 2015. According to the preliminary investigation, Mr. Volovnik organized the theft of at least 1.38 billion rubles from the bank, which was transferred, including abroad, through shell companies that received non-repayable loans. At the end of April, Mr. Volovnik and the alleged accomplice in the thefts, Pyotr Ladonshchikov, were arrested by decisions of the Tverskoy District Court, which was contacted by representatives of the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Now Kommersant’s source claims that thanks to the testimony of Mr. Ladonshchikov, the amount of alleged thefts increased to 6 billion rubles, and in addition, companies that received bad loans from the bank, and employees of the bank itself who participated in the scam, were identified. “The decision about which of them will become new defendants in the case and who will retain their current status as witnesses will be made depending on their testimony,” the Kommersant source noted.

It is worth noting that the preliminary investigation, which was initially conducted against unidentified persons under Part 4 of Art. 159.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud in the field of lending) and the investigation was rather sluggish; at the beginning of this year, after the intervention of the Prosecutor General’s Office, it sharply intensified. The classification of the crime was changed to Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement committed on an especially large scale using one’s official position), and at the end of April the first alleged participants in the thefts, Messrs. Volovnik and Ladonshchikov, ended up in the pre-trial detention center. Now, as a Kommersant source close to the investigation suggests, after a comprehensive verification of Mr. Ladonshchikov’s testimony and the probable arrests of other participants in the thefts, the ex-owner of Fondservisbank Alexander Volovnik may be charged with a more serious offense under Part 1 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of a criminal community).

Meanwhile, the defense of Messrs. Volovnik and Ladonshchikov appealed their arrests in the Moscow City Court. Representatives of the first of them insisted that the crime he was charged with was committed in the course of business activities, proposing to transfer the banker from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. Lawyers for the second argued the need for house arrest by saying that the Tverskoy District Court did not take into account the repentance of the accused and his assistance to the investigation. However, the appeal court left the bankers in custody.

Musa Muradov, Vladislav Trifonov