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The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow has sentenced the former State Duma deputy from United Russia, Vadim Varshavsky. He became a defendant in the case of the theft of 2.5 billion rubles from the Petrokommerts bank.
Vadim Varshavsky was sentenced to seven years in prison, informs Telegram channel of Moscow courts. The court also decided to recover 2 billion 614 million rubles from the former parliamentarian, partially satisfying the civil claim.
The state prosecution requested 8.5 years in a general regime colony for the defendant.
The former owner of the Estar group of companies, Vadim Varshavsky, has been under arrest since March 2018. According to the investigation, in 2012, his enterprise Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant entered into a loan agreement with Bank Petrokommerts, “the obligations on which were not fulfilled, and the money was embezzled.” In order to obtain a loan, the attackers transmitted “knowingly false information” to the bank. In particular, the financial statements did not reflect that the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant is already a guarantor for $ 950 million under a previously concluded loan agreement with one of the companies included in Mechel Group.
A criminal case was opened under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale). Varshavsky himself spoke “Kommersant” that he considers all the claims of the investigation to be unfounded, since “there was no loan agreement”, and he does not understand “how this criminal case was initiated.”
The ex-deputy was also involved in the tax evasion case, writes “New Newspaper”. In December 2019, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced Varshavsky to 3.5 years in prison for tax evasion in the amount of more than 490 million rubles (paragraph “b”, part 2 of Art. 199 of the Criminal Code).
Earlier, Vadim Varshavsky had financial problems with VTB. In December 2011, Transcreditbank issued a loan for 2.8 billion rubles to OJSC Guryev Metallurgical Plant (GMZ) under the guarantee of its owner Vadim Varshavsky and a number of metallurgical plants that were part of his empire (the bank later transferred the creditor’s rights under this agreement to VTB). Since 2014, GMZ has stopped servicing its loan to VTB. In April 2014, the bank applied to the Basmanny District Court of Moscow with a claim to recover from Varshavsky debt in the amount of about 2 billion rubles under a personal surety agreement. In February 2015, VTB’s claims were satisfied. At the same time, an arrest was imposed on a building belonging to a businessman in the center of Moscow (Kursovoy Lane, 8/2) with an area of more than 500 square meters.
In the summer of 2016, at the request of VTB, the court of the French city of Angoulême, taking into account the decision of the Basmanny District Court, imposed a temporary arrest on the local assets of Vadim Varshavsky. In particular, they talked about four French wine companies with a registered capital of about 400 thousand euros, which he owns together with his wife, as well as the company Etoile 06 with a registered capital of one thousand euros. This company, according to the plaintiffs, owned the Residence Le Chateau de l’Etoile apartments in Cannes with an area of about 200 m² worth about 2 million euros.
Vadim Varshavsky was a member of the United Russia faction in the State Duma of the IV and V convocations. On the day of his arrest in the embezzlement case, the party announced the suspension of his membership.
Bank Petrokommerts was part of FC Otkrytie, the largest private banking group in the Russian Federation at that time. Since 1998, Petrokommerts has been the “backbone bank” of the oil company Lukoil.
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