Ex-leader of Railtranscholding was convicted of theft of VEB-Lising funds
In Moscow, by nine years of imprisonment, the former general director of Rayletransholding LLC (RTH) Sergey Shpak was sentenced in absentia. It was found guilty of the theft of VEB-Leasing, which is part of the VEB.rf state corporation, more than 1.8 billion rubles. These funds were transferred under contracts for the supply of wagons, which VEB-Leasing did not receive.
Consideration of the criminal case against Sergei Shpak, accused of particularly large embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), took exactly a year from the judge of the Tagansky court of Moscow Spitsina. Since the defendant disappeared abroad even before the initiation of a criminal case and is on the international wanted list, the process took place in absentia.
Having pleaded the guilt of the former general director of Rayletransholding LLC Shpak fully proven, the court sentenced him to nine years of a general regime colony, also satisfying a civil claim of the victim in the amount of more than 1.8 billion rubles.
As previously said « Kommersant »the criminal case of large-scale theft of funds of VEB Leasing was opened on September 28, 2017 by the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As the investigation also established the court, it was Sergey Shpak that was the organizer of the criminal group, which operated from December 2014 to November 2017. In addition to him, its participants, according to law enforcement officers, were the former general director of VEB Lizing, Malta citizen Vyacheslav Solovyov, First Deputy Director General of the RTH Vitaliy Gybert, RTH-Logistik CJSC, head of the Security Service of the holding Rostislav Klimenko, general director of the Novozybkovsky machine-building factory (NMZ) Oleg Shevchenko, as well as the leaders of some RTH structures. Almost all these persons are now on the international wanted list.
The aim of the crime was the theft of funds that the holding companies listed VEB Leasing for the supply of wagons. The mechanism itself, as follows from the materials of the case, consisted in “signing the same type of contracts of contracts, leasing agreements, preparation of false acts of acceptance and transfer of property, guarantee agreements and other fictitious documents”.
It became known about the fraud after checking the execution of contracts, when it turned out that the cars were not supplied, and the funds listed for them were withdrawn through two dozen firms that did not engage in real business activities.
Just a few agreements spoke about 800 more freight cars and platforms for the transportation of containers. The damage caused amounted to more than 1.8 billion rubles. The materials of the case say that for quite some time the participants in the criminal group managed to hide the scams through « imitation of conscientious fulfillment of contractual obligations by partial payment of leasing payments and financing for the production of wagons, which contributed to the lack of their actual inventory. »
During the investigation, it was found that the supplier of the wagons was OJSC NMZ, headed by Oleg Shevchenko. It should be noted that on October 23, 2020, for which taxes and fees should be collected, as well as the malicious failure to comply with the court decision (part 2 of article 199.2 and part 2 of article 315 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), he was sentenced by the Novozybkovsky City Court to one year of imprisonment. In parallel with this, he was a defendant in the case of a large -scale embezzlement and was actually the only one who was detained in the framework of the investigation.
Oleg Shevchenko completely recognized his guilt in an incriminated act, namely that the wagons allegedly set by the customer, and NMZ were not even produced.
As a result, a pre -trial agreement was concluded with him. On October 17, 2022, the same Tagan court sentenced him in a special manner by one year and four months in prison.
Note that Mr. Shpak with the criminal case It was connected Another. In 2022, by three years in six months of a general regime colony, Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow Sentenced former minister of income and fees of the DPR Alexander Timofeev (Tashkent). He was found guilty of attempts on a particularly large fraud: for $ 5 million together with the former adviser to the ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov Igor Sosnovsky, he promised to resolve the issue with the termination of criminal prosecution by Sergei Shpak. Previously, Mr. Sosnovsky, who had cooperated with the investigation, received a suspended sentence.
