The prosecution has requested almost ten years in prison for the ex-owner of Ugra Bank

MOSCOW, December 5 The state prosecution has asked to sentence the former owner of the collapsed Ugra bank, Alexei Khotin, to 9 years and 10 months in prison for embezzlement, they reported in the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow.
“During the debate between the parties, the prosecutor requested a sentence for Khotin in the form of 9 years 10 months in a general regime colony and a fine of 1 million rubles,” said the agency’s interlocutor. The authority also clarified the requested terms for the remaining defendants: former president of Yugra Bank Alexey Nefedov — 9.5 years in prison, ex-chairman of the board of the credit institution Dmitry Shilyaev — 9 years and 3 months, ex-director of the capital branch of Ugra Nina Chernova — 9 years in prison. Everyone — also with fines of 1 million rubles.

In 2021, the Russian Investigative Committee announced the completion of an investigation into the embezzlement case against Khotin, Shilyaev, Nefedov and Chernova, who stole 23.6 billion rubles by issuing obviously bad loans to legal entities controlled by Khotin in 2014-2017. In addition, the department wrote then, work continued to establish the circumstances of the theft of Ugra funds by Khotin and his accomplices “in the amount of over 267 billion rubles.”

Initially, a preventive measure was chosen for Khotin form of house arrest, then he was banned from certain actions, but in October the court, at the request of the prosecution, transferred him to a pre-trial detention center.
The Central Bank revoked Ugra’s license in July 2017. In September 2018, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared the bank bankrupt. The Central Bank estimated the “hole” in its capital at 160.9 billion rubles.