Banker convicted for the purchase of counterfeit bills

Soon, the court will consider the case of Sergei Minin, who until 2006 headed the board "Investkombanka Belkom. Ex-banker suspected of laundering money through the purchase of counterfeit securities, according to Vedomosti. The Bank ceased operations in September 2006. Then the license was revoked for repeated violation of the law and reduce capital below the level of the Central Bank. The criminal case against the director of "Investkombanka Belkom" was instituted on the basis of statements by the Deposit Insurance Agency, according to which, the management agency must bear the subsidiary responsible for bringing the bank into bankruptcy. According to the court case, Sergei Minin, spent 11,995,000 rubles. "Through the purchase of counterfeit bank notes from the organizations by-night." Illegal bill business has long worried about the market regulator. Earlier this year, the Central Bank fixed the issue unsecured promissory notes amounting to 500-600 million rubles. That went into circulation from companies with authorized capital of 20 thousand rubles. However, according to law, the Central Bank can not control these processes, since these firms are not credit institutions.