Banker sentenced conditionally

Vasileostrovskiy Petersburg court sentenced the former chairman of the Board of Inkasbank "Tatyana Lebedeva to four years' imprisonment, found her guilty of embezzling 1.88 billion rubles in conjunction with the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank EEFC Alexander Gitelson. It is reported in Monday, May 23, Russian news agency the legal and judicial information (rape) with reference to the regional administration of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The court found that from May 2006 to May 2007, Gitelson and Lebedev stole 1.88 billion rubles, placed on deposit OAO Inkasbank "Committee of Finance, Government of Leningrad region. The money was transferred abroad and to accounts controlled firms. "The verdict of the court Lebedeva was sentenced to four years imprisonment with probation for five years and a fine of 300 thousand rubles," - said in a statement. Office explained that the woman was found guilty under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud). Gitelson in April, was sentenced in absentia by a court to five years in prison for fraud against him continuing investigation has a number of criminal cases. Business which has been condemned by Gitelson, concerned the theft of almost a billion rubles from the Russian Pension Fund. According to the prosecution of the Sverdlovsk region, in December 2008 from the account department FIU in Bank EEFC-Ural as a result of financial machinations were lost 955.9 million rubles. It turned out that the lost funds are in St. Petersburg, the head office of Bank EEFC. There also were searched, and the Basmanny Court of Moscow sanctioned the arrest of two former and one current bank employees, including ex-owner of the bank Gitelson, suspected of embezzling more than 890 million