KGB brings charges against former top managers of Belgazprombank; Babariko pleads not guilty
<p> MINSK, Nov 24 - PrimePress. The State Security Committee (KGB) of Belarus has completed the preliminary investigation into the criminal case against top managers of Belgazprombank and has brought official charges, the agency’s press office reports. </p> <p> </p> <p> “Former Chairman of the Board of Belgazprombank Viktor Babariko is charged with “bribe taking in a criminal group or on a large scale” (section 430.3 of the Criminal Code of Belarus) and gross money laundering (section 235.2),” reads the report. </p> <p> </p> <p> Deputy Chairs Sergei Shaban, Alexander Ilyasiuk, Kirill Badei and Dmitry Kuzmich, former First Deputy Chairman of the bank Alexei Zadoyko and Deputy Chairman of the Board Sergei Dobrolet are charged under section 430.3. </p> <p> </p> <p> Activeleasing LLC founder Viktor Kobyak is charged with gross bribe giving (section 431.2). </p> <p> </p> <p> All defendants have pleaded guilty, the KGB says. </p> <p> </p> <p> An interim administration under ex-head of the National Bank of Belarus Nadezhda Yermakova was appointed to Belgazprombank on June 15, 2020 by resolution No.192 of the National Bank of Belarus of June 14, 2020. The Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee of Belarus searched the bank’s office on June 11 as part of the criminal case on tax evasion, and detained 20 persons, including, according to some sources, two deputy chairs of the Board. Primary shareholders (Russian Gazprom and Gazprombank) called the actions of the National Bank and Belarus’ law enforcement illegal and refused to cooperate with the interim administration. For two decades, Belgazprombank was headed by Viktor Babariko, who attempted to run for president in the election scheduled for August 9. Babariko was detained on June 18. He said that no complaints had been filed against the bank and related companies. He believes the actions of the authorities are politically motivated. </p> <p> </p> <p> Belgazprombank OJSC was established in 1990 as an authorized bank of Gazprom Group in Belarus. Russian Gazprom PJSC and Gazprombank JSC own 49.66% stake in Belgazprombank each; Gazprom Transgaz Belarus – 0.49%; the Republic of Belarus represented by the Ministry of Energy of Belarus – 0.097%. Belgazprombank is assigned to the system significance Group I. End </p>
2020-11-25
Primepress
MINSK, Nov 24 - PrimePress. The State Security Committee (KGB) of Belarus has completed the preliminary investigation into the criminal case against top managers of Belgazprombank and has brought official charges, the agency’s press office reports.
“Former Chairman of the Board of Belgazprombank Viktor Babariko is charged with “bribe taking in a criminal group or on a large scale” (section 430.3 of the Criminal Code of Belarus) and gross money laundering (section 235.2),” reads the report.
Deputy Chairs Sergei Shaban, Alexander Ilyasiuk, Kirill Badei and Dmitry Kuzmich, former First Deputy Chairman of the bank Alexei Zadoyko and Deputy Chairman of the Board Sergei Dobrolet are charged under section 430.3.
Activeleasing LLC founder Viktor Kobyak is charged with gross bribe giving (section 431.2).
All defendants have pleaded guilty, the KGB says.
An interim administration under ex-head of the National Bank of Belarus Nadezhda Yermakova was appointed to Belgazprombank on June 15, 2020 by resolution No.192 of the National Bank of Belarus of June 14, 2020. The Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee of Belarus searched the bank’s office on June 11 as part of the criminal case on tax evasion, and detained 20 persons, including, according to some sources, two deputy chairs of the Board. Primary shareholders (Russian Gazprom and Gazprombank) called the actions of the National Bank and Belarus’ law enforcement illegal and refused to cooperate with the interim administration. For two decades, Belgazprombank was headed by Viktor Babariko, who attempted to run for president in the election scheduled for August 9. Babariko was detained on June 18. He said that no complaints had been filed against the bank and related companies. He believes the actions of the authorities are politically motivated.
Belgazprombank OJSC was established in 1990 as an authorized bank of Gazprom Group in Belarus. Russian Gazprom PJSC and Gazprombank JSC own 49.66% stake in Belgazprombank each; Gazprom Transgaz Belarus – 0.49%; the Republic of Belarus represented by the Ministry of Energy of Belarus – 0.097%. Belgazprombank is assigned to the system significance Group I. End