Dmitry Rubinov was arrested in absentia for extorting 2.5 billion rubles.
The Moscow City Court recognized the legality of the arrest in absentia of the ex-employee of the Central Bank Dmitry Rubinov, accused of extortion and kidnapping of three people, including a two-year-old child, Kommersant writes.
According to investigators, the former financier committed crimes in order to take possession of part of the assets withdrawn from Taatta Bank. It was not immediately possible to prove the involvement of Rubinov, who always denied connection with both the credit institution and the company through which he stole the funds.
Dmitry Rubinov
Consideration of the ex-banker lawyer’s appeal against the chosen measure of restraint took a little more than an hour, the article says. The Moscow City Court recognized the legitimacy of the decision to arrest Rubinov in absentia, previously issued by the Khamovnichesky District Court.
The charge of organizing extortion and kidnapping of three people was brought against the ex-banker in October 2021. Investigators found that the crimes were related to Rubinov’s attempt to seize part of the assets of the Yakut bank Taatta, which belonged to him, which, after the ruin in July 2018, owed more than 6 billion rubles to depositors. It turned out that part of the funds was stolen through the Moscow company “Reaktiv”, which was the defendant.
According to the materials of the case, the capital LLC bought back the debts on loans from the bank for 2.5 billion rubles. When the general director of Reaktiv found out about this, he immediately sold his shares in the capital to a certain Maxim Pivovarov. In order to force the latter to transfer the asset to the right person, Rubinov organized a criminal group that took Pivovarov, his wife, and his two-year-old daughter hostage.
The police managed to detain five kidnappers, but they all turned out to be only performers and did not know anything about Rubinov. And the two direct curators with whom he spoke managed to hide in Turkey.
According to Kommersant, now the name of Dmitry Rubinov, who was credited with owning Strategy Bank, PIR Bank, Tempbank, Inkarobank, UM Bank, Taatta Bank, NKB Bank, and the Central Insurance Company (CSO), of which billions of rubles were withdrawn shortly before the license was revoked, and appears in a number of criminal cases.
ACCORDING TO CENTRAL BANK
The Deposit Insurance Agency still managed to stop the theft of Reaktiv’s assets with the help of an arrest imposed on the company’s shares by arbitration. Rubinov himself, who was put on the international wanted list in July 2022, is hiding in Israel, whose citizenship he also holds. At the same time, he appears in a number of proceedings, also related to the withdrawal of funds from bankrupt banks.
The interlocutor of NEWS.ru noted that Rubinov is “a very interesting character.” Until 2011, he served as deputy head of the Department of Banking Regulation and Supervision of the Central Bank, “worked closely with law enforcement agencies and managed to build personal contacts with employees of the” banking “department of the “K” department of the economic security service of the FSB.” From the Central Bank, he moved to commercial structures.
The banker was also mentioned in connection with the so-called Moldovan scheme, with the help of which about 500 billion rubles were withdrawn from Russia, including to Moldova and the EU countries. This scheme featured several credit institutions, including those attributed to Rubinov.
In the same 2019, an equally high-profile story surfaced with the Central Insurance Company (CSO), which won a tender for insurance of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2018-2019 for 13.7 billion rubles. However, soon after that, the license was revoked by the CSO, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs lost about 250 million rubles. […]