March 12 15:00
In Krasnoyarsk, a court issued a verdict in a case of illegal cash withdrawal through Internet banking. This was reported to the regional prosecutor's office.
According to the supervisory authority, in March 2019, a 34-year-old resident of Krasnoyarsk, instead of developing a real business, came up with a “cash out” scheme – transferring entrepreneurs’ money through the accounts of controlled companies and returning the cash for a commission.
It took a team to implement the scheme. The man took upon himself the search for “clients”, negotiations, execution of fictitious transactions and general organization. He invited an accountant as an accomplice – a person with experience, specialized education and his own company, which had not carried out real activities for a long time.
The woman agreed to involve her company and knowledge. She opened new bank accounts, used online banking and electronic keys, signed payment documents and sent payment orders with a deliberately false payment purpose.
“The essence of the work was simple and cynical. The entrepreneur who wanted to cash out the funds named the amount. An invoice was issued for this denomination, and a fictitious contract was drawn up against it. The money was transferred to the account of a controlled LLC, from there, using fake payment orders, it was transferred to the accounts of dummies, who withdrew cash and transferred it to the “client” minus a commission. For services, participants in the scheme took 1% of each transaction. In total, the accomplices spent about 30 million rubles on the accounts,” the regional prosecutor’s office said.
In court, the accountant argued that she acted on the instructions of the director and did not understand that she was participating in an illegal scheme. The director, on the contrary, fully admitted his guilt. The man told law enforcement officers in detail about how the “cash market” works, how clients were found, how interest was divided, and how millions were passed through fictitious contracts.
The court came to the conclusion that this was not an accounting error, but a well-thought-out scheme for the illegal circulation of payment funds using information and telecommunication technologies (Part 1 of Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The accomplices were found guilty and sentenced to suspended imprisonment for a period of 3 to 3.5 years with a probationary period of 2.5 to 3 years.
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