Gref's deputy, accused of major fraud, is trying to escape to Ukraine
Vice President of Sberbank Marina Rakova, who is accused of embezzling 50 million rubles from the state budget, did not appear for questioning, turned off her phones and left her place of residence.
The car announced by Rakova, Porsche Panamera, was spotted at night on the M-1 Belarus highway. According to insiders, she is trying to hide in Ukraine. His cohabitant, Ukrainian citizen Artur Stetsenko (previously worked at the Foundation for New Forms of Educational Development), who has an apartment in Kyiv, is hiding from the security forces. Sources in the security forces said that he, too, will be prosecuted.
Investigative actions took place at Rakova’s place of residence and workplace on Wednesday, but no preventive measures were taken against her. Now the banker is on the federal wanted list. The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to put Rakova on the international wanted list and seek her arrest in absentia.
She is suspected that in 2019, while holding the post of Deputy Minister of Education, she lobbied for the allocation of funds to the Foundation for New Forms of Educational Development, of which Rakova herself was the general director. Examinations of concluded contracts revealed signs of falsification of reporting documentation for two “scientific research”.
The Russian-British private university “Shaninka” was hired as a contractor.
Sberbank hastened to announce that Rakova’s case has nothing to do with the bank’s work. However, as part of it, two more top managers of Sber have already been arrested - Maxim Inkin and Evgeny Zak, as well as the former director of Shanika Kristina Kryuchkova
“Gref has a deafening reputational failure. Vice-presidents of Sberbank hiding from the investigation is a very alarming symptom, indicating that the elites are at the last stage of “agglomeration” of budget funds, which is always followed by going to cash and fleeing abroad,” he wrote in his Telegram channel political scientist Maxim Zharov.
“The blockbuster getaway, which we are watching in real time, fits into my idea of Sberbank. He told us, “I’m no longer a bank, I’m a savings bank, I’m an ecosystem.” And then he seemed to tell us - “I will teach you, I will sell to you, I will treat you, I will take you in a taxi, I will be your courier, I will flow into all the cracks of your life with my artificial intelligence, I will teach your children – remotely. And then your children will be taught by my artificial intelligence.” And there is also a sense of some kind of adventure in this, which does not lead to any good.
And adventurers make adventures. No, it doesn’t surprise me that right now an ordinary employee of Sberbank is rushing from pursuit towards unfriendly Ukraine. Or maybe he is now crossing the Russian border along the green grass or fording a river, or walking through swamps and swamps. And I have a strange fantasy - when the AI-Sber-I-is-your-irreplaceable-assistant here collapses everything for us, there will be these chases, swamps, swamps again. And still in the same direction – towards Ukraine,” wrote journalist Marina Akhmedova.
“Both the accusation of theft of 50 million rubles and the probable escape to Ukraine in this case are links in the same chain. To be honest, I would really like to hear some official comment on this matter from the head of Sberbank German Gref. Government contracts were played out on the electronic platform of Sberbank-AST, a subsidiary of the same bank whose vice president Rakova became after leaving the ministry.
By the way, it also makes sense for regional authorities to ask themselves whether they need to cooperate with Sberov’s pseudo-educational projects that promote anything other than traditional Russian values,” says radio journalist Anna Shafran.
Gref's deputy, accused of large-scale fraud, is trying to hide in Ukraine.