Criminal case on the theft of customer shares worth 400 million rubles.

The employees of Moscow Stock Center, one of the oldest brokers, were prosecuted under the 159th article of the RF Criminal Code for stealing of clients' securities in the amount of up to 400 mln rubles, including 270 mln rubles belonging to individuals. An unidentified number of employees of the MFC were accused of large-scale fraud, who, according to the testimony of 150 victims who applied to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, sent false transfer orders to Ingosdepository without their clients' consent. securities to the company's own accounts.

Thus, shares worth between 3 and 10 million rubles were withdrawn from the accounts of some of the broker's clients. Gazprom, LUKOIL, RusHydro, Raspadskaya and other companies were of interest.

Recall that the Moscow Stock Center suspended operations in November 2014, announcing on the company's website changes in management and ownership. Customer service was supposed to resume in full on December 1. However, this did not happen.

According to Vedomosti, MICEX closed MFC's access to trading in connection with the presence of outstanding obligations under repo transactions in late November. Subsequently, due to repeated violations of Russian securities laws, obstruction of inspections and customer complaints about problems with withdrawal of funds and securities from accounts, the Central Bank of Russia revoked the licenses of Moscow Stock Center and Ingosdepository on December 12.