# Moscow sentences Promsvyazbank founders to eight years each in absentia

https://mins.news/en/item/25332

- Meduza, 2026-08-18 16:21 UTC
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- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/18/moscow-sentences-promsvyazbank-s-founders-to-eight-years-each-a-sentence-neither-ananyev-brother-will-serve

> Moscow’s Lefortovo District Court sentenced former Promsvyazbank co-owners Alexei and Dmitry Ananyev to eight years in prison each in absentia. The court convicted them of embezzling more than 39 billion rubles, while investigators said they organized the “systematic embezzlement” of bank funds from 2012 to 2017. They also face pending abuse-of-office, misappropriation, fraud, and money-laundering cases.