‘The court proceedings having to do with the case of Oksana Schegolkova, the accountant of Sredneuralskiy subsidiary of UralTransBank, were finalized yesterday. Ms Schegolkova was charged with fraud as she had allegedly used her access to the bank’s operation systems to transfer sums of money ranging between 10,000 RUR and 100,000 RUR from the customers’ accounts to the third party accounts,’ Deputy Public Prosecutor of Verkhyaya Pyshma Sergey Kravchuk said to UrBC representative.

‘Ms Schegolkova was not detained as this was considered too much for a pregnant woman – this was her condition at the time of the inquiry,’ Mr Kravchuk said.

‘The verdict was supposed to be returned on October 12, 2006, yet due to a number of reasons the final sitting was deferred sine die,’ he reported.