MOSCOW, May 12 (RAPSI) – Former executive sales manager of a Moscow bank accused of attempting to sell client data to a financial organization, will be tried in court, RIA Novosti news agency reports on Thursday.

According to a RIA Novosti’s undisclosed source in Moscow law enforcement agencies, the defendant in the case is a former employee of "VTB 24" bank. The bank confirmed this information to RIA Novosti, noting that no personal data leak has occurred.

Investigators have established that the defendant, using his official position, illegally copied information about the bank's clients on electronic media. The data related to bank’s clients carrying out conversion arbitrage transactions in foreign currency. After the defendant’s employment with the bank was terminated, he decided to sell the information to an unspecified customer.

The transaction between the defendant and his customer was monitored by the Federal Security Service and Moscow police. The defendant has given his “client” the data storage device and received 80,000 rubles ($1,212); after the completion of the deal he was arrested. The former bank employee was charged with “an attempted illegal receipt and disclosure of information classified as a commercial, tax or banking secret.”