The theft plan at Rost Bank involving former top leaders is being linked to the previous owner and his uncle, Mikhail Gutseriev.
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In Moscow, two former top managers of Binbank – Kirill Lyubentsov and Alexander Lukin – were arrested. According to Interfax, they are suspected of major theft amounting to over 100 billion rubles. One of them has already been put in custody.
According to Kommersant, ex-owner of Binbank Mikail Shishkhanov is being checked for involvement in the theft. This is due to the reorganization of Rost-Bank, which was once carried out by Binbank.
Binbank was transferred to Rost-Bank for reorganization in 2014. For these purposes, the DIA allocated almost 18.5 billion rubles. As Forbes wrote several years ago, one of the functions of Rost-Bank was lending to the projects of the Safmar group of Mikhail Gutseriev, the uncle of Binbank owner Mikail Shishkhanov at that time.
It happened like this: Binbank lent money to Rost, giving it, according to data for 2017, almost 700 billion rubles, and Rost, in turn, as reported by the Central Bank, lent assets associated with the owners.
Of the assets that Mikail Shishkhanov got from the former owner of Rost-Bank, Oleg Karchev, one can definitely indicate 39% of the Kolyma Refinery (KAZ). Investments in the enterprise amount to about 28 million rubles, at the moment it is declared bankrupt and is at the stage of liquidation. One of the reasons for bankruptcy is the theft of two tons of gold and 16 tons of silver from KAZ. As a result of the investigation of this case, the ex-director of KAZ Vladislav Feoktistov was charged with abuse of authority. At the same time, Feoktistov’s son Denis previously headed the branch of Rost-Bank in Magadan.
Also, 139 billion rubles, or more than 20% of Rost-Bank’s assets, was invested in debt securities of issuers without long-term credit security ratings. Binbank did not comment on Forbes what kind of issuers they are.
In the fall of 2017, the Central Bank took Binbank for reorganization. And around the same time, the regulator began the recovery of two more large private banks – Otkritie, which belonged to a pool of shareholders, the largest of which was Vadim Belyaev, as well as Promsvyazbank of the Ananiev brothers. All these banks were part of the so-called “Moscow ring”, their owners credited each other at the expense of pension funds. After the decision of the Central Bank, some shareholders left Russia, and at the same time, numerous courts began. At the same time, the owners of Binbank began transferring their assets to the Central Bank. And Mikail Shishkhanov himself, who is now being checked, promised never to engage in the banking business again.
Regarding the current case against the top managers of Binbank, it involves the theft of 107 billion rubles from Rost-Bank during its reorganization by Binbank. The money may have been used to purchase worthless securities and lend to entities that did not repay the funds. The timing of these events was not disclosed. However, it is worth noting that eight years have passed since the beginning of the recovery of Rost-Bank, and five years have passed since the Central Bank took over Binbank. The suspects are only now being prosecuted.
At the moment, neither Rost-Bank nor Binbank exist. The first was attached to the “Trust”, which became the so-called “bank of bad debts”. The second joined the Otkritie bank. The court reported that one of the former top managers of Binbank now holds the position of general director of the Kanashsky Breeding Poultry Plant in Chuvashia. The second ex-top manager is listed as unemployed.
The article on embezzlement on an especially large scale provides for up to ten years in prison.
