CB found signs of withdrawal of assets from Vneshprombank – RBC

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Bank of Russia and the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) in the work of the interim administration in Vneshprombank revealed large-scale operations, indicating the withdrawal of assets from a credit institution. On Thursday the press service of the Central Bank.

The controller assumes that the actions associated with the withdrawal of assets were carried out previous guidance Vneshprombank and persons controlling the bank.

The output assets, said the Central Bank could be invested in real estate, expensive vehicles, interest in commercial enterprises, financial instruments and other property which legally can be controlled by persons who are not formally related to Vneshprombank.

According to preliminary data of the Central Bank , the property can be located both in Russia and abroad, in particular in the US and Europe.

«Any transactions, encumber or otherwise dispose of the property, the ultimate source of the acquisition which is a means of” Vneshprombank ” will be further challenged, and may fall to the attention of law enforcement bodies “, – said the governor, adding that” the execution of persons who transferred control of the asset, instructions persons previously controlled by this credit institution, as well as family members and their affiliates may have implications for the goodwill of property managers, as well as lead to the legal consequences of civil and criminal law in the Russian and foreign jurisdiction ».

With a view to the interests of creditors Vneshprombank interim administration to continue the bankruptcy trustee will cooperate with law enforcement agencies and the judiciary on the requisition of the said property.

Earlier Thursday, the Central Bank has deprived Vneshprombank included in the top 50 Russian banks license. As a result of the financial analysis of the Central Bank and the Deposit Insurance Agency found that the bank’s liabilities exceeded its assets by 187.4 billion rubles., And reporting, which the bank handed regulator, contained false information. In addition, as mentioned in the report of the Central Bank, the management Vneshprombank build a system falsifying statements on the basis of primary documents, including statements of the correspondent accounts of non-resident banks, credit profiles of customers, transactions on customer accounts.

As previously wrote RBC, were placed in Vneshprombank means the Russian Olympic Committee, designed to prepare athletes for the Summer Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, as well as the wife of the deputy head of the money of the Russian government Dmitry Kozak Natalia. Forbes wrote that the investors were also BIG wife Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, son of the head of “Transneft” Nikolay Tokarev Andrei Bolotov. In addition, RBC sources close Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) said that in Vneshprombank hung up 1.5 billion rubles. Moscow Patriarchate.

The temporary administration for a period of six months in Vneshprombank was introduced on December 18 after the bank failed to fulfill obligations under repurchase agreements on the interbank market worth about 18 billion rubles. In mid-December, customers BIG faced with difficulties in obtaining deposits, the credit institution has been disabled from the system of banking electronic payments (BESP).

December 22 Tverskaya Court in Moscow decided to arrest the president and co-owner Vneshprombank Larissa Marcus suspected it fraud.

Marcus participating in the leadership of TBF since its inception in 1994, owns 7.5% of shares directly, in addition, it owns a 23.53% stake in the company “Promstroiproekt” which It owns 3.3% of shares Vneshprombank. Through the “Promstroiproekt” bank owned as the son of a member of the board of directors of “Transneft” Artur Chilingarov Nikolai Chilingarov and president of the Federation of Bobsleigh and Skeleton Russia Georgy Bedzhamov.

The number of shareholders Vneshprombank also includes Alexander Zurabov, brother Mikhail Zurabov Russian ambassador in Ukraine. He owns a 8.2% stake in the bank. In all, 19 shareholders of BIG, the largest block of shares – 13.9% – owned by the company “Priority”, for which there is a company incorporated in the Netherlands.