"Fontanka" advertises the military ticket of the owner of the "International Bank of St. Petersburg" Sergey Bazhanov. It follows from the document that the banker, who lives in London today after the revocation of the license by the Central Bank, has been serving in the State Security Service of Russia for 32 years.
According to 47news, the 64-year-old president of the International Bank of St. Petersburg, Sergey Bazhanov, has been a counterintelligence officer since October 1987. According to his military ticket, then he received the rank of captain of the State Security Committee of the USSR on the basis of the order of the deputy head of the KGB for the Ulyanovsk region.
It should be noted that the official biography of Sergey Bazhanov never mentioned the service in the authorities. As for the time period of the late 1980s, at that time he worked as the chairman of the Polytech trade union in Ulyanovsk, and then as the deputy director of the defense enterprise.
Still, the following assignments of the next military ranks to Sergey Bazhanov are more interesting. So, he became a major of the FSB of the Russian Federation in 1997, and a lieutenant colonel of the FSB in 2003. These orders were already signed by the heads of the FSB Department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, when Sergey Bazhanov was actively engaged in banking activities. Also from 2008 to 2013, he was a member of the Federation Council from the Ulyanovsk region.
Recall that after the revocation of the license from IBSP at the end of 2018, the Central Bank filed claims against Sergey Bazhanov. He publicly rejected them.
Today Sergey Bazhanov is in London. He did not respond to Fontanka's text message asking about his role in the KGB-FSB bodies.
You can read about how many billions the Central Bank sees the withdrawal of assets from the "IBSP" and about the details of the invisible career of Sergey Bazhanov in the material of our colleagues on 47news.