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The former owner of the International Bank of St. Petersburg Sergey Bazhanov was charged in absentia with crimes under Article 172.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation — "Falsification of financial documents of accounting and reporting of a financial organization". The maximum penalty is seven years in prison.
According to Fontanka ,Sergey Bazhanov himself has been living abroad for more than a year, and the investigator for particularly important cases of the IC of Russia for the North-West, Helmyanov, had to be smart to deliver to the addressee a notification of the formal procedure for bringing charges. It finally took place on January 25 in the absence of the banker.
Sergey Bazhanov headed the International Bank "Saint Petersburg" until 2018, when the Central Bank transferred the functions of its interim administration to the Deposit Insurance Agency. The regulator justified its decision on the "unstable financial situation" of the financial institution and " a threat to the interests of its creditors and depositors."
Since then, the temporary managers have been trying to return the property and assets transferred by Sergey Bazhanov's team to third-party organizations under the bank's wing. We can talk about 9 billion rubles left from the accounts of the IBSPB. In a series of such steps and actions, a criminal case against Sergei Bazhanov just arose. And even it was possible to bring it only from the fifth time, and the formal charge was brought only a year later after that.
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The Swiss Prosecutor General's Office has launched an investigation into money laundering against Sergei Bazhanov. It is reported that we are talking about funds in the amount of 200 million euros, withdrawn from the Bazhanov-owned International Bank of St. Petersburg. The International Bank of St. Petersburg is a regional bank registered in St. Petersburg, which, before the revocation of its license in October 2018, ranked 5th among the banks of St. Petersburg and 76th in Russia in terms of the number of attracted deposits. The bank is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. The audit of the DIA revealed a "hole" in the bank's capital in the amount of 13 billion rubles. @banksta
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Ex-senator and owner of the International Bank of St. Petersburg Sergey Bazhanov is trying to ban the press and the Internet from calling him a lieutenant colonel of the FSB.
In the fall of 2018, the licence of the IBSP bank owned by Bazhanov was revoked by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, and then, later, the bank itself, at the request of the same Central Bank of the Russian Federation, was declared bankrupt by the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
About a year ago, St. Petersburg online publications Фонтанка.ру and 47news.ru published the unexpected information that Sergey Bazhanov is a lieutenant colonel of the FSB. These publications published as proof a photo of his military ID card, which shows that Bazhanov received his first rank in the then KGB of the USSR in 1987. The same photos show that Bazhanov received the last rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the FSB in 2003, being the owner of the IBSP.
In the future, judging by press publications, Bazhanov has left Russia and is now abroad, hiding from a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the North-Western Federal District in connection with the discovery by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation of a "hole" in the capital of IBSP in the amount of 13 billion rubles, as well as signs of the withdrawal of the bank's assets abroad.
Now, a year after the publications, Bazhanov decided to get rid of the" toxic "prefix" Lieutenant Colonel of the FSB " abroad and appealed to the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg with three statements, where the interested parties are indicated:
- - the owner of the Internet resource Pikabu-M. S. Khryashchev (CASE No. 9-4400 / 2020 ~ M-3033/2020);
- - Yandex LLC (CASE NO. 9-4456 / 2020 ~ M-3034/2020);
- - Department of Roskomnadzor for the North-Western Federal District (CASE NO. 2-4461 / 2020 ~ M-2876/2020).
The first application was dismissed by the court, the second was returned to the applicant, and the third was finally accepted and scheduled for a hearing in September 2020.
Everything is fine in these cases! The fact that a banker with 30 years of experience in banking and an ex-senator was only able to submit an application for the third time, which was accepted by the court. The fact that the rank of lieutenant colonel of the FSB in the circumstances under consideration ceased to be a matter of pride for Bazhanov, and began to interfere with life abroad so much that it forced him to start lawsuits with Yandex and others! And of course, it is surprising that Bazhanov has never heard of the Barbara Streisand effect, which makes it impossible to conceal any information in the network and the press, since attempts to ban it tend to increase its spread.
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The Investigative Committee for the North-West opened a criminal case on the falsification of financial statements at the collapsed International Bank of St. Petersburg. "Fontanka" knows that the application of the Deposit Insurance Agency for ten months wandered between the investigation of the police headquarters and the prosecutor's office of the city, and the Prosecutor General's Office quietly agreed.
As it became known to our publication on December 25, about a week ago, a criminal case was opened in the Investigative Committee for the North-West under Article 172.1 of the Criminal Code – "Falsification of financial documents of accounting and reporting of a financial organization". It was initiated against unidentified persons from among the management and board of the International Bank of St. Petersburg( IBSP), from which the Central Bank revoked the licenseat the end of 2018, and in the fall of this year the arbitration court declared bankruptcy.
The intrigue lies in the following situation. After the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) entered the bank at the end of 2018, around February of this year, it sent a multi-page analysis of the financial condition of the IBSP to the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kolokoltsev.
From the review, it turned out that about 9 billion rubles were illegally withdrawn from the bank. From the central office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the materials went to the Main Investigation Department of the regional GU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where from spring to September 2019, the investigation tried to open a criminal case at least four times. And not a general investigation, but immediately in relation to the ex-senator, the actual owner and head of the board Sergey Bazhanov (the documents are at the disposal of the editorial board).
Fontanka understands that during this time, the DIA and the Central Bank, in general, understood everything that had been going on. Moreover, our publication added a conspiracy theory, saying that Sergey Bazhanov is a lieutenant colonel of the State Security Service. Then the Central Bank appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office for the Northwestern Federal District, which is on the English Embankment, who had a closer look. According to Fontanka, neither the GSU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs nor the Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg yet know the details.
Curious security officials and readers can get acquainted with them on 47news.
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THE BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEE IS MASSIVELY CHALLENGING THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE FORMER OWNERS TO WITHDRAW THE ASSETS OF THE IBSP
As already reported, in the decision of the Arbitration Court of the City of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region of October 3, 2019 The International Bank of St. Petersburg, owned by the ex-senator from the Ulyanovsk region Bazhanov Sergey (Bazhanov Sergey), was declared bankrupt and bankruptcy proceedings were opened against it for a period of one year. The functions of the bankruptcy trustee are assigned to the State Corporation "Deposit Insurance Agency".
Having studied the results of the interim administration's work on the management of the IBSP, the DIA predictably stated, that at the date of revocation of the license, 60% of the bank's total assets were accounted for by scheme financing with the participation of non-residents, presumably for the purpose of asset withdrawal. In particular, credit transactions were concluded between the Bank and a number of major international counterparties. In the future, the debt of counterparties was assigned to companies controlled by the Bank in the framework of fiduciary transactions, which allowed the Bank to distort the official statements. At the same time, the publicity and popularity in the market of most of these counterparties allowed the Bank to hide the actual debtors and their inherent risks.
As of October 22, 2019, the bankruptcy trustee of the Bank has already submitted claims of 1,847 applicants for a total amount of 22,829,031 thousand rubles. At the same time, according to the interim administration, as of the date of the opening of bankruptcy proceedings, the book value of IBSP assets, taking into account the exclusion of the amount of the created reserve for possible losses and depreciation of fixed assets, amounted to only 11,255,517 thousand rubles. This is despite the fact that than 220 million rubles have already been spent on the maintenance of the bank after the revocation of the license. Information-about-the-state-of-affairs-in-the-Bank-IBSP-JSC-on-01.10.2019. pdf, and by the end of the year, the DIA plans to spend almost 115 million more on the bankruptcy procedure.
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