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Bazhanova Tatyana Vasilyevna-FAMILY VALUES. WHERE DID THE BAZHANOVS PUT THE MONEY OF IBSP DEPOSITORS
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Bazhanova Tatyana Vasilyevna
SPOILER: LET IT GO TO THE WIND. NOT ALL OF THEM, THOUGH. DON'T WORRY, THE BANKERS ARE FINE.
1.Dolce vita
In the rainy summer of 2018, the International Bank of St. Petersburg, owned by former senator and retired State Security Colonel, began to have problems. More precisely, the problems, of course, began much earlier, but it was then that they were talked about aloud. And, despite the fact that the bankers tirelessly kept a straight face, handing out interviews and throwing dust in eyes at elite receptions, the dolce vita suddenly ended.
In the photo: A regular of social parties Bazhanova Tatyana Vasilyevna (left). photo credit: sabaka.ru
In the autumn, the Bank of Russia introduces a moratorium on meeting creditors ' claims and appoints a temporary administration to manage the bank. And on October 31, IBSP had its license revoked.
Then, as usual, the painstaking work of the interim administration to assess the scale of the disaster. The question is not idle, because 18 billion rubles of "physicists" and 22 billion rubles of legal entities, and even some - LSR, Settle group, KVS, are hanging on the accounts in the IBSP... The verdict is not comforting - the negative difference between the bank's assets and liabilities (to common people – a "hole" in the capital) is an impressive 13 billion rubles. Moreover, as luck would have it, the interim administration explicitly stated that some of the assets were taken offshore. A little later, the restless journalists of the publication " Fontanka" will find out that 9 billion rubles under fake contracts were transferred to the accounts of the Cyprus firm Hervet Investments, issued to Alexander Zuev-the brother of Tatyana Bazhanova. It would seem that "congratulations, the crime is solved", as the famous St. Petersburg bearded man used to say, but no. Although the entire pile of skeletons from the bank's cabinets was immediately sent to law enforcement agencies, the response was silence. According to the same "Fontanka", the investigator of the Main Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg four times (!) made an approach to the initiation of a criminal case and four times came across a polite refusal of the Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg. After watching this depressing action for some time, the ex-senator, ex-Chekist and now ex-banker Bazhanov flew away from sin to London, to be sad about the fate of Russia. Fortunately, in order to make it better to be sad in a foreign country, he paid himself, his wife and his henchmen in advance "golden parachutes" of 84 million rubles and dividends in the amount of as much as 60 million rubles from the only working business – a battered business center on the Vyborg side, which he immediately sold. As a nice addition to the coveted 9 billion.
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About 9 billion rubles from the bankrupt International Bank of St. Petersburg were found in the Cyprus firm Hervet Investments, which was owned by Alexander Zuev. This is the brother of the wife of the main shareholder of IBSP and Senator Sergey Bazhanov. Zuev has already been interrogated by "neighbors on the side" in both Cyprus and Russia.
Now Zuev cannot dispose of the money because of Bazhanov, who himself wrote a statement to the police against him.
Before revoking the license, Bazhanov withdrew money from the IBSP through a scheme with UBS. IBSP with the participation of UBS bought securities for 135 million euros — about 9 billion rubles, and the money went to the Cyprus firm Hervet Investments.
On four occasions, the investigators sent a resolution to open a criminal case against Bazhanov for abuse of power and fraud. But the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg did not coordinate this decision. Meanwhile, Bazhanov left for London.
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The real drama unfolded around the obscure Cyprus firm Hervet Investments: untold wealth, deceit, family ties and deceived trust. The family of Sergei Bazhanov, the owner of the International Bank of St. Petersburg, seems to have an idea about where the 9 billion rubles written off from his accounts have gone.
In the police station in Cyprus, Nicosia, St. Petersburg resident Alexander Zuev came to tell the whole story. Before that, he had already had to give explanations to people in uniform, but only at home and on their initiative. Our investigators were interested in the fate of the missing money from the International Bank of St. Petersburg, and Alexander Zuev told the Cypriots on September 25 the details of his family relations.
These are links in the same chain, because Alexander Zuev is the brother of Tatyana Bazhanova, the wife of the main owner of the bank, Sergey Bazhanov. At the same time, he is the nominal owner of the company, whose accounts — in the opinion of layman — could well be 135 million euros. Recorded on paper, his story by a Cypriot police officer draws on a family drama with elements of a financial novel in the style of Theodore Dreiser. The banker's brother-in-law complains that as a result of a chain of transactions, Sergey Bazhanov framed him, taking advantage of trust, and now Zuev cannot dispose of the company that belongs to him.
Fontanka managed not only to get acquainted with this document, but also to communicate with Alexander Zuev himself and even get comments on this complicated story from Sergey Bazhanov. To be honest: it didn't make the story any clearer.
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The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region granted the application of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to declare the International Bank of St. Petersburg (IBSP) bankrupt, the court told RAPSI. Earlier, IBSP filed an application to the court to invalidate the bonus transactions of four former bank managers in the amount of more than 85 million rubles.
The interim administration for the management of the credit institution asks the court to apply the consequences of the invalidity of the transactions in the form of the recovery of this amount from the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the bank, Sergey Bazhanov, a member of the Board of Directors Tatyana Bazhanova, a member of the Board of Directors of IBSP Maxim Anishchenkov and Elena Skvortsova.
In mid-October 2018, the Central Bank appointed a temporary administration to the IBSP due to the unstable financial situation of the bank, and also imposed a moratorium on meeting the claims of its creditors, which instead of taking three months lasted only about two weeks: on October 31, the bank's license was revoked. In mid-December, it became known that the IBSP had challenged the Central Bank's order to revoke the license in court. The interim administration of the IBSP during the survey found that its officials carried out operations with signs of asset withdrawal by transferring the bank's claims against a number of counterparties to its shareholder who does not have the ability to fulfill its obligations. Earlier, the Central Bank has already been informed about the identification in the actions of officials of the IBSP of signs of operations aimed at withdrawing the bank's assets by transferring the rights of claim to a number of counterparties to its shareholder, as well as by acquiring illiquid assets. The Central Bank sent information about the financial transactions of former bank officials with signs of criminal acts to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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"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.
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