On July 5, a court in Moscow arrested in absentia Alexander Ivanov, the former owner of the bankrupt Ural bank Reserve, for two months. The entrepreneur is accused in the case of embezzlement of funds belonging to his credit institution, writes “Kommersant”.
According to investigators, Ivanov is outside Russia. Previously, he was put on the international wanted list. The absentee arrest of the ex-banker was needed to confirm the search procedure through Interpol, the newspaper notes.
Lawyer Yevgeny Shalamov, provided to Ivanov by the state, said he would appeal the court’s decision. According to him, the search for the client began only at the end of June, and it was unrealistic to find him in such a short time.
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How they destroyed the “Reserve”
Chelyabinsk “Reserve” until June 2017 belonged to Ivanov. In May of that year, the banker and investors associated with him sold their shares to a number of individuals from Moscow, led by Andrey Andreev.
In August 2017, the Central Bank revoked the license from Reserve due to increased credit risks, and in the autumn the bank was declared bankrupt. At that time, the bank’s liabilities to creditors, mainly individuals and individual entrepreneurs, exceeded 1.3 billion rubles, according to the DIA.
In 2019, the ICR began an investigation into the theft from the “Reserve” under several articles at once, which is still ongoing. The former chairman of the board of the bank, Konstantin Bazanov, was sentenced to four years of suspended imprisonment in 2021 for embezzling 125 million rubles under the guise of issuing a fictitious loan.
The DIA is now trying through arbitration to recover damages in the amount of 790 million rubles from former top managers and owners of Reserve, including Ivanov and Andreev. Ivanov rejected all claims, stating that bad loans for 790 million were issued by the new owners of the bank. But the DIA and the TFR considered that the ex-owners were also involved in the withdrawal of assets. Andreev was the first to escape from the investigation.
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2023-07-06 11:44:00
