Agrosoyuz Bank

History

2023

The court arrested the property of the beneficiary of the bank "Agrosoyuz" for 10 billion rubles

On October 18, 2023, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal seized the property of the beneficiary of Agrosoyuz Bank Andrei Shlyakhovoy in the amount of 10 billion rubles. The reason for this was the statement of the state corporation "Deposit Insurance Agency" (DIA). Read more here.

Deputy Head of Agrosoyuz Bank received 3 years in prison for embezzlement of 6.9 billion rubles

On August 15, 2023, the Basmanny District Court of the city Moscow sentenced Andrei Agrounion Somov, former deputy chairman of the board of KB LLC. He was found guilty of embezzlement of property of a credit institution (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; fraud on an especially large scale) and sentenced to three years in prison, the press service said. Deposit Insurance Agencies (DIA) More. here

2020: Arrest of top bank managers

In March 2020, it became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs identified all the defendants in the criminal chain involved in the withdrawal of more than 7 billion rubles from the bankrupt Agrosoyuz bank. Two former top managers of this credit institution Stanislav Shelovskikh and Andrei Somov, as well as former Interior Ministry officer Denis Makartsev and Natalya Petrenko, a confidant of the previously arrested ultimate beneficiary of Agrosoyuz and another one and a half dozen bankrupt banks Ilya Kligman, were sent into custody.

New defendants in a criminal case on large-scale fraud with funds of Agrosoyuz Bank (part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), investigated by the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, employees of the GUEBiPK detained in early March 2020. Messrs. Shelovsky, Somov and Petrenko were taken in their metropolitan apartments, but for their former colleague Makartsev they had to go to the Tula region, where he lived in the cottage village "Zaoksky expanses."

According to the DIA, Agrosoyuz Bank owed customers almost 15 billion rubles.

Dealing with the disappearance of funds from Agrosoyuz depositors, employees of the GUEBiPK found that shortly before the license was revoked, the bank's management ceded the right to claim more than 7 billion rubles. loans under forged cession agreements to the fictitious company Voskhod. From there, in the hope of confusing the traces, the fraudsters assigned all debts to three other fictitious LLCs: Technologiya, Good Money and Megatorg.

According to law enforcement officers, the organizer of these frauds was Ilya Kligman, the ultimate beneficiary of Agrosoyuz and another dozen bankrupt banks, who was on the international wanted list.

Instructions on how to act, according to the investigation, he handed over to his confidant Natalya Petrenko. Mr. Kligman communicated with the lady, nicknamed Hades, through the Bria messenger, which is little used in Russia.

Ms. Petrenko, as the operatives established, was the developer of all criminal schemes for withdrawing money from Agrosoyuz. The direct executors, according to the investigation, were the former vice-president of this credit institution Stanislav Shelovskikh and the former deputy chairman of the board of Agrosoyuz Andrei Somov. Assistance in the selection of fictitious firms was provided by a former employee of the OEBiPK UVMD in the North-Eastern District of Moscow Denis Makartsev. He, according to the investigation, provided the "roof" to bankers.

At the same time, as established by the employees of the GUEBiPK, the organizer of this criminal group, Kligman, was involved in the collapse of at least one and a half dozen more credit institutions, from which more than 100 billion rubles were withdrawn^[1]. Among them, for example:

• Gelendzhik Bank (debt 825 million rubles),
• Interkommerts Bank (65.1 billion rubles),
• Time bank (700 million rubles),
• Antalbank (14.7 billion rubles),
• Arksbank (more than 35 billion rubles),
• Incarobank (more than 3 billion rubles),
• Transinvestbank (more than 9 billion rubles),
• Baikalbank (6 billion rubles).

It is also worth noting that Ilya Kligman had nothing to do directly with any of these credit institutions, but, according to investigators, it was he who was their ultimate beneficiary.

Kligman left for Germany in 2016, when the investigative department of the TFR for the South-Western District began an investigation into the embezzlement of money from Arksbank. He was put on the wanted list only in 2019 as part of the investigation of the criminal case of embezzlement from Baikalbank. At the same time, the ex-banker was charged in absentia with fraud.

In the Tver court, Stanislav Shelovskikh, Andrei Somov, Denis Makartsev and Natalya Petrenko deny their involvement in the embezzlement. Mr. Somov noted that he only drew up documents for the assignment of rights, not knowing that this operation was criminal in nature. Lawyers offered to limit their clients to bail or house arrest, but they were sent to a pre-trial detention center at least until May 8.

2018: License Revocation

Since November 7, 2018, the Bank of Russia has revoked the banking license from two banks: the Bank for Innovation and Development and the Bank Agrosoyuz. This was reported in the press service of the Central Bank. 

 During the current inspection by the Bank of Russia, it was established that the cash desk of CB Agrosoyuz LLC did not have a large amount of cash in excess of 1.3 billion rubles, which is comparable to the amount of own funds (capital). At the same time , in order to conceal its real financial situation, the bank submitted cash documents to the supervisory authority that showed signs of falsification, and also opposed the inspection by representatives of the Bank of Russia.

In addition, CB Agrosoyuz LLC violated the requirements of the laws and regulations of the Bank of Russia in the field of countering the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism in terms of completeness and reliability (correctness) of information submitted to the authorized body.

The Bank of Russia has repeatedly (9 times in the last 12 months) applied  supervisory measures against CB Agrosoyuz LLC , including twice imposing restrictions and once a ban on attracting funds from individuals.

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