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History

2025: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Garant-Invest Bank arrested in the case of fraud worth 7 billion rubles

In November 2025, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow arrested a group of high-ranking employees of Garant-invest Bank, accused of embezzling funds from a credit institution in the amount of 7 billion rubles. The chairman of the bank's board of directors and the president of the Garant-invest FPCS Alexei Panfilov, his former deputies Natalya Sinelshchikova and Oleg Sorokin, the former chairman of the bank's board Igor Kasyanov and the chief accountant Natalya Bagdashkina were taken into custody. Read more here.

2024: License Revocation

By order of December 26, 2024, the Bank of Russia revoked the banking license from Garant-Invest. The regulator claims that the credit institution violated federal laws regulating banking activities, as well as Bank of Russia regulations  , in connection with which the regulator  has repeatedly applied  measures to it over the past 12 months , including restrictions on attracting depositors' funds. Garant-Invest ranked 168th in terms of assets in the banking system of the Russian Federation.

2021: Fraudsters who created fictitious branches of the bank convicted

The Sochi court sentenced four residents of the Moscow region, Ivan Popov, Dmitry Remezontsev, Ulyana Vavilova and Darina Vasilyeva, who organized the work of fictitious branches of Garant-invest Bank in Sochi and Noginsk, attracting deposits.

The attackers opened offices under a similar name, organized the work of the false bank website and an advertising campaign, focusing mainly on elderly people. As a result, they managed to attract funds from 91 people, the damage amounted to 27 million rubles.

By the verdict of the court, the defendants Popov and Remezontsev were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of five years in a general regime colony for each, Vavilova was sentenced to three years, Vasilyeva - for 2 years 10 months, both - conditionally.