Bank "Moscow Capital"

2021: Investigation into attempted theft of 120 buildings involving bank manager completed

In October 2021, investigators completed an investigation into an attempt to steal 120 buildings and historical mansions in Moscow with the participation of bankers. Four defendants will go to trial: the former assistant to the head of the capital's Federal Property Management Agency Anatoly Shesteryuk, the former board of Moscow Capital Bank Viktor Krestin, the unemployed Sergey Shirokov and businessman Kirill Posashkov. They were charged with especially large-scale fraud.

The damage to the state from the actions of the accused exceeded 2 billion rubles. the total value of real estate, which they planned to steal, amounted to more than 10 billion rubles.

The criminal case was opened in 2012 after checking the circumstances in which  Moskovsky Capital Bank was declared bankrupt (the financial institution lost its license in 2009). According to investigators, the bank issued loans to various LLC under fictitious guarantees of FSUE, in the economic management of which there were buildings. Real estate was pledged to the bank.

Initially, the accused in the case were the ex-head of the Moscow Department of the Federal Property Management Agency Anatoly Shesteryuk and the deputy director of Project Management Company Olga Woznyak. According to the testimony, representatives of the Project, citing the Federal Property Management Agency, forced the directors of FSUPs to sign fictitious sureties for Moscow Capital loans under the threat of dismissal. Subsequently, the status of Six and Wozniak changed, they became witnesses. Among the organizers of the theft scheme were the general director of Project Management Company Alexander Dunaev, his brother, co-owner of Finance Business Bank Leonid Dunaev, businessman Farid Valeev and others. They fled abroad and were put on the international wanted list. In 2014, some of them were detained in Germany and Israel. Investigators handed over to the Prosecutor General's Office documents for the extradition of detainees to Russia, but this did not come to that.

2008

In 2008, it was stated that the bank's customers are enterprises of the military-industrial complex, the aviation complex, telecommunications and information companies, construction organizations, insurance market leaders, trading firms and representative offices, administrations of several municipalities of the Moscow region, municipal unitary enterprises in the regions of the bank's presence.

1994: Establishment of a bank

Moscow Capital Bank was established in 1994.