Korkunov Andrey Nikolaevich

Korkunov Andrey Nikolaevich

Biography

2007: Wrigley buys the A. Korkunov factory for $300 million

Andrei Korkunov, the founder of the A. Korkunov chocolate factory, was bought by the American company Wm for $300 million in 2007. Wrigley Jr. Company.

2017: Revocation of license from Anchor Bank

According to the Central Bank as of March 2015, Korkunov controlled a little less than 50% of the shares of Anchor Bank.

The license from Anchor Bank was revoked by the Central Bank in early March 2017. According to the Central Bank, the credit institution invested in low-quality assets, did not create adequate reserves for accepted risks and was unable to timely fulfill obligations to creditors. On April 10 of the same year, the Tatarstan Arbitration Court declared Anchor Bank bankrupt.

In August 2017, DIA estimated Anchor Bank's obligations at almost 6.5 billion rubles. In December of the same year, Korkunov, who then served as vice president of the All-Russian Public Organization "Support of Russia," was removed from the Supreme Council of United Russia.

2020: DIA asks to declare A. Korkunov bankrupt

In May 2020, it became known that Ankor Bank Savings, deprived of a license, whose bankruptcy trustee is the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), sued its former co-owner and chairman of the board of directors Andrei Korkunov. In a lawsuit filed on May 19 with the Moscow Arbitration Court, the businessman is asked to declare bankrupt.

In early March, the DIA filed a lawsuit in the Tatarstan Arbitration Court to bring Korkunov and other persons under whose control Ankor Bank was previously under control to subsidiary liability totaling more than 5.94 billion rubles.

2021: Bankruptcy

In March 2021, the court declared Andrei Korkunov bankrupt. Korkunov is hiding from the investigation abroad. During the bankruptcy, Korkunov received two large claims: from the Ministry of Land and Property Relations of Tatarstan for 607 million rubles and from Anchor Bank for 5.9 billion rubles.

Korkunov owned Anchor Bank with the son of the former children's ombudsman Pavel Astakhov Anton (9%) and with the first vice president of Opora Rossii Pavel Sigal.