Ivanov Alexander Viktorovich

Ivanov Alexander Viktorovich

Biography

2023: Arrest in absentia

On July 5, 2023, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested the former owner of Reserve Bank Alexander Ivanov on charges of especially large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and large-scale embezzlement or embezzlement of entrusted funds (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to Kommersant, judge Valentina Levashova decided to arrest Ivanov for two months from the moment he was detained in Russia or extradited from abroad. The court decision was made on the basis of information provided by operational officers about the presence of a person involved in the investigation outside the Russian Federation.

The defendant's lawyer Yevgeny Shalamov said that his client was not notified of the initiation of a criminal case properly and the certificate and petition were drawn up formally. Shalamov also noted that the search for Ivanov began only at the end of June 2023, and it is virtually impossible to carry out significant measures to establish his whereabouts in such a short time. The defender announced plans to appeal the decision of the Basmanny Court in the Moscow City Court.

The arrest of Alexander Ivanov was carried out as part of an investigation into the theft of funds from the Reserve Bank in Chelyabinsk. In 2017, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation revoked the license from Reserve due to high credit risks. Until June 2017, the bank was owned by Ivanov, who in 2009 acquired it from Valery Savelyev, head of the AVS-Group holding.

In May 2017, Ivanov and related investors sold their shares in the bank to a number of individuals from Moscow, including Andrei Andreev. According to the results of June 2017, the number of highly liquid assets of the bank decreased by 88%, mainly due to a decrease in cash at the cash desk. The number of securities decreased by 4%.^[1]

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