Arksbank

Arksbank JSC is a Russian private bank. Presented on the financial services market since 1993, Arksbank JSC provided a range of banking services to legal entities and individuals.

In Moscow, the Bank was represented by Moskovsky Operations Office, Tverskaya Operations Office, Akademichesky Operations Office, Serpukhovskaya Operations Office, Chistoprudny Operations Office, Kursk Operations Office, Mitino Operations Office, Sorge Street Operations Office, Arbatsky Operations Office and Leningradsky Prospekt Operations Office.

2024: Former Chief information officer Sergei Ipatov received 6.5 years in prison for embezzlement of 34 billion rubles

On October 14, 2024, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow found Sergei Ipatov, the former head of the department for the introduction and support of banking products of the information technology department of Arksbank JSC, guilty of embezzlement of depositors' funds. The total amount of damage exceeds 34 billion rubles. Read more here

2023: The court recovered 40.5 billion rubles from Ilya Kligman

In July 2023, the Moscow Arbitration Court recovered 40.5 billion rubles of losses from the former beneficiary of Arksbank Ilya Kligman. This was reported in the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). Read more here.

2022: Arksbank's former Chief information officer is extradited from Montenegro to Russia. He is accused of embezzling 35 billion rubles

On July 15, 2022, it became known that Sergei Ipatov, the former head of the department for the introduction and support of banking products of the information technology department of the Settlement and Credit System Agency (Arksbank), was extradited from Montenegro to Russia. He is accused of fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy on an especially large scale, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. Read more here.

2020: Investigation accuses Ilya Kligman of organizing a criminal group involved in the collapse of several banks

As by April 2020, employees of the GUEBiPK established, the organizer of the criminal group Ilya Kligman was involved in the collapse of at least one and a half dozen credit institutions in Russia, from which more than 100 billion rubles were withdrawn^[1].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.

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