Interkommerts (bank)

2025: Absentee arrest of founder Pavel Kryzhanovsky

In July 2025, it became known that the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested Pavel Kryzhanovsky, founder of Commercial Bank (KB) Interkommerts, for two months in absentia. He is charged with appropriating funds on an especially large scale. The defendant was put on the wanted list. Read more here

2024: Former Chairman of the Board Alexander Bugaevsky put on the international wanted list in the case of fraud worth ₽3,9 billion

Alexander Bugaevsky, ex-head of the board of Interkommerts Bank, has been put on the international wanted list on charges of large-scale financial fraud. This became known on October 10, 2024. He is charged with embezzlement of more than ₽3,9 billion, which is equivalent to €45 million at the exchange rate at the time of the crime. Read more here

2016: License revocation and criminal case against the Chairman of the Management Board

The Central Bank of Russia decided in February 2016 to revoke the license from Interkommerts Bank. The decision was made almost two weeks after the temporary administration was entered into the bank and the payment of deposits was suspended.

The decision was made due to the insufficient volume of the bank's assets. At the same time, according to the Central Bank, Interkommerts did not assess the risks associated with the lack of assets and was involved in dubious transactions.

Due to the significant imbalance between assets and liabilities, the implementation of the financial recovery procedure of INTERKOMMERTS CB (LLC) with the involvement of the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency and its creditors on reasonable economic terms was not possible.

The bank is a member of the deposit insurance system.

Interkommerts became known on January 28, 2016, when Rocketbank, which made payments through it, sent warning letters to customers about the lack of liquidity from its partner. For several years, Rocketbank served Interkommerts bank cards, but in 2015 it began working with Otkritie FC and began transferring its clients to this bank.

A criminal case was opened against the head of the bank, Alexander Bugaevsky, but he disappeared in the Czech Republic.

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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