Mezhtrastbank

2016: Revocation of license

At the beginning of February, 2016 the Central Bank of Russia revoked the license from capital Mezhtrastbank. Mezhtrastbank (license No. 2493) was provided by head office in Moscow and department to Sochi. The regulator explained revocation of license, carrying out risky credit policy, loss of liquidity, involvement and carrying out doubtful transit transactions by bank in large volumes.

The URALSIB bank became the winner of competition of Deposit Insurance Agency on selection of agent banks for payment of an insurance indemnity to investors (including to individual entrepreneurs) CB MEZHTRASTBANK LLC (Moscow).

Reception of applications about payment of compensation for accounts (deposits) and other necessary documents and also payment of an insurance indemnity to investors of Mezhtrastbank will begin on February 11, 2016.

Detailed information on the place, time, form and order of reception of applications will be posted on February 10, 2016 on the website by DIA, on February 11, 2016 in the Moskovskaya Pravda and Nash Dom Sochi newspapers and also on the website of URALSIB Bank.

2017: Arrest of top managers

Initial persons involved in criminal case about withdrawal of funds from Mezhtrastbank which according to Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (assignment or waste in especially large size) investigates investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were the former vice presidents of bank Igor Tsibulsky and Dmitry Redkin, as well as. lake of the chairman of the board Svetlana Romanova. All three according to the petition of the investigation in April, 2017 were arrested by Gagarinsky district court of Moscow. Two more — the ex-president of Mezhtrastbank Igor Boykov and the board member of credit institution Sergey Lipatov within this case long enough had the status of witnesses. The situation changed after evidences about their participation in withdrawal of money from bank were given by Igor Tsibulsky and Dmitry Redkin who signed pre-trial agreements about cooperation with prosecutor's office. In 2019 Ostankino district court of Moscow sentenced them for plunder from bank more than 2.5 billion rubles to two years ten months and three years of imprisonment respectively. Madam Romanova who did not admit guilt was sent to colony for 4.5 years.

However, thanks to Igor Tsibulsky's testimonies in 2017 it was succeeded to delay only mister Lipatov who at different times was the president of the telecom operator Transtelecom which only shareholder is JSC RZD, and the chairman of the board of directors of capital football club "Lokomotiv".

After simultaneous leaving Transtelecom and Lokomotiv in 2019 Sergey Lipatov became the shareholder of the Grasse group which was engaged in construction of housing in Moscow and Sochi and also joined the board of Mezhtrastbank. In November of the same 2017 according to the petition of the investigation Tverskoy district court of Moscow sent it to the pre-trial detention center. However the investigation did not collect convincing proofs of his participation in plunders in Mezhtrastbank. As a result criminal prosecution concerning mister Lipatov was stopped.

And here the assumed organizer of embezzlement of bank Igor Boykov did not manage to be delayed then. According to field investigators, he went abroad and some time lived in the Netherlands.

2020: Detention in Moscow the ex-president Igor Boykov

In March, 2020 it became known that in Moscow investors of bankrupt Mezhtrastbank blocked in own apartment and transferred to hands of police officers of the former president of this credit institution Igor Boykov who was wanted more than two years. He is accused of the organization of the criminal group which stole from bank more than 2.5 billion rubles by issue of obviously irrevocable credits. Three accomplices of mister Boykov at the end of 2019 were already condemned for terms from 2 to 4.5 years.

As the source, familiar with a situation, told Kommersant, 59-year-old Igor Boykov's location was set by investors of Mezhtrastbank to whom the credit institution declared in March, 2016 bankrupt owed in total nearly 4 billion rubles. At the beginning of March the ex-banker unexpectedly appeared in one of three apartments belonging to him, in house 62 on Usachev Street in the capital Area of Khamovniki. As soon as the victims of bankers were convinced that there arrived mister Boykov, they blocked his apartment and called police officers. The last also delayed the former president of Mezhtrastbank who was more than two years in federal and international search.

As stated in case papers, the organized group created by it acted from 2013 to 2016 and "was characterized by stability, unity, stability of the structure, an accurate hierarchical structure, strict distribution of criminal functions and roles between its participants, existence of the general material and financial and technical base, use of measures of conspiracy of criminal activity, including by giving of a type of the civil relations to it, careful concealment of traces of crime".

The essence charged to mister Boykov and his accomplices of acts comes down to issue of obviously irrevocable credits both individuals, and the dummy firms which were under control of the ex-president of Mezhtrastbank. For example, among receivers of loans for the total amount more than 2.5 billion rubles nearly three tens Ltd companies which were not performing any financial and economic activity appear. In particular, among them Alyansekstra, Velez, "Dorstroyprogress", Evrokomservice, Intercom and others are registered. At the same time swindlers as investigators consider, used such mass of borrowers especially for giving to plunders of "a lawful type and concealment of traces of crime from the divisions of the Central Bank exercising supervision"^[1].

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