National Savings Bank

National Savings Bank JSC is a regional bank registered in the city of Ivanovo. License of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation No. 1949. The main areas of activity: lending to individuals and legal entities, servicing corporate clients, attracting deposits from the population.

2025: Theft by an employee from a client cell 180 million rubles

On January 22, 2025, it became known that an employee of one of the Moscow banks stole about 180 million rubles from the client's bank cell. He converted part of the stolen funds into cryptocurrency. According to the Telegram channel Baza, a 38-year-old member of the board of directors of the National Savings Bank was detained.

As the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk said in her Telegram channel, the loss of money was discovered by employees of a financial and credit institution, who turned to the police. Employees of the Economic Security Department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Central Administrative District of Moscow (Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District) promptly identified the suspect and detained him at one of the capital's airports.

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It is said that the attacker took out cash from the bank storage in parts. He converted the last batch of 35 million rubles into cryptocurrency. Police officers carry out measures aimed at establishing all the circumstances of illegal activities.

According to network sources, the top manager of the credit institution took out the money within 20 days. The loss was revealed when the hostess came for funds, who had previously put 270 million rubles in the cell. During an official check, it turned out that the attacker used the key at his disposal from the cell to steal money.

It is noted that investigators opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - theft committed on an especially large scale. Such acts are punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years with a fine of up to 1 million rubles or in the amount of the convict's salary or other income for a period of up to five years or without it and with restriction of freedom for up to two years or without it. The defendant was chosen a preventive measure in the form of detention.^[1]

2020: Supreme Court judge dismisses Deposit Insurance Agency complaint over cassation decision to cancel sale of National Savings Bank

The deal was canceled by the creditors of Probusinessbank, which lost its license in 2015. The bank, like the NBS, was part of the Life group of Sergei Leontyev, and the DIA was the bankruptcy trustee in the bankruptcy of the PRBB.

A closed auction for the sale of NBS was held in 2016. The appraiser - "Professional Center for Assessment and Expertise" - estimated the NBS at 306 million rubles, but the initial trading price was set at 276 million rubles, and the bank was sold to Regiondevelopment for 89.7 million rubles. At the same time, he also issued loans to new owners for significant amounts (construction, winemaking).

The Arbitration Court previously explained the connection between the bidders as follows: the owner of the bought NBS Regiondevelopment Artem Zuev was the general director of Quorum Debt Management Group from the Quorum group, which acts as the only legal consultant to the DIA in the bankruptcy case of Probusinessbank. Another company of Zueva Asset Management was registered at the same address as the operator of the Southern electronic trading platform on which the auction was held.

Olga Valchuk, general director of Regiondevelopment, previously told RBC that due to a three-year lawsuit, the NBS was no longer interesting to the company, and it would willingly "execute the court's decision, return the bank and receive money."

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