Vneshprombank

2024: Ex-President Larisa Marcus sentenced to 13 years in prison

On January 31, 2024, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced Larisa Markus to 13 years in prison in a general regime colony. The former president of Vneshprombank was found guilty of embezzlement or embezzlement of funds on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). 130 billion rubles will also be collected from it at the suit of a credit institution. Read more here.

2021

Ex-President of the Bank Larisa Marcus agreed to a settlement agreement regarding assets in the United States and Europe

In April 2021, it became known that Larisa Marcus agreed to a settlement agreement and was ready to part with assets in the United States and Europe. Read more here.

The court arrested the London house of ex-co-owner of Vneshprombank Georgy Bedzhamov

At the end of January 2021, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested a house owned by Georgy Bedzhamov in London worth about £35 million. Read more here.

2020:6 years in prison ex-deputy president of the bank E. Glushakova

In April 2020, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced the former deputy president of Vneshprombank, Yekaterina Glushakova. She was accused of embezzlement from a credit institution of more than 33.6 billion rubles. and received 6 years in prison.

The co-owner of the bank, Georgy Bedzhamov, at that time lives in Monaco, whose authorities refused to extradite the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

2016

Debt to creditors over RUB 230 bln

In March 2016, Vneshprombank was declared bankrupt. The crisis in the bank began after checking it by the regulator, which discovered a hole in the amount of 140-145 billion rubles. According to the DIA, the bank's debt to creditors is more than 230 billion rubles.

License Revocation

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation revoked the license from Vneshprombank in January 2016, where a temporary administration was introduced in December 2015. The Foreign Economic Bank was founded as a universal financial institution and provided a range of banking services to legal entities and individuals. The bank's branches operated in 16 cities.

2015

Criminal case of embezzlement

The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case on embezzlement in Vneshprombank in December 2015. On the same day, the Central Bank introduced a temporary administration in the bank.

The first to be arrested as part of the investigation of this case was the sister of the bank's co-owner Georgy Bedzhamov, Larisa Markus, who was co-owner and president of Vneshprombank. A criminal case against Bedzhamov himself under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale) was initiated on January 22, 2016. The two cases were soon merged into one proceeding and his investigation is still ongoing. However, by that time the ex-banker was already abroad. He was put on the wanted list for issuing deliberately bad loans to controlled firms.

72 billion deposits of individuals

According to Vedomosti, as of November 1, 2015, Vneshprombank attracted more than 72 billion rubles from individuals. 27 billion rubles accounted for VIP clients. Among the bank's depositors, according to media reports, were Rosneft, Rosneftegaz and Transneft, the Russian Olympic Committee and the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as the wives of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.