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Biography

Andrei Melnikov was born in 1969 in. To Moscow

1991-1999

In 1992, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.

Since 1991, he was a member of the presidential expert group (Presidential Administration).

In 1994-1998, he headed the information and analytical department of the Russian Trade and Financial Union.

From April to November 1998 he worked at the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, held the position of deputy, then - head of the department of the credit policy department.

In 1998-1999, as the head of the executive directorate of the Economics and Democracy Foundation, he participated in the preparation of federal laws on banks and banking activities, bank bankruptcy, bank restructuring, and bank deposit insurance.

He participated in the creation of the Agency for the Restructuring of Credit Institutions, since 1999 he worked in this organization: first - as an economic adviser to the general director, then - as his deputy.

2004-2022

In 2004-2016 he was Deputy General Director of the Deposit Insurance Agency Group of Companies.

Since December 2016, during the year, he served as Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Crimea.

In January 2018, he was appointed Vice President of the Association of Banks of Russia (Association "Russia"), oversees the analytical work and organization of business events of the association.

In June 2018, according to the decision of the general meeting of the self-regulatory organization "National Association of Professional Collection Agencies" (SRO NAPKA), he was elected an independent member of the association's council.

In January 2022, it became known that Andrei Melnikov will head the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA).

2025: Arrest

On October 22, 2025, the head of the Deposit Insurance Agency Andrei Melnikov was detained. This was reported by RBC, citing people familiar with the investigation.

According to one of RBC's interlocutors, the official was detained after the former deputy head of the DIA Alexander Popelyukh, who was previously arrested in a fraud case, testified against him in the summer of 2025. Telegram channel Mash claims that former DIA top manager Olga Dolgoleva testified against Melnikov. Melnikov's defense intends to appeal. According to Mash, the head of the DIA was arrested. Interfax, citing law enforcement agencies, said that on the morning of October 23, 2025, Melnikov was taken to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center to conduct investigative actions in the fraud case. The DIA declined to comment to Interfax on this information.

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Фото: Dmitry Dukhanin/Kommersant

On September 1, 2025, Kommersant reported that the FSB Investigation Department had charged nine defendants in the case of particularly large-scale fraud as part of an organized group (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code), including Popelyukh and Dolgoleva. The charge is connected with the order of the DIA with the bankruptcy property of the Mezhtopenergobank, which lost its license in 2017, the newspaper writes. Since that time, the DIA carried out bankruptcy proceedings in the bank. One of the bank's borrowers was the company "VDT Stroy," which owned the Novosibirsk water park "Akvamir." The company could not pay off the loan, and the DIA began to manage the water park in 2019.

In 2021, Akvamir leased the White Sphere Construction company, whose top managers were associated with Novosibirsk businessman Eduard Taran, Kommersant wrote. According to the investigation, this was the result of Taran's collusion with Popelyukh and other defendants in the case, as a result of which funds from the operation of Akvamir began to flow not to the bankruptcy estate, but to the participants in the scheme.^[1]

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