Boykov Igor Vasilyevich

2020: Detention in Moscow in the case of embezzlement in Mezhtrastbank

In March 2020, it became known that in Moscow, depositors of the bankrupt Mezhtrastbank blocked in their own apartment and handed over to the police officers who had been wanted for more than two years by the former president of this credit institution Igor Boykov. He is accused of organizing a criminal group that stole more than 2.5 billion rubles from the bank. by issuing deliberately bad loans. Three accomplices of Mr. Boykov at the end of 2019 were already sentenced to terms from 2 years 10 months to 4.5 years.

As a source familiar with the situation told Kommersant, the whereabouts of 59-year-old Igor Boykov were established by the depositors of Mezhtrastbank, to whom a credit institution declared bankrupt in March 2016 owed a total of almost 4 billion rubles. In early March, the ex-banker unexpectedly appeared in one of the three apartments he owns, in house 62 on Usacheva Street in the Khamovniki metropolitan area. As soon as the victims of the bankers were convinced that it was Mr. Boykov who arrived, they blocked his apartment and called the police. The latter detained the former president of Mezhtrastbank, who had been on the federal and international wanted list for more than two years.

Initially, the defendants in the criminal case on the withdrawal of funds from Mezhtrastbank, which under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (misappropriation or embezzlement on an especially large scale) is investigated by the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, were former vice-presidents of the bank Igor Tsibulsky and Dmitry Redkin, as well as about. Chairman of the Board Svetlana Romanova. All three at the request of the investigation in April 2017 were arrested by the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow. Two more - ex-president of Mezhtrastbank Igor Boykov and member of the board of directors of the credit institution Sergei Lipatov in the framework of this case had the status of witnesses for a long time. The situation changed after Igor Tsibulsky and Dmitry Redkin, who concluded pre-trial cooperation agreements with the prosecutor's office, testified about their involvement in the withdrawal of money from the bank. In 2019, the Ostankino District Court of Moscow sentenced them for embezzlement from a bank of more than 2.5 billion rubles. to two years ten months and three years in prison, respectively. Madam Romanova, who did not admit guilt, was sent to a colony for 4.5 years.

However, thanks to the testimony of Igor Tsibulsky in 2017, only Mr. Lipatov was detained. But the alleged organizer of the theft of bank funds Igor Boykov was not detained then. According to operatives, he went abroad and lived in the Netherlands for some time.

As stated in the case file, the organized group he created operated from 2013 to 2016 and "was characterized by stability, cohesion, stability of its composition, a clear hierarchical structure, a strict distribution of criminal functions and roles between its participants, the presence of a common material, financial and technical base, the use of criminal conspiracy measures, including by giving it the form of civil law relations, careful concealment of traces of crime."

The essence of the acts imputed to Mr. Boykov and his accomplices boils down to the issuance of deliberately bad loans to both individuals and fictitious firms under the control of the ex-president of Mezhtrastbank. For example, among the recipients of loans totaling more than 2.5 billion rubles. there are almost three dozen LLCs that did not carry out any financial and economic activities. In particular, among them are AllianceExtra, Veles, DorStroyProgress, European Service, Intercom and others. At the same time, fraudsters, according to investigators, used such a lot of borrowers specifically to give embezzlement "a legitimate appearance and conceal traces of a crime from the supervisory units of the Central Bank."^[1] was handed over^[2].

2025: 3.4 billion rubles are collected from Igor Boykov and other ex-leaders of the burst Mezhtrastbank

On December 5, 2025, the City Arbitration Court Moscow decided to bring to subsidiary liability the former leaders - Mezhtrastbank chairman of the board of directors and beneficiary Igor Boykov, chairman of the board Dmitry Redkin and Svetlana Romanova, deputy chairman of the board Igor Tsibulsky. The lawsuit was filed state by the Deposit Insurance Agency Corporation (). DIA

The grounds for attracting, as stated in the DIA report, were the issuance of deliberately bad loans and the acquisition of illiquid claims rights. The potential liability amount is 3.4 billion rubles, and the final amount will be determined after the completion of settlements with creditors.

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According to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, in 2013-2016, Boykov, together with accomplices in the organized group, stole more than 2.5 billion rubles belonging to Mezhtrastbank. The funds were transferred under the guise of loans to the accounts of companies controlled by them. In addition, in 2007-2014, Boykov, according to the investigation, stole over 700 million rubles of personal savings of citizens. The thefts took place under the pretext of placing money in deposit accounts.

In 2016, the Bank of Russia revoked Mezhtrastbank's banking license. The regulator said in a statement that the organization pursued a high-risk credit policy and did not create adequate loan loss provisions for accepted risks. At the same time, the adequacy of the bank's own funds (capital) decreased to critical values. Due to the loss of liquidity, Mezhtrastbank did not fulfill its obligations to creditors in a timely manner. In addition, as the regulator noted, the bank was involved in conducting dubious transit operations in large volumes.^[3]

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