Ananyev Dmitry Nikolaevich - until the summer of 2013, he was a representative from the State Duma of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Financial Markets and Monetary Circulation.
Until 2017, the co-owner (together with his brother Alexei Ananyev) of Promsvyazbank, one of the largest banks in Russia.
Biography
Dmitry Ananyev was born on February 19, 1969 in Moscow, Russia.
1987-1989 - served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
1994 - graduated from the Moscow State Aviation Institute with a degree in Engine Power and Power Physics Installations of Aircraft with the qualification of Mechanical Engineer.
In 1997 he graduated from the Sergo Ordzhonikidze State Academy of Management with the qualification of "manager of the highest qualification."
He holds an Executive MBA from the University of Chicago Business School.
1990: Deputy Marketing Director of Technoserv
Dmitry Ananyev began his career in 1990 as Deputy Marketing Director of the Technoserv joint venture.
1993: Deputy Chairman of the Board of Technoserv
From 1993 to 1996 he worked as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Technoserv A/S JSC.
1995: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Promsvyazbank
Since the formation in 1995, JSCB Promsvyazbank has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors.
1995-2006 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Promsvyazbank.
2001-2006 - Member of the Board of Directors of NPF Promregionsvyaz.
In February 2002, after Promsvyazbank acquired the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, he became chairman of the board of directors of AiF CJSC. At this post, he initiated the closure of the AiF-Love application as not corresponding to the Orthodox canons.
2002-2006 - Member of the Board of Directors of AiF CJSC; Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board of Technoserv A/S LLC.
2006: Senator from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Work in the Federation Council began for Dmitry Ananyev in 2005, when he became an adviser to its chairman Sergei Mironov, and in 2006 he was elected senator from the parliament of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Member of the Board of Trustees. Russian Orthodox Church Together with the presidential envoy for the Central District, Georgy Poltavchenko the president of the OJSC, RUSSIAN RAILWAY Vladimir Yakunin the president of the Andrei the First-Called Foundation, Senator Sergei Shcheblygin, he was a member of the organizing committee for Russia staying in the relics of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called in the spring of 2006.
He is one of the largest Russian Orthodox patrons.
2007: Assessment of the state of $2 billion 36th place in Russia
In 2007, together with his brother Alexei Ananyev, he took 36th place in the list of the richest people in Russia according to Forbes (the fortune is estimated at $2 billion for each).
2011: Estimated net worth $1.9 billion 49th
He took 49th place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2011." Dmitry Ananyev's fortune was estimated at $1.9 billion [1].
2012: Estimated net worth of $1.8 billion 50th
It ranks 50th in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "Richest Businessmen Russia - 2012." Dmitry Ananyev's fortune is estimated at 1.8 billion dollars[2]
2013: Early termination of powers in the Council of Federations due to assets abroad
On July 10, 2013 , the Federation Council at a meeting adopted a resolution on the early termination of Dmitry Ananyev's powers on his own initiative. Ananyev's senatorial powers expired in 2015.
Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko on this occasion, in an interview with reporters, said that Dmitry Ananyev was leaving the upper house in connection with the law banning officials and parliamentarians from having financial assets abroad. Since the passage of this law in 2013, he has become the eighth senator to resign early.
"Senator Dmitry Ananyev proved himself as a law-abiding citizen. He once again carefully analyzed the law adopted by the Federal Assembly on restrictions that are imposed on civil servants prohibiting them from having foreign assets, "Matvienko explained.
Dmitry Ananyev was the richest member of the Federation Council: according to the declarations on the income of senators and their families published on the website of the upper house, in 2012 Ananyev's income exceeded 699 million rubles.
2017: Loss of Promsvyazbank and departure from Russia
After the decision of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to reorganize Promsvyazbank through the Banking Sector Consolidation Fund, during which the regulator can become the owner of a credit institution, one of the founders and co-owner of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev left Russia, and later spoke about the reasons for his move. This was reported in December 2017 by RT. According to Ananyev, the departure is associated only with the celebration of the New Year and with the state of health, and not with the desire to "escape."
 | "I have long planned to leave for the New Year, left on December 22. And even taking into account the last four months in the mode of abnormal work and nervousness, I had heart problems. I planned to undergo an examination both in Russia and abroad. The last week also added: the business that I created for 22 years is everything, it is no longer there, "the Vedomosti newspaper quotes Ananyev. |  |
2018
Division of assets with brother Alexei, moving to Cyprus
In 2018, Dmitry Ananyev's brother Alexei said that he and his brother decided to split the assets. Alexei has a system integrator Technoserv, Dmitry has a banking business, a PSN development group and media assets. Alexey attracted to VTB partners and sells him 40% of Technoserv, and Dmitry left the country.
He lives in Cyprus in the apartments of the Four Seasons Hotel, where he meets with former partners and solves issues with assets,[3] Ananyev, several acquaintances of Ananyev, told Vedomosti[3]. The only Four Seasons in Cyprus is located in Limassol. A guest named Dmitry Ananyev was not registered in it, the hotel's receptionist told the Vedomosti correspondent. Now Lyudmila Ananyeva lives in it - perhaps Dmitry stopped with her, the porter suggested. Lyudmila is the name of Dmitry Ananyev's wife.
A spokesman for Dmitry Ananyev did not comment on his whereabouts. He did not answer other questions.
Ananyev hired people whose task is either to sell his remaining assets or to bankrupt them in a controlled manner, an employee of one of Ananyev's structures told Vedomosti and confirmed his acquaintance.
Promsvyazbank filed a record lawsuit against the Ananyev brothers
On December 21, 2018, it became known that Promsvyazbank had filed a record lawsuit against the former main owners, brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev, and the ex-leadership. The bank claims that his money paid off the debts of the Ananyev brothers. Read more here.
2019
The Bank of Bad Debts of the Central Bank promised to pursue the Ananyevs abroad
The Bank of Non-Core Assets (BNA) intends to prosecute in foreign courts the ex-owners of Promsvyazbank brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev and the beneficiaries of the O1 Group - the family of Boris Mints. In February, with reference to the head of Trust Bank (BNA was created on its basis), Alexander Sokolov, following a press conference, told RBC[4] the[5]. Read more here.
The arrest of a plane, car, accounts, apartment and land in a lawsuit for 282 billion rubles
In May 2019, judicial arrest was imposed on the assets of Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev. The procedure was carried out by the Moscow Arbitration Court after Promsvyazbank filed a corresponding application, which became part of the procedure for the bank and the Central Bank to return their assets, which were withdrawn by the businessman brothers, Vedomosti reported.
The PSB lawsuit against the former co-owners was filed on December 21, 2018, and the total number of defendants in it reached 13. Among them, in addition to the Ananyev brothers themselves, were Andrei Zhupanov, deputy chairman of the board of Promsvyazbank, Alexey Iodko, deputy chairman of the board, who was in charge of HR, Vladimir Mamakin, who controlled the financial block, and Tatyana Voloshkina, who oversaw work with VIP clients. In addition, the list includes former leaders of small businesses and the corporate block Vladimir Shatalov and Evgeny Kozerenko, head of the project financing department Alexander Afanasyev and head of the financial markets block Dmitry Ivanov.
The bank's lawsuit also demanded to cancel all transactions made by the Ananyev brothers the day before the bank's reorganization, which took place on December 15, 2017. According to PSB representatives, the total number of transactions reached 30, and all of them pursued the only goal - to withdraw funds from the bank.
The total amount of claims in this claim reached 282.2 billion rubles, at 194.2 billion rubles. of which the damage caused to the bank was estimated from all transactions conducted by management. The remaining 88 billion rubles. PSB wanted to recover from the defendants for financial assistance provided to him by the Central Bank.
By decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, the property of businessmen Ananyev and other defendants in the case was arrested precisely on the claim for 282.2 billion rubles.
Among Dmitry's assets, the arrest was imposed on his 33 percent stake in PSB Management, a Bombardier Challenger 650 personal aircraft with tail and serial numbers OE-LDN and 6087, respectively (home airport, as in the case of Alexei's plane - Sheremetyevo) and on funds held in accounts with PSB and Vozrozhdenie.
The movable property of Dmitry Ananyev, subject to sanctions, are premium cars of the German brands BWM and Mercedes: BMW Kh3 Xdrive 35I, Mercedes-Benz Viano, S600 and GL 450 4Matic. In addition, a certain water vessel was arrested - the court did not provide a description of it.
In addition to the above, interim measures were introduced on Dmitry's real estate, including land plots in the Ruzsky and Odintsovsky districts of the Moscow region, an apartment and a land plot in the Yaroslavl region, as well as two premises in Kropotkinsky Lane[6].
Increase in fortune by 5.6 billion rubles after leaving Russia
On September 23, 2019, it became known that the British companies Urgula Platinum Limited and Antracite Investment Limited, the sole owner of which is Dmitry Ananyev, increased their assets (cash or property) to 5.6 billion rubles ($88 million) at the end of 2018.
According to Open Media, by the time Ananyev moved to the UK, Urgula Platinum Limited and Antracite Investment Limited owed creditors 77 billion rubles, and they had to pay most of this amount in 12 months. Almost all key indicators of companies were negative.
Over the year, the situation has changed dramatically. Judging by the reporting in the Companies House register, in 2018 Urgula Platinum increased assets by more than 32 thousand times - from 99.8 thousand rubles to 3.2 billion rubles. The current assets of Antracite Investment Limited grew 64 thousand times in 2018 - from 37.5 thousand rubles to 2.42 billion rubles.
The source of the funds remains unknown, since both companies report under a simplified scheme for micro-enterprises and do not indicate items of expenses and revenues.
According to the rules of Companies House, a company can claim the status of a micro-enterprise if its turnover does not exceed £632 thousand, the value of assets is less than £316 thousand and the number of personnel does not exceed 10 people.
Despite the unexpected growth in assets, the company did not pay short-term debt of more than 70 billion rubles. But Urgula Platinum reduced long-term debts from 4.9 billion rubles to 871.4 million rubles. Nevertheless, numerous lawsuits have been filed against Ananyev. In the UK, investors are trying to recover $40 million from the banker for overdue credit notes, according to which Ananyev and his companies acted as guarantors.[7]
Published materials of the investigation in the criminal case
On October 31, 2019, Kommersant published details of the criminal prosecution of the former owners of Promsvyazbank (PSB) Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev, who were arrested in absentia by the Basmanny Court for international investigation, became known. According to investigators, using the Cyprus branch of the bank, the brothers stole 66.3 billion rubles, $575 million and €24.4 million in five days under fictitious transactions, and legalized 39 billion rubles. and $169 million
The investigation team in the case of the Ananyev bankers is headed by Alexei Veseliev, senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR). Colonel of Justice Veseliev gained fame five years ago, when, as part of an investigation into the circumstances of the theft of shares of enterprises included in the fuel and energy complex of Bashkiria, at his petitions, the son of the then president of the republic, Ural Rakhimov, was put on the international wanted list, the head of AFK Sistema Alexander Yevtushenkov was sent under house arrest and interim measures were taken on shares of enterprises included in Bashneft. As a result, the shares were returned to the state, and then bought by Rosneft.
As follows from the materials of the current investigation of Colonel Veselyev, the largest shareholder of the bank was the Promsvyaz Capital B.V. registered by the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which controlled 62.5% of the shares. Promsvyaz Capital B.V. itself, the investigation established, was controlled on a parity basis (49.99% each) by Antracite Investment Ltd and Urgula Platinum Ltd. And the remainder of the shares went to Menrela Ltd. All these companies belonged in equal shares to Alexei and Dmitry Ananyev, they are confident in the TFR.
Along the way, according to the materials of the investigation, the brothers held the posts of chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Promsvyazbank, which was on the list of systemically important credit institutions and occupies 9th place among Russian banks in terms of assets.
According to the conclusions of the investigation, Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev, "using their official position" and exercising general management of the bank, were "authorized to dispose of the property" of the credit institution, make decisions on transactions, make transactions on behalf of the bank, etc. However, having such powers, the owners of the bank ignored the conclusions of the Central Bank audit, which in December 2017, as part of the supervision, revealed that the banking statements did not reflect the real financial condition of the bank and, "being significantly unreliable," posed a threat to the interests of customers and creditors.
In this regard, on December 11, 2017, the Central Bank, as follows from the materials of the criminal case, demanded that the PSB leadership urgently form reserves in the amount of 104.6 billion rubles, imposing a ban on large operations, including using the Cyprus branch of the bank in Limassol. However, having considered the new report, signed by the then chairman of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev, the regulator concluded that it "directly testified to the need to appoint" an interim administration. On December 15, 2017, LLC Management Company Banking Sector Consolidation Fund, according to the order of the Central Bank, received these functions.
Just at this time, the investigation notes, Alexei and Dmitry Ananyev, as well as unidentified persons, united in an organized criminal group for the "illegal theft of funds" of the financial structure. For this, bankers in the period from December 11 to 15, 2017 concluded 24 agreements with companies controlled by them - Minga Management Ltd, Fintailor Ltd and the already famous Dutch Promsvyaz Capital B.V. The subject of the agreements were transactions for the purchase and sale of various securities, including bonds of Promsvyazkapital JSC, little-known PSN PM LLC and Peters International Investment, preferred shares of Promsvyazbank itself, etc.
All settlements with counterparties, according to the investigation, were carried out through Promsvyazbank-Cyprus, where settlement accounts were opened with companies controlled by the brothers. Despite the full payment by PSB, the securities "were not delivered," and the terms of the contracts were not fulfilled.
This, the investigation believes, allowed the organizers of the criminal group to appropriate 66.3 billion rubles, $575 million and €24.4 million. At the second stage of the criminal scheme, the TFR believes, in order to conceal "the illegal origin of the stolen property and give it a legitimate form of ownership" on one day, December 14, 2017, "on fictitious grounds" in favor of Peters International Investment, at the direction of Messrs. Ananyevs, 31.7 billion rubles were transferred, as well as under the guise of a loan of another 8.2 billion rubles.
A few more hours later, all the money received, including more than $160 million, was fragmented and transferred to nine more companies, whose settlement accounts were also located in the Cyprus branch of PSB. The lion's share of these transfers fell on Bimersano Service ltd and Fintailor Investments, which received more than 20 billion rubles. and $83.2 million. Thus, the investigation is confident, the organizers of the criminal group legalized 38.8 billion rubles. and $169 million
After establishing these circumstances, the TFR qualified the actions of the Ananyev brothers as embezzlement on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code) and the legalization of the kidnapped (part 4 of article 174 of the Criminal Code). At the same time, bankers' lawyers, including Alexander Zabeida, representing the interests of Dmitry Ananyev, are confident that the persecution of their clients "has a political context." The transactions, which the investigation interprets as illegal, the defenders believe, were completely legal.
Discovery of paintings and documents of the Ananyev brothers in a warehouse near Moscow
On November 7, 2019 Forbes , he said that employees Investigative Committee found more than 200 paintings financial and documents of the ex-owners Promsvyazbank Dmitry Aleksei and Ananyev in the warehouse in the city district, the Domodedovo press service said. bank More. here
Removal of arrest from the aircraft
On December 24, 2019, the Moscow Arbitration Court lifted the arrest from the Bombardier Challenger 650 aircraft owned by Dmitry Ananyev. Earlier, the Swiss company UBS Switzerland AG made a request to remove interim measures from the aircraft.
| | To cancel the interim measures taken in accordance with the court's decision of May 29, 2019 regarding the arrest of the Bombardier Challenger 650 aircraft, tail number OE-LDN, serial number 6087, the court's decision says (quoted by TASS). | |
The second business jet, owned by Dmitry Ananyev's brother Alexei, the court tried to arrest in the spring of 2019, but the lawyer managed to prove that his client did not own the plane. The Bombardier Challenger 650 with serial number 6088 was later put up for sale.
However, in September 2019, the Moscow arbitration satisfied Promsvyazbank's claim and arrested the plane. The representative of the plaintiff took note of the fact that in the event of a refusal to impose interim measures, the aircraft would go to third parties.
On December 11, the ninth arbitration court of appeal refused UBS Switzerland AG to remove the arrest of Alexei Ananyev from the plane. The Swiss company said the aircraft it owns was leased to Ananyev's Parseval and could not be seized.
The Court of Appeal found that UBS Switzerland AG had not submitted a single title document from which the court could conclude that Alexei Ananyev owned the aircraft. The court refused to recognize the certificate from Austro Control Gmbh, which provides air navigation over Austria.
| | This company is not a body whose authority includes the assessment or establishment of ownership of aircraft, but only maintains a register of information about aircraft, the court said. | |
The property of businessmen was seized at the request of Promsvyazbank as part of a dispute to recover losses from unprofitable transactions of its former top managers in 2018. In September 2019, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested the Ananyev brothers in absentia.[8]
2020
Former US attorney launches probe into Ananyev brothers "global fraud
In early February 2020, it became known about the investigation, which was launched by the law firm The Law Offices of Bud Cummins of the former US District Attorney Bud Cummins, about the "global fraud" of brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev with money from large depositors of Promsvyazbank (PSB). Read more here.
The Supreme Court refused the Ananyev brothers to revise the decision to arrest 282 billion rubles
In early February 2020, the Supreme Court of Russia refused to brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev and 10 other former top managers of Promsvyazbank to revise the decision to seize funds and property in the amount of 282.2 billion rubles. Read more here.
"I was made out to be a criminal. It doesn't fit in my head "
Former co-owner of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev gave the first interview to Western media after leaving Russia. The former billionaire spoke about the threats received and the persecution in Russia[9].
"I was made out to be a criminal. This does not fit in my head, "- said the former co-owner of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev F 165 to the newspaper The[10].
According to Ananyev, his case has become a textbook example of how a businessman may be under attack in Russia. In Russia, the former banker claims, any person with independent views is vulnerable, his arrest is "only a matter of time." Ananyev also ranks himself as an independent camp and says that for 25 years he built a successful business, which eventually took the state.
Ananyev told his version of what happened to Promsvyazbank. In 2015, after the imposition of sanctions against Russia, the Central Bank decided to help the defense industry and nationalize the private bank of Ananyev and his brother, making it a special bank for the military. "They told me several times that if I do not sell the bank, a criminal case awaits me," Ananyev says. He also says he received threats to life by phone and email and noticed surveillance. He connects this campaign with the Russian special services and with the "oppressive state machine."
In 2017, the Central Bank explained the decision to take Promsvyazbank for reorganization by the fact that the bank had a chronic lack of liquidity, low-quality capital and excessive sanitation load. After the introduction of the interim administration, the Central Bank reported that the bank had destroyed or disappeared credit files of corporate borrowers in the amount of more than 109 billion rubles. Later it became known that on the basis of Promsvyazbank a reference bank will be created for operations on state defense orders and large state contracts.
Ananyev says that against the background of pressure, he had heart problems. In 2018, he and his family and 85-year-old mother left Russia for Cyprus, where he now comfortably lives in a house in Limassol overlooking the sea and a garden with palm trees. His brother Alexei tried for another year to save their business empire, but also left for London.
Ananyev admits that leaving his homeland was painful for him. A deeply religious man, before settling in Cyprus, he asked for the blessing of a 94-year-old Orthodox monk on Mount Athos in Greece. In his new life, he sees many advantages: he spends a lot of time with his wife and five children, runs in the morning, goes fishing on his yacht, reads fiction.
Despite the hardships, Ananyev admits that he was lucky. At the same time, Forbes considers its position in the rating "unreal" and notes: "You cannot be rich if your country is in the ass."
Ananyev knows that a court in Moscow arrested him in absentia, and is thinking about leaving Cyprus. He recalls the fate of former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal, who was assassinated in British Salisbury, and the 2019 murder of a Chechen field commander in Berlin: "Security agencies can strike anyone without leaving evidence."
New "enrichment scheme" of the Ananyev family
In early March 2020, it became known about the new scheme for enriching the Ananyev family. Lawyers Promsvyazbank filed a statement of claim, which states that Dmitry Ananyev at the time of his tenure as chairman of the bank's board issued himself a loan of 1.4 billion rubles and placed money on the deposit of his wife Lyudmila with higher than the loan interest.
According to Kommersant, citing information from the lawsuit, from September to December 2017, interest in the amount of 50 million rubles was paid on the deposit of Lyudmila Ananyeva. 33 million rubles were paid on the loan as interest. The damage to the bank from the implementation of the scheme by spouses in three months amounted to 17 million rubles. This is what the circular credit and deposit scheme looks like, lawyers noted, the plaintiff claims.
According to the lawsuit, the actions of the Ananyev spouses violate Art. 10 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, according to which the same persons cannot receive a loan, the rate at which is lower than the deposit rate.
Under the terms of the deposit, Lyudmila Ananyeva had the opportunity to withdraw interest monthly and regularly received money from the deposit. The amount remaining from interest was used to pay off monthly loan payments. 103 days later, the day after Dmitry Ananyev personally received the Central Bank's order to add additional reserves, the failure of which led to the reorganization of the PSB, the then board of directors of the bank repaid his loan at the expense of his wife's deposit.
By the beginning of March 2020, about 25 episodes of fraud are being sued against Dmitry Ananyev and his brother Alexei in Russia and abroad. Among them are the issuance of loans to shell companies, the purchase of illiquid securities, the sale of bank property at a reduced price and other schemes.
Dmitry Ananyev lives with his family in Cyprus, his brother Alexei settled in London. In Russia, they are accused of embezzlement of Promsvyazbank funds.[11]
Promsvyazbank reduced requirements for the Ananyev brothers from 16.5 billion to 19.6 million rubles
On April 16, 2020, it became known that Promsvyazbank reduced the requirements for the Ananyev brothers from 16.5 billion to 19.6 million rubles. The credit institution filed a corresponding petition with the Moscow Arbitration Court. Read more here.
The head of the TFR Bastrykin revealed the details of the investigation of the case of the Ananyev brothers about the embezzlement of more than 87 billion rubles
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) Alexander Bastrykin in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, published on July 24, 2020, spoke about the progress of the investigation of the criminal case against the brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananyev [12]].
| | Now the investigation of the criminal case is ongoing. They are accused of embezzlement by embezzlement of more than 87 billion rubles owned by PJSC Promsvyazbank, in which the Ananyev brothers owned more than 50% of the shares. Back in 2017, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation revealed serious violations in Promsvyazbank, - said the head of the TFR. | |
The Ananyev brothers, according to Bastrykin, realizing that they could be removed from managing the bank's affairs, decided to withdraw the funds entrusted to them from the country's financial turnover to Cypriot companies.
| | They created an organized criminal group, which included more than 10 proxies, including foreigners. These persons were illegally employed by the bank and issued power of attorney for the right to dispose of funds. Subsequently, on the basis of fictitious documents, more than 57.3 billion rubles and more than $500 million were withdrawn to the bank accounts of a foreign company under the guise of payment for allegedly acquired securities. In fact, Promsvyazbank PJSC did not acquire securities for the specified amount, Rossiyskaya Gazeta quotes Alexander Bastrykin. | |
According to him, most of the Ananyev bankers' accomplices have been established, they are currently outside the Russian Federation. With the assistance of Interpol Russia, measures are being taken to extradite them for criminal prosecution.
| | When interacting with the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosfinmonitoring, the property of the Ananyev brothers was established, which has already been seized. Compensation to the injured party for the damage caused is currently more than 15% of the amount stolen, - said the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in an interview. | |
In addition, in foreign countries, according to the head of the TFR, the property of the accused worth more than 10 billion rubles has been established, and work has been organized with the competent authorities to arrest him.
| | Also, according to the results of accounting examinations conducted by expert divisions of the Investigative Committee, additional episodes of theft in 2017 by the Ananyev brothers of funds of Promsvyazbank PJSC in the amount of over 15 billion rubles were revealed. According to these episodes, criminal cases have been initiated, - Bastrykin said in an interview. | |
The arrest of the property of the Ananyev brothers for 50 billion rubles hit the video
On October 6, 2020, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced the detention of five accomplices in a criminal case on the embezzlement of the former owners of Promsvyazbank by the Ananyev brothers, and also specified the amount of damage in this case - 87.2 billion rubles. These funds, according to law enforcement agencies, were introduced from Russia to Cyprus in a few hours.
Subsequently, Alexey and Dmitry Ananyev organized the legalization of these funds and disposed of them at their own discretion by performing further illegal financial transactions, the UK said. The investigation believes that in 2017, after inspections of the Central Bank and the identification of numerous violations in lending to Ananyeva, they decided to steal Promsvyazbank's funds.
The investigation, in cooperation with the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Rosfinmonitoring, established the property of the Ananyev brothers with a total value of 50 billion rubles, which was seized. As part of the preliminary investigation, the property of accomplices in the crime will also be established for arrest.
The UK published an operational video showing the arrested property of the Ananyev brothers. All of it is housed in a gigantic warehouse, and these are several dozen paintings, as well as about the same number of cardboard boxes of various sizes.
According to the statement of the Investigative Committee, among the identified accomplices of the crime, 5 people were detained, in respect of whom a preventive measure is planned in the near future. The rest of the persons are wanted. The Ananyev brothers are also on the international wanted list by October 7, 2020.
According to TASS, on October 7, 2020, the Basmanny Court of Moscow on Wednesday chose a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions by Ekaterina Bagryanova, accused of embezzlement in the Ananyev case. In the near future, the court will consider similar petitions against Andrei Mukin and Nikolai Tsukanov. All new defendants were charged with committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Appropriation or embezzlement").[13][14]
Dmitry Ermolov became the new owner of PSN after Ananyev
On October 23, 2020, the new owner of the PSN development group, previously owned by Dmitry Ananyev, became known. It is Dmitry Ermolov, who was previously the president of this group. Read more here.
Seizure of assets for €267 million
In early December 2020, it became known about the arrest of the property of the Ananyev brothers in the amount of 267 million euros. The corresponding decision in favor of the bank of non-core assets "Trust" was made by the district court of Limassol (Cyprus).
| | The judge also granted the application for the seizure of the assets of a third party, which, presumably, is the nominal holder of part of the assets of the brothers. According to the court order, this third person is also prohibited from disposing of assets in any way. If the court order to seize the assets is violated, the defendants face sanctions, the Trust said in a statement. | |
As explained to Kommersant in Trust, the requirements for the Ananyev brothers are related to "the implementation of financial schemes that have signs of fraudulent actions by issuing unsecured loans, as well as loans with significantly insufficient security."
At the same time, the bank did not tell the publication which assets were seized. According to the head of the Trust, Alexander Sokolov, this is "the last in a series of lawsuits against the title beneficiaries of the collapsed banks."
Representatives of Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev confirmed to Kommersant the beginning of the trial with Trust in Cyprus. They deny the claims and call "Trust" claims in the lawsuit false. Alexey Ananyev had nothing to do with the transactions and actions indicated in the lawsuit, and Dmitry Ananyev categorically disagrees with the requirements, the representatives added. Alexey Ananyev believes that the seizure of assets will be lifted in the near future, and Dmitry Ananyev called the lawsuit "a continuation of the politically motivated persecution of the former owners of Promsvyazbank."
The head of the working group of the law firm RKT Alexei Maistrenko believes that the arrest imposed on the assets of the Ananyev brothers corresponds to the formed tendency to recover from the owners and top management of banks undergoing reorganization, losses incurred by credit institutions due to management defects in the execution of persons brought to justice.[15]
Interpol refused to look for the Ananyev brothers
On December 4, 2020, it became known about the refusal of Interpol in the search for Alexei and Dmitry Ananyev. In fact, the international police organization stopped all search procedures against the former co-owners of Promsvyazbank, said their lawyer Alexei Kirsanov.
| | Interpol removed Alexei Ananyev from the search, considering his persecution politically motivated, - he told TASS. The source of the agency noted that a similar decision was made in relation to Dmitry Ananyev. | |
According to Kommersant, the decision to refuse to search for the Ananyev brothers was made after the commission for the control of files of the international police organization considered the voluminous complaint of the financiers' lawyers during the Interpol session. On almost 70 pages, the defenders defended the presence of a political background in the criminal prosecution of bankers and on this basis demanded to annul the search for the latter.
Having considered the complaint, the commission considered the prosecution politically motivated, after which, by the decision of the Interpol general secretariat, all data on the ex-shareholders of Promsvyazbank were removed from the organization's search base, the newspaper said. According to her, earlier the data of two bankers were placed in the Interpol search base with the so-called red corner, which meant their arrest if found.
The decision of the commission was sent to the General Secretariat of Interpol, which on November 6, 2020 removed the bankers' data from the search databases. All central national bureaus of the organization were also notified of this.
| | Our position has found full and unconditional support. In all proceedings, we stated that the prosecution of Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev is part of a campaign to take one of Russia's most successful private commercial banks to create a tool for servicing the defense sector under sanctions, representatives of the defense of businessmen said.[16][17] | |
2021
Criminal case on attempted land theft from the state
In January 2021, it became known that Dmitry Ananyev would be charged in absentia with attempting to steal three plots of land from the state, said Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of the Investigative Committee. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the attempted theft, he added.
Declaration of bankruptcy
In January 2021, the court declared Dmitry Ananyev bankrupt.
Recovery by the Moscow City Court of 17 million rubles from his wife in favor of Promsvyazbank
As it became known on March 22, 2021, the Moscow City Court recovered 17 million rubles from Dmitry Ananyev's wife in favor of Promsvyazbank (PSB), which the businessman had previously headed.
PSB lawyers filed a lawsuit against Dmitry Ananyev and his wife Lyudmila with the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow back in March 2020. The decision on it, according to the court's database, was made only at the end of September and did not suit the applicants. Having filed a complaint, the lawyers achieved a review of the case in the appellate instance of the Moscow City Court.
The Moscow City Court decided to fully satisfy the bank's requirements for the defendants and recover 17 million rubles from Lyudmila Ananyeva in favor of PSB. The bank's lawyers managed to prove that on August 31, 2017, the ex-chairman of the board of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev, taking advantage of his position, took a loan in the amount of 1.395 billion rubles from his bank at 8.5% per annum and immediately put this money on his wife's deposit already at 12.9% per annum.
On December 12, 2017, Ananyev repaid his loan at the expense of his wife's deposit. The day before, he received an order from the Central Bank on the additional charge of reserves, the failure of which led to the reorganization of the PSB.
From September to December 2017, interest was paid on the deposit in the amount of 50 million rubles, while 33 million rubles were paid on the loan. PSB lawyers estimated the damage to the bank from this scheme at 17 million rubles. They asked the court to recover this amount from Lyudmila Ananyeva.
| | We are satisfied with this court decision. We believe that the facts of coordinated actions of an unlawful nature committed by the Ananyev spouses, which were the basis of the PSB claim, have been confirmed. Thus, the scheme to extract additional income through the Ananyevs' credit and deposit transactions to the detriment of the credit institution was suppressed, the PSB told Kommersant.[18] | |
Lifting sanctions by Ukraine
On March 23, 2021, a decree appeared on the website of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, lifting sanctions from the ex-owners of Promsvyazbank Dmitry and Oleksiy Ananyev. The brothers were included in the sanctions list in 2019 for three years.
| | In Appendix 1 to the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine of March 19, 2019, <...>put into effect by Decree of the <...>President of Ukraine of March 19, 2019 No. 82, positions 742 and 743 are excluded, the document says. | |
Alexey and Dmitry Ananyev are listed under numbers 742 and 743 in the appendix to the decree of March 19, 2019. At the same time, the documents do not specify the reasons why the restrictions on ex-bankers were lifted.
In addition to the Ananyev Brothers, the Russian Bashkir Soda Company JSC (BSK, Sterlitamak) is excluded from the list of legal entities against which restrictive measures have been introduced.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, having approved the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of March 23, 2021 on changes and additions to the sanctions list against individuals and legal entities, included the following Russians in it:
- Senator Lyudmila Narusova (mother of journalist Ksenia Sobchak);
- Director of the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Gorshkov;
- deputy head; MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia Alexander Gorovoy
- senators Oleg Tsepkin (from the Chelyabinsk region), Irina Rukavishnikov (from the Rostov region), Alexand Karlin (from the Altai Territory).[19]
Claim in the case of Avtovazbank for 113 billion rubles
As it became known in early April 2021, the bank of non-core assets Trust"" filed a lawsuit against the brothers Ananyev in the case. AvtoVAZbank In addition to the former owners, the Promsvyazbank defendants are the ex-head of AvtoVAZbank Oleg Vdovin and the former shareholder, ex-chairman of the board of directors of AvtoVAZbank Nikolay Taran. The total amount of claims is 113 billion. rubles More. here
Promsvyazbank decided to bankrupt the wife of Dmitry Ananyev
As it became known at the end of April 2021, Promsvyazbank appealed to the Moscow Arbitration Court with a statement declaring Dmitry Ananyev's wife bankrupt. This was reported in the file of arbitration cases. At the same time, the size of Lyudmila Ananyeva's debt to the bank is not indicated there. Read more here.
Claim from Promsvyazbank for 100 billion rubles in the case of embezzlement
On June 17, 2021, it became known about a new lawsuit that Promsvyazbank filed against the ex-owners of the credit institution Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev. The bank requires more than 100 billion rubles in a criminal case of embezzlement. Read more here.
The court dismissed the bankruptcy case of Dmitry Ananyev's wife
In early August 2021, the Arbitration Court Moscow dismissed the bankruptcy case of Dmitry Ananyev's wife Lyudmila. As clarified "" in the To Interfax press service, in Promsvyazbank (PSB) which the businessman was once the chairman of the board, the decision was made in connection with the repayment of the debt.
According to the file of arbitration cases referred to by the agency, Lyudmila Ananyeva amounted to 17.3 million rubles.
Earlier, PSB lawyers filed a lawsuit with the Lefortovo court, in which they indicated that Dmitry Ananyev, heading the bank, in 2017 gave himself a loan of 1.4 billion rubles at 8.5% per annum and put this amount on his wife's deposit, but already at a rate of 12.9% per annum. Under this scheme, the Ananyevs received a fixed interest income every month. From September to December 2017, interest was paid on the deposit in the amount of 50 million rubles, while 33 million rubles were paid on the loan. PSB lawyers estimated the damage to the bank from this scheme at 17 million rubles.
At the end of March 2021, the court decided to recover this amount from Ananyeva in favor of the bank.
The Moscow Arbitration Court, at the request of the Grain Company, Nastyusha declared Dmitry Ananyev bankrupt in January 2021 and introduced a procedure for selling the debtor's property. In addition, by the beginning of August 2021, the court continues to consider a claim CENTRAL BANK for recovery of losses from former beneficiaries of Promsvyazbank in the amount of 282 billion rubles.
At the end of July 2021, Deputy Prosecutor General Anatoly Razinkin approved the indictment based on the materials of one of the criminal cases of particularly large embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code), allocated from the "large" investigation of fraud organized in the PSB by brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananyev.
Former vice-president of the bank Nikolai Tsukanov, head of the Operational block Andrei Mukin, head of the securities settlement and support department Olga Antonova, director of client support and product development Aigul Shaikhutdinova, as well as Deputy General Director for Finance of Promsvyazkapital JSC Ekaterina Dukhova will appear before the Lefortovo District Court.[20]
New requirements from Trust Bank for €315 million
On September 7, 2021, it became known about the new requirements presented by Trust Bank to brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananyev. According to TASS, citing a statement from a credit institution, claims in the amount of 315 million euros were put forward in Cyprus in connection with the alleged illegal withdrawal of assets from Promsvyazbank and Avtovazbank.
Taking into account the new statement, the total amount of claims declared by the Trust against the Ananyev brothers reached 586 million euros. The bank says the fraudulent activity is believed to have been carried out through a network of special purpose vehicles (SPVs) controlled by entrepreneurs.
In particular, the new claim of Trust concerns fraudulent schemes implemented in Promsvyazbank and AvtoVazbank, which were discovered after the initial claim. Thus, the claims are based on seven episodes of alleged fraud in the framework of issuing loans to Delvenisto (74 million euros), Klirinaso (68 million euros), Fivolsenso (65 million euros), Finance Invest LLC (65 million euros), Dimoresa (29 million euros), DVP (7 million euros) and JSC TD Mikhailovsky (7 million euros). Promsvyazbank and AvtoVazbank issued unsecured or underserved loans to these companies, which in the end were not fully repaid or in most of them. In 2017, this led to the financial collapse of Promsvyazbank and Avtovazbank, the Trust said.
The bank's claims will be considered as part of a trial in the District Court of the city of Limassol in Cyprus.
According to the president, chairman of the board of Trust Alexander Sokolov, new episodes of withdrawal of funds appear within the framework of the Ananyev case, and the bank wants to understand all the circumstances of what happened and return the withdrawn assets.[21]
The Supreme Court refused Dmitry Ananyev to cancel the seizure of his assets for ₽113 billion
At the end of December 2021, the Supreme Court (VS) refused the ex-owner of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev, represented by his former financial manager Sergei Druzhinin, to cancel the judicial acts of lower instances on the arrest of property at the suit of Trust Bank for 113.1 billion rubles.
In addition to Dmitry Ananyev, his brother Alexei, former president of AvtoVAZbank Oleg Vdovin and ex-chairman of his board of directors Nikolay Taran are involved in the case. Bank of non-core assets "Trust" asks to recover from them the losses that the defendants caused, according to its version, as controlling persons of AvtoVAZbank. Until 2019, he was a member of the Promsvyazbank group controlled by Ananyev. Later, his problematic assets worth 340 billion rubles were transferred to Trust.
The Moscow Arbitration Court imposed a security arrest on the money and property of the defendants and declared Dmitry Ananyev bankrupt and launched the procedure for the sale of his property. The financial manager of the ex-banker tried to challenge the seizure of his assets, indicating that after the start of the bankruptcy procedure, all interim measures are removed, and new ones can be imposed only as part of a bankruptcy case.
But three instances considered that this did not apply to the lawsuit, which was not considered by December 30, 2021. The grounds on which interim measures were introduced did not disappear. At the same time, according to the courts, there is no evidence that the seizure of Ananyev's assets interferes with the bankruptcy procedure. The Sun agreed with them.
On November 30, the court satisfied the complaints of Promsvyazbank, Zverenaya Kompaniya Nastyusha LLC, as well as a number of other creditors, including companies and individuals, against the determination of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which on February 18 approved Druzhinin as the financial manager of the businessman, as well as against the decision of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal, which confirmed the appointment on June 28.
The contested document explains that the court of first instance, in accordance with the bankruptcy law, randomly chose the Association of the Association of the Association of the Association of the Association "Property," which proposed the candidacy of Druzhinin. Disagreeing, the lenders filed complaints.[22]
2023: Recognition of illegality of the prenuptial agreement by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court (Supreme Court) declared illegal the marriage contract of Dmitry Ananyev, supporting the position of two lower courts. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the published definition of the Armed Forces on January 10, 2023.
The marriage agreement of Dmitry Ananyev was declared illegal, according to which the former chairman of the board and one of the ex-beneficiaries of Promsvyazbank (PSB) in 2015 handed over to his wife Lyudmila a house in the village of Gorki-2 and 23 land plots on Rublevka. Judge of the RF Armed Forces Nadezhda Ksenofontova rejected the cassation appeals of the Ananyev spouses, who asked to transfer the issue for review to the Judicial Collegium for Economic Disputes.
| | The courts recognized the conclusion of transactions by the debtor with interested parties in order to withdraw liquid assets from debt collection as falling under the grounds of invalidity of transactions... Another assessment of the circumstances of the transactions does not create grounds for a cassation review of judicial acts, - says the court ruling, which is provided by the agency. | |
Earlier, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared the prenuptial agreement invalid, the ninth arbitration court of appeal overturned this decision, and the Moscow District Arbitration Court then overturned the appeal decision and upheld the first instance. He also confirmed the illegality of the donation agreement for another land plot.
At the same time, all three instances recognized as illegal the additional agreement to the marriage agreement of 2017, concluded a month and a half before the introduction of the provisional administration in Promsvyazbank, as well as the agreement of Lyudmila Ananyeva with the Cypriot Velux Assets Limited 2018. The courts decided that the chain of transactions involving this company was aimed at withdrawing assets and causing harm to creditors.
According to the additional agreement, 10 plots in Gorki-2, two Moscow apartments, five cars, a motor vehicle, a boat, a boat, jewelry and other luxury goods, shares of four companies were transferred to Ananyeva's ownership. And under the agreement with Velux, Ananyeva transferred everything received under the marriage agreement and the 2015 donation agreement and the additional agreement of 2017, except for one apartment donated to her daughter, to the ownership of this Cypriot company controlled by Ananyev. The courts decided that the chain of these transactions was aimed at withdrawing assets and causing harm to creditors.[23]
2024: Charge of misappropriation of loans worth 650 million rubles
In mid-April 2024, it became known that the next criminal case on embezzlement of Promsvyazbank (PSB) funds began in the Lefortovo Court of Moscow. His defendant is the former owner of the bank Dmitry Ananyev and other persons who are accused of embezzlement and further legalization of loans in the amount of about 650 million rubles.
According to the Kommersant newspaper, referring to the case file, in addition to Ananyev, the organizers of the crime include Oleg Mikhalev, former senior vice president of the Promsvyaznedvizhimost group (PSN), and Alexander Afanasyev, ex-director of the PSB project financing department. They were charged in absentia, while in the dock there are former employees of a credit institution and PSN who were engaged in technical registration of a loan. In particular, the defendants include Olga Gichka, Elena Gryzlova, Liubov Seryogina, Natalya Okasheva, Ekaterina Ukolova and Oksana Donskaya. They were charged under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (appropriation or embezzlement on an especially large scale), while Donskoy is additionally charged with the legalization of funds obtained by criminal means (Article 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to investigators, Dmitry Ananyev created a criminal group with the aim of stealing PSB credit funds. In mid-2017, Mikhalev and Afanasyev entered it. The case file says that Ananyev developed the criminal scheme itself: it was he who gave instructions to subordinates, "binding," and controlled their implementation. Mikhalev and Afanasyev, in turn, selected performers, distributed duties between them and controlled the implementation of specific operations.
Criminal activity was carried out from July 21 to October 12, 2017. During this time, Cypriot offshore firms Figebor Consulting Ltd and Anarford Holdings Ltd. were issued loans in the amount of 250 million rubles and 400 million rubles, respectively. The investigation believes that Dmitry Ananyev then received this money, legalizing it through the Vipasena Holding Ltd company controlled by him.[24]
Awards
In 1988 he was awarded the medal "For Distinction in Military Service" II degree.
Family
Wife Lyudmila Ananyeva, four children.
Notes
- ↑ pages-1 The richest businessmen in Russia - 2011
- ↑ The richest businessmen in Russia - 2012.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 [https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2018/05/31/771333-ananev-izbavlyaetsya-aktivov Dmitry
- ↑ [https://www.rbc.ru/finances/12/02/2019/5c62b6289a7947e54285a07b Bank of Bad Debts of
- ↑ Central Bank promised to pursue Mintsev and Ananyev abroad]
- ↑ The court arrested apartments, cars, planes and paintings of the founders of "Technoserv" for a huge amount
- ↑ Fugitive banker Ananiev got rich by 5.6 billion rubles in a year in the UK
- ↑ The court lifted the arrest of Dmitry Ananyev from the plane at the request of the Swiss holding UBS Group
- ↑ "You can't be rich if your country is in the ass": ex-billionaire Ananyev explained his departure from Russia
- ↑ Guardian 'I'm presented as a criminal': the banker forced to fly Russia
- ↑ Dmitry Ananyev looped a loan with a deposit
- ↑ [Alexander Bastrykin in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta spoke about the investigation of the criminal case against the brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananyev
- ↑ The Investigative Committee charged accomplices of an organized group created by the Ananyev brothers to steal funds from Promsvyazbank PJSC
- ↑ The court chose to ban certain actions for the defendant in the Ananyev bankers case
- ↑ There is extradition from Cyprus. Property of the Ananyev brothers for €267 million was under arrest
- ↑ Interpol refused to search for the Ananyev
- ↑ brothers. The Ananyev brothers were struck out of the base. Interpol considers criminal prosecution of bankers politically motivated
- ↑ The Ananievs got into the credit ring. The wife of the ex-head of Promsvyazbank was ordered to return 17 million to PSB
- ↑ PRESIDENTIAL DECREE UKRAЇNI № 109/2021
- ↑ The court dismissed the bankruptcy case of the wife of the former head of the PSB Ananyev
- ↑ Bank Trust presented new requirements in Cyprus by Ananyev for €315 million
- ↑ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation refused Dmitry Ananyev to cancel the seizure of his assets for 113 billion rubles.
- ↑ The Supreme Court recognized the illegality of the marriage contract of ex-banker Ananyev
- ↑ Loans turned out to be purely female
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