Alexey Ananiev. The state demands a colossal amount from the founders of Technoserv, expelled from the company

Financial interests

Co-owner (together with brother Dmitry Ananiev) holding "Promsvyazcapital"(50%), which includes one of the largest Russian banks Promsvyazbank (88%), IT-company Technoserv, Media 3, Promsvyaznedvizhimost.

Biography

Alexey Ananiev was born on August 24, 1964 in Moscow. In 1969 he graduated Moscow Pedagogical Institute foreign languages named after Maurice Thorez.

In 1992, together with his brother Dmitry, he founded the Technoserv A / C company, which imported used computers to Russia.

1994 - Alexey became the head of the board of directors, his brother - a member of the board of directors of Promsvyazbank.

In 2005 he received an Executive MBA from the Business School University of Chicago.

In 2006, Alexei took over as chairman of the board of directors of Promsvyazbank after his brother entered the Federation Council.

In February 2013, Ananiev was appointed CEO OJSC "Corporation "Control Systems", created in 2010 by order of the government (100% of the company belongs to the state). The holding unites leading research institutes that develop control systems for branches and types of the army and the military-industrial complex.

In March 2014 Media 3 sold the newspaper "Arguments and Facts"("AiF") of the Moscow City Hall.

In mid-May 2015, it became known that a proportionate share, 10% of the shares of Promsvyazbank, was sold to NPF "Welfare OPS" by Boris Mints.

On June 3, information appeared in the business media that three non-state pension funds - the European Pension Fund, "Confidence" and Regionfond (included in the group "Bin") - acquired about 10% of the shares of Promsvyazbank on the Moscow Exchange for 6.9 billion rubles. (corresponds to the bank's assessment with a coefficient of 1.3 to the basic capital).

Strokes for a portrait

Founder of the Institute of Russian Realistic Art in Moscow. Owns the largest collection of socialist realism in Russia. In February 2014, before the start of the Olympic Games in Sochi, the Ananiev Museum opened the exhibition "Soviet Sport". The presentation of the exhibition took place in December 2013 in London at Sotheby's.

Speaks Portuguese and English.

Serves in the church. He is one of the largest Russian Orthodox patrons of art.

Married, has three children.

Rumors

In 2001, Promsvyazbank controlled 50% of the Press-1 printing house, the second half belonged to the presidential administration.

In 2002, the Ananievs acquired a controlling stake in the publishing house "Arguments and Facts", after which Alexey closed the application "AiF - love", considering the published materials obscene.

According to rumors, the appointment of Dmitry Ananiev to Federation Council lobbied for the Speaker of the Upper House of Parliament. It is believed that Promsvyazbank participated in the financing of the party.

In 2007, the security forces conducted searches at the head office of Promsvyazbank. According to the official version, the scandal surrounding the office building at 7 Derbenevskaya Embankment was the cause. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Promsvyazbank acted as financial instrument to take over the building.

According to the media, the security forces were simply trying to disrupt the IPO planned by the bank's management. In addition, a version was expressed that this was how the ill-wishers from the Ananyev brothers took revenge for sponsoring the "Socialist-Revolutionaries".

In 2002-2003, the lands of the collective farm "Lenin's beam" located next to the residence Vladimir Putin"Novo-Ogaryovo", were illegally withdrawn and sold to businessman's structures Alexandra Sabadasha, senator from Chuvashia and owner of the Sintez group Leonid Lebedev and the Ananiev brothers.

The latter sold the plots to the owners "Kuzbassrazrezugol" Iskander Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev. The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on these facts, in 2008 the Krasnogorsk City Court invalidated a number of transactions for the sale of real estate.

Fraternal business

Entrepreneurial activity in Russia is a complex and time-consuming activity. Alone is often impossible

Alexey Krashakov, Irina Kezik

Yesterday in a strict regime colony in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region former head of Yukos Platon Lebedev celebrated his birthday. I celebrated alone, without my twin brother Victor, who, for obvious reasons, did not have the opportunity to take part in the event. Meanwhile, no one deprived the disgraced businessman of the opportunity to re-register the remains of his business to his brother, since the established practice Russian business is such that business is often built on family ties, when property is registered in the name of wives, children, brothers. Thus, during the election campaign, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov submitted a declaration of his property, from which it followed that the official owns several small real estate objects, a domestic-made car, and does not even have his own apartment in Moscow. However, in business it often happens that one person is in the shadows, and the other is in plain sight. From this point of view, brothers-businessmen seem to be the most interesting tandems in business.

First-line bankers. Ananievs

Biographies

Alexey Ananiev was born in 1964, graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. Maurice Thorez with a degree in Portuguese and English languages.
Dmitry Ananiev was born in 1969. Graduated from the Moscow State Aviation Institute with a degree in propulsion power and power and physical installations aircraft, and then the State Academy of Management in 1997.

What do they own

Promsvyazbank, according to the CEA "Interfax", as of July 1, 2005, ranked 14th, the bank's assets amounted to 67 billion rubles, capital - 6.5 billion rubles. According to the bank's website, more than 99% of the shares are owned by Alexei and Dmitry Ananiev, less than 1% by Rostelecom. The youngest of the brothers, Dmitry, is the chairman of the board of directors, and the eldest, Alexei, is a member of the board.
Promsvyazbank;
Promsvyazcapital;
"Work";
"Arguments and Facts";
"Media Press";
"Metro-press";
"Aria-AiF";
Mosoblpechat;
"Metropress" in St. Petersburg

The most striking example of doing business together are the brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananiev. Until recently, the Ananiev bankers were non-public persons, and Promsvyazbank, which they own, was considered one of the most closed banks. However, the passion for media assets quickly made their name recognizable in the entrepreneurial community. In 2002, the Ananievs acquired a controlling stake in the Arguments and Facts publishing house, and a little later they bought a 50% stake in the Trud newspaper. It should be noted that both publishing houses are the largest in Russia.

Promsvyazbank's move into the media business doesn't look so random after all. According to the World Bank, in 2001 he already controlled 50% of the Press-1 printing house, which prints many Russian publications. By the way, the other half of the shares was under the jurisdiction of the Office of the President.

This year, the Ananievs continued their expansion in the media market. In August, it became known that the Promsvyazcapital company, which manages the non-core assets of the Ananievs, acquired the remaining 50% stake in Trud. Thus, 100% of the newspaper's shares were concentrated in their hands. Meanwhile, the shopping continued. In September, Promsvyazcapital bought out former managers newspapers still have about 27% of the shares of the Argumenty i Fakty publishing house. These shares were divided between Promsvyazkapital and Nikolai Zyatkov, editor-in-chief of AiF. As Marina Pereverzeva, vice-president of Promsvyazcapital, told NG, now 76% of the shares of AIF are owned by Promsvyazcapital, and 24% by Nikolai Zyatkov.

Consolidation of 76% of the shares of the weekly in the structures of Promsvyazbank gave rise to rumors on the market about pre-sales preparation"Arguments and Facts". Even possible buyers of Gazprom-Media and Russian Railways were named. However, in an interview with NG, the vice-president of Promsvyazcapital, Marina Pereverzeva, said: “We don’t know who is spreading these rumors. But there are no negotiations on the sale of AiF. On the contrary, we have serious plans for the development of the publishing house.” The press secretary of Gazprom-Media, Daria Litvinova, also denied the rumor: “We are immediately considered potential buyers due to the fact that we have a lot of media assets. However, we are not buying anything.”

Promsvyazbank has already become a serious player in the print media market. In addition to the named newspapers, its structures own the distribution networks of printed materials Metro-press, Aria-AiF, controlling stakes in Mosoblpechat, Metropress in St. Petersburg. And, apparently, the bank is interested in further increasing assets. “We are ready to consider any proposals,” said Marina Pereverzeva.

Meanwhile, not everyone considers the media a promising tool for investment. Former deputy chairman of the Central Bank Alexander Khandruev told NG: “Now Promsvyazbank has become a leader in the Russian banking business. He works closely with the population, has large projects in industry. However, the media have always been non-core assets for banks and, as Russian and foreign practice shows, do not lead to good. At some stage, media assets need to be taken off the balance sheet.” But this is more likely if the business is not supported by influential structures. As Sergei Rutkovsky, deputy director of the Rating Information Center, notes, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Promsvyazbank developed at a rapid pace. It is now in the top 20. “Such growth, in my opinion, can only be ensured by connections at the level of the government, the presidential administration or the support of a monopoly, such as RAO UES or Russian Railways,” the expert believes.

Although it was the media that brought the Ananyev brothers publicity, they are also known as one of the largest landowners. According to Forbes magazine, Promsvyaznedvizhimost, a subsidiary of the bank, owns about 60,000 hectares of land in the Moscow region.

Banker and scientist. Kovalchuk

Biographies

Mikhail and Yuri Kovalchuk were born in Leningrad in 1946 and 1951 respectively. Both graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Leningrad State University. Yuri Kovalchuk from 1977 to 1988 worked at the Physico-Technical Institute. Ioffe, but in the early 1990s he went into business. Mikhail Kovalchuk, after graduating from the university, moved to Moscow - to the Institute of Crystallography, of which he became director in 1998.

Entities owned, held or controlled by:

bank "Russia";
insurance company "SOGAZ";
the newspaper "Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti";
television and radio company "Petersburg";
Center for Strategic Research North-West;
Kurchatov center.

The TV community is in turmoil. In January next year, the federal competition commission for television and radio broadcasting will hold a competition for the sale of licenses for television broadcasting in 41 Russian cities. For the first time, not a separate frequency was put up for tender, but a pool of TV channels in the largest regions of the country. Based on this media resource, a nationwide channel of the Russian regions will be created. Many TV channels and companies would like to get such a tidbit, meanwhile, market participants suggest that the pool will most likely go to the Petersburg TV and radio company. In turn, this TV company is remarkable in that it has a direct relationship with Yuri Kovalchuk, who is known as a longtime friend of Vladimir Putin. Anna Manilova, Chairman of the Board of Directors of TRC Petersburg, has already announced her intention to participate in the competition.

At the beginning of November of this year, the sale of shares in TRK Petersburg was announced by the Evrofinance-Mosnarbank group, which owns a 25.6% stake in the TV channel, and Lenastateproject LLC - 2.6%. At the same time, the TV channel will carry out a large additional issue of shares. One of the buyers should be the St. Petersburg bank Rossiya, the chairman of the board of directors of which is Yuri Kovalchuk. The bank refused to explain what caused the interest in the television asset, arguing that any comments on this matter could affect the parameters of the transaction.

Meanwhile, the TV channel is not the first media asset that interested Kovalchuk. At the beginning of the year, Bank Rossiya increased its stake in the newspaper Saint Petersburg Vedomosti, bringing its stake to 35%. St. Petersburg Vedomosti is a successful newspaper that has significant influence and one of the highest circulation figures in St. Petersburg, Anna Nosenko, adviser to the general director of Rossiya Bank, told NG. “This experience turned out to be successful for us in the media market, and we are pleased with this asset.” When asked if the bank would increase its presence in the media market in the future, Ms. Nosenko said that it would be better to return to this issue after the New Year.

Yuri Kovalchuk is considered a member of one of the most influential groups in St. Petersburg surrounded by President Vladimir Putin. He was acquainted with Putin during his work in the mayor's office of St. Petersburg. In the early 1990s, Rossiya Bank, in which Kovalchuk now owns a 30.4% stake, was involved in foreign economic projects of the St. Petersburg administration, which were supervised by Vice Mayor Vladimir Putin. Kovalchuk also has connections with many "Moscow St. Petersburg". He participated in the creation of the Association of joint ventures of St. Petersburg, which brought together firms with foreign investment. In 1993, the duties of the general director of the association were performed by the current manager of the president's affairs, Vladimir Kozhin. And Minister of Education Andrey Fursenko is the chairman of the scientific council of the North-West Center for Strategic Research, which is again headed by Kovalchuk.

Despite Kovalchuk's certain political capital, Rossiya Bank, controlled by him, cannot be called large. According to the CEA Interfax, as of July 1, 2005, the bank ranked 62nd in the rating, and its assets amounted to 14.6 billion rubles, capital - 3 billion rubles. “An inconspicuous and informationally closed bank,” says in an interview with a correspondent. "NG" Deputy Director of IC "Rating" Sergey Rutkovsky. - Many do not even calculate the limits for it. Before Matvienko became the governor of St. Petersburg, he was considered a bank close to Smolny (city administration. - NG).

However, at the beginning of the year, Rossiya Bank acquired one of the country's leading insurers, SOGAZ, whose turnover exceeded the size of the bank. The assets of the insurer then amounted to 13 billion rubles, the bank - 10 billion rubles. Where Kovalchuk managed to get the money - the experts were at a loss. “The block of shares in SOGAZ was acquired with the funds raised by the investment company ABROS, which is a subsidiary of the bank,” Anna Nosenko explained to NG. According to the register of SOGAZ shareholders, IC ABROS owns 49.97% of the insurer's shares.

Brother Yuri Kovalchuk - Mikhail - did not follow in the footsteps of a relative in business, but remained in science. However, his career was also very successful. At the beginning of this year, he was appointed director of one of the most famous scientific institutions country - the Kurchatov Center. Mikhail Kovalchuk came to the cutting edge of atomic science from the post of head of the Institute of Crystallography. Mikhail himself denied in an interview that his rapid administrative growth was due to the proximity of his family to the Kremlin, also stating that "what my brother does is far from me."

Forest lobbyists. Zingarevichi

Biography

Boris and Mikhail Zingarevich were born in the city of Sebezh, Pskov Region, in 1959. Both graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute of the Pulp and Paper Industry. After that, Boris went to work as a mechanic at the Kondopoga pulp and paper mill, and Mikhail - at the Sebezh pulp and paper mill. In 1991, they founded the Technoferm company, on the basis of which Ilim Pulp was created. They are members of the Board of Directors of Ilim Pulp.

What do they own

Timber holding "Ilim Pulp".

The non-public company Ilim Pulp, co-owned by Boris and Mikhail Zingarevich, is considered one of the most influential lobbyists in the forest industry. She's hot right now. Last week the government discussed the Concept for the Development of the Forestry of the Russian Federation for 2003-2010, and in the near future the State Duma is to consider amendments to the Forest Code in the second reading. The press service of Ilim Pulp refused our request to contact the Zingarevichs, explaining that they are actively working on issues related to the Forest Code.

Timber merchants have long been trying to push through the Forest Code. And last year they almost succeeded. However, thanks to the intervention of President Vladimir Putin, who did not like the fact that a significant part of the forests could become private property, the document was sent for revision. The new version assumes a long-term lease of the forest fund.

Boris and Mikhail Zingarevich, together with Zakhar Smushkin, are the founders and main shareholders of the Ilim Pulp company, the largest timber industry complex in Russia. It is interesting that in the 1990s, according to Forbes, the current Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was also a co-owner of the company. But he was subsequently squeezed out of business by Zakhar Smushkin.

According to Pavel Artemiev, an analyst at Lesprom Industries Consulting, the corporation includes the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill, the Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk timber processing plants, 43 forest enterprises, the Kommunar paper mill, the St. Petersburg Cardboard and Printing Plant and a number of other enterprises. The company ranks first in Europe in terms of forest reserves, and also produces 77% of boxboard and 61% of market pulp in Russia. The holding's value is estimated at $1.5 billion.

The co-owners of Ilim Pulp became known as a result of a conflict with Vladimir Kogan and Oleg Deripaska for the Kotlas pulp and paper mill. For several years, the latter tried to challenge the right of Ilim Pulp to the plant. According to Pavel Artemiev, an analyst at Lesprom Industries Consulting, Deripaska wanted to gain strategic superiority in the industry by seizing control of one of the country's largest pulp and logging plants. However, Kogan and Deripaska did not achieve success.

Brothers-businessmen desperately avoid publicity. Meanwhile, last year there were rumors that Boris Zingarevich had bought the British football club Everton. Then the production worker had to explain to reporters that his son works for the London-based Fortress Sports Fund, which became interested in this football club.

Drinking brothers. Khairullins

Biography

Airat and Ilshat Khairullin were born in Kazan in 1970 and 1965. Airat graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Kazan State Agricultural Institute. In 1990 he went into business with his brother.

What do they own

Brewing company "Krasny Vostok";
trading network "Edelweiss";
agro-industrial holding Krasny Vostok Agro.

All this year, there have been rumors in the brewing industry about the impending sale foreign investors brewing company "Krasny Vostok" Among the buyers were called SABMiller, Heineken. However, the owners of Krasny Vostok, the Khairullin brothers, having confirmed the fact of negotiations, refused the deal. If the sale took place, then in Russia there would actually be one domestic manufacturer beer - the Ochakovo plant, if we do not take into account small regional producers.

True, as Marat Ibragimov, an analyst at FC UralSib, told NG, “now the company is showing a negative trend. Since the beginning of the year, its market share has decreased from 6.9% to 6%. In the face of fierce competition, Krasny Vostok loses out to Western brewing giants in marketing and distribution. Now it is difficult to remain an independent manufacturer, and in the future it is better for the company to become part of a large holding.” According to RBC, in 2004 Krasny Vostok's revenue amounted to 11.5 billion rubles.

But the business of the Khairullin brothers is not limited to the brewing industry. They also own the Edelweiss chain of stores, consisting of 150 outlets, several agricultural enterprises, land. Forbes estimates their fortune at 600 million dollars. It is worth noting that their wealth is growing rapidly - back in 2001, the World Bank valued the property at $134 million.

Both brothers are shareholders of their enterprises. However, Airat Khairullin plays the main role in the joint business. He accepts strategic decisions and is working on the development of new directions, Ilshat is engaged in marketing policy and product promotion. When in 2003 Airat left the post of general director of Krasny Vostok, having been elected to the State Duma, the post of general director was taken not by his brother, but by a hired manager.

Initial capital The Khairullins made their fortune selling fruits, cigarettes and beer. While still a student at the Faculty of Economics of the Agricultural Institute, Airat organized the supply of fruits from Uzbekistan. And brother Ilshat, who since the late 1980s worked as deputy head of the district catering in Kazan, helped to ensure the sale of goods. The Khairullins had to literally gnaw their way to a place under the sun. Otherwise, it was impossible to act in Kazan, divided in the 1980s into spheres of influence between criminal groups. Pretty soon the brothers got their own trading network.

A strong rise in the career of Airat Khairullin occurred in 1996, when the mayor of Kazan, Kamil Iskhakov, offered the 25-year-old businessman to take the position of director of the Krasny Vostok brewery. In the same year, Airat acquired more than 60% of the company's shares.

Explaining corr. “NG” the success of the Khairullin brothers, Shaimiev’s former press secretary Irek Murtazin says: “Ayrat realized early on that in Russia it is possible to do business successfully only at the intersection of economics and politics. If you want to have a business at the district level, you must have good relationship with the head of the district, if at the city level - with the mayor, at the level of the subject - with the leadership of the subject. According to Irek Murtazin, Khairullin had good relations with the President of the Republic, Mintimer Shaimiev. For example, during the default, the authorities greatly helped businessmen. In 1998, Krasny Vostok had a large amount of money in Inkombank, intended for the purchase of equipment. Shaimiev himself helped to get the money, for this he met with the president of Inkombank, Vladimir Vinogradov.

At present, following the logic of parallel development of business and relations with the authorities, Airat Khairullin has been a State Duma deputy for 2 years. According to Tatar analysts, Airat Khairullin can take the next step towards the governor's chair, for example, the Kursk region, where Krasny Vostok acquired agricultural assets not so long ago. Meanwhile, one of the largest businessmen of the Kursk region told NG that “he hadn’t heard anything about it, but you can want anything. Moreover, this year the former governor was reappointed for a new term.”

From Russia with love. Churkins

The Churkin brothers - Igor and Oleg - the owners of the Lviv Bus and Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Plants - are few in Russia, but in today's Ukraine almost everyone knows them. The brothers are considered good friends of Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Chernomyrdin. In Ukraine, Igor and Oleg are called precisely Russian businessmen, despite the fact that they do not conduct any business in Russia and the only thing that connects them with our country is citizenship. In the mid-nineties, the eldest of the brothers, Igor, left his historical homeland. As some Ukrainian media wrote, he fled to Kyiv, fleeing the gangster showdown in Yekaterinburg (according to rumors, Igor and Oleg Churkin were representatives of the Uralmash organized crime group, well-known in the early 90s). Having settled in the capital of Ukraine, Igor Anatolyevich, as a savvy and enterprising person, made solid acquaintances at NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and quickly launched his business. By the way, despite the fact that Igor Anatolyevich is a gynecologist by profession, at one time he studied a lot of books on psychology, which helped him a lot in establishing high-ranking contacts and lobbying for the interests of his business. So, having enlisted the support of respectable people in Ukraine, Churkin Sr. began to develop his own business. First, he traded in painted scrap metal, passing it off as new equipment, and then he came up with a simple and at the same time ingenious business based on VAT refunds for exports. In total, for the period from 1999 to 2001, the amount of transactions reached more than 2,000,000,000 hryvnias, respectively, more than 300 million hryvnias were submitted for VAT refund.

In the fall of 2001, the activities of Churkin’s firms (according to the materials of criminal case No. 84-00022 initiated by the Kiev State Tax Administration) became interested in the “tax”, and therefore Igor Anatolyevich went to Moscow, where his younger brother Oleg was waiting for him. When the wave of claims of the investigating authorities subsided (some of the companions of Churkin Sr. still ended up in the dock), now together with Oleg, Igor returns to Kyiv.

Until some time, the activities of the Churkin brothers in Ukraine were not very public. Until they became the owners of the Lviv Bus and Black Sea Shipyards. By the way, the legality of the ChSY privatization deal is still being disputed.

In October, the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) put up for public auction a 90.25% stake in ChSY for UAH 119.3 million. Potential buyers were the ISD corporation, the Russian Lukoil and the Greek group Vardinoyannis, who had been working with the Black Sea for several years. They also named the structures of Petro Poroshenko, David Zhvania, Konstantin Grigorishin. The interest of such persons is not accidental - at the time of the sale, SJSHC "ChSZ" was huge. It united seven subsidiaries and six diversified LLCs, 988 facilities were located on its territory, including 198 for production, 461 for non-production purposes, and 92 warehouses. The statutory fund also includes 12 embankments and slipways, 173 social and cultural facilities. But the competition took place, and everything was mixed up in the house of shipbuilders - the unknown OJSC "Nikolaev low-tonnage shipyard" with an authorized fund of 2.6 million hryvnias became the official winner. The company offered UAH 119.305 million for the block of shares, with a starting price of UAH 119.3 million. The Churkin brothers needed 5,000 hryvnias to “convince” the state that there was no alternative as the future owner of ChSY.

As an NG correspondent was told in the Nikolaev Regional Prosecutor's Office (Ukraine), in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On the Privatization of State Property", the sale and purchase agreement should include the obligations or obligations of the parties provided for by the business plan or privatization plan, which were determined by the terms of the auction, competition or buyout. However, the new owners did not pay off any wage arrears or made investments, and there is nothing to say about the concept of the plant's development. On April 7 this year, the regional prosecutor filed a lawsuit in the interests of the State Property Fund of Ukraine with the Mykolaiv Light-Tonnage Shipyard OJSC to the Economic Court of the Nikolaev Region to terminate the contract for the sale and purchase of a block of shares in the Chernomorsky Shipbuilding Plant SJSHC. On November 8, the court dismissed the claim. The prosecutor, in turn, on November 17 filed an appeal against the above court decision. By the way, in addition to non-compliance with the terms of the contract, the prosecutor's office was interested in the issue of the origin of the capital of the Churkin brothers. A criminal case was initiated on the fact of false information about the origin of funds for which “state property was privatized”.

To date, the Churkin brothers exercise control over:

1. Helvick Investments Limited (registered in the UK);
owns 24.96% shares - Lviv Bus Plant, OJSC;
owns shares, control - Dneprodzerzhinsk Automobile Plant, JSC;
co-founder, control - Sil-Avto, OOO SP NV;

2. Marybeni Energy Corporation (registered in Canada).
Communication with enterprises:
owns shares, control 25% - Lviv Bus Plant, OJSC;
owns shares - Dneprodzerzhinsk Automobile Plant, JSC;
owns shares, control - Naval, CJSC.
3. Shipping Technology Limited (registered in Canada).
Communication with enterprises:
owns shares - Dneprodzerzhinsky Automobile Plant-1, OJSC;
co-founder, control - Project Development Center, LLC;
owns shares - Black Sea Shipbuilding Company, CJSC.

4 Stalprom, OOO PKP.
GGKP "Stalprom", established in 1991, is engaged in the organization of production and wholesale trade pipe products, mainly boiler pipes. A number of banks participate in the financing of its projects, in particular Aval (Kyiv), which has opened a permanent credit line for the company.
Communication with enterprises:
owns shares of 50.01% - Nikopol plant of steel pipes "YUTiST", CJSC.

5. Sil-Avto, OOO SP NV.
Communication with enterprises:
Helvick Investments Limited - co-founder, control.

6. Severgaz, LLC.
Communication with enterprises: co-founder - Energomash, LLC.

Biography:

In 1987 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages. Maurice Thorez with a degree in translator-referent (Portuguese and English).

In 1987-1989 he worked as an interpreter from Portuguese at the USSR CMO.

In 1987-1992, he worked as Deputy General Director of the Soviet-Danish joint venture Technoserv.

Since 1992, he created and became the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Technoserv A / S (in 2008 it was renamed Technoserv). At that time, the company was engaged in the import of used computers, mainly manufactured by IBM.

In 1995, together with his brother, Dmitry Ananiev, he created Promsvyazbank.

From 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the Board of Directors of OAO Tambovmyasoprodukt.

From 2001 to 2003 he was a member of the Board of Directors of CJSC Trade House Minsk.

In 2000-2002 he was a member of the Board of Directors of OAO Pnevmostroymashina.

Since 2002, he has been a member of the Boards of Directors of ZAO AiF and OAO PO Pressa-1.

Since 2002 — Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Cryogenmash (Balashikha, Moscow Region).

In 2002 he defended his thesis for the competition degree candidate of technical sciences in Moscow technical university Communications and Informatics under the guidance of Professor Yu. A. Vorontsov Thesis topic “Development and study of mathematical models and methods for calculating performance indicators corporate networks regional telecom operators.

In 2005, he received an Executive MBA from the University of Chicago Business School.

From 2006 to present, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Promsvyazbank.

In 2011, he opened the museum and exhibition complex Institute of Russian Realistic Art, the basis of the collection and the first exposition of which was the personal collection of paintings by the businessman.

From 2012 to 2013 - Independent director of USC.

In February 2013, he left Technoserv and was appointed CEO of Management Systems JSC.

In May 2014, he left the Control Systems Corporation and returned to Technoserv, where he headed the advisory board, the supreme governing body of the group of companies.

Serves in the church and sings in the church choir. He is one of the largest Russian Orthodox patrons of art.

He was awarded the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh II degree (July 18, 2014) - in consideration of the assistance provided to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. He was one of the "25 best managers of Russian IT companies" (2003, 2006, 2008).

Owns the largest collection of socialist realism in Russia. In June 2014, at Sotheby's auction for $ 3 million, he acquired the work of George Nyssa "Over the Snows" (1964). The pride of the collection is the work of the artist Geliy Korzhev, who died in 2012.

Married. Three children.

Dossier:

According to the World Bank, in 2001 Promsvyazbank controlled 50% of the Press-1 printing house, which prints many Russian publications. The other half of the shares was administered by the Office of the President.

In 2002, the Ananievs acquired a controlling stake in the Arguments and Facts publishing house, where the AiF - Love application was soon closed, since the new owner considered some of the materials published there obscene.

In 2002-2003 the lands of the Leninsky Luch collective farm, located next to Vladimir Putin's residence Novo-Ogaryovo, were illegally withdrawn and sold to the structures of businessman Alexander Sabadash, senator from Chuvashia and owner of the Sintez group Leonid Lebedev and the Ananyev brothers. The latter sold the plots to the owners of Kuzbassrazrezugol Iskander Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev. The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on these facts, in 2008 the Krasnogorsk City Court invalidated a number of transactions for the sale of real estate.

perebezhchik.ru/person/ananev-dmitriy-nikolaevich/

In 2004, Promsvyazbank opened a multi-currency settlement account for the Moscow St. Danilov Monastery, to which Patriarch Alexy II called for funds to be transferred for the return of 18 bells that were at that time on the bell tower of the Harvard University hostel

"Vedomosti", 24.08.2006

In June 2005, the president of Promsvyazbank, Alexander Levkovsky, announced that the real owners of the bank were two individuals- brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananiev.

RBC Daily 06/02/2005

Although it was the media that brought the Ananyev brothers publicity, they are also known as one of the largest landowners. According to Forbes magazine, Promsvyaznedvizhimost, a subsidiary of the bank, owns about 60,000 hectares of land in the Moscow region.

"Nezavisimaya Gazeta", November 30, 2005

In October 2007, law enforcement officers raided the headquarters of Promsvyazbank, as well as one of its additional Moscow offices and subsidiary this financial and credit organization - CJSC Promsvyaznedvizhimost.

During the searches, the detectives were interested in documentation that could be related to the scandal that unfolded around the office building at Derbenevskaya embankment, 7.

AT law enforcement the owner of this building, the head of Property Marketing Consulting Group LLC, Leonid Belkin, made a statement. According to him, starting from June 2007, they tried to take away the building from him and return it to the former owner, Fora-Pharm LLC. The investigative unit of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District opened a criminal case on the fact of fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Among the suspects is a group of people, including high-ranking bank employee Andrey Starikov. At the same time, the investigators were sure that Promsvyazbank acted in this case only as a financial instrument.

Together with official version the reasons for the investigative actions carried out at Promsvyazbank, the media voiced several unofficial ones. In particular, they did not rule out that the searches were related to the actions of certain forces trying to disrupt the IPO planned by the bank's management. Another version was also expressed, connected with the pre-election struggle of political forces. According to a number of observers, the searches in Promsvyazbank of the Ananyev brothers, members of A Just Russia, could have been initiated by the rivals of the Socialist-Revolutionaries in the Duma elections from the United Russia party.

Electronic newspaper "Vek", 31.10.2007

Promsvyazbank (PSB) of the brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananiev filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court of the capital against the Svyaznoy group of companies to recover the debt the total amount by 5.99 billion rubles. Analysts believe that otherwise, left without the assets of Svyaznoy, PSB may lose its license.

If Svyaznoy does not pay this amount to the bank, then PSB will ask the court to foreclose on the retailer's assets that are pledged under this loan. Experts note that the Ananyevs need new assets in order to receive subsidies from the DIA, which can cover the "financial hole". The situation may lead to the "flight" of depositors, as happened with the bank "Vozrozhdenie".

The likelihood that the Ananievs will have time to get hotels and Svyaznoy in the short term is low. This means that Promsvyazbank may lose its license. By the way, the Ananievs want to improve their business at the expense of the Heliopark Group. Because of the $26 million loan, the owner of the group Alexander Gusakov may lose his 12 hotels.

It seems that the billionaire brothers set their sights on the Svyaznoy bank, and through it, on a subsidy from the DIA. But managers and clients are afraid of the banking policy of the Ananyevs and have already decided to retreat.

The same fate can befall the Svyaznoy bank. It seems that the auditors need to check whether the PSB helps the economy by receiving funds from the DIA, or vice versa - offshoring and overloading the budget.

The Morning News,October 13, 2015

The owners of Promsvyazbank, brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananiev, agreed to complete the construction of the Sergievsky poultry farm in the Samara region.

To complete the construction of the facility, it is necessary to fork out almost 6 billion rubles. And the Ananiev bankers are ready to do it. And they never do anything without getting their own benefit.

Interestingly, the governor of the Samara region Nikolai Merkushkin proudly announced the new owners of the poultry farm on the air of one of the federal channels. This means that Promsvyazbank and the head of the region managed to resolve some mutually beneficial business. Because in all sorts of dubious stories, both the Ananievs and Merkushkin, as they say, are "still the same."

Promsvyazbank of the Ananiev brothers has long been known for its passion for the agricultural sector. And for the most part, to "squeeze out" from that sector. So, the story thundered throughout the country, how bankers bought out land in farms near Moscow. They (or their representatives) came to the village with a suitcase of money and offered the villagers to buy their land shares.

“Let's buy these useless land shares from you - anyway, they are worth nothing,” the voyagers said in expensive foreign cars. The peasants, whose finances are always, to put it mildly, unimportant, agreed to the proposal. Having bought the land, the people of the Ananievs gathered a meeting of shareholders and, in an ultimatum form, offered to increase authorized capital their farms. Naturally, none of the villagers could find a one-time huge amount to replenish this authorized capital.

Then the bankers paid for everything themselves, and then they became the owners of the agricultural enterprise. It is nothing but banal Raider seizure. How the Ananyevs got the Samara poultry farm is not known for certain. Perhaps by "rollback" to the most influential people in the area. After all, it is no coincidence that none other than the Samara governor Merkushkin informed the whole country about the transition of the poultry farm to the disposal of the Ananyevs.

The Moscow post, 21.04.2017

It looks like Anatoly Serdyukov can get away with selling land plots, which, by the way, did not even formally belong to the Ministry of Defense. Which is not surprising, given that the golden land near Moscow went to structures close to Promsvyazbank of the brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananiev and Suleiman Kerimov's Nafta-Moskva. It was decided to shift all the blame on Serdyukov's "concubines" Vasilyev and Smetanin.

RUSPRES, 28.08.2013

Billionaire Alexei Ananiev, co-owner of Promsvyazbank and the IT company Technoserv, will deal with military technology and cybersecurity. He was appointed by the government to the position of head of the corporation "Control Systems".

This decision has indeed been made, the federal official confirms. “Control Systems” is an organization designed to automate and informatize certain processes of state administration, primarily in the military field, he says. Ananyev is faced with the task of creating from Systems, in fact, the second Technoserv, notes the interlocutor of Vedomosti.

Vedomosti, February 4, 2013

According to Vedomosti, on March 25, a subsidiary of Inter RAO, Inter RAO - Power Generation Management, filed a lawsuit against Promsvyazbank (part of the Promsvyazcapital holding owned by the Ananyev brothers) to recover 1 billion rubles. The third party in the lawsuit is E4, a source close to one of the parties explains that we are talking about the return of funds under a bank guarantee that Promsvyazbank issued to E4 for the construction of a block at Permskaya GRES. Earlier in December 2014, E4 tried to impose interim measures, prohibiting Promsvyazbank from fulfilling the requirements of Inter RAO - Electricity Generation under a bank guarantee issued in May 2013. But the court did not satisfy E4's requirements. Representatives of Inter RAO and E4 declined to comment. Promsvyazbank is in negotiations regarding this guarantee and we are ready to fulfill our obligations in accordance with the law, Vladimir Yashin, the first deputy chairman of the board of the bank, conveyed through a representative.

RUSPRES, 04/08/2015

Of course, due to the "harsh methods" of the work of the Ananyevs, Promsvyazbank's clients have a hard time. But there are cases when Promsvyazbank threatened even those citizens who were not its borrowers.

By the way, it often happens that Promsvyazbank customers do not return money to the card, although, according to the idea, bank employees should do this. As a result, Promsvyazbank cardholders accused him of fraud.

As it turned out from the comments of the Ananyevs' bank depositors, Promsvyazbank makes money by deceiving its customers.

“I used PSB cards for two years. Firstly, bank employees withhold or do not give out complete information to clients on deposits and operations. For example, I was told by an employee that it makes no difference where to withdraw money, at the cash desk or at an ATM. It turned out that at the cash desk where I decided to withdraw, they took a commission from me, and they informed me about it even when they gave out an incomplete amount, and there was no commission at the ATM. The second time I withdrew 10,000 at an ATM using another card (I decided to close the card, withdrew all my funds from it). In the conditions of the deposit, it is written that cash withdrawals from an ATM are free of charge. When withdrawing, the ATM also did not report anything about the commission. A month later I receive an SMS that I have to make a monthly loan payment!! I have never taken a loan in my life. I came to the bank to sort it out, and they tell me: we already have different rules, they took a commission of 520 rubles from you. Avoid Promsvyazbank if you don’t want to feed people who profit from deceit,” writes user “olelap” from Kirov on July 1, 2015.

Comments from Ananiev Bank clients show that depositors do not trust Promsvyazbank. “A bank that does not fulfill the terms of the agreement, does not pay what is due under the agreement, is called bankrupt!”, writes about PSB “peter2005” from Moscow on July 2, 2015

Most of these negative reviews. Now it remains only to sympathize with those who decided to invest in the Ananyevs' bank or take a loan there. However, it seems that Promsvyazbank will not be able to keep its license for a long time.

After all, if the security forces can prove the version of the withdrawal of assets from the PSB, then he will have an immediate revocation of the license and closure, and the Ananyev brothers - a criminal case. So now they have only one thing left - to quickly "dump" to London and hide there together with other fugitive bankers.

weekjournal,07/09/2015

Brothers Alexey and Dmitry Ananyev are planning to create a full-fledged investment bank called P.S. on the basis of the asset management company PSB Asset Management. Capital, reports on Monday, July 11, the Vedomosti newspaper.

The bank will be managed by a team former employees Deutsche Bank: Anton Likhodedov, Maxim Lozhevsky, Roman Sulzhik, Vlad Gubsky, Alexander Suvorov, Alexander Kurapov and Ildar Farkhshatov, Vladislav Khokhlov, a member of the board of directors of Promsvyazbank, told the publication.

P.S. Capital will focus on working in the capital markets. Among the tasks is also the creation of an intra-group treasury, Khokhlov noted.

According to him, given the state of affairs in Russian economy and the decline in the activity of Western banks, there is a good opportunity to enter the market. To do this, the Ananyevs will increase the authorized capital of PSB Asset Management by 100 million euros - up to 300 million euros, the source added.

JSC "DP Business Press", July 11, 2016

"Promsvyazbank" brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananiev seizes the projects of Red Development?

Note that Red Development specializes in the construction of luxury housing in industrial buildings (loft-apartments).

Once a company with a portfolio of 165,500 sq. m took 3rd place in the ranking of the largest developers of apartments in old Moscow. But the company had a series of financial problems due to real estate prices, and Red Development put its projects up for sale. Promsvyazbank (PSB) wants to get projects without an auction.

On April 20 of this year, the Moscow Arbitration Court accepted for consideration the claim of Promsvyazbank against six Red Development companies to recover $15.2 million from them and foreclose on mortgaged property.

Beneficiaries of Promsvyazbank - Russian billionaires the Ananiev brothers, Alexei and Dmitry, changed the offshore through which they control their bank. Financiers in equal shares control 68.25% of Promsvyazbank through CJSC Promsvyaz Capital B.V. (Promsvyaz Capital B.V.).

Moscow Post,May 10, 2016

The largest pig farm in the Saratov region, Ramfood-Povolzhye LLC, has found itself in the center of a big judicial and financial intrigue.

Instead of a pompous opening ceremony for the second stage of the enterprise, a loud legal scandal erupted in the region, when the company Ramfood-Povolzhye LLC, which is part of the Ramfood Group of Companies near Moscow, was sued for large sums. It soon became clear that in the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, the whole group was already being crushed - total, crushing and inevitable. According to the architects of this whole nightmare, the last owner of the offshore structure that controls Ramfood-Povolzhye, businessman Alexei Pavlov, was supposed to disappear in the abyss of courts and proceedings. According to the local edition of Business Vector, such plans were made by an interested person - a major creditor of Ramfood and Ramfood-Povolzhye PJSC Promsvyazbank, who organized what is commonly called a "hostile takeover". The main shareholders of the bank, Dmitry and Alexei Ananiev, were so confident in their success that one of the brothers announced his views on Ramfood-Povolzhye to the whole country from the pages of Vedomosti. But the bankers did not succeed in a quick victory, moreover, when, at the end of 2015, Promsvyazbank received a net loss under IFRS in the amount of 16.4 billion rubles, versions appeared in the media that one of the possible reasons was “incompetence of the management, multiplied by prohibitively risky and at the same time dubious from the point of view of the law projects for the personal enrichment of the shareholders of the Ananyevs. Among such projects in the publication on Rosbalt "How Promsvyazbank grows with non-core assets" was called "a hostile takeover of the company" Ramfood ".

"New Press", 21.09.2016

One of the loudest scandals of recent times - about the billions of Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko - has received an unexpected development. A number of media reported that criminologists link the Zakharchenko case with the case of the previously arrested crime boss Zakhary Kalashov, nicknamed Shakro Molodoy. Moreover, in the course of unwinding this chain, interesting names and names of well-known companies emerge. Among them is Promsvyazbank.

It seems that Shakro Molodoy had interests in the equally well-known Mechel company. In particular, with Mechel, apparently, Vadim Varshavsky, who controls the Estar group, was negotiating with him. There are suggestions that he had a hand in the problems of this strategic enterprise. It is not excluded that in favor of Shakro Molodoy.

But this year, Vadim Varshavsky himself was on the verge of bankruptcy. Few people were willing to give him money. The situation looked hopeless, suddenly he receives a loan and, apparently, it is from Promsvyazbank. We quickly found out that authorized person Promsvyazbank, which was instructed to resolve the issues of Varshavsky, Timofey Kurgin was appointed. He and the Ananiev brothers own two wholesale distribution centers (ORCs) for long-term food storage in the Moscow region with a capacity of more than 1.5 million tons per year each. And besides, Kurgin was closely associated with Shakro Molodoy.

"Version", 10/25/2016

Orthodox billionaires Ananievs instead of Peresvet-Invest will build up "squeezed out" agricultural land in Novokosino.

Ten months ago, Peresvet-Invest received permission from the authorities to build 900 thousand square meters. meters on the former agricultural land of the Kosino company. Now the head of the company, Oleg Pronin, seems to be pulling out of the project. In his place are the co-owners of Promsvyazbank - Orthodox billionaires Alexei and Dmitry Ananiev. The Bank has established itself as a financial partner of the Megapolis project. The PSN group, whose shareholders are the same Ananievs, is now acting as a consultant.

The Ananievs are known for their aggressive business policy, which is very similar to ordinary raiding. It seems that in the story with the participants in the construction of the housing and communal services "Megapolis" not only the structures of "Peresvet-Invest" like to buy agricultural land for nothing. The same schemes were carried out by the co-owners of PSB. It happened like this: respectable guys bought up a sufficient number of shares in the collective farms to carry out their own policy, offered to increase the authorized capital, and then, when the other shareholders recognized the impossibility of “investing” in the authorized capital, they bought the remaining shares at bargain prices.

Such a story, for example, in 2003 happened to the Leninsky Luch collective farm near Moscow. Farmers were offered only $15,000 for land worth $780,000. As a result, the plots ended up at the disposal of the PSB, and the owners of the bank successfully resold the land, making a good profit on it. The Ananievs were also accused of withdrawing assets from Promsvyazbank. Suspicions of the withdrawal only strengthened when the Ananievs unexpectedly changed the offshore pad through which the brothers control the bank.

RUCOMPROMAT.com,November 29, 2016

Next week, the board of directors of Baisarov's International Center OJSC will consider the issue of concluding an agreement with Business Alliance LLC and Dalget Enterprises Ltd on the redistribution of shares in the right of common shared ownership of the construction in progress, the company reports on the information disclosure server. We are talking about two buildings with a total area of ​​about 110 thousand square meters. m in Suvorov Plaza. Part of the space in these facilities, as Kommersant reported, is pledged to Sberbank. At the end of 2012, this largest state-owned bank, which is run by German Gref, the leader of the gays in the elite of Russia business rating, estimated the value of the pledged property at 12.7 billion rubles.

"Business Alliance" is 100% owned by Promsvyazbank. Dalget Enterprises Ltd, according to interviewed industry experts, is controlled by ex-managers of one of Gazprom's subsidiaries. Ruslan Baysarov's representative declined to name the amount of space that will go to Business Alliance and Dalget Enterprises Ltd. Promsvyazbank and Sberbank declined to comment.

Initially, the complex was built by Sergey Polonsky's Mirax Group, in the late 2000s the Ananievs lent the developer through Promsvyazbank. In 2008, the bank received 15,000 sq. m in the current Suvorov Plaza, the transaction amount was estimated at $200 million. In 2010, Promsvyazbank opened a credit line for $6.5 million to complete the facility, of which $4.5 million were selected, in 2011 the borrower stopped servicing the debt. Now Promsvyazbank and its subsidiary, Business Alliance, are demanding $51.4 million in penalties and 1.2 billion rubles in losses received from October 2011 to December 2013 from International Center OJSC, follows from the materials Arbitration Court Moscow. In September 2016, the trial of the Ananyevs and Baisarov was postponed, the parties agreed to resolve the dispute amicably. "Dalget Enterprises Ltd" received the right to claim on loans issued to offshore structures of Sergei Polonsky in 2011.

RUSPRES, December 21, 2016

At one time, the Ananiev brothers took possession of the Vozrozhdenie bank. What happened after that? And the fact that the bank, which was always considered profitable, suddenly found itself in a financial "dear". This "hole" reached 4 billion rubles a year. This could only happen as a result of a peculiar financial policy its owners. As experts used to say, the Ananiev brothers trivially withdrew the money of its depositors from the credit institution. As a result, the total amount of deposits in the bank decreased by almost 170 billion rubles, and the clientele began to rapidly leave the unreliable office. Moreover, among this clientele were far from the last people in the country. In particular, the conductor Valery Gergiev and the famous cardiac surgeon Leo Bokeria did not want to deal with the bank anymore.

Theft in the Renaissance revival began after the founder of the bank, Dmitry Orlov, unexpectedly died for many. Initially, the shares of Vozrozhdenie Bank wanted to be bought by Absolut-Bank, controlled by one of public corporations. Alexey and Dmitry Ananiev, having agreed to buy the share of the head of the board of directors of Otar Margania, who owned 19.67% of the shares of Vozrozhdenie Bank, were actually able to seize control of this credit institution from Orlov's heirs. A number of experts claim that through Burlington Trading, Margania can control another 4.88% of the shares, so that in the end he can own 24.6% of Vozrozhdeniye Bank. Also, the Ananyevs, through the structures of the controlled Promsvyazbank, bought up almost half of the shares of Vozrozhdenie. But it is still not clear where Promsvyazbank has so much money from to acquire a package worth 10 billion rubles.

The policy of billionaires to increase the assets of their bank is extremely simple. Promsvyazbank lives on the fact that it regularly "milks" the deposit insurance agency (DIA), supposedly to reorganize other banks that are in a pre-bankruptcy state. Thus, the Ananievs received money for the resuscitation of Yarsotsbank "and the bank" Nizhny Novgorod» As a result, the bankers of the Ananievs simply bought out credit organizations with state money. The same Makar at the disposal of "Promsvyazbank" were "Pervobank" and "AvtoVazbank".

Moscow Post,03/16/2017

The security forces can start "digging" under the Ananyevs not only through Vozrozhdenie, but also through Promsvyazbank. The PSB was also noticed in a resonant scandal related to the fact that in 2003 a mass purchase of land shares from collective farmers near Moscow began. The Ananyevs have already sanitized the banks in the Volga region Yarsotsbank and the Nizhny Novgorod bank, and even earlier the Ananyevs acquired Volgoprombank. The DIA allocated money to the Ananievs for reorganization. But then it was difficult to find out the fate of the help. But, in July 2016, the Central Bank removed the DIA and private banks from reorganizing problem assets. The Central Bank, headed by Elvira Nabiullina, is radically changing the system of “bank recovery”. The Central Bank will itself be engaged in the "improvement" of banks.

“Our analysis of the course of the bailouts shows that, as a rule, investors themselves do not invest in the capital of the bank being bailed out, do not always develop its business, and sometimes they use the balance sheet of the bank being bailed out for bad debts, placing a significant share of the funds received for the bailout in their own projects, - said Elvira Nabiullina.

Confirms the crisis in the PSB and the fact that the Ananievs are trying to "knock out" debts. For example, Promsvyazbank demands to declare bankrupt the company Peresvet-Invest, with which it was previously partners in the Megapolis residential area project in Novokosino in the east of Moscow, where it was planned to build 1.6 million square meters. m of residential and commercial real estate. However, in November 2016, Peresvet-Invest left the project, and Promsvyazbank, NDV-real estate and Expert Group remained its co-investors.

The owners of Promsvyazbank may face a term?

An international scandal erupted in the financial market. The District Court of the city of Nicosia in Cyprus opened a criminal case against Promsvyazbank. The credit organization is suspected of major theft. The notice of initiation has already been sent to the bank's management. Specifically, Promsvyazbank has its branch in Cyprus. And it was this division, according to investigators, that stole the business of the Ramfood group of Russian companies from its former owner, the Dutch company United Investors Company B.V.

According to the prosecution, Promsvyazbank entered into an agreement with the Cypriot company Maxoton Holding Limited, a client and debtor of the bank, in order to take over the majority of the shares of Ramfood LLC and OOP Holding LLC. The detailed scheme of the theft is not yet clear. The information is extremely scarce. But if the fault of the bankers is proved, they will have a hard time. Under local law, this kind of crime is considered the most serious and entails imprisonment for 14 years.

Lawyers immediately noted that this created a criminal precedent in the international banking arena. In the commission of a particularly serious crime Russian banks have never been charged until now. Georgy Zubovsky, chairman of the Moscow Bar Association, commented on the situation. In his opinion, such a process creates a precedent for the criminal prosecution of Russian offshore capitals and, what is most unpleasant, backbone Russian enterprises as "criminal" organizations.

“And this is not just a possible deprivation of a banking license. This is an opportunity to use any methods in the fight against Russian companies during the period of European sanctions.

Invading bankers?

The owners of Promsvyazbank, brothers Dmitry and Alexei Ananva, have long been known in their midst for running their business on the verge, or even beyond the foul. Moreover, often a foul with a pronounced criminal touch. So, the Ananievs were known as masters of takeovers of other banks under the guise of their reorganization. Thus, the assets of PSB Yarsotsbank and Bank Nizhny Novgorod, which were being rehabilitated, were bought up.

Next in line is the expected purchase of Pervobank. Financial experts believe that the Ananyev brothers are systematically taking over the financial sector. At the same time, Promsvyazbank itself constantly milks the state. And he doesn't get a penny from him. Not so long ago, the Ananievs, for example, took almost 30 billion rubles from the budget into their own assets through federal loan bonds (OFZ). At the same time, private financial market Suspicions arose long ago that Promsvyazbank could swipe, or even withdraw, pension savings that were entrusted to non-state pension funds (NPFs).

For example, the Ananyev brothers attracted by selling their 20% stake in Promsvyazbank on the market to four pension funds - NPF Blagosostoyanie OPS (owns Boris Mints) and three NPF Mikail Shishkhanov. All proceeds went to increase the capital of the bank. It turned out that Mintz and Shishkhanov had bought out 20 percent of Promvyazbank's shares with the money they kept in pension deposits. The story surfaced, and the scandal was up to the ceiling. Such that the Central Bank forbade the Mintz and Shashkhanov funds to buy the exposed shares of the Moscow Credit Bank on the stock exchange, which they intended to do.

And, if the Ananievs sold part of their shares to Mints and Shishkhanov, observing all legal norms, then there would be no such reaction from the Central Bank. And so, market participants had almost no doubt that the shares bought by Mints could easily be withdrawn through the PSB in an unknown direction. And this, once again, is the money of future pensioners who put them on their old age. At the same time, Mints overpaid the Ananyevs a significant amount.

It would be strange if Mints deliberately overpaid the Ananyevs 4 billion rubles. Fighters against corruption talk about a rollback. But these finances, most likely, were taken from the pension funds of the NPF. It turns out that the Ananievs, together with Mints, could "throw" Russian pensioners by as much as four billion rubles.

Theft out of desperation?

At Promsvyazbank financial position not wow. Losses go off scale for one billion rubles. Significantly reduced portfolio of client deposits. The vaunted sanatorium of regional banks, it seems, has also fallen into the zone of potential sanation. At the same time, the brothers have always kept their assets and keep them in off-zones. Not so long ago, bankers changed their offshore location Instead of Peters International Investment N.V., registered on the island of Curacao (Lesser Antilles, owned by the Netherlands), they received Antracite Investment Ltd. and Urgula Platinum Ltd., incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom. That's where the bank's assets went. As a rule, this is done in order to hide some of the official assets.

And it was done. After all, the sole owner of Antracite Investment is Alexei Ananiev, and Urgula Platinum is his half-brother Dmitry. By the way, the passion for foreign offshore companies at one time forced Dmitry Ananyev to leave the Federation Council ahead of schedule, where he was a member. Most likely, the banker was not going to leave his financial abroad, but the story became public. The mandate had to be abandoned. But now all previous scandals simply fade against the backdrop of a criminal case on the warm island of Cyprus. The local law enforcement officers seem to have seized the Ananiev bank with pincers. To escape from which, most likely, even the coolest lawyer will not help.