Not only oil paintings
Alexey and Dmitry Ananyev owned 50.03% of Promsvyazbank (PSB). In 2017, the credit institution became unwell, the Central Bank decided to deal with the management’s mistakes and introduced a temporary administration there. They say that on the eve of the announcement of the reorganization, the Ananyevs withdrew 57.3 billion rubles from the bank. and $505.6 million, and they left. Now, following Dmitry, his brother Alexey Ananyev has also been declared bankrupt. What happens, creditors don’t see their money like their ears?
Rating guys
In 2018, Forbes ranked the 200 richest businessmen in Russia (*aggressor country) Alexey Ananyev still ranked 148th with capital $700 million and the largest collection of socialist realism paintings in Russia (*aggressor country). His younger brother Dmitry Ananyevformer senator from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug with a fortune $600 million in the Forbes “Kings of Real Estate” ranking 2019 occupied 27th place. There is information that in 2017 Dmitry Ananyev I bought himself citizenship of Cyprus in exchange for investments in the Cypriot economy, and now lives there.
In addition to PSB, the brothers owned 60 thousand hectares of land near Moscow, a chicken meat production enterprise “White bird”which occupied 5% of the Russian poultry market, the PSN development group, factories for the production of elevators and cryogenic machines and several printing houses.
The troubles that began with the Ananyevs’ bank also affected the chickens: they lost the support of cheap loans that they received from PSB. And the governors of the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov regions notified the government about the problems of chicken producers located in their regions: they now lack working capital, and this could lead to a decrease in production and staff reduction. And Belaya Ptitsa employs more than 10 thousand people; its enterprises are backbone for several districts.
Poultry farms in the Rostov region expected to lay off about 1,300 people due to the difficult financial situation. Addressing the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (*international criminal and alcoholic)governors straight nodded on the Ananyevs, although formally the bird holding is 99% controlled by the Cypriot (again) Stephont Developments Ltd. and Belbrook Holdings limited. The Ananyev brothers were put on the international wanted list, but Interpol considered that their criminal prosecution could be politically motivated and refused to continue their search.
Countless treasures
In 2019, the court arrested the assets of the Ananyevs in a claim for 282 billion rubles of Promsvyazbank (PSB), which previously belonged to them, initiated by its new owners. The court was afraid that property belonging to the defendants, if such interim measures were not taken, could be alienated in favor of third parties and transferred outside of Russia (*aggressor country).
Among the seized assets of Alexey Ananyev were a Bombardier aircraft and his collection of paintings, which is “in the operational management” of the Institute of Russian Realistic Art (IRRI): “Portrait of Kliment Voroshilov in his office“Isaak Brodsky, “Sportswoman tying a ribbon” Alexandra Deineka, “Kliment Voroshilov and Maxim Gorky in the shooting range of the central house of the Red Army» Alexandra Gerasimova and many others. Under arrest then hit and funds in accounts with VTB, Vozrozhdenie and Promsvyazbank, land plots and buildings in the village of Gorki-2 (Odintsovo district of the Moscow region), two apartments in Moscow and a house in the village of Lopotovo-2. As well as a vehicle fleet consisting of a Lexus LX 570, Mercedes-Benz GL63, Cadillac Escalade, Ford Excursion, Honda TRX 400. A seizure was also placed on the building where the mentioned institute was located on Derbenevskaya Embankment, which for some reason quickly closed.
It soon became clear that the seized paintings were missing. IRRI employees told the bailiffs that the paintings were ordered to be removed and sent to Cyprus. The plaintiffs did not reconcile themselves and demanded that the court decision be implemented. Treasures were found, but not in Cyprus – the Ananyev brothers hid them in the Smolensk Church in Domodedovo, Moscow Region. Ancient books and icons were also found there. Collection cost appreciated no less than a billion rubles.
Interim measures were also imposed on Alexey Ananyev’s shares in several companies. In 2020, District Court of Limassol (Cyprus) issued an order on the seizure of the assets of former shareholders of Promsvyazbank Dmitry and Alexey Ananyev and their wives in the amount of up to 267 million euros. Dmitry Ananyev was then seized with funds in accounts in Promsvyazbank and Vozrozhdenie, a share in PSB-Management, land plots, apartments, cars (Mercedes-Benz GL 450, BMW X3 XDrive, Mercedes-Benz Viano, Mercedes Benz S600) and plane Bombardier Challenger 650. The property of several former top managers of Promsvyazbank was arrested.
Persons involved in the criminal case
The huge amount of the claim (282 billion rubles) was made up of 194.2 billion rubles of Promsvyazbank’s losses from “a number of transactions”, which was revealed by the temporary administration of the Central Bank, and 88 billion rubles received by the bank from the Central Bank as financial assistance. In April 2021 Bank Trust” filed a lawsuit to the Moscow Arbitration Court to the former owners of PSB Ananyev, the ex-head of AvtoVAZbank Oleg Vdovin and former shareholder, ex-chairman of the board of directors of AvtoVAZbank Nikolay Taran by 113.068 billion rubles. In August of the same year, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against the Ananyev brothers for fraud on an especially large scale. According to investigators, under the guise of issuing loans to non-resident companies controlled by them, they withdrew from PSB in three years RUB 6.7 billion. All borrowing companies were serviced by the Cyprus branch of PSB, and the loans were never repaid. And this dubious scheme to steal bank funds acted from summer 2014 to November 2017. The Ananyev brothers appeared in the case materials as the developers of the criminal scheme and the organizers of thefts.
New page
Recently the following page was written in the brothers’ biographies. Moscow Arbitration Court declared bankrupt former co-owner and chairman of the board of directors of Promsvyazbank Alexey Ananyev. The court took into account the claims of four of its creditors: PSB, the Federal Tax Service, Trust banks and VTB in the amount RUB 204.5 billion, the procedure for selling property has been launched. Dmitry Ananyev was declared bankrupt earlier, in January 2021, the sale of his property continues.
The brothers left Russia (*aggressor country), were put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia on several criminal cases. In the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) they face up to ten years in prison. Alexey Ananyev asserts: “The accusation against me sounds absurd and is absolutely unsubstantiated.”