Mikhail Fedorov returned under arrest
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent the former acting director under arrest until March 16. about. Chairman of the Board of the International Bank for Finance and Investments that collapsed in 2016 Mikhail Fedorov, learned “Kommersant”. According to investigators, a few days before license revocation at the IBFI, a top manager issued knowingly non-performing loans for almost 350 million rubles.
The representative of the ICR insisted that while remaining at large, Fedorov could hide, obstruct the investigation, threaten witnesses and hide the money stolen from the bank. The court also reported that after the license was revoked from the IBFI, the bank tried to destroy all the primary documentation. In addition, according to the investigation, Fedorov, who was in the status of a suspect, fled and was put on the wanted list on December 29, 2022.
The accused told the court that he was not going to commit illegal actions and was not hiding from the investigation. According to Fedorov, he went abroad before the New Year, having previously notified the investigator by phone. The former banker who returned to Russia was detained on January 16.
Protracted case
The ICR has been investigating a criminal case on especially large embezzlement (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) from the MBFI for almost six years. The reason was the appeal to the law enforcement agencies of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). Charges were brought only in December 2022. By that time, the ex-chairman of the IBFI had already died Vladimir Sakharovalso featured in the case. Fedorov remained the only accused.
Since April 2019, the DIA has been trying through arbitration to recover from Sakharov and Fedorov the damage they caused in the amount of about 940 million rubles. Due to Sakharov’s death, the proceedings against him were terminated on February 16, 2022. Only Fedorov remained the defendant, from whom the DIA expects to receive 346 million rubles.
According to the case file, from April 11 to April 27 (the day the Central Bank revoked the bank’s license) 2016, Fedorov served as chairman of the board of the MBFI. During this period, he entered into loan agreements for 90 million rubles with four firms that allegedly did not conduct real financial and economic activities.
At the same time, the bank issued another almost 252 million rubles to individuals in the form of “knowingly bad loans.” At the same time, the investigation turned out to have fictitious consumables of cash warrants for issuing loans to individuals. As a result, at the time of the collapse, the MBFI owed almost 520 million rubles to creditors.
Fedorov does not admit his guilt. According to him, the bank issued money to real borrowers. After the collapse of the IBFI, his former top manager became the general director of Hat-Trick LLC, which trades in drinks.
“The former management and owners of MBFI Bank OJSC did not ensure the transfer of the bank’s documentation to the temporary administration, including the original credit files in the amount of more than 700 million rubles, which actually makes it impossible to recover debts under these obligations in court and, as a result, the execution obligations to creditors and depositors of the bank,” the release says.
According to the provisional administration, the value of the MBFI Bank’s assets does not exceed 39.1 million rubles, with liabilities to creditors in the amount of 518.9 million rubles, including 272.6 million rubles to individuals. On this occasion, the Central Bank has already appealed to law enforcement agencies.
In September, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared MBFI Bank insolvent (bankrupt). The financial institution was deprived of its license on April 27 this year. The bank pursued a high-risk credit policy and did not create reserves adequate to the accepted risks for possible losses on loans, the Central Bank noted. Later became knownthat the Bank of Russia suspects the IBFI of concealing the facts of the theft of assets.