The Investigative Committee (IC) opened a criminal case in October 2021 under Part 4 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement or embezzlement on an especially large scale) in relation to the former banker Igor Shapiro, he was arrested in December 2021. According to the publication, the decision of the Investigative Committee referred to several “unidentified persons”, one of which turned out to be Kim.
The latter did not have an official position, but enjoyed family ties with one of the founders. It is assumed that he benefited from some transactions for the assignment of bank debts.
In 2019, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared Kim bankrupt with a debt of more than 22 million rubles. At the same time, in addition to an apartment in Novo-Peredelkino with an area of 75 sq. No other property was found on him.
At the moment, both defendants in the case are charged with embezzlement of about 92 million rubles. According to the investigation, the total debt of the bank to creditors at the time of liquidation was 407.7 million rubles, half of which has already been returned to customers by the Deposit Insurance Agency.
Bank “Arsenal” was established in 1994 by a group of enterprises of the military-industrial complex. In 2017, he lost his license due to violation of anti-money laundering legislation, as well as due to the dubious activities of his clients. Since 2016, the Bank of Russia has established that the work of the bank “was largely focused on conducting dubious transit operations.”
The shareholders of Arsenal were several generals of the Ministry of Defense and the FSB, who have the title of Hero of Russia. To them and to 16 other persons who controlled the activities of the bank, including Shapiro and Kim, DIA in 2020 filed a claim for the recovery of damages in the amount of 242 million rubles. In 2021, another lawsuit was filed: the amount recoverable in it increased to 313 million, however, among the founding defendants, only Marem Aslakhanova, two former and. about. the boards were Sergey Dobrokhotov and Igor Shapiro, and Eduard Kim also appeared there. […]
banki.ru, 01/15/2021, “DIA filed a new lawsuit against the ex-tops of Arsenal Bank for 313 million rubles”: The Deposit Insurance Agency filed a new lawsuit against the former top managers of Arsenal Bank, follows from a Friday message on the DIA website. […] The lawsuit was filed with the Moscow Arbitration Court on January 12, 2021. “The application was filed against Shapiro I. Ya., Dobrokhotov S. V., Kim E. F. and Aslakhanova M. S.,” the release states. The agency requires that these persons be brought to subsidiary liability in the total amount of 313 million rubles. Recall that Sergey Dobrokhotov acted as the chairman of the board of the bank, Igor Shapiro was a member of the board. Marem Aslakhanova was one of the shareholders of the bank. Among the co-owners of the bank there is also a person with the same last name as one of the defendants: Svetlana Kim.
“In the course of bankruptcy proceedings, the agency established that the persons controlling the bank committed actions to pay, in violation of Article 23 of the federal law of February 8, 1998 No. participant, as well as given consent to transfer the market loan debt of bank borrowers to an insolvent person, ”the DIA explains the grounds for the requirements.
In September last year, the agency sued the former controlling persons of the bank for more than 242 million rubles. The defendants included 18 individuals (including Shapiro, Dobrokhotov and Aslakhanova, as well as, unlike the last lawsuit, Svetlana Kim) and one organization – the all-Russian public organization “Russian Association of Heroes” (was one of the shareholders of the bank). In 2018, the Central Bank announced the identification of signs of the withdrawal of assets from Arsenal for more than 160 million rubles. — Inset K.ru
