The wife of the ex-owner of Promsvyazbank Dmitry Ananyev may also be declared bankrupt
The financial manager of the bankrupt former owner of Promsvyazbank, Dmitry Ananyev, applied to the Moscow Arbitration Court to declare his wife, Lyudmila Ananyeva, bankrupt. Her debts have already reached 324 million rubles, more than 5.3 million euros and more than 1.1 million dollars.
Previously, the courts invalidated Dmitry Ananyev’s marriage contract with his wife, according to which he transferred her a house in the village of Gorki-2 and 23 land plots in Rublyovka. The donation agreement for another plot was also declared illegal, as an additional agreement to the marriage contract, concluded a month and a half before the introduction of a temporary administration at Promsvyazbank. The 2018 agreement between Lyudmila Ananyeva and Cypriot Velux Assets Limited is also disputed.
WITHDRAWAL OF BILLIONS
In 2018, Promsvyazbank filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court against the former owners of the bank – brothers Dmitry and Alexey Ananyev, as well as Promsvyaz Capital BV and 10 former top managers of the organization. The amount of claims amounted to 282.2 billion rubles. The Ananyevs controlled Promsvyazbank through Promsvyaz Capital BV. The founder of the company, the bank itself was accused of gross mistakes and violation of agreements. Among the top managers, according to the lawsuit, former deputy chairman of the board Andrey Zhupanov, Alexey Iodko, Vladimir Mamakin, Tatyana Voloshkina should be held accountable. Vladimir Shatalov, Evgeny Kozerenko, as well as the head of the financial markets block Dmitry Ivanov and the head of the project finance department Alexander Afanasyev, Ivan Pidluzhny and Sergey Muravyov. The bank recovered from the managers losses caused by their actions.
In December 2017, the Central Bank announced the reorganization of Promsvyazbank by transferring it to the Banking Sector Consolidation Fund. The day before this decision was made, 24 purchase and sale agreements for shares of the bank and bonds of related companies were concluded between the bank and three companies. Thus, the bank bought bonds of Promsvyazkapital and other companies. At the same time, the price of the securities differed significantly from the market price. These transactions led to the bank losing more than 102 billion rubles. The documents were signed by Ivan Pidluzhny.
In the summer of 2017, the board of directors of Promsvyazbank attracted a perpetual subordinated loan from PSB Finance SA. So, he received $500 million, and then spent the same amount on the redemption of Eurobonds of PSB Finance SA and SCI Finance. The regulator concluded that the management of Promsvyazbank knew that the financial position of the organization was critical. It also had information that the Central Bank could introduce a temporary administration into it. This transaction led to the bank losing money and in return receiving bonds with a high risk of write-off. When buying Promsvyazkapital shares, the bank’s top managers probably knew that they would depreciate. Nevertheless, almost 9 billion rubles were spent for these purposes. A month before the reorganization, the Ananyevs squandered another 500 million rubles, which went to former senator Viktor Pichugov. The Ananyevs had a common business relationship with him. Promsvyazbank issued a loan to RPH Stroy for almost 3.7 billion rubles. The company was going to spend the money to purchase a plot of land, but the Ananyevs’ company received it.
DOUBTABLE LOANS
In addition, its owners and top managers caused damage to Promsvyazbank by issuing loans to offshore companies. One of them is the Cypriot Oberholt Trading Ltd. In 2015, she received 1.5 billion rubles, and then another 8.2 million. However, it turned out that the company was technical, since it was not engaged in real activities. She also had unfulfilled obligations to the bank, but this did not bother anyone when issuing new loans. The Moscow Arbitration Court confirmed that Promsvyazbank issued funds to a company that had not carried out any settlements with counterparties for a long time.
The Ananyev Bank also actively lent to Wipasena Holding on special terms. The funds were provided to the Cypriot company without any real security. However, the company returned the money to Promsvyazbank, but did not pay the entire debt. Cypriot Minga Management also received large sums from the bank, which it was in no hurry to return. In 2015, she was given a credit line with a limit of 500 million rubles until August 2017. Later, the parties entered into an additional agreement to this agreement. In October 2017, the bank transferred another 2 billion rubles to the company. There were no payments from Minga Management at all