EX-HEADS OF THE MIR BANK WERE ATTRACTED TO A SUBSIDY OF 1.38 BILLION

EX-HEADS OF THE MIR BANK WERE ATTRACTED TO A SUBSIDY OF 1.38 BILLION

EX-HEADS OF THE MIR BANK WERE ATTRACTED TO A SUBSIDY OF 1.38 BILLION
The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) managed to attract several ex-managers of Mir Bank to the subsidiary. The agency, which is entrusted with the bankruptcy management procedure, tried to recover a large sum from ten top managers. However, in respect of two persons from the list presented in the petition, the DIA court refused.

The resolution published on the website of the judicial file on March 21, 2024, indicates Dmitry Kazorin and Roman Semiokhin, whom the arbitration did not bring to subsidiary liability in the bankruptcy case of AKB Mir (No. A40-19793/2017). Georgy Zaremba, Oleg and Kristina Demidovich, Anatoly Shepel, Sergey Shipov, Veronika Egorikova, Tatyana Pinchuk and Alexander Mironov will be responsible for the obligations of the AKB.

According to the court's ruling, the former heads of the bank must replenish its bankruptcy estate in the amount of 1,386,125,000 rubles. On March 28, 2024, the arbitration court must consider the request of the DIA for interim measures. The Agency is seeking the seizure of debtors' assets in the range of 1.4 billion. The petition was received on March 14.

The Central Bank decided to revoke the banking license from AKB Mir on December 19, 2016. Prior to that, the bank ranked 381st in the Russian credit and financial system in terms of assets. In April 2017, the Arbitration Court of the city of Moscow declared the JSCB insolvent. By June 2017, the bank's assets amounted to about 211 million rubles, and the amount of liabilities amounted to 1.6 billion rubles.

For the ex-head of the bank, Georgy Zaremba, AKB Mir became the fourth bankrupt organization in which the financier held a responsible position. By the time of his appointment (in October 2015), Zaremba had already appeared in the criminal case of the bankrupt Vitas Bank. Oleg Demidovich replaced him as acting chairman of the management board just a month before the regulator revoked the bank's license.

After the loss of the license, the facts of withdrawal of funds in the amount of over 1.9 billion were revealed. The money was transferred to a correspondent account in a non-resident bank. The investigators took up the case. A criminal case was initiated on the fact of 1.5 billion in damage from the issuance of unsecured loans and the alienation of real estate.

In August 2023, Zaremba and Demidovich, accused of embezzlement, were arrested with the sanction of the Basmanny Court. This was requested by the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. By this time, Zaremba was officially unemployed, and Demidovich held the position of head of the logistics department of the NGO "Spravti".

25.03.2024