9 BILLION WAS DEMANDED FROM THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE "TRUST" FOR BANKRUPTCY

"Trust" has secured the recovery of $142.4 million. The Arbitration Court issued a verdict on the subsidiary liability of former shareholders Ilya Yurov, Sergey Belyaev and Nikolai Fetisov. They also participated in the creation of the bank in 2003. Given that the property of the ex-beneficiaries is estimated by experts at $ 60 million, it is unlikely to get the entire amount from the defendants in the case.

The National Bank "Trust" appeared in 2003 in the process of merging several credit institutions ("Investment Bank Trust" and "Menatep-SPB"). Then, for the purchase and consolidation of assets, the future shareholders borrowed about $ 100 million, including the debt in the bank's liabilities. Four years later, the Trust absorbed Merrill Lynch, using its own loan of $1.52 million.

The active advertising policy of the bank (which attracted customers using the image of "die hard" Bruce Willis) allowed shareholders to lend their business projects through numerous offshore structures. They included restaurants "Japonica", a retail chain "Billa", projects in the field of forestry and construction.

Starting in 2008, the regulator began to suspect that the bank's management was playing a dishonest game with the state by providing fictitious reports to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. By 2013, the situation had escalated to a critical state and the withdrawal of assets from the bank had acquired a large-scale character. In 2014, the bank was placed under the management of the interim administration, which found a shortage of funds in the amount of 114 billion rubles (45% of all assets of the organization).

The subsequent rehabilitation, entrusted to the "Discovery" in 2015, led to the need to sanitize the "Discovery" itself two years later. Under the roof of the Trust, they decided to collect the problematic assets of three banking structures undergoing rehabilitation (Otkritie, Binbank and PSB).

A few years ago, the case of the busted "Trust" was heard in the High Court of London. The British Themis obliged the beneficiaries to pay the bank $900 million. At the same time, the facts of the withdrawal of assets and the irrational expenditure of funds, which paid for the personal needs of shareholders, were proved in court. Now, the bank hopes that the former co-owners may have property assets that allow them to recover up to $ 300 million from them.

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