TOP MANAGEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN MERCHANT BANK WAS BROUGHT TO SUBSIDIARY RESPONSIBILITY

The persons under whose control the activities of the Russian Commercial Bank (RTB) were brought to justice. The metropolitan Arbitration Court made a decision on the application of the state corporation DIA, which demanded to recover about 6.6 billion rubles from KDL. However, the final amount of the amount of subsidiary liability has not yet been established. The court decided to suspend the proceedings until the process of forming the bankruptcy estate is completed and the settlement with creditors is completed.

The Russian Commercial Bank (CB RTBK), established in 1993 under the name of Specinvestbank, has been servicing the work of oil companies and various development structures for a long time. In 2010, the organization became the property of Sergey Ivanov, who headed the Board of the RBR (Russian Development Bank). And in April 2018, the bank was deprived of its license by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

An attempt to challenge the regulator's decision in court did not lead to anything. On May 17, 2018, the arbitration received an application from the Central Bank to declare RTBK bankrupt. The relevant verdict was handed down by the metropolitan court in August of the same year. And in April 2021, the bankruptcy trustee, represented by the DIA, demanded that the management and co-owners of the bank be held vicariously liable.

As a result, some managers and co-owners of the DIA bank managed to impose a burden of responsibility. The arbitration granted the petition against Lyudmila Sapegina (she was the chairman of the management Board and owned a share of 4.26% of the authorized capital) and Igor Safonov (also the former chairman of the management Board of the bank). Olga Platitsina (formerly chief accountant and member of the Management Board), Alexander Avrutin (who was a member of the board of directors and owned a 19.32% stake) and Natalia Martynova (former member of the management board) also fell under the subsidy.

The arbitration court did not hold some persons accountable. In particular, it was avoided by Sergey Ivanov (the main beneficiary of the organization with a share of 28.19%) and the spouses of Muravlenko (their total share was 25.54%). The interim measures that the first and appellate instances introduced in respect of these persons, the cassation wrapped up a new circle and subsequently they were withdrawn.

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