UGRA BANK DEMANDS 180 BILLION FROM THE EX-OWNER

The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), which performs the functions of a bankruptcy trustee in the process of bankruptcy of the Ugra Bank, appealed to Alexey Khotin and 11 other legal entities (companies "Rhythm", "Afast", "Pluto", "OSP" and others). The amount of the claim for joint recovery is 180 billion 882 million 725 thousand rubles. The application was sent to the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of the capital.

This is the second attempt by the bankruptcy trustee to recover a large amount of unjustified enrichment from the beneficiary of the bank. The first appeal of the DIA to arbitration on this issue dates back to April 2022. Then the Zamoskvorechye court did not develop the proceedings in the case. The appeal to the Moscow City Court did not help the state corporation to change the verdict on the termination of proceedings.

After the appeal to the cassation, the case was sent for a new examination. This happened in October 2022. Thus, the claims of Ugra Bank were registered in court on November 17, 2022. The hearing on the case is scheduled for May 30, 2023, TASS clarifies.

Ugra Bank, owned by Alexey Khotin, was controlled by the Central Bank in July 2017. A temporary administration was introduced in the credit institution, and a moratorium was established on creditors' claims. The bank lost its license, and subsequently (in September 2018) received the status of bankrupt.

In April 2019, law enforcement agencies detained Khotin and several other defendants in the case. The beneficiary of the institution, which was among the TOP 30 Russian banks in terms of assets, was placed under house arrest.

According to investigators, back in 2014, Khotin headed a group of people who took senior positions in a credit institution. For several years, they have stolen about 23.6 billion. The money was issued as loans to controlled firms (Kapstroy, Vostok, Multanovskoye). At the same time, the known irrevocability of the funds issued was obvious to the participants of the operations.

In 2020, another case was added to Khotin's charges. He is suspected of embezzling 283 billion. The DIA filed an arbitration claim to recover losses in the amount of 21.5 billion from Khotin and his co-defendants (Dmitry Shilyaev and several other top managers of various firms). However, in March 2023, the arbitration refused to satisfy this requirement.

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