The court, at the request of the DIA, arrested the assets of banker Ilya Kligman for 2.59 billion rubles

The Arbitration Court of the Republic of Buryatia arrested the assets of the beneficiary of BaikalBank PJSC Ilya Kligman for 2.59 billion rubles, the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) reported.

The DIA initiated the seizure application because, during bankruptcy proceedings, it discovered that Kligman organized the issuance of technical loans. He also, according to the DIA, was the organizer of schemes to withdraw assets from a credit institution. According to the agency’s estimates, his actions caused BaikalBank damage of 2.59 billion rubles.

In total, the DIA within the framework of bank bankruptcy cases, including, in addition to BaikalBank, JSC JSCB Iinkarbank, LLC UM-Bank, JSC Arksbank, PJSC Nevsky Bank, LLC CB Agrosoyuz, presented demands to Kligman for a total amount of 57 billion rubles.

The Bank of Russia withdrew it from BaikalBank in 2016. According to the regulator, the credit institution inadequately assessed the risks in connection with the “placement of funds in assets of unsatisfactory quality.” The DIA also clarified that the court brought to subsidiary liability the former chairmen of the bank, Vadim Egorov and Vitaly Avdeev. The amount of liability has not yet been determined, but it is projected at RUB 5.7 billion.

In July, the Moscow Arbitration Court collected from Kligman, as the beneficiary of Arksbank, losses in the amount of 40.5 billion rubles. The DIA believes that the banker “organized the withdrawal of funds from the bank’s depositors and securities belonging to the credit institution.”

In February, Kommersant reported that the Moscow prosecutor’s office approved an indictment in the criminal case of an organized criminal community (OCS) that stole more than 10 billion rubles. from the bankrupt banks Agrosoyuz and Inkarobank. With reference to the case materials, the newspaper wrote that the investigation considers their ultimate beneficiary Kligman and his alleged accomplice Evgeny Urin, the younger brother of banker Matvey Urin, to be the organizer of the schemes. In total, charges have been brought against 20 defendants in the OPS case involving Kligman. Some of them, like Kligman, are wanted. The investigation of the case is being carried out by Moscow police investigators and operatives of the GUEBiPK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.