Source: www.rucriminal.info

The list of former senators who became defendants in criminal cases may soon be updated with a new surname. It is about the ex-senator from the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Bazhanov. According to Rucriminal.info, the temporary administration in the International Bank of St. Petersburg (IBSP) under its control revealed a “hole” of 12.9 billion rubles. The corresponding application has already been filed with law enforcement agencies.

 In 1993, Sergey Bazhanov headed the St. Petersburg branch of Inkombank, a year later he became a member of the board of the bank, and since 1996, vice-president. In 1996, he moved to BaltONEKSIM Bank, where he headed the bank’s management board. It was this period of life that became fundamental in the life of Bazhanov, since, in addition, he became acquainted with many residents of St. Petersburg, who later became leading politicians or billionaires. In 1999, Sergey Bazhanov created his own St. Petersburg Timber Bank, renamed the International Bank of St. Petersburg. From 2008 to 2013, he was a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Ulyanovsk region, and in August 2013 he returned to Bank of St. Petersburg as President-Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Bazhanov periodically tried to "move" (quite unfortunate) various commercial projects. And the funds for all this were taken from the "bottomless barrel" - controlled by IBSP. Also, Bazhanov actively shared money from his own bank with friends, for example, from St. Petersburg businessman Alexander Romanov. Once he was considered almost the richest resident of the "northern capital", a billionaire, with whom everyone considered it an honor to be friends. Romanov's neighbor and at the same time close friend is Sergey Bazhanov. How many together they turned doubtful financial deeds to describe for a long time.

  At one point, the "white line" in Romanov ended. He invested all his billions, and at the same time billions of borrowed funds, in the construction of an oil refinery in the Novgorod region. However, the project was a failure, Romanov was practically ruined. By this time, Bazhanov had given him loans from his own IBSP for more than 4 billion rubles.

As a result, the financial “hole” in this bank grew from year to year. MBSP for the time being did not worry about their fate. According to sources, Rucriminal.info is primarily due to Bazhanov’s dating. Among his friends was Nadezhda Alekseevna Savinskaya, the head of the North-Western Central Administration of the Central Bank, who also supervised banking supervision in the North-West Federal District. However, she retired and IBSP lost its powerful cover. Then it turned out that Savinskaya “closed her eyes” to the “hole” in the IBSP. And everything began to "crumble" at Bazhanov. In October 2018, the CBR revoked the license from the IBSP. In April 2019, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow convicted Alexander Romanov of fraud. And now the interim administration has identified a “hole” in the IBSP of almost 13 billion and has filed an application with the law enforcement agencies.

Sources of Rucriminal.info say that Bazhanov is very much counting on those very St. Petersburg acquaintances from the 90s. However, there are doubts that they will help the "downed pilot."

 To be continued

Yaroslav Mukhtarov

Source: www.rucriminal.info