In the case of Trust Bank, the Moscow Arbitration Court received compensation of approximately 113.1 billion rubles, jointly and severally, from three former controlling holders of AvtoVAZbank, including the former beneficiaries of Promsvyazbank, brothers Alexei and Dmitry Ananiev. DEA News a source familiar with the procedures.
The Trust’s claim for joint and several compensation for losses arising from the restructuring of AVB Bank, opened in April 2021, is addressed to the former control holders of this credit institution, whose initial restructuring was carried out by Promsvyazbank. Besides the Ananievs, the defendants in the case include Nikolai Taran, the former co-owner of AVB Bank, and Oleg Vdovin, who was president of AVB Bank from February 2016 to August 2018. As the source said, the court on Wednesday dismissed the allegations against Vdovin.
Avtovazbank was established in 1988. He became one of the founders of AvtoVAZ. In July 2015, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation transferred AVB Bank to Promsvyazbank Ananyevs for restructuring. But in December 2017, PSB itself needed restructuring, after which it went to Avtovazbank Trust.
Since April 2018, the Bank of Russia has provided AVB Bank with funds in the form of deposits in the amount of 352.5 billion rubles and for additional capitalization in the amount of about 350 million rubles, as financial assistance.
The amount of this claim is calculated according to the formula in the bankruptcy law: the losses are equal to the income that the Central Bank would receive by putting the amount spent on reorganizing the bank at a key rate instead of zero. Funds are provided through the Banking Sector Consolidation Fund. This lawsuit, which has been in third party status since August 2022 at the request of the Central Bank, was heard behind closed doors.
On the basis of the Trust Bank, after Rost Bank joined in the summer of 2018, a non-core assets bank (BNA) was created, consolidating the “bad” and non-core assets of a number of rehabilitated banks. their more sales. In March 2019, “Trust” reported that it has completed the acquisition of assets of “AVB Bank” for 340 billion rubles, thereby completing the consolidation of assets in the field of interests of BNA. Taking into account the previously transferred assets of the Otkritie group, including the assets of Binbank, Trust and Bank Growth, their total value at that time amounted to 2 trillion rubles.