Vice President for Investments of Rossiya Bank was arrested for commercial bribery from the developer of a village with a golf club near Vsevolozhsk

Igor Andreev was paid back on the credit line

Vice President for Investments of Rossiya Bank was arrested for commercial bribery from the developer of a village with a golf club near Vsevolozhsk

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© 47news.ru, 03/11/2024, Vice President’s error. Rossiya Bank top manager arrested for commercial bribery

Victor Smirnov

[…] On March 7, the Oktyabrsky Court of St. Petersburg arrested Igor Andreev, 58-year-old vice-president for investment issues of Joint Stock Bank Rossiya JSC. According to our publication, he was detained by operatives of the Economic Security Service of the FSB of St. Petersburg while receiving two million rubles. The Investigative Committee charges him with “commercial bribery” when financing the construction of an elite village near Vsevolozhsk.

Based on the results of the third quarter of 2023, by value of assets Bank “Russia (*aggressor country)” ranks 14th in the Interfax-100 ranking. The latest available data on SPARK is 67 billion turnover, 3.6 billion profit. The largest shareholder is a businessman Yuri Kovalchuk.

Igor Andreev cannot be called a public figure – the last time he made his mark was several years ago, when Rossiya Bank became one of the co-investors in the venture fund of the National Technology Initiative.

According to 47news, Muscovite Andreev was detained on the evening of March 5 at the office of his business partners in the Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg. Today, according to investigators, over three years he received 29 million rubles from the co-owners of the Project Management company, businessmen Nikolai Nyuganen and Evgeniy Rafalenok.

Structure specified in the case:

– Igor Andreev is the general director of ADB Development, a 100% subsidiary of Rossiya Bank (registered a year ago under the profile “consulting on commercial activities and management”);

– LLC “SZ Vsevolozhsk” – developer of an elite cottage village with a golf club near Vsevolozhsk (construction of buildings, with revenue of 28 million – profit for 2022 of 30 thousand). This is an investment project of Rossiya Bank with a credit line, 90% of the shares of SZ Vsevolozhsk belong to ADB Development;

– 10% of “SZ Vsevolozhsk” belongs to “Project Management” (registered a year ago with the type of activity “construction control and designer’s supervision.” (Revenue 38 million, profit 31 million. According to SPARK, with revenue 1 million rubles, profit 12.7 million) .

Project Management received another 15 million monthly from Rossiya Bank for management services and is the governing body of SZ Vsevolozhsk. Igor Andreev was the general director of all the listed companies.

According to the Investigative Committee, Vice President Andreev himself initiated the story of the cottage community project and, using his administrative resources, convinced the partners to pay him 2 million monthly for uninterrupted financing of the developer. Money was transferred systematically.

As for the co-owner of the Project Management company, Evgeniy Rafalenok, he was the general director of the Leningrad Regional Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending from 2016 to 2022 (a structure of the Leningrad region government). The agency’s tasks include coordinating the work on relocating emergency housing. Under Rafalenka, the organization was engaged in financing the completion of houses of defrauded shareholders. He is remembered for refusing money from Rossiya Bank for the Forces of Nature residential complex. Under Rafalenka, LenOblAIZHK Bank “Russia (*aggressor country)” implemented more than one project. For example, there are four stages of Kirovsky Posad in Kirovsk.

According to Igor Andreev’s lawyer, Maxim Matsenko, the defense does not see any crime in the actions of his ward.

– These are purely civil relations. A bank employee has the right to occupy management positions in the bank’s subsidiaries; this does not contradict the job description. This way the bank controls its funds. The fact that his partners gave him money, including cash, we do not see any crime in this. We believe that this is a mistake in the investigation,” Matsenko believes.

– What did Andreev get for the money? – 47news clarified.

“We don’t have evidence on this yet, I’m not authorized to talk about it.” But we believe that this is money from partners, intra-partner relations. There is no anti-corruption clause in Andreev’s job description stating that he does not have the right to work in another commercial enterprise other than Rossiya Bank.

According to our publication, the initiator of the arrest and, as a consequence, the criminal case for commercial bribery was the Security Service of Bank Rossiya. Read the manual.

It can be added that at the trial, as a result of the suppression, the defense provided a rental agreement for an apartment on Rubinshteina Street, where Andreev (as a resident of the capital) can serve house arrest. A bail of 5 million rubles was also offered for Andreev. Vice President Igor Andreev was arrested.