Arksbank

JSC Arksbank is a Russian private bank. Present on the financial services market since 1993. Arksbank JSC provided a range of banking services to legal entities and individuals.

In Moscow, the Bank was represented by the Moskovsky operational office, the Tverskoy operational office, the Academichesky operational office, the Serpukhovskaya operational office, the Chistoprudny operational office, the Kursky operational office, the Mitino operational office, the operational office “On Sorge Street”, operational office “Arbatsky” and operational office “On Leningradsky Prospekt”.

2023: The court recovered 40.5 billion rubles from Ilya Kligman

In July 2023, the Arbitration Court Moscow recovered 40.5 billion rubles in losses from the former Arksbank beneficiary Ilya Kligman. This was reported by the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). Read more here.

2022: The former CIO of Arksbank is extradited from Montenegro to Russia. He is accused of stealing 35 billion rubles

On July 15, 2022, extradition from Montenegro to Russia of the former head of the department for implementation and support of banking products of the information technology department of JSC Settlement and Credit System Agency (Arksbank) Sergei Ipatov. He is accused of fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy on an especially large scale, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. Read more here.

2020: The investigation accuses Ilya Kligman of organizing a criminal group involved in the collapse of several banks

As GUEBiPK employees established by April 2020, the organizer of the criminal group, Ilya Kligman, was involved in the collapse of at least one and a half dozen credit institutions in Russia, from which more than 100 billion rubles were withdrawn[1]. Among them, for example:

• Gelendzhik Bank (debt 825 million rubles),
• Interkommerts Bank (RUB 65.1 billion),
• Time Bank (RUB 700 million),
• Antalbank (RUB 14.7 billion),
• Arksbank (more than 35 billion rubles),
• Inkarobank (more than 3 billion rubles),
• Transinvestbank (more than 9 billion rubles),
• Baikalbank (6 billion rubles).

It is also worth noting that Ilya Kligman had no direct relationship with any of these credit institutions, but, according to investigators, he was their ultimate beneficiary.

Kligman left for Germany in 2016, when the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the South-Western District began an investigation into the theft of money from Arksbank. He was put on the wanted list only in 2019 as part of an investigation into a criminal case of theft from Baikalbank. At the same time, the ex-banker was charged in absentia with fraud.

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