OJSC “Joint-Stock Commercial “BaikalBank” is a universal commercial bank (Republic of Buryatia), the only one in its region and with a developed service network. The bank was established in late December 1993 in Ulan-Ude. The bank was focused on lending to individuals and legal entities, servicing corporate clients, operations with precious metals, on the currency and interbank markets, attracting funds from citizens into deposits. Since 1999, BaikalBank has been a member of the Zolotaya Korona payment system, and since December 2004 – a member of the deposit insurance system.
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- Date of registration in Central Bank of the Russian Federation: December 24, 1993
- Authorized capital as of 15.07.2012 – 400 million rubles.
- License of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for the right to conduct transactions with legal entities in rubles and foreign currency No. 2632 dated 23.08.2004
- License of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for the right to conduct transactions with individuals in rubles and foreign currency No. 2632 dated 23.08.2004
- License of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for operations with precious metals No. 2632 dated 23.08.2004
Owners:
- Shipbuilding Bank – 12.52%
- LLC “OB “Tretii Razyezd” – 11.99%
- OOO “Fabrika” – 11.70%
- CJSC “Impex-Center” – 9.86%
- Region Media LLC – 9.73%
- Shemyakin Vladimir Leonidovich – 9.07%
- Savelyev Viktor Leonovich – 4.69%
- Art-Media Corporation LLC – 5.21%
- OOO Goodwill – 2.53%
- Vitimsnab LLC – 1.73%
- OOO Ulan-Ude Network – 1.48%
- RNPPF “Social Protection” – 18.56%
- Minority shareholders – 0.93%
2023: Former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia received 9.5 years for a bribe from a top manager of Baikalbank
In October 2023, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Irkutsk sentenced the former deputy head of the investigative department The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia sentenced Andrey Bardakhanov to 9.5 years in a maximum security penal colony and a fine of 30 million rubles. He was found guilty under Part 3 of Article 30 and Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted bribery on an especially large scale). By the court’s decision, the convicted person was stripped of his special rank of Colonel of Justice. More details here.
2020: Investigators accuse Ilya Kligman of organizing a criminal group involved in the collapse of several banks
As the GUEBiPK officers established by April 2020, the organizer of the criminal group, Ilya Kligman, was involved in the collapse of at least a dozen and a half 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 Committee of the Russian Federation for the Southwestern District began an investigation into the theft of money from Arksbank. He was only put on the wanted list in 2019 as part of the investigation into the criminal case of theft from Baikalbank. At that time, the ex-banker was charged in absentia with fraud.
2016: License revocation
After this, the fact of withdrawal of assets of the credit institution was revealed and a case was opened on the grounds of deliberate bankruptcy. The suspects managed to steal about 150 million rubles in the form of bank funds and gold. They failed to sell the bank’s real estate for 750 million rubles, since the transactions were suspended due to the initiation of a criminal case.