2016: Revocation of license and criminal case against the chairman of the board
The decision was made due to the bank’s insufficient assets. At the same time, according to the Central Bank, Interkommerts did not assess the risks associated with a lack of assets and was involved in dubious transactions.
Due to a significant imbalance between assets and liabilities, it was not possible to carry out the financial recovery procedure for CB INTERKOMMERTS (LLC) with the involvement of the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency and its creditors on reasonable economic terms.
The Bank is a participant in the deposit insurance system.
Problems at Interkommerts became known on January 28, 2016, when the company Rocketbank, which processed payments through it, sent warning letters to clients about a lack of liquidity with its partner. Rocketbank serviced Interkommerts bank cards for several years, but in 2015 it began working with Otkritie Financial Corporation and began transferring its clients to this bank.
A criminal case was opened against the head of the bank, Alexander Bugaevsky, but he fled to the Czech Republic.
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collapse of at least one and a half dozen credit institutions in Russia, from which more than 100 billion rubles were withdrawn[1].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.
