Rossiya Bank

History

Communist Party ownership

On August 23, 1990, a secret memorandum from Vladimir A. Ivashko, who was Gorbachev's deputy general secretary, was issued to organize the transfer of CPSU funds, CPSU financing and support of its operations through associations, ventures, foundations, etc. which are to act as invisible economics. Bank Rossiya was one of the hundreds of entreprises that CPSU financiers used to funnel the party gold away.

In 1990, the CPSU committee of the Leningrad Oblast became Rossiya Bank largest shareholder (48.4%),{{efn|Upon Rossiya Bank's registration on 27 June 1990, the Vladislav Reznik associated firm Russian Video () held a 13 million ruble stake compared to the CPSU's 15 million stake which was held by the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which Arkady Krutikhin () headed. and Digital Transfer, a Soviet-Belgian company. Rossiya Bank's total capital at registration was 31 million rubles. It was the first commercial bank to hold accounts for the foreign economic operations of both the regional committee of the CPSU and the local management of the KGB.

In December 1991 its activity was resumed, as the shares had been redeemed on 29 December 1991 by some member ventures of the Leningrad Association of Joint Ventures, shares of which were held by Vladimir Yakunin, Yuriy Kovalchuk, Mikhail Markov, Viktor Myachin, Andrei Fursenko, Sergey Fursenko, Yury Nikolayev.

JV ''Neva Chance''

The Austrian Russian joint venture JV Neva Chance received funds from the Revival of St. Petersburg Foundation (), which was co-founded by Anatoly Sobchak and its CEO Alexander Margolis (). A Los Angeles branch of the St. Petersburg Foundation was established by Mark Davidovich Lvovich (; b. Soviet Union), also known as Mark Neumann (), who founded and headed the California firm Trada that received several hundred thousand dollars of "funds of UNI-REM" () which Sergei Bagaev (), a colleague of Anatoly Sobchak at Leningrad University, headed. Leon Weinstein (), an assistant to Neuman at the Los Angeles branch, and his wife Gulnara Afanasyeva () were active with the St. Petersburg Foundation when it sponsored Sobchak's visit to Los Angeles.

JV Neva Chance established thirty companies including JV Casino Neva.

Putin's capital support from Leningrad casinos

Beginning in 1991, Vladimir Putin was St Petersburg's chairman of the supervisory board for casinos and gambling () and, in 1993, began issuing gambling licenses in which shares were gained by the city of St Petersburg in the company Neva Chance () which owned the first St Petersburg casino AOZT Casino () because it had the same address and phone numbers as city hall, but later it became JV Casino Neva () and opened on 19 August 1991.{{efn|The Austrian Russian Joint Venture JV Neva Chance formed the St. Petersburg casino Neva Chance which was registered in May 1992 and established in 1993. Its co-owners were Novomatic with nearly all its shares and "Neva-Chance" (AOZT "Casino") which had the same address as Vladimir Putin's Committee for External Relations and according to law was supposed to own a share in every St Petersburg casino. Several prestigiously located casinos around St Petersburg are called Admiral. who supplied slot machines with cash prizes to St Petersburg casinos in the 1990s from his Stockholm, Sweden, company Dyna Computer Service AB which was a subsidiary of the Masimichi Iida () () owned Osaka firm, Dyna Company Ltd., the criminals Gennady Petrov (), Alexander Malyshev (), and Sergey Kuzmin () operated the casino through a Vladimir Putin issued license in order to establish JV Petrodin () in 1991.

Capital outflows from the Soviet Union and Russia

In March 1992, the Yeltsin government contracted Kroll Associates to track down and find very large sums of money that had been removed from the Soviet Union prior to the August 1991 putsch on the Russian White House. In 1992, First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Timurovich Gaidar said, "Last year saw large-scale privatization by the nomenklatura, privatization by officials for their own personal benefit." Gaidar called the Communists and KGB officials criminals and that a "a vigorous search" for the money trails from state-owned capital had flowed abroad virtually unchecked before the collapse of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1991. In April 1992, Kroll Associates began their investigations with Joseph Serio heading the Kroll Associates efforts in Moscow. Also, Joseph Rosetti, the vice chairman of Kroll Associates, was in Moscow to assist. This outflow of capital from the Soviet Union and Russia directly contributed to severe economic conditions in Russia during Boris Yeltsin's second term, leading to its collapse, and resulting in the age of Vladimir Putin as the President of Russia.

During the Putin administration

As of January 1, 2005, its major shareholders were Yuriy Kovalchuk with 37.6%, Nikolai Shamalov with 9.7%, Dmitry Gorelov with 9.7% and Alexei Mordashov's Severstal group with 8.8%. JSC Relax (3.65%), "Assistance to Business Initiatives" Non-Commercial Enterprise (3.08%), Russian Federal Property Fund (2.93%).

On December 28, 2006, Fitch Ratings assigned the bank negative ratings (Long Term issuer Default rating B−, Short Term rating B, National Long Term rating BB− (RUS)). As a subsidiary of the bank, ABRos Investment Company, had signed a non-transparent deal aiming to buy a considerable share of the Ren TV Media Holding (see below). During the 2012–13 financial crisis in Cyprus, more than one third (26.3 billion rubles) of Rossiya Bank's total cash (85.4 billion rubles) was frozen in Cypriot accounts.{{efn|In 2013, this was equal to one billion United States dollars.

The U.S. government has characterized Rossiya Bank as Putin's personal cashbox. The Pandora Papers leak revealed that the bank built a network of shadow companies that kept offshore wealth for Russian elites.

Sanctions

On March 20, 2014, the United States Government Office of Foreign Assets Control added Rossiya Bank to the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) as part of sanctions taken in response to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, placing restrictions on US trade with the bank. Visa and Mastercard stopped processing the bank's payment as a result.

In response, Vladimir Putin announced that he would open a ruble-only account with Bank Rossiya and would make it the primary bank in the newly annexed Crimea as well as giving the right to service payments on Russia's $36 billion wholesale electricity market – which gave the bank $112 million annually from commission charges alone. Bank Rossiya also announced plans to expand into the Crimean market, becoming the first major Russian bank to do so.

As of January 2019, Rossiya Bank has become the most important investor in Russia's development of its annexation of Crimea during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.

On February 22, 2022, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced sanctions against five banks, including Rossiya Bank. Additional sanctions prohibiting correspondent banking relationships were imposed in December 2023.

Assets worth – historical data

Ratings

• In February 2021, Russian rating agency Expert RA assigned Rossiya Bank a rating of "ruAA" with a "stable" outlook.
• In August 2023, Rossiya Bank entered the top 10 largest credit institutions by volume of deposits in July 2023 in a rating compiled by the financial service Brobank.ru. Experts assessed banks based on criteria such as the volume of time deposits, funds for payments through bank cards and other funds placed with the bank for a predetermined period. As a result, in July the amount of deposits of individuals in Bank Rossiya in July amounted to 204.62 billion rubles.

Management

The head of its board of directors were, in order, Vladimir Kolovay and Andrei Katkov. The current head of the board of directors is Yury Kovalchuk, who has held this position since 2004.

Director General and Head of the Management Committee:

• 1993–1995: Vitaly Savelyev
• 1995–1998: Viktor Myachin
• 1998–1999: Mikhail Markov
• 1999–2004: Viktor Myachin
• September 2004 – April 2006: Mikhail Klishin
• April 2006 – June 2023: Dmitri Lebedev (also resigned as a chairman of the Board of Directors)

On September 24, 2004, Viktor Myachin resigned from the Director General position and Mikhail Klishin, who had been the First Deputy Director General and held a 0.197% share, was appointed acting Director General.

On December 10, 2004, Mikhail Klishin was appointed Director General, as the Central Bank of the Russian Federation had agreed to this decision.

On April 3, 2006, the board of directors appointed Dmitry Lebedev Director General and Head of the Management Committee. Mikhail Klishin (holder of a 0.159% share) was appointed First Deputy Director General. The Management Committee appointed on that day: Dmitry Lebedev, Oleg Anufriev, Alexander Germanov, Konstantin Gorbachyov, Faniya Kabalina, Mikhail Klishin, Galina Lebedeva, Alexander Markin, Oleg Filatov.

On December 26, 2006, the board of directors of the Bank elected its new Management Committee consisting of Dmitry Lebedev (Head, Director General), Alexander Germanov, Konstantin Gorbachyov, Faniya Kabalina, Mikhail Klishin, Alexander Markin and Boris Tikhonenko.

Subsidiaries

As of 2005, the bank is a shareholder of the following companies):

• JSC ABRos Investment Company (100%)
• JSC Alfa Invest (100%)
• JSC ABR Trust (100%)
• JSC ABR Security Company (100%)
• JSC ZEST (100%)
• JSC Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti Editorial House (20%, increased to 35% in 2005)
• JSC newspaper Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (20%, increased up to 35% in 2005)
• JSC Fund for Regional Development of St. Petersburg (15%)
• JSC Center for Innovative Management (10%).
• JSC Red Chemist (7.36%).

In January 2005 it turned out that ABRos, a subsidiary of the bank, and Accept, one of its shareholders, held a 49.97% share and a 13.5% share of the insurance group SOGAZ Ltd., respectively after a 49.979% share of the SOGAZ group had been sold by the Russian gas giant Gazprom to an unnamed purchaser for 1.69 billion rubles on July 26, 2004, and in August 2004 Gazprom had sold 26% more of SOGAZ for 879.3 million rubles.

In November 2005 ABRos Investment Company (chairman of the board of Directors since September 11, 2006: Lyubov Sovershaeva) purchased a 37% share of the Petersburg TV and Radio Company. Also it owns a considerable share of the Media Holding Ren TV (as of December 2006,) On December 18, 2006 Lyubov Sovershaeva also became the chairman of the board of Directors of the Ren TV Media Holding (replacing Alexey Germanovich, a Severstal Group representative).

As of 2008 and later in 2016, Rossiya Bank has large investments in National Media Group () both directly and indirectly through its 100% ownership of Abros which has a stake in National Media Group.

In August 2010, Sobinbank, an asset of Gazenergobank that had been formed by Alexander Mamut, was acquired by Rossiya Bank when it took over Gazenergobank.

In the summer of 2012, ABR Management was established to manage Rossiya Bank's assets.

In 2016, Rossiya Bank's subsidiaries included Channel One, Channel 5, and Ren TV of the National Media Group CJSC, the leasing group Zest, and Sogaz OJSC.

In 2018, Rossiya Bank, Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov through their investments in the National Media Group and its 100% ownership of Synerdzhy LLC () and Otkrytie TV LLC () which is 100% owned by Media Alians (or Alyans) LLC () in which Rossiya Bank has an 80% stake, have close relationships with the John C. Malone associated Liberty Media.

According to a 29 September 2018 article in RBC, Rossiya Bank through Sobinbank () in 2017 absorbed the Crimea based Genbank (),{{efn|In 2013, Anna Lyga controlled a 6.6% stake in the Crimea based Genbank (). In 2013, Genbank was struggling when Yevgeny Dvoskin invested in 2013 gaining a 7.2% stake in Genbank and became the vice president. A relative of Andrey Lugovoi controls a stake in Genbank and Dvoskin’s wife, who is a former gymnast, is the chairwoman CEO Elena Ponomareva.}} which is associated with Evgeny Dvoskin and had had 190 branches on the peninsula which is second only to Russian National Commercial Bank (RNCB) on Crimea. Following this support from Rossiya Bank through Sobinbank, Genbank gained a much larger presence on Crimea according to Pavel Samiev () who is the director of the BusinessDrom analytical agency ().

Beginning on January 20, 2020, the processing center of JSC AB Russia () provides processing services for the issue of bank payment cards and support for acquiring projects of Evrofinance Mosnarbank.

Notes

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