Sergey Popov 4 5 billion dollars Current publications

2018-04-24 1975

He earned his first billion at the age of 32 and became the youngest in the Forbes world ranking. At 44, he resigned from all management positions, sold many assets and focused his efforts on working at Skolkovo.

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FULL NAME: Popov Sergey Viktorovich.
Date of Birth: August 12, 1971.
Education: Ural Polytechnic Institute.
Current activity: mentoring.
Current state:$4.5 billion, according to Forbes 2018.

The name of Sergei Viktorovich Popov, a Russian entrepreneur, banker, billionaire, is associated with such financial and industrial monsters - the Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), EuroChem and MDM Bank. For a long time he served on the boards of directors of these giants, as well as the Pipe Metallurgical Company, RAO UES, and others.

Since 2015, he has focused on his work at SKOLKOVO, the Moscow School of Management, where he became one of the founding partners in the group of Russian oligarchs, politicians, academics and activists who founded it. All management positions were left and many assets were sold.

Sergei Popov differs from many other domestic billionaires in his unusual and so brief biography that he can be called the most unknown rich man in Russia. He tried very hard to earn such fame - he even specifically hired an entire PR agency to stay away from the press, so that any information and facts about him, and especially about his personal life, the secrets of entrepreneurship, were hidden from prying eyes.

The more interesting his figure is. After all, Sergei Popov did not start his own business in the late 1980s - early 1990s, when others made fortunes quickly and without particularly choosing their means and without ceremony. And he had no cooperative experience.

But already at the age of 32 he turned out to be the youngest rich man in the world, as the American magazine Forbes testified in 2003, including the young businessman in the world ranking of dollar billionaires ($1 billion, 552nd line). And since then, according to Popov himself, “the crisis is not an obstacle to the growth of wealth” (his most famous statement), and his condition is a convincing confirmation of this.

Rice. 1. Change in S. Popov’s fortune since 2003, billion rubles
Source: Forbes Magazine

Since 2003, he has not left the world list, and in 2011, when, with a fortune of 7.9 billion, he even rose to 117th line in the world ranking (this was his best result in history), the magazine called him an eccentric, crazy and eccentric.

Rice. 2. Eccentric oligarch
Source: forbes.com

Popov is no less firmly established in the “Golden Hundred of Russia”, and according to Forbes 2018, his fortune is estimated at $4.5 billion, this is 27th place on the list.

Source: Forbes Magazine

From the generation of the first real managers

Sergei Viktorovich Popov was born on August 12, 1971 in Yekaterinburg, then it was called Sverdlovsk. At the Ural Polytechnic Institute, which he graduated in 1993, he received a higher education with a degree in industrial heat and power engineering.

He came to the Ural-Siberian commercial and industrial company, which sold pipes and metals, immediately after graduation. We noticed him quickly. Efficient, with deep knowledge, capable of applying them in real work - just yesterday he was a student, here he became one of the partners.

Over the next few years, the young engineer had the opportunity to work in various business structures, primarily related to the metallurgical industry. His areas of responsibility included issues of general marketing strategy, increasing the economic efficiency of activities and optimizing product sales in the domestic and foreign markets:

1996 - one of the co-founders of the MDM Trade and Industrial Company. On the basis of this very structure, the MDM industrial group was founded in 2000 (more on it later).
1997-1990 - commercial director and partner of Prodkontakt Company LLC, specializing in the sale of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
In 1997-1999, he was also the commercial director at LLC Company Prodkontrakt.
By 2003, he created three holding companies: SUEK, Eurochem and TMK. They very soon became leaders in their industries. The fact that the purchase of many industrial assets was accompanied by conflicts, often violent, is noted by many. But as a result, MDM Group turned into one of the largest domestic companies operating in the field of direct investment and industrial asset management.

Banker

In December 2006, after the division of joint assets with Melnichenko, MDM Bank became completely controlled by Popov. For him, the bank became a strategic investment.

Rice. 3. Young banker
Source: pravdareport.com

“Interests are changing... Popov, who invested in the banking sector several years ago, now understands it very well and clearly sees the bank’s development strategy” (Vladimir Rashevsky, General Director of SUEK).

At the time of the merger, PJSC MDM Bank was among the largest private banks in Russia in terms of capital and assets.

In 2008 - merger of assets with URSA-Bank (Igor Kim).

In 2010, assets were invested in the state company RusHydro (2% of shares), and in the same year the partnership share was exchanged for the Latvian Trade Bank. They say the businessman had to pay extra in cash from his own pocket.

2015 - at the end of June, the purchase of control over MDM Bank by the BIN group of Mikhail Gutseriev and Mikail Shishkhanov was announced. In November 2016, the deal was completed with the formation of a united credit organization called B&N Bank.

Rice. 4. Sergey Popov. 2015
Source: website vdmsti.ru

And there are new plans ahead: Skolkovo is a growth-oriented business university.

History of partnership

Andrey Melnichenko, physicist by training. Sergey Popov - electrical engineer.

The partners came to the coal and mineral fertilizer markets as investment bankers: collect, beautifully package, sell at a profit. In 1996, they became co-founders of the MDM Trade and Industrial Company.

After the default of 1998, Popov convinced Melnichenko to engage in raw materials assets. And in 2000, Sergei Popov and Andrei Melnichenko established the MDM financial group on a parity basis, on which mainly young entrepreneurs made their fortunes. At first it was an investment fund, and some large private investors even contributed their funds to its development. But the tasks very soon changed, the company focused its efforts on purchasing and structuring industrial facilities. As a result, it included coal mines, steel mills, chemical enterprises and MDM Bank, which became the core of the group. Sergei Popov became the president of MDM, but with his election to the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors in May 2002, he transferred the presidency to Melnichenko, and he himself concentrated on the strategic problems of the concern’s development.

In partnership with Dmitry Pumpyansky, in 2003, the partners created the Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) - today it is one of the world's largest producers of oil and gas pipelines, but already in 2006, Popov and Melnichenko sold their share to Pumpyansky.

The year 2006 became a landmark year for two businessmen. The division of their joint assets began, although the process dragged on for more than five years.

“Melnichenko’s alliance with Popov could not last long. At the stage of building the company, they needed each other because they complemented each other well, but now they had different views on how to develop individual areas of the joint business” (Vedomosti, 2006).

In December, MDM Bank came completely under the control of Sergei Viktorovich, Eurochem went to Melnichenko.

Rice. 5. Sergey Popov
Source: wikimedia.org

In 2008, the merger of two banks, MDM and Igor Kim’s URSA Bank, began and was completed in 2009, with the emergence of a new united MDM Bank.

The year 2012 was the final year in the section of joint assets. Then Popov sells to his ex-companion the last things he had left, shares of the SUEK company, the largest in terms of production in Russia, which until then had remained their last joint asset.

“Over the past ten years, I have happily taken part in the creation and development of SUEK. I am pleased with the results achieved: the company has a strong management team, highly qualified investors and clear development plans. In the future, I intend to focus on the strategic development of MDM Bank. Andrey has demonstrated tremendous success in building world-class industrial companies, and therefore I will remain a long-term investor in SUEK with full confidence that its business will continue to develop successfully” (S. Popov).

Sergey Popov and Andrey Melnichenko divided their business.

Business mentoring

Reference.“Mentoring is already a formal institution: there are well-known entrepreneurs who purposefully spend part of their time passing on experience to young people and call themselves mentors; there are entire companies and initiatives aimed at bringing together mentors and startupers; there are pools of mentors" (lookatme.ru).
“The main principle is the free transfer of business skills and experience so that the next wave of entrepreneurs can realize their potential” (Forbes).

In Russia, the first mentor communities appeared in 2012. The private foundation "Agat" is one of such communities, which for several years was looking for its own special direction, until finally, in 2012, it focused on supporting young entrepreneurs under 35 years of age. Forbes claims that the foundation is developing a mentoring program with the money of Sergei Popov. Its representative offices operate successfully in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, the billionaire’s hometown.

“Through the fund, entrepreneurs receive a two-year unsecured loan from MDM Bank in the amount of up to 750,000 rubles at a preferential rate of 11.4% per annum guaranteed by the fund, as well as advice from 30 mentors from among successful entrepreneurs in their region” (Forbes).

Business university focused on growth

After Popov retired from all management positions, he focused his efforts on the work of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo.

“Just three or four years ago, the idea of free consulting, as a rule, caused bewilderment among high-level entrepreneurs” (Maxim Karpov, founder of the Skolkovo Entrepreneurial Community, 2016).

He joined the group of Russian billionaires, politicians, activists and scientists who founded it and now, together with Ruben Vardanyan, Alexander Abramov and other richest Russian businessmen-mentors, act in the Coordination Council and help hundreds of entrepreneurs with free advice.

The university - part of New Moscow - has become a territory of high technology.

About personal life and interests

Information about Sergei Popov is collected literally bit by bit. If little is known about Popov the businessman, then even less is known about Popov the man. The PR agency did their best.

Sergei Popov/Sergei Popov

Source of wealth: bank, coal

Place of residence: Moscow

Family status: married, son

In the early 1990s He worked at the Ural-Siberian commercial and industrial company that traded metals. In the early 2000s, together with Andrey Melnichenko (No. 6), he organized the MDM industrial group.
Capital Main beneficiary of MDM Bank (58.3%)
Event In 2008, he merged banking assets with Igor Kim (URSA-Bank), and two years later, due to the deterioration of MDM Bank’s financial performance, he exchanged his partner’s share for the Latvian Trade Bank, paying additionally in cash.
Number In 2012, MDM Bank began transferring problem loans worth 30.8 billion rubles from its balance sheet to a fund created with funds from shareholders.
Rating In December 2012, Moody's downgraded MDM Bank's rating by one notch to Ba3 with a negative outlook due to the low quality of the bank's assets. At the same time, MDM Bank’s contract with the Fitch agency expired, and the bank did not renew it.
Deal In 2012, Popov sold his remaining approximately 17% stake in the coal company SUEK to his former long-term partner Melnichenko. The division of assets, which began in 2006, has been completed.
Detail One of the founders, member of the coordinating council of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo.
Collection Paintings by modern followers of impressionism.

Right hand:

Martin Andersson
member of the boards of directors of MDM Bank and SUEK

In 1992-1993 he was an adviser to the Privatization Committee under the Government of the Russian Federation, and in August 1993 he founded the investment company Brunswick, which was later bought by the Swiss bank UBS. Since 2006 he has been working for Popov.

Sergey Popov is a former partner of Andrey Melnichenko in the MDM Group. During the division of this one of the largest oligarchic empires of the early 2000s, Popov was able to retain MDM Bank, leaving Melnichenko with the chemical concern Eurochem. As of mid-2007, they continued to own the coal business concentrated in the SUEK company together.

Sergey Popov is one of the youngest billionaires in Russia

Sergey Popov was born on August 12, 1971; Graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute with a degree in industrial electrical power engineering. After studying at the Ural Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Industrial Heat and Power Engineering in 1993, Mr. Popov became a partner in the Ural-Siberian Trade and Industrial Company (USTPC), which specialized in trading energy resources, products of pipe enterprises, as well as the supply of raw materials metallurgical plants of the country.

In 1997-1999, Mr. Popov was a partner and commercial director at LLC Company Prodkontrakt.

In 1992-2000 - held senior positions in a number of companies working in the metallurgical industry, was responsible for economic efficiency and practical implementation of business projects, incl. for the supply of metallurgical products, both within Russia and for export; in 2000 he became one of the founders of the financial and industrial group MDM; from May 2000 he served as president of the MDM Group, and in April 2002 he was also elected chairman of the board of directors; in May 2002, he transferred the post of president to A. Melnichenko, focusing on strategic issues of development of the MDM group as chairman of the board of directors. As Rossiyskaya Gazeta noted (04/23/2002), S. Popov was at the origins of the creation of the MDM Group, developed and implemented the company’s development strategy. Under his leadership, MDM Group has grown into one of the largest Russian companies operating in the field of direct investment and management of industrial assets, and has formed a significant portfolio of assets in the coal, pipe and metallurgical, and chemical industries. According to the publication of the Profile magazine (# 16, 2002), at the beginning of 2002, the MDM Group, whose total annual turnover exceeds $3 billion, united the Pipe Metallurgical Company, the Siberian Coal Energy Company "Baikal-Ugol", mineral -chemical company "Eurochem", venture company MDM. The group controls about 35% of coal production in Russia, 40% of pipe production, 50% of ferrosilicon.

Mr. Popov's professional interests include projects in the field of restructuring and management of industrial and financial assets, large-scale strategic investments, development of business strategies, as well as the implementation of modern principles of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility systems in large industrial enterprises.

This time a journalistic investigation into the facts of unfair blocking of publications about Rustem Elbrusovich Magdeev(TIN 773116837020) was conducted by correspondents of the publication “Our Version”. As the editors of Kompromat-Ural reported, the notorious native of Kazan, who recently celebrated his 55th birthday, organized massive pressure on the media and online media through several judges. The goal of Magdeev’s campaign, in which experienced experts see clear signs of an order, is a total purge of publications that are unpleasant for the businessman, including those about his connections with high-ranking government officials and involvement in raider attacks on enterprises of the military-industrial complex. Magdeev himself was repeatedly mentioned publicly in the status of adviser to the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

In Magdeev’s recent lawsuit filed with the judge of the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan Alfred Khakimzyanov, the situation has been brought to the point of blatant absurdity. The blocking of publications and persecution of journalists was initiated under the pretext that photographs of Rustem Magdeev were published “without his permission.” Moreover, Magdeev came up with the amount of damage for each “unauthorized” image of himself - 500 thousand rubles! The far-fetched and fictitious nature of the claims of Minnikhanov’s associate is confirmed by the fact that Magdeev’s photos have been freely published for several years in a row (for example, the revealing publication of Moskovsky Komsomolets on September 9, 2014), and the businessman has not and does not dispute them. Moreover, as is clear from the photographs themselves, many of them were openly posted on their accounts by Magdeev himself and the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Minnikhanov.

However, in recent months, three federal judges (from the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow - Elena Ivakhova, from the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan - Marat Suleymanov and Alfred Khakimzyanov) were involved in a loud scandal due to the fact that in the “Magdeev scheme” they agreed with the businessman’s strange claims against journalists. The editors of Kompromat-Ural, together with their colleagues, continue the public investigation.

Colleagues from “Our Version” entitled today’s material about Magdeev’s antics “Offshore censorship”: Rustem Magdeev is preparing a new wave of blocking publications in Russian media.”

“The National Security Agency (DANS) and the Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs initially did not find evidence of investments in exchange for citizenship, which was reported to parliament. The citizenship was supposed to be revoked in May, but in the end DANS refused to provide documents about the violation. The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs believe that patrons from the Bulgarian leadership intervened.

First Deputy's Spouse Andrey Kostina, President - Chairman of the Board of the Russian VTB Bank Yuri Solovyov - Galina Ulyutina- turned out to be one of eight foreign citizens (two Russians and six Pakistanis) who received Bulgarian citizenship in exchange for investments, although they did not make any investments. This was reported by Radio Free Europe with reference to data from the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice, although the department refused to give written confirmation of this in response to an official request.

A joint investigation by the State Agency for National Security (Darzhavna Agence Natsionalna Sigurnost - DANS) and the Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs initially did not find any evidence of the presence of investments. Let us remind you that you can become a citizen of Bulgaria by investing €1-2 million in the country’s economy.

Checks on the acquisition of citizenship by foreigners in Bulgaria began actively after the European Commission at the end of 2018 announced its intention to tighten control over the program for the sale of Bulgarian citizenship by investment. According to European officials, the country's legislation has shortcomings in verifying the origin of funds of persons who have acquired citizenship. Therefore, the current scheme increases the risks of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. In addition, Bulgaria does not comply with the EU rule, according to which a person wishing to obtain citizenship must reside on the territory of the state.

An investigation into the wife of VTB Deputy President Galina Ulyutina was initiated by the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov November 19, 2018. The reason for this was the scandal with the sale of citizenship by the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad (Darzhavna Agency for Bulgarians in Foreign Lands - DABC) and the investigation against its former director Petra Haralampieva. The head of the department has built an entire corruption network for the sale of Bulgarian passports...

Readers ask the editors of Kompromat-Ural to pay attention to financial irregularities in the state project “Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Titanium Valley.” During the period of governorship in the Sverdlovsk region Evgenia Kuyvasheva this structure is permanently headed Artemy Kyzlasov(TIN 772903153037). Artemy Igorevich is known to competent observers as the former co-founder of the bankrupt Boguchanlesprom LLC and Boguchantrans LLC, as well as the abandoned Pinchugalesozavod LLC, which was liquidated by the tax authorities. These logging companies were located in different villages of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and were controlled by Kyzlasov’s peer and partner, a native of Moscow. Valery Chasov(TIN 770103834876).

The other day, a financial abuse scandal erupted around Titanium Valley, financed by taxpayers, and Kyzlasov personally. The press reports on violations identified by the Accounts Chamber of the Sverdlovsk Region, the materials of which were put on the table, including the prosecutor of the region Sergei Okhlopkova. Readers of the Kompromat-Ural resource in the apparatus of the control body especially emphasize the fact that the management of the Titanium Valley SEZ gave funds received from the budget to the notorious Vneshprombank. We are talking about 150 million rubles, which Artemy Kyzlasov himself has already admitted. The Internet audience does not hide its indignation in its comments: “This is what modern Russian business is all about - to suck on state money and spend it as if it were your own...”. As analysts from the Kompromat-Ural editorial board remind, Vneshprombank has broken a record for the size of the hole in its balance sheet.

It is no coincidence that the relationship between the general director of the state SEZ and the bankrupt Vneshprombank LLC interested auditors and security officials. After the Central Bank, on instructions Elvira Nabiullina revoked the license of this organization, information became public about how the beneficiaries of Vneshprombank (VPB) bribed top managers of companies, making them corrupt gifts in exchange for corporate deposits. Thus, one of the former VIP depositors, on condition of anonymity, told Forbes that in addition to interest payments on deposits, he received cash bonuses of up to 5% per annum. VPB generously rewarded large investors: according to his former client, over $1 million a year was spent on elite alcohol alone, and a special employee was in charge of selecting and purchasing it. The bank bought works of art for clients at Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions (the Zebra was kept in the VPB vault Andy Warhol). It has not yet been reported which art Artemy Kyzlasov prefers.

Commenting on the collapse of Vneshprombank chosen by Kyzlasov, the media noted that when working with officials or deputies, a common scheme is when a state client needs to buy, for example, real estate for 500 million rubles, and his official income does not exceed 2 million rubles, the interlocutor explained “ Vedomosti". To avoid questions about where the money comes from, a loan is issued to the client. And the corporate credit and deposit scheme, when loans were issued to companies, allows the withdrawal of funds from government organizations on behalf of and in the personal interests of officials - maybe even for the purchase of privatized assets. “This is how they become personal billionaires at the expense of the state.” If you believe formal reports, Artemy Kyzlasov’s official salary in the Titanium Valley SEZ is about 190 thousand rubles per month. But will law enforcement agencies be able to compare this indicator with the level of actual well-being of the director of a state project?

To help restore the rule of law and find answers to this and other questions, contact the editors of Kompromat-Ural:compromising- ural@ protonmail. com

Fabricated (which was finally publicly admitted by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday Vladimir Kolokoltsev) criminal case against Ivana Golunova exposed the scale of persecution of journalists in Russia. And they are not always “marinated” with custom-made criminal cases - many have become adept at concocting equally dubious civil cases, impeding journalistic investigations. And if a large number of performers are involved in a criminal case (with the rapidly “declining professionalism of those who, to use a jargon expression, sew the cases,” admits the MGIMO professor Valery Nightingale), then in a “civilian” case, to fabricate the desired case and, most importantly, to pronounce the desired verdict, one is enough - an accommodating, “understanding” judge. Which, for the benefit of the case, can temporarily “forget” about the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, headed by Vyacheslav Lebedev.

Infamous businessman Rustem Magdeev, who is called in the media an adviser to the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, is not the first time using Themis to block investigative media content. What makes court decisions in favor of Magdeev especially scandalous and absurd is the fact that publications are “closed” even under the pretext of not having Magdeev’s permission to publish his photographs. Despite the fact that he is a public person, and his images (which are reproduced in dozens of media) in his Instagram posted by Mr. Minnikhanov himself.

The first to be “caught” in a suspicious “mutual understanding” with Rustem Magdeev was the judge of the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow Elena Ivakhova, it prohibited publications even before a formal decision - in an interim order (“method Deripaska against Vashukevich-Fishes"). After the scandalous resonance, the businessman was apparently forced to procedurally move from expensive Moscow to the courts of cheaper and politically more convenient Tataria. Namely: to the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan, in which he has presided since 2013 Radik Gabdullin. Here judges have already distinguished themselves with strange acts in the interests of Magdeev Marat Suleymanov And Alfred Khakimzyanov.

The scheme of the “trial in Magdeev style” is similar to the point of primitiveness. Numerous publications about Magdeev are copied to a specially created controlled website (for example, http://insidenews24.ru/). The domain name of the site is registered in the name of “his” company (Galar LLC and Rial LLC), and Magdeev’s lawsuit is filed against it. Such a “false defendant”, registered at the right address (to tie territoriality to the right judge), behaves in such a way (simply - in no way) to ensure a favorable outcome of the staging process. The primary media sources, of course, are not aware of this performance, and when the absurd decision, which has not been appealed by anyone, comes into force, unsuspecting editors receive en masse demands from Roskomnadzor. “Publication is illegal... Reason: decision of such and such a district court. Date, number... Delete material "...

“The machine of mass repression has been created and has been working for a long time. But, as the story with Golunov shows, it is effective only if society is obedient.Journalist's case Ivan Golunov, who was tried to be imprisoned on charges of drug distribution, stirred up not only the journalistic environment, but also the broadest sections of the public and, one might say, even more broadly, the “pure public,” as they used to say.

The fact that in our country the police plant drugs on citizens and then they are sent to prison for many years is hardly big news for anyone. The sad truth is that these stories happen all the time, and the more depressed, socially unsuccessful and marginalized sections of our society we delve into while researching this topic, the more such stories we will hear. This doesn’t particularly shock anyone and, worse, often doesn’t cause condemnation - it’s always convenient to brush aside someone else’s grief by assuming that the police had something on this particular guy from the next door, they just couldn’t prove it, so they had to act on recipe Gleb Zheglova.

It is difficult to convince yourself that a character who is personally unpleasant and socially distant to you is being sent to prison for 10 years innocently - his face is too boorish, he clearly did something bad, let him sit! Meanwhile, it is quite possible that a person was sent to rot behind bars simply because he looked askance at someone he shouldn’t have, accidentally saw something he shouldn’t have seen, or simply because he had to carry out a plan to fight drug dealers, and for obvious reasons, it is not profitable to imprison the real tycoons of this business. And now the bag has been thrown into the right pocket, and everyone is happy - investigators are investigating, prosecutors are accusing, judges are judging, the Federal Penitentiary Service is protecting, everyone has received bonuses, the fight against the drug mafia continues, and society is happy - after all, the police are doing something useful, drug dealers catches!

The case of Ivan Golunov horrified many because the line separating each of us from the homeless person being slaughtered in the police station once again turned out to be frighteningly thin, if it exists at all. The horror is that you may not have the bad habit of walking drunk around the city and teasing the police, you can lead a completely well-intentioned lifestyle and not give any obvious reasons for reprisals against yourself - but this does not change anything at all: everyone can get caught in a variety of ways. for a variety of reasons, from political activism to an absurd coincidence.

Former owner of MDM Bank Sergei Popov sold a “devastated asset” to the owners of B&N Bank?

Completing the deal

At the end of December 2015, a deal to change the owners of the notorious MDM Bank was completed on the Russian banking market. On December 22, 2015, the media reported that B&N Bank shareholders Mikail Shishkhanov and Mikhail Gutseriev acquired 84.38% of MDM Bank shares from Sergei Popov and part of the minority shareholders.

It is expected that as a result, during the first half of 2016, the share of Mikail Shishkhanov and Mikhail Gutseriev in MDM Bank will reach 100%, and by the end of 2016 the legal merger of the two credit institutions will be completed.

The united financial institution with a capital of about 100 billion rubles will operate under the Binbank brand, but MDM Bank (as a separate brand) will soon disappear from the Russian financial market.

Was Shishkhanov “scared”?

The change of owner of MDM Bank took place in several stages. Thus, on June 30, 2015, B&N Bank shareholders Mikail Shishkhanov and Mikhail Gutseriev entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in MDM Bank from Sergei Popov. In July, Shishkhanov headed MDM Bank, becoming chairman of the board.

But in November 2015, it became known that Petr Morsin, who would replace Shishkhanov in this post, would become the new chairman of the board of MDM Bank. After this, experts started talking about the fact that the owner of B&N Bank was simply “afraid” to continue managing MDM Bank due to the abundance of scandals associated with it.

So Shishkhanov decided to continue managing the merged bank after the completion of the process of integration of credit institutions. In addition, things at Binbank itself also turned out to be very deplorable. For example, in October, S&P downgraded B&N Bank's rating from B to B- with a “negative” outlook due to growing pressure on capital and uncertainty associated with the takeover of other credit institutions.

MDM Bank's ratings also leave much to be desired. For example, in October 2015, MDM Bank, according to Fitch, was among the banks with the lowest potential for absorbing loan losses.

But in December 2015, the Standard & Poor's rating agency downgraded MDM Bank's long-term counterparty credit rating to "B" from "B+", confirming the short-term one at "B". The rating outlook is "negative". In addition, The bank's national scale rating was downgraded to "ruBBB+" from "ruA".

As explained, due to the reduction in the share of MDM Bank in the total assets of the Russian banking sector from 1.2% at the end of 2010 to 0.4% at the end of 2014, the agency changed its assessment of the bank’s systemic importance from medium to low.

Popov back to his old ways?

Experts say that previously MDM Bank also worked according to the “vacuum cleaner principle.” For example, on September 5, 2014, it became known that MDM Bank turned out to be the record holder for the value of deposits among large banks.

MDM Bank raised rates on retail deposits to 11.35% per annum - not a single bank from the top 50 attracts funds from the public at such an expensive rate. Against this background, suspicions arose that MDM Bank wants to use the raised money to “patch” financial “holes” that could have formed after the probable withdrawal of assets.

Mikail Shishkhanov, co-owner of Binbank

But at the same time, MDM Bank does not cease to help its shareholders. In particular, there is information that earlier (when MDM Bank was still owned by Sergei Popov), MDM transferred a portfolio worth 30.8 billion rubles to its shareholder’s fund. So, it seems that MDM Bank shareholders care mainly about their own well-being.

But MDM Bank itself, meanwhile, essentially continued to turn into a huge financial “vacuum cleaner”, withdrawing assets in the interests of its owners. In particular, in the interests of Sergei Popov. I wonder if the owners of B&N Bank asked Mr. Popov where he put the money from MDM Bank, withdrawn in the form of loans to affiliated companies?

Criminal echo?

Rumor has it that the withdrawal of assets and the legalization of so-called “black cash” have been practiced at MDM Bank for a long time. But the “cash out” process at MDM Bank has flourished since the “dashing 90s”. So, for example, earlier investigators found out that a major drug supplier from Afghanistan, a citizen of this country, Mohammed Sherkhan, laundered money from his company Sherkhan through MDM Bank.

It should be noted that while developing this operation, investigators detained a number of MDM Bank employees. In total, during the operation to eliminate the drug trafficking channel, which was carried out by Mohammed Sherkhan, about 1 billion rubles were seized.

However, despite the success of the investigators, the management of MDM Bank was not brought to justice at that time. Apparently, the then main owner of MDM, Sergei Popov, was then able to “solve all the problems” with the investigation, or, more simply put, “get rid of” his bank.

Mikhail Gutseriev, co-owner of Binbank

Over time, corrupt officials began to withdraw money through MDM Bank. For example, the former chief inspector of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, Pavel Eremeev, accused of embezzling 30 million rubles from the budget of the Republic of Buryatia, was able to transfer this money to an American company through MDM Bank.

Moreover, before withdrawing money to the USA, Eremeev transferred the stolen money to an account at MDM Bank, and then, having formally legalized it (i.e. “laundered”), he “transferred” this money to the account of an American company , opened at AsiaUniversalBank in the city of Bishkek in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, from where they were ultimately stolen.

It seems that to this day corrupt officials continue to use MDM Bank to siphon off assets.

Murder of the Auditor

Against the backdrop of the withdrawal of assets from MDM Bank, persons who testify about fraud in this credit institution often go missing. For example, on May 13, 2015, it became known that the director of the Ural Economic Arbitration-Audit, Alexander Parshin, was put on the wanted list by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the city of Kurgan.

He disappeared immediately after testifying about the withdrawal of billions through one of the banks. And before his disappearance, Parshin left a “suicide video” on the Internet, in which he revealed the entire mechanism for withdrawing assets from MDM Bank.

It is curious that (according to Parshin) among other defendants in the case of the withdrawal of 1 billion rubles. from MDM Bank, a certain Fedor Gladkov participated, who claimed that his relative works as deputy chairman of the board of MDM Bank.

It is possible that after Parshin spoke about the withdrawal of billions from MDM Bank, he was killed. It’s not hard to guess who might benefit from this murder.

Elimination of Popov's opponents?

It is worth noting that the murder of auditor Alexander Parshin is not the first case of a mysterious murder associated with MDM Bank. Here it is worth recalling the incident when MDM Bank, with the help of its connections with the former Minister of Atomic Energy Evgeny Adamov, was able to literally absorb Converse Bank, where money from the nuclear industry was kept, intended for financial transactions, as well as funds from a number of large corporations.

Then a major scandal occurred, which was associated with the contract killing of the chairman of the board of the commercial bank Converse Bank, Alexander Antonov, and his security guard, Alexander Komarov. The thing is that, according to rumors, Alexander Antonov had a serious conflict at that time with the main owner of MDM Bank, Sergei Popov, so it’s not difficult to guess who benefited from Antonov’s elimination.

Anton Malevsky, leader of the Izmailovo organized crime group

By the way, during the takeover of Converse Bank by MDM Bank, the command to remove MDM employees from there was rumored to have been given by Vladimir Putin himself, who wanted “Converse Bank to be state-owned, just as it was.” However, MDM Bank still continued the takeover of Converse Bank, which, according to rumors, angered the head of state.

Another “bloody episode” in the activities of MDM Bank is associated with the death of the notorious businessman Anton Malevsky. Let us recall that Mr. Malevsky died tragically under very strange circumstances in 2006. At the same time, there were rumors again that Popov and Malevsky had a conflict.

Moreover, after the mysterious death of Malevsky, the media wrote: “the true owner of MDM Bank was killed.” By the way, the late Malevsky was the leader of the Izmailovo organized crime group.

OCG in MDM Bank?

So, in the 2000s, ex-State Duma deputy from the LDPR Evgeny Ishchenko, who was called one of the founders of MDM Bank, ended up on the bunk. He was convicted of tax evasion, seizure of enterprises and transfer of assets abroad. And Ishchenko was deputy chairman of the board of directors of MDM Bank.

By the way, the new owners of MDM Bank were also involved in criminal cases at one time. For example, Mikhail Gutseriev was accused in criminal cases opened under paragraphs “a”, “b” of Part 2 of Art. 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal entrepreneurship committed by an organized group on an especially large scale”) and Part 4 of Art. 174.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Legalization of funds”).

Evgeny Ishchenko, ex-State Duma deputy from the LDPR

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1. Top-468 (“Finance”). ... 1956 Entrepreneur Unikor 2350 66.2 18 Leonid Fedun 1956 Vice-President of Lukoil, IFD Capital 2200 62.0 19 Iskander Makhmudov 1963 President of UMMC 1950 54.9 20 Andrey Melnichenko 1972 Chairman of the Board of Directors of MDM Bank Group MDM 1840 51,8 21 Sergey Popov 1971 Chairman of the Board of Directors Group MDM 1840 51.8 22 Alexander Abramov 1959 President of Evrazholding 1750 49.3 23 Evgeniy Shvidler 1964 President of Sibneft 1680 47.3 24 Valery Oif 1964 Member of the Federation Council Sibneft 1680 47.3 25 David...
Date: 02/07/2005 2. Top-720 (“Finance”). ... companies 132.7 4610 14 ANDREY MELNICHENKO 1972 Is a co-owner of companies in a wide variety of industries: finance (MDM Bank), mining and metallurgical sector (SUEK and TMK), fertilizer production (MCC EuroChem) 127.5 4430 15 SERGEY POPOV 1971 For several years he was a partner of Andrey Melnichenko (No. 14) only in the industrial group MDM, but in 2003 he became an equal co-owner in the financial business 127.5 4430 16 NIKOLAY TSVETKOV 1960 In 1993 he founded a company with the telling name “Nikoil...
Date: 02/13/2006 3. “Golden Hundred” Forbes-2009. Dossier for each rating participant. In 2002, he accepted the offer of the group's owners MDM Sergei Popova(No. 18) and Andrey Melnichenko (No. 32) about SinTZ joining the Pipe Metallurgical Company they created in exchange for 35% of its shares and the post of general director.
Date: 04/20/2009 4. Vedomosti articles on the RBC website. ... all three partners, but so that Popova and Melnichenko remained 25% plus 1 share,” he says. Possibly allocating a share MDM into a different structure was done to simplify this transaction, he believes. Alexander Pukhaev from the FGD believes that shareholders MDM there is no point in selling a stake in TMK before the IPO. “TMK’s business is excellent due to high oil prices, the moment is favorable for an IPO,” he argues. “You can get part of the money now and sell part of the package later.” Sergey Suverov from Gazprombank believes that...
Date: 03/14/2006 5. Top-154 (Finance-2004) 8 youngest billionaires Place Name Date of birth Main asset Valuation of wealth, $ million 1 Nikolay Smolensky 1981 OVK 100 2 Andrey Melnichenko 1972 Group " MDM" 825 3 Sergey Popov 1971 Group" MDM" 825 4-7 Vyacheslav Merkulov 1970 MPBK "Ochakovo" 35 4-7 Airat Khairullin 1970 "Red East" 245 4-7 Inna Kochetova 1970 MPBK "Ochakovo" 80 4-7 Alexander Morgulchik 1970 RBC "Information Systems" 50 8 Mikhail Dubinin 1969 Wimm-Bill-Dann 80 10 oldest billionaires Place Name Date of birth... 6. 36 dollar billionaires live in Russia... directors of CJSC Group Management Company MDM» Sergey Popov supervised industrial assets MDM. But in March, shareholders announced the liquidation of the Management Company. The enterprises that were part of the group will be split into separate holdings. Official version: MDM completed the restructuring of the property, a manager is not needed. Unofficial: owners MDM decided that large financial and industrial groups operating under a single brand attract too much attention. Nature of work Sergei Popova hardly from changing the name...
Date: 05/13/2004 7. Liquidation: “One shot and you’re out of business.” Nevertheless, we decided not to limit ourselves to the point of view of the press service MDM and tried to clarify the situation a little. Who are the shareholders? Sergey Popov The main secret of the group MDM these are its shareholders. Now two people are publicly recognized as the determining shareholders - Chairman of the Board of Directors of MDM Bank Andrey Melnichenko and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the group MDM and member of the board of directors of MDM Bank Sergey Popov.
Date: 04/12/2004 8. French pranks of Russian oligarchs. True, the head of MDM Bank Andrey Melnichenko and the head of MDM Group almost did not participate in the general fun Sergey Popov: they hardly danced (just a little and very stiffly), they mostly sat in the corner of the club.
Date: 09.23.2002 9. “The most officially rich people in Russia.” Co-owners of the financial group MDM Andrey Melnichenko (pictured) and... Following Sergei The Galitskys in the ranking are mostly well-known names. Vagit Alekperov (LUKOIL), Alexander Frolov (Evraz), Andrey Melnichenko and Sergey Popov(the list of companies whose shares they own, as you can see, did not fit into the table; we had to limit ourselves to only large blocks).
Date: 01/23/2007 10. Metallurgy-2004. Dmitry Pumpyansky At the time of the deal with the group MDM Dmitry Pumpyansky's Sinara group of companies seemed to many to be a victim of oligarchic games Sergei Popova. However, in practice it turned out that the object of the transaction - Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) - is capable of developing without MDM. Sinara turned out to be at least no less competent in the pipe business than the former owner of TMK. The success of Dmitry Pumpyansky is not the first career and image rise of regional businessmen in metallurgy, but, perhaps, one...
Date: 08/18/2004 11. Our people are on the shore. By that time, Donatella Versace was already vacationing there with friends and those who accidentally stopped by Sergey Voronov from Crossroads with Katya Mil. Around the same time, a good group of people were hanging out at the Baoli restaurant, at the very beginning of the Croisette, in the old port of Cannes. The Russians came here for the Come&party. The invitations announced that the holiday would last from 9 pm to 9 am, but not a word about the occasion - the birthday of the group president MDM Sergei Popova and the president of the company...
Date: 08/19/2002 12. Who is who in the “Golden Hundred” -2007. 23. Sergey Popov$4.9 billion Finance, coal 35 years old, married " Popov and Melnichenko are one of the strongest tandems in Russian business, they complement each other perfectly,” Nikolai Levitsky, a former top manager of the group, told Forbes last year MDM.-Sergey more emotional, has a crazy gift of persuasion, his charisma is so powerful.
Date: 04/20/2006 13. Bank managers do not know the owners. His bank is owned by the Austrian MDM Holding, but the names of its owners have been made public - these are Andrey Melnichenko and Sergey Popov. The financial director of the International Bank of St. Petersburg, Gennady Meshcheryakov, who participated in the IFC survey, also considers the results of the study good. The bank does not hide its owner. "It's even easier for me in negotiations when I can say that my bank belongs to Mr. [ Sergei] Bazhanov, although there are many other shareholders,” says the financial director.
Date: November 24, 2003 14. The richest heirs of Russian billionaires (Forbes ranking - 2016). ... billion Find out something either about the heirs of the former owner MDM Jar Sergei Popova not easy. The businessman avoids publicity and demands that his employees make every effort to prevent the media from mentioning his name. Friends of the businessman told Forbes that he has two children of primary school age. Their potential inheritance is several billion dollars in a trust registered in Jersey. This money Popov received after the division of the Group’s business MDM with Andrey Melnichenko and the sale of assets...
Date: 05/19/2016 15. Rating of Russian billionaires 2011. ... Transgroup A/S and Transmashholding 1963 17 6 Gennady Timchenko 8.9 271.2 Co-owner of oil trader Gunvor, Rossiya Bank and Novatek 1952 18 - 3 Andrey Melnichenko 8.4 256 Chairman of the Board of Directors and owner of Eurochem, partner Sergei Popova(No. 25) for SUEK 1972 19 -3 Alexey Kuzmichev 7.9 240.8 Chairman of the advisory committee A1, co-owner of Alfa Group 1962 20 -3 Vladimir Evtushenkov 7.8 237.7 Chairman of the board of directors and main owner of AFK Sistema » 1948 21 0 Alexander...
Date: 02/14/2011 16. Rating of Russian billionaires 2010. ... Vester 1962 297 -49 Vladimir Gordeychuk 0.24 7.3 General Director of Thunder, minority shareholder of Magnit 1961 298 25 Sergey Kozlovsky 0.24 7.3 Co-owner of the Inkom-real estate corporation 1958 299 Artem Kuznetsov 0.24 7.3 Co-owner of the Guta group, son-in-law of Yuri Gushchin (No. 169) 1967 300 -92 Viktor Makushin 0.24 7.3 Owner industrial group "Mair" 301 49 Konstantin Popov 0.24 7.3 Partner Sergei Kozlovsky (No. 298) for the Inkom Corporation 1960 302 Dmitry Taraba 0.24 7.3 Chairman of the Board of Directors and...
Date: 02/15/2010 17. Plowmen of the metallurgical field: who are all these people? Popov Sergey Viktorovich, member of the board of directors of MDM Bank.
Date: 09/15/2005 18. MDM remembered "Krasugol". “SUEK and MDM Bank have common shareholders -- Sergey Popov and Andrey Melnichenko.
One of the partners MDM said that this client is SUEK.
Date: 06/17/2004 19. Chronicle of attacks on the “Bridge” As reported in the secretariat of the vice-president of the “Bridge” group Sergei Zverev, at 22.30 representatives of the prosecutor’s office arrived at the bank and handed over an official statement from Vladimir Gusinsky.
... 1991 Yu. Luzhkov was elected vice-mayor (together with G. Popov, who became the mayor of Moscow) and headed the Moscow government, which gradually began to take control of the capital. Next year, with the departure Popova, the mayor’s office also ended up in Luzhkov’s hands...
Date: 05/16/2000 20. Top-96 (Forbes-2017). Melnichenko - one of the founders MDM Bank, on the basis of which in the late 1990s - early 2000s, together with a billionaire Sergei Popov a real industrial empire was built. Subsequently, Melnichenko and Popov divided the assets.
Date: 03/21/2017

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