OREANDA-NEWS Anchor Bank has asked the Moscow Arbitration Court to impose a ban on its former chairman of the board of Directors and co-owner, as well as the famous pastry chef Andrei Korkunov, from leaving Russia. This is reported by Interfax.

The relevant application was accepted and will be considered by the court on September 24, the material says.

According to media reports, the businessman was engaged in the import of confectionery products in the 90s of the last century, and in 1999 launched the production of products with the Korkunov trademark. In the second half of the 2000s, he became involved in real estate projects and headed the board of directors of Tatekobank, which was bought together with partners, which was renamed Ankor. The Savings Bank." Korkunov's confectionery business, along with the brand of the same name, was sold to the American company Wrigley, which was later absorbed by the Mars Corporation.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation revoked the license for banking operations from Anchor Bank in the spring of 2017, shortly after that, the Arbitration Court of Tatarstan declared the credit institution bankrupt. In 2021, the Moscow Arbitration Court, at the request of the bank, whose bankruptcy trustee is the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), declared Korkunov himself bankrupt, introducing a property sale procedure against him.