OREANDA-NEWS. November 05, 2015. The provisional administration of JSC BANK RSKB appointed by Bank of Russia Order No. OD-1294, dated 10 June 2015, due to the revocation of its banking licence, held an inspection of the credit institution’s financial standing and established that the value of the bank’s assets did not exceed 757 million rubles with the value of liabilities to creditors standing at 2370.3 million rubles.

Shortly before the revocation of the banking licence the management and owners of JSC BANK RSKB conducted operations having signs of asset withdrawal or concealing the facts of assets withdrawn earlier and preferentially satisfying claims of certain creditors to the detriment of the other.

Thus, the provisional administration revealed that the majority of the bank’s borrowers, legal entities with outstanding debt of over 2.3 billion rubles, were not engaged in real economic activity, while operations to provide them with loans had signs of asset withdrawal.

Moreover, the bank conducted operations to earlier terminate obligations of the chairman of the board of JSC BANK RSKB under the loan provided through returning to the bank gratuitous financial aid rendered earlier and through acquiring from him impaired loans of a legal entity with dubious solvency.

On 21 August 2015, the court of arbitration of the city of Moscow made a ruling to recognise JSC BANK RSKB as insolvent (bankrupt) and initiate bankruptcy proceedings. The state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency was approved as a receiver.

The Bank of Russia sent information on the financial operations of criminal nature made by the former managers and owners of JSC BANK RSKB to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for consideration and making the respective procedural decisions.