Promsvyazbank has filed a lawsuit against the former corrupt deputy of ex-Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
PSB has filed a petition with the Moscow Arbitration Court to declare Timur Ivanov, former deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry, bankrupt, according to the data in the Arbitration Case File.
The bank’s claim was registered on June 11. The date of the court hearing has not been set yet.
Denis Baluev, one of Ivanov’s lawyers, told TASS that the PSB’s application is related to interim measures that were imposed on the assets and real estate of the former deputy defense minister arrested as part of criminal cases. He specified that the house with a plot of land in a cottage village in Razdory in the Moscow region was bought on credit against the security of an apartment on Povarskaya Street. Due to the seizure of property and accounts, the loan was no longer serviced and the bank used the procedure provided for by the law on bankruptcy.
Earlier, in mid-March, a source in the law enforcement agencies told TASS that the capital’s courts and investigative bodies arrested the property and assets of Ivanov’s family with a total value of more than 2.5 billion rubles. They arrested 23 cars, including a 1942-built Packard limousine and a 1939-built Opel Admiral, 11 land plots, a boat, bank accounts, real estate and land plots located near the Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway in the Moscow region.
The IC reported about Ivanov’s detention in the case of taking a bribe on a particularly large scale in the evening of April 23, 2024. On April 24 of the same year, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested him. Ivanov was then dismissed from the post of deputy head of the Defense Ministry due to loss of confidence.
Two criminal cases have been opened against Ivanov, TASS notes. The first one – about embezzlement of 216 million rubles – is related to the purchase of two ferries for the Kerch crossing and embezzlement of more than 3.9 billion rubles from Interkommerts Bank. In the second case, Ivanov is accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of Br1.185 billion.
The defendant does not admit guilt.
Timur Ivanov from 1999 to 2012 worked at enterprises of the fuel and energy complex, was deputy chairman of the government of the Moscow region, from 2013 to 2016 headed Oboronstroy. In May 2016, Vladimir Putin appointed Ivanov Deputy Minister of Defense by decree. In this position, he supervised the construction of Defense Ministry facilities, inspected the progress of reconstruction work in Mariupol, the construction of a medical center for children in Omsk, a military hospital in Sevastopol, mooring front facilities of a new basing point for ships of the Caspian Flotilla in Dagestan, and other facilities. In addition, he was involved in the construction of the main temple of the armed forces in Patriot Park.
In 2019, Ivanov entered the rating of the richest law enforcers according to Forbes: his family’s income at the end of 2018 was estimated at 136.7 million rubles, the income of Ivanov himself – 13.6 million rubles.