Vneshprombank (VPB) is a Russian commercial bank, which stopped its activities on January 21, 2016 in connection with the revocation of the license by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
The bank had the 40th place in terms of assets in the Intefax-100 ranking. At the time of withdrawal of the license it set a record for the excess liabilities over assets: 187.4 billion rubles; later the financial "hole" was estimated at 210.1 billion rubles.
Among the owners of the media Vneshprombank were Alexander Zurabov, brother of Mikhail Zurabov (8.2%), and Nikolay Chilingarov, the son of Artur Chilingarov. Bank customers were the largest public and private organizations in Russia, senior officials, managers and their families.
Why collapsed the bank serving the state-owned companies, state managers and officials.
Telatives of high-ranking officials turned up to be among the VIP-depositors of the troubled bank.
The bank has about 27 billion of uninsured deposits.
The bank, established due to the former manager of Menatep Alexander Zurabov and Artur Chilingarov's son, is disconnected from the bank payment system (BESP) and tries to find the money to replenish capital.