Andrey Akimov

Andrey Igorevich Akimov (in , born 22 September 1953 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is the chairman of the management board of Gazprombank (open joint-stock company). He is believed to be a former KGB agent with the rank of general and a member of the Russian Intelligence Community.

Early life and education Akimov was born in Leningrad in 1953, but, when he was three months old, his family moved to Moscow. His father was a military engineer that developed weapons for the USSR Ministry of Defense, and his mother was a mathematics teacher. heading it from November 1990 until November 1992 in another source and later became chairman of the board of VTB Bank (Deutschland) AG in Frankfurt am Main which was formerly known as Ost-West Handelsbank. and Vladimir Dmitriev and earned his degree in 1975, studying international economics, finance and banking.

Career

Vneshtorgbank From 1974 to 1987, Andrey Akimov was employed in at the Foreign Trade Bank of the USSR (Vneshtorgbank) at senior positions heading the financial operations department, which was involved with securities, of VTB USSR until 1985. In September 1975, he participated with the Soviet Foreign Trade Ministry during the negotiations with Japan culminating in an agreement with the 1974 established Japanese company Sakhalin Sekiyu Kaihatsu Kyoreku Kabushiki Kaisha (Sodeco) for the development of the Sakhalin-1 field on Sakhalin Island, and, in 1977 for his first trip outside of the Soviet Union, he travelled to Japan as a government expert and an employee of Vneshtorgbank to negotiate trade in consumer goods and large-diameter pipes with Japanese officials. in support of gold trades apparently transporting gold under aircraft passenger seats, according to Nikolai Krotov, until the collapse of the Swiss bank in 1984. During this time, Donau Bank allegedly serviced very large debts of Bulgaria and, which the Austrian Die Presse wrote at the time, was "adherence to an overly expansive business strategy". In 1992, his IMAG GmbH organized the financing from foreign banks for the Andrey Katkov , Yevgeny Malov , Adolf Smirnov and Gennady Timchenko associated oil trader Kinex which, in 1993, the St. Petersburg mayor's office transferred oil export quotas which were coming from the Kirishi oil refinery to Kinex and, later, this allowed Timchenko to establish the oil trader Gunvor. Upon the establishment of RosUkrEnergo , many top managers at the Moscow office of the Swiss firm IMAG GmbH moved to Gazprombank.

Gazprombank (GPB) In November 2002, Akimov has taken up a post of the chairman of the management board of the GPB (OJSC). Through Gazprombank, Akimov, Michael Hason, who is president of Liechtenstein-registered CAP Holding, a deputy chairman the Liechtenstein Sygma Bank and involved with a Martin Schlaff associated Latvian oil company, Martin Schlaff, who is associated with the Vienna based bank BAWAG also transliterated as BAVAG and Robert Novikovsky also transliterated as Nowikovsky or Novikov , who was the chairman of the board of Baltic Holding , formed Yurimex also transliterated as Jurimex which is co-located with the Martin Schlaff associated firm Getex. Yurimex (Jurimex) later became Centrex .

Krasny Oktyabr Following the bankruptcy of Krasny Oktyabr in 2009 in which the Andrei Borodin led Bank of Moscow was a large creditor, Akimov, as the interim manager of the plant, appointed the Ukrainian Dmitro Gerasimenko, who is the owner of Dieg-Impex LLC , to be executive director of Krasny OktyabDmitro Gerasimenko, who began his career with Dneprospetsstal , placed numerous persons from Dneprospetsstal at positions at Krasny Oktyabr including his mother Svetlana Gerasimenko, who became financial director, Eduard Shifrin, who worked with Svetlana Gerasimenko at Dneprospetsstal, Vadim Leibenzon, who Gerasimenko calls his "right hand" and in the early 1990s led the steel shop at Dneprospetsstal and became general director of Dneprospetsstal in 1998-2001 and 2003-2004, and Konstantin Ryabov, who became the president of Red October International and was very close to Viktor Pinchuk who had been a co-owner of Dneprospetsstal until 2008.

Corporate boards Since December 2006, Akimov is a member of the Novatek Board of Directors.

Sanctions In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him and 23 other Russian nationals during the war in Donbas. Following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Akimov was sanctioned by the UK.

He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Personal life In Russian media, his romantic partner has previously been identified as painter Marianna Chaykina .

The Pandora Papers leaks revealed that Akimov owned at least eight shell companies over the period 2007–2018 which were registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and some of the companies were co-owned by Marianna Chaykina.