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 The Central Bank revoked the licenses from the “Purpe” Bank registered in Nizhnevartovsk, CreditBank (Elista, Kalmykia) and the non-bank credit organization “Yutikpey” (Moscow) on October, 16. The withdrawal of licenses in all three cases is associated with non-compliance in the field of combating laundering of crime-generated money and financing of terrorism, as the press service of the Central Bank reports.

Temporary administrations were appointed in “Purpe”, Kreditbank and “Yutikpey” NCO by the today’s order of the Central Bank until the appointment of bankruptcy liquidators or bankruptcy trustees. The powers of the executive bodies of credit institutions have been suspended.

According to the reports as of October 1, 2014, the “Purpe” Bank took the 640 th place in terms of the assets volume in the banking system of Russia. The payments to the depositors of the “Purpe” Bank will begin no later than on October 30, 2014, as the Deposit Insurance Agency reported. According to the data as of October, 1, Creditbank took the 681th place in terms of assets volume among Russian banks, “Yutikpey” took the 837th line. At the end of September 2014 the Moscow City Court arrested the former chairman of the board of directors and the major shareholder of “Purpe” Aleksey Evdokimov, as the “Kommersant” newspaper wrote.

The basis for the arrest and detention of the banker were the data obtained during the investigation of the circumstances of the theft  of122 million roubles allocated on the investment program “Small Ring of Moscow Railway” by Russian Railways. The law enforcement investigation accused Evdokimov of aiding large-scale fraud (Part 5 of Article 33, Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

In addition to the Head of the “Purpe” Bank, the defendants in the case are the head of the Investment Management of the Moscow branch of Russian Railways Andrei Soldatenko, the head of investment projects of the Moscow branch of Russian Railways Ivan Marchuk, as well as their friends businessmen Igor Agapeev and Michael Romanenkov. According to the data of the official website of “Purpe” Bank, Aleksey Evdokimov is no longer the chairman of the board of directors, but remains its member. The chairman is Maksim Kozlov owning 19.62% stake in the bank.