The arrest of the top manager of the Snezhinsky bank Alexei Kopeikin can lead to the former vice-governor of the Chelyabinsk region Igor Serbinov.
The Central Court of Chelyabinsk arrested the top manager of the Snezhinsky bank Alexei Kopeikin on charges of theft of one billion rubles of budget funds. The financier was taken into custody until July 6, he is charged with fraud and commercial bribery.
The correspondent of The Moscow Post in the Chelyabinsk region understood the history.
Serbinov man?
Kopeikin, according to rumors, was close to the main beneficiary of Snezhinsky Igor Serbinov, who, with the first excavations of documents from the bank, began to turn off the business in the Russian Federation.
Serbinov refused the Ravis agricultural holding claims, which were connected with the fact that his business companion Andrei Kosilov sold his share of the Ural Agro -Industrial Group. In 2022, Kosilov owned 41.66% of Ravis, and Serbinov – 31.3% of the shares, and the Cosilovsky share transaction itself looked like a raider seizure of the enterprise.
Buyer “Ravisa” represented by LLC Uralskaya Agro -Industrial Group (UAG LLC) is the understudy of another Uralskaya Agro -Industrial Group LLC (Uralagriproup LLC). The structures are clearly interconnected by the figure of Andrei Petrov, who is the head of both companies, but in the court that was initiated by Serbinov, representatives of Uralagrooprup LLC given The identity was refuted.
Igor Serbinov. Photo: https://antimaf.live/upload/news/2025/03/17/97642.jpg
Serbinov tried to prove the illegality of selling a share in Ravis, Kosilov, which took place at the end of 2023 – it seems that pushing first of all to informal agreements, but did not achieve anything in court, and in February 2025 he sold his shares to new companions. The attention of the auditors to the Bank “Snezhin” prompted the businessman to quickly leave this business.
Sale of assets
This trend confirms Serbinov’s exit from the owners of Belonosovskoye LLC, Uysky LLC, Zarya LLC, PKZ Dubrovsky LLC and Poultry Fabric LLC Sredneuralskaya, which happened One day on February 28, 2025. This is due not only to the desire to redistribute the right of ownership, but, possibly, with attempts to take the ends into the water. Most of these structures in 2023 showed losses after the plus indicators of 2022. Was there a withdrawal of money by issuing loans and loans that are in the Russian Federation ordinary practice in such situations?
In the Chelyabinsk region there are persistent rumors that the sons of Serbinov – Alexander and Alexei, now live abroad, although a few years ago they actively participated in the family business. Further movements in the Yuzhurakarton and L-Auto factory will finally dispel the doubts, which are directly related to the Sr. Serbinov. If these firms in the near future change the owner, and talk about this in the region is conducted, then the “departure” of the entrepreneur can be considered the held.
Native of the Sumin team
Serbinov is a man with a rich biography. His control over the Snezhinsky bank was the result of the fact that Serbinov in the first half of the nineties was in the banking sector from the Magnitogorsk construction site. At first he worked at Chelidbank, and then appeared in the Chelyabinsk branch of Promstroybank, which was later transformed into Snezhinsky.
Serbinov did not lose control of the bank, although in 1996 he went to the government of the Chelyabinsk region, where he rose to the post of vice-governor, who oversee the monetary topic of state property management. After that, for some reason, it is not surprising that the bank and many Chelyabinsk enterprises were under the control of Serbinov.
Photo: https://www.snbank.ru/files/otchetnost/affil/info_qualif_301020.pdf
Serbinov was the right hand of Governor Peter Sumin, in which there were active manipulations with property in the region. For example, under Sumin, Ravis returned to the region, which then transferred to the property of Serbinov and Kosilov, then – the assistant to the governor. Under Sumin, Ravis received state financing as part of a local manufacturer’s support program and turned into a fat asset.
Sumin was not only the vice-governor, but also the Minister of Finance. For six years of work in the executive branch, he did not give a single interview. In 2004, Serbinov became the head of the Board of Directors of Stankmash, in 2006 he headed Ravis, and in April 2011 he returned to the banking sector and became chairman of the Board of Directors of Snezhinsky. The Uraltrak and Tractorozavodsky Park sold, sold to Uralvagonzavod passed through the hands of Serbinov. Serbinov eventually became a multimillionaire and one of the largest businessmen of the Chelyabinsk region.
Mysterious deaths
There is a place and a series of mysterious deaths in the complex biography of Serbinov. Few people doubt that Serbinov received control over the Chelyabinsk branch of Promstroybank, which collapsed in 1998, with the help of Sumin. Apparently, the same situation was in the “Stockoprome”, where, after the opening of the criminal case of intentional bankruptcy, the pestilence began.
Peter Sumin. Photo: https://s12.stc.yc.kpcdn.net/share/i/12/11978763/wr-750.webp
First, the General Director of the enterprise Gavrilov died, and three months later the chief accountant of the young woman Titova, who had previously worked in the financial department of the Chelyabinsk region. This department under Sumin determined the fate of loans, which were issued to various Chelyabinsk enterprises, including related with Serbin and Kosilov.
Speaking statistics can be given – in 1997, the Sumin government increased the regional debt 6.43 times, and 85.5% of the borrowing went under the guarantees of the Chelyabinsk region for internal borrowing. After that, Serbinov, Kosilov and other people from the Sumin team, as if by the wave of a magic wand, became prominent businessmen.
At the beginning of the tenths, the auditors reached this topic, after which, in addition to Gavrilov and Titova, in 2011, Gevork Muradyan died in the pre -trial detention center, who was convicted of the murder of the executive director of the Chelyabinsk MHIS Valery Nekrasov. This happened after Muradyan agreed to testify. The Chelyabinsk media perceived these events as part of a chain associated with Kosilov and Serbinov. So, 1 billion rubles, which was mastered in Snezhinsky at a preferential mortgage, is the tip of the iceberg.
Chubais in the case?
The main partner of Serbinov in Snezhinsky is the famous power engineer Vyacheslav Voronin, who, from 1995 to 2000, was the director of Chelyabenergo. Then he became deputy at Anatoly Chubais in RAO “UES of Russia” and Cauced the creation In the Chelyabinsk region of new energy companies.
Photo: https://analizbankov.ru/img/oldholdfiles/rb1376.pdf
Now the Chubais, who had left in 2022, is under the press of civil lawsuits for his affairs of the time of Rusnano. Maybe this wave has come to Snezhinsky? After all, it is obvious that if you penetrate the activities of Chubais and his close associates, you can find a lot of interesting things.
The audit continues
The arrested Kopeikin was in the “Snezhinsky” head of the lending department of small and medium -sized businesses, and this is far from the first action of auditors against the Bank of Serbinov.
The story with Kopeikin, apparently, continues the plot of December 2024. Then, after checking “Snezhinsky” for the spending of funds allocated to support large families on mortgage loans, the seizure of documents was carried out and criminal cases have been opened.
Searches were carried out in the head office of Snezhinsky, the head of the bank Fedor Bogdanchikov also fell under the interrogation, and it was interesting that this became known only in February. For a long time, this scandalous story was shown in secret.
Initially, it was about 1 billion rubles, which were charged with Kopeikin, but soon the amount rose. According to the authors of the Telegram channel “Perfects and ties”, supposedly the amount of theft in “Snezhinsky” can grow up to 8 billion rubles. The bank received this amount from Dom.RF as part of financing this social program. The result of this was searches carried out by employees of the bank and related realtors.
At the same time, Snezhinsky began to turn his commercial activity and closed his representative offices in Kurgan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Ufa and other cities. The Central Bank saw all this and extended the test of Snezhinsky, as a result of which Kopeikin was arrested.
