Being a well-known Russian investor and businessman, Grigory Guselnikov is a regular participant in the television show “What? Where? When? ”, Owns an investment fund in London, presides over the board of directors of the Vyatka Bank financial institution. For two years in a row he was on the list of the most successful young people in Russia.
Grigory Guselnikov. Biography
Born in Novosibirsk on February 25, 1976. Gregory's parents were then simple Soviet engineers. His school years passed in Barnaul. In 1998, he became a certified economist, graduating from Tomsk Polytechnic University. The internship took place in the UK and the USA. He began working in the banking sector in 1996. A year later, he received the post of deputy head of department of UP Inkombank. Since 1999, he worked as head of the corporate development department at Guta Bank. In 2000, he worked as the head of the labor and motivation department of Rosbank.
In early 2001, Grigory Guselnikov moved to Binbank, where he became a member of the board and managed the retail business department. A year later, he became senior vice president, and later - first vice president. In 2008, he received the post of president of Binbank, and two years later left there. Since 2010, is a co-owner of the English company Alcantara.
Today, Guselnikov is a shareholder and chairman of the board of directors of Vyatka Bank, the founder of the new Single financial project, the London-based G2Capital investment fund, and holds 83.63% of Norvik Banka (a Latvian bank). The public ascribes to the banker the ownership of the One Hyde Park real estate complex in the prestigious London area.
Social activity
Grigory Guselnikov is a member of the television show “What? Where? When?" for 13 years, but never been a connoisseur. In 2010, he became the “Keeper of Traditions” of the Club. In the same year, he became an independent arbiter of the Brain Ring television game.
Among journalists, the banker became famous for the manner of communication on the verge of hysteria. Each negative publication in the press causes a number of threats from the lawyers of Vyatka Bank. In 2015, a financial institution filed a lawsuit against the publication Local Time for material on the bankruptcy of Ecoprombank. Moral compensation was also claimed.
Grigory Guselnikov. A family
Recently, the banker travels a lot, travels from Russia to England. He believes more in foreign countries, appreciates the worthy upbringing and education that this country can provide. He believes that in Russia there are many negative uncontrollable factors. Nevertheless, Grigory Guselnikov, whose wife and children live in England, considers living in a foreign country a bleak and wrong circumstance. He is pleased that his son has been brought up in a democratic, but at the same time harsh, Spartan school environment since the age of seven. He knows how to value money, is independent and does not grow with velvet. The school has gorgeous equipment, a swimming pool, football fields, musical instruments, but the rooms are ascetic. Both English princes studied at this boarding school.
Grigory Guselnikov with his wife Julia consider England a respectable country. The conservatives won the election with the slogan: "To cope with the ongoing economic crisis, you can, if you spend a little, save and work hard." A political leader with similar slogans in Russia will never win or advance on the career ladder. According to the banker, his son’s life in his homeland would be predetermined: to enroll in a university by pulling a job, and get a job by pulling a job. In England, he can not influence the fate of his son, everything depends on himself.
Personal life
According to some reports, the banker stole the girl from Alexander Lebedev. Grigory Guselnikov and Elena Perminova met for the first time in the London-based New Russian Oppositionists company, whose participants were: banker Lebedev, Evgeny Chichvarkin, Guselnikov’s friend Nikita Belykh and others. Through the fault of the opposition party, Lebedev lost not only his mistress, but also the seat of the senator of the Kirov region. Belykh promised him this chair for a round sum, Guselnikov intervened and convinced him by promoting his candidate, and they explained to the disgraced banker that the "bloody Putin regime" was the reason for everything. Grigory Guselnikov, whose personal life was not legible, according to media reports and in the past did not differ in cleanliness.
Friends of the couple confirmed that Perminova and Guselnikov were madly passionate about each other, but they never showed their union openly. After meeting a banker, Elena, whose long relationship with Lebedev never became official, decided to start a trial and get a decent amount of money from the entrepreneur to support two common children. At the same time, it was not clear for a long time whether Guselnikov intended to leave his family, wife and two children living in England.
Compromising data
According to the Latvian Internet agency Pietiek.com, Grigory Guselnikov is going through four criminal cases in the FSB in Russia related to economic crimes in Russia. The banker is suspected of laundering large sums of money, their withdrawal in offshore. Latvians suspect Guselnikov of illegal withdrawal of funds from Norvik Banka, which provided services to Russian businessmen and politicians. In 2013, the Latvian supervisory authorities imposed restrictions on the activities of the bank.
Grigory Guselnikov, whose biography contains many dark spots, invested 70 million euros in the development of Norvik Banka. Despite this, the institution experienced a large staff turnover. The vacant posts were occupied by employees from the staff of the Vyatka Bank financial institution. According to the applicants, the banker withdrew huge amounts through a subsidiary, acquiring shares in four companies. All four companies were registered a week before the publication of the information that Guselnikov became a shareholder of Norvik Banka. The deal amounted to almost two and a half billion euros, which is exactly what he invested in a Latvian bank.
Two banks
In 2014, Norvik Banka bought back 97% of the shares of Vyatka Bank. Both institutions belonged to Guselnikov. This allowed the banker to conduct transactions with the highest risks through the Russian bank without consequences. All responsibility fell on the shoulders of Norvik Banka. According to the experts of the Pietiek agency, Gregory laundered money in Latvia and took it offshore through a bank. As they say in the agency, among financiers, Guselnikov and his banks are called large vacuum cleaners for the constant infusion of new investments that support cash flow.
Window to Europe
Kirovsky Vyatka Bank is the project on the basis of which Guselnikov created the Norvik banking group. This happened in 2014 after the banker became the main shareholder of Norvik Bank in Latvia. The deal caused an explosion of enthusiasm in Kirov: during the crisis, business from Vyatka gets a “window to Europe”. The decision taken by the board of directors in March 2015 casts doubt on all the perspective horizons boldly drawn by Kirov journalists under the influence of the bank’s press service.
The minutes of the meeting said the Vyatka Bank would be increased by placing uncertified shares (more than three billion shares) with a total value of about one and a half million through private subscription among an unknown circle of people. It is not clear specifically what kind of people we are talking about. Apparently, this is the wife of Grigory Guselnikov. In addition, the placement of shares was carried out among the relatives of the Guselnikovs, Bulkhovs and other persons.
Financial laundress
Vyatka Bank schemes were disclosed by Perm journalists and Latvian detectives. This tarnished financial institution has fallen into an even more grandiose scandal. Vyatka Bank OJSC is controlled by the Guselnikov family. Any comments in the press threaten journalists with litigations with lawyers, but this threatening position did not allow avoiding public exposure of financial transactions of a dubious nature. This was reported by journalists of the Perm Territory and the Latvian Investigation Agency.
The problems of the Guselnikov family caused an international outcry: dubious transactions are already known in the Latvian Prosecutor General's Office and the American Embassy. Not so long ago, Vyatka Bank began to be controlled from Riga. Moreover, there are facts that the pathetic proposals for "foreign investment" are a screen for ingenious moves to launder money. Vyatka Bank is silent - there are no comments on the official website. But explanations are required by individuals, customers who have become victims of fraud. They have not been able to return their own deposits for a long time.
Baltic Scams
The fact that Grigory Guselnikov fell under suspicion of illegal money laundering and fundraising offshore, the Perm newspaper Local Time reported, referring to the Pietiek investigation agency (Latvia).
According to reporters, the agency sent an official statement to the publication, addressed to the Attorney General of the Baltic state, Eric Kalnmeyer. Copies of the document were sent to all the heads of the anti-corruption bureau, the security police, the economic police and the state police, specialized prosecutors for combating organized crime and the service that impedes the legalization of proceeds from crime.
The senders of the statement note that all the information they received was received by the Prime Minister of Latvia and the US Ambassador in order to stop such actions in the future and to prevent the incident from being forgotten.
According to the information contained in this statement, Grigory Guselnikov, whose photo is easy to find, most likely participated in the drain of funds of the Latvian bank Norvik Banka (owner of the Vyatka Bank joint stock bank). In the fall of 2014, Latvian media reported that the main shareholder and chairman of Norvik Banka, a Russian citizen, Mr. Guselnikov, was investing in the bank an amount close to 70 million euros, increasing the fixed capital of a financial institution to 123 million euros. In addition, information was published about the ambitious plans of the Russian banker related to the development of Norvik Banka. He promised to make the institution one of the most versatile and technologically advanced in the North of Europe.
Unique situation
In parallel with the above events, the bank’s expenses for the maintenance of the administrative apparatus jumped sharply. Firstly, the salary of the main shareholder was fabulously high. In fact, the senders of the application believe that Guselnikov is paying the problems of his own Vyatka Bank at the expense of Norvik Banka. In autumn 2014, it became known that Norvik Banka bought a 98% stake in Vyatka Bank. The transaction took place, but the form of payment was not money, but shares of a Kirov bank. Now, Norvik Banka is actually responsible for all areas of Vyatka Bank's business. A unique situation was created when the latter has the right to take risks and make any transactions, since the Baltic bank that owns it will still be paid.
