Media have learned that all owners of the Moscow Bank for Development and Modernization of Industry (RMP Bank, formerly Futures Bank) have been placed under house arrest.
They are accused of money laundering and transferring funds out of Russia. This includes funds from the Shaumyan Plant, which works for Russia’s military-industrial complex. The plant is owned by the family of Konstantin Bratchikov, who was once tried for organizing the murder of Igor Klimov, the head of Almaz-Antey. The family resides in Israel and Argentina. As part of the case, house arrest as a preventive measure has been imposed on the plant’s beneficiaries Alexander Kozlov, Dmitry Aliev, Sergei Kolonotov, and accountant Elena Gerasimova, who was listed as the automation director at LLC D7 (owned by Aliev).
Searches for documents were conducted at the bank, with MVD employees looking for traces of funds being transferred abroad, including funds from the St. Petersburg Shaumyan Plant. It is owned by the Bratchikov business family, which has almost entirely relocated abroad and travels the world at the expense of supplying enterprises of the Ministry of Defense. The St. Petersburg Shaumyan Plant is under U.S. sanctions because it works for the military industrial sector and supports state programs related to the war. It produces oils and lubricants for Russian military equipment. Among the plant’s counterparties, for example, is the Yekaterinburg NPK Uralvagonzavod, which manufactures and repairs armored vehicles; military unit 3797, military unit 55056, Rosgvardia, and so on.
At the Shaumyan Plant itself, a permanent military acceptance operates on an ongoing basis—the 10th military representative office of the RF Ministry of Defense—and its employees participate in Rostec events.
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LLC Production Plant named after Shaumyan is 99% owned by St. Petersburg resident Larisa Bratchikova. Her husband, Konstantin Bratchikov, is known for having been tried twice and acquitted both times in the case of the murder of a former SVR employee and Russian presidential administration official, the head of the defense Almaz-Antey, Igor Klimov (shot by a hitman in Moscow in June 2003). Bratchikov had a joint business with Klimov, but in the early 2000s, the partners decided to divide the assets.
The Shaumyan Plant went to Bratchikov’s share. A conflict then arose between the partners. The enterprise has classified its reporting since 2022, but it is known that for 2021, its revenue amounted to 1.8 billion rubles, and profit—327.2 million rubles. Currently, the plant is suing the Federal Tax Service over additional taxes assessed at 400 million rubles for 2017-2019—the first instance and appeal have already been lost, and the cassation complaint hearing is scheduled for April 27. The family emigrated to Israel long ago, and the children served in the Israeli army. The Bratchikovs’ daughter Anastasia studied in the U.S. and then worked there as a ski instructor. The eldest son, Dmitry, the plant’s development director, now lives in Argentina with his wife Alena; Alena sells handmade kokoshniks—but this income is unlikely to even cover house rent. Larisa Bratchikova, judging by data leaks, lives in St. Petersburg: in 2023, she flew several times from the northern capital to Moscow, and in 2024—she renewed her driver’s license.
The elder Bratchikov, although he renounced Russian citizenship in favor of Israeli (and even headed the hockey federation there), has not closed his St. Petersburg business. In 2024, he became the founder of LLC ZiSh Funds (previously registered to the Israeli firm Motion Sport), which in the same year increased its revenue to 55.3 million rubles (+17%) and paid a total of 14.5 million rubles in taxes and fees.
The company holds the real estate assets of the Shaumyan Plant, after the first letters of which it is named and registered at the same address. In addition, Konstantin Bratchikov, a resident of Netanya, Israel, has business in Europe. For instance, he serves as technical director and investor of BMK Betriebs-GmbH in Bruges, which manages a "green" power plant. He has also owned a hotel in the Italian town of Fiume since 2019—the city’s mayor publicly announced a new investor. Larisa Bratchikova was previously a founder of the St. Petersburg LLC Vozrozhdenie, which also produces lubricating oils.
The company is now registered to Vitalina Tsybulko (60%) and Svetlana Artemova (40%). Tsybulko has long worked for the Bratchikov family: previously, she was the head of RT SPB (co-founder—Larisa Bratchikova) and PKB Ekstrem F, in which a share belonged to Larisa and Konstantin’s daughter Anastasia Bratchikova. Both of these companies are now liquidated.
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For 2025, Vozrozhdenie reported revenue of nearly half a billion rubles and a net profit of 140 million. It paid more than 112 million rubles in taxes and fees to the Russian budget.
Crime & Courts Correspondent
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