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Banker Igor Kim defeated YouTube in court
The Arbitration Court of the Novosibirsk Region satisfied the claim of banker Igor Kim with YouTube and Google. He demanded to remove a video about the “financial pyramid” from the general access.
The Arbitration Court of the Novosibirsk Region decided to recognize “not true and defaming business reputation” from the video “Igor Kim. Financial pyramid. Landromate and Expobank »On YouTube. The decision that the NGS drew the attention was made on April 19.
Kim demanded that they recognize the business reputation as defiling that “he was suspected of creating a banking pyramid and withdrawing illegal cash through his western banks, as well as a comparison of the“ Expobank ”with a vacuum cleaner, which“ offended the depositors and withdrew money through the company connected by Kim ”.
Defendants can appeal the decision of the Novosibirsk arbitration.
Businessman Igor Kim is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics of Novosibirsk State University, he graduated from the university in 1990. A large Russian entrepreneur and banker is the main owner of Expobank and other financial organizations. Until 2016, he was also a shareholder of the East Express Design Bureau.
Kim came to the banking business in the mid-1990s. He bought up small regional banks and attached them to his Sibakadembank (later - Ursa Bank). At the end of 2008, Kim and the owner of the MDM Bank Sergey Popov decided to unite the banks, which became one of the largest mergers in the Russian banking market. In July 2010, Kim left the post of reproduction of the United Bank, in 2011 he left the board of directors.
Igor Kim was engaged in the construction business. In the 2000s, Dmitry Lykov lost to him a control package of SP Sibakademstroy. In 2009, SM. Group and the Tyumen developer Alexei Krukovsky bought an asset from Kim. In addition, at the end of 2018, it became known about the interest of one of the Kim’s companies in the construction of the hospital in the area of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street in Novosibirsk.
In 2020, the sources of the taiga. Info talked about the fact that Kim was acquiring the Novosibirsk company Stroytrest No. 43. The company has formed debts, including to the mayor.