11 Facts About Andrey Akimov

Andrey Igorevich Akimov is the chairman of the management board of Gazprombank.

Andrey Akimov is believed to be a former KGB agent with the rank of general and a member of the Russian Intelligence Community.

Andrey Akimov's father was a military engineer that developed weapons for the USSR Ministry of Defense, and his mother was a mathematics teacher.

Andrey Akimov graduated from a secondary school in Moscow that specialized in English.

From 1974 to 1987, Andrey Akimov was employed in at the Foreign Trade Bank of the USSR at senior positions heading the financial operations department, which was involved with securities, of VTB USSR until 1985.

Andrey Akimov travelled to many places after his 1981 success in Sweden including many trips to Switzerland to the famous Zurich based Sovzagranbank "Voskhod Handelsbank", which was headed by Yuri Karnaukh, in support of gold trades apparently transporting gold under aircraft passenger seats, according to Nikolai Krotov, until the collapse of the Swiss bank in 1984.

At IMAG, Andrey Akimov had a mandate from the Supreme Economic Council under the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation "in order to attract loans and investments in the Russian economy".

In November 2002, Andrey Akimov has taken up a post of the chairman of the management board of the GPB.

Since December 2006, Andrey Akimov is a member of the Novatek Board of Directors.

Andrey Akimov is a member of the supervisory board of the CSKA ice hockey club.

Andrey Akimov was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.