Andrey Igorevich Akimov (in Russian: Андре́й И́горевич Аки́мов, born 22 September 1953 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is the chairman of the management board of Gazprombank (open joint-stock company).
[5] At the Moscow Financial Institute, he became friends with both Valery Lyakin[a] and Vladimir Dmitriev and earned his degree in 1975, studying international economics, finance and banking.
[5] In 1978, he had a six-month internship at the East-West United Bank in Luxembourg, and, in 1981, he went to Sweden and negotiated a $100 million loan with the export agency.
[5] He travelled to many places after his 1981 success in Sweden including many trips to Switzerland to the famous Zurich based Sovzagranbank "Voskhod Handelsbank" (Russian: совзагранбанке «Восход Хандельсбанк») (Wozсhod Handelsbank), which was headed by Yuri Karnaukh,[13] 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.
[5] From 1985 to 1987, he held a post, which is usually given to an undercover KGB agent, as Deputy Director General of the Soviet Vneshtorgbank branch in Zurich (Switzerland).
[9][10][18][19][d] Upon the establishment of RosUkrEnergo (Russian: РосУкрЭнерго), many top managers at the Moscow office of the Swiss firm IMAG GmbH moved to Gazprombank.
[26][27][28] Following the bankruptcy of Krasny Oktyabr in 2009 in which the Andrei Borodin led Bank of Moscow was a large creditor, Akimov, as the interim manager of the plant, appointed the Ukrainian Dmitro Gerasimenko, who is the owner of Dieg-Impex LLC (Russian: ООО «Диег-Импэкс»), to be executive director of Krasny Oktyabr[f] and who in November 2018 "sold" the plant to Pavel Krotov.