Troika Dialog was co-founded by the American Peter Derby (; born 18 August 1960
United States) and Bernard Sucher in 1991. He served as president and CEO of Troika Dialog from 1991 to 1996 and as chairman from 1996 to 1997. As founder and president of Bank of Moscow from 1995 until 2011 when
VTB obtained control of Bank of Moscow,
Andrei Borodin controlled the Troika Dialog. From 1997 to 2002, its executive director was
Andrei Andreivich Movchan and its managing director for investment banking was
Sergey Viktorovich Skvortsov. In May 2002,
Alexander Mamut became a director. From 2003 to 2006, its executive director was Sergey Skvortsov. From April 2006 to March 2013 when he became a managing director for investments of the State Corporation Russian Technologies (
Rostec) in April 2013, Sergey Skortsov was Troika Dialog's main partner and the president of Troika Capital Partners, which manages private equity and venture capital funds as well as Troika Dialog's own investments In 2008 under Skvortsov's leadership, Troika Dialog spearheaded the
alliance of
AvtoVAZ-
Renault-
Nissan and the partnership among
KAMAZ OJSC,
Daimler AG Concern and
Rostec. In early April 2008,
Rubin Vandaryan stated that Troika Dialog through Avtoinvest and Kamaz-Capital had the controlling stake in KamAZ. Since 2008, Troika Dialog was the nominal owner of AvtoVAZ and KamAZ for the beneficial owner
Sergei Roldugin. Troika Dialog has been privately owned by 109 employee partners. In March 2009, the company announced a strategic alliance with
Standard Bank Group under which Standard Bank will become a 36% shareholder in Troika Dialog. In March 2011,
Sberbank agreed to acquire Troika Dialog for US$1 billion, through the purchase of a 63.6 percent stake held by a shareholder group led by
Ruben Vardanyan, and a 36.4 percent stake held by South Africa's
Standard Bank. In 2012 the brokerage firm has been acquired by Russia's biggest bank, Sberbank, for US$1bn and continued operation as a part of its investment banking division.
Troika Laundromat Also known as
ŪkioLeaks, Troika Laundromat was a collection of 70 offshore shell companies whose controllers used them to move billions of dollars of private wealth from Russia to the west. About $4.6bn was paid into the Troika network, and a similar sum was paid out of it. It was operated by staff at an independent arm of the Russian investment bank
Troika Dialog, which has now been merged with one of Russia's two big state-owned banks. The network was like a washing machine: money arrived from many sources. Most transfers were at Lithuania's
Ukio Bank, closed by the authorities in February 2013. ==Operations==