On November 19, 2021, it became known that the state-owned company was on the verge of default. So, a message about a meeting with creditors and large bondholders appeared on the company's website.
At it, according to the company, the financial results of Rusnano and "compromise options for the development of the situation that will avoid the most negative scenarios" were discussed. It was also stated at the meeting that the disproportionate debt and the current financial model of the state-owned company require adjustments.
In the evening of the same day, the Moscow Stock Exchange suspended trading in all issues of Rusnano bonds totaling 71.5 billion rubles. According to the official message of the exchange, the suspension was carried out by the order of the Bank of Russia. On Monday, November 22, the exchange resumed trading, and bond prices at the opening of trading on the Moscow Exchange, depending on the issue, decreased by 3-23%.
In May 2021, the state corporation "Rusnano" lost a credit line in the amount of over 13 billion rubles. Thus, on November 11, 2016, an agreement was signed between the company and the bank to open a credit line secured by a state guarantee with a limit of 15 billion rubles. for the period up to November 10, 2025, the money was supposed to be used for investment projects in the field of nanoindustry, financing of nanotechnology investment funds, as well as for repayment of loans or bond loans attracted by the borrower earlier.
Until September 2017, Bank Rossiya regularly issued credit funds to the state corporation, but in December 2017, illegally, from the point of view of Rusnano, refused the company 13.32 billion rubles. The money was required to repay obligations on bond loans. In this regard, Rusnano was forced to attract replacement loans from Sovcombank at a higher interest rate. As a result, Rusnano filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court on January 18, 2021, demanding that Bank Rossiya reimburse 1.28 billion rubles of costs. The claim was denied by the court.
On the eve of the official website of JSC "Rusnano" banned search engines from indexing their pages. At the same time, information about the structure and subsidiaries of the group disappeared from the site. The head of the ANO "Information Culture" Ivan Begtin was the first to draw attention to these circumstances in his telegram channel.
According to Begtin's observations, information about the activities of the state corporation began to disappear from open access. If the last version of the site (which was displayed until 2019) published detailed information about the Rusnano Group, including a list of its "subsidiaries" and the structure of the joint-stock company with a description of the structural divisions. The goals of the company, its history, as well as the section with the list of management have also disappeared from the site.
However, the version of the Rusnano website where the missing information is available can be found on the Internet Archive service.
"The Rusnano Group's website was updated as part of planned work in August 2021—" the company's representatives said . — In September, a new website was launched, which is indexed by search engines." She also added that information about Rusnano's assets is present directly on the websites of portfolio companies.
