A career intelligence officer with a diploma from the Plekhanov institute
of the National Economy. Served in the USSR KGB's First Main Directorate
(Foreign Intelligence).
Belyaninov began his career as a financial expert in 1992 at the REA-bank.
In 1997 the bank collapsed but even before that, in 1994, Belyaninov had
moved to the post of deputy chairman of the management board at Novikombank
and a year later he became the bank's head. After Sergey Chemezov's
appointment last September as general director of Promeksport Belyaninov
headed the financial department in the firm. (Segodnya 09 Nov 00 PP 1-2).
"In the late eighties he worked in the Soviet Embassy in the GDR
where he became acquainted with Vladimir Putin, the senior operations officer
[starshiy operupolnomochennyy] at the First Main Directorate's Dresden
station, and Sergey Chemezov, the head of the Luch Foreign Trade Association's
office. In 1991 he was discharged from the KGB. In 1993 he
became CEO at Novikombank, which was founded by the Association of Foreign
Intelligence Veterans. In 1997 Novikombank featured in a criminal
case: The Orekhovo-Zuyevo criminal gang laundered money there that
it had obtained from the sale of stolen gasoline. In 1999 Mr. Belyaninov
became first deputy director of Promeksport." (Kommersant 09 Nov 00 PP
1,4).
