The National Bank's exquisite will be tried in Ukraine for stealing funds
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NABU and SAP were sent to court to create a scheme for withdrawal from the Ukrainian state bank, which was headed, according to the investigation, the former head of the National Bank Kirill Shevchenko.
About it reports NABU press service.
The case concerns the implementation of the scheme of withdrawal from Ukrgasbank on the pretext of payment of intermediary services during 2014-2020, when Shevchenko was the chairman of the board of the mentioned financial institution.
Law enforcement officers claim that mediation was only on paper: clients placed funds in the state bank on deposits on their own initiative or in accordance with the procedure introduced by the Cabinet of Ministers for the State Security Service.
« Instead, the State Bank, on the basis of fictitious acts of the completed works, properly paid pseudo -intermediaries for services that they never provided, and which most of the bank's clients did not even know, » the statement said.
« Intermediaries » were individual entrepreneurs, self-employed and legal entities. Most of them were registered solely for the scheme, NABU claim
During the existence of the scheme, the State Student made more than a thousand transfers to 52 pseudo -intermediaries, illegally spending more than 206 million UAH, declared in the NABU press service.
Among the accused:
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Former Chairman of the Board of Ukrgasbank and the National Bank Kirill Shevchenko;
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Expirer of the Bank Board Chairman, who also held the post of Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine in 2016-2019;
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excluders of one of the departments of the bank;
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former head of the regional directorate of the bank;
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Three fictitious bank partners, including the former first deputy prosecutor.
The actions of the persons qualified under the articles of the Criminal Code for the appropriation or distortion of property, the creation of a criminal organization, money laundering and official forgery.
Recall:
At the beginning of October 2022, the SAP and NABU were reported suspicion of Kirill Shevchenko and four other persons involved.
In August 2023 The expert of the National Bank Kirill Shevchenko got prosecution for Art. 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine in the creation and leadership of a criminal organization whose activities are aimed at committing serious and especially serious crimes.
Kiril Shevchenko headed Ukrgasbank from 2014 to 2020. The head of the National Bank of Ukraine was from 2020 to 2022.
