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Ihor Kolomoisky/Illustrative photo from open sources
The SAP sent a criminal case concerning the former ultimate beneficial owner of PJSC CB "PrivatBank" and five former bank employees, who are accused of embezzling 9,2 billion UAH, to the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC). This was reported by the SAP on Telegram.
"A SAP prosecutor, based on pretrial investigation materials from NABU, has sent an indictment to court concerning the former ultimate beneficial owner of PJSC CB "PrivatBank" and another 5 persons — former employees of the banking institution suspected of embezzling more than 9,2 billion UAH of funds belonging to the bank," the statement says.
According to the investigation, during January–March 2015 one of the owners of PJSC CB "PrivatBank", with the aim of further financing a controlled offshore company and increasing his own share in the bank's authorized capital, developed a criminal plan to seize the bank's funds.
As noted, to carry out his criminal intent the accused involved 5 bank employees, among whom were former: chairman of the management board; deputy head of direction — director of the interbank dealing department, who was simultaneously the trusted representative of a non-resident company affiliated with PJSC CB "PrivatBank"; deputy chairman of the management board — director of the treasury; head of the department supporting interbank treasury operations; and deputy head of the department for servicing LORO accounts of correspondent banks, non-residents of the head office of PJSC CB "PrivatBank".
According to the SAP, the crime scheme involved an organized group's artificial creation of an obligation for the bank to pay one of the controlled companies more than 9,2 billion UAH for an alleged repurchase of its own bonds at an inflated price by forging the corresponding documents.
Part of these funds, namely more than 446 million UAH, was laundered by transferring them under the guise of securities purchase-sale operations to the personal account of the ultimate beneficiary of PJSC CB "PrivatBank" through a series of financial transactions with controlled companies. Later they were contributed by him to the bank's authorized capital in order to meet the requirements of the Financial Rehabilitation Program of PJSC CB "PrivatBank". The perpetrators disposed of the remaining funds at their own discretion.
As BAGNET reported, in 7 September 2023 NABU announced suspicions to the former ultimate beneficial owner of PrivatBank, Ihor Kolomoisky, and five members of the group he organized for embezzling bank funds in the amount of more than 9,2 billion UAH.
In 23 September 2025 prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General sent an indictment to court regarding Kolomoisky, a former shareholder of PrivatBank, and a former head of the bank's Kyiv branch. Materials concerning five other group members were separated into separate criminal proceedings.
Additionally, in 2 September 2023 the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced suspicions against Kolomoisky under two more articles of the Criminal Code: art. 190 (fraud) and art. 209 (legalization (laundering) of proceeds of crime).
SBI and SBU officers accuse Kolomoisky of laundering over half a billion hryvnias during 2013–2020 by moving them abroad using the infrastructure of controlled banking institutions.
Kolomoisky has been in custody since September 2023.
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