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The scheme involves the former ultimate beneficial owner of the bank and five other former employees.
The SAP prosecutors have sent to court an indictment against the former ultimate beneficial owner of PrivatBank and five former bank employees.
According to SAP’s press service, investigators of NABU accuse them of causing the bank damage of more than 9,2 billion hryvnias.
According to investigators, in January–March 2015 year one of the bank’s owners developed a scheme to fund a controlled offshore company and increase his stake in the bank’s charter capital. He involved top managers and department heads of the bank, including the former head of the board and the treasury director, in this scheme.
Participants of the scheme forged documents and artificially created an obligation for the bank to pay the controlled firm more than 9,2 billion hryvnias for a purported reverse repurchase of its own bonds at an inflated price.
Subsequently, more than 446 million hryvnias from this amount were laundered by the criminals through a series of financial transactions and transferred to the personal account of the ultimate beneficiary. The funds received were contributed by him to the bank’s charter capital to fulfill the requirements of the financial stabilization program, and the remaining funds were disposed of by the defendants at their discretion.
The defendants are charged with misappropriation of property, money laundering, and official forgery.
Last year NABU and SAP opened case materials on suspicion of the former ultimate beneficial owner of PrivatBank and five members of his organized group in seizing bank funds totaling more than 9,2 billion hryvnias.
The investigation established that in January–March 2015 year the ultimate beneficiary of the bank, at that time the Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, devised a plan to seize PrivatBank funds to finance a controlled offshore company and increase his own stake in the bank’s charter capital.
The case concerns Ihor Kolomoyskyi.
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