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The cabinet of ministers has adopted several decisions regarding officials of the state-owned Sense Bank. In particular, the head of the bank's supervisory board has been removed from office.
The government also initiated the removal of the bank's chief executive. This was announced by Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky.
What does the prime minister say about the scandal surrounding Sense Bank?
According to Koretsky, other high-ranking bank officials mentioned in pretrial materials should bear similar responsibility.
Facts disclosed by anticorruption bodies require proper assessment and cannot be left without a response. Trust is a fundamental condition for operating a state financial institution,
— the prime minister added.
What is known about the bank scandal
The government's loud decisions were prompted by extensive investigative actions and investigations by anticorruption bodies. In particular, detectives from NABU and SAP found a criminal organization comprising current and former lawmakers, and they are also checking the involvement of high-ranking officials from the Office of the President. According to the investigation, the perpetrators laundered 150 millions of hryvnias through accounts of companies controlled by the state bank, which they gained control of at the very beginning of June.
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As already reported on our site, searches took place in the supervisory board office of the bank, including at the suspended head of the supervisory board Mykola Hladyschenko, about which more can be read in the article about searches at the bank's supervisory council head.
Against the backdrop of high-profile events, the Verkhovna Rada summoned the head of the National Bank to report. More about this we wrote in the news that the Rada summons the NBU chairman over the Sense Bank scandal.
At the same time, the bank itself said it cooperates with investigators and provides all necessary information. Earlier we also covered Sense Bank's official statement regarding the investigative actions, which emphasized that all bank services continue to operate in the usual mode.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Уряд відсторонив голову наглядової ради "Сенс Банку"". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Channel 24.
