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Concord went into the matter of cashing out
The scandalously known bank Concord surfaced in a criminal proceeding about large-scale illegal cashing out of funds
Dniprovskyi bank Concord again drew the attention of law enforcement
Ordzhonikidzevskyi District Court of Zaporizhzhia recently seized money in the accounts of a whole galaxy of firms suspected of fictitious entrepreneurship
The list of those seized includes LLC Dream Sale, LLC Prestige Opt K, LLC Estor Finance, LLC Vegetables and Fruits Wholesale, LLC Capital Store, LLC Mega Stalprom, LLC Konstanta Trade, LLC Contract Aris, LLC Vegetable Idilia. All of them were registered on the same day — 7 April 2017 year in two frontline cities of Donetsk region — Kostiantynivka and Mariupol. The founders of the companies were residents of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions about whom little is known (the Concord bank, as is known, has its central office in Dnipro, and its branches are open in only five regions, including Zaporizhzhia, near Dnipro).
For example, the founder of LLC Capital Store from Kostiantynivka is recorded as Serhiy Samofalov from Dnipro. He is also known as the founder of LLC Master Group Ltd, whose seal was seized by State Fiscal Service officers during searches in Dnipro in April this year in office premises and cars of persons involved in the operations of the currency conversion center, within criminal case No. 32015060000000066.
And the company Prestige Opt K from Mariupol is registered to another resident of Dnipro, Vadym Perevalov. He also surfaced as the founder of LLC Finance Content, which figures in criminal case No. 32017100060000031, opened by the State Fiscal Service in April for fictitious entrepreneurship.
All accounts whose funds were seized by the Zaporizhzhia court were opened in May 2017 of this year in the same bank — the Concord Bank, whose main owner (56% of shares) and chairman of the supervisory board is Olena Soseudka. She is also known as the common-law wife of the secretary of the Dnipro City Council, Viacheslav Mishalov (greetings on the birth of their daughter Amalia-Golda Mishalova can be seen on the site of the Jewish community of Dnipro).
Olena Soseudka
The accounts in Concord, according to investigators, were used by organizers of schemes to introduce illegal financial mechanisms aimed at converting non-cash funds into cash, reducing tax burden, and unlawfully appropriating budget funds. The Prosecutor's Office noted that officials of the Main Department of the State Fiscal Service in Zaporizhzhia Oblast assisted the organizers of the currency conversion center.
So far Concord appears in the described criminal case as a bank servicing the participants of the currency conversion center, but it is already attracting increased attention from law enforcement. Back in October 2015, the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine began pre-trial investigation in criminal case No. 32015100000000248 into abuse of officials of PJSC AKB Concord, tax evasion, fictitious entrepreneurship, violations of the procedure for maintaining the depositor database or for forming reports, and bringing the bank to insolvency.
Viacheslav Mishalov
The above criminal case and media mentions of it have so unsettled Concord that it still tries through courts to remove from media pages mentions of this scandal (the latest such suit by Concord against Internet Invest was accepted for consideration in August this year). Still, as recent events show, new reasons for Concord to feature in stories about cashing out and fictitious entrepreneurship arise with enviable regularity. Whether this is a coincidence or not is for investigators to determine.
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Source materials: Oligarh
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