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Owners of the dissolved National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Concord Bank Olena Sosiedka are preparing a suspicion notice regarding a number of criminal cases – source
Owners of the dissolved 1 August by decision of the NBU JSC "AKB Concord" (ConcordBank, "Concord Bank") Olena Sosiedka and her sister Yuliya, as well as the bank's top management, are set to be charged with a number of criminal articles.
As reported, detectives from the Bureau of Economic Security (BES) and other law enforcement agencies are conducting searches at the bank's central branch in Dnipro, as well as at firms connected with the bank's shareholders.
"Concord Bank" was liquidated due to the bank's systematic violations of the legislation in the field of preventing and counteracting legalization of proceeds from crime, financing of terrorism, and dissemination of weapons of mass destruction. Earlier, the financial regulator imposed penalties on the bank totaling 60,4 million UAH and a written warning for similar violations.
The National Bank also yesterday imposed another fine on the bank in the amount of 400 thousand UAH for violations in completing transfers.
It should be noted that just a few days ago the bank's management and press service denied information about its rapid liquidation, which was published by media and TG channels, and called it “fakes and provocation.”
In the Verkhovna Rada it has already been stated that the National Bank decided to revoke the license and liquidate Concord Bank due to miscoding, which was investigated by the temporary parliamentary committee on gambling business.
In 2018 year the National Bank also imposed a large fine on "Concord Bank" and noted the bank's involvement in financial transactions whose nature or consequences give grounds to believe they could be connected with capital outflow, legalization of criminal proceeds, and conversion (transfer) of cashless funds into cash. According to available information, a number of criminal cases involving "Concord Bank", Olena Sosiedka and her sister, as well as the involvement of the bank's top management in illegal schemes are currently being investigated. All of them, as well as some former and current National Bank officials, will soon face suspicion for a number of crimes.
It is reported that in addition to money-laundering criminal cases, the investigation also includes a case of illegally transferring out of the bank 25 million euros during the period from 24 to 26 February 2022 year, as well as a case concerning billions of hryvnias in refinancing secured by a pool of assets from the NBU obtained over the last three years. The authorities are also interested in the bank's dealings with sanctioned Russian payment systems and "Russian ties of the bank's shareholders."
In the autumn of 2021 year, Concord Bank made history with American sanctions, cyber extortionists, and online drug trading. At that time, the management and shareholders of the bank denied all accusations. However, it is known that foreign law enforcement continues investigations, so it is possible that Olena Sosiedka and her subordinates could be charged abroad as well.
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