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The High Anti-Corruption Court has decided to hear the criminal proceeding on the indictment of oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi regarding organized appropriation of 9,2 billion UAH from PrivatBank collectively, by a panel of three judges. The decision to hear the case collegially was made by VACs in August 17.
The court's decision is reported by “Slovo i Dilo.” In addition to Kolomoyskyi, the indicted include former top managers of PrivatBank — Chairman of the Board Oleksandr Dovilyet, his deputy Liudmila Shmalchenko, head of the Department of Interbank Operations Nadiia Konopkina, head of the Department of Interbank Dealing Yaroslav Lohovyi, and deputy head of the Department for Service of Correspondent Bank Accounts Tetyana Yakimenko.
“The defendant’s motion is granted. The criminal proceeding is to be heard in the court of first instance collegiately by a panel of three judges,” reads the VACs decision.
According to the investigators, the scheme to misappropriate funds was organized as early as January–March 2015 of the year, when Kolomoyskyi owned the bank. PrivatBank artificially obligated payment to a controlled company of more than 9,2 billion UAH under the pretext of supposedly repurchasing its own bonds at an inflated price. Part of the amount — more than 446 million UAH — was laundered by transferring through a number of affiliated companies under the guise of securities purchase and sale transactions, and later contributed to the bank’s charter capital to meet the requirements of the financial recovery program. The remainder of the funds was disposed of by the criminals at their own discretion.
The investigation has been ongoing for more than three years.
Kolomoyskyi was charged with misappropriation of 9,2 billion UAH of PrivatBank back in September 7 of 2023 year, and the case has only now reached the court of first instance. The actions of all the defendants are qualified under articles of the Criminal Code that provide for imprisonment from 8 to 12 years with confiscation of property.
This case is not the only proceeding against the oligarch: simultaneously investigations are ongoing into other episodes of funds withdrawal from PrivatBank prior to its nationalization in 2016 year, involving the same and other former top managers of the bank.
Earlier Informator reported that former deputy head of the board Liudmila Shmalchenko is hiding abroad and appears in a separate NABU case on embezzlement of 17,6 billion UAH from the bank, and her name is also mentioned in the London High Court decision regarding the transfer of almost 2 billion dollars to the benefit of Kolomoyskyi and Gennadiy Boholyubov. We also wrote that the former first deputy head of the board Timur Novikov was mentioned in U.S. court cases, where he is a key figure in schemes for transferring PrivatBank funds abroad for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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