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DOROSHENKO IN COURT: I AM AN ADVISER TO THE SUPERVISORY BOARD OF "PLATINUM BANK"
13 August, former chairman of the board of Mykhailivskyi Bank Ihor Doroshenko, who was detained 12 August by law enforcement agencies, during a hearing at the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv regarding the choice of a preventive measure named his place of work and position — adviser to the supervisory board of Platinum Bank. This follows from a video posted on the Internet (see file below – 10:10).
At this hearing the court selected a preventive measure for I. Doroshenko (law enforcement agencies suspect him of embezzling 870 million hryvnias of bank funds and rendering the bank insolvent) in the form of two months’ detention with the alternative of posting bail in the amount of 137,8 million hryvnias.
Recall that I. Doroshenko was dismissed from the position of chairman of the board of Mykhailivskyi Bank at his request in May, a few days before Mykhailivskyi was declared insolvent, and effectively immediately became chief executive officer of PT Platinum Public Limited, which owns 100% of the shares of Platinum Bank. This happened amid rumors (unofficial information) about a possible merger of Mykhailivskyi Bank and Platinum Bank or the transfer of the former’s assets to the latter. There was no official confirmation of this information.
03 June, Platinum Bank officially reported that the shareholders of the Cypriot company PT Platinum Public Limited and Ihor Doroshenko agreed that I. Doroshenko would cease activities as chief executive officer by mutual consent (a position he held for about two weeks). He was replaced in that position by Dmytro Zinkov — former chairman of the board of Nadra Bank, who was dismissed from the position of chairman of the supervisory board of Platinum Bank, while H. Hurtovyi again became chairman of the supervisory board of that financial institution (on the criminal proceedings involving the persons mentioned, see respectively here and here).
A few days ago, Acting Deputy Chair of the NBU Kateryna Rozhkova, who last year served as acting chair of the board of Platinum Bank, commented on the above-mentioned rumors about Platinum Bank and Mykhailivskyi Bank in an interview with Gordon as follows: “Regarding a ‘takeover’ — that’s simply laughable. What happened at Mykhailivskyi Bank was pure fraud by the owner and the bank’s top management. As soon as the National Bank learned about this fraud, it immediately declared the bank insolvent, and the Deposit Guarantee Fund (DGF) introduced a temporary administration there.”
Two weeks ago, Deputy Managing Director of the Deposit Guarantee Fund Andrii Olenchyk said in an interview with Radio Vesti that, according to the Fund’s data, the companies to which Mykhailivskyi Bank transferred its portfolio of retail loans may be connected to that same bank. The Fund emphasized that it considers null and void the transactions selling Mykhailivskyi Bank’s portfolio of nearly 111 thousand consumer loans for 682 million hryvnias. Legal disputes on this matter are currently ongoing.
12 August the city prosecutor’s office informed that I. Doroshenko has been notified of suspicion of embezzling 870 million hryvnias of bank funds and rendering the bank insolvent. The official is charged with crimes under part 5 of article 191 and articles 218-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
“The official, together with persons not yet identified by the pretrial investigation, implemented a criminal scheme by which a multi-million sum of depositors’ money was withdrawn from the bank. Thus, abusing his official position, the chairman of the board on the basis of an illegal contract transferred 870 million hryvnias to the account of an enterprise with signs of fictitiousness. The official was detained during a joint operation by the Kyiv city prosecutor’s office, the Main Directorate of the National Police and employees of the Security Service of Ukraine,” the prosecutor’s office said.
Prior to this, the head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv, Andrii Kryshchenko, reported that “investigators of the Kyiv Police Main Department are conducting about two dozen searches of the top managers of Mykhailivskyi Bank, who are suspected of embezzling 1,5 billion hryvnias and driving the bank to bankruptcy.”
We add that 01 August the press service of businessman Borys Kaufman reported that he submitted documents to the NBU regarding the acquisition of a controlling stake in Platinum Bank in the amount of 75%+1 of the shares. As is known, according to unofficial data Borys Kaufman has had influence over Platinum Bank without being its official shareholder since approximately the end of 2013, when the composition of Platinum Bank’s shareholders changed.
Read about the financial condition of Platinum Bank here.
Read about the legal dispute between Platinum Bank and MTS Ukraine for almost 350 million hryvnias, as well as Platinum Bank’s accusations against its chairman of the board of exceeding his authority, here.
See here and here about the National Police criminal proceeding into the embezzlement by officials of Platinum Bank of 1,1 billion hryvnias during the period when K. Rozhkova was a member of the bank’s board.
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