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The SAP prosecutor requests that he be taken into custody with a possible bail of 150 million UAH.
A hearing is underway at the High Anti-Corruption Court to choose a preventive measure for Sense Bank chairman Oleksii Stupak, who is implicated in the so-called “Forrest Gump” case regarding unlawful financial schemes.
This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Action Center.
The SAP prosecutor requests that Stupak be taken into custody with a possible bail of 150 million UAH. During his statement, the prosecutor described risks related to possible hiding, destruction of evidence, or obstructing the investigation by Stupak.
In particular, the NABU materials mention Stupak’s influence over officials in other agencies, including the Financial Monitoring Service. According to the prosecutor, he took conspiracy measures, arranging meetings with Mykitas’s associate in sparsely populated locations. And Stupak changed the meeting place at the Megamarket in the village of Khodosivka near Kyiv literally half an hour before the meeting itself.
Separately, the SAP prosecutor spoke about the suspect’s assets. In particular, he lives on the grounds of a gardeners’ association, where the land plot’s value is about half a million dollars. Stupak owns two apartments in the Tetris Hall residential complex, with an approximate value of around 28 million UAH, a land plot, and two parking spaces in the Soho Residence complex.
In addition, Stupak has four vehicles, whose total value is 5,5 million UAH — a luxury Maserati car from 2022, a Mercedes Benz from 2017, a Volkswagen Touareg from 2017, and an Indian motorcycle from 2016.
Regarding income, from 2019 to 2026 Stupak received 88 million UAH, and only at the nationalized Sense Bank he received 83 million UAH.
After the prosecutor, Stupak’s defense attorney spoke. He believes that what the case participants mention in conversations about Oleksii does not mean they are necessarily referring to Stupak.
“Listen, it reminded me of representatives of the State Bureau of Investigation, who in November last year justified themselves that ‘the name Oleksii is very common in Ukraine,’ so they continue to figure out who ‘Lyosha’ is on NABU’s tapes and that it is not necessarily SBI Director Oleksii Sukhachov,” the lawyer said.
Stupak is suspected in a case about legalization of funds that were submitted as bail for former minister Herman Galushchenko. According to NABU, Stupak and Mykola Hladyshenko, in collusion with former MP Maksym Mykytas, Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra, and other members of the criminal group, ensured the submission of bail of 150 million hryvnias obtained illegally for Galushchenko, who is a suspect in a corruption case at Energoatom.
Part of the funds were run through Sense Bank — the former Russian Alfa-Bank that became state-owned as a result of nationalization. To move the funds, automated financial monitoring was switched off, and no manual monitoring was conducted either.
19 August the government suspended Hladyshenko. The Cabinet of Ministers also initiated Stupak’s suspension.
20 August Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi announced that the Ministry of Finance received a government task to accelerate the process of selling Sense Bank.
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