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How Gontareva's son moved money out of Delta Bank — official details from a court decision
The court allowed the investigators of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to seize documents of PJSC Delta Bank regarding the accounts of the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeriya Gontareva's son.
The relevant ruling of the investigating judge of the Solomiyansky district court dated 13 January has been published in the State Register of Court Decisions. Criminal proceeding No. 42015000000002776 16.12.2015 was opened on signs of part 1 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or official position) based on a statement by Vitaliy Shabunin, head of the Center for Countering Corruption.
From the crime report and attached materials it appears that the head of the NBU, abusing his official position and acting deliberately to obtain benefits for members of his family, informed them of Delta Bank's financial state. This allowed them to withdraw about 12,5 million UAH from Delta Bank deposit accounts, causing substantial damage to state and public interests.
In an interview with Hubs 27 in March 2015 year, Valeriya Gontareva stated that her older son had a deposit in Delta Bank for 800 thousand UAH. The term of the deposit agreement had already expired when Delta Bank was not returning deposits. Gontareva said that her son, according to the law, would also receive guaranteed amounts from the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Physical Persons of 200 thousand UAH; the rest of the funds would not be returned.
Thus, after Delta Bank received a stabilization loan from the National Bank of Ukraine, the bank was placed under special supervision and a curator from the NBU was appointed. By NBU Board Resolution dated 30.10.2014, Delta Bank was classified as problematic. By NBU Board Resolution 02.03.2015 № 150, Delta Bank was classified as insolvent. By the Executive Directive of the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Physical Persons from 02.03.2015 № 51 a temporary administration was introduced in Delta Bank. By Board Resolution 02.10.2015 № 664 the banking license was withdrawn and PJSC Delta Bank was liquidated.
The applicant provided the investigation with a copy of the bank statement for the son of Gontareva's account in Delta Bank, according to which 09.02.2015 he transferred to the specified account the amount of the deposit, totaling 800 thousand UAH, which he withdrew from the account.
According to numerous media reports, the NBU press service refuted information about the withdrawal of Gontareva's son’s deposit from the liquidated Delta Bank before the temporary administration was imposed on the financial institution, and a copy of a receipt confirming that he received 200 thousand UAH from the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Physical Persons was provided as evidence.
At the same time, the applicant provided a copy of the card account statement for 02.02.2015 to 27.02.2015 the wife of Gontareva's son, from which it appears that 10.02.2015 he transferred to his wife's account 300 thousand UAH.
Additionally, wife 11.02.2015 and 12.02.2015 transferred amounts of 149,9 thousand UAH, 50 thousand UAH, and 50 thousand UAH to unknown recipients.
By Board Resolution of the NBU dated 30.10.2014 "On the classification of PJSC Delta Bank as a problematic bank", among other things, it prohibited the execution of any operations under existing contracts that would increase the guaranteed amount of compensation for deposits of individuals.
The described could indicate fragmentation of deposits in the bank with the aim of obtaining full compensation from the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Physical Persons, which apparently led to an increase in the Fund's liabilities by 100 thousand UAH, notes the court ruling.
Also journalist Oleksandr Dubinsky, on his Facebook page, stated that on certain account statements of Gontareva's daughter-in-law there was a ban on reflecting operations for February 2015 year, but the stated fee for cash withdrawal from the account in February 2015 year was 125 thousand UAH. The cash withdrawal commission from Delta Bank accounts as of February 2015 year was about 1% of the transaction amount. This indicates that in February 2015 year the daughter-in-law withdrew cash from the account in the amount of about 12,5 million UAH.
Accordingly, the court granted investigators from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau access to the originals of Delta Bank documents related to Gontareva's son and his wife (deposit agreements, bank statements, etc.), and to decisions of the Deposit Guarantee Fund regarding Delta Bank.
Recall that last year, from bankrupt Delta Bank, debt obligations of Ukrspirt were also moved for 90 million UAH. Ukrspirt was supposed to return these funds to the bank, which in turn should have given them to the Deposit Guarantee Fund to settle with the state, which was paying depositors of the bankrupt Delta Bank with public funds. However, the loan obligations were transferred from the bank to the company Delta Capital, due to the inability of National Bank officials to provide certain documents for court review. This company belonged to Antonina Lagun, the sister of the owner of Delta Bank, Nikolai Lagun.
Source: Our Money
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