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Seized crypto wallets on Binance and accounts at Revolut, Wise and a Turkish bank in the Delta Bank case. The investigation reports 22,8 billion UAH in damage to the Deposit Guarantee Fund and a “back office” in Kyiv.
The investigating judge of the Holosiivskyi District Court of Kyiv granted the prosecutor from the Office of the Prosecutor General’s motion and imposed a freeze on cryptocurrency and electronic money in dozens of Binance wallets, Revolut, Wise and Monese cards, as well as on accounts at Erste Bank and the Turkish Ziraat Bankasi.
Criminal proceedings No. 42026000000000563 were opened on 4 May under Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code — legalization of property obtained by criminal means on an especially large scale.
According to the investigation, in 2012–2015 the chairman of the supervisory board and the owner of a significant share of JSC “Delta Bank,” together with members of the supervisory board, the management board and the credit committee, carried out economically senseless lending to legal entities: founders sharing addresses, preferential terms, weak or fictitious collateral. The goal, the prosecutor’s office writes, was not the bank’s profit but covering old loans and extracting money through nonresident banks. Damage to the state, represented by the Deposit Guarantee Fund, is estimated at approximately 22,8 billion UAH.
Further, according to the motion’s materials, these funds were “laundered” through land, real estate, corporate rights of Ukrainian and foreign companies, securities and cars registered to nominees in Ukraine and abroad. Among Ukrainian assets, the investigation names over 300 hectares of agricultural land and plots for development in Kyiv region, Ivano-Frankivsk region and Chernihiv region, residential and commercial property in Kyiv, and probable interests in real estate in occupied Crimea.
This description matches the public profile of the bank’s former owner, Mykola Lagun. 20 September 2025 the National Security and Defense Council imposed sanctions on him for 10 years by Presidential Decree No. 694/2025: asset freezes, prohibition on capital withdrawal, trade restrictions. An exception was made only for settlements with the Deposit Guarantee Fund and the State Mortgage Institution.
Earlier Lagun was declared wanted in the case of withdrawing more than 76,5 million dollars from the bank; since 2024 he has been internationally wanted and, according to media, effectively lives abroad. The bank itself was declared insolvent in March 2015. The economic claim by the Fund for the same 22,8 billion UAH against related persons of the bank is still being considered by the appeals court.
After the sanctions, the investigation claims, activities did not stop. Allegedly a back office operates in Kyiv where former Delta Bank employees manage finances of Ukrainian and foreign companies nominally registered to other people. Rental income from land, housing and commercial property, according to operational data, provides at least 200 thousand dollars in cash per month without tax reporting. Some of it is converted into crypto and sent to trusted persons’ wallets, some is reinvested in real estate.
These are the channels the court froze. The seizure concerns the wallets of eight people on the Binance exchange (Nest Exchange / Nest Clearing and Custody / Nest Trading Limited) — some have two or three accounts, others five or six. Separately, a Revolut card of one of these persons and Wise, Monese, Erste Bank and Ziraat Bankasi accounts registered directly to the person whom the investigation considers the scheme’s organizer have been blocked. On 20 July 2026 the investigator recognized these funds as material evidence.
Media have repeatedly reported that despite relocating to Vienna and a formal withdrawal from business, Lagun continues to control a number of assets in Ukraine, including land plots for recreational development in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, as well as properties in occupied Crimea. According to media, a back office led by Maksym Chernov and the law firm Biright Advocacy, associated with Danys Tarasiuk — the former director of Delta’s legal department — help him manage projects in Ukraine.
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