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The Prime Minister explained that they want conditions for transparent and competitive sale of the state stakes in both banks.
The government has created a commission for the sale of the state stakes in Sense Bank and Ukrgasbank.
This was announced by Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky.
He noted that representatives of international financial organizations and EU institutions may participate in the work of this commission.
“This commission will determine the procedure for conducting tenders, will make decisions on participant admission, will approve the starting auction price taking into account the recommendations of the advisor, the winners and the sale price, and will submit the relevant decisions for government approval. The Ministry of Finance has already chosen advisors for both banks,” the head of government added.
Koretsky explained that in this way they aim to create proper conditions for a transparent and competitive sale of the state stakes in both banks.
Sense Bank (formerly Alpha-Bank) was nationalized in 2023 year due to Russian owners.
Its main shareholders were Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and other partners from Alpha Group.
In August this year, Koretsky said that the Ministry of Finance had been tasked by the government to intensify the process of selling Sense Bank.
In addition, the bank's management began to feature in high-profile investigations by anti-corruption authorities. According to NABU, the bank's chairman of the board and chairman of the supervisory board, Oleksiy Stupak and Mykola Glydyashenko, in collusion with former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Maksym Mykitas, deputy head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra and other participants in the criminal group ensured the posting of a bail of 150 million UAH obtained illegally, for former minister Herman Halyuschenko, who is a suspect in the corruption case at Energoatom.
Part of the funds were channeled through Sense Bank. To transfer the funds, automatic financial monitoring was disabled, and it was not performed manually.
19 August the government removed Glydyashenko from his post. The Cabinet also initiated the removal of Stupak.
At the meeting of 21 August the Cabinet terminated the powers of the head of the supervisory board Glydyashenko.
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