The case of Ukrgasbank: the investigation into the embezzlement of 206 million by the bank’s exposadors has been completed
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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office completed the investigation into the seizure of Ukrgasbank’s funds in the amount of 206 million hryvnias.
It is reported NABU press service.
A criminal organization led by the ex-chairman of the board of JSC “Ukrgasbank” Kyryl Shevchenko is suspected of illegal withdrawal of funds.
The investigation established that in November 2014, bank officials implemented a scheme to withdraw funds from the state bank by paying services to pseudo-intermediaries allegedly for attracting funds from large businesses and state institutions and enterprises.
In September 2015, a criminal organization was created in order to expand the circle of participants in the crime and increase the opportunities for seizing the bank’s funds.
“In reality, mediation took place only on paper: clients placed funds in the state-owned Ukrgasbank for deposits on their own initiative or in accordance with the procedure introduced for the state sector by the Cabinet of Ministers.
Instead, the state bank, on the basis of fictitious acts of completed work, properly paid pseudo-intermediaries for services that they never provided, and about which the majority of the bank’s clients did not even know,” the NABU noted.
The law enforcement officers indicate that the pseudo mediators were self-employed persons and legal entities. Most of them were registered exclusively to participate in the given scheme: after receiving the funds, these subjects stopped their activities and did not carry out any other activity, except for those specified in the fictitious acts of performance of services.
During the existence of the scheme (from November 2014 to March 2020), the state bank made more than a thousand transfers to the addresses of 52 pseudo intermediaries, spending more than UAH 206 million.
NABU and SAP consider the organizer of the scheme to be the first deputy chairman of the board of Ukrgasbank, who soon became its head by the government’s decision.
We remind you:
SAP and NABU informed the ex-head of the National Bank of Ukraine Kyryl Shevchenko about the suspicion in the case of illegal activities of the officials of the state AB “Ukrgasbank”, which led to losses in the amount of more than 206 million hryvnias.
Also, the suspicion of embezzlement of UAH 206 million from the state bank was reported to four more main participants in this crime, including former and current high-ranking officials of banking institutions.
In October 2022, VAKS set bail for the ex-director of the department of “Ukrgasbank” in the amount of almost 40.2 million hryvnias.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau has announced a search warrant for three Ukrgasbank officials involved in embezzlement of over UAH 200 million. among them – ex-chairman of the National Bank Kyrylo Shevchenko.
Former head of the NBU Kyrylo Shevchenko considersthat the announcement of his wanted status in the case of embezzlement of UAH 200 million from Ukrgasbank “is an unnecessary confirmation of the involvement and politicization of the investigation.”
The higher anti-corruption court chose a preventive measure against one of the suspects in the case of over 206 million hryvnias in damages to Ukrgasbank in the form of detention.
In February NABU detectives under the processional leadership of the SAP reported the suspicion “another 10 members of an organized group headed by the ex-chairman of the board of JSC Ukrgasbank, which illegally withdrew UAH 206 million from the financial institution.”
In August, NABU renewed the suspicion against former head of the National Bank Kyryl Shevchenko – he is suspected of creating a criminal organization and money laundering.
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