The Supreme Court recognized as legal the write-off of the funds of a person related to the ex-owners of Privatbank
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The Supreme Court overturned the decision of the courts of the Dnipropetrovsk region to collect funds from Privatbank in favor of a person related to the former owners, which were written off during the nationalization of the bank in 2016.
She reported about it press service Privatbank, the text of the decision.
The Supreme Court issued its decision on April 12. It annulled the decisions of previous instances regarding the recovery from Privatbank of the funds of the ex-manager of Pokrovsky GZK (“Privat” group) Volodymyr Postolovsky, which were written off during the nationalization of Privatbank in 2016.
This case has been considered by the courts since 2017. Postolovsky contested the involvement of his funds as a person related to the ex-owners of PrivatBank in the “bail-in” operation in the bank’s nationalization procedure in 2016.
Yes, he requested to recover from Privatbank in his favor damages in the amount of 11.7 million UAH, 368.6 thousand dollars and 4.88 euros, as well as compensation for moral damage in the amount of 2.1 million UAH.
The Supreme Court agreed with the arguments of PrivatBank that Postolovsky did not deny the fact of his connection with the bank, and the withdrawal of funds from the accounts was carried out in the presence of an appropriate legal basis. Namely, the contract on the purchase of shares concluded by an authorized person of the Deposit Guarantee Fund on behalf of the plaintiff as his representative in compliance with the requirements of the law.
Privatbank reminds that two more similar cases are currently under consideration by the Supreme Court, in which the Dnipro Court of Appeal also decided to recover funds from the bank.
One of them is the case of the lawsuit of the ex-wife of Gennady Bogolyubov, Olena Bogolyubova, who demands to collect more than 669 million hryvnias from the bank. The second case concerns the recovery of UAH 24 million from Privatbank following the lawsuit of Olga Postolovska.
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