PrivatBank officials are involved in the theft of UAH 19 billion from the National Bank of Ukraine.

privateThe Main Investigative Directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office is conducting a pre-trial investigation into PrivatBank officials involved in the theft of UAH 19 billion from the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), the publication reports. financial balance, citing the ruling of the Pechersk District Court.

During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that PrivatBank officials had misappropriated NBU funds allocated for PrivatBank refinancing during 2014. The scheme for siphoning off the funds was organized as follows: Forty-two companies registered to non-residents of Ukraine and controlled by PrivatBank employees took out loans from the financial institution owned by Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov.Read more about it in the article Gennady Bogolyubov: What Privat's other half is keeping quiet about?) in the amount of 18 to 73 million US dollars. These companies then entered into dubious transactions with TRADE POINT AGRO LIMITED, COLLYER LIMITED, ROSSYAN INVESTING CORP, TEAMTREND LIMITED, MILBERT VENTURES INC, and ZAO UKRTRANSITSERVICE LTD and made them 100% prepayment for the alleged receipt of goods.

However, as it became known from the case materials, the goods have still not been delivered and the funds taken on loan have still not been returned to PrivatBank.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov previously announced that the criminal case was being handled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

PrivatBank, for its part, stated that its financial institution is fully cooperating with the investigation and is providing all necessary information regarding this criminal case, which is being investigated by the Prosecutor General's Office.

It is also reported that on July 29, 2016, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv seized the Cypriot accounts of PrivatBank Cyprus Branch 3.

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