Sergey Momot
According to information from our own sources, in addition to Soyuz Bank, last week the Security Service of Ukraine also focused its attention on Alliance Bank, where, simultaneously with Soyuz, a series of investigative measures were carried out (a search was conducted, and documents and funds of one of the bank's clients, suspected of involvement in the activities of a conversion center, were seized).
Sources in the Security Service of Ukraine hinted that the measures taken were aimed not only at documenting the activities of the conversion center, which was serviced by Alliance Bank, but also at preventing criminal activity by the actual owners of the financial institution.
According to NBU registration data, the bank has no shareholders whose shares exceed 10%. At the same time, law enforcement officials noted that Kramp LLC (EDRPOU 36442702, Donetsk) and Ukrbiznesstandart LLC (EDRPOU 35886746, Kyiv) were recently removed from the bank's ownership. These legal entities were subsequently liquidated. Furthermore, according to tax authorities, Kramp LLC is a fictitious structure engaged in tax minimization and evasion schemes.
This structure was also used in corruption schemes involving several state-owned mining and chemical enterprises located in the Donetsk region. Specifically, it was through the company "Kramp" that calcium nitrate produced by the Dniprodzerzhynsk state enterprise "Ekoantilid" was sold, even though it was impossible to purchase the product directly from the manufacturer.
The company was also involved in the fictitious bankruptcy of Charnokit LLC (Donetsk), which held the right to develop one of the richest granite quarries in the Haivoronsky district of the Kirovohrad region. Besides Kramp LLC, the quarry was also bankrupted by another founder of Alliance Bank, Donetsk-based Granite Construction Materials (EDRPOU 35633203).
State Fiscal Service officials confirm that the bankruptcy of Charnokit LLC was necessitated by the initiation of a criminal case against the company's officials for devising a scheme to illegally refund VAT from the state budget on an especially large scale, i.e., a simple embezzlement of budget funds. Kramp LLC was part of a chain of fictitious suppliers, transactions with which generated negative VAT, which was subsequently claimed for reimbursement.
The main consumer of Charnokit LLC's products was the Russian Federation. The criminal case was overseen by Sergei Momot, a member of parliament from the Party of Regions and the father of singer Alexa, who has close ties to Rinat Akhmetov and Russian business circles. Therefore, there is reason to believe that Momot and Akhmetov are the real owners of Alliance Bank.
Our sources, among law enforcement officials, do not rule out that the Alliance Bank will soon suffer the same fate as the All-Ukrainian Development Bank, previously owned by Alexander Yanukovych.
Based on: Politica-UA.com
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