The Prosecutor General's Office detained Kubiv in Bukovel.

Stepan Kubiv

Stepan Kubiv

Former head of the National Bank Stepan Kubiv He was detained at an elite sanatorium in Bukovel and taken to Kyiv for investigation into a criminal case of abuse of office, according to a source in the Prosecutor General's Office.

The Prosecutor General's Office emphasizes that Kubiv was repeatedly summoned for questioning, but he never showed up and went into hiding in Europe for some time. The former NBU governor later returned to Ukraine, where investigators detained him.

As a reminder, a criminal case has been opened against Stepan Kubiv for abuse of office. This was previously reported by a source in the Prosecutor General's Office. The case concerns the NBU governor's fraudulent practices during bank refinancing. The Prosecutor General's Office noted that, as part of a large-scale program to support the domestic banking sector, which had been severely hit by the financial crisis, Kubiv offered the first four billion hryvnias to his colleagues and longtime friends: Oleh Bakhmatyuk (VAB and Financial Initiative banks) and Mykola Lahuna (Delta Bank). Kubiv knew that the IMF was demanding that Ukraine allow the hryvnia to float freely, which would have meant a sharp devaluation. Therefore, anyone who was forewarned of the impending collapse of the national currency and had sufficient available funds had a unique opportunity to make superprofits by speculating on the stock market. The Prosecutor General's Office has information that Kubiv demanded 25% of the official refinancing amount, or one billion hryvnias, for providing this information. Read also: Ukrainian banks have suffered a loss of $152 million since the beginning of the year. Banks received billions from the NBU for refinancing and immediately used them to buy the dollar, whose exchange rate broke all records in just a couple of weeks, reaching 12 UAH/$1 (an increase of almost 50%). The National Bank, the main financial regulator, effectively withdrew from the process, making no attempt to save the national currency. The lion's share of the money allocated by the NBU for bank refinancing went to PrivatBank, owned by the current governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ihor Kolomoisky. As a result, of the 101,279 billion UAH allocated by the National Bank for refinancing by mid-June, 20,188 billion UAH went to PrivatBank. Delta Bank "appropriated" over 10 billion hryvnias, Financial Initiative Bank 3,45 billion hryvnias, and VAB Bank 480 million hryvnias. Read also: Deceived credit union members to rally near NBU. The Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) sees signs of abuse of office and corruption in the distribution of refinancing. An investigation is underway.

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