The liquidator of Forum Bank is demanding UAH 132 million from Novinsky's company.

 

Vadim Novinsky

Vadim Novinsky

The liquidator of Forum Bank has filed a second lawsuit in the Cherkasy Oblast Commercial Court demanding 132 million hryvnias from Rosagroprodukt LLC and Shevchenko LLC. Rosagroprodukt's founders include Veres Food LLC, which is part of MP Vadym Novinsky's Veres Smart Holding group. (Read more: Vadim Novinsky. From Raiders to Peacekeepers).

As is known, Mr. Novinsky controlled Forum Bank until the financial institution was declared insolvent. The state register lists the owners of Rosagroprodukt LLC as Florentina Christiana Emmanuel (Cyprus), Giannakis Savvides (Cyprus), Despi Socratous (Cyprus), Michaela Sofokleous (Cyprus), Paraskevula Antonius (Cyprus), and Andrey Rodiontsev. These same individuals are listed as co-owners of Shevchenko LLC and Veres Food LLC.

Earlier, the Cherkasy Regional Commercial Court initiated bankruptcy proceedings against Rosagroprodukt LLC and imposed a moratorium on satisfying the claims of investors, which include subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks BM Bank and Sberbank.

Finbalance also reported that the National Police had opened a criminal investigation into abuses in Forum Bank's credit relationships with a number of companies.

Read more: Vadim Novinsky. From Raiders to Peacekeepers

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