The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has expressed serious suspicions that the leadership of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), which was headed by Stepan Kubiv (in 2014) and then Valeriy Gontarev after the collapse of the Yanukovych regime and the placement of his predecessor (Igor Sorkin) on the wanted list, jointly committed a crime of national significance—namely, embezzlement. This concerns a very large sum of 12 billion hryvnias, which was allocated during this period to refinance seven banks, and on completely illegal grounds. This is reported. Our money.
The details of the incident involve the infamous Delta Bank, from which Gontareva and her accomplices were alleged to have siphoned off approximately 12,5 million hryvnias (all charges were later dropped). Other financial institutions implicated include JSCB Bank, Yuzhkombank, Kyivska Rus Bank, Tavrika Bank, Terra Bank, and City Commercial Bank: all are currently in liquidation. It has been reported that large sums of money were transferred to these banks for refinancing in 2014-2015, in collusion with the then-management.
There were no grounds to justify the embezzlement of 12 billion hryvnias (as had already been proven by the pre-trial investigation, as well as the existence of a criminal conspiracy), so NABU appealed to the Solomyansky District Court (Kyiv) requesting permission to seize documents related to the trial. Unfortunately, so far, detectives have only been granted temporary access to these materials, but not the right to seize them. However, this represents significant progress compared to the situation in which the Finance and Credit banks, as well as Khreshchatyk, were involved: Judge Kizyun denied NABU's right to seek access to the materials, citing "failure to provide sufficient grounds."
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