Sergey Kurchenko
The military prosecutor's office's belief that Serhiy Kurchenko siphoned off UAH 787,4 million in NBU refinancing funds through Real Bank, a bank controlled by the bank, was revealed in a court ruling issued by the Holosiivskyi District Court in Kyiv. According to the ruling, the investigation was conducted as part of criminal case No. 12013220540000400, dated March 31, 2013. It was under this case that the former deputy head of the NBU (Oleksiy Tkachenko) and the former head of the general department (Roman Yakovlev) were previously detained.
The corruption scheme involved creating a fictitious debt of 800 million hryvnias to Real Bank through the use of fictitious financial transactions with the companies Yurai and Kyivobl-Importtrade. Specifically, the court documents state the following: “The participants in the criminal organization intended not to return the majority of the funds received in this way, but to return only a small portion in the amount of 12,603,851.01 hryvnias – in order to create the appearance of legality in the use of the provided credit resources. By Resolution No. 109 of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine dated February 28, 2014, PJSC Real Bank was classified as insolvent, and funds in the amount of 787,396,148.99 hryvnias received by OJSC Real Bank as a stabilization loan were not returned, thereby causing material damage to the National Bank of Ukraine in the specified amount.”
Experts who analyzed the fraud noted that the stabilization loan issued to Real Bank by the NBU "was actually used to cover the expenses of individuals and legal entities: 208,5 million hryvnias were withdrawn in cash by an individual, and 591,5 million hryvnias were used to purchase 72,98 million US dollars, which were transferred outside of Ukraine."
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