The Main Military Prosecutor's Office is investigating the theft of a large sum of money from Alliance Bank, which occurred during searches conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine at a branch of the financial institution.
The scandal came to light from a ruling by the Pechersk Court of Kyiv on October 5, 2015, which was posted in the Unified Register of Court Decisions.
By this decision, the court granted the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office access to the video recorder, which is currently located at the SBU Forensic Research Institute.
This dashcam was previously seized by Security Service officers during searches of the Alliance Bank branch. Now, military prosecutors hope to find video evidence of a crime committed by SBU officers – allegedly, they stole the bank's money during the searches.
"First Instance" has already reported on the Alliance Bank case. According to the criminal case, which the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has been investigating for nearly a year, this financial institution operated a powerful "conversion center" with a monthly turnover of over half a billion hryvnias. Allegedly, using this institution's financial instruments, multimillion-dollar sums were cashed out under the guise of banking services between 2014 and 2015.
It's worth recalling that in February of this year, the Jewish Community of Donbas appealed to the authorities to investigate the "theft of funds belonging to Donbas refugees from a bank branch in central Kyiv." The bank in question was "Alliance Bank." The incident itself occurred on December 22. "At that time, the bank was searched and seized by SBU officers. As a result, funds were confiscated from the safe-deposit boxes. Initially, the Jewish Community kept the scandalous incident under wraps, hoping to recover their savings through complaints, including to the SBU. However, negotiations with law enforcement officials were unsuccessful. During the "search," the entire contents of the safe-deposit boxes disappeared, including those containing funds belonging to Jewish refugees from Donbas. "Many lost all their savings," the appeal from the Jewish Community of Donbas stated. It was also specified that the sums involved were in the six-figure range.
According to court documents, SBU officers conducted a search at the Kyiv branch of Alliance Bank on Proreznaya Street.
The court granted the motion. The military prosecutor's office was authorized to seize the dashcam.
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