Former VAB Bank CEO Denis Maltsev arrested in absentia
The Appellate Chamber of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court upheld the appeal of the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention for the former head of the board of VAB Bank, Denis Maltsev, who is wanted, writes delo.
How to indicate After his arrest and transfer to the investigation site, the investigating judge will decide whether to apply this preventive measure. However, the prosecutor's office has not disclosed the initial preventive measure chosen for Maltsev.
As a reminder, according to the investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, in October 2014, VAB Bank, which was classified as a problem bank, applied to the National Bank of Ukraine for a stabilization loan secured by real estate.
Despite the fact that the bank in question failed to provide all the necessary documents, the National Bank's board, contrary to legal requirements, accepted its proposal. Furthermore, this same bank had previously received a 3 billion hryvnia loan from the NBU, which was never repaid.
Moreover, the value of the property pledged to the NBU under the terms of the 2014 stabilization loan was inflated by almost 25 times through the preparation of falsified appraisal reports. During the investigation, an expert determined that the actual value of the pledged property was 72,62 million hryvnias, compared to the 1,8 billion hryvnias claimed by the bank.
Forty days after the loan was issued, in November 2014, the NBU declared VAB Bank insolvent, and in March 2015, it ordered its liquidation. The bank never received the money. The bank itself remains in liquidation.
The NABU investigation into the case began in October 2016 and concluded in July 2021. At that time, the bureau reportedThe case involves 14 individuals: nine NBU officials, including the former first deputy governor of the NBU (Oleksandr Pysaruk); the former deputy chairman of the board of VAB Bank (Andriy Yatsyuta); the deputy director of the company that prepared the bank's property valuation review; and three officials of private companies associated with the bank's beneficiaries.
Denis Maltsev. Who else?
Investigation into the suspicion of three more people - the actual owner of the financial institution (Oleg Bakhmatyuk), the former head of the board (Denis Maltsev) and the former head of the bank's supervisory board (Bakhmatyuk's sister Natalia Vasilyuk) were separated into separate proceedings, which were stopped in connection with the search for these individuals.
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