Everyone probably remembers this Vinnytsia “oligarch-authority” Vova Prodivus, a former boxer, a former gangster, a friend of SBU chief Vasyl Hrytsak? Mostobud, the amber business with shootouts, and all that. He's not sitting around, of course, and he's not even running away. On the contrary, he's expanding his business. Here's what renowned banking analyst Mikhail Dubinyansky writes: "A little inside information about how the National Bank has redistributed its 'gray' schemes for controlling the cash currency market.
So, there's this Artem Bank in Kyiv—it doesn't meet regulations and should have closed long ago, if not for an interesting detail.
Artem Bank is a key operator in the currency exchange market. In Kyiv alone, the bank had over 150 of its own and agent currency exchange points (10% of all currency exchange points in Ukraine).
A few weeks ago, inspectors from the National Bank visited Artem Bank and made a very specific proposal: either all the POUs would be closed, or Artem Bank would be closed.
Literally on the same day, the bank terminated all contracts with agents and closed its currency exchange offices.
And the very next day, all these currency exchange offices began operating under the roof of another bank, Sofievsky.
This bank is notable for the fact that Vinnytsia businessman Vladimir Prodivus (Mostobud) is said to be one of its "shadow" shareholders. Of course, he's there unofficially (by proxy from the owners)—temporary administration was recently appointed to his Unikombank.
Vladimir Prodivus
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What about the "impeccable business reputation," gullible readers of NBU press releases might ask? Who cares about that when it comes to currency exchange in the capital.
However, after they appointed K. Rozhkova, who is under investigation for withdrawing currency through fictitious contracts while serving as acting chairman of the board of Platinum Bank, to the NBU board, I am no longer surprised by anything.
"PS. Someone wrote to me in private that another currency broker, Kontrakt Bank, recently received a similar offer. He declined—and was promptly shut down."
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The court ordered the oligarch Prodivus's company to return a billion. 15.04.2015 11:03 | 7 comments
The Supreme Commercial Court upheld the rulings of previous courts, which ordered the construction company Mostobud to repay almost a billion hryvnia to the state bank.
This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv prosecutor's office.
As is known, the Mostobud company, owned by former Party of Regions MP Volodymyr Prodivus, was supposed to use these funds to build the Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge in Kyiv. The company never fulfilled its obligations, and the bridge remains unfinished.
According to the prosecutor's office's report, the agreement between the state-owned bank and Mostobud for financing the construction of the Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge over the Dnieper River, which is intended to connect Podil with the left-bank districts of Voskresenka and Raduzhny, was signed in 2010. Under this agreement, the bank allocated 560 million hryvnias to Mostobud. Taking into account accrued interest, the company has accumulated almost a billion-hryvnia debt.
Let us recall that at the end of 2013, the bankruptcy case of Mostobud was heard in court.
Let's also recall how former MP and oligarch Volodymyr Prodivus was caught in a gangland shootout in the woods last May, leading young men with machine guns. According to media reports, the oligarch planned to seize control of an amber business in the Rivne region.
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